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Disney has had a tumultuous run since Bob Iger's return as the company's CEO, which came just two years after he handed the reins over to Bob Chapek. Iger has since worked to undo some of Chapek's changes as the company contends with a streaming-focused future. Iger has big plans for the future of Disney [...]

When Nvidia originally confirmed that some of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards had a rare" manufacturing issue that left them missing some promised render units and a slight amount of performance as a result, it only named three affected cards: the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti. But now, Nvidia has confirmed [...]

After months of preparation, Epic Games will finally take on Apple in court in a trial that could fundamentally change the makeup of the App Store. The fight dates back to August, when Epic added a direct payment mechanism to its hit battle royale game Fortnite in violation of Apple's rules. The iPhone maker quickly [...]

Ongoing scarcity has made it challenging to purchase Nintendoas adorable Alarmo since its soft launch last year, but it appears those days are behind us. The $99.99 alarm clock is now readily available from third-party retailers in the US, starting with Best Buy. You can also buy it directly from Nintendo without a subscription, with [...]

We're nearing the deadline that Elon Musk imposed for government workers to reply to a mass email about productivity, and the results have been predictably confusing - with even a direct statement from President Donald Trump failing to clear things up. Government agencies have taken significantly different tacks toward the Musk-promoted email, which he announced [...]

A pivotal trial over the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline opens today that could have grave consequences for protests in the US and the future of the environmental group Greenpeace. Members of theAStanding Rock Sioux and more than 500 other tribes protested the development of the pipeline alongside demonstrators who joined from across the US nearly [...]

SpaceX believes it knows what caused the explosion during the seventh test flight of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster on January 16th, 2025. Fires in the aft section of Starship, located between the bottom of its liquid oxygen tank and rear heat shield, caused all but one of Starship's engines to execute controlled [...]

Verizon and AT&T have each announced milestones in making cellphone-to-satellite video calls in partnership with satellite company AST SpaceMobile. Verizon has completed its first cellphone-to-satellite video call, while AT&T has completed its first using satellites that will be used as part of a commercial network. There's lining up competition to T-Mobile's arrangement with SpaceX and [...]

Amazon is holding a press event this week, where we expect it to finally launch its new" Alexa. This could be the beginning of a major shift in how we use generative AI in our homes, or it could be a big disappointment. The latter seems likely, based on the delays and persistent rumors that [...]

Annapurna Interactive is hosting its first showcase of the year, and it's an important one. Last year, Annapurna Interactive's entire staff resigned en masse after negotiations to spin offthe respected indie game publisher into its own independent entity broke down. Since then, those employees have formed their own company and even have a new crop [...]

Google has announced new searchable transcripts for videos you store in Google Drive. The feature is rolling out to all Google Workspace users, starting today and finishing by March 26th. The transcripts look a lot like those you'd see on YouTube. If one is available, it'll appear in a sidebar next to the video as [...]

President Donald Trump announced Sunday night he has named conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as the FBI's new deputy director. Bongino has worked as a New York police officer and US Secret Service agent, but has no FBI experience. Bongino is well-known in conservative media, thanks to credits like having hosted a Fox News show and [...]

Legendary Apple artist Susan Kare has released 32 new retro-inspired icons that are designed to live outside of your computer screen. Instead, the Esc Keys" collection Kare created in collaboration with Asprey Studio consists of mechanical keyboard keycaps and wearable pendants, each featuring an 8-bit pixel art illustration like a dog, a plant, mail, and [...]

We are living through what can charitably be called interesting times, and one of the questions that many people are asking is: aWhat can I do?a One answer to that question a no matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on a is to contact your federal or local representatives and let them [...]

In my first few hours with Monster Hunter Wilds, I fought against a gigantic spider in waters that were as red as blood and dodged the onslaught of a twisting dragon amid a desert storm, complete with powerful strikes of lightning terrorizing the ground around me. I went up against sandworms and giant apes and [...]

Your phone comes with a number of useful features that we hope youall never have to use a and crash detection falls into that category. Movement sensors detect when you're driving a and when you come to a sudden and abrupt stop. Your phone or watch can then alert emergency services, along with family and [...]

First, letas lay out the facts. Four commercial jet crashes have occurred in the last 10 weeks: Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on Christmas Day; Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 on December 29th; American Airlines Flight 5342 on January 29th; and Delta Connection Flight 4819 on February 17th. There have been several private airplane crashes in the [...]

Apple is several months away from launching the iPhone 17 series but a significant camera redesign may be on the horizon. Leaker Majin Bu has shared CAD renders of what are purported to be the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and the rumored iPhone 17 Air - with the latter three all featuring [...]

Apple has announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years, including hiring 20,000 new employees and launching a new server factory in Texas. The announcement was teased after a meeting last week between CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump, and comes as the company tries to [...]

Apple has released iOS 18 - plus iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and other new updates - bringing several key updates to how the company's devices operate and setting the stage for generative AI features. The most discussed feature of iOS 18 is the Apple Intelligence suite. With the release of iOS 18.2 on [...]

Grok, Elon Musk's ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation," according to xAI's head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed an unnamed, ex-OpenAI employee at xAI for updating Grok's system [...]

On Friday, the Space Force published a picture taken last year from a camera mounted on the secretive X-37B space plane while high above the Earth. Space.com notes that the one other glimpse" of the plane in space was while it was deploying from Falcon Heavy's upper stage" during its December 2023 launch. The Space [...]

Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email requesting to understand what they got done last week." According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for [...]

Hades II just received its second major update as part of its early access development, which was a great excuse for me to jump back in. Since its initial release, Iave logged more than 30 hours and actually held myself back from playing much more a I donat want to get tired of the game [...]

