Bard prominently tells users it’s an experiment, but that doesn’t mean they’ll listen. | Image: Google If you don’t believe the rushed launch of AI chatbots by Big Tech has an ... read more

The retailer stopped selling West's Yeezy shoes - but those that remain on shelves have become collectors' items. ... read more

The budget Fire TV 2-Series sticks to HD resolution. | Image: Amazon Amazon announced today that it has sold a total of over 200 million Fire TV devices. That number is a ... read more

Image: GitHub Microsoft-owned GitHub is overhauling its Copilot system today to integrate OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and bring chat and voice support to its AI pair programmer. GitHub Copilot X is a giant ... read more

Nanoleaf’s low-cost LED smart bulbs have been reengineered to work with Matter. | Image: Nanoleaf After a slow rollout of devices that support Matter, the first Matter-over-Thread light bulbs are finally here. ... read more

Image: Mozilla.ai Mozilla is creating a new startup called Mozilla.ai, which the company hopes “will build a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem.” Moez Draief, a longtime AI researcher and scientist, is ... read more

Goat will join GroupM and merge with its influencer marketing solution INCA to create a global influencer marketing agencywith more than300 employees in over 30 markets around the world. ... read more

Fox News Media wants us to know that 40% of its overall viewing comes from non-news content. That could be a good thing for advertisers looking to get audiences they don't normally get. ... read more

The Stand One keeps your MagSafe iPhone angled upright and your wallet a bit flat. Continue reading… ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games is nearly ready to reveal its latest updates to Unreal Engine, its hugely popular suite of development tools. The company is just about ... read more

As gaming becomes more of a prominent ad vehicle, the list of examples of brands going big continues to grow. A retailer may build a virtual store in Roblox. Another might launch its own ... read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Media companies this year are teaming up a bigger variety of audience measurement providers as they showcase their programming for brands and agencies for upfront advertising sales. Paramount has worked ... read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Regular viewers of television can be forgiven for being annoyed when they are shown the same commercial repeatedly during a program. Moreover, advertisers don’t want to damage their brands or ... read more

The first Tuesday in May is #MartechDay — a day to celebrate all the wonderful people working in the martech industry and the amazing practitioners who bring these capabilities to life in marketing organizations ... read more

DanAds is in growth mode, and its US expansion is in full swing. It also has its sights set on profitability by the end of the year. But the volatile The post DanAds Is Reassessing ... read more

5G can provide significantly greater speeds and accommodate more devices than dated 4G networks. For consumers, it’s revolutionizing communications and content. But from a marketer perspective, the impact will be The post From VR To ... read more

On the heels of last week's "TV Blog" on the superlative "Agent Elvis" comes another new animated series that attains the same level of high quality. ... read more

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg poses for a portrait at the Department of Transportation offices in Washington, DC. | Image: Cheriss May for The Verge The US Department of Transportation is making ... read more

WhatsApp users can soon search mutual contacts to check what groups they have in common, and admins have more control over who can join community groups. | Image: WhatsApp / Meta WhatsApp ... read more

A screenshot from the Resident Evil 4 HD Project. | Image: Albert Martin / Capcom Albert Martin, one of the modders behind the eight-year Resident Evil 4 HD remaster project, has landed ... read more

Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Waymo published a paper today outlining a safety case for autonomous vehicles that the company says should serve as a blueprint for the entire industry. ... read more

It’ll cost you more than $2,000. It nearly cost its maker everything. Continue reading… ... read more

This cough and cold season, Ricola ran shoppable influencer marketing campaigns across Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat to better attract and reach younger generations of customers. To effectively measure influencers' performance, The post MikMak Soothes Ricola’s ... read more

Any new regulations can potentially throw a wrench into your operations. Prepare for what’s to come with this breakdown of what these laws are and their effects on marketing strategy.  The post New Utah And ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pixel Problems Calls to ban TikTok in the US or compel it to sell the platform to a The post TikTok Pixels, Use ... read more

In the five-plus years since Forrester first coined the term “zero-party data” — defined as data that users intentionally share with a company — the phrase has been met with both eye rolls and enthusiasm, ... read more

Gaming can be a slippery slope to cost cuts and dashed dreams for news publishers nowadays. But it doesn’t have to be. Just ask The New York Times.  The more than one million dollars it ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at TV network executives’ expectations for this year’s likely softer upfront cycle. Upfront or downfront? Tubi cracks Nielsen’s revamped TV watch time report Netflix’s ad-supported ... read more

Google Pixel is highlighting the birth of hip-hop with a new, multi-touchpoint ad campaign. The 50th anniversary of the music genre is approaching — credited with beginning on August 11, 1973 — when it was created at ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta’s Horizon Worlds VR social network is getting quests. No, not Quest headsets, but in-game missions with rewards that might make its experiences more ... read more

