The ad-supported Kindle Paperwhite with 8GB of storage is $40 off. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Whether you’re looking to relax and unwind this weekend or simply pass some ... read more

This affordable fitness band stuffs in an impressive amount of features, but these budget trackers aren’t nearly as popular as they used to be. Continue reading… ... read more

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Gordon Moore, one of Intel’s co-founders and a Silicon Valley titan, died today at 94 years old, according to a press release ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hatchette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge OpenAI has announced new details about why it took ChatGPT offline on Monday, and it’s now saying that some users’ payment information may have ... read more

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge “My old Dell XPS 15 has gotten sluggish. The battery dies easily. It’s heavy to cart around, anyhow. Now that I’m going out in public ... read more

Goldman Sachs says the uncapped tax credits will cost three times what Democrats claimed. ... read more

Goldman Sachs says the uncapped tax credits will cost three times what Democrats claimed. ... read more

He wants the West to think that’s his goal, but the longer the conflict drags on, the worse things get for Moscow. ... read more

Iran’s militias kill an American and get a feeble U.S. response. ... read more

Tallahassee expands its ESA options, but a vote will be close in Atlanta. ... read more

The company’s claim of censorship by DirecTV was always false political cover. ... read more

Zelensky is battling for Bakhmut. The Florida governor is battling for the nomination. ... read more

The Pentagon’s relentless focus on racial differences endangers our readiness to deter, fight and win wars. ... read more

‘Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted.’ ... read more

San Jose’s NHL team leads the league in sexual politics. ... read more

‘A review of the video shows that Kirk never advocated for trans people to be lynched. In fact, he strongly denies the accusation.’ ... read more

Whitespark published the 2023 version of its Local Search Ranking Factors study built on a survey of 44 local SEO practitioners who offer opinions based on hands-on search engine optimization (SEO) work with clients. ... read more

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Yesterday continued Congress’s recent history of calling tech executives into a hearing to berate them about their excessive collection of users’ private data for financial ... read more

I have a lot of questions! | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Why is the toolbar a different color? Why is it oval when the buttons it features are square? ... read more

This is from Epic’s Unreal Editor for Fortnite, but it’s not from any Mario Kart track that I’m aware of. | Image: Epic Games Epic Games’ new Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) ... read more

A Protasiewicz win would touch off a redistricting fight that could determine control of Congress. ... read more

The governor who defied Trump to reopen during Covid was also ahead of DeSantis in combating woke corporations. ... read more

Screenshot: Mitchell Clark / The Verge Microsoft continues to add AI features to its Bing search engine, even outside of the GPT-powered chat features it’s been pushing. According to a feature roundup ... read more

Unlike the Wacom Cintiq Pro 27, the Xencelabs Pen Display 24 includes a stand and ExpressKey accessory as standard. | Image: Xencelabs Graphics hardware manufacturer Xencelabs has announced the Pen Display 24 ... read more

The decline once again reflects tough comparisons with year-ago results, according to new data from Standard Media Index's U.S. Ad Market Tracker. February 2022 was up 18.6% over February 2021. ... read more

Francesco Francavilla’s Us poster. | Image: Francesco Francavilla / Mondo It wasn’t a good sign when Funko announced earlier this month its plans to straight up destroy somewhere between $30 and $36 ... read more

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Ford provided an update Friday on the construction of its massive new EV manufacturing complex in western Tennessee, where it says it will build its ... read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription. ... read more

They will discuss "Twitter 2.0" at the Mobile Marketing Association's annual "Possible" conference April 18 in Miami. ... read more

An air conditioning unit is seen in a window seal during a heatwave on July 21st, 2022, in Houston, Texas.  | Image: Brandon Bell/Getty Images Window air conditioners and portable air purifiers ... read more

At the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, U.S. lawmakers' tone was mostly "My mind is made up, but let me see if I can embarrass you." ... read more

The lack of consistent TV measurement is setting nerves on edge – at least to the extent that programmers, including Paramount, are now working with their competitors to find a The post Paramount Works With ... read more

Image: Showtime The gruesome mystery returns, but it’s lacking some of the punch that made the first season so potent. Continue reading… ... read more

The main idea is to explore content development utilizing NFTs and the new fan economy in the TV content area for the Web3 era. ... read more

