The LG C1 OLED TV supports HDMI 2.1 and 120Hz Variable Refresh Rate for use with modern consoles. | Image: LGLG’s various OLED offerings include some of the most well-received models across the industry. The ... read more

In 1994, J. Michael Straczynski (Sense8, Changeling) brought the world a science fiction show like nothing we’d ever seen. Babylon 5 told a single five-year story, filled with foreshadowing, deep political intrigue, and characters who ... read more

Blizzard EntertainmentThe Shanghai Dragons’ very first Overwatch match was an 0-4 shellacking delivered by the Los Angeles Gladiators in 2018. The team would go on to lose the next 41 straight games — encompassing the ... read more

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesLoveFrom, the design firm headed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson, has entered into a creative partnership with Ferrari and Ferrari’s holding company Exor to design presumably automotive-related projects and explore ... read more

Some of Google’s new illustrations | Image: GoogleGoogle has created new images designed to be used for your Google profile picture, the company announced Monday. The new images, called Google Illustrations, look quite nice, and ... read more

Almost a quarter of healthcare organizations that were hit with a ransomware attack in the last two years said they had increases in patient death rates in the aftermath, according to a new report sponsored ... read more

Cancillería del Ecuador / FlickrThe Trump administration’s CIA actively developed plans to kidnap or assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during his seclusion in London’s Ecuadorian embassy, according to a detailed new report from Yahoo News. ... read more

The podcast world is changing. Welcome to your front-row seat on the action. In case you haven’t heard, The Verge acquired Hot Pod this month, and former writer and editor Nicholas Quah joined Vulture, our ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFacebook has announced a $50 million fund that it says will help it develop the metaverse more responsibly. It’s officially called the XR Programs and Research Fund, and the ... read more

Skype’s new design and colorful layouts. | Image: MicrosoftSkype’s had more redesigns in the past five years than I’ve had hot dinners, but Microsoft is still ready to try and tweak things once again. The ... read more

In its third consecutive upward revision, Magna pushes Madison Avenue's ad outlook consensus up significantly for 2021 and 2022. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFacebook announced that it would be “pausing” work on its Instagram for kids app on Monday after weeks of growing pressure from lawmakers and advocacy groups to scrap the ... read more

Discord will let you have unique avatars across different servers | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMessaging app Discord announced today that its premium Nitro tier will now allow subscribers to use a different ... read more

The rush to renewables causes severe energy price spikes and shortages. Biden’s policies would do the same in the U.S. ... read more

He seems to think that if you pay for something it doesn’t cost anything. Hold on to your wallet. ... read more

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The VergeFord is recalling the Mustang Mach-E out of concern that the windshield and panoramic roof could leak or, worse, come flying off during a crash or while driving. Nearly ... read more

TikTok has passed 1 billion users | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTikTok said Monday it has passed 1 billion monthly users. It’s a remarkable number for a platform launched in August 2018 that ... read more

Image: RobloxVirtual world-building platform Roblox has settled a lawsuit with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and is negotiating potential deals with individual music publishers. Roblox announced the news this morning, saying it was “committed ... read more

Okay, I’ll make the obvious joke: was there really anything cut from Death Stranding? For better and worse, Hideo Kojima’s deeply indulgent post-apocalyptic delivery simulator did not feel like it had been subject to heavy ... read more

California’s new privacy protection agency put out the bat call last week for public comments as it gets ready to create implementation regulations for the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Although the public can submit ... read more

The MacBook Pro remains Apple’s top-end option for notebooks with speedy M1 processors. There are talks of new models with a rumored M1X update, but as of now, if you’re looking for the best the ... read more

A Science channel has reported that the mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle may have been solved.The region is located near North America and has seen the disappearance of countless aeroplanes and ships.According to a report, ... read more

Instagram is pausing work on a version for children younger than 13, called “Instagram Kids”, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app said on Monday.Instagram Kids was touted to require parental permission to join, and provide ad-free, ... read more

Google’s Wear OS app for YouTube Music. | Image: GoogleYouTube Music’s Wear OS app is rolling out to a handful of older Wear OS 2 smartwatches from the likes of Fossil, Michael Kors, and Mobvoi ... read more

A rainbow of Apple’s own MagSafe iPhone 13 caes. | Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The VergeNow that your brand-spanking-new iPhone 13 has arrived (or is on the way), it’s time to start thinking about ... read more

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The VergePolestar, the Swedish electric car company that is a joint venture between Volvo and Geely, is going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. Polestar ... read more

Lenovo has nailed the ThinkPad formula Continue reading… ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeExpect new product announcements on September 28th Continue reading… ... read more

Amazon’s 2021 fall hardware event is coming September 28th. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAmazon is holding its annual fall hardware event on Tuesday, September 28th starting at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. ... read more

The Oculus Go, originally released in 2018. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeFacebook is unlocking the bootloader of its discontinued Oculus Go headset and giving users full root access. That means the ... read more

The kind that may not necessarily go down the elevator at night. Or even up it in the morning. ... read more

