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Image: Netflix Getting asked to shoot five weddings for a massively popular Netflix show might seem like a dream opportunity, but according to photographer Megan Saul, the show’s producers weren’t planing on ... read more

SN15 on the landing pad after landing | SpaceX SpaceX launched a high-altitude Starship prototype rocket and successfully landed it for the first time on Wednesday, overcoming a key technical challenge in ... read more

The young attractive royal couple that is not Harry and Meghan has dropped a truly chaotic intro video for their shiny new official YouTube channel. In the video, the presumed future queen ... read more

Nintendo’s next game for the Switch is one you build yourself. Today the company revealed Game Builder Garage, a new software title that’s designed to teach beginners the basics of programming and ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it supported waiving patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines, calling the pandemic a “global health crisis.” “This is a ... read more

Image: Twitter Twitter is finally rolling out a long-awaited feature: bigger images that don’t crop in so darn much. Now, image previews should show way more of the image, giving you a ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An old version of Peloton’s API, the software that allows the company’s bikes and recalled treadmills to communicate with its servers, may have exposed ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is infamous for tightly controlling its workers and contractors, but a report from Bloomberg shows that it also tries to control the employees of ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2020, Microsoft was battling to bring xCloud or Xbox Game Streaming to the iPhone and iPad, and the conversations had an unlikely victim: Shadow ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After months of waiting, today Facebook’s Oversight Board finally handed down the biggest ruling of its short existence — the question of whether to uphold ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is updating its “be nice, think twice” system that prompts users to reconsider when they’re about to tweet a “potentially harmful or offensive” reply. ... read more

Netflix is taking a different route for its new Zack Snyder-directed zombie heist movie, Army of the Dead. Rather than skip theaters and drop the new thriller directly in subscribers’ laps and ... read more

A excavator operates next to a dump truck on a mine floor at the Bald Hill lithium mine site, co-owned by Tawana Resources Ltd. and Alliance Mineral Assets Ltd., outside of Widgiemooltha, Australia, ... read more

Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Clubhouse is funding the creation of 50 audio shows made by creators on its platform. The concepts include everything from an interview series with ... read more

Image: Disney Loki, the upcoming Disney Plus show about the trickster god and brother of Thor, will be coming out slightly earlier than originally planned: the premiere date has moved to June ... read more

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook ban is sticking around for now, following the decision from Facebook’s Oversight Board to uphold its original ban from earlier this year. ... read more

Image: Apple The new 11-inch iPad Pro with the M1 processor costs $799 to preorder at most retailers, but not at Walmart. You can reserve an 11-inch model with 128GB of storage ... read more

Blue Origin is aiming to launch its first crew of humans to the edge of space on July 20th aboard its suborbital New Shepard rocket, the company announced on Wednesday. One seat ... read more

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Google is today announcing a new feature on Android tablets that plays to one of their greatest strengths: media consumption. The simply named “Entertainment Space” will be a new section to the ... read more

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Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images The US Department of Labor withdrew a Trump-era rule that would have made it easier for “gig economy” companies like Uber and Lyft to classify ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton is issuing a voluntary recall for all of its treadmill products — including both the Peloton Tread and Tread Plus — following a ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving, despite the generally broad legal protections for social networks. The Ninth ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Whether you own a PS4 or PS5, you probably want to have PS Plus service to be able to play games online and to get ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld Facebook’s ban on former President Donald Trump, as announced by the organization on Wednesday. Trump was suspended from Facebook platforms ... read more

Photo illustration by William Joel If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Finding a good gift for Father’s Day can be ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new report from The Intercept has shed light on a worrying new technology that lets law enforcement agencies extract personal data from people’s cars. ... read more

Facebook, which never saw a social network it couldn’t copy, says its Nextdoor-clone Neighborhoods is now available across Canada and is coming soon to four US cities. According to CNET, the US ... read more

Image: PlayStation Nike, Sony, and basketball player Paul George have collaborated on another pair of sneakers, the PG 5, with help from PS5 designer Yujin Morsawa. According to Sony, “the colors of ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the Epic v. Apple trial’s big keywords is “cross-wallet play.” In Epic’s Fortnite, “cross-wallet” means you can buy in-game currency (known as V-Bucks) ... read more

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge WhatsApp is again rolling out its payments service in Brazil, after the service was suspended by Brazil’s Central Bank in June of 2020 a few ... read more

Image: Boost Mobile In what looks to be a first in terms of subscriber perks, Boost Mobile has announced that its $60 per month Unlimited Plus cellphone plan will come with access ... read more

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Image: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum May Fourth is informally the Star Wars Day holiday, which random brands typically use to hawk their wares. Although it’s not as bad as the ... read more

