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The developers of Infinity Nikki have finally solved one of the game's biggest problems: where the hell is everything? Piggybacking off similar efforts in other gacha games like Genshin Impact, the developers at Infold Games have created an interactive map that'll guide you to all the bits and bobs littered throughout the game's impressively expansive [...]

Today, the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro can already produce crisper, sharper, smoother, and more stable graphics than a PS5, if you sit close enough to appreciate them. But starting in 2026, the company hopes to imbue games with a new AI upscaling formula that'll make them even crisper, based on the AMD FSR 4 technique [...]

On September 10th, PlayStation held a technical presentation" that confirmed the long-rumored PS5 Pro's existence and souped-up specs, like a buffed GPU, Wi-Fi 7, and support for Sony's AI-driven upscaling technology, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, or PSSR. It will also come with features like PS5 Pro Game Boost to improve the performance of supported PS4 [...]

This weekend, protests escalated at Tesla showrooms across the nation. Hundreds of people gathered to boycott Elon Musk and his involvement in the Trump administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is overseeing a massively disruptive effort to fire thousands of federal workers to slash government spending. Most of these [...]

Epic Games plans to bring its mobile game store and Fortnite to iOS users in Brazil in July, the company says in a post on X. The announcement follows a ruling in Brazil last week that gave Apple 90 days to allow sideloading in the country. Last year, Epic brought back Fortnite and launched the [...]

Across U.S. politics, it's become fashionable to blame nearly all the internet's ills on one law I co-wrote: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Everyone from President Donald Trump to some of my Democratic colleagues argue that Section 230 has let major tech platforms moderate too much or too little. Trump's Federal Communications Commission [...]

Greenhouse gas emissions could affect satellite launches in the future, new research suggests. As it builds up, the pollution causes Earth's upper atmosphere to contract, potentially raising the risk of satellite collisions in orbit. It's yet another way that fossil fuel emissions are having a tangible impact on things people rely on daily, especially as [...]

Though the main My Hero Academia anime series is set to end later this year, its gritty prequel is about to make its streaming debut on Crunchyroll. Today, Crunchyroll announced that it has secured the exclusive, global (outside of Asia) rights to stream studio Toho's My Hero Academia: Vigilantes from director Kenichi Suzuki (JoJo's Bizarre [...]

OnePlus plans to do away with its signature Alert Slider and replace it with a configurable button in the future, company CEO Pete Lau said in a OnePlus community forum post today, reports 9to5Google. The Alert Slider, which has been on most OnePlus phones (it disappeared for the OnePlus 10T) for the last decade, lets [...]

The X social media platform has been up and down all morning, with brief but repeated outages preventing posts from loading across both mobile and desktop. The first widespread issue started at around 5:40AM ET this morning, according to Downdetector, leaving timelines consistently unable to refresh on mobile apps and some X users stuck in [...]

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, they have gone from being utilitarian devices that sweep your floor to full-fledged home robots that can vacuum and mop your [...]

Today, I'm talking with Almar Latour, who is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent company Dow Jones, which you can think of as a huge research and data provider for companies of all sizes. Dow Jones itself is part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Latour is a fascinating guy. [...]

Reports have been cropping up that second-generation Chromecasts and music-streaming Chromecast Audio devices are failing, displaying an Untrusted device" error on the device they're trying to cast from, reports 9to5Google. Text from screenshots of the error posted to Reddit says the device couldn't be verified. This could be caused by outdated device firmware," leading some [...]

Lego has announced a new addition to its Mario Kart collection that first debuted last August. But don't expect Lego's latest Super Mario set to fit in with the rest of the racers. At 12.5 inches long and 8.5 inches tall, this set, featuring Mario in his standard racing kart from the game, is Lego's [...]

This yearas iPad Air was a surprise to me. Apple launched the last Air less than a year ago, and that was a very good device that could already support Apple Intelligence a and most of Appleas recent gadget upgrades have been about supporting Apple Intelligence. I figured Apple might launch a better Magic Keyboard [...]

