The Motion Picture Association has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, warning the tech giant to stop using the term "PG-13" to describe a new content-moderation initiative on Instagram. ... read more

Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing “deep research” queries. Google’s announcement blog called this “one of our most-requested features” for Gemini Deep Research, which is ... read more

Welcome to “remedy-palooza.” While that specific term may not take off, it’s not a bad way to describe the vibe right now. We recently got a final remedy decision in the DOJ v. Google Search ... read more

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit accusing Amazon's Audible of sharing information about users' audibook browsing and listening with Meta Platforms, via its analytics pixel. ... read more

ORLANDO, FL — United Airlines uses real-time operational data to hold connecting flights for delayed passengers. The airline, which is about to celebrate its centennial year, does so when the delay won’t impact final arrival ... read more

Apple’s slim laptop is the best of the best. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been holding off on getting a new laptop, now’s a great time to pick one ... read more

Pinterest's latest performance report shows a boost in revenue as the company added users across every region, reaching 600 million monthly actives for the first time in its 15 year history. ... read more

If you’ve ever watched a synth video on YouTube, there’s a decent chance you’ve seen the Arturia KeyStep at some point. The affordable keyboard and controller has been a steady ... read more

With the swing of a bat, another October came and went for those of us who love baseball. As languid and habitual as the rest of the season can feel, ... read more

The open internet continues to serve as a powerful channel for advertisers seeking scale and accessibility. But the advent of generative AI is rapidly reshaping how that potential is realized. The technology is ushering in ... read more

Apple is preparing to power its AI-upgraded Siri with a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The iPhone maker will reportedly ... read more

Last week, Nintendo surprised everybody with an announcement: Over four years after its "last major free content update," Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a Switch 2 upgrade and a ... read more

Lance Wolder, head of strategy and marketing, PadSquad For over a decade, “the right person, the right message, the right time” has been a guiding principle in digital advertising. It has been cited in decks, ... read more

The Pro 3 and Ultimate 2 can now shake-to-wake the Switch 2. Third-party controller makers that have figured out how to wirelessly wake the Switch 2 from its standby mode ... read more

Customers at a Pennsylvania Whole Foods can order Kraft Mac & Cheese while they shop. | Image: Amazon Amazon built a portal to Kraft Mac & Cheese, Goldfish crackers, and ... read more

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin. And despite being designed around random chance, it has a vibrant speedrunning community, racing to see who can get to 10 ... read more

The Baseus PrimeTrip VD1 Pro is both a great dash cam and rear cam that’s $60 off. If you’ve ever had to leave your car parked for a few days ... read more

Google and Fortnite developer Epic Games have agreed to resolve a high profile battle over Play store policies, the companies said late Thursday in a joint filing with U.S. District Court Judge James Donato in ... read more

Nintendo is stepping further away from its original Switch console, with the company now planning to dedicate most of its attention to its successor. In a financial results briefing on ... read more

Discord is expanding the safety controls parents and guardians have access to in its Family Center, including increased visibility of their teens’ activity, allowing guardians to control sensitive content filtering ... read more

If you’ve been reluctant to update to the new Apple Home architecture, you now have a few more months before Apple forces your hand. Apple has pushed back the deadline ... read more

Another AI-powered wearable is coming to market. It’s not a pendant like Friend, nor a wristband like Amazon’s Bee. This time, it’s a smart ring called the Stream Ring from ... read more

Black Friday will bring huge discounts on all sorts of tech. But sometimes you just can’t wait, especially if you just lost your last pair of earbuds, or perhaps they ... read more

Ensuring that ads enhance rather than interrupt the viewing experience should be a priority for every brand, said Alex Stone, senior vice president and managing director of enterprise partnerships at Horizon Media. Speaking with Beet.TV ... read more

T-Mobile is opening up access to its Starlink-powered emergency texting service. The carrier announced on Wednesday that anyone with a compatible phone — even AT&T and Verizon customers — can ... read more

