You don’t have to pay a lot for do-it-all robot vacuums like the SwitchBot S10. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re in an age where you can realistically ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Rivian is planning to launch a hands-free driving assistant system for its electric R1T and R1S vehicles later this year, followed by an “eyes-off” version in ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further ... read more

Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Earlier this week, several posts on the Instagram page of Aid Access, an abortion pill provider, were inaccessible to the public. Some images were blurred out, ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Your Threads feed will soon have ads. On Friday, Meta announced that it’s rolling out a “limited, early test of ads in Threads,” and the test will happen with ... read more

Image: Ram Stellantis is reportedly canceling the 500-mile range version of the upcoming Ram 1500 Rev, leaving the electric truck with only one option that maxes out at an estimated 350 miles ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge There’s a long-running joke in the Xbox community that Microsoft will finally hit its stride with Game Pass and Xbox releases “next year.” The joke has ... read more

Live translations work decently well, but trip up on things like slang and faster speech. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I was in middle school the last time ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images When the Supreme Court upheld a law that banned TikTok from the US, it seemed well aware that its ruling could resonate far beyond ... read more

TheSkimm did it. Wouldn't it be great if others followed its lead to republish other vital White House information being removed by the new administration. ... read more

Photo by Jun Sato / WireImage The release of Fantasian on Apple Arcade in 2021 was meant to be an end to the illustrious career of Hironobu Sakaguchi — but it seems ... read more

Image: Pordenone Cartoon Museum The celebrated cartoonist talks anxiety, process, and the final installment of his Acme Novelty Datebook series. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

TikTok has announced the launch of an AI-powered tool that brands and small businesses in the region can use to minimize the time it takes to create a campaign for their TikTok shopping efforts. ... read more

Photo by Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images Sony is officially ending production of recordable Blu-rays. In an announcement from Japan spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Sony Storage Media Solutions said it will ... read more

President Trump's inaugural this week had 24.6 million Nielsen-measured average viewers - down 27% vs. President Biden's 2021 inauguration and 20% lower than Trump's first inauguration at 30.6 million. ... read more

OOH Masters, founded in 2015, has billings exceeding $27 million. ... read more

Image: The Verge Samsung’s new phones will almost certainly be the most popular Android phones of 2025. They’ll probably also be among the best Android phones of 2025. And yet the Unpacked ... read more

One question posed to respondents was: "How do you feel about the total number of ads and promotion during the show?" ... read more

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft says it’s shutting down its UK “experience center” in London next month, nearly six years after it first opened as a 21,000-square-foot Microsoft store. ... read more

A&E has already ordered two seasons comprising a total of 20, one-hour episodes, with 10 for each season. ... read more

Phones are littered with flowers, chocolates and jewelry ads for Valentine's Day. Google and Microsoft are rolling out a barrage of tools to support the frenzy. ... read more

Annoyed by fake reviews on business pages? So is the CMA. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Google will take firmer action against British businesses that use fake reviews to boost ... read more

Better late than never. | Image: Apple Now that we’ve almost hit the second month of 2025, Apple has finally updated its CarPlay webpage to say it won’t be arriving in 2024. ... read more

The WH-1000XM5s launched almost three years ago. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s been three long years since Sony launched its flagship WH-1000XM5 headphones, our pick for the best ... read more

Chatter about AI agents is suddenly everywhere — from Silicon Valley to the ski slopes of Davos – but just how will they impact Madison Avenue? Just yesterday, OpenAI previewed its new “Operator” AI agent tool ... read more

When TikTok went down over the weekend, so did its sister app CapCut — revealing how content creators across platforms have become reliant on ByteDance’s software to edit their videos. Following CapCut’s return, creators are ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Marketers are coming off of what they felt like was a pretty successful year last year, which is a ... read more

The cloud of TikTok’s uncertain future is still lingering. Some marketers are forging ahead on TikTok creator campaigns after its brief shutdown this month, albeit warily, given the app’s unclear future. Others are maintaining ... read more

As the 41st annual Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Park City, Utah this weekend, more marketers and creators are joining the ranks of the film industry attendees. The festival, which will run from Jan. ... read more

The New Tesla Model Y | Image: Tesla Just a couple weeks after launching the refreshed “Juniper” Model Y in China and other Asia-Pacific markets, Tesla has started taking orders in the ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix plans to offer couch co-op and party games that it will stream over the cloud to TVs, co-CEO Greg Peters said as part of ... read more

By rescuing deleted government resources on reproductive health, theSkimm reinforced its mission of delivering fact-based health information. ... read more

Image: The Verge Following last month’s test, Threads will now let everyone schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday. You can use the feature by creating a new post, selecting ... read more

This icy 2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron has a heat pump. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Many EV manufacturers have leaned heavily on energy-gulping resistive heaters to keep the cabin and ... read more

