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TikTok's traffic is almost back to normal despite its delayed return to US app stores, according to Cloudflare Radar data seen by CNBC. The DNS traffic for TikTok-related domains" is around 10 percent lower than the levels before its abrupt shutdown, David Belson, Cloudflare's head of data insight, told CNBC. To compare, TikTok's traffic dipped [...]

Electronics, avocados, vegetables, cars, tractors, crude oil a these are some of the things that could soon get more expensive for US consumers. Under President Donald Trumpas proposed plan, goods coming in from Mexico and Canada will be subject to a 25 percent tariff beginning on February 1st. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has [...]

The DeepSeek story contains multitudes. Itas a story about the stock market, whether thereas an AI bubble, and how important Nvidia has become to so many peopleas financial future. Itas also a story about China, export controls, and American AI dominance. And then, somewhere in there, thereas a story about technology: about how a startup [...]

Behance co-creator Scott Belsky has announced he's leaving his position as Adobe's Chief Strategy Officer to become a partner at independent film production company A24. Belsky initially joined Adobe when it acquired the Behance artist portfolio platform for $150 million in 2012. Following a brief departure in 2016, he rejoined Adobe in 2017 to lead [...]

Looking for a way to speed up your weekly cleaning? It might be worth investing in a robot vacuum that can also mop up your floors, like the Dreame L20 Ultra. The hybrid robot vacuum / mop is one of our favorites, and has currently dropped to an all-time low price of $614.99 ($785 off) [...]

Disney's extraordinarily expensive Star Wars hotel isn't coming back. The building that housed the Galactic Starcruiser is being converted into office space, scuppering hopes that it could be reborn or repurposed into a new interactive attraction. The Wrap reports that the hotel will be converted into an office for Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative arm [...]

Midnight Society, the game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect (real name Herschel Guy" Beahm) has shut down, killing the first-person shooter title it was developing. The studio made significant" layoffs in September after terminating its relationship with the controversial streamer in June due to inappropriate" messages he exchanged with a minor. Within hours of the [...]

Dr Disrespect - aka Herschel Guy" Beahm - was one of Twitch's top streamers until he was suddenly banned in June 2020. Now, we know what happened. As confirmed in a lengthy statement from Beahm himself, he sent private messages on Twitch to a minor that he says sometimes leaned too much in the direction [...]

When the Minimal Phone was first announced this time last year, you might have been forgiven for thinking it was vaporware. But one year - and many delays - later, the world's first Android phone with both an E Ink display and a physical QWERTY keyboard has begun shipping to backers. In broad strokes, the [...]

Nvidia warned of stock shortages earlier this week, and now its launch of the $1,999 RTX 5090 yesterday is being branded a paper launch" after people camped outside retailers only to find a handful of cards available, if any at all. Reddit users have been tracking inventory for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 cards at [...]

Google announced Thursday that the Gemini app is getting its Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model. The upgraded model delivers fast responses and stronger performance across a number of key benchmarks, providing everyday help with tasks like brainstorming, learning or writing," the company said in a post. The change is rolling out to Gemini's web and [...]

Moments after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergas all-hands comments to employees were widely leaked, a company executive warned in an internal memo that leakers will be fired. aWe take leaks seriously and will take action,a Metaas chief information security officer, Guy Rosen, said in an internal memo Iave seen. aWhen information is stolen or leaked, there [...]

Tensions were high inside Meta ahead of Mark Zuckerbergas first all-hands meeting of the year. Employee-submitted questions for the CEO touched on a couple of big themes: concerns about his announcement that alow-performersa would be let go on February 10th, his MAGA-fueled changes to Metaas content moderation policies and DEI programs, and his comment to [...]

Polestar is building one-of-a-kind versions of its EVs that are ready for whatever the winter brings. The company took the long-range, dual motor versions of its newest vehicles, the Polestar 3 SUV and Polestar 4 coupe (with performance packs), and turned them into rally-style vehicles that can rip through snowy terrain. The company is also [...]

