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The moment Vjeran and I got to the demo room at Frameworkas San Francisco event, we knew right away a the mint and pink version of the Framework Laptop 12 was the one I wanted to touch, the one he wanted to photograph and film. One of the women standing next to the demo stations [...]

In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company a cancer to WordPress." He accused WP Engine of not contributing enough to the WordPress ecosystem and profiting off of trademark confusion. As a result, WP Engine was blocked from accessing WordPress.org's [...]

Of the three major gaming consoles, the Xbox Series X / S may have the most diverse controller selection, but Microsoft's basic Xbox Wireless Controller is still the best Xbox controller for most people. That's mostly because it's the cheapest one you can buy with native support for Xbox's built-in wireless protocol (you can also [...]

Exposure to extreme heat could lead to faster aging, a new study published today in the journal Science Advances suggests. Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas. The study looked at measures of a person's biological, or epigenetic, age, which [...]

It's technically already Pokemon Day in Japan, and while we're still a few hours away from this year's big Pokemon Presents showcase, there's a new animated short film out that right now feels like the perfect way to get pumped up for whatever surprises Nintendo has in store. Many of the Pokemon Company's animated projects [...]

Amazon is bringing the new AI-powered Alexa Plus to a wide range of its existing Echo devices -but the upgrade will skip many of the earliest models. The majority of the company's first-generation Echos won't get support, according to the Alexa Plus FAQ page, though Amazon says they will continue to work with the standard [...]

Amazon is refreshing the alexa.com website and the Alexa mobile app so that Alexa Plus subscribers will be able to use the revamped, AI-powered voice assistant. We don't have many details beyond that, but the website and the app could be handy new ways to interact with the revamped Alexa, which was announced at an [...]

Amazon announced a new version of its smart assistant today. Alexa Plus comes with expanded capabilities, the company appeared to demonstrate, like finding concert tickets on your behalf or ordering an Uber to pick up someone at the airport. The upgraded smart assistant will also make it easier to have more natural conversations with it, [...]

Though Max has always said that it planned to charge more for access to its CNN and Bleacher Report Sports add-ons, the price hikes are coming in a roundabout way, targeted at subscribers of the streamer's cheapest tier. Max announced today that it no longer intends to charge subscribers of its Standard ($16.99 / month [...]

In a move promoted as supporting freedom of speech, The Washington Post will no longer publish opinion columns that oppose the core views of Post owner and Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos, Bezos has reportedly told staff. New York Times reporter Benjamin Mullin and Semafor reporter Max Tani published details about the move on Wednesday, [...]

It's shaping up to be a good week to be a Sonos fan. First, Sonos launched a sale for existing customers that includes steep discounts on soundbars, speakers, and headphones, and now the Sonos-ready Victrola Stream Onyxis more than 50 percent off. Now through February 28th, you can buy the two-speed, belt-driven turntable at Woot [...]

Google just announced it's received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3's Loss of Pulse Detection feature. It will start rolling out to US devices sometime at the end of March. The Loss of Pulse Detection feature is exactly what it sounds like: if the Pixel Watch 3 senses that you've lost your pulse through [...]

While showing up at a protest can demonstrate your opinion to the world, you may not want your face a or the faces of other protesters a to be included, especially when there is the possibility that authorities will collect and use that information (as they did for tracking movements during COVID-19 social distancing). As [...]

Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa - Alexa Plus - that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly. Some of the new abilities coming to Alexa Plus include [...]

Lucid Motors founder and CEO Peter Rawlinson will step down, as the luxury EV company sets its sights on doubling production over the next year. Rawlinson won't be leaving the company. Instead, he'll be assuming the role of Strategic Technical Advisor to the Chairman of the Board," the company said. Chief operating officer Marc Winterhoff [...]

Amazon is set to announce new Alexa features beginning at 10AM ET this morning - and we hope a few devices accompany them. There isn't a way to watch the event remotely, but our team is here in person to bring you all of the updates as they happen. We're expecting Amazon to announce its [...]

Ncuti Gatwa's version of the Doctor will be back pretty soon. Disney Plus and the BBC announced that the next season of Doctor Who will start streaming on April 12th, with new episodes dropping weekly. The season will span eight episodes total. Perhaps more interesting than the date, though, is a pair of new characters [...]