Death Stranding's sequel continues to look absolutely bonkers. The upcoming game - known as Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - got a fresh trailer and a long-awaited release date of June 26th during a presentation at SXSW. The PlayStation 5 exclusive will cost $69.99 and is available for pre-order starting on March 17th. Those [...]

Apple is expected to release its thinnest phone yet later this year with the iPhone 17 Air. Rumors have held that the phone will be thinner than the 6.9mm iPhone 6 was, but recent leaks give us a better idea than we've had before of what to expect. Rumors of the iPhone 17 Air's dimensions [...]

The PS5 version of Forza Horizon 5 will require you to link a Microsoft account to your PlayStation Network account in order to play the game, according to a FAQ on the game's official website. The FAQ says that players will be prompted to link the two the first time they load the game. And [...]

Late last week, Apple delayed its big Siri AI upgrade, and it seems that will take the company's rumored smart display with it. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in today's Power On newsletter, Apple has postponed the device because it at least partially relies on the delayed Siri capabilities." It's been rumored for months now [...]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 74, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youare new here, welcome, sorry in advance for my terrible TV taste, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Iave been reading about Bybit, Walmart, and sports analytics; [...]

The Retroid Pocket Mini has an unfixable issue that's causing certain graphical effects for emulated games not to work properly. Retroid, the China-based company that makes the Pocket Mini, announced on Discord that it will accept returns of the device but only during a limited March 8th to March 14th window - and capped at [...]

Warner Bros. Discovery just released a new trailer for the second (and maybe last) season of The Last of Us, offering an action-packed view of the fraught world Pedro Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) and his daughter Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are facing. Things look bleak for both of them, and the show's fungal-based zombies don't seem [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is still pushing to break up Google, according to a revised proposal filed Friday with federal Judge Amit Mehta. As in its proposal last year, the DOJ says Google should be forced to sell its web browser, Google Chrome, and potentially Android, as punishment for being a monopolist, as [...]

On August 5th, Judge Amit Mehta ruled in the case of United States of America v. Google, saying, ...the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act." That ended the biggest tech antitrust trial since [...]

If you, like me, still have your DVD collection hanging around, now is a good time to dust off your DVD player and make sure they haven't succumbed to disc rot. That's because many of the discs produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) between 2006 and 2008 are failing prematurely, the company acknowledged in [...]

Suikoden is a game that Iave been meaning to play for years. A highly regarded roleplaying game from the original PlayStation era, itas renowned for its sprawling storyline and huge cast of playable characters. That also makes it pretty intimidating, and Iave had a copy sitting on my PS Vita just waiting for when I [...]

Free time is a rare thing - which is all the more reason to make sure you're downtime isn't going to waste. To help out, we've put together this list of our favorite games, TV shows, and movies from 2025. It's a space designed to make the process of finding something to play or watch [...]

MainFrames is a perfect example of a game with a clever idea that doesnat overstay its welcome. In the new indie platformer, you play as an adorable floppy disk that traverses computer desktops. The aesthetic is ridiculously charming: the many characters sprinkled throughout the game are so dang cute, and the levels are filled with [...]

When the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 arrives, likely this July, it could be a pretty decent upgrade over the Z Flip 5 I own. Itall reportedly have a slightly bigger battery than the Flip 6, which had a slightly bigger one than the Flip 5, plus a much bigger outer screen. Unfortunately, I canat [...]

Meta may have caved on their content moderation policies for the sake of free speech", but there's a world of other Big Tech companies out there - and more social media platforms for conservatives to de-censor. On Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet, the parent company of Google, demanding documents that show whether YouTube removed [...]

Reddit's automatic moderation tool is flagging the word Luigi" as potentially violent - even when the content isn't. Earlier this week, a moderator from r/popculture saw Reddit's AutoModerator system flag a post about the video game Luigi's Mansion 3 because it included the word Luigi," giving them instructions to check for violence." A Reddit spokesperson, [...]