Think this image is busy enough? Teenage Engineering’s Riddim looks like just another take on the company’s EP–133 KO II sampler. But it actually has a lot more going on, ... read more

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, warned that large language models may replace humans in consuming the internet - suggesting that the ad model estimated by the IAB to generate $398 billion ... read more

OpenAI didn't plan to make a browser. Not at first, anyway. But ever since the company launched ChatGPT, it started to see lots of users do the same thing. "You'd ... read more

Ever since Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games to build a “persistent universe,” there’s been very little indication as to what that may eventually look like. But the latest ... read more

IP addresses and postal/email addresses are a match made in … not heaven. According to a new report, IP-to-email matches are accurate about 16% of the time on average, while IP-to-postal matches are accurate only ... read more

Earlier this month, I attended the Agentic Advertising Standards & Community launch presentation. I sat back and absorbed the pitch for what could ultimately develop into a new form of ad buying. The presentation is ... read more

The holidays have a way of sneaking up on us. One minute you're trick-or-treating with your kids, and the next you're panic shopping in a Buc-ee's gift aisle. But it ... read more

Elon Musk’s AI company compelled its employees submit their own biometric data to train its “Ani” female chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal. Ani, an anime avatar with ... read more

Joining the roster are dog-food brand Nom Nom; Jus-Rol, known for its variety of chilled and frozen pastry and dough products; and Real Good Foods, maker of healthy proteins like frozen chicken nuggets, meatballs and ... read more

The Motion Picture Association — the trade group in charge of movie ratings — has asked Meta to stop using its “PG-13” rating when referring to the type of content ... read more

According to recent Comscore research, 18- to-34-year-old subscribers who are "cord nevers" (cable, satellite, virtual or telco) represent 45% of CTV households. ... read more

Google Maps is bringing Gemini’s AI chatbot to more features, including more “conversational” route planning and the use of landmarks and nearby business for navigation. Google has slowly been ... read more

PlayStation has announced that cloud streaming is officially rolling out to the PlayStation Portal, after a beta test period that started last year. Starting later today, PlayStation Premium Plus members ... read more

Zohran Mamdani owes his win as New York City mayor substantially to his internet presence. Mamdani - as numerous writers have outlined - is good on social video. He picked ... read more

Here’s a look at the iOS Nintendo Store app. | Image: Jess Weatherbed / The Verge Nintendo has released an official Nintendo Store app, allowing more fans to access the ... read more

City dwellers besieged by pigeons may or may not appreciate a new episode of PBS's "Nature" that reveals the inner lives of urban pigeons. ... read more

On July 1st, Perez Hilton uploaded a YouTube video with breaking news.  “Hello everybody, it is Perez, the queen of all media, the original influencer, and allegedly, I have been ... read more

Stability AI, the creator of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, was largely victorious against Getty Images on Tuesday in a British legal battle over the material used to train ... read more

Fully one-third of all streaming consumers say disparate and confusing content issues among streaming platforms - as well as ineffective content discovery -"impacts the TV experience." ... read more

Isaacman has flown into orbit twice on all-private astronaut missions. | Image: Getty President Donald Trump has once again picked tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA Administrator, ... read more

Many viewers prefer sports docuseries over other nonfiction genres such as true crime or history. Brands can align with these programs as cultural unifiers that cross demographics and borders. ... read more

The Edge 70 is just 5.99mm thick, but its battery almost matches the S25 Ultra’s. I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone. Why would I give ... read more

Just when we thought Epic v. Google might be over, just one Supreme Court rejection away from a complete victory for Epic, both sides have agreed to settle Tuesday evening. ... read more

Two quarterly reports might not be enough to confirm a pattern. But it is enough information to draw a line – and so far, that line is going up for MNTN. The post MNTN’s SMB ... read more

Amazon has issued a cease-and-desist letter in a dispute with Perplexity, claiming that Perplexity's AI agents are making unauthorized purchases on its platform and violating its terms of service. ... read more

