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A critical NASA rocket test ended with a shutdown on Saturday, a little over a minute into what was planned to be an eight-minute test. This trial run was a vital checkpoint ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has updated its Inauguration Day preparations to include a temporary ban on ads that promote weapon accessories and protective equipment at least through January ... read more

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Ford will delay deliveries for hundreds of its Mustang Mach-E vehicles to perform quality checks, Electrek reported. The automaker began delivering the Mach-E SUV in ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some Twitter employees have set their accounts to private and scrubbed their online biographies over concerns they may be targeted by supporters of President Trump, ... read more

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Rating the all-digital Consumer Electronics Show Continue reading… ... read more

vrbo Short-term rental site VRBO does not plan to cancel reservations in the DC area during the inauguration next week, even though competitor Airbnb has already done so. First reported by BuzzFeed ... read more

The B-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. | NASA Four huge rocket engines will roar to life on Saturday, in a crucial test for NASA’s ... read more

Image: Razer Another CES is in the books. Going all-virtual meant that it was a smaller show than usual — and since it was already a show that’s been on the decline ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Millions of people in the US started buying face masks in 2020, and companies, unsurprisingly, rushed to take advantage of the surge of demand for ... read more

Image: CD Projekt Red A new report looking into what went amiss with the rollout of Cyberpunk 2077 points to overconfidence from management at CD Projekt Red as a key problem, and ... read more

Image: Logitech Welcome to the weekend. If I’m being honest, this week’s assortment of deals was just as spotty as last week’s. So, to make it a little better, we’ve worked with ... read more

Driving around a car that looks like it’s made from the fabric of space is now slightly more possible, as demonstrated in this modified black paint job that DipYourCar applied to a ... read more

In October, the FAA took a major stride towards letting increasingly smart drones fly themselves, letting Skydio’s self-flying drones inspect any bridge in North Carolina for four years, as long as humans ... read more

Medium has announced its acquisition of the social-based ebook company Glose. Glose is a platform where users can buy and read books, then share notes and highlights with friends. In the press ... read more

Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Facebook won’t let people create events that take place “in close proximity” to the White House, the US Capitol building, or any state capitol buildings through Inauguration ... read more

The error message in macOS 11.1. | Screenshot: Jay Peters Apple has turned off users’ ability to unofficially install iOS apps onto their M1 Macs (via 9to5Mac). While iOS apps are still ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has started work on a foldable phone, and it’s begun prototyping foldable screens internally, according to Bloomberg. A final device is likely still years ... read more

Image: Disney When times are tough, the sitcom is a refuge. Like late-night talk shows, the multicamera sitcom is one of the oldest formats in television. It’s affordable and efficient for the ... read more

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge This year’s Consumer Electronics Show was unsurprisingly all virtual. Typically, The Verge is in the thick of it in Las Vegas, but this year, we’re ... read more

Photo: Belkin Getting a MagSafe car charger for your iPhone seems like a simple process, but the current landscape is one of trade-offs: there are no all-in-one solutions that will wirelessly hold ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A discount on HBO Max that was supposed to end today, January 15th, has been extended until March 1st, 2021. The fine print of the ... read more

Image: Apple According to 9to5Mac, Apple will be extending its free year-long trials of its TV Plus service to customers until July 2021. The trials were originally included with the purchase of ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge WhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated to go into effect on February 8th following widespread confusion ... read more

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge In addition to revamped MacBook Pros that ditch the Touch Bar and resurrect MagSafe, Apple is also said to be planning to announce its long-awaited ... read more

A screenshot from Hitman 3. | Image: IO Interactive Hitman 3 and the World of Assassination trilogy launch on January 20th, and at launch, Google Stadia players will be able to share ... read more

The Humble Store has kicked off its winter sale. Starting today and lasting until January 28th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, the digital storefront is running a slew of discounts across ... read more

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images GitHub employees are protesting the firing of a Jewish colleague who was let go two days after he warned co-workers in Washington, DC to stay ... read more

One of the miracles of any good television show is that it even works at all. First consider the countless people working across departments and disciplines needed to make a single episode ... read more

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Spending on video games set a new record of $56.9 billion in 2020 in the US, according to a new NPD Group report, a 27 ... read more

If you’re having trouble sending messages in the secure messaging app Signal, it may be due to technical difficulties the company says are affecting the app on Friday. Signal allows for ... read more

A California man is facing jail time for hitting a police helicopter with his drone. Andrew Hernandez pleaded guilty yesterday to unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, a charge that carries up ... read more

They don’t win at any one thing, but they strike a great mix in terms of sound quality, ANC, and comfort Continue reading… ... read more

WandaVision, the first original television series produced by Marvel Studios, isn’t quite like anything Marvel has released before. It’s absurdist and pays authentic tribute to some of the best American sitcoms ... read more

Briana became Storymodebae when she started her Twitch channel in January 2018. Back then she was still a year away from graduating from college, and in her own words, got the idea ... read more

illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge \If you’ve finally given up on the world’s most popular social media network, it’s not too complicated to remove yourself from the service. But before ... read more

