After recently admitting that it had a “spectacularly terrible response” to Joy-Con grip detachment complaints with its Killswitch Nintendo Switch 2 case, Dbrand has some good news: it says its ... read more

We just got a good, long look at PlayStation’s next major exclusive. As promised, Sony held an event dedicated to Ghost of Yōtei, the PS5-exclusive samurai game from Sucker Punch ... read more

The Nintendo Switch 2 is not discounted for Prime Day. Just getting that out of the way. The fastest-selling console ever came out on June 5th, and only just hit ... read more

To drive in-store purchases during the back-to-school shopping push, American Eagle has partnered with Snapchat, utilizing the social-media platform's interactive map to promote its brick-and-mortar locations. ... read more

Razer’s new mouse looks much like the previous V3 Pro model, but with a lighter chassis and new tech inside. Razer is announcing a new gaming mouse, the $169.99 DeathAdder ... read more

The General Insurance company is following its Gen Z audience into Fortnite with a branded racing map launching within an existing streamer-backed world called "The Glitch." ... read more

Journalists with El Faro will get another opportunity to convince a judge that their lawsuit over Pegasus spyware can proceed in California. ... read more

Another useful feature has been discovered in the latest Kindle software update for those using ad-supported models. | Photo: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge The release notes for the latest ... read more

Subnautica 2 has been at the center of a contentious debate between leadership at its developer Unknown Worlds and the game’s publisher, Krafton Games. At stake is a $250 million ... read more

AI is a double-edged sword for publishers. On the one hand, agentic AI tools are helping publishers streamline ad sales and operations, with the efficiency gains producing incremental revenue. But, on the other hand, publishers ... read more

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 just received their first cash discount. Every model in Sony’s WH-1000XM lineup has consistently ranked among the best headphones you can buy, and thanks to Amazon Prime Day, ... read more

YouTube accounts are uploading recent Hollywood movies, racking up views while advertisers (and sometimes creators) remain in the dark. Plus: Could Cloudflare’s AI bot blockers provide a salve for digital media’s traffic declines? The post ... read more

Microsoft is now starting to change its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to a newly designed black version. It’s the first major change to the BSOD since Microsoft added a ... read more

The U.S. joint industry committee says this measurement assessment means each provider - Comscore, iSpot, and VideoAmp - "can support the current demands of a multi-currency ecosystem, adding that "this process represents a new standard ... read more

A Tesla Inc. robotaxi in Austin, Texas, US, on Sunday, June 22, 2025. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is eyeing San Francisco for his next robotaxi city — to which I say, ... read more

Bluesky is adding age verification to its platform in the UK as part of efforts to comply with the country’s Online Safety Act. In an update on Thursday, the platform ... read more

Hyundai just unveiled its second-ever performance EV, the Ioniq 6 N, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England. The new variant carries over a lot of what ... read more

Anker’s 25,000mAh power bank with two built-in, retractable USB-C cables might be as essential for you as it is for me. It offers fast charging speeds, serving up to 100W ... read more

Apple has agreed to settle claims that it violated California consumer protection laws by representing that consumers could "buy" digital music and video, but allegedly retaining the right to revoke access. ... read more

Apple TV Plus’ adaptation of Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries has been one of this year’s surprisingly great sci-fi series, and the streamer has plans to keep the story going with ... read more

YouTube is preparing to sunset the Trending section that shows users which videos are currently going viral on the platform. The Trending page and Trending Now list will be removed ... read more

There's an enormous opportunity for U.S. investors to fund Ukraine defense tech, currently rewriting weaponry with startup-fueled innovations. ... read more

King of the Hill is finally coming back after 15 years, and in the revival’s new trailer, the world has become a very different place, I tell you what. Set ... read more

Perplexity subscribers on Wednesday gained first access to the company's AI-based browser, Comet, which challenges Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Consumers will need to give up data to use its services. ... read more

What you have on your desk and in your workspace at home can reveal a lot about you: how you work, what you like to distract yourself with, what kind ... read more

