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If you choose to get an extra controller for your Nintendo Switch 2, you can spend a lot - and get a lot in return. Buying Nintendo's own $89.99 Switch 2 Pro Controller, for instance, will net you the console's only wireless controller with a 3.5mm headphone jack, not to mention great rumble, OS-level rear [...]

Garmin announced a new version of its inReach satellite communicator with major upgrades that expand and improve the ways you can keep in touch while you're adventuring outside cellphone coverage. The new inReach Mini 3 Plus now features a color display with touchscreen capabilities and adds voice messaging, longer text messages, and the ability to [...]

I was stoked to learn that the recently announced Sony A7 V had improved ergonomics. Just like I was happy to first hear that Sony's flagship A9 III and A1 II cameras got new ergonomic grip designs before that. I actually bought an A9 III to replace my aging A9 II for my wedding photography. [...]

Google has added some new features to its end-of-year Photos app throwback experience, including a selfie count, CapCut integration, and photo curation capabilities. The Google Photos Recap includes insights and graphics that summarize what users have been snapping over the year, and follows the updated presentation format Google introduced in 2024, which looks like a [...]

Earlier this year, a mysterious new company called Tensor announced itself to the world by claiming it would be the first to sell fully autonomous vehicles to customers at scale. The news didn't make much of a splash. No one had ever heard of Tensor, so it was the kind of announcement easy to dismiss [...]

Amazon has launched a new AI-powered feature for Fire TV that lets you jump to specific moments of a movie by describing the scene to Alexa Plus. The feature, which was previously announced during Amazon's hardware event in September, works with Prime Video and builds on the X-Ray feature that provides information about the content [...]

India's government retreated less than a week after sending a private order to smartphone manufacturers instructing them to preload a state-backed app on all phones in the region. The reversal comes after industry sources told Reuters that Apple planned to refuse to comply with the order. Sanchar Saathi is a security app operated by India's [...]

Do you love to tinker with your keyboard layout? Do you love trackballs and think that one that attaches magnetically to your keyboard would be the coolest thing ever? Are you willing to completely blow up your setup in pursuit of possibly huge - or possibly marginal - gains in comfort or efficiency? Then I [...]

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is one of those games that been a long time coming. Fans have been waiting almost a decade for the next entry in Samus' first-person adventures. Early previews painted an alarming picture of overly chatty sidekicks ruining what's traditionally a lonely and moody experience. Meanwhile formal reviews run a gamut of [...]

It's time for year-end lists, annual roundups, and, of course, Spotify Wrapped. The usual suspects are here, like your most listened to song, your total time listened, and your favorite artist. You also get your 2025 Wrapped playlist, which now shows how many times you listened to each of your top 100 tracks this year. [...]

Among a sea of new TVs, robovacs, and smart glasses, Yukai Engineering's Mirumi was a unique standout at CES 2025 earlier this year. The tiny robot has no practical purpose other than looking adorable and bringing a smile to people's faces by simulating an inquisitive personality. The company planned to release the companion bot sometime [...]

I love instant cameras because of how they help me slow down and be creative without the distractions of a phone. Holding a real print also feels grounding in a screen-dominated age, which is why I think a lot of people these days are drawn to them - and why models with old-school vibes like [...]

Indiegogo is planning to launch a new Express Crowdfunding" campaign format that lets creators ship things while the campaign is ongoing instead of forcing creators to wait until the campaign is over. Indiegogo spokesperson Maciej Kuc tells The Verge that the change was spurred by Indiegogo's recent move to the infrastructure from its new owner, [...]

Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one - but Google is experimentally beginning to replace the original headlines on stories it serves with AI nonsense like that. I read a lot of my [...]

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Amazon's AI chief has a message for the model benchmark obsessives: Stop looking at the leaderboards. "I want real-world utility. None of these benchmarks are real," Rohit Prasad, Amazon's [...]

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers that covers the political intrigue and power struggles between Big Tech and Big Government. Subscribe here for a weekly dispatch of tech oligarchs fighting regular oligarchs. Prior to last week, only highly specialized political insiders knew the extent of David Sacks' influence in the Trump [...]

If you've been short on storage on your PC, the latest Helldivers 2 beta update might help. The developers said Tuesday they've managed to cut down the PC file size for Helldivers 2 by about 85 percent, freeing up enough space for at least one or two more large games. In a post on the [...]

