The law "will cause an irreparable loss of First Amendment freedoms on a massive scale," the tech group NetChoice argues in papers filed Friday with U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria. ... read more

All eyes have been on Valve’s new hardware coming out in 2026, including the Steam Frame headset, the Steam Machine console, and the Steam Controller. But for those who are ... read more

Tansill most recently served as President of PR, Social & Influence, North America at Ogilvy. Earlier she was Global Chief Strategy Officer at Ogilvy PR. ... read more

Earlier this month, Junghun Lee - CEO of Nexon, the parent company behind current live-service shooter du jour Arc Raiders - made waves in the game development community with a ... read more

If you’re thinking of ways to spend time with (or avoid) your family during Thanksgiving or Christmas, you can currently sign up for a year of HBO Max with ads ... read more

On Monday, Amazon announced Leo Ultra, the first antenna for its satellite internet service, which is launching in a private preview ahead of a commercial rollout sometime next year. Leo ... read more

Aqara’s latest wireless smart lock features a sleek backlit keypad with support for Amazon Alexa and Google Home for the budget-friendly price of $99.99. With Wi-Fi built in, Aqara’s B50 ... read more

"Beneath these comps, the industry remains healthy," writes Laurent Yoon, Bernstein Research media analyst. The Q3 period average profit margin is 19% for the industry. ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – In today’s crowded digital ecosystem, the definition of “premium” advertising hinges on far more than high-quality content. It’s about brand trust, a respectful ad experience and the relevance of the ... read more

What happens when the laws of robotics meet the immutable laws of marketing? Warm-and-fuzzy wins the humanoid robot race. ... read more

Disney Plus is home to exclusive Star Wars movies and TV shows, including both seasons of Andor. If you’re looking for a way to entertain parents and kids this holiday ... read more

Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex” 16 chances before suspending them, according to testimony from the company’s former head of safety and wellbeing, Vaishnavi ... read more

To understand why consumers act the way they do, marketers need nuanced behavioral insights, a cultural context and understanding of the ethical implications of statistics. This will inform audience targeting and messages - and media ... read more

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive have been keeping the finer details of the first mysterious OpenAI hardware under wraps, but it sounds like they’ve settled ... read more

The beloved fitness game has been bought back by cocreator and author Naomi Alderman. | Image: Six to Start Earlier this year, it looked like time was up for ZRX: ... read more

The European Union announced it has approved the combination unconditionally on Sunday. Today Omnicom said the deal is expected to close by late Wednesday. ... read more

When an AI model release immediately spawns memes and treatises declaring the rest of the industry cooked, you know you've got something worth dissecting. Google's Gemini 3 was released Tuesday ... read more

He started in politics at 16 with a TikTok account that helped pull a whole generation into the 2020 election. ... read more

The White House has put on hold a draft executive order aimed at preempting state AI regulations that would significantly impact the digital ad industry's ability to navigate one set of national rules. This action ... read more

The EU's regulatory body, The European Commission, issued a press statement over the weekend announcing the decision after studying the companies' request for approval for six months. ... read more

Performance marketers are turning to AI to navigate rising costs, data loss and increasingly complex shopper journeys – and it’s working. Creative is more personalized, targeting is sharper and optimization happens in real time. AI ... read more

The New York Times' advertising arm is finding it can write its own future through technology. ... read more

The outsider brought into CBS News to blow things up has actually said "I wanna blow this up" at meetings with her new colleagues. ... read more

The phone and tablet are coming to the US, but the watch is Europe-only. This month’s OnePlus 15 arrived to much fanfare about its enormous battery life, but no sign ... read more

Mark Read, who as CEO of WPP oversaw the sale of a majority stake in Kantar Group to Bain Capital, has been named chairman of Kantar Media, which was spun off and sold to H.I.G. ... read more

Ankit Khanal gets his news from News Daddy. More than 20 times a day, Khanal, a sophomore at George Mason University, opens TikTok to have the biggest stories of the day delivered to him by ... read more

Microsoft is making some changes to the File Explorer in Windows 11 that will make it less cluttered and launch faster. The latest Dev preview builds of Windows 11 include ... read more

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Merry Glitchmas! To all who observe. For the uninitiated, “Glitchmas” is our name for what’s become an annual tradition when, from between roughly late October through November, Meta’s ad platform just seems to go bonkers. ... read more

Generative AI is the new ad land obsession: a shiny promise of a fully autonomous world of self-driving advertising.  But behind the hype lies the costly delusion that automation can replace judgment and more content ... read more

"Wicked: For Good" is the second-biggest domestic opening of the year so far, with national TV ad spend estimated at $20.1 million - from 3,860 airings producing 2.4 billion impressions, according to EDO Ad EnGage. ... read more

