Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The facial recognition program used by nearly two dozen US states to to verify people seeking unemployment benefits is working inconsistently, leading to many people ... read more

The new president shows who really runs the Islamic Republic. ... read more

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads ... read more

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Following a recommendation from its Oversight Board, Facebook says it will update its community standards to be clearer about how it handles satirical content, the ... read more

Pedestrians walk through NYC on June 16, the day before COVID-19 restrictions lifted in the state. | Photo by Kena Betancur/VIEWpress With COVID-19 restrictions lifting in some places and outbreaks popping up ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Next week is when Prime Day 2021 begins. We’ll be here early on Monday and continue scouring deals through Tuesday night, bringing you the best ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge PayPal said Friday it is raising fees for some of its newer products “to better align our pricing with the value that our products and ... read more

Photo by Frazer Harrison / Getty Images for BMI If you’ve spent some time playing Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, you might feel like you’re playing a blockbuster family-friendly action movie — ... read more

Eindhoven might not immediately spring to mind as a high-tech hub, but the Netherlands city is keen to position itself as a center for deep tech in Europe. The Technical University of Eindhoven, High Tech ... read more

The Big Apple needs a turnaround—starting with crime control. ... read more

‘Sue and settle’ is back, this time to remake the U.S. economy. ... read more

The AMA wants to police the speech of dissenting members. ... read more

The DOJ stops its pursuit of the Trump adviser over his book. ... read more

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Welcome back to the Daily Crunch for Friday, June 18. Congratulations! You’ve ... read more

Is the U.S. finally starting to exploit the terminal decadence of Moscow’s ex-KGB regime? ... read more

In 1973 he was the spitting image of Spiro Agnew. But the joke didn’t last long. ... read more

Muhammad Ali’s namesake risked his career, wealth and life to promote emancipation. ... read more

With the right message, even a small startup can connect with established and emerging stars on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube who will promote your products and services — as long as your marketing team understands ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google may be working on turning Android phones into a hivemind capable of finding lost devices, similar to Apple’s Find My network, according to analysis ... read more

Another statue is vandalized. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The YouTube app on iOS will be getting picture-in-picture support, allowing all users to watch videos while doing other things on their iPhones and iPads. ... read more

Image: ZatzNotFunny We may have gotten our first look at Ring’s dashcam, courtesy of The Tape Drive, which posted an image of a Ring-branded camera that looks like it’s made to fit ... read more

The need for markets-focused competition watchdogs and consumer-centric privacy regulators to think outside their respective ‘legal silos’ and find creative ways to work together to tackle the challenge of big tech market power was the ... read more

Arizona, Michigan and Texas are showing how to create resilient systems for government retirees. ... read more

Covid restrictions seem less onerous from the standpoint of ‘expressive individualism,’ which defines the self in terms of ‘its will and not its body.’ ... read more

Tesla’s been talking up its Model S Plaid as “the quickest production car ever” claiming it can go from 0-60 in a blistering 1.99 seconds. It’s a claim that’s drawn a lot ... read more

Meet Mediflash, a new French startup that wants to improve temp staffing in healthcare facilities, such as nursing homes, clinics and mental health facilities. The company positions itself as an alternative to traditional temp staffing ... read more

The Nest Thermostat | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Texas’ energy grid, which failed spectacularly over the winter during a stretch of historically cold weather, will be put to the ... read more

A fountain in Leipzig, Germany on June 18, 2021 | Photo by Sebastian Willnow/picture alliance via Getty Images The amount of heat trapped by Earth’s land, ocean, and atmosphere doubled over the ... read more

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, Natasha and Danny, otherwise known as your two new favorite Book influencers (inside joke, ... read more

The Verge Bismuth is a heavy, brittle metal that forms colorful geometric crystals when melted and then slowly cooled. It’s most commonly known as a main ingredient in Pepto Bismol — less ... read more

Photo: Elon Musk The Boring Company has been pitching potential clients on a much wider tunnel than any it has built so far, Bloomberg reported, which could be used to transport freight. ... read more

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Prime Day 2021 is kicking off in just a few days. Prime members will get to enjoy exclusive tech and gaming discounts on Amazon. In ... read more

NBC must have really wanted to be in business with the Manning brothers to OK the new "College Bowl" premiering next Tuesday. ... read more

"The Beatles: Get Back," from director Peter Jackson, was to be a film set for launch this August; now, it's a three-part, six-hour series on Disney+. ... read more

"The Beatles: Get Back," from director Peter Jackson, was to be a film set for launch this August; now, it's a three-part, six-hour series on Disney+. ... read more