After announcing some new experimental features for YouTube Premium subscribers earlier this month - and that multiple experiments can be tested at once - the company has added one it promised was on the way: the ability to watch videos at 4x speed, as reported by Android Police. I'm personally a 1.5x to 2x sicko [...]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed sales figures for the companyas Ray-Ban smart glasses for the first time, telling employees that over 1 million units were sold in 2024. In remarks during an all-hands meeting seen by The Verge, Zuckerberg posed a question to staff about whether sales would go from 1 million to as much [...]

As has become an annual tradition, Apple just reported blockbuster earnings for the company's most recent holiday quarter. Today Apple is reporting our best quarter ever, with revenue of $124.3 billion, up four percent from a year ago," CEO Tim Cook said in a press release. Revenue was up nearly across the board for the [...]

Last quarter, amid turmoil and restructuring, chipmaker Intel announced one of the largest corporate quarterly losses of all time - $16.6 billion, ten times worse than its $1.6B loss the quarter before. But in today's Q4 2024 and full-year earnings release, Intel's not hurting as badly: the company just announced a mere $126 million quarterly [...]

Amazon has raised the price of its Music Unlimited service in the US, Canada, and the UK, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. In an update on its website, Amazon says it's raising the price for Prime members from $9.99 to $10.99 per month (or $99 to $109 / year), while the plan for non-Prime [...]

On an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent a lot of time talking up his companyas plans to ago ballistica on artificial intelligence, and very little time on Teslaas core business, which is making and selling electric cars. There was so little attention paid to Teslaas automotive business, that even a bunch [...]

In 2016, Tesla published a blog that said all EVs it produces have the hardware necessary to achieve Full Self-Driving," meaning owners of those Teslas could look forward to autonomous rides and could eventually send their cars out as money-making robotaxis when not in use. Tesla later deleted that post, and now we can see [...]

Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete practically all the background noise from our audio calls with a free app, and now the company's doing it again. My colleague and Verge senior news editor Richard Lawler just fired up Nvidia's just-announced Studio Voice" feature on his [...]

A year ago, Google started off 2024 with some layoffs. It hasn't taken similar steps (yet) in 2025, but employees are fearing the worst. And if the Platforms and Devices team is anything to go by, there's ample reason for concern. Google has distributed a memo to all US employees working on Android, Pixel hardware, [...]

The Sharge Retractable 65 was announced earlier this month, bringing the world a uniquely designed 65W GaN travel charger featuring an integrated and retractable USB-C Power Delivery 3.0 cable. It's incredibly compact and scratches our geeky itch with a translucent design. If you're looking for something a little different to throw in your pocket or [...]

Forza Horizon 5 is the next Xbox Game Studios title making the jump to PlayStation. The open-world racing game is launching on PS5 this spring and will include the same content as what's available in its Xbox and PC versions, according to a blog post. If you want to play the game online with your [...]

The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) has launched a digital library with more than 30,000 files of industry ephemera" from the VGHF's physical collection. The library, which is launching in early access, includes things like more than 1,500 full-text searchable out-of-print video game magazines, never-before-seen game development assets, artwork, promotional materials, and more gaming relics," [...]

There's no shortage of ways to play classic games. There are subscription services, robust retro collections, and modern hardware designed to play old titles. But even still, large swaths of video game history are disappearing. Researchers say that almost 90 percent of games made before 2010 are critically endangered." But archivists around the world are [...]

DeepSeek has secured a completely open" database that exposed user chat histories, API authentication keys, system logs, and other sensitive information, according to cloud security firm Wiz. The security researchers said they found the Chinese AI startup's publicly accessible database in minutes," with no authentication required. The exposed information was housed within an open-source data [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX is regulated by the agency. Musk publicly [...]

Max is putting you in the driver's seat for NASCAR's upcoming races. The streamer will now let you watch up to four in-car driver cams at once, starting with the Cook Out Clash on Sunday, February 2nd. You can switch between up to 40 different driver cams, with each 1080p feed offering the sounds of [...]

The Chinese startup DeepSeek shook up the world of AI last week after showing its supercheap R1 model could compete directly with OpenAIas o1. While it wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidiaas market value, Microsoft engineers were quietly working at pace to embrace the partially open- source R1 model and get it ready for Azure [...]