The biggest YouTuber in the world is looking beyond videos to build a multibillion-dollar empire. For the last several months, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, has been talking with investors about raising $200 million in a funding round that would value his holding company, Beast Industries, at more than $5 billion. An investor pitch deck Iave [...]

Apple's more personalized Siri features need a little more time in the oven. Company spokesperson Jacqueline Roy gave this statement to Daring Fireball today announcing the delay: Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we've made Siri more conversational, introduced new features [...]

The well-deserved hat trick that director Bong Joon Ho pulled off at the Oscars in 2020 with Parasite all but ensured that studios would fight tooth and nail to back his next cinematic project. It was always going to be difficult for Bong to top what he accomplished with Parasite a a shapeshifting masterpiece of [...]

Volkswagen is planning a return to physical buttons in its future vehicles over haptic sliders and touchscreen toggles for vital functions such as climate controls. The automaker's design head Andreas Mindt told Autocar that the company will never, ever make this mistake again" and promises to bring together physical controls for volume, heating controls, fan [...]

President Donald Trumpas tariff threats could raise the price of uranium used to fuel US nuclear reactors, which could have ripple effects on a tenuous nuclear renaissance spurred by the growth of energy-hungry data centers. The US gets more than a quarter of its uranium from Canada, more than from any other country. The Trump [...]

Netflix plans to spend around $18 billion on content this year - and chief financial officer Spencer Neumann thinks that number could increase down the line. We are not anywhere near a ceiling," Neumann said during the Morgan Stanley Tech, Media, and Telecom Conference this week, as reported by Variety. I think we are still [...]

Vice President JD Vance is a busy man. Over the past three weeks, heas traveled to France and Germany, addressed the crowd at a massive conservative conference, berated the Ukrainian president, and visited the US-Mexico border. Despite his busy schedule, Vance seemingly always finds time to engage in one of his favorite hobbies: posting. During [...]

The Artcool AI Air doesn't look as artsy as LG's previous Artcool air conditioners, but it does offer improved energy efficiency by detecting the room's layout and the position of its occupants so it can direct airflow right to them. The company hasn't announced pricing or availability, nor does it detail what technology the Artcool [...]

Apple might have just updated the Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, but if all you need is a good daily driver, they're completely overkill. The M4-powered Mac Mini is probably the better option in most instances, especially since the desktop is currently matching its all-time low of $529 ($70 off) at [...]

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to establish a Bitcoin reserve held by the US government. The reserve, which crypto czar David Sacks has likened to a digital Fort Knox," will include the assets the government collected as part of criminal or civil forfeitures - currently estimated at around 200,000 Bitcoin. Along with [...]

AMD is announcing that its latest gaming-oriented Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors will be available next week. The new chips improve on the 9800X3D, which is widely considered as the best gaming CPU. The new ones feature 16 Zen 5 cores and second-generation 3D V-Cache technology that could help those looking to do more [...]

The Nintendo Switch 2 is already official, but there's a lot we still don't know - like, will Nintendo's new handheld support the NFC-equipped Amiibo figurines that can wirelessly unlock content in games? Today, it seems likely they will, because filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reveal the console will support NFC. They even [...]

The Nintendo Switch 2 has finally been announced, and it will launch sometime in 2025. It's bigger than the original Switch, has Joy-Cons that attach to the side of the console, and will be getting a new Mario Kart game - beyond that, Nintendo hasn't shared a lot more. But the company is planning a [...]

It's finally time: after months of teases and rumors, Nintendo has finally revealed the successor to the Switch. A new console generation is always a big deal, but this is an especially pivotal one for Nintendo. Since its debut in 2017, the Switch has become Nintendo's second-bestselling piece of hardware ever, trailing only the Nintendo [...]

Thanks to AI upscaling technology, the version of A Different World that's currently on Netflix won't look how you remember it did when it aired. And not in a good way. The HD" remaster of the 1980s sitcom being streamed is a nightmarish mess of distorted faces, garbled text, and misshapen backgrounds. People started spotting [...]