The most impressive feature in Nintendo’s new Switch model is its seven-inch OLED screen, giving games more vivid-looking colors and deeper contrast. It also has an improved kickstand that’s more functional and versatile than the ... read more

Is this truly the end of last-click attribution? Google will no longer use last-click attribution as the default conversion model in Google Ads, its buy-side ad network, the company announced in a blog post on ... read more

TV measurement is changing quickly as consumption is moving from linear TV to vast numbers of streamers. Many are finding the legacy  model of age and demo are not adequate.  Seizing the opportunity are several ... read more

When one thinks of vampire bats, friendship and cooperation may not be among the qualities that come to mind for these blood-feasting creatures of the night. But maybe they should.Scientists have provided a deeper understanding ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeInstagram says it’s “pausing” development of what’s been dubbed “Instagram Kids” — a version of the photo-sharing app aimed at children under 13. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced the ... read more

The growing number of households with a smart TV gives advertisers a way to customize their campaigns for different consumers during the same programming. LG Ads offers more personalized ad placements among 120 million households ... read more

Who among our present-day media titans shall we place alongside the media moguls of yesteryear -- among them, William Randolph Hearst? ... read more

A small-scale clinical study of the combined use of the AstraZeneca and Sputnik Light vaccines against COVID-19 has shown strong antibody growth in a majority of the study’s participants, the Russian Direct Investment Fund said ... read more

IAC seeks to expand its online publishing business with the deal. ... read more

A virtual reality version of Resident Evil 4 will launch October 21st on Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset. Resident Evil 4 VR was announced earlier this year. But Facebook and Capcom — as well as ... read more

Banner ads are appearing across select channels. | Screenshot: NBCUNBC is one of several NBCUniversal channels running prominent banner ads on YouTube TV streams, warning customers that they could lose access over a carriage dispute ... read more

Using the hashtag #AnimalsDoWhat, the National Council of SPCAs encourages people to focus on all the amazing ways animals make the world a better place. ... read more

Customers on Albertsons Companies-owned sites and apps will soon have the ability to view a shoppable video for a recipe, load all the items required to make the dish in a shopping cart, and purchase ... read more

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The VergeBackbone Labs has acknowledged the issue that hampers the use of its excellent iPhone gaming controller with the new iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. As we noticed ... read more

Your Phone software by Microsoft, which serves as a bridge between Android devices and Windows 10, is all set to get a makeover for Windows 11.While things do not seem to have changed dramatically like ... 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 Brandon Zelasko, VP of operations at SE2. The world has ... read more

Another year is about to end in the next three months, which means there is another cycle of WhatsApp’s end of support for some Android smartphones and iPhones. After November 1, 2021, the messaging app ... read more

"On TV & Video" is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today's column is by Brian Kim, CEO at Relo Metrics. Everybody knows the old adage, nobody gets fired for ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Searching Social Google is negotiating potential deals with the parent companies of TikTok and Instagram, ByteDance and Facebook, respectively, to index posts on those ... read more

Axios is popping up local news-focused newsletters across the country, with ambitious plans to be in 23 markets in 2022. But local news is a challenging undertaking, and many have failed before it. How is ... read more

Most days start with an early morning Peloton bike workout for Dara Treseder. It’s on-brand considering she runs the company’s global marketing and communications.   Typically, Treseder’s husband has his own workout nearby while simultaneously motivating ... read more

The countdown to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) — arguably the most significant meeting of world leaders to discuss climate change since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 — is underway, ... read more

For most of the last 15 years, radio has seen its total revenue either remain flat or drop slightly, until 2020 that is, when according to eMarketer, revenue plummeted 28 percent to $10 billion. That ... read more

This article is part of the Future of Work briefing, a weekly email with stories, interviews, trends and links about how work, workplaces and workforces are changing. Sign up here. For many, one silver lining of the ... read more

The Federal Trade Commission never applied an old rule governing the privacy and security of health data. Now that the agency has vowed to get tough on enforcing it against mobile health apps, some legal and privacy experts ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFacebook has fired back nearly two weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram made body image issues worse for one in three teenage girls according to Facebook’s ... read more

Navdeep Saini, co-founder and CEO, DistroScale, parent company of DistroTV Connected TV (CTV) has become one of the fastest developing channels in advertisers’ marketing mix today. The pandemic led to an increase in CTV consumption, ... read more

The U.S. lets Huawei’s CFO off easy, and Beijing frees two Canadians. ... read more

Focused on her legacy, the Speaker pushes Democrats to take votes that will end careers in 2022. ... read more

Voters and parties missed an opportunity to chart a new course. ... read more

The breaks on carried interest and capital gains at death should be eliminated to hit the rich. ... read more

Unlike last year, the electric fence saved our sweet corn. ... read more

Progressives now see no difference between history’s monsters and people they don’t like on TV. ... read more

Are Democrats nursing a grudge against Attorney General Porras? ... read more

The hands-free Alexa skill makes it easy for customers to get help from OnStar's emergency-certified advisors when they need it. ... read more

