Epic Games’ hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive, and now the company is making it easier for developers to incorporate them into their projects. At its State of Unreal show on ... read more

From the very beginning, the goal for Mario Kart World was ambitious. A follow-up to the Switch's (and Wii U's) best-selling game, one that steadily grew over the years, World's original ... read more

The Hue Play Smart Wall Washer can output white or colored light with more vibrant colors and smoother gradients. | Image: Amazon Amazon’s UK site has an early listing for what appears ... read more

An ongoing tradition at Epic’s big keynotes is a gorgeous tech demo that shows off what its game engine is capable of. For this year’s State of Unreal, the company turned ... read more

Meta is pushing ahead with a lightweight headset that could come with a “tethered compute puck” that powers the device, according to a report from UploadVR. Sources tell the outlet that ... read more

"It's always-on, predictive intelligence, active everywhere, refined in real-time by the results it drives, creating the world's most sophisticated feedback loop," a WPP Media sizzle reel explains. ... read more

Sony has announced it will hold a summer State of Play presentation on Wednesday, June 4th, making this first week of June an all-timer for the video game industry. Not only ... read more

Nvidia has added support for a new theme in its main Windows app, allowing you to toggle between the dark mode default and a lighter option. The light mode addition is ... read more

Pet health data, now available at your wrist. Smart pet tech company Fi’s new AI collar allows dog owners to monitor their pooch’s movements, health, and habits via their Apple Watch. The ... read more

Epic Games’ 2025 edition of its Unreal Fest conference is set to kick off on June 3rd in Orlando. There’s likely going to be a lot of news from the show; ... read more

The new Wyze Bulb Cam adds a camera to a smart bulb. Wyze’s new security camera is attached to a lightbulb. The smart home company has devised a genius, if janky-looking, solution ... read more

There’s a lot going on in gaming this week: Summer Game Fest, an Xbox showcase, and a little console launch from Nintendo. But before it all begins, Fortnite maker Epic Games ... read more

Most of us are familiar with the three basics of moving: packing, moving, and unpacking. But there are a multitude of things to be done both before and after a move ... read more

Just for fun, let's continue delving into the Trump-"60 Minutes" saga with an analysis of the edit the TV show made in an interview with Kamala Harris last October. ... read more

Moving four times in six years has taught me a lot. Mainly, changing addresses is utterly exhausting, but also that it's a lot more complicated than just putting your stuff in ... read more

The Bing Video Creator is rolling out now to Bing mobile app users. Microsoft has added a new AI video generator to its Bing mobile app that’s built on OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video ... read more

Roblox is pushing to onboard more advertisers, but the platform’s current lack of third-party measurement tools is becoming a roadblock for some marketers. Agencies trying to onboard advertisers new to Roblox say it’s becoming harder to ... read more

Budgets may be tighter this year, but the rosé will still be flowing freely as agency executives flock to the French Riviera to attend the year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity from June 16 ... read more

MNTN’s initial public offering has revived hopes for ad tech companies eyeing public markets, debuting at $16 per share and quickly rising to $28, with a valuation of $1.2 billion.  Backed by Morgan Stanley and ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Nikki Ogunnaike wasn’t always a morning person. But for the last decade, the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine has made it a point to start the day around 6:30 ... read more

It might be perceived as a sign of uncertain economic times that agencies are doing their best to stay lean by keeping full-time staff at a minimum and relying more heavily on freelance help in ... read more

Just after 11PM ET, many people started reporting problems with TikTok, which isn’t completely offline, but definitely has been dealing with some kind of outage. Downdetector listed 44,000 reports at our ... read more

Powered by OpenAI's Sora, Bing Video Creator changes text prompts into short videos by describing an image. The AI platform creates the vision. ... read more

Microsoft’s changes in response to the Digital Markets Act already included allowing Windows machines in the regions it covers to uninstall Edge and remove Bing results from Windows search, but now ... read more

