Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. | Image: SonySony may have stopped making portable gaming devices years ago, but Valve’s Steam Deck is quickly becoming an excellent way to play PlayStation games on the go. Big first-party titles ... read more

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeEvery Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David ... read more

Another year, another new Galaxy Z Fold foldable.Samsung has just wrapped its latest Galaxy Unpacked event where, as expected, it announced two foldables, new smartwatches, and an update to its Galaxy Buds Pro line. While ... read more

The Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4 are Samsung’s latest generation of foldable phones. | Image: SamsungAfter its recent announcements at the August 10th Unpacked event, Samsung’s latest generation of foldable phones are ... read more

Jaffe is charged with growing the activation team across search, social, programmatic, analytics and ad ops. ... read more

The retailer reportedly is seeking to bundle in streaming content to drive Walmart+ membership growth. ... read more

Merrick Garland is taking the U.S. down a perilous path. ... read more

Image: NintendoGather your paint cans, squids. With Splatoon 3 right around the corner, Nintendo’s released the most in-depth look at what to expect from the closest thing to an esport that the company actually still ... read more

How can marketers navigate their changing world while engaging with consumers in a meaningful, consumer-serving way that meets shifting expectations? ... read more

The Flip 4, just flexin’.It’s not a day for big updates or surprises from Samsung, and the Galaxy Z Flip 4 is holding the line. It’s the latest generation of Samsung’s smaller foldable, and it ... read more

The big folding phone.Samsung, purveyor of the only serious foldables available on a global scale, is taking a victory lap with the Galaxy Fold 4. As is tradition, the company has announced full details after ... read more

The new Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are capable of 24-bit audio playback.Continuing its string of iterative hardware updates today, Samsung is introducing the new Galaxy Buds 2 Pro. The company says they’re smaller and more ... read more

The Galaxy Watch 5 comes in both 44mm (left) and 40mm sizes.After weeks of leaks and rumors, Samsung finally announced the $279.99 Galaxy Watch 5 and $449.99 Galaxy Watch 5 Pro today at its Unpacked ... read more

CANNES — With GDPR, cookie deprecation and limits on mobile device identifiers, it has been a tumultuous couple of years for anyone trying to target digital advertising. But more change is on its way. In ... read more

CANNES — In tough times when belts are being tightened, how can marketing agencies fight for corporate dollars to spend? In this fireside chat at Cannes Lions, two industry group leaders debated how internal structures ... read more

A 97-inch LG OLED TV displayed ahead of CES 2022. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeLG Display announced a new 97-inch OLED EX TV panel that vibrates to produce 5.1 audio without the ... read more

Signal loss means Meta must get creative with its approach to targeting and measurement, including boosting its investment in artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, Meta released new products available within Meta Advantage, its newly consolidated suite ... read more

One question is: How does Netflix quantify its viewership? Minutes spent watching? Episodes binged? Time spent on the home page grazing? ... read more

Lille Allen / The VergeHow Discord helped me learn some parts of ourselves are a feature — not a bug Continue reading… ... read more

You know what? Fair play for dropping an F-bomb in a scene like this. | Screenshot: FallWithout enough production budget for reshoots, the director of upcoming action-thriller Fall says the team turned to AI technology ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeWhen I came home from my freshman year of college in March 2020, it was as if I had never experienced spring in Seattle before, even though it was ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeA 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history ... read more

"If Instagram changes its platform even more to compete with TikTok, the whole platform will collapse," says Highkey's Luke Lintz. ... read more

He is Groot. | Image: DisneyThe big streaming series from Marvel and Star Wars take all the headlines, but since its debut, Disney Plus has also slowly become a service stuffed with animated shorts. They ... read more

Advertisers on TikTok need to follow a few best practices if they're going to succeed on the platform, such as always thinking vertically, and being comfortable with the creator's style they work with. The ... read more

Image: Takara TomyDon’t you just hate it when you pick up your trusty Canon EOS R5, only to discover it’s actually a sneaky Transformer? Well bad news, because this nightmarish future spotted by TFormers is ... read more

Image by Alex Castro / The VergeMicrosoft is reportedly laying off its team focused on winning back consumers. In 2018 the software giant originally detailed its efforts to win back the non-enterprise customers it let ... read more

Exeger’s Powerfoyle solar panels are included on the charging case. | Image: UrbanistaUrbanista is following up its solar-powered over-ear headphones from last year with a pair of solar-powered true wireless earbuds called the Phoenix, the ... read more

Are public ad tech companies totally screwed? “Um, do you want the short answer?” said Rocco Strauss, a partner at independent equity research firm Arete Research. “Because the short answer is … yes,” Strauss said. ... read more

Google called out Apple in an ad campaign, putting pressure on the company for not adopting Rich Communication Services on the iPhone. ... read more

The LGBTQ+ community is the fastest-growing minority group in the US, accounting for over 20% of Gen Z. Yet, to date, social platforms have not fully embraced and supported our community. Across popular social networks ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Plus Interest The idea of a “subscription economy” has grown beyond news and entertainment – and as subscription-based relationships become more valuable, it creates a ... read more

