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Following months of rumors, Apple has finally announced the iPhone 16E, a spiritual successor to the last-gen iPhone SE that's set to launch on February 28th. Preorders for Apple's forthcoming handsetstart at $599 with 128GB of storage and began Friday, February 21st. Like the most recent iPhone SE models it's replacing, the iPhone 16E offers [...]

Apple has announced an update to the iPhone SE, but this time around, it's called the iPhone 16E. As the rumors predicted, Apple's new budget iPhone model has an updated design with a Face ID-enabled notch, replacing the old model that had a home button and Touch ID interface. Another new element is that this [...]

According to recent observations, the European Space Agencynow says the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting our planet has dropped to just 0.16 percent. That follows an announcement yesterday from NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory saying there was a 0.28 percent chance the asteroid would impact Earth. Earlier this [...]

On Friday morning Coinbase announced that SEC staff have agreed in principle to dismiss its unlawful enforcement case against Coinbase, subject to Commissioner approval." CEO Brian Armstrong called it great news" in a post on X, saying it would be a full dismissal with no fines paid and no business changes while thanking the Trump [...]

Android Auto users are experiencing wireless connectivity issues following its recent updates. As seen by Android Authority, some Reddit users report that attempting to wirelessly connect to vehicles via the Android platform is causing their phones to reboot. Others are finding that wireless connectivity is refusing to work entirely. Google told The Verge that its [...]

On the one hand, Appleas latest iPhone is a huge victory. The iPhone 16E comes with most of what youad want from a smartphone a a modern processor, a good camera, nice design a for hundreds of dollars less than youad typically spend on a brand-new device. On the other hand, itas a bit odd [...]

The Nothing Phone 3A and 3A Pro have leaked in new images and videos that show off the two phones' designs and detail the key specs. So far, the two phones appear to be almost identical, with only two camera changes - and slightly different rear camera designs - to pull them apart. First Android [...]

Almost 18,000 Swagtron electric scooters are being recalled by Walmart due to fire and safety concerns regarding their lithium-ion batteries. There have been seven reports of SG-5 Swagger 5 Boost batteries overheating, smoking, melting or igniting" according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), including a fire that caused burn injuries and substantial property damage" [...]

Fortnite continues to be extremely weird in its new season. The battle royale game is returning to a heist theme for Chapter 6: Season 2, which has been dubbed Lawless." Players will be able to break into bank vaults, rob armored cars, and even perform robberies on the train that services the island. Also, there's [...]

Elon Musk spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, giving a strange and often inarticulate on-stage interview to Newsmax presenter Rob Schmitt. Schmitt was all smiles and enthusiasm, and managed to steer Musk through the half hour, never pausing to look back on the obvious logical inconsistencies, various falsehoods, and mathematical errors [...]

Reddit experienced international outages," NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening, though it appears the outages have resolved. In that post, the organization said that the incident was not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering." There was also a big spike of outage reports on Downdetector, with a peak of [...]

YouTube is about to officially launch a cheaper, premium lite" version of its subscription service in the US, Australia, Germany and Thailand, according to Bloomberg. This new tier will target viewers who primarily want to watch programs other than music videos," Bloomberg says. The publication didn't say what the price might be. YouTube piloted a [...]

Occidental, the oil giant that has tried to fashion itself as a climate tech leader, is being real clear now about capturing carbon dioxide emissions, which it sees as the next big thing for fossil fuel production. That shouldn't be surprising coming from a petroleum company. But Occidental has built up an entire arm of [...]

Rivian announced a significant milestone today, reporting its first positive gross profit" in its fourth quarter earnings for 2024. It was a sign that the struggling company's efforts to slash costs through the gut overhaul of its R1 electric vehicles is starting to yield some positive results. But dark clouds loom ahead, as the company [...]

Adidas's site and app will soon get Buy with Prime" Amazon fulfillment, allowing Prime members to receive free shipping and streamlined returns when ordering directly from the three-stripe brand. Beginning in the spring, paying US-based Amazon Prime subscribers will see Prime-eligible items for sale on adidas.com and through the Adidas app. By logging into their [...]

American Airlines has announced support for Apple's Share Item Location feature, potentially making it easier for passengers to be reunited with lost luggage tracked with an AirTag. The airline transported 226,405,000 passengers around the world last year, making it the busiest and one of the largest carriers in the US. Share Item Location was first [...]