The Trade Desk gets insistent with Korai again; the EU is rethinking hashed IDS; and is the AI industry becoming a cartel? The post Trying To Make Kokai Happen; EU Readies GDPR Changes appeared first ... read more

This story was originally reported on sister site, Modern Retail. When economist Tyler Cowen sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a fireside chat during a four-day conference in Berkeley, California last month, the ... read more

Blended workforce models — combining independent contractors with full-time employees — have evolved from experimental tactics into business-critical strategies. According to a study from consultancies Lions & Tigers and Read the Room Advisors based on responses from ... read more

Interactive and shoppable ads are becoming a common sight on TV screens. And they’re likely to feature a bigger variety of brands in the future as the ad formats arms race, alongside other efforts to ... read more

Related Insights Google on Trial Angry and disappointed, if not surprised: The ad industry reacts to the Google search remedies ruling  Read More Closing arguments in the U.S. ... read more

The debate over AI slop has had a dizzying run over the last week or so.  Disney kicked things off by announcing that Disney+ subscribers will soon be able to spin up their own content ... read more

In April, Elon Musk began backing away from his role as head of DOGE. By June, he was more or less fully gone from DC. In his wake, he left ... read more

The U.S. Department of Justice made its final appeal on Friday to convince Judge Leonie Brinkema to divest key parts of Google's ad business. ... read more

For decades, television advertising has been understood as the quintessential top-of-funnel tool, a powerful engine for building brand awareness and broad-based reach. But in an increasingly fragmented media world where every dollar is scrutinized for ... read more

The agency’s website is revised to spread autism fears, despite serious science finding no link. ... read more

The Georgia isolationist isn’t likely to go quietly, as JD Vance may discover in 2028. ... read more

Adding up Palestinian terrorism and Israeli settler violence. ... read more

It’s long been known that X (and Twitter before it) is a major venue for foreign influence campaigns to meddle in American politics. Much of the focus has been on ... read more

For years, Tom Steyer has used his money to push awful policies on the state. Now, he wants to run it. ... read more

Lucidity will come when they figure out that capitalism will solve their problems. ... read more

Empowering shareholders and not advisory firms will strengthen public markets and support the U.S. economy. ... read more

The Supreme Court could be enabling a criminal conspiracy to prosecute IDF reservists unjustly. ... read more

I bought a Chinese cleaver on a whim and it taught me a lot. ... read more

Super Mario Odyssey is on sale for $29.99 for a limited time, which matches the game’s lowest price to date. | Image: Nintendo Nintendo has made some of the most ... read more

Yesterday X started rolling out a new About This Account feature, which included what country the account was created from and what country the account is “based” in (which is ... read more

LOS ANGELES — Contextual targeting has evolved from supplementary tactic to primary solution over the past year, enabling advertisers to move beyond inconsistent audience-based signals toward more robust and reliable connections with consumers. “A year ... read more

Rep. August Pfluger unveils the Republican Study Committee’s priorities. ... read more

For all the talk about artificial intelligence impact on creativity, the data use cases are quickly coming into view among various parts of the ad industry. For example, the ability to autonomously generate audience segments ... read more

The tech is the most advanced form of radiation, delivering a targeted energy beam to tumors while sparing healthy tissue surrounding the site. ... read more

The law school’s modified pass-fail system offers a fine solution. ... read more

The trade deal with Mexico and Canada works well, but there are problems to fix. ... read more

The current discount takes nearly $200 off the original list price. More than five years after making their debut, Sony’s WH-1000XM4 remain an excellent pair of noise-canceling headphones. And right ... read more

What are thooooose? Well, they're my Vines, the six-second videos that helped mint a generation of famous comedians and also kicked off the era of endlessly looping vertical video that ... read more

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming competition, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 106, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, Happy Thanksgiving Week, and also you can ... read more

NBC News's David Ingram analyzed a month's worth of Elon Musk's X posts (our condolences). While what he was able to glean wasn't too surprising, it was still interesting to ... read more

Black Friday isn’t here quite yet, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from kicking off an excellent holiday promo, which runs through December 18th. The ongoing sale spans everything from PlayStation ... read more

In August, Apple Music launched a tool for importing playlists from other streaming services. The bruhahah over Daniel Ek’s war profiteering was in full swing, and artists were starting to ... read more

The Xreal One look a bit like the glasses you get from the optician after having your pupils dilated. But they’re not as bulky or heavy as a VR headset. ... read more

It took me a long time to become even halfway decent at Forestrike. The martial arts action game, from Olija developer Skeleton Crew, has a unique twist in that it ... read more

