In its 37th-season premiere Sunday night, "The Simpsons" demonstrated that it still has its finger on the pulse of our popular culture as it lampooned a current category of commercials. ... read more

The CMF Headphone Pro can be customized by swapping their ear cushions with alternate colors. | Image: Nothing CMF, the budget-focused sub-brand that Nothing plans to spin off into a ... read more

Since the Trump administration first threatened a 25% increase in import tariffs on Canadian goods in February, The Great White North’s sentiment towards its southern neighbor has been decidedly less neighborly. The post How ... read more

The number-one job of a marketer is to invest budget wisely to drive sales. That inherently requires accurately measuring the performance of that spending.  Yet most advertisers still rely on flawed measurement methods that systematically ... read more

Marketing films is one battle after another; AI gets stymied by the cloud; and bots are causing brand backlash. The post Movie Marketing Lost Its Magic; The Cloud Commanders appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

AI Mode isn’t just the name of Google’s newest search product. It also describes the present period of digital media — and the theme of this September’s Digiday Publishing Summit. AI is no longer the ... read more

Generative AI is taking over the discovery phase, thanks to shoppers starting their online search with AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google Gemini or AI Mode. But as is with all things AI, changes are moving ... read more

As AI bot traffic grows, content creators are taking steps to protect their intellectual property from being scraped against their will.  The publishing industry has spent the past year battling against the encroachment of AI ... read more

By now, the contours of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google’s ad tech business are well covered – and deeply complex. Rather than rehash what’s already been parsed to death, here’s a definite ... read more

TV broadcasters and walled garden platforms are competing to lower the cost of ad creative. Amazon, Google, Comcast, ITV and Channel 4 are each hoping to capture their share of the long tail of ad ... read more

Robots.txt got some much-needed TLC last week, courtesy of Cloudflare’s latest update.  Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy effectively upgrades the decades-old honor system and adds a way for publishers to spell out how they do ... read more

To counter "fragmented" healthcare experiences, pharma firms are launching DTP programs like telehealth consultations. ... read more

The new Market is in Union Square in New York City. ... read more

The rapid pace of GAI's growth has alarmed consumers, with concerns over trust and transparency in protecting data. Eighty-two percent of GAI users surveyed worry that it could be misused - up from 74% in ... read more

Siri’s new logo. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri’s upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company’s struggles as it tries to keep pace in ... read more

Connected television is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful precision tools for reaching healthcare audiences, said Kyle Avery, director of business development at adtech giant The Trade Desk. Speaking with Lisa Granatstein, editorial director ... read more

For most of his career Larry Ellison has been content to quietly let Oracle be the company, behind the company, behind the technology that makes headlines. Its biggest products being ... read more

Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office. Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was ... read more

The last few months, I've felt like I'm living in a cyberpunk movie. Each night, when I get ready to wind down, I reach for the remote to turn on ... read more

Less elegant but much more scratch resistant. As the nation's foremost FineWoven hater, I have some great news about Apple's follow-up: it doesn't suck. I've been using a TechWoven case ... read more

Silksong resembles the original Hollow Knight in many ways, though right from the start, you can hear one key difference: Hornet. Hollow Knight's protagonist was silent, but just as Hornet ... read more

A still from the Critterz short film. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of entertainment ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you ... read more

Wu-Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Disgraced pharma bro, convicted felon, and perennial challenger for America’s Most Hateable Man, Martin Shkreli will have to face a lawsuit for making ... read more

Nintendo’s first-party Switch 2 Pro Controller can’t be beaten when it comes to its breadth of features and comfort. But at $89.99, let’s be real, it’s way too expensive for ... read more

It's not quite October yet, and there are still plenty of video games set to be released before the end of the year. Even still, I'm pretty convinced that Blippo ... read more

On day three of the two-week remedies trial in the Justice Department's ad tech case against Google, Judge Leonie Brinkema boiled down the argument to one key issue: trust. Brinkema ... read more

Cristian Fleming paid around $70,000 for his dream car, a Fisker Ocean. He was drawn to the new EV's 350-mile range, eco-friendly image, and quirky features like "California Modes," which ... read more

Amazon is hosting its 2025 fall hardware event on Tuesday, September 30th, and it could be a packed show. The company’s invite has a few not-so-subtle hints about new Echos ... read more

The Raleigh One electric bike. Two good things have come from the 2023 bankruptcy of VanMoof. The first is the all-new VanMoof S6 e-bike that recently launched under new ownership. ... read more

A new report from the World Advertising Research Center shows ad spend on social media skyrocketing 20.2% last quarter, doubling original projections of 12.4% and generating $4.9 billion in added value. ... read more

A new report from the World Advertising Research Center shows ad spend on social media skyrocketing 20.2% last quarter, doubling original projections of 12.4% and generating $4.9 billion in added value. ... read more