Russian Governor Igor Ivanovich Kobzev shares an image of the strike’s aftermath in the Irkutsk region. | Image: Telegram Ukraine launched a surprise attack on Russia that targeted more than 40 of the ... read more

iPhone repair kit (2022) Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 – 0 to finalize ... read more

The company, part of South Korean-based Daedong Corp., has been selling equipment in the U.S. since the 1980s. ... read more

Proposed regulations regarding location data "could have far-reaching unintended consequences, particularly when applied to commonplace, non-invasive activities like cross-context behavioral advertising," say the ANA, IAB, 4As and others. ... read more

Mastercard sees all types of consumer purchases, giving it connections to consumers other companies do not have and providing insight into customer acquisition strategies across emerging channels and platforms -- and helps the company provide ... read more

Google Wallet will soon no longer let you pay with your PayPal account in the US. On a help center page spotted by Android Authority, Google says it will stop supporting ... read more

Rivian is overhauling the charging experience for its EV customers, offering them more information about how their battery-powered vehicles take in and use energy. The automaker is rolling out a software ... read more

Meta is planning to invite brands to create and target their ads on its apps using the company's AI tools by 2026, according to a report from "The Wall Street Journal." This would include generating ... read more

The street-level outdoor ad will provide free soft serve June 18 in NYC's West Village. ... read more

June is here, and with it comes a wave of Father’s Day sales from a range of retailers — including Sonos, which is discounting everything from the Arc Ultra soundbar to ... read more

First-party data can help, but for big CPG firms like Coca-Cola, omnichannel strategy becomes a challenge, said Dylan Floyd, Coca-Cola senior manager, ... read more

The advertising toolkit is undergoing a radical overhaul. Blunt instruments are rapidly giving way to precision tools, capable of dissecting campaign performance with unprecedented granularity. The imperative for advertisers is to “embrace the change,” according ... read more

Prime Video users can't proceed with allegations that Amazon violated a federal video privacy law. ... read more

Tim Natividad, who had been U.S. head of enterprise sales at TikTok, will take her position. The change will occur on June 9. ... read more

While we’re still a ways out from The Boys returning to Amazon for its fifth season, the franchise’s spinoff series, Gen V, will be back this fall. At this year’s CCXP ... read more

The Pixel 10 phones are likely to look an awful lot like last year’s Pixel 9 models. Google will reportedly launch the Pixel 10 series at a Made by Google event on ... read more

A plea for Redstone to give CBS News a life of its own -- as a future-proof foundation for truth. ... read more

Streamers ages 18-34 are 58% more likely to "churn" (drop services and re-subscribe) in the next 12 months vs. the average global streaming consumer (40%). ... read more

Panasonic may not be as well-known in the US for its TVs as it is in other parts of the globe, but that’s starting to change. The company has a solid ... read more

People Can Fly has announced it has cancelled two in-development projects and will undergo a round of layoffs.  “Today we made the very difficult decision to suspend the development of project ... read more

Microsoft announced a $400 million investment in Switzerland to build out an AI and cloud infrastructure, as one of its subsidiaries in Russia prepares to file for bankruptcy. The subsidiary focused on marketing, localization, and ... read more

Nvidia’s Arm-based PC chip could make its debut in Alienware’s laptops later this year or in early 2026, according to a report from the Taiwanese publication United Daily News. The chipmaking ... read more

After only two short seasons, Ncuti Gatwa's time as Doctor Who has come to a (rather disappointing) end. Note: this post contains spoilers for this past weekend's Doctor Who season finale. ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. This is Brian’s fourth time on the show, and he’s one of my favorite guests because he’s so clearly obsessed with things like ... read more

Hayden Field is joining The Verge as a senior AI reporter, where she will lead coverage of the biggest names in AI - including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Apple, and others ... read more

Amazon Prime Video now gives marketers access to "show-level" reporting including impressions, CPMs, and content adjacency. ... read more