At Appleas September 2024 hardware event, the company announced its iPhone 16 lineup, which was abuilt for Apple intelligencea a but Appleas leap into AI has had a soft landing. The phones arrived without Apple Intelligence and, over the course of four months, Apple has been slowly rolling out some of the promised features through [...]

Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts - even detailed ones -isn't protected by current copyright law, according to the US Copyright Office. The department issued this guidance in a broad report on policy issues regarding AI, focused on the copyrightability of various AI outputs. The document concludes that while generative AI may [...]

Microsoft is bringing OpenAI's o1 reasoning model to all Copilot users this week. You won't need to subscribe to a $20 monthly Copilot Pro or ChatGPT Plus plan to get it either, as Microsoft is making it free for all users of Copilot. Think Deeper, as Microsoft calls its integration of o1, works by allowing [...]

On today's episode of Decoder, we're talking about the only thing the AI industry - and pretty much the entire tech world - has been able to talk about for the last week: that is, of course, DeepSeek, and how the open-source AI model built by a Chinese startup has completely upended the conventional wisdom [...]

The rumors are true. Microsoft is launching Intel-powered versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Available on February 18th, both of these new Surface devices are Copilot Plus PCs, but instead of using Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon X series of chips, they'll use Intel's Lunar Lake processors. Microsoft is targeting these models at [...]

While Nvidia's RTX 50-series graphics cards weren't the zaniest devices at CES 2025, they stole the show with their promised groundbreaking performance breakthroughs. The RTX 5070, in particular, made headlines as a card that can supposedly rival an RTX 4090 for just $549. We later learned it uses DLSS 4's AI-powered multi frame generation to [...]

It was a long three-year wait between the first seasons of Squid Game, but luckily, the finale is coming much faster. Netflix announced today that season 3 of Squid Game - which will also be the show's last - will start streaming on June 27th. That's around six months after the long-awaited season 2 premiered [...]

Nvidia is launching its next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs today, but it's also releasing an exciting update for existing RTX GPU owners. A new GPU driver (572.16) allows you to force DLSS 4 inside games or apps that don't currently support it, providing improved image quality and even less VRAM usage in some [...]

Resale platform Poshmark is launching Smart List AI, an automated product listing tool for sellers, the company announced today. The tool has been in beta testing since last fall and uses sellers' photos to generate details like the type of product, the size and brand, the style and color, and other details, as well as [...]

We've got several parents on our staff, and as members of The Verge, they are also into gadgets. Put the two together, and you've got some really interesting stuff that can be used to keep your infant, toddler, or child safe, happy, educated, and / or out of trouble. Here are some of the devices [...]

Mark Zuckerberg is planning some big changes for Facebook in a bid to make using the platform feel like it did back in the day." During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Zuck said that Facebook is an important part of its more than three billion monthly users' lives and that he's working on [...]

LG is adding Google Cast support to its range of hotel TVs, making it easier to stream content from your phone or other devices. Cast joins existing support for Apple Airplay, and LG is the first manufacturer to offer both options on its hotel TVs. If you stay in a hotel room with a compatible [...]

The Authors Guild - one of the largest associations of writers in the US - has launched a new project that allows authors to certify that their book was written by a human, and not generated by artificial intelligence. The Guild says its Human Authored" certification aims to make it easier for writers to distinguish [...]

Vodafone has made what it calls the world's first" satellite video call using a standard smartphone, in a test of a system it says will provide mobile broadband service to 4G and 5G phones without dedicated satellite hardware. The service, using satellites from SpaceX rival AST SpaceMobile, is expected to launch in Europe before the [...]

Nearly everyone seems to be suddenly freaking out about the rise of DeepSeek. Meta isn't worried, though. That was CEO Mark Zuckerberg's message to investors during his company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. During the Q&A portion of the call with Wall Street analysts, Zuckerberg fielded multiple questions about DeepSeek's impressive AI models and what [...]

Kia's electric vehicles will get Tesla Supercharger access sometime in March 2025," the company announced in a statement. Kia EVs, including the EV6 and EV9, were scheduled to get Supercharger access in January using NACS to CCS1 adapters, but that has been delayed. Kia's sister company, Hyundai, is beginning to ship new 2025 model year [...]