Netflix’s main Squid Game series may be over, but a second season of the Squid Game reality show is debuting in just a few months – and a third season ... read more

Yaccarino had to do damage control to reassure advertisers in the wake of Elon Musk's comments, but made some gains bringing back some marketers - Apple, Unilever, Hulu and American Express. ... read more

ModRetro is also introducing a new color option called cloud. | Image: ModRetro After selling out all of its limited stock of First Edition handhelds last year, ModRetro has announced ... read more

OpenAI is planning to launch an AI web browser in the “coming weeks,” according to a report from Reuters. Sources tell the outlet that OpenAI could build its Operator AI ... read more

Month after month, message after message, the AI engineer was hearing from Meta recruiters. The recruiters were pestering him to leave his employer and switch over to support the company's ... read more

Zohran Mamdani's win in the NYC mayoral primary set a new paradigm in political campaigning: niche, cool and not typically political. ... read more

The feature is available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. Google just launched a new Gemini AI feature that lets you transform photos into video clips. The new photo-to-video ... read more

The new rules follow Cannes Lions investigation into a Grand Prix winning campaign at this year's Festival of Creativity for appliance maker Consul by Brazilian agency DM9 (part of DDB). The submission was withdrawn and ... read more

Gartner predicts that by 2027, 85% of customer data will come through automated interactions or those led by AI agents. Those agents will live in browsers from companies such as Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and ... read more

Nintendo is discontinuing vouchers for Switch games. The program, which lets Switch Online members save money on digital games, will come to an end on January 30th, 2026. Though players ... read more

Welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, Deputy Editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. This is the first in a series of Thursday Decoder episodes that ... read more

The self-extending Dreame X40 Ultra robot vacuum / mop hybrid can also clean itself. Keeping your floors clean feels like a second job, but it doesn’t have to. Robot vacuums ... read more

WPP has been flirting with the idea of becoming an “AI-driven platform business” for some time – mostly in earnings calls and on strategy decks. Now, with a new CEO incoming, the holdco might finally ... read more

Comscore, iSpot and VideoAmp all reaffirmed last year’s full certification and currency-grade readiness, according to the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee (JIC)’s mid-term audit released Thursday. The post Comscore, iSpot and VideoAmp Get Another Stamp Of ... read more

On a balmy night in October 2019, the defector rode his bike home. He’d just finished a long shift helping waiters serve yogurt-smothered kabobs at a restaurant in Yalova, a ... read more

Soundwave is Lego’s first transforming Decepticon set. | Image: Lego Following buildable versions of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, Lego’s latest collaboration with Hasbro is also its first Decepticon. The 1,505-piece ... read more

The creation of Donkey Kong Bananza started with destruction. "What we were really going for was this gameplay experience that comes from destruction," Bananza director Kazuya Takahashi says in an ... read more

Samsung Ads is offering an advertising product that targets mobile gamers who watch content through Samsung TV Plus - its connected TV operating platform. ... read more

OpenAI reportedly will soon release an AI-powered web browser, separately challenging Google and Microsoft. ... read more

What do cannabis, politics and financial services have in common? Besides the fact that they can give you an awful headache, they’re also all regulated markets that face an array of rules and restrictions when ... read more

With Amazon Prime Day in full force, marketers are navigating one of the biggest retail events of the summer. But this Prime Day isn’t just a moment to drive sales; it’s a critical opportunity to ... read more

The main character of Dunham's new show is a woman in her mid-30s who moves from New York to London after a traumatic breakup. ... read more

Here at The Verge, we love physical media, and we know many of you do as well. That’s why it’s our duty to share the news that many great 4K ... read more

In Donald Trump's second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has escalated its enforcement operations in extremely public ways, conducting surprise raids, arresting lawmakers, and launching a new Florida detention ... read more

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as X's CEO - and leaving the platform once known as Twitter in a worse place than when she started. A day after X users ... read more

