Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has lent his voice to a Ukrainian air raid app to warn citizens of incoming attacks during the ongoing conflict ... read more

London Underground advising people not to travel in record breaking heat on the 19th of July 2022, Picadilly Station, Central London, United Kingdom.  | photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images ... read more

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A number of well-known AI researchers — and Elon Musk — have signed an open letter calling on AI labs around the world to pause development of ... read more

While American gamers are more open to in-game ads than many believe, any such activations must bear the hallmarks of creative and technical excellence. The post Gaming Is A Goldmine For Advertisers, But Only If ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Dissing And Dismissing Quelle surprise. On Monday, Google filed a motion to dismiss the Justice Department’s antitrust case The post Google Wants A ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the preliminary discussions TV networks are holding about whether to credit advertisers’ programmatic spending throughout the year toward the upfront commitments made this summer. The Programmatic ... read more

It’s clear that the economic downturn has had a negative impact on publishers’ advertising revenue, but the impact on consumer revenue streams, like commerce, has been less obvious from the outside. During a session at ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Publishers were heading back to the office, slowly but surely, as of about six months ago, according to data ... read more

Marriages aren’t easy. Neither are mergers. Neither are integrating the product infrastructures undergirding the combining companies. Just ask Dotdash Meredith chief product officer Adam McLean. “The longest year and four months of my life, for ... read more

Marketers have a lot on their minds when it comes to TikTok these days, from the geopolitical tensions over the app’s supposed ties to the Chinese government to whether they should be funding some of ... read more

Ingenio has used generative AI technology to publish over 11,000 articles. The company, which owns websites like Horoscope.com and Astrology.com, will soon launch a chatbot that will provide readers with personalized spiritual guidance. That’s according ... read more

Illustration: The Verge The Communications Workers of America union is alleging that Apple fired five workers in Kansas City, and disciplined another in Texas, in retaliation for organizing. The union has also ... read more

Michael Barr’s excuses for regulatory blunders are simply unbelievable. ... read more

Protasiewicz pre-judges a case but won’t say if she’ll recuse herself. ... read more

He owes $2 million. Can agents secretly get his lawyers’ bank records? ... read more

Her effort to defend the strings on Chips Act funding is hilarious. ... read more

A politician explains why bailouts are here to stay. ... read more

After the Stanford episode, Ilya Shapiro sounds a warning: The threat to ‘dismantle existing structures’ is an idle one in English class. But in legal education it targets individual rights and equal treatment under the ... read more

Students discuss higher education and their choice of major. ... read more

Image: Tesla The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is currently investigating (pdf) two separate non-crash-related seatbelt failures that occurred in newer Tesla Model X vehicles (via NBC News). NHTSA’s ... read more

The military’s problem isn’t technological. It’s a strategy designed only for low-intensity conflict. ... read more

In the ’80s, it paid off uninsured depositors at 80%. ... read more

To alleviate air-traffic woes, the government proposes to commit an antitrust offense. ... read more

Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are Democrats, but that’s where the similarity ends. ... read more

To alleviate air-traffic woes, the government proposes to commit an antitrust offense. ... read more

Photo by Tim Stevens for The Verge Lucid, the EV startup behind the Air sedan that competes with the Tesla Model S, has announced that it’s laying off around 1,300 employees, or ... read more

ADT Self Setup is a new DIY smart home system that can integrate with Google Home devices and the Google Home app. | Image: ADT Three years after Google invested $450 million ... read more

The White House pairs warnings of a debt-ceiling catastrophe with a refusal to do anything to prevent it. ... read more

Crew members of the USS Cerritos. | Paramount Plus In case anyone was worried whether Star Trek: Lower Decks or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds might be on the chopping block, Paramount ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Google is adding a new carousel in search results to help you see different perspectives on certain search topics. The feature, called “Perspectives,” is a new box showing “insights ... read more

Image: Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Adnan Syed’s murder conviction has been reinstated just months after he was freed from prison, as reported earlier by the Associated Press and ... read more

Image: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s a busy news day, so I ... read more

Image: Kia Kia is ready to pull the wraps on its next big electric vehicle (emphasis on big): the EV9 three-row SUV. The EV9 will have a proper North American debut at ... read more

Titmouse’s 5 Second Night 2023 poster. | Image: Titmouse Animation studio Titmouse’s annual showcase of shortform stories returns this month with a new batch of original cartoons created during artists’ time off. ... read more

"Outside of 'Big AdTech,' bigger was better," reads a Q4 revenue report from OAREX, noting that outside of Google, Meta, Snap, etc., the next-biggest players outperformed smaller ones. ... read more

Image: Substack Substack is desperate, huh? That’s what I understand from their fundraising email, anyway. They’re now hitting up retail investors for millions of dollars after they failed to raise last year. ... read more