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images An AT&T policy that bars employees from recording conversations with managers or colleagues is legal, according to a ruling from the National Labor ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge HTC is planning to unveil two Vive virtual reality headsets at its ViveCon 2021 conference that’s happening on May 11th and May 12th, according ... read more

Lenovo A new Show Mode feature from Amazon is now rolling out to some Lenovo laptops. When you activate this, it will change your home screen to look like the home screen ... read more

Apple Watch | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Apple Watch Series 3 was first released in September 2017, bringing fitness improvements and a faster processor. Nearly four years ... read more

Alex Castro/The Verge In a new blog post, Basecamp CEO Jason Fried apologized after the “policy changes” he announced last week ultimately led to a third of the company’s workforce opting to ... read more

Image: Google Google seems to be getting a little ahead of itself. This afternoon, as noticed by 9to5Google and others, the official Android account on Twitter tweeted a photo of the “Pixel ... read more

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images After months of promising his own social media network for banned posters, former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a new section of ... read more

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Dell has released a security patch that fixes a security vulnerability affecting many Dell computers going back to 2009, along with instructions on how to ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder wants to give you more info on what you and a match have in common, so it’s launching a new quiz feature to help ... read more

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asking Apple to open its phones to other app stores as early as 2015, according to new emails made public as part of the companies’ antitrust ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia appears to be getting ready to launch its RTX 3080 Ti graphics card later this month. Over the past few weeks, RTX 3080 Ti ... read more

A shopper walks down an aisle of in-wall air conditioners at a Lowe’s home improvement store August 2, 2006 in Arlington Heights, Illinois.  | Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images “Super” greenhouse gases ... read more

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Uber announced that it was teaming up with delivery startup Gopuff to expand its delivery business. Gopuff, which acquired liquor store chain BevMo last year, ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is currently experiencing some issues, according to its status page and Downdetector, which currently has more than 45,000 users reporting problems connecting to its ... read more

The British Royal Navy has apparently been testing using jet suits to board ships like a scene out of some scrapped Christopher Nolan film, according to a new video released by UK-based ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic pushed Microsoft to open up its Xbox network for free multiplayer gaming just weeks before the Apple and Fortnite battle. In the weeks leading ... read more

Japreece Dean of the Minnesota Lynx handles the ball against the Atlanta Dream. | Photo by Dale Zanine/NBAE via Getty Images For its upcoming 25th season, the Women’s National Basketball Association will ... read more

After four years of support, the S8 and S8 Plus will no longer receive security updates. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Four years after its launch, the Samsung Galaxy ... read more

A routine mammogram | Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, as people avoided doctors’ offices and hospitals canceled ... read more

Will Smith has a new fitness show coming to YouTube. | Image: YouTube YouTube announced a new slate of original series today that includes some huge stars at the top of the ... read more

Two companies that have built their businesses on computer accessories are coming together. Targus, a company best known for its laptop cases and bags, today announced that it’s acquiring Sanho. You might ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Robinhood ran into issues processing cryptocurrency trades this morning, during a spike in the price of Dogecoin that sent users flocking to the app. The ... read more

Image: Instagram Instagram now has a captions sticker for Stories, which will automatically transcribe speech in videos. The sticker will be available only in “English and English-speaking countries” for now but will ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Epic Games v. Apple trial started on Monday, and if you wanted to follow along and listen to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney talk about ... read more

Image: Lucasfilm Ltd. The Bad Batch has arrived today as the latest Star Wars spinoff series for Disney Plus. It’s a different, smaller show than preceding animated shows like The Clone Wars ... read more

In the Earth. | Photo: Neon An unsettling film that evades the genre’s usual tropes Continue reading… ... read more

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein on competing with the tech giants during the pandemic Continue reading… ... read more

Disney has finally showed off a first look at its “real” retractable lightsaber, which the company started teasing in April, with a new video showing the saber in action — and it ... read more

You probably knew already that it’s May 4th, or the Star Wars-themed May the Fourth (be with you) day. Lots of retailers are discounting their Star Wars stuff, and it’s led to ... read more

Walmart’s unannounced cloud gaming service, codenamed Project Storm, has been detailed in new confidential emails. An exhibit in the Epic Games v. Apple trial reveals Walmart’s efforts to pitch its cloud gaming ... read more

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is adding a new Reading Progress feature to Microsoft Teams, designed to help students improve their reading fluency. Reading Progress works by allowing students to record themselves reading a ... read more

Image: Scroll Twitter’s acquisition spree continues today with Scroll, a $5-a-month subscription service that removes ads from participating news sites (including The Verge). Twitter is working on building out a new kind ... read more

