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Google is rolling out a fix for Chromecast device issues that left many users with untrusted device" errors that disabled casting. The issue, which appeared over the weekend, seemed to widely affect Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices. Google has not said what caused the errors, but a user on Reddit claimed it could [...]

Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad. In an update rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, you'll be able to summarize information in Notepad by highlighting a chunk of text, right-clicking it, and selecting Summarize. Notepad will then generate a summary of the text, as well as provide an option [...]

America's favorite low poly electric truck is facing a new set of problems that don't have anything to do with people spray painting swastikas or crude comments about Elon Musk on them. Deliveries of the Tesla Cybertruck are on hold while the company addresses issues with reports that the trim is becoming detached and flying [...]

It's been more than two years since Elon Musk officially took over as the owner of Twitter - now X - and while a lot of platforms rushed in to try and be the next big microblogging service, many haven't survived. Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky have all proven to be viable alternatives, but places like [...]

Flatiron Books, the publisher of a new book by an ex-Meta staffer alleging misconduct and harassment at the company, says in a statement that a recent arbitration order demanding that the book no longer be published has no impact" on Macmillan. The ruling instructs Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of [...]

On Tuesday morning, some PC gamers woke up to discover their computers were seemingly under threat. A aHackToola called WinRing0 had suddenly started triggering a Windows Defender alert, as if their PCs were under attack. Some of those computers even began behaving oddly aaa like blasting their fans at high speed a once the HackTool [...]

NBC will continue airing the Olympics in the US for the foreseeable future. Its parent company, Comcast, just announced a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that will keep the games on NBC's platforms, including Peacock, through 2036. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, NBC's previous agreement with the IOC gave it the rights [...]

Mercedes-Benz's electric vehicles aren't exactly selling like hotcakes. The EQS, EQE, and EQB have largely flopped, forcing the company to make significant changes to its electrification plans. While the automaker has scaled back its ambitions, it's not abandoning them altogether. As Mercedes-Benz Group CEO Ola Kallenius said during the company's Tech Day in Stuttgart, Germany, [...]

Android phones will soon support Auracast with Bluetooth LE hearing aids, letting people tune in to audio broadcasts in places where it's otherwise hard to hear. Auracast is a Bluetooth Audio LE feature, and it allows one broadcaster to connect to a virtually unlimited number of Bluetooth LE devices. Among other things, the technology can [...]

The first trailer for the next season of Black Mirror is full of the kinds of topics you'd expect from the anthology: AI, virtual worlds, video games, and lots of futuristic gadgets. All with a dark twist, of course. Season 7 will feature six episodes - series creator Charlie Brooker says that two of them [...]

For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising an affordable electric vehicle, likely priced at $25,000, as a way to broaden the appeal of plug-in vehicles. He first mentioned it in a 2018 interview with YouTuber Marques Brownlee, saying a $25,000 car, that's something we can do." Then in 2020, at the company's first [...]

The Trump administration launched a massive deregulation spree that could gut environmental and health protections in the US, moves that are sure to face immediate legal and logistical challenges. Wednesday was the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen," Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin said in a press release. The proposed changes include [...]

There are a lot of simulator" games out there that gamify everything from driving your own big rig to running your own Japanese convenience store. Some of them hit, like the one about being a goat which is on its third iteration. And some of them hit like PowerWash Simulator which is getting a sequel [...]

Lexus is updating its RZ electric vehicle lineup and introducing new versions that include a simulated manual gearbox and a steer-by-wire system. The top-of-the-line 550e F Sport includes a Interactive Manual Drive" system that gives the driver the feeling of shifting like a manual gas car by synchronizing acceleration and deceleration with immersive sound." It [...]

Today Sony is announcing the development of a new type of TV display that uses individual RGB LEDs for its backlighting. While Sony currently sells high-end Mini LED TVs alongside OLED models, this new system could combine many of the best qualities of both, and I recently got to see it in action at the [...]

With so many AI companies launching chatbots, Google is leveraging its biggest competitive advantage to make Gemini stand out: Search. With personalization enabled, Gemini can now automatically analyze your query to see if referring to your Search history can enhance" its response. The feature is powered by the Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model, and [...]

