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The most frequently curated content on the White House Wire, the Trump administration's attempt to aggregate pro-Trump "real news" from across the right-wing media, doesn't come from Truth Social, Breitbart, ... read more

You want your games to play the smoothest they possibly can - but sometimes, screen technology gets in the way. That's why some of the latest TVs and handhelds feature ... read more

A Freedom of Information Act request has produced letters that the US Department of Justice sent to Google, Apple, Amazon, and several other companies in order to assuage their concerns ... read more

One name is popping up a lot across tech startup social media right now, and you might’ve heard it: Soham Parekh. On X, people are joking that Parekh is single-handedly ... read more

The Republican-controlled US Congress has passed a budget bill that includes cuts to social programs like Medicaid and more funding for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alongside provisions that discourage ... read more

E Ink’s new ePaper touchpad could draw less power than LCD or OLED alternatives. | Image: E Ink E Ink has developed a new touchpad for laptops featuring the same ... read more

The deal includes the Paramount Plus Premium plan, which combines Paramount Plus and Showtime content. If you’re looking for an affordable way to kick off your July 4th weekend, Paramount ... read more

Whether you’ve still got the original band that came with your Apple Watch, or if you’re hungry for more band color options, Woot has a bevy of bands available at ... read more

The best screens for screen time. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Haven’t you heard? Phones are boring now. And that’s just fine! Most people buying a new phone ... read more

“Right now, the people who create recorded music do it for free, but any money that changes hands goes into the pockets of Daniel Ek.” On Monday, the long-running indie ... read more

Pretty much everything you liked and disliked about the Whoop 4.0 is true of the Whoop 5.0 and MG. The tragedy of a niche product is if it sees any ... read more

Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 will make the jump to the Xbox Series X and S consoles on August 26th, costing $39.99. This is the first PlayStation-published title to launch ... read more

Apple’s latest 14-inch MacBook Pro is on sale in various colors and configurations. Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day kicks off on July 8th; however, if you want to get a head ... read more

At 468-pieces it’s no where near as elaborate as Lego’s buildable Pac-Man machine, but this 6-inch tall Arcade Machine set will only set you back $39.99 when it launches on August 1st, 2025. The machine ... read more

Apple finally showed us a good use case for its AI at WWDC 2025. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple's AI capabilities have been less than impressive to ... read more

This image is a display concept that Samsung showed off in March, but the leaked trifold design is pretty similar. Samsung may have inadvertently given us a first look at ... read more

In a 92-minute interview with Tucker Carlson on Monday, RFK Jr. drilled down on his vision for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Artificial intelligence - arguably, ... read more

It's that time again: for a third year running, the summer is looking pretty great for streaming some science fiction. There's just something about cool fictional futures that's a good ... read more

Both custom and pre-made Gems will now be available to use via the side panel in Workspace apps. Google is giving Workspace users a way to access “Gems” — customizable ... read more

Racist videos that appear to be created with Google’s AI video generation tool Veo 3 have raked in millions of views across TikTok, according to findings from the nonprofit media ... read more

Microsoft’s layoff of roughly 9,000 employees is continuing to have downstream effects at the company’s subsidiaries. Aftermath reports that as many as 100 developers at Blizzard have been impacted, and ... read more

A mandatory update for Google’s mid-range Pixel 6A phones is coming next week that is meant to reduce the risk of the battery overheating on some devices. According to a ... read more

On July 2nd, Microsoft announced sweeping layoffs affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and they had a big impact on the company’s Xbox studios. Microsoft cancelled Perfect Dark from The ... read more

There's always a reason why universal USB-C ports don't "just work" like you'd expect. In the early days, it was incompetence or naiveté. Later, manufacturers often cheaped out. But in ... read more

Microsoft says that Phil Spencer, Microsoft Gaming CEO and the head of Xbox, isn’t retiring “anytime soon.” The company has responded to rumors of Spencer’s retirement, which have spread online ... read more

Banks are facing renewed pressure to protect their customers from scams on Zelle, the payment network owned by JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Capital One, and other big banks. ... read more

A court in France has sentenced three former Ubisoft executives for sexual and psychological harassment. Serge Hascoet, Tommy Francois, and Guillaume Patrux each received fines and suspended prison sentences for ... read more

With less than a week until Prime Day kicks off, we’re already seeing some exciting early deals pop up. And now we can add two more great discounts to the ... read more

The subtitles for one of Crunchyroll's newest anime series make it pretty clear that the company is going all in on ChatGPT. This week as viewers logged on to Crunchyroll ... read more

