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Whether you're wearing them for the morning commute, while traveling, or if you're simply trying to find some peace and quiet while working at home, noise-canceling headphones are a more essential piece of kit nowadays than ever before. And you've got a slew of great options to pick from; it's hard to make a bad [...]

Following the recent retirement of former COO Jeff Williams, AI chief John Giannandrea stepping down, and the departure of head of design Alan Dye for Meta, Apple announced Thursday that environmental and policy lead Lisa Jackson is retiring and that Jennifer Newstead will replace Kate Adams as the company's general counsel after Adams retires late [...]

One of the biggest surprises of Cyber Monday was the terrific discount we saw on the Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, which dropped in price by $50. We expected the price to return to normal once the shopping holiday ended, but to our surprise, it's still going strong two days later. Several major [...]

It has been months since a group of Trump administration officials put together a Signal group chat to discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now the Pentagon's inspector general has released its report on the mess. The results of Steven Stebbins' eight-month-long investigation found [...]

Tiny kei trucks from Japan have a new fan: President Donald Trump. Trump expressed admiration for the pint-sized autos during a briefing with reporters to announce his plan to gut fuel economy standards. They're very small.They're really cute," Trump said. And I said, how would that do in this country?And everyone seems to think, good, [...]

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is finally out after a long and difficult development - and despite some bright spots, the game really shows its age. Nintendo has a long and celebrated history of doing things its own way. During the original Switch era, going back to Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, Nintendo has focused on [...]

School districts are paying extra for basic supplies thanks to unpredictable dynamic pricing on Amazon, which is costing them on average 17 percent more, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). As reported earlier by The Guardian, unlike the contracts schools and local governments would traditionally make with local suppliers, who [...]

The Trump administration has ordered US consulates to consider rejecting H-1B visa applicants involved in content moderation or censorship," according to a report from Reuters. A State Department cable viewed by the outlet says officials should check an applicant's resume or LinkedIn profile for a job history involving moderation, fact-checking, online safety, compliance, and misinformation. [...]

Microsoft has been publishing data about the gender, race, and ethnic breakdown of its employees for more than a decade. Since 2019 it's been publishing a full diversity and inclusion report annually, and at the same time made reporting on diversity a requirement for employee performance reviews. Now it's scrapping its diversity report and dropping [...]

I'm starting to understand where Google's visual AI model gets its name, because after playing around with it for a couple of days, that's how I'd sum it up: bananas. The images it generates are so realistic it's bananas. I feel like I'm going bananas after staring at them for too long. And if I [...]

It sounds weird to say it's a good thing if you missed the Ray-Ban Meta deal on Black Friday, but... it's kind of true. Theoriginal Ray-Ban Meta smart glassesjust fell to an even better all-time low of $224.25 ($75) atAmazonandBest Buy, which beats the Black Friday price by $15. That's a great deal because, even [...]

After over 30 years, Amazon may be cutting ties with the United States Postal Service as it looks to expand its own delivery network, as reported by The Washington Post. The outlet, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, cites anonymous sources who said negotiations between Amazon and Trump-appointed USPS Postmaster General David Steiner have reportedly [...]

Amazon has finally given a release date for its new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe: They'll be available to purchase starting on December 10th, Amazon spokesperson Rachel Erickson tells The Verge. They'll cost the same as what Amazon announced back in September: $629.99 for the Colorsoft and $499.99 for the Scribe, which includes a [...]

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Get ready for a lot more video content on Spotify. Sometime later this month, the service will start incorporating music videos into its app, and give US-based subscribers the ability [...]

It turns out my parents were wrong. Saying "please" doesn't get you what you want-poetry does. At least, it does if you're talking to an AI chatbot. That's according to a new study from Italy's Icaro Lab, an AI evaluation and safety initiative from researchers at Rome's Sapienza University and AI company DexAI. The findings [...]

OnePlus has launched its delayed US preorders for the flagship OnePlus 15, almost a month after the phone was revealed. The company has been able to start taking orders after receiving FCC clearance for the device -initially held back because of the government shutdown. The OnePlus 15 starts from $899.99 for 12GB of RAM and [...]