Though HBO Max was very proud to announce that it would be the first platform to stream Mad Men in 4K, the show's new rollout has been an absolute mess. When HBO Max subscribers fired up the app yesterday hoping to see Don Draper and company in glorious 4K, many were dismayed to see that [...]

Black Friday and Cyber Monday brought some of the best deals of the year on robot vacuums. One of the handful of great discounts remaining is on the Roborock Saros 10, which we recently crowned the runner-up in our buying guide to the best robovac you can buy. This robovac and mop hybrid is still [...]

It's a big deal that Valve is making a game console. But I'm beginning to think the Steam Machine may end up a footnote in gaming history. What if Valve could bring PC games not just to its own living room consoles, but also to the Arm chips that billions of people have in their [...]

Android users will soon have an option to add an urgent" indicator to their calls, which shows up on the receiver's incoming call screen and in their call history if they don't pick up. It's a new feature in beta testing in the Phone by Google app, Call Reason, that will only work for people [...]

More Android phones will soon support AI-powered notification summaries. The feature comes bundled in the latest version of Android 16 and rolled out on Pixel devices last month, but now other phone makers like Samsung can begin adding it to their devices. Unlike Apple's version of the feature for iOS, Google is limiting it to [...]

The latest update for Android 16 has arrived, marking the official end to Google's annual release schedule. Compared to the major Android 16 launch in June, the new 16 QPR2 release is a minor update that expands features for notifications, icons, calling screens, and more, and signals the start of Google's long-awaited plans to release [...]

With Cyber Monday officially in the rearview mirror, it's easy to assume that you missed the last big shopping event of the year. While that might technically be the case, there are still plenty of leftover deals to choose from, some of which can still be had for well under $100. That makes now a [...]

Apple Music is getting ahead of Spotify Wrapped with the launch of its yearly recaps. This year's Apple Music Replay is available natively within the app and comes packed with even more listening stats, allowing you to review all the new artists you listened to, which ones you kept returning to, and who made a [...]

Anker has released a new docking station that eliminates the problem of having to choose between portability and a plethora of ports. The 13-in-1 Anker Nano Docking Station includes various USB and video ports so you can quickly connect a laptop to multiple monitors, but its most useful feature is a small, portable USB-C hub [...]

I was never a Boy Scout, but I have always embraced their be prepared" motto. When I leave the house it's never without my everyday carry kit that, among other things, includes wireless earbuds, a small battery, extra glasses - and a flashlight. In fact, I've long been on the hunt for what I consider [...]

One night in May 2020, during the height of lockdown, Deep Ganguli was worried. Ganguli, then research director at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, had just been alerted to OpenAI's new paper on GPT-3, its latest large language model. This new AI model was potentially 10 times more advanced than any other of its [...]

Apple makes a lot of gadgets. Most of them are very good! You'd frankly be hard-pressed to find a company with a better track record, especially across so many categories. But only one Apple gadget can be the best Apple gadget, and it's time for us to decide which one it is. On this episode [...]

Smart home products are all about making everyday life a little easier, which is why they're some of the best and most thoughtful gifts you can give. Some people go all out building a multi-gadget IoT kingdom (like our resident smart home expert, Jen Pattison Tuohy), but a smart home is whatever your recipient wants [...]

When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is good, it's good. The latest in Nintendo's sci-fi exploration franchise, and the first since Metroid Dread in 2021, Beyond captures the moody sense of isolation and discovery that has been so core to Metroid since it debuted in 1986. Those quiet moments truly make you feel all alone on [...]

It's one thing to do a bit of online shopping during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales, but it's another to put your money where your mouth is. (Wheredidthat phrase come from, anyway?) If you're curious what our writers, editors, and reviewers bought for themselves, here are some of the items, many of which [...]

Apple is not planning to comply with an order from the Indian government directing phone manufacturers to preload a state-backed cybersecurity app, according to Reuters. Industry sources tell Reuters that Apple plans to tell India's government that they don't comply with requests like this due to privacy and security concerns. However, Apple won't go to [...]