You Down With UCP? The IAB Tech Lab isn’t going to let some agent replace it as the de facto standards-setter for online advertising.  In August, the Tech Lab launched the AI Content Monetization Protocols ... read more

All the will in the world won’t make an AI strategy work without clean, structured data to back it up. Immediate Media is starting there.  Next year’s focus is on scrubbing and unifying data across ... read more

For marketers with a keen eye on brand safety and suitability, inclusion lists are something of a gold standard. And like gold, they’re expensive. Increasingly, media agencies are using generative AI to reduce the lift ... read more

More NFL games will be broadcast by creators. After hiring four creators to host alternative broadcasts on YouTube of this season’s opening game, the league is already determining who’s next, said Ian Trombetta, its svp ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how much money people are actually saving through streaming subscription bundles and which streamers they plan to subscribe to in perpetuity. Bundle economics YouTube TV’s power ... read more

The rebranding follows a similar move by IAC last month, when Dotdash Meredith changed its name to People Inc. ... read more

Google has dreamed up a potential new way to get around resource constraints for energy-hungry AI data centers on Earth — launching its AI chips into space on solar-powered satellites. ... read more

The selection followed a formal RFP process involving several agencies. The incumbent was Atlanta-based Cardinal. ... read more

Valve is testing a low-power way to complete downloads on your Steam Deck without having to leave the handheld running with the screen on. As part of an update that’s ... read more

Following the launch of its first native iPad app, Meta has announced the first official Apple Watch app for its encrypted messaging platform, expanding more of its services to non-smartphone on-the-go wearables. ... read more

Apple Podcasts will soon include automatically-generated chapters for shows in English and allow creators to add links at specific timestamps in their episodes. Timed links may also be added to ... read more

Did your Stream Deck sprout a red “Device Not Supported” badge where a button used to be? If so, you were probably using BarRaider’s popular plug-ins, which apparently check to ... read more

New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging a federal judge to reject X Corp.'s bid to strike down a state law requiring large social platforms to disclose their content moderation policies and data regarding ... read more

New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging a federal judge to reject X Corp.'s bid to strike down a state law requiring large social platforms to disclose their content moderation policies and data regarding ... read more

Microsoft’s first in-house AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, is now available in two products, Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The company announced the model in October. Microsoft AI chief ... read more

Nomad’s sleek and sturdy wireless charging stands are now Qi2.2-compatible. | Image: Nomad Nomad has announced updated versions of its Stand One and Stand One Max hubs that now support ... read more

Amazon doesn’t want to be a part of Perplexity’s AI-powered shopping experience. In a post on Tuesday, the ecommerce giant says it has “repeatedly requested” that Perplexity stop allowing its ... read more

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Happy New York City mayoral election day to everyone who's voting, watching from afar, or just here for the memes. And happy 35th day ... read more

The phrase “caution is key” has already become a totem of sorts for the new age of US antitrust regulation. It was used by the Supreme Court in its ruling in NCAA v. Alston, an ... read more

This weekend, I turned my home into a test lab for Google's new Gemini for Home AI and subjected my family to 72 hours of surveillance as it watched, interpreted, ... read more

The legal fight over whether the president can send troops into Portland, Oregon, depends on whether judges believe their own eyes or their smartphones. Even before inception, the lawsuit ... read more

The Arduboy FX-C is launching at $99 as a result of tariffs. | Image: Arduboy After debuting a matchbox-sized handheld called the Arduboy Mini and a banana-shaped version of the ... read more

The smart string lights look just as good on a tree as they do on patio. Now that spooky season’s over, it’s time to swap the pumpkins and skeletons for ... read more

Tech industry groups NetChoice and Chamber of Progress are urging the Supreme Court to hear Google's appeal of an antitrust injunction that requires the company to make extensive changes to its app store. ... read more

