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Jeff Bezos is getting a new job. He'll reportedly become co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new startup that he's partly funding. The company's exact plans are still unknown, but its focus is on AI that could improve manufacturing in fields including computing, automobiles, and aerospace. The New York Times reports that Project Prometheus is already [...]

Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius is the eternal optimist, and for good reason. He has long pushed the European Union to roll back its lofty goal of phasing out new internal combustion engine cars, arguing that weakening the rules was a return to pragmatism and not capitulation to opponents of Europe's green agenda. His push is [...]

That Sky Sports felt the need to launch a TikTok channel specifically marketed towards women and billed as its lil sis" was questionable enough. But once people got a taste of the content on Halo, it was clear the company had absolutely no idea what it was doing. Halo didn't focus on women's sports, nor [...]

There's something irresistible about music that sounds as if it's coming apart at the seams. The Black Dresses are masters of barely contained chaos. All of their records feel as if they're in danger of collapsing into pure noise at any moment. But never have they so expertly woven the various threads of their sound [...]

If you're an indie rock fan of a certain age, the name Stereogum will probably conjure strong feelings. The site was launched "January 1st, 2002, on a whim," founder Scott Lapatine told The Verge. Originally, this early staple of the music blog era was focused almost entirely on music discovery and posting MP3s. "It was [...]

What do you get the man who says he has everything? It's a tough question - and one you have a limited amount of time to answer, given the holidays are nearly upon us. You could try dropping subtle hints or asking friends and family for suggestions, but they might save their best ideas for [...]

Quick: tell me how old you are by telling me which app you used to download free music. Was it Napster? Kazaa? Usenet? Gnutella? WinMX? Morpheus? The Pirate Bay? Were you, I don't know, sending your friends songs on AIM or BBM? The possibilities are endless. For a decade or so, if you were online, [...]

Hall effect gaming keyboards aren't uncommon. But Asus' ROG Falcata is the only one that's also a split ergonomic keyboard, aimed at alleviating wrist, hand, or arm pain. For the luxury of having it all, you'll pay $419.99, enough to buy a nice Hall effect keyboard and a split ergonomic one. It'd be worth it [...]

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on Hollywood trends and streaming culture, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Once upon a time (read: a few years ago), [...]

According to the Financial Times, Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO as early as next year. And the board has started to seriously work out a succession plan. FT says that John Ternus, Apple's senior vice-president of hardware engineering, is considered the frontrunner for the position. Cook, who turned 65 recently, has been [...]

REI doesn't do Black Friday, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to save this holiday season. The outdoor retailer's annual Holiday Sale is now underway and runs through November 24th, offering up to 30 percent off gadgets and gear designed for the outdoors. Right now, you can save on Garmin watches, headlamps, sleeping [...]

I remember being blown away by the 2024 reveal trailer for Possessor(s), the new game from Hyper Light Drifter developer Heart Machine. The trailer features a striking art design, where an animated 2D character explores and fights in side-scrolling environments with gorgeous 3D backgrounds, and it's all set to moody, powerful music. The final game, [...]

While there is plenty of criticism to be hurled at what music the algorithm serves to us, and how, the real problem with music discovery in the age of algorithmic recommendations is that listening has become a passive activity. It's too easy to press play and let a pile of code take the wheel. Whether [...]

Framework did it again. It promised modular, upgradeable, and user-repairable laptops where other manufacturers dare not venture or have outright failed. And it's delivered. The 2025 version of the Framework Laptop 16 comes with not only new AMD Ryzen AI CPU options, but also Wi-Fi 7, a more powerful USB-C charger, redesigned cooling, and a [...]

The morning of Monday, October 27th, I started my workweek by asking my colleagues at The Verge for advice on buying a gaming PC. I wanted a small, portable, and semi-powerful machine that could easily sit beneath my living room TV and occasionally move over to my desk to play games or even use for [...]

If you weren't clear on just what a miserable person Carol (Rhea Seehorn) is, episode 3 of Pluribus sure makes it obvious. It opens with a flashback, as Carol and her partner Helen (Miriam Shor) are on a dream vacation at an ice hotel in Norway, and all she can do is complain about how [...]

