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Image: The Verge Following last month’s test, Threads will now let everyone schedule posts, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday. You can use the feature by creating a new post, selecting ... read more

This icy 2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron has a heat pump. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Many EV manufacturers have leaned heavily on energy-gulping resistive heaters to keep the cabin and ... read more

Google’s Nest Learning thermostat. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is bringing smart home controls in Gemini to everyone. The Google Home extension in the Gemini app is ... read more

Image: CD Projekt Red You may have to wait until January 30th to buy Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 graphics card, but owners of last-gen Nvidia 40-series GPUs can already download and install ... read more

A screenshot from a video of TerraPower’s groundbreaking ceremony for its demonstration project in Wyoming. TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of ... read more

Image: The Verge Perplexity has turned its AI “answer engine” into a mobile assistant on Android. The new assistant can answer general questions and perform tasks on your behalf, such as writing ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta and YouTube aren’t the only platforms looking to benefit from TikTok potentially disappearing — Substack wants in on the action, too. The company ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Though Nintendo can technically claim it had the first big gaming news event of the year, at least Xbox’s Developer Direct actually showed off some games ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Fitbit is paying a $12.25 million fine over its Ionic smartwatches, which the company recalled in 2022 after reports that the watches’ lithium-ion batteries overheated ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is officially launching a new Android security feature for Pixel devices with Android 15 to prevent phone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Android 16’s first public beta has arrived, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride sharing and food delivery, following yesterday’s reveal of a similar feature ... read more

Image: id Software After revealing its next Doom game last summer, id Software is almost ready to release it: the studio announced that Doom: The Dark Ages is launching on May 15th. ... read more

Image: Microsoft Microsoft promised a new game announcement at its Xbox Developer Direct event, and that game turned out to be Ninja Gaiden 4. The new entry in the long-running franchise is ... read more

The Surface Laptop Go 3 could get a replacement very soon. | Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s been less than a year since Microsoft launched its first Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games is adding nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching ... read more

Image: The Verge OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using ... read more

Image: Palworld Pocketpair is getting into the games publishing business. The company has announced that it’s taking the gobs of money it made after launching Palworld, the Steam-record busting, 15-million-copies-sold-in-its-first-month, monster-catching adventure ... read more

It’s no Arc Ultra, but Sonos’ last-gen soundbar still offers terrific sound if you can afford it. | Image: Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re looking for a way to beef ... read more

Image: Google Google is changing the way visible URLs show up on mobile search results worldwide. Search results since 2009 have shown “breadcrumbs” or the hierarchy of a webpage’s URL using “>” ... read more

The ability to remotely remove installed extensions is coming “later this year.” | Image: The Verge Google has announced some new business features that can help IT admins better manage Chrome browser ... read more

The Dasung Paperlike 103 connects to computers and mobile devices over USB-C. | Image: Dasung Dasung has announced a new compact E Ink monitor that’s the company’s first to offer a 60Hz ... read more

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images CNN is developing a new streaming service — and it sounds a lot like the one it shut down nearly three years ago. In an internal memo ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The CSA, Thread Group, and Wi-Fi Alliance say they’re working together to fix the problems that have plagued the smart home standard in its first two years. In ... read more

Its comfortably basic style hides nice utility. | Photos by Victoria Song / The Verge “If the Galaxy Ring cost $250, I’d say Samsung was a diabolical genius company. But at $400, ... read more

Image: Mark Harris for The Verge Law professor Kate Klonick explains what Big Tech’s Trump appeasement is really about. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Comcast is launching a $70 per month “Sports & News TV” streaming bundle featuring live games from the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and NCAA. The package, which ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A busy January of gaming news continues. Last week it was the reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, and now it’s a showcase of upcoming Xbox ... read more

The Pokémon Company The latest batch of new Pokémon TCG Pocket cards finally has a concrete release date, but it seems like you won’t be able to trade them right off the ... read more

The Nvidia RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition in an Ncase M1. The Nvidia RTX 5090 FE barely fit my 12.7-liter small form factor case, but using it was a dream. In 2022, ... read more

The next-gen GPU battle begins with Nvidia alone at the top. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Image: Paramount Plus Paramount Plus’ new Star Trek film is the sound of scene chewing in space, which is to say, it’s pretty damn fun. As the very first nontheatrical Star Trek ... read more

Image: Cadillac After months of teases, Cadillac officially announced the Lyriq-V as a 615-horsepower, high-performance electric SUV that will go on record as the “quickest” vehicle ever produced by the luxury automaker. ... read more

Image: Royal Shakespeare Company Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive video game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s being developed in part by the Royal Shakespeare ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Tumbler has finally launched Tumblr TV as a new tab at the top of its app, the company said today in a brief set of update notes spotted by ... read more

Image: Extremely OK Games Earthblade, the next game from the developers of Celeste, has been canceled. The fantasy-inspired game got its first trailer in late 2022, and the game would have let ... read more