If you’re picking up a Switch 2 this week, resist the urge to remove the screen protector you’ll find applied to the console out of the box. This is actually a ... read more

The great sport of lacrosse is having a media moment right now with a five-part ESPN+ docuseries and a book about the game, its culture and its history. ... read more

Glance, backed by Google and InMobi, launched a platform for AI-driven commerce that maps images of consumers and matches them to shoppable products from retailers who sign up for the service. ... read more

Almost all of The Verge’s staff have had the experience of moving to a new house or apartment. While the experience was different for everyone, one thing we all had in ... read more

Moving sucks. Ever since leaving college more than a decade ago, I've only lived in apartments, so I've had to get good at living small and managing my inventory of belongings ... read more

Laurene Powell Jobs (left) said that Ive’s design process is a “wondrous thing to behold.” | Image: Getty Images The mysterious AI gadget being created by OpenAI and former Apple design chief ... read more

20 iPhones: great for filming horror movies and protecting your modesty. Upcoming horror threequel 28 Years Later is far from the first Hollywood movie to be shot with the help of an ... read more

While Target continues to contend with sluggish sales and external economic pressures, Roundel, the retailer’s ad business, seems to be a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy financial picture. In its Q1 2025 earnings call ... read more

GroupM’s rechristening as WPP Media last week was intended to answer questions posed by clients, staffers and industry critics about the future of what was once the industry’s largest media investment house. But beyond the ... read more

In 2025, advertisers’ Pride Month spending has cratered — and LGBTQ+ creators and influencers are feeling the squeeze. Brands and marketers have been reconsidering their support of gay pride since 2023, when Bud Light’s Pride campaign ... read more

In today’s tech lexicon, slapping “AI” in front of a problem, or a product, is the fastest way to make something old sound new, whether it’s clickbait, content farms, or a decade-old dashboard with a ... read more

It finally happened: The New York Times signed an AI licensing deal. Not with Perplexity, or Google — and definitely not with OpenAI or Microsoft — but with Amazon. The agreement will allow Amazon products, like ... read more

The automaker's inclusion is a natural extension of the brand's passion for fashion, creativity and storytelling, says Amy Marentic, chief marketing officer, Genesis Motor America. ... read more

MLB will assist with content, marketing and sales, events, distribution, editorial, and digital and social platforms. ... read more

In promoting its concept of the open internet’s benefits for advertisers, publishers, and consumers against perceptions of “walled gardens,” The Trade Desk is all about positioning itself as a challenger of programmatic’s traditional boundaries.  Lately,  ... read more

One of the time-honored traditions of the 50-year-old TV upfronts has been to declare them dead. And yet, every year, the same star-studded spectacles return, along with networks and media buyers eager to lock in ... read more

The student-built Purdubik’s Cube set a new Guinness World Record by solving a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. | Photo: Matthew Patrohay / Purdue University A team of Purdue University students ... read more

Father's Day rules. It's a day to celebrate all that dads have contributed to the people, homes, and communities that they're a part of. Being a dad is a lot of ... read more

Every few weeks, it seems like there's a new headline about a lawyer getting in trouble for submitting filings containing, in the words of one judge, "bogus AI-generated research." The details ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 85, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, sorry in advance that this week is a ... read more

Fun fact: nearly half our presidents had a family coat of arms, including Donald Trump. The Trump family crest's motto, not surprisingly, is "Trump." ... read more

A screenshot from Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Dotemu is on a pretty good run. The video game studio and publisher has been around since 2007, and much of its history is largely working ... read more

Stranger Things‘ fifth and final season finally has a premiere date. During its live Tudum event, Netflix announced that Stranger Things‘ fifth season will actually be split into three parts. Volume ... read more

At its now-annual Tudum event, Netflix revealed new trailers for some of its more anticipated feature films. That includes the very first teaser for Guillermo del Toro’s live-action take on Frankenstein, ... read more