Image: Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips and two other Linus Media Group YouTube channels have been restored after a major hack allowed a bad actor to do things like ... read more

The March Madness mens' college basketball tournament has seen double-digit percentage national TV ad gains as the initial five days of viewership maintain the levels of a year ago, according to an estimate by iSpot.tv. ... read more

It brings me much joy that we’re well beyond the limited availability of PS5s. May we never experience that Wild West of restocks again (at least not until the next thing). | Image: ... read more

Liko and her Sprigatito falling towards the ground together. | The Pokémon Company If there was any doubt about the upcoming Pokémon anime’s new incoming protagonists being a very different kind of ... read more

Illustration by Álvaro Bernis / The Verge The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. Continue reading… ... read more

Sponsored by MNTN Connected TV advertising has joined and expanded the larger ecosystem of campaigns that advertisers deploy. As such, omnichannel marketing strategies now encompass television and mobile devices, tablets and other screens such as ... read more

Based on TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday, Congress isn’t buying TikTok’s claims of independence. And US legislators have no faith The post Congress Isn’t Buying ... read more

Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge On Thursday morning, the chief executive of what is perhaps the world’s most popular social app went before Congress. Like so many social media CEOs before ... read more

Video, music, games, podcasts, audiobooks and other streamed services would get 4% state and 4% local taxes, but pay-TV services and newspaper and periodicals apps would be exempt. ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has now sided with Microsoft over concerns the software giant could remove Call of Duty from PlayStation if its ... read more

The analysis from Basis Technologies shows a precipitous decline in political ad buys on social media, which is noteworthy given the amount of organic use of social media by political campaigns. ... read more

Social media companies have until March 1st, 2024, to comply with or appeal Utah’s new regulations. | Image: Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP Utah has enacted controversial restrictions that will ... read more

Image: Getty Now here’s a path not taken: according to a new report from Semafor, Elon Musk tried — and failed — to take over ChatGPT creator OpenAI in 2018. Musk ... read more

The Adrian Monk detective character is being revived for a Peacock TV movie, "Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie." ... read more

Meta’s promotional art for Direct Touch. | Image: Meta Meta is testing what could become a foundational upgrade to its Quest VR headsets: a way to tap and scroll on virtual elements ... read more

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is gradually rolling out an updated Phone Link app that finally lets you couple an iPhone to a Windows PC. I got access to the new Phone Link version ... read more

Imagine this but around 10 times grander. Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail or anything like it takes a lot of research and gear. So what would a research and weight-obsessive tech writer ... read more

Hulu might have a tolerable frequency rate, but it also has a much higher ad load than many of its streaming service competitors. The post Hulu Has Too Many Ads appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem… The post Comic: Digital Twinsies appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tubi Or Not Tubi Fox-owned Tubi recently made its first ping on Nielsen’s radar with 1% of US The post The TV Identity ... read more

As TikTok’s chief executive made his first appearance in front of Congress, U.S. lawmakers made it clear that other Big Tech companies are also still very much in the hot seat. On Thursday, TikTok CEO ... read more

L’Oreal is doing more social listening this year to follow beauty trends as they emerge and move quickly to figure out how its many brands can tap into these trends. To accomplish this, the beauty ... read more

YouTube might not be considered one of the most exciting marketing channels compared with newer platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but agencies and brands see YouTube as a reliable channel that delivers consistent marketing success. ... read more

Creator funds seemed like a pat on the back from social media platforms to creators; a way for them to say “well done for your great content, here’s your reward, we’ve got you”. But that ... read more

At a time when larger media companies are feeling the pressure of the economic downturn and advertising slowdown, publishers that center around producing newsletters say they are growing their subscribers to those emails and the ... read more

While March Madness is most associated with television and streaming, Pringles is turning to social media — particularly Instagram — to leverage some of the college athletes playing in the basketball tournament. The chip brand ... read more

Image: PayPal Android users should soon be able to log in to PayPal’s website using passkeys, the password-free login system that’s being pushed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, the FIDO alliance, and more. ... read more

The Republican probe of the New York district attorney is bad law and worse politics. ... read more

Apple plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies in theaters, according to a report by Bloomberg. Apple is amping up its efforts in entertainment production and distribution, with an increasing focus on ... read more

