- Is Crossrope’s smart jump rope worth $200?Photo by Sheena Vasani / The Verge Skip Crossrope unless you really love skipping rope. Continue reading… ... read more
- How to change or cancel your music streaming servicesThe Verge There are more digital subscriptions around than ever, and among them, you may well have a music streaming service (or two or three). What with “free” trials and trying to ... read more
- Controversial US surveillance program (briefly?) lapses amid congressional dysfunctionCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 720 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless ... read more
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- AirPlay turns the Delta emulator into a full-on retro consoleImage: Riley Testut The launch of the Delta emulator on iPhones is a big deal in a lot of ways. But for users, it’s also just really cool. Here’s an excellent piece ... read more
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- A 14-year-old is charged in fire that destroyed a driverless Waymo vehicleThe Waymo vehicle was set on fire with fireworks. | Image: Frisco Live 415 The San Francisco Police Department has identified and served a search warrant on a teenager who is suspected ... read more
- The Verge’s 2024 Mother’s Day gift guideIllustration by Manon Louart for The Verge We found a collection of unique gift ideas that go beyond the flowers and chocolates that typically rule the day. Continue reading… ... read more
- Emulators are taking over the App StoreImage: Alex Parkin / The Verge Delta, an app for emulating and playing retro games on your iPhone, has been at the top of the App Store rankings for days. Apple spent ... read more
- Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedalTesla isn’t aware of any collisions, injuries, or fatalities attributed to the defective pedals. | Image: Parker Ortolani / The Verge Tesla has issued a recall for effectively every Cybertruck it’s delivered ... read more
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- Amazon’s Fallout has been renewed for season 2Image: Amazon Just a week after the show first premiered, Amazon has confirmed that there’s more of its live-action Fallout series on the way. As of now there are no details available ... read more
- The Meta Quest 2 gets a permanent price cut to $199The Meta Quest 2 and its bundled controllers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Meta Quest 2 has been on sale for nearly a month, and today, Meta’s ... read more
- Netflix is all about the money, not the membersIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is moving beyond subscriber numbers. In its first quarter earnings results released on Thursday, Netflix announced that it will stop reporting quarterly membership numbers ... read more
- Senate advances vote on reauthorizing warrantless surveillance programCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Senate is moving forward on a vote to reauthorize a controversial program that allows warrantless surveillance of foreign “targets.” Before voting ... read more
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- Meta says Llama 3 beats most other models, including GeminiIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The next generation of Meta’s large language model Llama, which releases today to cloud providers like AWS and to model libraries like Hugging Face soon, ... read more
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- The Humane AI Pin is lost in translationAs funny as it was when the AI Pin utterly failed at translating Korean and Japanese, it also broke my heart. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Of all ... read more
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- Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsAppIllustration: The Verge Meta is rolling out real-time AI image generation in beta for WhatsApp users in the US. As soon as you start typing a text-to-image prompt in a chat with ... read more
- The future of the Xbox looks a lot like a PCIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When I reviewed the Xbox Series X nearly four years ago, I called the console a “next-gen PC.” Not only did the Xbox look like ... read more
- Netflix’s The Witcher will end with season 5Henry Cavill as Geralt. | Image: Netflix We still don’t know what Liam Hemsworth will look (or sound) like when he takes up the role of Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher. ... read more
- Everything you need to know about Disney, ESPN, and Bob Iger’s return as CEOImage: The Verge Disney has big decisions to make about streaming, sports, Marvel, and more. Continue reading… ... read more
- TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the SenateCath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images A bill that could oust TikTok from the US looked like it could linger for months in the Senate, even ... read more
- At Kernel, your veggie burger will be served by a robotIts robotic arm heats vegan burgers and crispy potatoes while relegating humans to assembly line jobs. Continue reading… ... read more
- Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins nowMark Zuckerberg announcing Meta’s AI assistant at Connect 2023. | Image: Meta Meta’s AI assistant is being put everywhere across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Meanwhile, the company’s next major AI model, Llama ... read more
- How to tame notifications on your Android phoneQuiet, please. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Notifications are the soundtrack to modern digital life. When they’re out of control, they make it hard to hear anything else going ... read more
- Stability AI lays off roughly 10 percent of its workforceIllustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Stability AI laid off 20 employees just a day after announcing the expansion of access to its new flagship model. ... read more
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- 8BitDo’s NES-inspired mechanical keyboard hits all-time low priceIt’s not an official Nintendo accessory, but everything about 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard screams NES regardless. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge If you’re craving all things Nintendo after yesterday’s ... read more
- Apple is making progress cleaning up its dirty supply chain
- Transformers One turns Cybertron’s greatest warriors into bumbling youths in first trailerParamount’s live-action Transformers movies have always made its alien robots seem like they were born ready for battle and knowing how to navigate the world, but the first trailer for director Josh ... read more
- Make robots hairyA less creepy iteration. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos courtesy of Boston Dynamics and Getty Images On Wednesday, Boston Dynamics announced the new version of its Atlas robot with ... read more
- Apple is finally rolling out AirPlay in hotel roomsImage: IHG After some delay, Apple is finally bringing AirPlay to hotel room TVs — but you can only use it if you’re staying in one of the “more than” 60 IHG ... read more
- Apple’s new series Sunny pairs Rashida Jones with a mystery-solving robotRashida Jones as Suzie. | Image: Apple Apple TV Plus has been killing it on the sci-fi front lately, but this summer, the streamer’s taking another stab at the murder mystery genre ... read more
- US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfightImage: DARPA The US Air Force is putting AI in the pilot’s seat. In an update on Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that an AI-controlled jet successfully faced ... read more
- Richard Linklater’s Hit Man looks like a goofy roleplaying romcom in new trailerA woman standing behind a man close enough to lean her head over his shouler as he stretches his arm outward. | Image: Netflix The idea of pretending to be a contract ... read more
- Elgato won over creators — its new Neo line is for everyone elseThe Neo family of devices. | Image: Elgato If you watch a Twitch streamer, it’s almost guaranteed that they will be using at least one Elgato product. After dominating this part of ... read more
- Chevy Silverado EV turns into a mobile generator with GM’s new home energy bundleImage: GM General Motors’ initial new home energy products are now available to purchase, including the equipment necessary to turn your GM-made electric vehicle into a mobile power generator for your home. ... read more
- Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to ‘inject a sense of crisis’The Korean tech giant is now expanding the previously voluntary policy to executives across its entire workforce. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is introducing a companywide six-day workweek ... read more
- Playdate has sold 150,000 games in the last yearImage: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last March, Panic launched a curated game shop called Catalog for its Playdate handheld. And one year later, the company says it has sold more than ... read more
- Gmail’s tabs are actually useful now that I’ve found this extensionIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge I’ve always hated the fact Gmail only gives us five predefined categories — “Inbox,” “Social,” “Promotions,” “Updates,” and “Forum” — that we can’t customize. When ... read more
- MrBeast and T-Series are battling for the most-subscribed YouTube channelMrBeast’s 252 million YouTube subscribers are nipping at the heels of T-Series. | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Despite his immense popularity and online presence, Jimmy Donaldson (aka MrBeast) ... read more
- Nothing’s new earbuds prove that it can (mostly) hang with the heavyweightsNothing is churning out new earbuds at a faster clip than smartphones. The company just introduced the Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a), priced at $149 and $99, respectively. Together, they mark ... read more
- ChatGPT is coming to Nothing’s earbudsPhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Nothing has announced that it plans to more deeply integrate ChatGPT with its smartphones and earbuds. The move will give the company’s customers quicker access ... read more
- Senate Democrats urge crackdown on autonomous vehicles and driver assistImage: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Two prominent Senate Democrats are calling for increased scrutiny of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) like Tesla’s Autopilot, arguing ... read more
- Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contractIllustration: The Verge Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests by employees at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings ... read more
- Coding bootcamp Lambda School — now BloomTech — is finally getting punishedIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2020, we wrote how coding bootcamp Lambda School seemed like a bit of a bait-and-switch. Four years later and one rebranding to “BloomTech” later, ... read more
- Twitch is bringing its TikTok-style feed to everyone this monthIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After nearly a year of testing, Twitch’s new TikTok-style discovery feed will finally roll out to all users later this month. During a Patch Notes ... read more
- Sega is turning Golden Axe into an animated seriesBleeeeeaaaagggghhhhh. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Comedy Central has ordered 10 episodes of Golden Axe, an animated show based on the fantasy beat ’em up sidescroller games. Deadline writes that ... read more
- TikTok to restrict users who repeatedly post problematic topics from ‘For You’ feedIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok will make entire accounts temporarily ineligible for its For You feed if users have a pattern of posting about extreme fitness, conspiracy theories, sexually ... read more
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- TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to InstagramIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok has started rolling out its Instagram rival, TikTok Notes, to select Android and iOS users “for download and limited testing in Australia and Canada.” ... read more
- Dwarf Fortress goes on an adventureImage: Bay 12 Games Though you could always go on adventures in Dwarf Fortress, with the game’s Adventure Mode expansion entering public beta today, you can now sally forth with a full ... read more
- NBA bans player for life over online sports betting
- The Pixel 7A is a knockout at its record-low $349The Pixel 7A is a standout midrange smartphone that nearly performs like a flagship, now for an entry-level price. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google is expected ... read more
- Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot is a swiveling, shape-shifting nightmareImage: Boston Dynamics. It’s alive! A day after announcing it was retiring Atlas, its hydraulic robot, Boston Dynamics has introduced a new, all-electric version of its humanoid machine. The next-generation Atlas robot ... read more
- Apple TV Plus’ For All Mankind is getting a fifth season and a new spinoff seriesTyner Rushing as Samantha Massey in For All Mankind. | Image: Apple Folks hoping to see more of Apple TV Plus’ For All Mankind series are in for a treat, but the ... read more
- The OnePlus Watch 2 is what redemption looks likeOnePlus could be a strong alternative to Google or Samsung for Wear OS smartwatches. Continue reading… ... read more
- Samsung’s art-inspired Frame TVs are up to $1,000 off right nowLike most people, I’d prefer to stare at a bunch of cacti in my living room rather than an uninspired black rectangle. | Image: Samsung Everyone may like watching movies on a ... read more
- Amazon insists Just Walk Out isn’t secretly run by workers watching you shopImage: Amazon Amazon is pushing back on claims that its cashierless Just Walk Out technology is run by humans in India — not AI. In a blog post on Wednesday, the e-commerce ... read more
- Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in EuropeThat €1.50 per year subscription does not include tax but does offset Apple’s Core Technology Fee. | Image: AltStore PAL After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store ... read more
- The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is coming to Apple’s App StoreImage: Riley Testut The Delta emulator is coming to Apple App Store — for free — outside of the European Union, where it’s available via the third-party AltStore PAL app marketplace that ... read more
- Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protestDante D’Orazio / The Verge Nine Google employees who occupied the company’s offices in New York and California were arrested Tuesday night after an eight-hour sit-in. The workers were protesting Google’s involvement ... read more
- Visible’s new annual plans cut the price on a full year of serviceImage: Visible Visible has just launched its first annual plans, letting customers lock in a year of mobile service all at once for either of the company’s two tiers. The Verizon-owned prepaid ... read more
- Netflix’s Sweet Tooth returns for season 3 in JuneImage: Netflix Gus and his friends are coming back to Netflix very soon. The streamer just announced that the post-apocalyptic series Sweet Tooth is returning on June 6th, and as part of ... read more
- Sony might have perfected Mini LED TVs with its new 2024 lineupImage: Sony At the premium end of home theater, Sony TVs are about as good as it gets — and have been for several years now. The company is lauded for its ... read more