Denzel Washington stars in The Tragedy of Macbeth | Apple TVWe’re nearing the season finale of Ted Lasso (only two more new episodes!), and it seems like the show’s got a lot of story threads ... read more

With close ties to al Qaeda, the network’s influence is likely to grow within Afghanistan and beyond. ... read more

She would replace GDP with a measure that includes time spent fishing. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeApple says it has identified an issue where the “unlock with Apple Watch” feature might not work with its new iPhone 13 devices. A new note on its support ... read more

Tesla opened its “full self-driving” beta to more owners | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeDespite the head of the National Transpiration Safety Board expressing serious concerns about its safety last week, Tesla has ... read more

The pandemic has led to a collection of unusual digital experiences, from Google Forms escape rooms to whole virtual, two-dimensional comedy shows. But the interactive digital play / upstate barn wedding I attended last Friday, ... read more

He still cries ‘fraud’ even after the audit he demanded found none. ... read more

Red Notice. | Image: NetflixEverything from The Witcher to Tiger King Continue reading… ... read more

Geralt in The Witcher. | Image: NetflixAt its big Tudum event, Netflix confirmed that it will make a third season of The Witcher. No other details were shared, so we don’t know when we might ... read more

Image: NetflixThere was a lot of Geralt of Rivia at Netflix’s Tudum event. The upcoming second season of The Witcher was a major presence at the streamer’s big showcase; fans were able to check out ... read more

NIKO TAVERNISE/NETFLIXAt its big Tudum event, Netflix showed off a nice, two-minute-long look at one of its most exciting upcoming movies: Don’t Look Up. Don’t Look Up is one of the more interesting films in ... read more

Photo: Geoffrey Short / NetflixWe’ve still only caught glimpses of Netflix’s upcoming live-action take on Cowboy Bebop, and today delivers yet another tease: a kinetic opening title sequence for the show. It’s not quite a ... read more

The logo for Netflix’s Tudum event. | Image: TudumNetflix is sharing a huge amount of news about upcoming series and movies Continue reading… ... read more

Image: NetflixTiger King, the hugely popular documentary heavily associated with the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, will premiere on November 17th, Netflix revealed at its Tudum event on Saturday. Netflix just announced the second ... read more

Image: NetflixNetflix has released a new trailer for Arcane, its upcoming series based on the League of Legends universe, and also revealed when the show will premiere: November 6th. But you won’t be able to ... read more

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesDelta Airlines said in a pair of internal memos to employees this week that it’s asked competitors to share their no-fly lists, to try to keep passengers who cause disturbances on ... read more

Image: NetflixNetflix debuted a video from its upcoming series based on Neil Gaiman’s DC comic book series The Sandman. The video was brief, but it gave us a good glimpse at actor Tom Sturridge as ... read more

Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs.The treatment not only slowed ... read more

iPhone 13 Pro | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeThe team at iFixit has a new teardown of the iPhone 13 Pro, finding it has an enormous battery and some small internal changes to ... read more

Image: NetflixNetflix debuted a new teaser trailer for Stranger Things season 4 as part of its Tudum event on Saturday. It opened on a family going into an old-timey house, but in classic Stranger Things ... read more

Materials scientists from Nanyang Technological University Singapore have found a way to prevent internal short-circuits, the main cause of fires in Li-ion batteries.Billions of Li-ion batteries are produced annually for use in mobile phones, laptops, ... read more

The first-ever campaign from Twitter's developer platform team hopes to help people understand the impact of extreme weather events. ... read more

A union for TV workers says Apple claimed its TV Plus streaming service had fewer than 20 million subscribers as of July 1st | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesApple told the International Alliance of ... read more

Netflix is kicking off a massive fan event today. Tudum — named for the ubiquitous chime that plays before Netflix titles — is a global event that will feature a huge slate of news, trailers, ... read more

The Nanoleaf Elements are a unique decor whether they’re illuminated or not. | Image: NanoleafKicking off these deals on the smart home lighting front, the Nanoleaf Elements light-up wall panels — just released in the ... read more

Microsoft will begin rolling out Windows 11 on October 5.  However, the company has finalised the new version and released it to its Release Preview channel.You can switch to the Release Preview in Windows 10 ... read more

Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty ImagesBy leaving them off email threads Continue reading… ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeApple’s iPhone 13 lineup launched Friday, and one of the key features of the 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max are their ProMotion displays with variable refresh rates that ... read more

It worked for them in 2020 and the California recall election, and they’re trying it again in Virginia’s race for governor this November. ... read more

The CDC chief made the right call on Covid booster shots. ... read more

His spending blowout in jeopardy, Biden claims the cost is ‘nothing.’ ... read more

Politico confirms the New York Post story the Bidens never denied. ... read more

The federal report on the winter power outage ignores some key facts. ... read more

Kate: Collateral Damage | Image: Ludic StudiosKate: Collateral Damage isn’t the first gaming tie-in we’ve seen for a Netflix original, but now that it’s seriously entering the space, each title feels a little different. Developed ... read more