Fortnite is coming to Windows devices with Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon chips later this year. Epic Games announced today that it's teaming up with Qualcomm to add Windows on Snapdragon support for Easy Anti-Cheat, which will let the game be compatible with those devices. Over the last year, the introduction of Windows 11 Arm-based laptops has [...]

If you're looking to catch up on Andor before the second season's April 22nd debut on Disney Plus, there's a solid deal on both Disney Plus and Hulu. Now through March 30th, you can get the ad-supported Disney Plus, Hulu Bundle Basic plan for $2.99 per month for the first four months. Usually this bundle [...]

Ahead of the Game Developers Conference next week, Google is announcing that all mobile Android games will be available by default on Google Play Games on PC unless a developer opts out. The change could significantly boost the number of games on the platform, as previously, developers had to opt in. Google Play Games on [...]

Sigmaas new $2,000 camera is missing so many features that you might not take the product seriously. The Sigma BF has no tilt or flip-out screen, hot shoe or cold shoe, any type of viewfinder, mechanical shutter, 4K 60, microphone port, or in-body stabilization. There isnat even a link to connect your shoulder strap. The [...]

On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Verge policy editor Adi Robertson about the Take It Down Act, which is part of a long line of bills that would make it illegal to distribute non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. That's a broad term that encompasses what people used to call revenge porn, but which [...]

Meta will begin testing its X-style Community Notes starting March 18th. The feature will roll out on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US - but Meta won't publicly publish the notes to start as it tests the Community Notes writing and rating system. Meta first announced plans to replace its fact-checking program with Community [...]

A new third-party app store is launching for iPhone users in the European Union that describes itself as being built specifically for mobile gamers." Skich is the latest in a short list of alternative app marketplaces to take advantage of Apple's App Store restrictions being loosened by the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), including AltStore [...]

In a TikTok video from CNN that has been viewed more than 3 million times since late February, the voice of a voter in Roswell, Georgia, pierces through a town hall event held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA). Tyranny is rising in the White House, and a man has declared himself our king," the woman [...]

WhatsApp is working on a feature that will group replies to specific messages into a thread, making it easier to keep track of conversations. Instead of scrolling through chats to see scattered individual replies, the feature will create a dedicated view showing every quoted message connecting back to the original message that started the thread, [...]

The United Kingdom's mobile browser market is not working well for consumers and businesses" according to a final report from Britain's competition watchdog, which says that Apple and Google are largely to blame. An independent inquiry group has concluded its mobile browsers investigation for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), identifying Apple's policies around iOS, [...]

Editoras note: Ahead of Microsoftas 50thas anniversary, weave fixed the layout on this story a which we originally published in 2012 when Windows 8 launched. Nowas a good time to revisit our look at an operating system that helped shape personal computing over the years. Two years ago today, when Windows 1.0 celebrated its 25th [...]

Spectre Divide, a Valorant-like free-to-play shooter where you control two bodies, is shutting down just months after its September launch. We were optimistic about the first week," developer Mountaintop Studios says in a post. We've had ~400,000 players play, with a peak concurrent player count of ~10,000 across all platforms. But as time has gone [...]

An arbitrator has decided in favor of Meta in a case the company brought against Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Meta employee who wrote a memoir published this week detailing alleged claims of misconduct at the company. Macmillan Publishers and its imprint that published the memoir, Flatiron Books, were also named as respondents. The memoir, titled [...]

The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it's time to upgrade, there's a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here's [...]

Meta has spent more than a year advocating for new laws requiring app stores to give parents control over kids' app downloads, and just saw an early victory in the states. But Google charges that it's really just a misguided effort to offload" Meta's own responsibility to keep kids safe. The missive follows the passage [...]

Sure enough, AMD's exciting Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT graphic card prices, quoted at $550/$600, are looking too good to be true. Newegg, Overclockers UK, and even Micro Center are among the outlets that have now quietly raised the prices on the supposedly entry-level MSRP models of these graphics cards by $50-$130. Last Thursday, AMD [...]