Two promotional messages will run featuring MSNBC's top host Rachel Maddow and the late Maya Angelou. In one 60-second spot, Maddow reads the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. ... read more

OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android. The app, which lets you create, share, and remix AI-generated videos, is now available on the Google Play Store in ... read more

During a press junket last week, Samsung showed a simulated demo of the new dynamic HDR format, and it includes six features similar to what the recently-revealed Dolby Vision 2 ... read more

The Fitbit Charge 6 is currently on sale for $99.95, which matches its best price to date. Black Friday is still nearly a month off, but that hasn’t stopped the ... read more

Between Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers, 20th Century Studios' classic survival thriller franchise has been on a tear with stories that get at the heart of what makes this ... read more

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has jumped into a conflict over the online encyclopedia’s page on “Gaza genocide.” Just days after a Wikipedia editor froze changes to the article, Wales posted ... read more

Apple is working on a low-cost Mac laptop powered by an iPhone chip that it plans to launch in the first half of 2026, according to Bloomberg. The laptop will ... read more

LAS VEGAS — The retail media network explosion mirrors the programmatic advertising boom 15 years ago in a lot of ways to Digitas North America’s’ Chelsea Monaco. As the convergence of shopping, advertising, and media ... read more

In an advertising ecosystem fixated on digital channels, it can be surprising to learn that a major retailer’s media strategy is overwhelmingly centered on its physical footprint. For UK grocery chain Co-op, about 80% of ... read more

Google Maps is rolling out live lane guidance to drivers of the Google-powered electric Polestar 4. The company announced Tuesday that the new feature relies on the EV’s front-facing camera ... read more

The new service will validate "declared AI" agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity deemed a proxy for human consumers, but will filter "undeclared, potentially malicious AI bots." ... read more

The new service will validate "declared AI" agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity deemed a proxy for human consumers, but will filter "undeclared, potentially malicious AI bots." ... read more

If you’re going to buy a phone in the next couple of days, you might already be considering one of Google’s Pixel 10 devices. Whether you want the cheapest model, ... read more

People Inc. has struck an AI licensing deal with Microsoft to be part of the tech giant’s pay-per-usage AI content marketplace.  The news was revealed to shareholders by People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel during parent ... read more

There are a couple of universal truths about the smart home. Yes, you will come to treat your robot vacuum like a member of the family, and no, you cannot ... read more

According to The Consumer Technology Association, Bollore will "share his vision for a future where technology and human ingenuity converge to unlock new creative possibilities." ... read more

Tuesday marked the launch of Roku’s Ads API, which feeds directly into the company’s self-serve Ads Manager. The new free-to-use toolkit will allow developers to create new integrations between Roku and other kinds of advertising ... read more

Fragmentation, meet consolidation. On Tuesday, alternative identity platform ID5 acquired TrueData, an identity resolution provider that connects people and households to their digital devices. This is ID5’s first acquisition since the company was founded in ... read more

Amazon Music users with access to Alexa Plus can tap the “a” symbol to start making requests. Amazon is using Alexa Plus to bring new AI capabilities to its Music ... read more

How do you make sure you’re serving ads to real connected TVs and not spoofed devices? Get the manufacturers to confirm they’re legit. The IAB Tech Lab announced on Tuesday a new device attestation feature ... read more

AI companies know that children are the future - of their business model. The industry doesn't hide their attempts to hook the youth on their products through well-timed promotional offers, ... read more

The AI-powered live lane guidance is available for cars with Google Built-In, starting with Polestar 4. ... read more

Donald Trump sued "60 Minutes" a year ago for a tiny edit in a Kamala Harris interview, but there he was being interviewed on the very same show Sunday night. ... read more

The AI-powered live lane guidance is available for cars with Google Built-In, starting with Polestar 4. ... read more

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football ... read more

One of the great myths of programmatic advertising is the illusion of algorithms replacing humans. In truth, the programmatic industry relies heavily on human relationships and handshake agreements. Nowhere is this more evident than with ... read more