The app for Amazon’s Blink security cameras is experiencing an issue that’s preventing users from accessing their cameras, but your recordings and notifications are not affected, Amazon spokesperson Emma Daniels ... read more

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco speaks during an Election Threats Task Force meeting at the Justice Department on September 4, 2024. After successfully manipulating Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and eventually ... read more

The Federal Trade Commission is imposing additional conditions on Omnicom's merger with Interpublic Group, including new restrictions on the company's ability to consider a publisher's content when purchasing ad inventory. ... read more

Microsoft is testing a way that will make it easier to sift through all the clutter in your photo library. An update coming to all Windows 11 Insiders on Copilot ... read more

The Ring Battery Doorbell Plus is $70 off. With Halloween and Amazon’s fall Prime Day just around the corner, now’s a great time to grab a video doorbell. They make ... read more

Following months of delays, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that's supposed to "save" TikTok. Trump claims the deal will make the app "American-operated," fulfilling the divest-or-ban law ... read more

This is Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Building humanoid robots is Meta's next "AR ... read more

Sinclair Broadcasting will air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show on its 38 ABC affiliate stations once again, the company announced, after Disney reinstated Kimmel from a suspension earlier this week. ... read more

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to a settlement requiring Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion over claims that it trained its large language model on books it allegedly downloaded from piracy sites. ... read more

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to a settlement requiring Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion over claims that it trained its large language model on books it allegedly downloaded from piracy sites. ... read more

The Lego Game Boy isn’t supposed to go on sale until October 1st — but I already bought one and built it for you. How? Costco and Sam’s Club have ... read more

Friday marks the end of week one of the antitrust remedies trial between Google and the Department of Justice (DOJ). The trial will determine the punishments and required changes for Google following the court’s decision ... read more

YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program. The hosts are designed ... read more

When knew that Aaron Sorkin was working on a follow-up to The Social Network, and now we know what the movie will be called and when Sony plans for it ... read more

Last October, dronemaker DJI sued the US Department of Defense, arguing it should no longer face the stigma of being listed as a “Chinese Military Company” and continue to risk ... read more

Throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump often claimed that his efforts against immigration were primarily against irregular or illegal immigration, and that he was happy to have people go ... read more

Lawmakers in Massachusetts' Senate unanimously voted on Thursday in favor of a bill that would broadly prohibit companies from using "sensitive" data for ad targeting. ... read more

Motion added to static ads has begun to attract more brands to a different type of ad. Google introduced this feature last year, and now it has become more popular with the brands working with ... read more

Motion added to static ads has begun to attract more brands to a different type of ad. Google introduced this feature last year, and now it has become more popular with the brands working with ... read more

On Thursday, Meta AI launched a new feed of short-form, AI-generated videos called Vibes. The feed is designed to encourage users to remix AI-generated videos that come from “creators and ... read more

Yes, you can play Tetris on this watch. No, you can’t message your friends your new high score. | Image: My Play Watch After releasing Space Invaders and Atari 2600 ... read more

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max on sale for $39.99. Amazon’s fall Prime Day event is now less than two weeks away, but we’re already seeing prices drop on everything ... read more

The Tab 8 features an 8.7-inch Nxtpaper screen. | Image: TCL TCL has put its Nxtpaper display technology, designed to be easy on the eyes like E Ink’s e-paper screens, ... read more

Kraft Heinz's instant coffee brand is temporarily leaving the "House" behind for a value-focused fall campaign. ... read more

We watched LA burn this year. If you're not from around here, you might have seen it unfold in the news like so many other infernos. Neighborhoods in ashes. People ... read more

Will Google need to spin off its ad exchange and ad server? Court is in session in Virgina, with the DOJ and Google advocating for completely different remedies to Google’s sell-side ad tech monopoly. ... read more

When it's not trying to fend off lawsuits from major record labels, Suno is still working on refining its AI music creation tool. The latest model, Suno v5, is an ... read more

If you look at the history of strained network/affiliate relationships, ABC has always had the weakest link and has been most prone to bypassing its affiliates altogether - the recent Jimmy Kimmel example excluded. ... read more

Scores are meant to help you digest data, but sometimes feel like getting graded on a test. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer ... read more

The OOH displays are placed near the headquarters of Edelman, Havas, Omnicom and WPP and detail their ties to Big Oil. ... read more

The Raspberry Pi 500 Plus includes RGB lighting and runs the open source QMK firmware. | Image: Raspberry Pi After upgrading its original compact computer-in-a-keyboard with its more capable Raspberry ... read more

Pinterest unveiled ad capabilities on Thursday, featuring Top of Search ads and other tools designed to optimize the visual shopping funnel. ... read more

He's been named CEO Publicis Media UK and chief products & solutions officer, Publicis Groupe EMEA. ... read more

After more than five years of machinations, secret meetings, legislative actions, and confusing messaging, it appears a deal is coming to keep TikTok alive in the US. On Thursday, President ... read more