Rose has spent the last nine years in senior leadership positions at Microsoft where she is currently chief operating officer-global enterprise, a role in which she advises clients on business transformation issues. ... read more

YouTube is trying to soothe concerns about an incoming update to its monetization policies following backlash from online creators. An announcement that YouTube would be updating restrictions around “inauthentic” content ... read more

⠀ Amazon Prime Day is usually a sprint — two hectic days of lightning deals, overflowing shopping carts, and enough browser tabs to crash a laptop. But this year, Amazon ... read more

A concept trifold phone from Samsung Display was shown off at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Yesterday’s Galaxy Unpacked event came and went without a single onstage tease of the ... read more

The Aqara G410 video doorbell is also a Matter and Zigbee hub. | Image: Aqara Aqara’s successor to the popular G4 video doorbell is now available to buy. The $129.99 ... read more

Elon Musk’s live demo of Grok 4, the latest big-ticket model from his AI startup, began with high-intensity music, claims of a “ludicrous rate of progress,” and a lot of ... read more

Costs And Clicks People are clicking on fewer and fewer Google Search ads, reports Search Engine Roundtable. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said during a recent investor call that ads on pages with AI Overviews (AIOs) ... read more

Condé Nast and Hearst have signed multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in its AI shopping assistant Rufus, according to sources with knowledge of the deals.  The news comes just six ... read more

In this week’s Media Briefing, Digiday senior media editor Jessica Davies looks at how the AI compensation model is evolving beyond flat-fee licensing, with options like pay-per-crawl and pay-per-query starting to emerge as ways for ... read more

Two trends are emerging in the world of AI and search: AI platforms are sending more traffic to publishers’ sites, while Google’s AI Overviews is reducing click-throughs across more search queries. Recent data is helping ... read more

Linda Yaccarino had the title. She had the industry patter, the resume and the profile. What she didn’t have was control — or at least not the kind that mattered. Her role was never about ... read more

The company's revised full-year organic revenue decline is now expected to be between 3% and 5%. The second quarter decline alone is between 5.5% and 6%. ... read more

Household TV ad impressions in June 2025 totaled 15.5 billion, down 25.2% compared to 20.7 billion in June 2024 ... read more

Heart rate monitoring, here we come. The Powerbeats Pro 2 are only a few months old, but they’re already on sale for an all-time low of around $179.95 ($70 off) ... read more

Aiming to revive its claims against Omnicom Group, Compass Marketing filed an amended complaint against the ad agency holding company on Tuesday. ... read more

As Meta prioritizes wearable technologies, its 3% stake of EssilorLuxottica could potentially increase to 5%, according to a report by Bloomberg. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has predicted that smart glasses will overtake smartphones in the ... read more

"We are prepared to use the full weight of our enforcement authority to protect consumer privacy," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong stated. ... read more

The Tile Slim can help you keep track of your wallet — and it’s currently on sale for 30 percent off. Day one of Amazon Prime Day is in the ... read more

On June 24th, Columbia University experienced an hourslong system-wide outage. Its internal email service went down. Students couldn't log in to the platform where professors post assignments and course materials. ... read more

Apple is preparing to launch its next Vision Pro headset “as early as this year,” according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The upcoming device will reportedly feature an ... read more

A federal appellate court rejected Yelp's petition to reconsider a decision that allowed Texas to proceed with a lawsuit against the review site over warning labels on so-called "crisis pregnancy centers." ... read more

Summer travel season is in full swing, and whether you’re headed to the beach, a weekend getaway, or just staying home in the A/C, here are some good Prime Day ... read more

CANNES — It’s not just a marker of Cannes Lions’ expansion that a payments company like PayPal was a key fixture at this year’s event. It’s also a symptom of PayPal’s own emergence into the ... read more

CANNES — In an advertising ecosystem grappling with signal loss and privacy demands, the prevailing wisdom has often involved centralizing vast pools of consumer data. A new approach, however, posits that the future of data ... read more