The decision was wise and necessary. Now, a path lies in President Herzog’s proposal. ... read more

Losses at SVB, Signature and other banks reflect the risk from borrowing short and lending long. ... read more

The Nintendo Switch OLED Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition is available to preorder for $359.99. | Image: Nintendo After months of rumors, Nintendo has finally confirmed it’s releasing a Zelda-inspired Nintendo ... read more

A visitor to a ceremony celebrating the commissioning of a research plant has a bottle of e-fuel in his hand at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). | Image: Marijan Murat/picture alliance via ... read more

Obligatory “the truth is out there.” | Fox Ryan Coogler, the director of Creed and both Black Panther films, may be eying another franchise for adaptation. Bloody Disgusting noticed that, in a ... read more

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings CEO Scott Wells has been named the new chair of the Out-of-Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). He succeeds Sean Reilly, CEO of Lamar Advertising Co., who served as OAAA chair ... read more

Image: Spotify / The Verge Spotify has launched Niche Mixes, a new set of personalized playlists that combine familiar songs and new recommendations into weirdly specific categories. Niche Mixes is an expansion ... read more

Digiday Media is thrilled to announce the 2023 Future Leader Awards winners.  Representing brands, agencies, retailers and publishers, this year’s winners are focused on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, creating a culture that values and ... read more

Image: The Verge Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, has been charged with yet another crime: bribery. In an indictment filed on Tuesday, the Department of Justice claims ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s latest baffling change makes replies a lot more difficult to sift through. Now, when you’re looking at replies, tweets don’t actually show who the user ... read more

SeanK’s brewing up some trouble. | Image: Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images If you’ve received a cryptic notification from the Starbucks app, you’re not alone — dozens of people say they got a message ... read more

Image: Nintendo As the high from watching Nintendo’s Tears of the Kingdom gameplay video fades, I’m left with a staggering thought: “this game is going to ruin lives.” As much as ... read more

Maat Mons is displayed in this computer-generated 3D perspective of the surface of Venus. | Image: NASA/JPL The recent discovery of volcanic activity on the planet should have been a cause of ... read more

Image: Getty Images The US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s antitrust division say they’ll scrutinize the new field of artificial intelligence-powered tools for signs of anti-competitive behavior. FTC Chair ... read more

An iPhone showing Apple’s Pay Later interface. | Image: Apple Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company’s take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business. The company has announced ... read more

Image: The Verge After announcing an AI-powered Copilot assistant for Office apps, Microsoft is now turning its attention to cybersecurity. Microsoft Security Copilot is a new assistant for cybersecurity professionals, designed to ... read more

Photo illustration: Will Joel / The Verge CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network. Continue reading… ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Although Elon Musk has previously stated that Twitter should treat “everyone equally,” Platformer has found that the network maintains a list of users whose visibility it ... read more

Life by You. | Image: Paradox Interactive ‘What the genre needed was less constraints,’ explains Rod Humble. Continue reading… ... read more

Nintendo Tears of the Kingdom is only a scant 44 days away. To celebrate the game’s impending arrival, Nintendo dropped a 13-minute mini Direct featuring gameplay and a sneak peek at Link’s ... read more

Ember Lumen and Wade Ripple in Elemental. | Pixar Thematically, Pixar’s Elemental, from director Peter Sohn, might not seem like the studio’s most imaginative animated feature. But if the movie’s first full ... read more

Image: Nintendo A big new Nintendo game means it’s time for some special-edition Nintendo hardware. As part of its big gameplay reveal for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is starting to warn consumers when products sold on its platform are regularly shipped back for returns. As reported by The Information, Amazon is rolling ... read more

While IAS has done numerous platform integrations before, this is the first on a publishing services platform such as Amazon's. ... read more

"Only ad networks/exchanges showed lift," reads an analysis from Standard Media Index, which shows video sites crashing 9% due to year-ago comps with Winter Olympics sales. ... read more

The big gainers were CPG (+19%) and pharma (+14%), while the big decliners were tech (-29%), entertainment/media (-25%), wellness (-24%), and financial services (-22%). ... read more

Amazon’s fourth-gen Echo smart speaker sounds better than the new fifth-gen Echo Dot and is currently only $15 more. | Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge My favorite thing about deals on ... read more

Ad industry veteran and event stage mainstay Amanda Martin is taking on a new role as Mediavine’s SVP of partnerships and business strategy. Martin will be moving from the buy The post New Mediavine SVP ... read more

There is rampant speculation that streaming TV/movie production, which has soared in the past few years, will be slowing down -- and may see a sharp reduction or at best, a leveling out of efforts. ... read more

A Sidewalk coverage map claims the network reaches over 90 percent of the US population. | Image: Amazon It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around ... read more