U.S. ad spending continued to rebound in May, according to a new, enriched database from Standard Media Index. The data -- derived from SMI's expanded pool of actual media buys contributed by major agency holding ... read more

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. ... read more

AMD helps bring OLED to the mainstream Continue reading… ... read more

Days after Dentsu X landed direct-to-consumer hair colorist Madison Reed, Publicis Media's Spark Foundry unit has won the media agency-of-record account for DIY beauty marketer Sally Beauty. ... read more

Wilkins characterized the OAAA's handling of the matter, resulting in Kym Frank's removal as Geopath president, as a "monumental PR screw-up." ... read more

In a change that could have profound implication for media planning and buying, more Americans plan to spend more time outside and less time inside with digital and analogue media during 2021 than they did ... read more

The Destiny Toaster in all its glory. | Image: Bungie A year after Bungie said it would explore making an official Destiny Toaster during a charity livestream, our bread-based dreams are ... read more

Cable and broadcast still command 64% of viewing time on TV screens, but streaming is up from 20% last year, and could reach 33% in 2022, says Nielsen. ... read more

Cable and broadcast still command 64% of viewing time on TV screens, but streaming is up from 20% last year, and could reach 33% in 2022, says Nielsen. ... read more

Indian fintech startup BharatPe is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $250 million in a new financing round led by Tiger Global, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The new round, ... read more

Image: Bandai Everyone’s favorite digital pet, the Tamagotchi, is being reinvented for its 25th anniversary. The new Tamagotchi Smart puts the creature into a colorful smartwatch, allowing you to strap your digital ... read more

Photo by Tunahan Turhan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Last year, Taiwan was held up as a model example of how to control the pandemic. Now, with a rising case-count threatening the country’s ... read more

The UK’s chief data protection regulator has warned over reckless and inappropriate use of live facial recognition (LFR) in public places. Publishing an opinion today on the use of this biometric surveillance in public — ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify has acquired Podz, a startup whose technology generates preview clips of podcasts, the streaming service has announced. Unlike other services podcasters can use to ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is rolling out its v30 update to the Oculus Quest and Quest 2 VR headsets. As previewed earlier this week by Mark Zuckerberg, ... read more

From Ohio to DC and from London to Paris, regulators and consumer privacy advocates are sharpening their pencils and their knives. If you don’t have time to keep track of all the actions underway, the ... read more

"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Kaganovsky, Global Chief Technology Officer, Wavemaker Global As the third-party ... read more

Group Nine Media, which publishes Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar, launched a first-party data solution called “In-GeNuity” earlier this month in response to the coming disappearance of third-party cookies. The product matches brands ... read more

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem... The votes are in for AdExchanger's first-ever comic caption contest and we've got a winner. Congratulations to Adam Berkowitz for bringing the funny! And thanks ... read more

This year a range of publishers are observing Juneteenth, which became a federal holiday when U.S. president Joe Biden signed a bill into law yesterday. The day commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, and ... read more

The Federal Trade Commission’s recent acting chair wants rules curbing manipulative data collection and argues the agency has the power now to set them. Rebecca Slaughter, an FTC commissioner who served as acting chair of the ... read more

Global design and consultancy firm Arcadis has just moved into 40,000 square feet of new office space in London’s historic Square Mile. The Netherlands-based company cited the importance of still having a place where its ... read more

Ford has two electric vehicles in the pipeline —  the E-Transit cargo van and F-150 Lighting Pro —aimed at commercial customers. Now, the automaker is rounding out its future EV commercial business with the acquisition ... read more

Young people are unable to see that ‘your dorm in 2021 is better than the South before the Civil War.’ ... read more

On-demand goods, food and alcohol delivery service Gopuff has acquired fleet management platform rideOS for $115 million to $125 million, sources familiar with the deal say. This acquisition comes just a few months after the ... read more

A narrow ruling helps Catholic foster parents, but the faithful deserve more protection under the First Amendment. ... read more

So much for all those alarums about Justice Amy Coney Barrett. ... read more

This week police targeted journalists at Apple Daily. But no business is safe. ... read more

The EU says Americans can visit again. Biden should reciprocate. ... read more

We no longer live in a world of monarchs who forge political alliances through marriage. ... read more

Gary Bender was 15 when his father left him in charge of the family store. ... read more

It often feels as if no one is in charge of monetary policy in the world’s largest economy. ... read more

Courts start to tell Biden he can’t rewrite federal law through executive action. ... read more