President Trump said China approved the deal and signed an executive order Thursday outlining the terms to transfer ownership of TikTok U.S., now valued at approximately $14 billion. ... read more

The Xbox Ally X. | Photo: Tom Warren / The Verge When Microsoft announced the launch date of its first Asus-powered handhelds without announcing prices, I had hoped it was ... read more

The OnePlus 13R is just one of many recent OnePlus devices potentially at risk. The majority of OnePlus phones in use today may be vulnerable to a security flaw that ... read more

Should we be worried about CBS News being combined with CNN? Not so much. But consider Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and his father Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle - who helped provide $6 billion ... read more

The UK currently has no citizen ID or legal requirements to carry identification. The United Kingdom is introducing a national digital ID scheme in an effort to crack down on ... read more

Meta is bringing its “pay or consent” ad model to the UK after months of wrangling with regulators over the controversial policy. The update will force Instagram and Facebook users ... read more

Swish, a startup that partners with retailers to provide product full-size CPG samples to people doing their grocery shopping online, announces $2.3 million in seed funding. The post Swish, A Company That’s Bringing Programmatic to ... read more

Marketers are buying more CTV inventory programmatically than ever before. But what about linear inventory? The post Europe Is Ahead Of Us On Convergent TV, Says tvbeat CEO Robert Farazin appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Ready For Programmatic IO NY? appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Private equity firm Novacap acquires IAS; many large online retailers are seeing an uptick in referral traffic from ChatGPT; and the IAB downgraded its US ad spend projection for the rest of the year. The ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Earlier this summer, Matthew Hassett, the founder of lamp and clock brand Loftie, realized he couldn’t depend on the U.S. market like he had in the ... read more

In the span of a week, a late-night host became collateral in a culture war over free speech. A landmark antitrust case challenged how digital advertising has been rigged in plain sight. And TikTok’s imminent ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Advertisers will soon be able to own a large chunk of Best Buy’s store footprint as the retailer works to expand its media offerings. Beginning next ... read more

This article was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife Tech disruptions are costing companies with 2,000 or more employees nearly $4 million annually in lost productivity, according to the latest research — something that should ... read more

The New York Times’ Cooking vertical has debuted a new baking video series and newsletter franchise led by supervising producer Vaughn Vreeland, making the featured recipes free to access as part of a push to ... read more

The process could ramp up its annual rights fees revenues from five TV networks/streamers to around $18 billion from around $10 billion, according to Guggenheim Securities media analyst Michael Morris. ... read more

But the News/Media Alliance opposes a USPS proposal to exclude delays caused by disasters from the measurement system. ... read more

"The Atlantic" partners with CivicScience to integrate survey data and consumer intelligence. ... read more

The redesign of "Newsweek" was developed with 2x4 design studio to establish a new look, drawing on the publication's almost century-long legacy. ... read more

Today, Microsoft and Asus are officially opening preorders for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X at $599 and $999 respectively in the US. They’re $799 CAD and ... read more

Japanese keyboard maker Realforce is teaming up with the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and releasing four limited edition mechanical keyboards inspired by popular Gundam designs. The four keyboards are based ... read more

One of Nintendo’s most recognizable names is stepping down. Today the company announced that the aptly named Doug Bowser, who took over as president of Nintendo of America from Reggie ... read more

Nvidia is open-sourcing Audio2Face, its AI-powered tool that generates realistic facial animations for 3D avatars — all based on audio input. The change means developers can now use the tool ... read more

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order approving a TikTok deal that will save it from a nationwide ban. (We haven’t actually seen the order yet, only watched Trump ... read more

In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel - yes, that Peter Thiel - has argued that the End Times are night and that a biblical ... read more

Empiricism is about making decisions based on observations and experience, not just theory or pure logic. ... read more

Grooves etched onto the back of a microchip allow coolant to flow through them. Microsoft is making advances with a new way to cool microchips that it says could lead ... read more

The announcement comes as MrBeast is expanding his position as YouTube's top creator to a larger business empire. ... read more

Even as the overall forecast softened, digital formats are holding strong. ... read more

Meta is launching "Meta Lab" brick-and-mortar pop-up stores ahead of the holiday season in Los Angeles, New York and Las Vegas to give curious consumers a chance to interact with the company's latest AI, VR, ... read more

Google DeepMind on Thursday unveiled two new AI models that think before taking action. At least one former Google exec believes everything will tie into internet search in the future. ... read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday pressed his bid for a court order requiring Snap to comply with a law that would require it to remove some teens' accounts. ... read more

Anker’s 65W 735 Charger is $14 off in the run-up to October 7th. Amazon’s October Prime Day event (also known as Prime Big Deal Days) doesn’t officially start until October ... read more

Avenir Telecom is making a line of new Energizer-branded laptops aimed at marathon battery life. There are three productivity-focused models: the Energizer EnergyBook Pro 15, EnergyBook Pro XL 18, and ... read more