- Comcast rolls out ‘Now’ prepaid phone and internet plansImage: Comcast Comcast announced today that it’s expanding its “Now” branding to include two prepaid services: Now Internet and Now Mobile. Of the two, the mobile plan appears to be genuinely new, ... read more
- Stability AI is giving more developers access to its next-gen text-to-image generatorIllustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos: Getty Images The next generation of the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion is still in preview, but Stability AI is making it available to ... read more
- NASA has greenlit plans to send a giant drone to Saturn’s largest moonThis artist mockup of Dragonfly soaring over Titan’s dunes has... well, Dune vibes. | Image: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben NASA has been given the go-ahead to send a ... read more
- All the announcements from Nintendo’s spring Indie World eventIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New year, new Nintendo indie showcase. Continue reading… ... read more
- Sony’s new PlayStation PC overlay and shared Trophies arrive with Ghost of TsushimaIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is introducing a new PlayStation PC overlay and shared Trophies with its upcoming release of Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut on May 16th. It’s ... read more
- Tesla is putting Elon Musk’s pay package up for another vote after a judge voided the first oneIllustration: Lille Allen / The Verge Tesla is asking shareholders to vote for a second time on Elon Musk’s massive compensation package, after a Delaware judge voided the first one earlier this ... read more
- Google Maps will use AI to help you find out-of-the-way EV chargersPhoto by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Google Maps is rolling out some new updates designed to make locating an electric vehicle charging station less stressful. And to accomplish this, it ... read more
- Formlabs’ new pro 3D printers claim 2–5x speed by ditching lasers for an LCD screenFormlabs was one of the early Kickstarter success stories, and its laser-blasting 3D printers are now used by model makers, prototypers, dentists, and maybe even action figure companies around the globe. But ... read more
- Owner of Grand Theft Auto to layoff hundreds and cut projectsThe company expects to complete its downsizing efforts by the end of this year. | Image: Take-Two Interactive Take-Two Interactive, the gaming company behind franchises like Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and ... read more
- Logitech wants you to press its new AI buttonLogitech’s new Signature AI Edition M750 with a dedicated AI button to launch its Prompt Builder | Logitech Tomorrow’s AI PCs may not only have a Copilot key on their keyboards — ... read more
- The Boring Phone is a nostalgic branding exercise by HMD and HeinekenThe phone is boring so you can focus on good times with your friends, get it? | Image: HMD HMD really wants us to have more fun. Earlier this year, it ... read more
- Drake muddies the ‘Push Ups’ AI debate with a deepfakeDrake performing in Atlanta, Georgia in 2022. | Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage Last year, a few AI voice clone tracks went viral using Drake’s voice. His label, Universal Media Group, responded to ... read more
- Boston Dynamics Atlas robot, 2013-2024Image: Boston Dynamics The robotics company has retired the dancing bot after more than a decade. Continue reading… ... read more
- A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App StoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just two days after Apple removed the iGBA emulator from the iOS App Store, an NES emulator called Bimmy briefly appeared before being taken down. ... read more
- Report: TikTok’s efforts to silo US data are ‘largely cosmetic’Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Since 2022, TikTok has undertaken a massive, expensive effort to silo off its US operations — and American users’ data — from its Chinese parent ... read more
- Motorola’s new $130 earbuds are a Bose collabImage: Motorola A new wooden Edge phone isn’t all that Motorola announced today. The company also introduced two pairs of earbuds: the higher-end set is called the Moto Buds Plus and costs ... read more
- People are afraid of self-driving cars — can the industry change that?Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Self-driving cars have an image problem. They stumble into construction zones, block ambulances, run red lights, and even injure the occasional bicyclist or pedestrian. ... read more
- Take it slow in this stop-motion sci-fi adventureImage: Slow Bros. Harold Halibut moves at its own pace. A point-and-click adventure built with real-world materials and then animated with stop-motion, Harold Halibut tells a story that’s at times slow and ... read more
- Humane AI Pin launch: the reviews are in, and they’re not goodPhoto by Amelia Holoway Krales / The Verge At the least the only way to go from here is up... right? Continue reading… ... read more
- Kickstarter is adding the ability to collect money indefinitelyPhoto Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Creators fundraising for projects on Kickstarter will soon be able to collect money even after their campaign ends. Currently, ... read more