Students discuss the threat of China invading Taiwan, the war in Ukraine and polarizing domestic politics. ... read more

Janet Yellen essentially says all deposits are insured. From now on, moral hazard rules. ... read more

The new City Attorney gets results by pursuing repeat offenders. ... read more

Follow the timing of campaign donations, a lobbying letter from the then House Speaker, and an agency decision to scuttle an acquisition. ... read more

The case of Burford Capital vs. its corporate client. ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Imaging swapping out a hot pink Apple Watch band for an earth-tone green one, and having your watchface automatically change to a matching color, ... read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge More ads are coming to Instagram, and this time, they’re invading the platform’s search results. In a post on its blog, Instagram says it has ... read more

FDR and Obama inherited their meltdowns. Biden’s was self-made. ... read more

Our study showed they can diminish the perception of the judiciary’s legitimacy. ... read more

Most want to make a living. It would make a lot more sense to make it easier to obtain work permits. ... read more

He stole an election, helps Russia against Ukraine, and is making common cause with Iran and China. ... read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s been pretty slow ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge You know how researchers recently discovered that the Pixel’s built-in cropping tool didn’t actually get rid of the data you removed and that a little digging ... read more

Connatix says the problem of unsold iOS can be turned around with contextual targeting. ... read more

To help businesses get discovered and be remembered, Instagram is rolling out event ads with a built-in reminder feature and ads that are included in Search. ... read more

People watch the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 second-generation Starlink satellites at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on February 27th, 2023. | Photo by Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty ... read more

LinkedIn is adding a new ChatGPT-powered tool that Premium subscribers can access to create personalized writing suggestions for sections of their LinkedIn profile, as well as other AI integrations. ... read more

Raja Koduri, wearing a jersey celebrating the Intel Arc GPUs and holding a silicon wafer. | Image: Intel After five years attempting to make Intel into a competitor for Nvidia and AMD ... read more

9to5Mac uncovered images showing a black and gold finish. | Image: 9to5Mac Beats is preparing to release an upgraded version of its wireless Studio Buds. In the latest iOS 16.4 beta released ... read more

Image: Google/David Pierce After a few hours of chatting, I haven’t found a new side of Bard. I also haven’t found much it does well. Continue reading… ... read more

The Fed stuck to its playbook with Silicon Valley Bank. That may guarantee the next crisis. ... read more

Facing discord, the Israeli government should step back and make room for compromise. ... read more

Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Explorer’s Guide, an official guide for the game, is now available as a free PDF that you can download from Nintendo’s Zelda ... read more

A small portion of those delisted CTV apps sold advertising through open programmatic offers. ... read more

Google Glass's demise bring up some takeaways about the fading dividing line between technology and humans. ... read more

Take a good look — this may only be available “for a limited period.” | Image: DPReview.com Amazon will be shutting down DPReview, the trusted and comprehensive camera reviews website, as part ... read more

Battlefield: Bad Company 2. | Image: EA EA plans to delist Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Mirror’s Edge from digital stores on April 28th, the company announced ... read more

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert and their Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards. | Image: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Disney and Lucasfilm have been tight-lipped about what exactly Jon Watts’ upcoming Star Wars: ... read more

This is not a story from the Babylon Bee. ... read more

Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot now has the ability to generate images by simply describing the picture in a few words. Bing Image Creator, announced today can generate written and visual content in seconds. Microsoft has ... read more

Image: Jabra Jabra’s new entry-level Elite 4 earbuds offer active noise cancellation, but they still come at a budget-friendly price tag. For $99.99, the buds promise 5.5 hours of listening time with ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok is rolling out a charm offensive ahead of Thursday’s congressional hearing, putting CEO Shou Zi Chew in users’ feeds to warn them about a ... read more

Last week, we learned — from Bloomberg — that Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy tens of thousands of Nvidia A100 graphics chips so that partner OpenAI could train ... read more

Image: Ford Ford’s third-ever all-electric vehicle is a Europe-only crossover SUV with one of the automaker’s most popular nameplates. The Explorer EV will also be the first in a wave of new ... read more

Curran, a 17-year veteran of digital media services, most recently served as executive director, performance strategy at GroupM and previously worked at Digitas and iProspect. ... read more

Analysts now say Netflix may continue to see modest gains for its ad/media product, and much of its new and/or transitioning business to an ad-supported platform will achieve modest levels. ... read more

Analysts are now beginning to come to the conclusion that Netflix may continue to see just modest gains for its ad-media product -- that in fact much of its new business and/or transitioning business to ... read more

Sam's Club on Tuesday gave advertisers a way to attribute in-store consumer purchases to online search ads ... read more

MoffettNathanson forecasts NBCU and Warner Bros. Discovery will see declines in content spending this year while others will climb. Walt Disney will lead all big media companies, followed by NBCU, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount and ... read more