Many members ofThe Verge's staff enjoy cooking - and all enjoy eating. Inspired by that admittedly obvious thought, we asked them to say which kitchen tools they most enjoy using these days. We got a wide and fascinating array of answers. They include gadgets that need to be charged, such as electric kettles, blenders, and [...]

Rumours about the next mainline Avatar series have been circulating ever since Nickelodeon announced that Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were returning to lead Avatar Studios. But now, we finally know a bit more about where the franchise is heading after The Legend of Korra. Today, Nickelodeon announced that the Avatar saga (which began with [...]

Kia revealed the exterior design of the upcoming PV5 electric van, the automaker's first EV to come out under its Platform Before Vehicle" (PBV) brand. With the PV5, Kia has declared its intention to compete with heavy hitters like the Volkswagen ID Buzz, Ford E-Transit, Mercedes eSprinter, and Ram ProMaster EV. There are very few [...]

DJI has announced a new version of the smallest camera stabilizer in its Ronin series. Like last year's RS 3 Mini, the upgraded RS 4 Mini is a more compact, lighter, and cheaper alternative to DJI's RS 4 and RS 4 Pro stabilizers, but designed for smaller mirrorless cameras and smartphones. Although it's slightly heavier [...]

The iPhone 15 Pro will get Visual Intelligence, Apple's Google Lens-like tool that lets you point your phone's camera at things in the world to learn more about them, in a future software update, Apple representatives told John Gruber of Daring Fireball. Visual Intelligence was originally introduced with the initial iPhone 16 lineup in September, [...]

Those little Among Us beans are being transported to a new dimension. Developer Innersloth has announced a new game called Among Us 3D, which is exactly what it sounds like: the hit multiplayer deduction game, but played in a three-dimensional world from a first-person perspective. If that sounds familiar, it's because that's what the VR [...]

In a first for a smart thermostat company, Tado is exploring charging its customers 1 / 1 a month just to control their devices from its app. Multiple users have reported that Tado, manufacturersof smart thermostats, radiator valves, and heat pump controllersfor Europe and the UK, sent a message through their app alerting them to [...]

Amazon is ending Android support for its Appstore this year on August 20th. The retail giant announced the update on an FAQ support page with no explanation for the shutdown, but said its Appstore will still be available on Fire TV and Tablet devices, where it serves as the default app marketplace. Apps downloaded from [...]

One of Apple's next big sci-fi shows has a premiere date. The company announced that its adaptation of Murderbot, based on the novels by Martha Wells, will debut on Apple TV Plus with two episodes on May 16th. The season finale will stream on July 11th. The show will star Alexander Skarsgard in the titular [...]

Microsoft engineers are currently readying server capacity for OpenAIas upcoming GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models, according to a source familiar with the companyas plans. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged recently that GPT-4.5 will launch within a matter of weeks, I understand that Microsoft is expecting to host the new AI model as early as next [...]

Grand Theft Auto V on PC will be getting a bunch of improvements, including upgrades that were previously added to the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S versions of the game, through a free update that will be available on March 4th, Rockstar announced on Thursday. The update will include things like PC-exclusive ray [...]

Appleas goal with the new iPhone 16E seems to be the same as with the iPhone SE: offer a very good, cheap smartphone to entice price-sensitive shoppers to either leave Android or upgrade from a much older iPhone. From what weave seen so far, the company seems to have succeededa but maybe a little too [...]

Aside from an October 2025 release, the teaser Lego and Nintendo released in January for their upcoming Game Boy collaboration was light on details. But according to an Instagram account that Video Games Chronicle says has a reliable track record for sharing accurate details about new sets before Lego does, the brick-built Game Boy will [...]

Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, announced its first hands free, eyes off" partial autonomous driving feature. The company is pitching this new feature, which is called STLA AutoDrive, as for drivers who want to reclaim valuable time" while stuck in stop-and-go traffic. But that said, Stellantis isn't launching the feature quite [...]

Barbara Broccoli's longstanding beef with Amazon is a big part of what kept the e-commerce giant-turned-studio from producing new James Bond movies following its acquisition of MGM in 2021. But now, it seems like both parties have set aside their differences in order to get the ball rolling on 007's next chapter. Today, Amazon MGM, [...]