The RTX 4090 is a lot thicker than the RTX 5090. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia has posted a new video showcasing a history of Founders Edition graphics ... read more

Image: Canon The megapixel race isn’t over if you ask Canon. Today, the company announced a new 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor with a resolution of 410 megapixels. That’s 24,592 x 16,704 pixels ... read more

Illustration: The Verge One of the most important changes in Samsung’s new phones is a simple one: when you long-press the side button on your phone, instead of activating Samsung’s own Bixby ... read more

Samsung’s latest phones all look and feel very similar, but there are some key differences. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge During its latest Unpacked event, Samsung dished all the ... read more

Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Samsung just teased the Galaxy S25 Edge — the new ultra-slim entry into the Galaxy S25 lineup. The phone isn’t out yet, and Samsung hasn’t ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Xbox has a new beta software update rolling out today for Insiders in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring that enables Series X and S systems to support ... read more

One in 10 game developers lost their job in 2024. That’s according to the results of the annual Game Developers Conference state of the video game survey. The survey sampled over 3,000 ... read more

Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Dozens of popular subreddits are banning links to X after Elon Musk made a gesture that historians and human rights groups have described as a ... read more

Samsung has its Project Moohan headset on display at Galaxy Unpacked, and we’ve just taken a bunch of pictures of it. This technically isn’t the first time we’ve seen Project Moohan, but ... read more

The Galaxy S25 lineup looks very similar to the S24 family. Go figure. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung finally took the wraps off its new Galaxy S25 lineup ... read more

Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Will cracked screens actually become a thing of the past this decade? We’re definitely on an impressive trajectory! Just two years after Samsung’s Galaxy S23 adopted ... read more

The Galaxy S25 Edge, deconstructed. | Screenshot: Samsung Samsung just teased the Galaxy S25 Edge at the end of its Unpacked event, where it announced its Galaxy S25 lineup. It didn’t offer ... read more

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024 Netflix’s big bet on live events is paying off. New data published by the analytics firm Antenna indicates that Netflix added 1.43 million ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Google worked with the Israeli military in the immediate aftermath of its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, racing to beat out Amazon to provide AI services, according to ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The EV tax credit is still alive and kicking — but for how long?  Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung and Google are partnering up to build AR glasses, Samsung’s TM Roh told Bloomberg. But there aren’t many other specifics beyond the fact that ... read more

Warner Bros. Pictures Ahead of Mickey 17’s debut in a few weeks, Warner Bros. has dropped a new trailer that really makes the film’s vision of terraforming alien planets look like absolute ... read more

The Galaxy S25 (left) and the S25 Plus (right). If the Galaxy S24 series heralded the triumphant arrival of Galaxy AI, then the S25 and S25 Plus may be a bit of ... read more

Stylus still included. The Galaxy S25 Ultra, announced today, sheds more of its Note roots this year with rounded corners and flat edges that align it more with the rest of the ... read more

The “Ultra” model in Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup is typically the phone crammed full of every feature the company could think of. But this year, the Galaxy S25 Ultra is actually taking ... read more

Google has announced a variety of new AI features at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event. | Image: Google Google’s AI assistant Gemini is now able to carry out tasks across multiple apps in ... read more

Samsung announced a new AI-powered ambient sensing technology for SmartThings designed to make your smart home be more helpful. | Image: SmartThings Samsung announced today that its connected appliances and smart home ... read more

We’re expecting the Galaxy S25, S25 Plus and S25 Ultra, and new AI features. Samsung is announcing its new Galaxy S25 phones. We’ll have all of the updates as they come in. ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The NFL told the New England Patriots to shut down the team’s Bluesky account. Patriots VP of content Fred Kirsch said the team was told that ... read more

Image: Google Google Fiber’s next big expansion is underway in Las Vegas, Nevada. After first announcing the expansion last year, Google has confirmed that it has started construction in Las Vegas and ... read more

Ted Price at the D.I.C.E awards in 2014. | Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic After three decades at the helm, Insomniac Games founder and president Ted Price has announced he’s retiring. Price will ... read more

Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Elon Musk doesn’t miss an opportunity to take a dig at OpenAI — even when the news item in question is supposed to ... read more

The LG C3 can easily last several years as your home theater’s centerpiece. | Image: LG If you’re spending more time indoors to escape the icy winds or need something impressive to ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube Premium users are getting a slew of new experiments to try out before anyone else alongside an option to reduce their membership cost when ... read more

The new Galaxy Watch for Kids mode is enabled in Wear OS via Google Family Link. | Image: Samsung, Google Samsung dropped some wearable news ahead of its Unpacked event later today: ... read more

The Sharge Retractable 65 includes a 27-inch retractable USB-C charging cable. | Image: Sharge First revealed last December through a Chinese retailer, Sharge’s new 65W GaN charger is now available globally. As ... read more

Image: Plex After getting started on mobile back in November, Plex is ready to test its “reimagined” app experience on much bigger screens. Today the company announced that the preview has expanded ... read more