Disney and YouTube have reached an agreement to bring back ESPN and more than 20 other Disney-owned channels two weeks after they went dark on YouTube TV. During the dispute, Google has accused Disney of trying to raise prices for its customers in an effort to boost its own Hulu + Live TV and Fubo [...]

ESPN and other Disney-owned channels will be returning to YouTube TV following a new agreement announced Friday. More than 20 channels went dark on YouTube TV on October 30th, but two weeks later - and after CEOs Bob Iger and Sundar Pichai reportedly got more involved in negotiations - the companies have reached a deal. [...]

Nintendo recently issued an update (21.0.0) for its Switch 2 console that, in addition to some small changes, has caused some third-party docks to stop working as intended. In the early weeks and months of the console's availability this summer, companies raced to figure out the right commands, the right power draw, and the right [...]

Paramount Skydance head David Ellison made it very clear that he was interested in restarting the studio's Star Trek movie franchise with some new blood, and it seems like that plan is moving forward. Deadline reports that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley have signed on to an [...]

Fortnite is going to be available on the Xbox on PC app beginning November 18th. Right now on PC, you have to launch the game from the Epic Games Launcher, but if you prefer the Xbox on PC app, that's going to be an option. The game is also joining the Xbox Play Anywhere program, [...]

If you're looking for movies to binge over the long Thanksgiving weekend, or perhaps you need some stocking stuffer ideas, Gruv is running an early Black Friday sale that drops 4K Blu-rays to just $12.99 each. Many of these titles came out in 2025 and haven't previously been this affordable, making it a great opportunity [...]

Walmart on Friday officially kicked off its early Black Friday deals, with the first wave of discounts lasting from November 14th to November 16th. One of the best deals we've spotted is on the last-gen AirPods Pro 2 with USB-C charging case, which are currently $139 ($110 off). That's even lower than the discount we [...]

Belkin has issued a recall for its Auto-Tracking Stand Pro for the iPhone and two versions of its 20,000mAh BoostCharge USB-C PD Power Bank because a manufacturing defect may cause the products' lithium-ion cell components to overheat," posing a fire and burn risk to users. While there's been just one report of a fire in [...]

For the past couple of weeks, I've been asking - repeatedly - where the promised Trump phone is, whether it exists, and what happened to all the money people have already paid for deposits. And I'm going to keep doing that every week for the foreseeable future. Not everyone thinks I should. I've been told [...]

When The Running Man was first published in 1982 under Stephen King's Richard Bachman pseudonym, the United States was just beginning to feel the impacts of then-president Ronald Reagan's neoliberal economic policies. Under Reaganomics, massive tax breaks for the wealthy and deep cuts to social safety programs like food stamps and Medicaid drastically intensified income [...]

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. It's a truth universally acknowledged that [...]

Google is now widely rolling out Call Recording to Pixel 6 and newer devices that don't support the Gemini Nano-powered Call Notes feature found in the Pixel 9 and 10's Phone app, as spotted by 9to5Google. Google first announced the expansion of the Call Recording feature in September. It should be available after you update [...]

Meta, the largest social media company in the world, knowingly makes billions from scam ads, recent reporting on the company says. According to internal documents revealed by Reuters, users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp see 15 billion ads a day promoting scams, from fake Trump stimulus checks to deepfakes of Elon Musk hawking cryptocurrency. The [...]

You don't have to wait two more weeks to pick up a great gadget as a gift; early Black Friday deals are in full swing. Case in point: Best Buy is offering the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for $249 ($50 off) along with a $50 gift card and a copy of The Walking Dead: Saints [...]

Microsoft keeps describing this model for the future of a game console that sounds great for players: it's as easy as a console, it can play a huge library of PC titles, and it even supports third-party stores. That'd be a wonderful product if someone could build it, and it sure looks like Valve has [...]

The Steam Deck changed the way I buy and play games. Just like how the Nintendo Switch blew me away with how it let me play the latest and greatest Nintendo games on the go and on a TV, the Steam Deck has drawn me in with how it offers a vast catalog of PC [...]