Elevation Lab has announced a smaller version of its TimeCapsule battery-boosting case for the Apple AirTag. It's about half the size of the original and uses a pair of smaller AAA batteries instead of AAs so the AirTag's battery life is extended to five years instead of 10. It's available now through the company's website [...]

The Apple Watch SE 3 was one of the best smartwatches we tested in 2025, and you can still pick up the 40mm GPS model for its Cyber Monday price of $199 ($50 off) at Amazon and Walmart. The 44mm GPS model is also matching its all-time low of $229.99 ($50 off) at Amazon and [...]

Meta may slash its budget for metaverse projects by up to 30 percent next year, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources tell the outlet the potential cuts haven't been finalized, but they would impact the unit that works on Meta's Quest virtual reality headsets, along with its social platform Horizon Worlds. Meta, which changed [...]

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and - thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains - rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, these floor-sweeping bots have gone from utilitarian devices to full-fledged home robots that vacuum and mop your home, clean themselves, and [...]

Proton has added a new privacy-focused spreadsheet app to its productivity suite to tempt users over from Google and Microsoft's platforms. The new Proton Sheets tool provides real-time collaboration features and end-to-end encryption, according to Proton's announcement, ensuring that no one else, not even Proton, can access your spreadsheet and the information it contains." A [...]

I'm convinced that whoever said it's about the journey, not the destination, has never traveled. Try sitting on a plane for 16 hours - plus delays, airport security, and a snoring seat neighbor - and then get back to me. While getting from point A to point B can feel like a test of endurance, [...]

Today, I'm talking with Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some of the people responsible for studying AI and deciding in what ways it might... well, ruin the world. Those folks work at Anthropic as part of a group called the societal impacts team, which Hayden just spent time with for a profile she [...]

Russia is restricting access to Roblox after the country's communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused it of promoting extremism and LGBT propaganda," according to reports from Reuters and Meduza. As reported by Meduza, Russian lawmakers began raising concerns about Roblox days after The Guardian published a report about the platform last month, detailing how the author was [...]

Nvidia launched its first RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this year without support for PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and more. Now, Nvidia is bringing back PhysX support for the RTX 50-series GPUs for top-played games like Borderlands 2, Mirror's Edge, and Batman: Arkham City. [...]

It's about to be week 14 of the NFL season, and stakes and storylines abound across the league. In a new section of the Yahoo Sports app, Yahoo is hoping it can use AI to capture them all automatically. The company is launching a new feature called Game Breakdowns, which attempt to generate a snapshot [...]

The European Union has launched a formal investigation into Meta over antitrust concerns with AI restrictions in WhatsApp. The probe aims to prevent any possible irreparable harm to competition in the AI space" according to the EU, and follows Meta announcing changes to WhatsApp's terms for businesses in October that will prohibit companies from using [...]

When songwriter Patrick Irwin moved to Nashville last year, he was entering a lottery. Each day hundreds of sessions take place where writers create a song demo to pitch to a publisher. Publishers then share those songs with labels and managers, who may share those songs with the artists. Even if a major country star [...]

iPhone 17 Pro users have fewer ways to take photographs in low-light conditions compared to those using older iPhone models. Specifically, the option to select Night mode when taking snaps in Portrait mode - which gives the camera app an artsy depth-of-field effect - isn't supported on iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max devices, per [...]

With DJI facing an imminent import ban in the US and its flagship drones disappearing from shelves, the new Antigravity A1 didn't need to be a groundbreaking gadget to make headlines. It just needed to be a competent alternative that you can actually buy in the United States. In August, the Chinese brand couldn't promise [...]

BMW has been peppering us with teasers and bits and pieces about its next-gen EV platform, Neue Klasse, for so long - fully two years now - that I confess I've become a bit numb to the hype. I'd seen the dashboard-filling displays, talked to engineers endlessly about the completely retooled active safety suite, and [...]

It's getting harder and harder for the Hubble and other telescopes orbiting Earth to capture pristine images thanks to the sudden surge in satellite launches. Satellite trails could mess up nearly 40 percent of images the Hubble takes and up to 96 percent of those taken by three other telescopes over the next decade, according [...]

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Dario Amodei took the stage at the DealBook Summit on Wednesday to throw punches without naming names. The Anthropic CEO spent a good chunk of the interview with Andrew [...]