Amtrak is revamping its mobile app to include more helpful features like making it easier to look up schedule changes and track your train's progression from station to station. The changes come as Amtrak campaigns to attract customers and encourage them to travel by train instead of cars and planes. Amtrak's app already helped riders [...]

Intel has appointed a new CEO, three months after former CEO Pat Gelsinger was pushed out of the company. The company's new chief executive is Lip-Bu Tan, who served as CEO of chip design hardware and services company Cadence from 2009 to 2021 and as a member of Intel's board of directors from 2022 to [...]

Three days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the White House confirmed the recent Columbia graduate hadnat been charged with a crime. Instead, Khalilas arrest had been personally ordered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. aThe secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or visa for individuals [...]

In a first for the US, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal last year, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. Coal fell to a historic low, generating 15 percent of the country's electricity compared to 17 percent from solar and wind combined. The federal government is now taking a [...]

Attorneys at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked a federal judge Wednesday to delay its consumer protection trial against Amazon by two months, saying that staffing losses and a possible office move could hinder its ability to prepare. We have lost employees in the agency, in our division and on our case team," FTC attorney [...]

Snapchat Platinum subscribers will now be able to use video lenses featuring AI generated animals or flowers, Snap announced today. There will initially be three of the lenses, which Snap calls AI Video Lenses." The fox lens, for example, can have a fox snuggle on your shoulder, while the raccoon one can have raccoons scamper [...]

A federal judge seems likely to temporarily block the Trump administration from dismantling a major consumer protection agency, fearing a delay could leave nothing for the court to save. This week, DC District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson sat through what she called an illuminating two days" of witness testimony on the future of the [...]

Taking a page from Costco's playbook, Samsung has announced a new Buzzer Beater Bundle that includes eight TVs sold together at a significant discount, as spotted by SamMobile. The bundle is aimed at college football fans looking to maximize their March Madness intake given the tournament's busy schedule and overlapping games. The bundle includes a [...]

Sonos is abandoning far-along plans to release a streaming video player this year, The Verge has learned. The news was announced by the companyas leadership during an all-hands call today. That product, codenamed Pinewood, was set to be Sonosa next major hardware launch. It was already deep into development and has spent months in beta [...]

Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr is asking the public to help him identify unnecessary" regulations created by the agency so that he can eliminate them. Carr announced In re: Delete, Delete, Delete" on Wednesday, in response to President Donald Trump's executive orders seeking to remove regulations across the government. One order that the FCC [...]

On February 11th, as thousands of civil servants wondered whether they'd have a job - or whether their federal agencies would exist at all, as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk took a wrecking ball to the federal government - McLaurine Pinover had other things on her mind. Pinover, a political appointee of the Trump [...]

Moft has announced a new folio-style cover case for iPads that could improve the tablet's ergonomics for anyone working with the Apple Pencil or simply watching videos. The Moft Dynamic Folio uses an origami approach to transform into a stand that can elevate the tablet by up to three inches, while other configurations let you [...]

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer warned in November that the mythical Xbox handheld is a few years away and only at the prototype stage right now. But if you read the headlines this week, you might think itas actually arriving later this year. A new report from Windows Central claims that aXbox's new hardware plans [...]

Poker Face's first season was one of the best arguments to sign up for a Peacock subscription, and the show's upcoming second season looks like it's going to be even more of a blast. Poker Face season 2 brings Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne) back for another round of Columbo-esque murder mystery solving, and a new [...]

Google is emailing Chromecast users today to apologize for an issue that's been causing certain Chromecast models to fail when people try to cast to them. The company says that it's working on a fix. Below is the text from the email, which some Verge staffers received, titled, Important information about your Chromecast." We're contacting [...]

The Discovery Plus app is getting a much-needed upgrade. On Wednesday, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it's finally migrating the service to the same technology used by its flagship streaming service Max, which should offer improved app and video performance. The company says Discovery Plus will have a more refined" homepage and navigation, along with [...]

Brighter days and warmer weather indicate spring and summer are around the corner, meaning now is the time to start prepping for vacation. Investing in a Bluetooth tracker is one way to do so, as it helps you keep tabs on your luggage and various checked bags while you travel. Thankfully, the 2024 Tile Pro [...]