Apple is readying its MacBook Air line for an update to M4 chips in March, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in today's Power On newsletter. With the slim laptops' spec bump, the MacBook line's M4 transition will be complete. Gurman didn't provide timing beyond that the laptops are coming next month, but as usual before [...]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 72, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youare new here, welcome, hope you like gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Iave been reading about Hasan Piker and calculator apps and car thieves and [...]

Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.4 yesterday, which users have since discovered contains support for robot vacuums in the Apple Home appthroughMatter. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Smart Home Centre confirmed the functionality using a Switchbot S10, which offers its own beta support for Matter. (Switchbot first added Matter robot vacuum support last [...]

There are so many people here that nobody can tell where the end of the line is. New people arrive, ask if thereas a line, shuffle into a blob of bodies idling and waiting for someone to give them instructions. The hallway is horribly warm a unclear if itas from the bodies or the heat [...]

Iam hard-pressed to find another example of a tech company announcing something and then waiting over four years to actually ship it, but thatas exactly the situation weave reached with Spotify and its long-delayed HiFi feature. The latest reports indicate itas finally coming in a matter of months as part of a Music Pro package [...]

AT&T has introduced SplitPay, a new payment option that lets those sharing a phone plan with others split their payment line-by-line, so no one person has to pay the entire bill. The company says the program is available for select postpaid wireless plans," and that those using SplitPay can still get multi-line discounts. It sounds [...]

If you were paying attention to CES this year, you may have come across the Asus Adol 14 Air Fragrance Edition's curious gimmick: a magnetically-attached oil diffuser in the lid that emits the aroma of essential oils once the laptop heats up. Asus has now announced details about a Fragrance Mouse" to go with it. [...]

The fuzz of the cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor, alongside static grains and flickering scanlines, is a touchstone for a90s-era nostalgia. Itas shorthand for those halcyon days when technology was predominantly analog and millennial kids spent their summers shoving bulky tapes into VHS players, recording favorite bits of their after-school television shows, and making their own [...]

The Lenovo Legion Go S was supposed to change things. It was poised to show Valve isnat the only one that can build an affordable, portable, potent handheld gaming PC a you just need the right design and the right OS. I was intrigued when Valveas own Steam Deck designers told me this Windows handheld [...]

Die in the Dungeon is a new roguelike deckbuilder that pulls some ideas from Slay the Spire, one of my favorite games, but adds some dice-based twists that have me hooked. In Dungeon, your goal is to survive through progressively harder maps of enemies by building a deck a but instead of collecting cards, youare [...]

It's true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported - and that you'll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected. Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge: [...]

Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours. Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday's outage, Reddit wouldn't load at all - I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loaded, though it seemed to [...]

Elon Musk's OpenAI rival, xAI, says it's investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that [...]

The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down all of its electric vehicle chargers nationwide, describing them as not mission critical." The agency, which manages contracts for the government's vehicle fleets, is also looking to offload newly purchased EVs. The GSA currently operates several hundred [...]

Letas pause and look at what the Elon Musk administration has done so far. Thereas been a lot of panic about the immediate but somewhat abstract constitutional crisis as Elon Muskas misleadingly-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rips the government apart. And as much fun as we all are having watching Congress render itself irrelevant [...]

Apple just released its first developer betas of a new round of software updates, and early testers have spotted support for Priority Notifications in the iOS 18.4 preview. It's an Apple Intelligence-powered feature that uses on-device processing to try to detect which updates are especially important and sort them into a separate section above your [...]

Around a dozen current and former federal workers are behind a new website created as an outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about the Department of Government Efficiency's dismantling of government agencies. We the Builders" aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share how their workplaces are being impacted by [...]

Apple is adding a recipes section to its News app that will be available to News Plus subscribers, according to a press release. The new section, Apple News Plus Food, will be available as part of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 when those updates release in April. The section will feature tens of thousands of [...]

It was hard playing a preview of South of Midnight because, 20 minutes in, I just started bawling. The demo for the action-adventure platformer starts at the beginning of chapter three. The protagonist, Hazel, is working her way through a swamp trying to find her mother, who, along with their house, had been washed away [...]

Your phone comes with a number of useful features that we hope youall never have to use a and Crash Detection falls into that category. The idea is that movement sensors can detect when you're driving, and if you come to a sudden and abrupt stop, your phone or watch can then alert emergency services [...]

A week after this story was first published, Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK in response to government demands, calling itself agravely disappointeda with the move. Originally published February 13th. The encryption wars have reached a fever pitch, and the most contentious battle is not happening in the United States, where [...]

Soon, you'll be able to use Apple Intelligence with the Vision Pro. That includes a mix of features we've seen before, as well as a new feature called Create Memory Movie that's exclusive to the headset. Apple has been keen to position the Vision Pro as a unique tool for viewing memories, and that's the [...]

One of the big problems with a VR headset is that anything you want to do, you have to do inside it. Apple is looking to tackle that and other Vision Pro pain points with visionOS 2.4, which will offer improvements to the guest user experience and two new apps for finding new things to [...]

Anker is pushing portability limits with the launch of its giant 58-liter Solix EverFrost 2 dual-zone refrigerator / freezer. Itas portable because it has wheels, a handle, and slots for two batteries. But this thing weighs 64 pounds (29kg) empty and quickly reached 120 pounds when I filled my review unit with drinks and food. [...]

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users' [...]

When I received my OnePlus Watch 3 review unit, part of me wondered, What's gonna be wrong with this one?" Now, I know. On the backplate, permanently engraved in stainless steel, is a typo. Instead of reading Made in China," it reads Meda in China." To be fair, this is a minuscule error. I didn't [...]