Reddit is moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with better, more relevant and personalized feeds," according to CEO Steve Huffman (aka Spez). Huffman also notes that r/popular sucks." For a long while, we were known as the front page of the internet,' but we've outgrown a [...]

President Donald Trump announced a new plan that lets carmakers pollute more by making less fuel efficient vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said today that it'll roll back fuel economy rules finalized last year by the Biden administration for model year 2022-2031 vehicles. The Trump administration has eliminated incentives for EV purchases, [...]

Alan Dye, who has led Apple's UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design officer, Bloomberg reports. He'll join Meta on December 31st, and Meta is opening a design studio and giving Dye oversight of design for hardware, software and AI integration for its interfaces," according to Bloomberg. Dye [...]

REI took a hike during Black Friday, but the retailer is back with a full week of deals. Now through December 8th, REI is hosting a Cyber Week sale that offers big discounts on gadgets and gear designed for the outdoors. If you're planning to hit the slopes this winter, now's a good time to [...]

MLB The Show is coming to iOS and Android. Sony has revealed MLB The Show Mobile, which it says is a new standalone experience built from the ground up to deliver realistic baseball gameplay on mobile devices." The game is live now only in the Philippines (here's a Google Play link for the game), and [...]

Woojer is best known for its vibrating vests and belt straps that let you feel the sounds from games, movies, and music. Now the company has taken that same haptic technology and incorporated it into a new mattress topper called the Woojer Mat that will let you feel those same vibrations across your entire body [...]

Micron is retiring the Crucial brand, marking the end of its line of budget-friendly solid-state drives (SSDs) and RAM kits, as reported earlier by VideoCardz. In an announcement on Wednesday, Micron says winding down its consumer-focused business will improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments" - a.k.a. AI companies. The [...]

Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how well you've recovered from a hard bout of training. Even flagship smartwatches, which used to be lackluster trackers, have become pretty adept workout companions. Whatever your fitness [...]

Smartwatches have become health gadgets. Over the last five years or so, Apple, Garmin, Google, Samsung, and practically every other company wanting to strap their wares to your wrist have emphasized exercise integrations, sleep tracking, hypertension monitoring, and more. The most expensive among these devices are also satellite communicators, because now that you have a [...]

Elon Musk envisions Grokipedia - xAI's AI-generated, anti-woke spin on Wikipedia - as a definitive monument to human knowledge, something complete and truthful enough to etch in stone and preserve in space. In reality, it's a hot mess, and it's only getting worse now that anyone can suggest edits. Grokipedia was not always editable. When [...]

Spotify may have popularized the Wrapped user recap trend, but more companies are jumping on that bandwagon every year. From rival music streaming providers like Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and Deezer, to completely unrelated services across tech, gaming, and other industries, a huge range of companies are using fun visuals, stats, and personalization features to show [...]

Resideo's newest thermostat looks like a compelling alternative to Nest or Ecobee if you're looking for a premium smart thermostat. TheHoneywell Home X8S is compatible with Matter, supports room sensors, and features a sleek 5-inch touchscreen that works as an intercom for Ring and First Alert video doorbells. The $219.99 thermostat launches this week, and [...]

Horses, a first-person narrative horror game, was banned from the Epic Games Store just hours before it was set to launch on December 2nd. Then, a day after launch, the Humble store banned it as well. The decision shocked the developers at Santa Ragione, makers of the critically respected Saturnalia, as these storefronts were the [...]

All I wanted was a pair of New Balances. I was done trusting stylish influencers who swore Vans, Converse, and Allbirds were up to the challenge of walking 20,000 steps day in and day out. They are not. Fall is the season of holiday sales, so there's no better time to shop... if you're immune [...]

Last year, the House of Representatives was the place where a leading kids online safety bill came to die. On Tuesday, a powerful House committee positioned itself as the place where that bill could be resurrected... along with 18 other proposals. During a three-hour hearing, an Energy and Commerce subcommittee discussed 19 bills recently packaged [...]

Billionaire Elon Musk - who's long used his X (formerly Twitter) platform to stoke anger at immigrants and support antisemitic conspiracy theories -has spent the past day spreading and praising claims that White people are on the verge of extinction," Somali immigrants have no right to be in America," and nonprofits who support them are [...]