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft says it’s planning to fix a bizarre Windows 10 bug that could corrupt a hard drive just by looking at an icon. Security researcher ... read more

Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Medical appointment company Zocdoc is offering to handle COVID-19 vaccine scheduling logistics for hospitals and health systems, many of which have spent the early days of the ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is giving car companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI ... read more

Let’s face it: some of us are so busy these days — what with pandemics and presidential elections and attempted overthrows of the government — that we don’t pay enough attention to ... read more

Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, doesn’t start his new role until February, but he’s already prepping the company to take on Apple’s M1 chips. The Oregonian, a local newspaper in Oregon where ... read more

Image: Bumble Dating app Bumble has temporarily disabled a feature which allowed users to filter potential matches based on their political leanings, the service has announced. The feature allows users to identify ... read more

Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge Apple is planning a major MacBook Pro redesign for the third quarter of 2021, according to a research note written by TF International Securities analyst ... read more

Image: Patr10tic A developer going by the name of Patr10tic has created an interactive map using GPS metadata and videos from the app Parler to offer a glimpse of what was happening ... read more

Image: Samsung Samsung’s future phones will also not come with charging bricks, the company has revealed, but it’s leaving itself some wiggle room. In a Q&A about why it’s no longer including ... read more

A photo of Spotify’s Car Thing, taken from FCC filings. | Image: FCC filings Back in May 2019, Spotify announced that it would be publicly testing a voice-controlled smart assistant for cars ... read more

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung just revealed the new Galaxy S21 Ultra would be its first Galaxy S phone to support the S Pen stylus, but the company is ... read more

Image: Xiaomi With six days left in office, the Trump administration has decided to put one more Chinese electronics giant in its sights: Xiaomi, the world’s number three phone manufacturer. The US ... read more

The Galaxy A32 5G offers a 6.5-inch display and 5,000mAh battery. | Image: Samsung Echoing a theme that will be repeated a lot more this year, Samsung has announced a very inexpensive ... read more

BMW is suspending its two-year-old car subscription service, The Verge has learned. Access by BMW was launched in 2018 in Nashville as a pilot project to test out whether customers would ... read more

Image: Intel Intel is updating its Next Unit of Computing (NUC) lineup of miniature computers with its 11th Gen processors, and it’s again including a gaming-focused model. The NUC 11 Enthusiast is ... read more

Photo: Marvel Studios WandaVision is the Marvel universe’s most comic book show yet, if not in content at least in concept. It’s a dense-looking storyline that will be released on an episodic ... read more

Photo: Samsung (via 9to5Google) There was a time I would have railed against a gadget maker for daring to ship a phone without a charger. That time was yesterday. Then, Apple ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A coalition of health and tech companies, which includes Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, is working on an initiative that aims to make it easier for ... read more

Image: Samsung Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra no longer support the convenient Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) feature of Samsung Pay. And based on what the ... read more

Image: Razer One of the biggest announcements at CES 2021 seemed to come and go without much fanfare. Overshadowed by Nvidia’s debut of its RTX 3000-series graphics chips for laptops, you might ... read more

Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Instacart will give its shoppers — the workers who pick and fill grocery store orders for customers — a $25 stipend for the time they take off ... read more

Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images For its first three years of existence, the Overwatch League has kicked off early in the year. But that’s going to change in 2021. Today, Blizzard announced ... read more

Image: Samsung Samsung’s just announced a ton of new products: the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G is the company’s latest flagship and SmartTags are a Tile and (maybe) Apple AirTags competitor. But the ... read more

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft will soon let you upload even bigger files to OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint, increasing the limit from 100GB to 250GB. The bigger file size ... read more

The dream of using your phone to unlock your car door (instead of carrying around a bulging key fob) may be one step closer today: Samsung has announced partnerships with Audi, BMW, ... read more

Video: Samsung Samsung revealed new One UI 3 details at today’s Unpacked event, including an interesting new photo trick called object eraser, which lets you delete people from the backgrounds of your ... read more

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge During Samsung’s Unpacked event, the company unveiled three new phones as part of the Galaxy S21 lineup — the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and the ... read more

Icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland. Climate change is having a profound effect in Greenland with glaciers and the Greenland ice cap retreating. | Photo by Ulrik Pedersen / NurPhoto via Getty Images 2020 ... read more

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung just finished its first Unpacked event of 2021. The headline announcements were the three new phones in its S21 lineup, but the company also ... read more

Image: Samsung Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds Pro are aimed right at Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds in terms of features. They feature active noise cancellation, and Samsung claims that they’ll offer the ... read more

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge It’s official: Samsung is ditching the microSD card on all three of its Galaxy S21 models. We asked Samsung about this, and the company’s ... read more

Photo: Riot Games For years, competitive gaming has done its best to mimic professional sports, whether it’s players wearing Nike jerseys, big-name celebrity investors, or ambitious plans for home-and-away games. But Chris ... read more