Innovid's AI-powered dynamic creative tech allows personalization of message and design in real time, according to the companies. ... read more

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge A former security policy manager at Meta had her phone wiretapped and hacked by Greece’s national intelligence agency, according to a report from The New ... read more

Bard looks like a search engine, though Google says it isn’t one. | Image: Google “Bard is a complement to search.” That’s how Google describes the relationship between Bard, the new chatbot ... read more

Google is stressing that Bard is an experiment rather than a finished product. | Image: Google Today, Google is opening up limited access to Bard, its ChatGPT rival, a major step ... read more

Photo illustration: Alex Parkin / The Verge This special episode dives deep into Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly ... read more

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge With new tools like Guest Star and improvements to existing monetization programs, Twitch believes it’s the best place for creators right now. Continue reading… ... read more

The new Havas Play network already is operational in its Paris HQ and has a charter client: high-end audio tech brand Harman International. ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is adding an AI-powered image creator to its Bing search engine today. The Bing Image Creator will be powered by an “advanced version” of OpenAI’s DALL-E model and ... read more

She will continue to lead the Affiliate Marketing & Partnerships practice for Mindshare and GroupM across the Americas region. ... read more

The ARF said the atlas is part of its ongoing "attention validation initiative," and a preliminary version will be released in late April. ... read more

Image: The Verge Microsoft is building a cryptocurrency wallet for its Edge browser even as the crypto markets struggle. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the software giant has ... read more

Generative AI isn’t just for creating unsettling art, chatting with robots or, uh, attempting to break up marriages. Adobe has plans to weave generative AI tools into its real-time customer The post Adobe Is Training ... read more

By integrating with Adobe’s AEM application, both company assets and completed designs can be shared freely across the organization without jumping between platforms. | Image: Adobe Adobe has unveiled Adobe Express for ... read more

Adobe’s AI image generator in Adobe Firefly. | Image: Adobe Adobe is finally launching its own AI image generator. The company is announcing a “family of creative generative AI models” today called ... read more

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge You bought your parents / grandparents / other relatives a new computer, set it up, and showed them all of its nifty new features. You’ve gone ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR — T-Mobile Advertising Solutions has built an ad offering that uses GPS and other data to deliver interactive ads to headrest screens in more than 40,000 Uber and Lyft vehicles. But the ... read more

Mobile games are often ripe for programmatic advertising. But the mobile ad space has been rocked over the past few years, as Apple and others have cracked down brands on tracking consumers across different apps. ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR — In a media world known for being fragmented, companies are finally starting to work together to smoothe the path. But there are still areas where the industry needs to come together. ... read more

This year, Nielsen plans to start filtering big data into its TV currency – including automatic content recognition (ACR). The post Nielsen Asserts Its Place In The TV Currency Crowd appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

The passage of time in TV is reflected in some of the advisories and news releases received here recently from all corners of the TV universe. ... read more

Illustration by Vincent Kilbride / The Verge Dedicated creators have built their own communities and spaces in Meta’s Horizon Worlds. But they feel the company isn’t supporting them as well as it ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge As the prospect of a US TikTok ban continues to grow, the video app has refreshed its content moderation policies. The rules on what content can ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ChatGPT’s chat history feature is currently offline as of Tuesday morning after a bug exposed brief descriptions of other users’ conversations to people on the ... read more

Spotify is all about audio, obviously. But video advertising is a strategic priority for the audio streaming service. Emma Vaughn, Spotify’s senior director of advertising business development and partnerships, explains The post Keeping An Eye ... read more

The Oppo Find X6 Pro in black, brown, and green. | Image: Oppo Oppo has joined the likes of Xiaomi and sister-company Vivo by including a massive 1-inch-type camera sensor in its ... read more

If programmatic ad tech was a canary in the coal mine for how data privacy would affect the online advertising industry, then some of the canaries have escaped and are The post Programmatic Vets Are ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Verified Love Triangle When Netflix jumped into ad sales, it promised to include ad verification through both The post Netflix Verification Hits ... read more

Ad tech company Infillion today is launching a new media buying product aimed at measuring all campaign key performance indicators across platforms, Digiday has learned. InfillionX is the company’s first full-funnel product that allows users ... read more

Generative artificial intelligence technology will be an area of focus for some media companies this year as they work to cut costs and find new revenue opportunities amid a tough media market, according to fourth ... read more

With the possibility of a TikTok ban in the U.S. once again gaining traction, some marketers and agency execs say they’re readying contingency plans. Others, meanwhile, say that the uncertainty of a potential ban makes ... read more

With today’s focus on short-form video, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that publishers are looking to video advertising as a revenue source with a lot of growth potential. This is according to a Digiday+ ... read more