Neil Druckmann, co-creator of The Last of Us video game and co-showrunner on the HBO adaptation, will be stepping away from the television series moving forward. In a statement, Druckmann ... read more

Microsoft is canceling its Perfect Dark and Everwild games as part of sweeping cuts to its Xbox division. Matt Booty, Xbox president of game content and studios, revealed that Microsoft ... read more

Microsoft announced layoffs today affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and as part of the changes, more than 70 people will be let go at Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 ... read more

See this disc? Many CD players can’t. Lorde fans are clearly struggling to play the CD version of her new album. Customers who purchased the special edition of Virgin released ... read more

The entire point of Jurassic World Rebirth is to get the franchise back into audiences' good graces with a new set of characters and a story meant to tap into ... read more

Amazon’s early Prime Day sale started off slow, but as the event draws closer to its official kickoff on July 8th, it’s beginning to pick up steam. Right now, for ... read more

ICEBlock is currently the number three app on the App Store. ICEBlock, an app that lets users anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, has soared up ... read more

The alien invasion continues, as Apple just confirmed the next season of Invasion will be streaming this summer. The new season will premiere on Apple TV Plus on August 22nd, ... read more

Europe’s popular Nuki Smart Lock has finally arrived Stateside.  The Nuki Smart Lock ($159) is the most advanced retrofit smart lock I've tested. It features a sleek, compact design ... read more

Tesla is still struggling to shift its vehicles amid rising competition and backlash against Elon Musk. Tesla sales hit a new low, with the company reporting a 14 percent drop ... read more

Microsoft confirmed that it’s laying off as many as 9,100 employees, or about four percent of its workforce, in yet another round of cuts this year, reports the Seattle Times. ... read more

Honor has announced the Magic V5, which it says is the thinnest foldable phone in the world right now — though only if you ignore the raised camera module, and ... read more

10 expansion batteries connected to a single Power 2000 power station for 22kWh of home backup capacity. | Image: DJI After launching its first portable power stations last year, DJI just ... read more

Several actions have been shuffled to new menus, and images will clearly display where and when they were taken. The Google Photos app has been updated to make it easier ... read more

Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against its subsidiary CBS, clearing a path for the administration to approve the media giant’s multibillion-dollar merger ... read more

Figma, the platform that specializes in collaborative interface design, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FIG” as it prepares to ... read more

X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be ... read more

Google Home’s latest update will make it easier to decide who in your household can control your smart home. It comes with a new feature, which Google first started testing ... read more

T-Mobile is bringing some of its Uncarrier energy to Ultra Mobile, the carrier’s international-focused MVNO that operates on its network. It announced that its plans now have slightly higher data ... read more

Senate Republicans today passed a sweeping spending bill that narrowly avoided punitive tax measures on renewable energy but still threatens to stall its growth in the US.  After wrangling over ... read more

Grammarly plans to acquire the buzzy email app Superhuman, according to a press release.  Email is already the “number-one use case” of Grammarly for professional users, the company says, with ... read more

Earlier this year, Sonos permanently dropped the price of its Era 100 speaker to $199, making it more affordable for people looking to build a multiroom wireless speaker setup. Now, ... read more

The MLS Season Pass grants access to this summer’s All Star-Game and Leagues Cup tournament. Major League Soccer (MLS) is now nearly halfway through its 2025 season, and Apple is ... read more

Laptop Mag is shutting down after nearly 35 years of providing consumers with in-depth information about laptops and other technology. In a staff meeting seen by The Verge, Faisal Alani, ... read more

“The Glyph interface is not a gimmick,” Nothing founder and CEO Carl Pei told the press as he revealed the Nothing Phone 3 for the first time, shortly before announcing ... read more

Nothing has launched its first pair of over-ear headphones, imaginatively named the Headphone 1. At $299, these are priced to compete with flagship fare, distinguished primarily by their distinctive Nothing ... read more

The headphones lay flat in their case, which is pretty slim. | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge Nothing's first pair of over-the-ear headphones has arrived, bearing the company's signature ... read more

Apple is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential Vision Pro headset research before leaving to join Snap’s product design team. In the complaint filed in Santa Clara County ... read more

AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that’s designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized ... read more

Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone. You can now privately message other users on the Meta-owned X rival, though Threads will only allow DMs between your followers or ... read more

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington in March. | Image: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dysfunctional cycle of fighting ... read more

Casio’s $120 CRW001-1 (AKA the Ring Watch) is back in stock on Casio’s website for the first time since it launched — then swiftly sold out — in December. The ... read more

As previews for Donkey Kong Bananza come in ahead of the game’s July 17th release date, one tidbit has stood out on the development of this game. It’s been several ... read more