This week's Future of TV Briefing looks at the relationship between YouTube Shorts and traditional YouTube videos as video publishers adopt the former in hopes of contributing to -- and not cannibalizing -- the latter. ... read more

Contraceptive brands such as Plan B, Favor and Phexxi have in some cases doubled or even quadrupled their online advertising to reach consumers. The post How contraceptive brands are increasing online advertising since SCOTUS overturned ... read more

In the third episode of Digiday podcast The Return, Fitzco sees its first positive case of Covid-19. While the team is disappointed, there are no active plans of turning back the clock to pandemic lockdown. ... read more

There is perhaps no social media platform that is more appropriate for publishers than Twitter. In this Digiday+ Research deep dive, we look at why this is. The post Digiday+ Research deep dive: Twitter’s strength ... read more

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images With so much of the world’s richest man’s wealth tied up in shares of his electric car company, Tesla is a part of the deal Elon doesn’t want ... read more

The Trade Desk reported earnings of $377 million in Q2 this year, up by a little more than a third compared to the same period in 2021. The company did dip from recording a $48 ... read more

AppleThere’s no doubt that Severance is a hit — the show’s first season made our best entertainment of 2022 list even as it “paints the darkest possible portrait of how megacorporations think about and treat ... read more

"CTV is evolving faster than anyone predicted," said Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green on an earnings call Tuesday. The company was up 35% in Q2 to $377 million -- above analysts' expectations, and after-market Tuesday ... read more

Este verano, Google y Samsung han lanzado su último esfuerzo de marketing conjunto, en el que los gigantes de la tecnología y el hardware aprovechan la nostalgia de principios de los años 90 y utilizan ... read more

Senators skip testing, as the House extends proxy voting again. ... read more

Democrats talk tough on enforcement while voting it down. ... read more

As stock prices fall, public pensions may need taxpayer help. ... read more

La semana en que el mercado de las criptomonedas se desplomó a mediados de junio, Fortune envió a Jeff Roberts una oferta para convertirse en su editor de criptografía y supervisar la creación de un ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMicrosoft’s marking OneDrive’s 15th anniversary with a new landing page, called OneDrive Home, and it should make it easier to keep tabs on your work. Instead of arriving on ... read more

On Friday, app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi tweeted a photo instructing users to join Twitter Blue -- the platform's paid subscriber feature -- to get early access to "Edit Tweet." ... read more

Meta on Tuesday defeated a lawsuit by a Florida resident who claimed his First Amendment rights were violated when Facebook placed warnings on his posts about COVID-19. ... read more

Image: AmazonAmazon’s palm scanning technology is expanding to 65 Whole Foods locations across California. The checkout devices were introduced in 2020 as part of the Amazon One payment service, allowing customers to pay with a ... read more

Illustration by Alex CastroFormer Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying for the government of Saudi Arabia, according to a report from Bloomberg. The jury handed down its judgment in a San Francisco ... read more

Electric-car subsidies put CEO Mary Barra at odds with a business group that she also heads. ... read more

The Mar-a-Lago search made Monday a dark day for the bureau. But lawmakers are shining a hopeful light. ... read more

Its campaigns of conquest and subjugation were no less bloody for advancing overland, not overseas. ... read more

GDP is slumping, but there’s a better way to gauge the economy. ... read more

They’re good for just about everyone—except overpaid CEOs. ... read more

The Justice Department plays with fire with its Trump and Hunter Biden investigations. ... read more

There’s a new indicator in the latest iOS 16 beta, but it’s not great. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeApple finally added the battery percent indicator back to the status bar in the ... read more

Lawyers for the DOJ have interviewed publishers that work with Google in a new round of talks to update facts and gather additional details before filing an antitrust lawsuit against the Alphabet company. ... read more

Summoning signs work in distant areas now. | Bandai NamcoElden Ring just got a bit easier for single-player purists. Patch 1.06, released today, adds a new way to advance the quest of White Mask Varré ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeWaymo is introducing a raft of new features designed to make its fleet of autonomous taxis more accessible to passengers with visual impairments and other disabilities. The new ... read more

Merrick Garland is taking the U.S. down a perilous path. ... read more

Spotify’s new Home screen, which includes filters for music and podcasts. | Image: SpotifySpotify has been working on a new design for its home tab that will create separate feeds for your music and your ... read more

Ken Block with the Audi S1 E-Tron Quattro Hoonitron concept. | Image: AudiAudi built a special S1 E-Tron Quattro, dubbed the “Hoonitron,” in December for American precision driver Ken Block. And now, the automaker is ... read more

Given the recent history of abuse, it’s foolish to assume the bureau is now acting appropriately. ... read more

Walmart has tried streaming before but may be back in the race. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesWalmart is investigating building its own streaming service, The New York Times reported, and is talking to some ... read more

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeYou can create a great TikTok video by doing nothing more than simply talking to the camera. However, if you want to do something a little fancier or you’re ... read more

Photo by BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesUnauthorized mole and skin tag removers sold on Amazon put the company in the crosshairs of the Food and Drug Administration, which sent a warning letter to the ... read more