Apple plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies in theaters, according to a report by Bloomberg. Apple is amping up its efforts in entertainment production and distribution, with an increasing focus on ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has announced that it’ll start “winding down” its legacy verified program and removing “legacy verified checkmarks” starting on April 1st, and is telling users ... read more

Are all deposits insured or not? Only she seems to know. ... read more

The proposal, floating around Washington and state legislatures, would create more loopholes than it closes and chill investment. ... read more

Federal subsidies and gasoline-powered trucks make the business too big to fail. ... read more

The House GOP probe of the New York prosecutor is bad law and worse politics. ... read more

The dean instructs student hecklers on the First Amendment. ... read more

When leaders lie and cheat, we question the system and ask whether we are fools. ... read more

Victory for the plaintiff would severely weaken the First Amendment protection all news media enjoy. ... read more

Rising anti-Semitism and radical ideologies elsewhere make them a viable option. ... read more

Stormy Daniels wasn’t an offense against America. Focus on Georgia and the Jan. 6 riots instead. ... read more

Imagine a new Trump Justice Department if politicians are fair game for prosecution. ... read more

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appears before Congress to defend the platform against a ban. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, seemed to arrive at ... read more

Heinz hopes it will appeal to gamers ages 18-34 while informing them about the brand's regenerative and sustainable practices on its tomato farms. ... read more

Utah's new social media law is "one of the worst we've seen," the advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation said. ... read more

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge How’s our favorite Bitcoin maxi Jack Dorsey doing? Well, the short sellers at Hindenburg Research published an absolute barn-burner of a report alleging widespread fraud ... read more

Reddit on Thursday made it easier to set up and run ad campaigns across its platform as the company continues to grow its global ad business. ... read more

The FTC's proposed "click to cancel" rule would force companies to allow consumers to cancel an subscription via an online mechanism, assuming they also signed up online. ... read more

Top-line results are considered more significant than other metrics such as return on ad spend and audience reach. ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge People all over the world can now pay for Twitter, as the company has announced that its Twitter Blue subscription service is now available globally. While ... read more

"Americans' data is not safe, and Big Tech is doing nothing to protect it," Rep. Greg Pence (R-Indiana) told TikTok CEO Shou Chew. ... read more

Google's YouTube now captures 7.9% of all video viewing on U.S. televisions, more than any other streamer. ... read more

Aerial view of an offshore wind farm on July 2nd, 2022, in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. | Photo by Yao Feng / VCG via Getty Images The wind energy industry is ... read more

Tubular Labs has announced a new measurement capability for how videos perform according to the hour of day they were uploaded. Customers will now be able to determine what time of day social video generates ... read more

Antigrowth policies on Main Street mean Wall Street can’t earn money the old-fashioned way. ... read more

We have to stop blaming, start listening, and ask ourselves: Is the juice worth the squeeze? ... read more

Illustration: The Verge OpenAI is adding support for plug-ins to ChatGPT — an upgrade that massively expands the chatbot’s capabilities and gives it access for the first time to live data from ... read more

Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill in Argylle. | Image: Apple CODA aside, Apple TV Plus has yet to really become synonymous with hit movies the way the company clearly wants it to. ... read more

Image: Patrick George “All electric vehicles drive the same.” That’s a criticism I hear pretty often lately, especially from car enthusiasts who are none too happy to lose things like engine noises ... read more

Streaming ads' pod position, audio, length, context and more also impact attention levels, finds in-depth study. ... read more

Don’t expect Sonos to drastically change the design of the second-gen Move. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s fixing to be a very busy year of new hardware from ... read more

Two Frameworks enter... | Image: Framework Framework has announced the 2023 edition of its modular 13-inch laptop. The big news is that not only is there a 13th-Gen Intel configuration for sale, ... read more

The secret: this laptop has a removable butt. | Image: Framework It’s been four years since Dell promised the Alienware Area-51m would be a truly upgradable gaming laptop — and nearly ... read more

Case in point. | Image: Framework Framework CEO Nirav Patel, leader of the first company to fulfill the promise of a truly modular laptop, doesn’t just want you to buy new parts ... read more

Image: Daedalic Entertainment It is a shame Andy Serkis never won an award for his work as Gollum in the Peter Jackson-helmed The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The way he managed ... read more

Well, at least a conference about it is, next month in Los Angeles with sessions on funding trends in space tourism and "Greening The Galaxy." ... read more