The Federal Communications Commission will suspend the enforcement of a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. On Monday, the Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr ... read more

Allison Johnson is a reviewer for The Verge who writes about phones and mobile technology. “Occasionally,” she adds, “I yell at your wireless carrier.” I asked her if there were ... read more

And more ads are coming to AMC’s preshow. | Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images AMC Theatres is making it easier for moviegoers to know the actual start time of ... read more

The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1 ... read more

As promised, the first trailer for director Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King’s novel The Running Man is here — and it looks like a playful throwback to ‘80s action ... read more

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a ... read more

Several moments of my two-hour hands-on preview of Donkey Kong Bananza felt like I was playing the gritty 2009 action game Red Faction: Guerilla - except this time I was ... read more

Google hasn’t shown Keep much love since bringing it to Apple Watch in 2019. The Google graveyard has claimed another victim: the company has killed the Apple Watch version of ... read more

Nice generative AI platform you have there. Would be a real shame if the RIAA… happened to it. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sure, everyone hates ... read more

On June 2nd, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy traveled to Newark Liberty International Airport to celebrate the reopening of runway 4L-22R. This was unusual: few runway openings are glamorous enough ... read more

The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on ... read more

Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to ... read more

Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out ... read more

AT&T believes its network wasn’t at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being “totally unable to make their equipment work properly.” Instead, AT&T ... read more

Apple is considering enlisting the help of OpenAI or Anthropic to power its AI-upgraded Siri, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As Apple continues to struggle with the ... read more

Finding a Nintendo Switch 2 hasn’t been easy since its launch on June 5th, with sporadic availability over the past few weeks at various retailers. Luckily, if you’ve missed chances ... read more

This is what a Switch 2 looks like with a glossy glass protector attached to its screen. | Image: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge A glass screen protector is one of a ... read more

The US Department of Justice notched an initial win in its antitrust case against Apple today, with a federal judge rejecting Apple’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit outright. The government’s ... read more

Later this summer NASA Plus’ live programming will be available on Netflix. | Image: NASA Since it launched in November 2023, you could catch everything from rocket launches to documentaries ... read more

In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s new “Meta Superintelligence Labs” group that will head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports. Former Scale AI CEO ... read more

A summer camping trip is the perfect excuse to stop staring at screens, but it doesn’t mean you need to go completely off the grid. Jackery’s Explorer 1000 Power Station ... read more

Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and ... read more

Date Everything! isn't the dating sim it appears to be. Though the game's cutesy art style and lighthearted premise indicate an unserious game that's making yet another joke at the ... read more

Kallie Plagge, The Verge’s senior copy editor, has been working in the media for over 10 years now, mainly at gaming websites. She was primarily a video game critic for ... read more

The Insta360 Link 2 is more than just a webcam — it’s a smart camera that actively follows your movements whether you’re presenting, streaming, or pacing during a call. It’s ... read more

Google’s watchOS Calendar app isn’t as robust as the Apple Watch’s native one. | Image: Apple After retreating from watchOS several years ago, Google now only offers a handful of ... read more

Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says in a Decoder episode published today. The company announced the ... read more

Apple Music users may see this notification message inviting them to listen to the new Replay All Time playlist. Apple Music is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its streaming service ... read more

Canada has scrapped its tax targeting Big Tech companies in the US after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade talks in response to the fee. On Sunday, the ... read more

It's been more than a decade since Apple unveiled the original version of CarPlay. In that time, the system has become indispensable for countless drivers all over the world. But ... read more

The new Gemini tab for educators in Google Classroom. Google is announcing a variety of new features for its Classroom software suite, including free Gemini AI tools for educators and ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, Tumblr, and a whole host of other products like the new cross-platform messaging ... read more

Apple is rumored to launch a lighter — and cheaper — version of the Vision Pro. Apple seems to have big plans to expand its lineup of extended-reality (XR) devices ... read more

CFS is building its pilot fusion plant in Devens, Massachusetts. Google has agreed to purchase electricity from a forthcoming nuclear fusion power plant, the so-called holy grail of clean energy ... read more

In Project Hail Mary Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a science teacher who finds themselves a reluctant astronaut on a mission to save Earth’s dying sun. | Screenshot: YouTube Following ... read more

Check your Anker power banks to see if they carry any of these model numbers. Anker has issued its second product recall so far this month, warning customers that five ... read more

Joby Aviation is getting ready to take flight. The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) company has delivered its first production aircraft to Dubai, where it plans to launch a ... read more

When Ela Darling began performing in porn at the tail end of the 2000s, tube sites like Pornhub were relatively new, and major studios like Vivid and Digital Playground still ... read more