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This week’s best deal is a ‘kids’ Kindle Paperwhit...
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days may bring some great Kindle deals, but if you can’t wait, you don’t hav...
Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for Spotif...
Spotify has found itself the target of artists' ire for many reasons over the years: poor audio qual...
Ecovacs’ Deebot X8 and X9 Pro Omni robovacs have h...
Robot vacuums that mop well rarely come cheap, but thankfully, some of our favorite models are recei...
Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop
Last week at the Zurich Film Festival, Eline Van der Velden - founder and CEO of AI production house...
Instagram wants me to make content — I just want t...
Have you tried simply uploading a photo to Instagram lately? It's a minefield. Is that a Story, a Po...
Breaking up (Google) is hard to do
Breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly is, apparently, like going to Mars or trying to replace Michae...
Consume Me is a raw and funny memoir in video game...
There's a lot of math in diet culture. It's all numbers - calories in, calories burned - and a const...
Acer’s latest Spin 514 is so close to Chromebook g...
I was cautiously optimistic about Acer's Chromebook Plus Spin 514 when I tested a preproduction mode...
Oregon’s National Guard lawsuit hinges on Trump’s ...
After getting off the phone with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Saturday, the president mused over so...
Discord customer service data breach leaks user in...
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party,” ...
Tales from the AI hiring frenzy
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated...
Unity discloses a years-old security exploit and u...
Unity is urging developers to take “immediate action” after it disclosed a major security vulnerabil...
Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple’s ...
Just one day after Apple took down the iOS App Store listing for ICEBlock, Google has confirmed to 4...
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is getting a new name so...
Amazon’s list of 4K-capable streaming sticks got bigger — and more confusing — after its hardware ev...
Hori’s new Switch 2 controller lets you deactivate...
Hori has announced another addition to the ever-growing list of cheaper alternatives to Nintendo’s $...
Tesla’s cheaper Model Y finally breaks cover
Tesla’s long-rumored more affordable electric vehicle won’t be out until next year, but it was recen...
I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop
An anime version of Jesus Christ flipping tables. OpenAI employees performing in Hamilton costumes. ...
Trump rolled YouTube into paying for his ballroom
About two months ago, John P. Coale, one of many lawyers representing Donald Trump in a personal cap...
Sony shrinks PS5 Slim storage in the US, too
Sony is now selling a revised model of the digital PS5 slim in the US that has less storage than the...
Hoto put a lo-fi torque display on its new cordles...
Hoto’s latest electric screwdriver introduces a couple of novel usability improvements. Now, you’ll ...
Kodak launches Kodacolor 100 and 200 to feed the f...
It’s been a while since Kodak launched a new film, and even longer since it actually distributed its...
Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gamin...
Microsoft is getting ready to announce an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Sources familia...
A bundle with Amazon’s biggest smart display and a...
Amazon announced a bunch of new hardware earlier in the week, but the Echo Show 21 wasn’t updated an...
The quest for every Gap store playlist ever
In August 2002, I was probably back-to-school shopping with my mom at our local mall, bouncing from ...
Tesla Cybertruck’s faulty door handles caused woma...
The family of 19-year-old Krysta Tsukahara has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla, allegin...
With a Friend like this, who needs enemies?
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song th...
The real price of a free TV
Back in 2023, Telly CEO Ilya Pozin came on The Vergecast and made a surprisingly compelling case for...
I tried Amazon and Google’s new smart home gadgets...
Hi! I'm Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (aka Jen), The Verge's smart home reviewer. I just spent the last we...
Japan’s most popular beer is running low after cyb...
Japan is facing a potential shortage of Asahi beer after a cyberattack against the beverage maker fo...
Apple pulls ICEBlock app from the App Store
Apple has removed the “Waze but for ICE sightings” app ICEBlock from its App Store, as reported prev...
NBCUniversal’s new YouTube TV deal covers YouTube,...
On Thursday afternoon, after agreeing to a short extension while they continued negotiations, NBCUni...
Redbox’s next product may be piracy lawsuits
There's a new twist in the long and winding saga of Redbox's demise: Assets originally belonging to ...
Here’s how to get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at the o...
Microsoft recently announced price hikes for some tiers of Xbox Game Pass, including Ultimate and PC...
Shein is opening its first physical stores
Shein has announced plans to open its first physical locations in France this November, even as the ...
Ring’s new Search Party feature is on by default; ...
This week, Ring, an Amazon-owned smart security company, announced Search Party, a new feature to he...
Google is destroying independent websites, and one...
To WikiHow, Google is both tormentor and savior. And on Wednesday, as the search giant mounted its d...
Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringemen...
Strava is suing its long-time partner Garmin, and is seeking to permanently block the company from s...
It’s your last chance to snag the Xbox Series S an...
Sadly, the prices of the Xbox Series X and Series S are set to rise in the U.S. starting tomorrow, O...
Amazon now lets Prime members add items to complet...
Amazon has announced a new shopping feature for US Prime members called Add to Delivery that lets yo...
Elon Musk is leading a pressure campaign to make N...
Elon Musk says he canceled his Netflix subscription and is telling others to do the same over the pr...
Threads adds communities to help you find your peo...
Threads is testing a new feature called communities, which will serve as dedicated spaces where you ...
Perplexity’s Comet browser is now available to eve...
After launching to subscribers willing to fork out hundreds of dollars a month this summer, Perplexi...
The smart glasses race is really on now
Last month, I had a conversation with someone wearing glasses — and couldn’t see that they had a dis...
Welcome to the Xbox $360 era
When Microsoft first revealed that it would be giving day-one Game Pass releases to all of its own X...
Amazon’s Vega OS launch trick: cloud-streamed apps...
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and enter...
Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
The Trump administration declared war on the "terrorist organization" of "antifa" and the supposed "...
Amazon halts drone deliveries in Arizona after a p...
Amazon has paused drone deliveries in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area after a pair of its MK30 dr...
The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents
Hey there, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursd...
Ghost of Yōtei can be chill or brutal with its new...
The Ghost games aim to make you feel like you're playing a classic samurai movie. To make the connec...
Tesla finally had a good sales quarter — it may be...
Tesla’s quarterly sales increased for the first time this year, as consumers rushed to cash in on ex...