Moment’s cold shoe and 1/4” threaded MagSafe mount is $59.99. There is nothing better than tech that just works. The satisfying joy that comes with transferring files via AirDrop, the relief when ... read more

Adobe Flash Logo. | Image: Adobe Microsoft will start fully removing Adobe Flash from Windows 10 this summer. The Windows 10 “Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player,” which permanently removes Flash ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Phil Schiller, the Apple executive in charge of the App Store, raised the possibility of the company cutting its 30 percent commission rate to 25 ... read more

Photo: Skydio US dronemaker Skydio has begun shipping its first enterprise drones today with prices starting at an enterprise-worthy $10,999. Skydio is best known as a pioneer of self-flying drone tech, but ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new document released as part of Epic’s legal battle with Apple has revealed how much Epic paid developers to give away their games for ... read more

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Epic Games launched its courtroom war against Apple in an extremely on-brand way: with CEO Tim Sweeney describing the metaverse from Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash. ... read more

The company’s senior leadership wanted to quell employees’ concerns, and only made things much, much worse Continue reading… ... read more

Images: Arrival UK-based EV startup Arrival is working with Uber to develop an electric car that will be “purpose-built” for ride-hailing. Arrival plans to put the car into production in late 2023 ... read more

Close-up shot of the Impossible Foods Company’s product Impossible Burger in Walnut Creek, California, January 11, 2021. | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images A San Francisco federal appeals court upheld a decision ... read more

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Amazon made history as the first all-digital streamer to acquire exclusive rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, and now the NFL has announced that Amazon will ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know there’s a ton of other Apple news happening today, but if you’re reading it on a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch (okay, ... read more

Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Robin Hood Bill Gates and Melinda Gates have announced that they’ll be ending their marriage after 27 years together, explaining in a joint statement that they ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Both Apple and Epic have released their opening presentations on why they feel they should win this week’s trial, which is set to determine the ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge General Motors has finally revealed its plan to fix the issue at the center of last year’s Chevy Bolt recall, which the automaker issued ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s no secret that Sony held back PS4 cross-platform play for years, but new confidential documents and emails reveal just how much Sony was against ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After a meteoric rise to popularity in 2018, Fortnite generated more than $5 billion in its first year for Epic Games, new financial documents reveal. ... read more

An internal Epic document from June 2020 plans a Party Royale featuring Zion Williamson and Lebron James An internal presentation at Epic Games showed ambitious promotional plans for the game, including a ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge PlayStation is now partnering with Discord, the popular online communication service, with a promise to “bring the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Beginning Monday, Twitter will bring the ability for accounts with 600 or more followers to host Spaces, its Clubhouse-like social audio rooms. Although this is ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is enabling its Xbox FPS Boost mode on 74 more games today, bringing the total up to 97 games. Titles getting an FPS Boost ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Epic Games v. Apple trial is starting today, and it has begun with a court conference call full of kids screaming for Fortnite to ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Dronemaker DJI says a firmware update is coming to fix a battery discharge issue in its DJI Mini 2 drone. According to TechRadar, the company ... read more

G4’s newest host looks a little different from the rest of its lineup: it’s hired CodeMiko — one of the biggest virtual streamers on Twitch — to bring her eccentric interviews to ... read more

The new tech improves contrast. | Image: Lancer Brigade The US Army’s Lancer Brigade showed footage of the world as seen through the latest in night vision technology, and it’s a major ... read more

The long-awaited League of Legends animated series is coming to Netflix. The streaming service confirmed today that the show, called Arcane, will be available later this fall. The show was first announced ... read more

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Marvel has just revealed a first look at one of its most exciting upcoming projects: Eternals, the studio’s next big superhero team-up that’s set to arrive in theaters on November 5th. It’s ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’re a new or not-so-new Switch owner, everyone needs some good games to play. If you want some of the best titles released ... read more

ArtStation As it prepares to do battle in court with Apple over App Store fees, Epic Games has acquired ArtStation, an online marketplace for digital artists, the companies announced. Terms of the ... read more

Verizon has sold its AOL and Yahoo properties to Apollo Global Management in a deal said to be worth $5 billion, about half of the nearly $9 billion Verizon originally paid for ... read more

Kroger is partnering with Drone Express on deliveries of packages up to five pounds. | Image: Kroger Kroger is joining rival Walmart by launching a drone delivery pilot program for groceries later ... read more

Castlevania | Netflix Just started watching season four of The Handmaid’s Tale and I remember why I prefer the weekly release schedule for this show: Bingeing it is utterly draining (Monica Hesse ... read more

iFixit did a teardown of Apple’s AirTags | iFixit The team over at iFixit has done its teardown thing again, this time examining Apple’s AirTag trackers. Part one of its two-part review ... read more