You can’t tell from this screenshot, but I’m controlling Gabby Jay. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The VergeSuper Punch-Out!! has a hidden two-player mode that was just discovered nearly three decades after the game’s ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTwitter has been having issues for some users on Tuesday. I’m not personally experiencing any problems (yet), but a colleague says that things have been loading very slowly, specifically ... read more

Republican wins in the midterms will likely end his term’s legislative phase. ... read more

BlackRock and other giant firms use your money to advance ESG ideas you may not agree with, even if you own index funds. Vivek Ramaswamy has brought an alternative to the market. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTikTok videos aren’t what you would call long, but sometimes you might want to skip a few seconds ahead — especially now that the videos can be up to ... read more

WiZ’s Mobile Portable Light can go with you to the bathroom. | Image: WiZWiZ, the more budget-friendly, hubless sibling to Philips Hue (both companies are owned by Signify), beefed up its range of Wi-Fi-powered smart ... read more

He will be "scaling our premium ad products across The Times's subscription bundle," says Alex Hardiman, chief product officer. ... read more

Photo by Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Sygma via Getty ImagesI had never held a piece by Issey Miyake before the tail end of a trip back home to Japan in 2019, when I wandered into the Pleats Please ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFor those who may not yet be familiar with it, TikTok is a different type of social media platform. Unlike more traditional platforms like Instagram or Twitter where you ... read more

CapcomHere come some new challengers. At the end of EVO 2022’s Street Fighter V tournament, Capcom revealed two more characters coming to the roster of Street Fighter 6: Juri, the “I can fix her” returning ... read more

National TV ad spend for Q2 was down 1%, with cable TV nets dipping 1% and broadcast nets 2% lower, while U.S. syndication was up 6%, according to Standard Media Index. In better news, national ... read more

You might be able to view Wear OS or Fitbit data on the Google TV during a workout starting next year. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeGoogle has yet to launch its first ... read more

Goh, Ash, and Dawn hanging out in Canalave City with their Pokémon. | The Pokémon CompanyFollowing the debut of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it was only a matter of (apologies) time before the Pokémon anime started ... read more

"They even broke into my safe," the former twice-impeached president and subject of multiple criminal investigations said after FBI agents executed a federal judge's search warrant and raided his home. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeLive updates and other announcements Continue reading… ... read more

Riveting illustrated stories.Google has released a browser version of its “Read Along” Android app. The website, while still in beta, is up and running now. The site includes hundreds of illustrated stories at a ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeCryptocurrency lender Hodlnaut is the latest firm to respond to tumultuous market conditions by halting withdrawals (via Coindesk). In a post on its website, the Singapore-based company announced that ... read more

The white version of the Arlo wire-free video doorbell is currently selling for less than the black model, which is also discounted. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeSmart home brand Arlo is ... read more

CANNES – Consumers are dividing their time among a bigger selection of media channels and connected devices, and it’s not always clear whether they’re paying attention to advertisements that appear among their preferred choices of ... read more

Illustration by Grayson BlackmonA rebate for e-bike purchases was left out of the big climate deal, but it may yet live on Continue reading… ... read more

And why it’s 40 percent cheaper to run Continue reading… ... read more

Google Search briefly experienced complications from a nearby electrical fire that led to longer page-load times, errors, and empty search results. ... read more

HBO Max is showing only slow gains in subscribers for its ad-supported option after a year in operation, according to a new survey. ... read more

The infamous green messaging bubbles. | Image: GoogleGoogle is kicking off a new publicity campaign today to pressure Apple into adopting RCS, the cross-platform messaging protocol that’s meant to be a successor to the aging ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergePresident Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act on Tuesday, writing into law the $280 billion package that includes $52 billion in funding to boost US domestic semiconductor ... read more

Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeAirPods could come with a charging case that supports USB-C in 2023, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. It doesn’t look like we should expect USB-C on the AirPods ... read more

Samsung’s early head start on foldables is paying off. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The VergeFour years into folding phones and Samsung is the king of the party Continue reading… ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeHello again everyone — it’s been a while! Ariel’s on vacation for the next week-plus, which means I get to tap in again and do my best impression of ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeSamsung Galaxy Unpacked is set to begin on Wednesday, August 10th. Leading up to the event, Samsung has left us with breadcrumbs about what they’re going to announce ... read more

With less than 100 days until the midterm elections, the Democrats are equipping influencers and TikTok creators with digital tools to reach voters across the internet with party-sponsored content. In the run-up to election season, ... read more

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The VergeNearly nine months after it stopped taking reservations, Ford is ready to reopen the order banks for the F-150 Lightning. But buyers beware: the price for the electric truck ... read more

TFW you think you have a date to the dance … and then it turns out you don’t. On Tuesday, AppLovin offered to buy Unity in an all-stock merger consideration worth $20 billion, and that ... read more

With a little effort, the Steam Deck can run more than just Steam.Steam may certainly have the lion’s share when it comes to building a library of PC games, but why would you leave yourself ... read more