Podcasts are all the rage, but podcast discovery is a challenge. Today, Spotify announced its acquisition of Podz, a startup that’s trying to solve the problem of podcast discovery. “At Spotify, we are investing to ... read more

Microsoft Flight Simulator | Microsoft Just in time for the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator on Xbox Series consoles next month, developer Asobo Studios has added some extra details that players will ... read more

Image: Google Google Meet, Google’s answer to video calling services like Zoom, is getting a collection of helpful tweaks to its hand-raising feature as part of ongoing updates to Workspace. The new ... read more

KeepTruckin, a hardware and software developer that helps trucking fleets manage vehicle, cargo and driver safety, has just raised $190 million in a Series E funding round, which puts the company’s valuation at $2 billion, ... read more

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Welcome back to the Daily Crunch for Thursday, June 17. Thank you ... read more

Electric vehicle startup Canoo detailed some of the features that may be on its app on Thursday, foremost of which is a one-stop shop functionality that customers could use for their Canoo vehicles – and ... read more

This past year, three sheep in Canada have been wearing their kidneys on their sleeves. Or more aptly, in jackets on their fluffy backs.  These three sheep are part of an ongoing animal study run ... read more

Massively popular battle royale game PUBG Mobile is returning to India after being banned in September 2020, TechCrunch writes. The app is available in early access on Google’s Play Store under a ... read more

Politicians aren’t the only ones who enjoy telling us what to do. ... read more

Coda entered the market with an ambitious, but simple, mission. Since launching in 2014, it has seemingly forged a path to realizing its vision with $140 million in funding and 25,000 teams across the globe ... read more

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nielsen, the nearly century-old research firm which produces the eponymous gold standard for television ratings, is taking a more serious look into how much ... read more

Igor Bonifacic Contributor Share on Twitter Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. According to BuzzFeed News, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and ... read more

Lately, Snapchat’s 3D Cartoon lens has been all the buzz, making all of our friends look like Pixar characters. But since 2013, a staple filter on the ephemeral photo sharing app has been the speed ... read more

Dagger produced a pro bono video for The A Pledge, asking Atlanta agencies to make agency diversity a priority. OKRP created a program with the DuSable Museum Of African History in Chicago. ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is cutting the prices for its AppleCare Plus extended warranty for both its M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops. AppleCare for the new ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Deals on Apple’s iPad are more common than you might think, especially since Amazon Prime Day 2021 is here. Whether you’re after the affordable iPad, ... read more

Now hear this! Early-stage founders, a shipload of opportunity is about to set sail and you don’t want to miss the boat. We have only a few spots left to exhibit in Startup Alley at ... read more

Kevin Buckley Contributor Share on Twitter With more than 25 years of experience as a technical and business consultant, Kevin Buckley helps organizations improve ... read more

The decline is likely due to agencies and holding companies focusing more on later work within the two-year time frame of this year's eligibility window to save on entry fees. ... read more

The biggest tech companies have put a lot of time and money into building tools and platforms for their data science teams and those who work with them to glean insights and metrics out of ... read more

A problematic bill that aims to protect journalism by allowing news organizations to band together in negotiations with Google and Facebook is drawing more opposition this week. ... read more

The automotive newsletter sector saw a 105% increase in programmatic spend during the pandemic as demand for cars grew, LiveIntent reports. ... read more

The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values the startup at $4.6 billion just four years in. In April, reports suggested that the ... read more

The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values the startup at $4.6 billion just four years in. In April, reports suggested that the ... read more

Krafton, which filed for an IPO earlier this week, has built a gigantic gaming empire. If the firm is able to raise the target $5 billion from the IPO it will be the largest public ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap is removing its controversial “speed filter” from Snapchat this week, NPR reports. The in-app effect displays your current speed in miles or kilometers per ... read more

Mobility should be a right, but too often it’s a privilege. Can startups provide the technology and the systems necessary to help correct this injustice? Shared micromobility, in particular, offers an opportunity for more equitable ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s next-gen console may have arrived, but getting your hands on an Xbox Series X isn’t exactly easy. Much like the PlayStation 5, Microsoft’s console ... read more

Featuring a new Discover tab, and a redesigned home screen. | Image: Nvidia Starting today, Nvidia’s Shield devices are getting a revamped user interface, similar to what we saw come to other ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In 2017, The New York Times profiled Sunvalley, a Chinese electronics manufacturer that obsessively monitored Amazon to build and maintain US-facing brands with a ... read more

Image: Canoo California EV startup Canoo announced Thursday that it plans to build its electric vehicles at a new factory to be built outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The startup claims the facility ... read more