Samsung’s Galaxy S-series 2021 updates are here, and they’re debuting a little earlier in the year than usual. Interestingly, the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra represent slightly diverging strategies for ... read more

Samsung got its S21 flagship phones out into the world a little sooner than usual this year, and the Galaxy S21 base model will appeal to a lot of folks with its ... read more

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra supports the company’s S Pen stylus. Support for the accessory has been a staple of Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphones for ... read more

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Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge It’s official: Samsung’s new flagship phones will ship without a charging brick in the box. The phones will include a USB-C to USB-C cable, but ... read more

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Alongside the new Galaxy S21 phones and Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is announcing a small Bluetooth gadget you can use for locating lost items, just ... read more

Image: Samsung Samsung is announcing the $199.99 Galaxy Buds Pro today, its most premium set of true wireless earbuds yet. They feature an in-ear design similar to the Galaxy Buds Plus but ... read more

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Google’s latest Pixel Buds wireless earbuds don’t go on sale often, but Best Buy has knocked $80 off their normal $179 cost for today only. ... read more

Fitbit’s recent Sense smartwatch. | Photo by Brent Rose for The Verge Google has completed its $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, the company announced today. The news follows the EU’s announcement late ... read more

A DisplayPort cable. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge It has been nearly two years since the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) first published its DisplayPort 2.0 specifications, promising support ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Wattpad’s plan to become the A24 of teen dramas Continue reading… ... read more

Image: Nintendo New Pokémon Snap, a sequel to the 1999 N64 classic that tasked you with taking pictures of pokémon, is coming to Nintendo Switch on April 30th, Nintendo announced today in ... read more

Image: Disney If Marvel Studios has its way, people will get a new entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe nearly every week. Everything starts with WandaVision. Marvel’s new nine-episode show, which ... read more

Photo: Sean O’Kane / The Verge Samsung will be presenting its latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S21, today at the streaming event titled Galaxy Unpacked 2021. The company is so confident that ... read more

The new Philips Hue Wall Switch Module make the switch smart, not the bulb. | Image: Philips Hue Signify is introducing three new Philips Hue products today: an in-wall Hue module for ... read more

Windows 10X running on a single-screen device. After years of waiting, it looks like Microsoft now has a true answer to Chrome OS. A new and near-final version of Windows 10X has ... read more

BMW’s all-electric iX will be first to support the Digital Key Plus feature. | Image: BMW BMW has announced an upgraded version of its mobile car key technology dubbed Digital Key Plus. ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Today, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus, and Galaxy S21 Ultra (I’ll take the Zune-inspired brown one thanks). It’s happening a couple ... read more

The technology makes for smaller bezels, without having to relocate the laptop’s webcam. | Image: Samsung Display Samsung Display has released a teaser for its under-screen camera technology meant for laptops, dubbed ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Oculus Quest headsets will soon support multiple users, Facebook has announced. The functionality will allow Quest owners to set secondary accounts on their headsets, ... read more

Universal Studios Japan has announced that Super Nintendo World will not be opening next month as planned. The Nintendo-themed zone of the Osaka park was supposed to open on February 4th after ... read more

The Pixel 4a 5G’s 6.2-inch touchscreen has been acting up for some users. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google says it’s aware of a problem with Pixel 4A ... read more

Image: SQFMI If you’ve ever wanted to be like Steve Wozniak and have your own custom-made, geeky watch, Squarofumi (stylized SQFMI) may have the product for you: an open-source, Arduino-powered smartwatch with ... read more

On January 8th, Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump, and proceeded to play whack-a-mole as he attempted to dodge that ban by using different Twitter accounts, each of which Twitter suspended in ... read more

Photo by Hannah McKay-Pool/Getty Images Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a series of Tweets, explained that he felt banning US President Donald Trump’s account was the right move for the social network. ... read more

Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images Snapchat will permanently terminate President Trump’s account, Snap announced on Wednesday. Snap had indefinitely suspended Trump’s account last week after he incited a pro-Trump mob to attack ... read more

Image: @We_The_Techies You’ve seen the leaks, renders, and leaked renders. Now, only a day before the launch, you can see what the entire Galaxy S21 lineup looks like in a real person’s ... read more

Photo by Lee Quinones The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked Tesla to recall some 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles that could suffer from failing touchscreens, according to a ... read more

Image: Asus Asus has announced a new fanless addition to its family of Chromeboxes: the Asus Fanless Chromebox. Like Asus’ previous models, the Fanless Chromebox’s compact size is designed to be mounted ... read more

Asus announced its new ZenBeam Latte at CES 2021 today, and it’s kind of cute. It’s a mobile movie projector that looks like a one-eyed, fabric-covered mini-robot of sorts. Importantly, it fires ... read more

Samsung All of the things we’re expecting to unpack on January 14th Continue reading… ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm has just made a splashy acquisition in the chip market that’s sure to shake up the semiconductor industry in a substantial fashion. The company ... read more

Image: CD Projekt Red Following the disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red says it will release the first update within the next 10 days, with “a larger, more significant update, ... read more