Google’s Nest Learning thermostat. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is bringing smart home controls in Gemini to everyone. The Google Home extension in the Gemini app is ... read more

Image: CD Projekt Red You may have to wait until January 30th to buy Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 graphics card, but owners of last-gen Nvidia 40-series GPUs can already download and install ... read more

Brands need to prepare for the uncertain reactions from consumers to Trump's efforts to disrupt the status quo. ... read more

A group of non-TikTok users will ask the 9th Circuit to revive claims that the company violated their privacy by allegedly tracking them via a pixel on websites operated by Hulu, Etsy and other outside ... read more

LAS VEGAS — Retail media is expanding beyond Amazon to more retailers, while the umbrella “commerce media” is growing opportunities for media to connect to consumer transactions. At CES 2025, Omnicom Media Group hosted discussions ... read more

Snapchat shared results of a recent study that shows how creator partnerships can help a brand boost its reputation among consumers, drive outcomes across the full funnel, and better hold user attention. ... read more

Snapchat shared results of a recent study that shows how creator partnerships can help a brand boost its reputation among consumers, drive outcomes across the full funnel, and better hold user attention. ... read more

Among indies' benefits: a massive range and diversity of capabilities and scale; more focus on mission and less on Wall Street. ... read more

LAS VEGAS — The advertising industry is at a crucial inflection point where privacy will become paramount, according to an ad-tech CEO aiming to help data power campaigns in a privacy-compliant manner. Geoffroy Martin, CEO, ... read more

The FTC is no longer asking consumers and businesses to comment on how they have been affected by "surveillance pricing." ... read more

The edition appears on Barnes & Noble newsstands on Feb. 10. ... read more

A screenshot from a video of TerraPower’s groundbreaking ceremony for its demonstration project in Wyoming. TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of ... read more

Image: The Verge Perplexity has turned its AI “answer engine” into a mobile assistant on Android. The new assistant can answer general questions and perform tasks on your behalf, such as writing ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta and YouTube aren’t the only platforms looking to benefit from TikTok potentially disappearing — Substack wants in on the action, too. The company ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Though Nintendo can technically claim it had the first big gaming news event of the year, at least Xbox’s Developer Direct actually showed off some games ... read more

LinkedIn is updating its ad attribution models with a new hybrid attribution methodology that the company says offers "a more balanced view of the customer journey." ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Fitbit is paying a $12.25 million fine over its Ionic smartwatches, which the company recalled in 2022 after reports that the watches’ lithium-ion batteries overheated ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is officially launching a new Android security feature for Pixel devices with Android 15 to prevent phone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Android 16’s first public beta has arrived, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride sharing and food delivery, following yesterday’s reveal of a similar feature ... read more

Image: id Software After revealing its next Doom game last summer, id Software is almost ready to release it: the studio announced that Doom: The Dark Ages is launching on May 15th. ... read more

Image: Microsoft Microsoft promised a new game announcement at its Xbox Developer Direct event, and that game turned out to be Ninja Gaiden 4. The new entry in the long-running franchise is ... read more

The Surface Laptop Go 3 could get a replacement very soon. | Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s been less than a year since Microsoft launched its first Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered ... read more

Image: The Verge OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games is adding nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching ... read more

The streaming pioneer has the highest reach and engagement per user, creating more opportunities for users to engage with content. ... read more

Image: Palworld Pocketpair is getting into the games publishing business. The company has announced that it’s taking the gobs of money it made after launching Palworld, the Steam-record busting, 15-million-copies-sold-in-its-first-month, monster-catching adventure ... read more

It’s no Arc Ultra, but Sonos’ last-gen soundbar still offers terrific sound if you can afford it. | Image: Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re looking for a way to beef ... read more

Image: Google Google is changing the way visible URLs show up on mobile search results worldwide. Search results since 2009 have shown “breadcrumbs” or the hierarchy of a webpage’s URL using “>” ... read more

The ability to remotely remove installed extensions is coming “later this year.” | Image: The Verge Google has announced some new business features that can help IT admins better manage Chrome browser ... read more

The $70-a-month package offers more than 50 broadcast, cable news and sports channels, a subscription to Peacock and access to more than 100 free streaming channels. ... read more

Parent Warner Bros. Discovery is investing $70 million In CNN's digital strategy. ... read more

The Dasung Paperlike 103 connects to computers and mobile devices over USB-C. | Image: Dasung Dasung has announced a new compact E Ink monitor that’s the company’s first to offer a 60Hz ... read more

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images CNN is developing a new streaming service — and it sounds a lot like the one it shut down nearly three years ago. In an internal memo ... read more