CANNES – At a time when identity-based targeting faces mounting challenges, Ogury is betting on a fundamentally different approach: targeting personas rather than people. “Our methodology is based on effectively finding audiences that have the ... read more

MethaneSat was built to track methane pollution around the world. A satellite tracking global methane pollution has gone dark, imperiling  a mission that garnered enormous support from Jeff Bezos and ... read more

It’s tough to beat a 55-inch OLED TV selling for $800. | Image: Panasonic Let me try to read your mind. You’re thinking of getting a new TV, yes, a ... read more

The flexible arm on Anker’s new wireless charger can be bent up and down to find the ideal position for your smartphone. | Image: Anker Anker has released a new ... read more

OpenAI has officially closed its nearly $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famed former Apple designer Jony Ive, the company announced Wednesday. But it was careful to only ... read more

After just over two years at X, CEO Linda Yaccarino is stepping down from the role. “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of ... read more

Comet’s AI assistant can answer questions about what’s on your screen. | Image: Perplexity Perplexity, the startup behind the AI “answer” engine, has just launched its own web browser. The ... read more

Amazon Prime Day is in full swing, and we’ve been particularly struck by the deep discounts on smartwatches and fitness trackers. The Apple Watch Series 10 and Amazfit Active 2, ... read more

Yaccarino announced her departure from X less than two years after becoming the company's chief executive. In a post on X, Yaccarino highlights her responsibilities at the company, including "protecting free speech, turning the company ... read more

Google scrapes profit from advertisers through heavy use of hidden search terms, as advertisers continue to see a decline in search query data. ... read more

Microsoft's complicated relationship with OpenAI is about to take an interesting turn. As the pair continue to renegotiate a contract to allow OpenAI to restructure into a for-profit company, OpenAI ... read more

Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day 2025 is officially underway. If you’re looking to make the most of the four-day shopping extravaganza, we’ve put together a guide to the best Prime Day deals you ... read more

It may not surprise anyone who is tech-aware that publications such as The Verge track the affiliate links that are clicked by their readers — in fact, every article that ... read more

Samsung’s summer Galaxy Unpacked event has come to a close. As expected, the company unveiled next-generation Galaxy Z Flip and Fold smartphones, as well as three new additions to its ... read more

Samsung’s latest clamshell-style foldable is officially here, and it brought a new, more affordable sibling to the party. The Z Flip 7 was announced at Samsung’s summer Unpacked event this ... read more

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as CEO of X after two years running the company, she announced today. She was appointed its CEO in the year after Elon Musk bought ... read more

Adams will be joined by Marissa Jimenez, who joins from Dentsu to serve on the new Stagwell Media Platform. He also continues as Assembly Global COO. ... read more

Apple typically doesn’t discount its own hardware, which makes Prime Day deals on its gear so appealing. We’ve rounded up the best Apple Watch Prime Day deals, and we’re particularly ... read more

Just look at these beauts. Samsung just announced its seventh-generation folding phones, and it finally retired the long and narrow Z Fold design that it had stuck with for far ... read more

Here’s the new Galaxy Watch 8 lineup. From left to right: 40mm Galaxy Watch 8, 44mm Watch 8, Classic, and the Ultra. One thing is immediately noticeable as I try ... read more

Google is bringing some AI support updates to Samsung’s latest generation of Galaxy foldables and watches. Google is adding new AI features to Android’s Circle to Search and Gemini Live ... read more

He's the top candidate in terms of media speculation and a couple of sports books also have him as the odds-on favorite. ... read more

WPP's stock tumbled in intraday trading Wednesday morning after the agency holding company reported "tougher macro" conditions and "weaker new business conditions" in its first-half update to investors. ... read more

A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel ... read more

Long before the AI hype kicked off in earnest, Eric Schwartz was already working with machine learning tools to develop optimized ad tech products. The post Scibids Alum Eric Schwartz Joins AI Sales Optimization Startup ... read more