Meta is on the cusp of launching third-party integration with WhatsApp in Europe - something that's required by the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It's rolling out over the coming months" with WhatsApp's level of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) maintained. Meta says thatBirdyChatandHaiketwill be the first third-party services to implement messaging interoperability with WhatsApp. No, we haven't [...]

I never really believed self-driving cars would make it to the UK, so you can imagine my surprise when I found myself clambering into one of Wayve's autonomous vehicles for a journey around north London a few weeks ago. In June, the company announced plans with Uber to begin trialing Level 4 fully autonomous robotaxis [...]

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. I spent yesterday at Eric Newcomer's Cerebral Valley conference in San Francisco, which is now in its third year. I've attended this event for three years in a row [...]

Editor's note:Black Friday doesn't officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we've rounded up thebest early Black Friday dealsyou can already get. Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there's something magical about the old-school [...]

Starting with the 2026 Major League Soccer (MLS) season, all MLS matches" will be available to Apple TV subscribers at no additional cost," Apple and the MLS announced today. Since the 2023 MLS season, streaming MLS games has required an MLS Season Pass subscription, which was available on its own or for a discount for [...]

After several successful launches this year, Project Kuiper has its official name: Amazon Leo. It's a nod to the term Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), which refers to orbits at an altitude of 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) or less. That's the region where Amazon's constellation of 153 satellites orbit. The original code name referred to the Kuiper [...]

When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve's new Steam Frame VR headset, I was blown away; thanks to the Frame's dedicated wireless adapter and a cool trick Valve calls foveated streaming," I didn't detect any latency as I explored an industrial building and fought some head crabs. But the Frame also [...]

Anthropic is detailing its efforts to make its Claude AI chatbot politically even-handed" - a move that comes just months after President Donald Trump issued a ban on woke AI." As outlined in a new blog post, Anthropic says it wants Claude to treat opposing political viewpoints with equal depth, engagement, and quality of analysis." [...]

Apple is launching a new program for mini app developers that slashes its fees for in-app purchases. On Thursday, the company announced that mini app creators who join the program take advantage of a lower 15 percent commission rate - half of the up to 30 percent rate Apple charges other developers. Apple describes mini [...]

Anthropic announced on Thursday that Chinese state-backed hackers used the company's AI model Claude to automate roughly 30 attacks on corporations and governments during a September campaign, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Anthropic said that up to 80% to 90% of the attack was automated with AI, a level higher than previous [...]

From the outside, it looks like virtual and mixed reality is having a moment. Three new headsets have launched or been announced in the last month: There's Apple's M5 Vision Pro, the Samsung Galaxy XR, and, just this week, Valve announced the Steam Frame. Given the marketing, you might assume that means Big Tech thinks [...]

Editor's note:Black Friday doesn't officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we've rounded up thebest early Black Friday dealsyou can already get. Haven't you heard? Phones are boring now. And that's just fine! Most people buying a new phone just want something familiar that works better [...]

The Apple Watch Series 11 is only a few months old, so discounts have been hard to come by thus far. However, if you don't need the latest tech, the Apple Watch Series 10 delivers nearly the same experience, and the 42mm base model is currently down to an all-time low of $279 ($120 off) [...]

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Earlier this month, the UK's Comcast-owned pay TV operator Sky announced plans to pull the plug on one of its more ambitious hardware initiatives: Sky Live, a smart camera accessory [...]

Netflix's next stab at gaming is here. Starting today you'll be able to play a number of multiplayer party games on your TV using your phone as a controller. To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and Tetris Time Warp. A social deduction game based [...]

Another day, another AI browser. This time, it's Firefox, the self-described independent browser" from Mozilla. Firefox says it is building an AI browsing feature called AI Window that includes an AI assistant and chatbot. The company calls it an opt-in intelligent and user-controlled space" that is currently being built in the open" with user input. [...]

Amazon's Black Friday officially starts on November 20th, but in reality, it's already well underway. For the past week or so, we've been seeing the retailer drop a number of good Black Friday deals, and the latest Fire TV Stick 4K Max is one of the best. Right now, you can buy the streaming stick [...]