We all have our favorite stuff. It could be a laptop that you've used for several years or the snazzy new one that just arrived last week. It could be the headphones that deliver your favorite music and podcasts, the controller that helps you win your games, or the app that puts a weird background [...]

Spring is my busy season. Since my kids were old enough to play team sports, the impending arrival of March brings an avalanche of organizational tasks. Practice schedules, game schedules, and snack signups equal so many dates to remember. They arrive in different ways a paper flyers, Excel sheets, text chains, or through yet another [...]

Hello, and welcome to a special episode of Decoder! This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge. Nilay is off this week for a much-deserved break from what I can only describe as a pretty bleak news cycle. So I'm filling in for him, and the Decoder team thought this would be a good opportunity [...]

Scuf just announced its latest pro-style controller for Xbox and PC, the first to come close to the $100 price point. The $99.99 Scuf Valor Pro - available for purchase starting today in 15 different styles - isn't exactly a budget controller in its own right, but context matters. I've tested the delightfully translucent version [...]

Spotify is bringing more AI-narrated audiobooks to its platform via a new partnership with ElevenLabs. On Thursday, the audio streaming giant announced it would begin accepting audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs' AI voice software, saying it recognizes the potential of digital voice-narration to grow and expand the audiobook market." To be clear, AI-recorded audiobooks are already [...]

For the first time since the iPhoneas debut in 2007, Apple no longer sells a smartphone with a home button. The iPhone 16E announced yesterday removes it. The removal was long overdue, having been surpassed by all touchscreen controls many years ago. But while the home buttonas time is over, it leaves behind an important [...]

Today Oppo launched the Find N5, the thinnest book-style foldable phone yet, but there's more to the phone than a slim design: it's capable of connecting to a Mac for file transfers and even remote control. It's not quite the first Android phone to do so, but it is the only one you can buy [...]

Oppoas Find N5 feels like the end game for foldable phones. Not because itas make or break for a segment of the phone market that never quite took off like manufacturers hoped it would, but because I simply donat know where we go from here. Thereas scarcely room to make the phone thinner without ditching [...]

Oppo has launched the Find N5, the thinnest foldable phone in the world. It's launching in markets worldwide, including across Europe and Asia, at $2,499 SGD (about $1,867 USD). That's more expensive than either the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 or Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold in Singapore, though comparable once you adjust for storage. [...]

Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. On Wednesday, the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for highlights and uploads starting on April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit. Twitch [...]

Volvo's next electric vehicle, the ES90 midsized luxury sedan, sounds like its got some serious computing chops. The new EV will come with a dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration, making it the most powerful car Volvo ever created in terms of core computing capacity," the company claims today. The new supercomputer is included as [...]

The Humane AI Pin has collapsed, but Rabbit is still kicking. The company published a blog post and video today showing off a generalist Android agent," slowly controlling apps on a tablet in much the same way that Rabbit claimed its R1 device would over a year ago. (It couldn't, and can't.) The work builds [...]

With artificial intelligence being so prevalent across, well, just about everything these days, it's no small feat for AI developers to make their products stand out among the deluge. Very few have managed to capture as much attention as Rabbit, the AI startup that's managed to sell 40,000 units of its standalone $199 R1 gadget [...]

Remember PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate destructible cloth, shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and other particle effects? It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games - but with PhysX turned on, those games reportedly now run faster on Nvidia's last-gen cards than they do on a new RTX [...]

Apple has launched its new iPhone 16E with an updated design, additional features - and no home button or MagSafe charging. This revamped version of the company's budget phone will be going for $599 and will include a USB-C port, a notch, a customizable Action Button, a fast A18 chip, and lots of extras. So [...]

The original BBC Radiophonic Workshop put itself on the map by crafting the music for radio adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the original Doctor Who theme song before shuttering in the late 90s. The Workshop's experimental approach to audio engineering in pursuit of unique sound effects made them early pioneers of [...]

Rivian announced the California Dune edition of its R1 electric vehicles, with new 20-inch All-Terrain wheels, a new paint color, and a protective underbody shield for those with a desire for some serious off-roading. The company says the California Dune edition vehicles are built to tackle the toughest terrains." Rivian's tri-motor EVs already offer a [...]

Hades II's second major update today, dubbed The Warsong Update," is available now, and it adds a new final boss, another hot god to receive boons from, and a bunch of other changes, according to developer Supergiant Games. Supergiant is keeping the identity of the new boss a mystery, but they will be the final [...]