Over the past couple of years, I've tried to switch to many different gaming keyboards and always ended up back with a Wooting 60HE. Wooting changed PC gaming with the 60HE, popularizing the use of Hall effect switches and a Rapid Trigger system that speeds up how quickly you can activate keys. Now it's back [...]

Amazon is starting to test ultra-fast deliveries that aim to drop household goods at your doorstep in 30 minutes or less. The Amazon Now service is launching now in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia, according to Amazon's announcement, allowing eligible customers to shop for items like fresh milk, eggs, produce, cosmetics, electronics, household essentials, over-the-counter [...]

Discord's adding a new commerce feature that will let users buy digital items for games they might not even play. Starting with Marvel Rivals, users will be able to search, buy, wishlist, and gift cosmetics without ever leaving the platform. It works like this. Starting today, Marvel Rivals will have a new store page accessible [...]

Raspberry Pi is increasing the price of several single-board computers in an attempt to offset soaring memory costs. The updates are being applied immediately and affect Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5, with prices increasing by $5 to $25 depending on the model and amount of RAM. The 16GB memory variants of the Compute [...]

The tides are turning in the AI race, and the pressure is getting to OpenAI. Chief executive Sam Altman reportedly declared a code red" on Monday, urging staff to improve its flagship product ChatGPT, an indicator that the startup's once-unassailable lead is eroding as competitors like Google and Anthropic close in. In the memo, reported [...]

You can't make this up. Microsoft shipped a Windows 11 update yesterday that is supposed to make dark mode more consistent, with dialogs in File Explorer finally getting a dark mode for actions like copying, moving, or deleting files and folders. You get all that, but Microsoft will also treat you with a giant white [...]

If you're planning to gift an Apple device this holiday season - or treat yourself -time is now running out to take advantage of the latest Cyber Monday promos. The annual shopping holiday is already down to its final hours, and we're starting to see some items go up in price or out of stock. [...]

If you're hoping to whittle down your wish list before the holiday panic truly sets in, Cyber Monday presents a prime opportunity. Many of the tech-y gifts we recommend for Christmas, graduation, Mother's Day, and other celebratory events throughout the year are receiving their steepest discounts to date. These aren't random picks, either; they're items [...]

When the deals are flying fast and furious, it can be easy to overspend, especially when OLED TVs, laptops, and other great pieces of tech are cheaper than they've ever been. You don't have to spend a lot to find gift-worthy deals, though. If you're working with a tighter budget, we've found plenty of gadgets [...]

One of the pitfalls ofCyber Monday is getting overwhelmed by deep discounts on premium gadgets. After all, who wouldn't want to save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on a high-end gaming laptop or a spiffy OLED TV? But these luxury items, while great, can still easily set you back three or four figures. Luckily, [...]

Hoto makes some of our favorite tools, the kind that are not only functional but also look great. And thanks to an ongoing Cyber Monday promotion, you can save on the company's products through the end of today, December 1st, allowing you to grab an electric screwdriver or a great starter tool set for tackling [...]

Whether you're looking to liven up an upcoming holiday party or pick up a gift that will literally brighten your loved one's day, Govee's Table Lamp 2 Pro X Sound by JBL is a great option. It normally retails for $179.99; however, for Cyber Monday, the hybrid gadget is on sale for a new low [...]

Marques Brownlee's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down on December 31st, barely a year after its controversial launch. We made mistakes making our first app, and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Brownlee said in a video on the MKBHD YouTube channel. The Panels launch in September 2024 was [...]

Google and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer a link between their cloud services, as reported earlier by Reuters. With this tool, companies can establish a private connection between AWS and Google Cloud within minutes," giving online businesses a possible safety net if either of the providers experiences an outage. Though the tool [...]

If an Xbox Series console is your main gaming machine, you may have found yourself running out of storage and having to continually delete and re-download titles. Seagate's Storage Expansion Card is an easy way to upgrade your Xbox's storage, and the 2TB card is at its all-time low of around $184.76 ($75.23 off) at [...]

Cyber Monday is here in full force. It brings with it many of the same deals as we saw during Black Friday, along with a handful of new, limited-time sale prices on Verge-approved tech products. It's a great time to save on laptops, OLED TVs, noise-eliminating headphones, robot vacuums, and everything in between. If you [...]

Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An updated help page on Netflix's website, first reported by Android Authority, says that the streaming service no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices," and instead [...]