Razer is adding a fresh gaming laptop to the pile of new models up for preorder today: the Blade 18. Like its smaller (but far from small) Blade 16 cousin, the new Razer Blade 18 will come with Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs and Intel Arrow Lake CPUs. But one major way it differs is its [...]

Frameworkas mission is to afix consumer electronics, one category at a timea by making them modular, repairable, and upgradable. Itas the only laptop maker to ever truly succeed at that aupgradablea part. But desktop PCs are already modular, so why is Framework making one? At first, I thought it saw a unique opportunity to make [...]

Google is making it easier to remove and update Search results that contain your personal information. The company's Results about you" tool for detecting personal information like addresses and phone numbers that appear in Search has been updated to make it easier than ever" for users to sign up and for removals to be requested [...]

YouTube isn't a podcast app, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming the number one place people who want to consume online radio shows now turn to. According to the company, a staggering 1 billion people are tuning into podcasts every month on YouTube. That's not just more than either Apple or Spotify can claim [...]

More Android phones could soon provide longer lifetime support updates thanks to a new agreement between Qualcomm and Google. Qualcomm announced on Monday that up to eight consecutive years of software and security updates" will be available to Android phones running on future Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 7-series chips. As Android specialist Mishall Rahman points [...]

Volvo is continuing to drop hints about its upcoming high-tech electric sedan, the ES90, ahead of the EV's official reveal next month. Today, the Swedish automaker provided new details about the ES90's range and battery efficiency, calling it a car that goes further and charges faster than any electric Volvo before." That's mostly thanks to [...]

Two years ago, the last time Framework had an event in San Francisco, California, the highlight was the Framework Laptop 16 - a laptop promising the holy grail" of upgradable graphics cards, and easily one of the most ambitious laptops ever made. But today, the Framework Laptop 16 got little mention at its new event, [...]

The first PCIe Gen 5 SSDs from the likes of Seagate and Crucial began hitting the market nearly two years ago, but Samsung has been notably absent with its own model. That will change in March with the arrival of the Samsung 9100 Pro series, its first consumer-ready pure PCIe Gen 5 SSD built with [...]

The White House has named Amy Gleason as the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The news, delivered by an unnamed White House official to CNBC and other media outlets,follows days of obfuscation in courtrooms, the press, and the pseudo-department itself. It designates Gleason a likely target for the nigh-continuous legal challenges [...]

Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhone's dictation feature that briefly displays Trump" when someone says the word racist." The Verge has been unable to reproduce the issue, but it picked up attention on Tuesday after a video demonstrating the strange substitution went viral on TikTok and other social media. The company provided [...]

Back in June 2020, when this article was first written, people were taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. It was revised two years later when people were taking to the streets to protest the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturnARoe v. Wade (and we [...]

Since its app fiasco last year, Sonos has been busy slowly rebuilding its reputation with customers. This latest sale, which is exclusive to existing customers, seems to be a part of that strategy - and we're not complaining, because the deals are solid. Through March 2nd, Sonos is taking 25 percent off one select Sonos [...]

As part of its February Xbox update, Microsoft is making it easier to invite your friends to an Xbox Cloud Gaming session by letting you generate shareable links. You can send the link through an Xbox message or by copying it to your clipboard for pasting into any messaging app you want. Players can accept [...]

It's time to put all the lessons I've learned about Infinity Nikki's gacha system to the test. There's a new event coming to the game and with that comes a new outfit I actually want this time. After the game taught me an unfortunate lesson on the gacha economy, I've kinda taken it easy with [...]

8BitDo has released an upgraded version of its Ultimate controller now available to preorder through Amazon for $59.99 in purple, black, and white color options. The new 8BitDo Ultimate 2 features a similar asymmetrical stick layout to 8BitDo's original Ultimate controller that launched in 2022, but adds additional buttons, interactive LED lighting, and tunneling magneto-resistance [...]

Technicolor Group, the French VFX giant that owns some of Hollywood's most in-demand post-production houses, appears to be on the brink of collapse - putting thousands of jobs at risk. Variety reports that Technicolor has begun winding down operations after failing to secure a new round of investment necessary to keep the entire international outfit [...]