Steve Zahn and Rebecca Ferguson. | Image: Apple The second season of Silo — a postapocalyptic thriller on Apple TV Plus — has wrapped up, and the finale was the show at ... read more

Image: Sega Sega launched a new cross-platform game-linking service called Sega Accounts, reports Eurogamer. The company says the online profile system will bring “a host of benefits” for players, like bonuses for ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images President Donald Trump has promised everything from saving TikTok from a ban to rolling back Biden-era electric vehicle policies. President Donald Trump kicked off ... read more

Stray is just one of the titles Annapurna Interactive has worked on. | Image: Annapurna Interactive Former Netflix executive Leanne Loombe is joining Annapurna Interactive as executive vice president and head of ... read more

Seems like a good solution for folks who are too lazy to title their video files. | Image: Adobe Search in Premiere Pro has been updated with AI-powered visual recognition, allowing users ... read more

In development for several years, Zigbee ambient sensing could turn existing Zigbee-powered lights, switches, and plugs into motion sensors. | Image: Ivani Lights that turn on when you walk into a ... read more

I want to use this feature just to side-eye Gemini. | Image: Google Google is announcing a variety of classroom and accessibility-focused ChromeOS features today, and one of the standouts is being ... read more

Using the non-touch screen on an older Bambu P1P 3D printer. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Bambu Lab, the company behind my favorite 3D printers, has given itself one ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread ... read more

Image: The Verge President Donald Trump says he’d be open to his buddies Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok. “Larry, let’s negotiate in front of the media,” Trump said at a ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Microsoft and OpenAI announced Tuesday that they have adjusted their partnership so that OpenAI can access competitors' compute. The new agreement “includes changes to the ... read more

Image: The White House (YouTube) A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and ... read more

Oakleys are considered stylish and popular with athletes — which is probably why Meta’s keen to partner. | Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images Meta may be releasing new Oakley-branded smart glasses later ... read more

Image: Paramount The fourth Sonic movie now has an official release date: March 19th, 2027, according to Variety. Right around the release of the very successful Sonic the Hedgehog 3 last December, ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is raising prices yet again. In its latest earnings report released Tuesday, the streaming service announced that “we are adjusting prices today across most ... read more

A video on Nintendo’s Switch 2 website shows how the trigger (or is it a button?) on the back of the Joy-Con controllers disconnects them from the console, as spotted by Polygon. ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple Intelligence will be switched on by default, starting in iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3. In release candidate notes spotted by 9to5Mac, ... read more

Image: The Verge Microsoft is rolling out its new in-game browser overlay on Windows 11 this week, after months of beta testing. The Microsoft Edge Game Assist feature is a widget that ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images One of President Donald Trump’s first moves in office was an executive order repealing birthright citizenship — something he promised to do but didn’t ... read more

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Apple continues to make it easier to use your iPhone with your Mac using the Continuity feature. Introduced with macOS Ventura, Continuity lets you use your ... read more

Playstack Balatro has crossed a major milestone, selling 5 million copies in its first year. The news was shared on X and featured a shout out to The Game Awards. “To ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Microsoft is making some changes to the way you sign in to a Microsoft account next month. Starting in February, you will stay signed in to ... read more

The Korg Handytraxx Play is a portable record player designed for scratching on-the-go. | Image: Korg Korg has announced a new collection of portable record players with each model featuring specialized functionality ... read more

Image: Volvo The compact Volvo EX30 is finally arriving in the US — and with it comes some more clarity about its price. When it was first announced in 2023, the ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Meta is integrating WhatsApp into its Accounts Center, as WABetaInfo spotted. The change, which is rolling out globally “over the next few months,” lets WhatsApp users share status updates ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images The UK government is going to launch an app that will allow citizens to digitize their driver’s licenses. Science Secretary Peter Kyle announced on ... read more

Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb IMDb founder and CEO Col Needham is stepping down after launching the website 35 years ago, the Amazon-owned company announced on Tuesday. Needham will now ... read more

Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images CapCut, the ByteDance-owned video editing app that’s subject to the same ban as TikTok, is working again in the US. Users who ... read more

A screenshot of reproductiverights.gov from the Internet Archive. A federal website for information on reproductive rights and healthcare access is suddenly down, following Donald Trump’s inauguration yesterday. Reproductiverights.gov seemed to be offline as of ... read more

Image: Infold Games Clear some room in your closet, stylists: Infinity Nikki’s next update is coming soon bringing with it new content, new locations to explore, and most importantly, new outfits. The ... read more

You can get $50 in credit when you preorder Samsung’s new phones, which you can use toward Samsung’s other products. Samsung’s very likely about to announce the new Samsung Galaxy S25 along ... read more

The Fujifilm Instax Wide Evo Hybrid Instant Camera is expected to be available starting in February 2025 for $349.95. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm has announced a new hybrid instant camera coming to its ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In his executive actions on day one of his presidency, Donald Trump rescinded an executive order Joe Biden signed in 2023 to establish safety ... read more