Google's goal for advertisers in 2025 with Performance Max is to provide more campaign controls, improve on search reporting and guidance, and support asset group improvements. ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The CSA, Thread Group, and Wi-Fi Alliance say they’re working together to fix the problems that have plagued the smart home standard in its first two years. In ... read more

Its comfortably basic style hides nice utility. | Photos by Victoria Song / The Verge “If the Galaxy Ring cost $250, I’d say Samsung was a diabolical genius company. But at $400, ... read more

Image: Mark Harris for The Verge Law professor Kate Klonick explains what Big Tech’s Trump appeasement is really about. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Founders Jarod Haness and Nate Lorenzen will join Publicis. ... read more

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Comcast is launching a $70 per month “Sports & News TV” streaming bundle featuring live games from the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and NCAA. The package, which ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A busy January of gaming news continues. Last week it was the reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, and now it’s a showcase of upcoming Xbox ... read more

The Pokémon Company The latest batch of new Pokémon TCG Pocket cards finally has a concrete release date, but it seems like you won’t be able to trade them right off the ... read more

The Nvidia RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition in an Ncase M1. The Nvidia RTX 5090 FE barely fit my 12.7-liter small form factor case, but using it was a dream. In 2022, ... read more

The next-gen GPU battle begins with Nvidia alone at the top. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Brave Search on Thursday announced a way to customize search rankings by boosting or removing domains from search results. ... read more

Image: Cadillac After months of teases, Cadillac officially announced the Lyriq-V as a 615-horsepower, high-performance electric SUV that will go on record as the “quickest” vehicle ever produced by the luxury automaker. ... read more

Image: Paramount Plus Paramount Plus’ new Star Trek film is the sound of scene chewing in space, which is to say, it’s pretty damn fun. As the very first nontheatrical Star Trek ... read more

In spite of the weekend’s momentary TikTok shutdown, sales on TikTok Shop didn’t miss a beat. The hours-long TikTok shutdown on Jan. 18 and 19 did not have a negative impact on the platform’s sales ... read more

Publishing businesses like the Lad Bible Group aren’t supposed to be thriving. They depend on ad dollars and platform traffic in an era where brands are skittish about news and platforms barely acknowledge publishers.  And ... read more

President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term earlier this month. During the inauguration ceremony, a coterie of Big Tech CEOs in prominent positions was prominently featured, and observers interpreted this as a ... read more

Havas Media Network has kicked off the new year with an acquisition aimed at deepening its sports marketing expertise and diversifying its revenue base. The media arm of Havas struck a deal to acquire CA ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how the TikTok ban impacted publishers’ onsite traffic and social referrals, as well as what companies like CNN, The Daily Mail and The Washington Post are doing with their ... read more

Image: Royal Shakespeare Company Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive video game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed in part by the Royal Shakespeare ... read more

The sports betting brand unveiled the second teaser for its Super Bowl ad pitting Eli against Peyton Manning in a kicking competition. ... read more

Across all publishers, 258,000 apps were downloaded per minute in 2024 for iOS and Android operating systems - a 1% decline vs. the prior year for iOS and Google Play stores, according to a new ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Tumbler has finally launched Tumblr TV as a new tab at the top of its app, the company said today in a brief set of update notes spotted by ... read more

Image: Extremely OK Games Earthblade, the next game from the developers of Celeste, has been canceled. The fantasy-inspired game got its first trailer in late 2022, and the game would have let ... read more

LAS VEGAS – Efforts by businesses to promote diversity, equity and inclusion are undergoing a significant shift after a Supreme Court ruling in 2023 struck down affirmative action policies ... read more

The RTX 4090 is a lot thicker than the RTX 5090. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia has posted a new video showcasing a history of Founders Edition graphics ... read more

"Minors have the First Amendment right to access personalized feeds on social media," NetChoice argues in papers filed this week with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. ... read more

"Minors have the First Amendment right to access personalized feeds on social media," NetChoice argues in papers filed this week with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. ... read more

Image: Canon The megapixel race isn’t over if you ask Canon. Today, the company announced a new 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor with a resolution of 410 megapixels. That’s 24,592 x 16,704 pixels ... read more

Illustration: The Verge One of the most important changes in Samsung’s new phones is a simple one: when you long-press the side button on your phone, instead of activating Samsung’s own Bixby ... read more

Samsung’s latest phones all look and feel very similar, but there are some key differences. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge During its latest Unpacked event, Samsung dished all the ... read more

Ad click rates on Google rose 3% YoY for the third straight quarter, but the cost -per-click growth rate continued to decline after peaking in early 2024. ... read more

"Boston" had been owned by Metro Corp., publisher of "Philadelphia" magazine. ... read more

At the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM), January 26 to 28, in Palm Springs, IAB will unveil a new consumer privacy study that challenges misconceptions surrounding “commercial surveillance.” Building upon last year’s study, “The Free ... read more