Last week one of my big questions about Pluribus was whether our reluctant hero Carol (Rhea Seehorn) would find someone to help her save the world from the scourge of ... read more

The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex ... read more

Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to ... read more

The publisher-focused DOJ v. Google ad tech antitrust trial is finished. A judge will now decide the fate of Google’s sell-side ad tech business. On Friday, both sides presented their closing arguments and fielded final ... read more

Google and the Justice Department had their last chance to make their case before Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday before she decides whether Google needs to be broken up to remedy ... read more

The Tapo RV30 Max Plus is down to $200 for a limited time, rendering it an even better value than before. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but ... read more

It will take a lot more than what Donald Trump is doing to convince Putin that it’s in his best interest to stop. ... read more

Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and ... read more

Thank goodness talented people still want to come to the U.S. ... read more

Smartphone users are fighting Google's bid to scrap a jury verdict requiring the company to pay $425 million for allegedly gathering analytics data from people who had attempted to block data collection. ... read more

Nothing’s Android 16-powered update brings a bunch of new features to its phones, including its own spin on Google’s Live Updates. With Nothing OS 4.0, users can track a delivery, ... read more

Hear me out: Kirby Air Riders isn't a racing game, it's an art tool with a racing game tacked on. The game, out now for the Nintendo Switch 2, is ... read more

Get rid of sensitive or confidential data in an instant. | Image: TeamGroup TeamGroup has announced a new portable SSD drive called the T-Create Expert P35S that could give you ... read more

The PlayStation Portal has only gotten better since its launch in 2023. Deals on Sony’s PlayStation 5 are much more common than those on its PlayStation Portal, the handheld that ... read more

Two California residents will ask a federal appellate court to restore their claims that the company violated state laws by allegedly sharing information about their audiobook browsing and listening with Meta Platforms, via its analytics ... read more

There has been a recent deluge of generative AI videos featuring uncannily fresh-faced teens waxing nostalgic about how much better the world was during the '80s and '90s. As the ... read more

Hoto’s leaf blower can run for up to 30 minutes at its lowest power setting. | Image: Hoto Hoto has a new cordless leaf blower that continues the company’s trend ... read more

Apple’s new M5-powered iPad Pro is certainly impressive, but if you just need a reliable tablet for streaming, taking video calls, note-taking, and light work, you don’t need to spend ... read more

Sierra’s Clay Bavor and Bret Taylor. | Photo: Sierra This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The ... read more

Next week you’ll get another chance to grab Analogue’s N64 redux. | Image: Analogue Analogue has announced its reimagined and upgraded 4K version of the Nintendo 64, the Analogue 3D, ... read more

Incremental increases in computing and processing power will affect how ads are created, speed and timing and how they are served to consumers - especially as agentic consumer purchasing options become more common. ... read more

The PS5 Pro is $100 off. Black Friday is still a week away, but Sony has already slashed the price of three PlayStation 5 models. The PS5 Digital Edition (slim) ... read more

For a long, long time, Windows looked like Windows. The version numbers and features changed, but the basic structure of the computer didn't. With Windows 8, Microsoft tried to completely ... read more

Google has begun displaying ads in AI Mode, the company's AI search engine, placing them at the bottom of the responses on the page. Ad results labelled with the sponsored tag resemble the organic link ... read more

The pitch is to take a picture and let AI do the rest. The latter is where it all breaks down. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday ... read more

Along with the NFL, college football TV viewing has also made slight gains. Analysts point to the new Nielsen Big Data + Panel measure. ... read more

The Falcata takes up so much less desk space than the Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB I use, and it works wirelessly, if you want. I recently published a review of ... read more

82% of Americans are prioritizing low cost and high impact when it comes to gift-giving this year, according to a new poll from Stagwell's Harris Poll for Mastercard. ... read more

The move deepens PMG's expansion into creative and content marketing services, albeit on the backbone of its proprietary Alli tech stack. ... read more

Dude, where’s my card? Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. While we wait, we tried to order a Trump Mobile SIM card so ... read more

Take a moment to think about how your day sounds. Maybe you start with the sound of your alarm, followed by a quick news briefing from your smart speaker while you scroll through emails. Your ... read more

The spot consists almost entirely of the voices of 14 people not seen onscreen who are sharing their frustrations with the state of TV news today. ... read more

A new way to AirDrop just dropped. It's pretty rare when a cool new gadget feature gets announced that you can try right away on your own devices. But that's ... read more

The chunky grip doubles as a stand, and attaches using MagSafe. Apple has partnered with artist and designer Bailey Hikawa on a new MagSafe iPhone grip “designed with accessibility in ... read more