After months of teasing the arrival of a certain human-reindeer hybrid in the next season of its live-action One Piece adaptation, Netflix has finally revealed its take on Tony Tony Chopper ... read more

Just one day after Elon Musk’s public departure from his role as a White House employee, the Trump Administration pulled its nomination of Musk ally Jared Isaacman to become the new ... read more

SpaceX lost contact with Starship after its launch on March 6, 2025. | Image: AFP via Getty Images With yet another failed Starship test this week, in which the ambitious heavy rocket ... read more

Sony might have just recently introduced a new low price on the PlayStation 5 Pro with its latest Days of Play sale, but that’s not the only deal worth your attention. ... read more

With the Switch 2 launch days away, analysts and consumers are watching to see how well Nintendo can follow-up the best selling home console in its history. Judging from the pain ... read more

Alright, we get it. Y'all are excited about Slate. We thought the little Slate Truck was cool, but based on the number of clicks and comments on our Slate Auto articles ... read more

A lot of games have been released for the Playdate since it launched in 2022, as a quick browse of itch.io or the Catalog shop will attest. But still, there's something ... read more

Twitch is announcing a bunch of updates at TwitchCon Europe, including the ability to host a vertical livestream and an open beta test that lets creators stream at a higher quality. ... read more

Thanks to the legal discovery process, Google's antitrust trial with the Department of Justice has provided a fascinating glimpse into the future of ChatGPT. An internal OpenAI strategy document titled "ChatGPT: ... read more

A group of young people — as young as 7 and as old as 25 — are suing the Trump administration to stop its assault on renewable energy and climate action.  Executive ... read more

Grindr has always excelled at helping its users find folks looking to spend some quality time together, but the hookup app is looking to speed up the “looking?” process even more ... read more

Amazon recently made its most significant retreat since 2020 when it paused Google Shopping ads for nearly three months at the start of the pandemic, according to independent agency Tinuiti. ... read more

Amazon recently made its most significant retreat since 2020 when it paused Google Shopping ads for nearly three months at the start of the pandemic, according to independent agency Tinuiti. ... read more

Meta has asked a judge to dismiss claims that it violates California privacy laws by allegedly collecting location data about Facebook users from mobile apps. ... read more

Elon Musk appeared in the White House with a black eye he said he got from rough-housing with his young son. Elon Musk appeared alongside President Trump for a press conference in ... read more

Microsoft is adding text formatting to its Windows Notepad app. The significant Notepad update is available for Canary and Dev Channel testers on Windows 11, and introduces bold and italic styling, ... read more

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen has signed a bill that cracks down on social platforms’ features that could keep kids online for longer. Under the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act (LB504), major ... read more

"There is uncontested evidence of Paxton's retaliatory motive in investigating Media Matters," Circuit Judge Harry Edwards wrote Friday. ... read more

Regularly scrutinize your campaign analytics -- this is your first line of defense. I would argue that this should be someone's day job. ... read more

Or why the ad industry keeps erasing the people who know what they're doing. ... read more

Technology changes faster than a possible Google breakup, as closing arguments are heard on how to fix the search giant with consideration of the speed in which it moves. ... read more

The over 300 quality assurance workers of the ZeniMax Workers United-CWA union have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft. It is the first contract agreement at Microsoft since the concerted ... read more

Taylor Swift now owns “all of the music I’ve ever made,” she says in a letter posted on her website on Friday. Swift has purchased the masters of her first six ... read more

A lot of Polygon’s staff was laid off following Vox Media’s sale of the publication to Valnet, but two of its former guides writers are launching their own guides-focused website: Big ... read more

Elon Musk may have understated the “small amount” of ketamine that he said he was using in a Don Lemon interview last year, according to sources for The New York Times. ... read more

Riot Games is planning to switch Valorant, its popular first-person tactical hero shooter, over to Unreal Engine 5 in July. The engine upgrade from Unreal Engine 4 is part of a ... read more