You can tell that the Slim 7i is an Intel-powered model because it has an “i” in its name. | Image: Lenovo Today in “Windows laptops vying to become the M2 MacBook ... read more

The DJI Avata is my favorite beginner drone. I can’t think of anything easier or more fun to fly, even if it can’t dodge obstacles like a Skydio. But the configuration you ... read more

A new half-hour series coming to Apple TV+ asks the age-old question: Is that all there is? ... read more

NEW YORK – Terry Kawaja, CEO and founder of Luma Partners, knows the ad tech/martech ecosystem better than most. He’s not so sure there is room for a flurry – let alone a whole Lumascape ... read more

Dario Raciti has been working on bringing more brands to video games for over a decade. He’s finally given up. Ok, not really. But Raciti, Managing Director of OMG’s Zero Code, said ... read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Marketers are always looking for more insights to improve the effectiveness of their advertising. With that in mind, Havas Media Group has made the idea of “meaningful” a key part ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR — These days, ad agency holding companies don’t only build media plans and buy. Many have also become full-fledged data operators, offering their brands measurement, audience profiling and more. In this discussion ... read more

"[There is] ongoing softness in direct response advertising at the company's Fox News business," says Michael Morris, Guggenheim Securities media analyst. He projects this will continue for the first six months of 2023. ... read more

Ranging from 24-inches to a 34-inch curved ultrawide, HP’s new Omen gaming monitors offer a variety of features to suit working from home, gaming, and creative work. | Image: HP HP has ... read more

Big news for Chromebook users. | Image: Google Google has announced a laundry list of classroom-focused updates to its services, across ChromeOS, Google Classroom, Docs, and more. Many of the tools center ... read more

Say hello to the new HP family. | Image: HP For those (like myself) who get a little pit in their stomachs every time they see how much any given year’s best ... read more

The unit was formed by former CEO Bob Chapek. Returned CEO Bob Iger could be planning to continue some metaverse work within other teams. ... read more

Image: Epic Games Epic’s new system to pay Fortnite creators could have a transformative effect on the game’s ecosystem, but the company that makes the game is competing for those dollars, too. ... read more

The ad industry is in a unique position to galvanize global action against climate change, says John Osborn, US director of trade group Ad Net Zero. But it’s not always The post The Bumpy Road ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney’s next generation storytelling and consumer experiences division, which had been exploring how the company could enter the so-called metaverse, has been eliminated according to ... read more

Bob Evans Farms has been working with an AI tech startup since last year to help evaluate ad creative and campaign concepts through the lens of diversity and inclusion. The post Bob Evans Is Using ... read more

Retail media networks have been adding ad tech audience extensions for the open web and CTV. Now, new startup Symbiosys wants to take retail ad platforms a step further into The post Symbiosys Pitches A ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Palm Readers Panera is an early adopter of a palm-scanning biometric data collection product created by Amazon that The post The Bread Bowl ... read more

Newsletter publishers have shown resilience during the advertising slowdown, maintaining ad revenue and email subscriber growth. As a result, publishers with newsletter-focused businesses are looking to grow their editorial and sales teams this year — ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify Lynette Kaylor’s background does not mirror that of a traditional TV ad sales boss. But her history in data and identity technology does indicate the makeup of ... read more

Podcast advertising is maturing, both in terms of measurement capabilities and audience sizes — and more later stage brands are taking notice. Podcasts, once a go-to marketing channel for direct-to-consumer brands, have become a mainstay ... read more

Last week, Coca-Cola pitched fans on using generative artificial intelligence tools to create artwork for the brand with the chance that something they create could potentially appear on billboards in New York and London. The ... read more

Countering recent reports about Netflix’s first quarter of offering an ad-supported tier being largely successful, media buyers Digiday spoke with are expressing frustration at its still-too-high $55 CPM and the still-too-slow growth for its ad-supported ... read more

Think TikTok is based in China? Think again. Maybe you’re a marketer who believes decisions about TikTok are made in Beijing. You’d swear that the app was inextricably linked to the Chinese government. Wrong on ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music Classical, Apple’s long-in-the-works app for listening to classical music with an Apple Music subscription, is now available to download from the App Store. ... read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform’s For You page starting on April 15th, according to ... read more

An agent shows up at the home of the Twitter files journalist who testified before Congress. ... read more

The skirmish illuminates how Tehran hollows out Arab states to establish control. ... read more

First Citizens scores a great deal, while the deposit insurance fund takes a $20 billion hit. ... read more

Israel’s ruling coalition suspends consideration of its proposal to negotiate with the opposition. ... read more

An agent shows up at the home of Twitter files journalist Matt Taibbi. ... read more

Will California and other progressive states now recognize reality? ... read more

Oh, for the days when universities regarded academic standards as their own business. ... read more

U.S. allies step up, but a too-aloof Washington could lead them into the arms of enemies. ... read more