Warner Bros. Discovery is making even more big changes to its troubled gaming efforts. As reported by Bloomberg, the company's gaming division is canceling the Wonder Woman game announced in 2021 and shutting down three studios: Wonder Woman developer Monolith Productions, MultiVersus developer Player First Games, and Warner Bros. Games San Diego. WBD confirmed the [...]

Microsoft made OpenAI's o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users last month, and now it's providing unlimited use of this model and Copilot's voice capabilities to everyone. Previously, both Think Deeper (powered by o1) and Voice in Copilot had limits for free users, but Microsoft is removing these today to allow Copilot users to [...]

Online education company Chegg filed a lawsuit on February 24th against Google claiming that the company's AI-generated summaries of search results have hurt its traffic and revenue, Reuters reports. It's believed to be the first antitrust lawsuit filed by a single company over the AI Overviews feature, Reuters says. Chegg claims Google uses its power [...]

Tesla is starting to push a software update to its customers in China that appears to fulfill a long-gestating goal for the company to offer its controversial Full Self-Driving features in its largest car market. Or does it? According to Not a Tesla App, it's unclear whether the version of FSD that Tesla is offering [...]

The BlackBerry might be dead, but one of its best ideas - a tiny thumb-friendly keyboard for phones - lives on in the Clicks keyboard case, which will soon be available for several Android devices. Over 100,000 of the original Clicks keyboard cases have been sold around the world, the company says in a press [...]

Automattic-owned Beeper has announced a new beta update to its desktop and iOS apps to finally merge its service with Texts, which Automattic acquired in 2023. You can download the desktop version or see instructions for using the iOS beta in TestFlight by going to this page. Beeper says the new desktop version is built [...]

Major newspapers across the UK today are all on the same page for once. Specifically, their front covers, which feature the same campaign imagery protesting government proposals that could eviscerate copyright protections against artificial intelligence. Brits popping into their local store or newsagents will be greeted by a spread of bright blue pages demanding the [...]

Microsoft has decided to delay the release window of its upcoming Fable game to 2026. The Xbox maker originally said last year that Fable would arrive at some point in 2025, but now Xbox Game Studios chief Craig Duncan has provided an update on the game during an appearance on the official Xbox podcast. We [...]

Peloton was a pandemic darling - one of the businesses that seemed to find its purpose as something more than a cultish fad when the world shut down. And then, everything went horribly wrong. First, the supply chain issues with monthslong delays for bikes that irked new customers. Then, a disastrous recall affected both of [...]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you're not really buying an ebook or video game. Wyden's letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed [...]

Starting May 12th,YouTube saysit will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at natural break points" like pauses or transitions, according to a help page on the change. The company says it's also inserting additional, automatic ad-slots at natural break points" into older videos with manually-placed slots, [...]

I am the last person on earth who needs another watch. As The Vergeas resident wearables reviewer, Iam always double-wristing the latest smartwatches. I am also the last person who needs another ring after spending a whole summer wearing six of them like a high-tech mafia wife. But I never said I had good sense, [...]

To be the best at their jobs, people need relationships in the workplace. Employees who feel comfortable taking work challenges to peers or problem solving in tandem are more likely to excel in their work. Theyare also more likely to be happy, as recent research has revealed. Social connections in the workplace contribute to a [...]

With the rapid introduction of computing that leverages AI, the gaming experience is set to take a step forward in 2025. In January, at CES, GIGABYTE provided a glimpse at that future when it introduced its B800 series motherboards. Built to work with Intel B860 and AMD B850 chipsets, the mainstream B800 series models are [...]

The modern internet is nearly three decades old, and itas starting to show its age. Think back to the a90s: some of what we built back then, though groundbreaking, now feels outdated. The Verge recently created a special issue on what we were doing online in 2004, highlighting how Web 2.0 was born. Take a [...]

Panasonic has announced an upgrade version of 2019's Lumix S1R with a new sensor, smaller body, faster autofocus, and video recording that tops out at 8K at 30 frames per second. Although the Lumix S1RII's new 44.3-megapixel back-side illuminated CMOS sensor is smaller than the 47.3-megapixel sensor in its predecessor, its improved video capabilities, including [...]

Like Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Konami and Bloober Team are back in action together. Bloober Team announced that it will continue its partnership with the Japanese publisher working on a new project. The trust built upon the success of Silent Hill 2 laid the foundation for signing another agreement for a new project," the [...]