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Car prices are already at record highs, and President Donald Trump's tariffs -if they stay in place -could send them into the stratosphere. The situation remains extremely fluid, with Trump administration officials today announcing a one-month reprieve for the auto industry, according to Politico. But if tariffs stay in place, sticker prices could skyrocket by [...]

Kia EV9 owners can soon take advantage of the SUV's Vehicle to Home" power backup capabilities with the availability of a bidirectional charger coming in June. The new Wallbox Quasar 2 electric vehicle charger is the first home EV power connector in the US that works with the EV9 and is now up for preorder [...]

As predicted, Apple announced not one buttwo new iPads this week. The new entry-level iPad starts at $349, while the 11-and 13-inch iPad Airs start at $599 and $799, respectively. Both tablets are set to arrive on March 12th, though you can already preorder them from Amazon, Apple, and Best Buy starting this week. Unsurprisingly, [...]

Volkswagen is bringing up the lights on the ID. EVERY1 show car that it says will become the promised 20,000 (about $20,800 USD) affordable EV that will hopefully turn around the automaker's struggling business. As market leaders like Tesla continue to promise - but not deliver - the elusive entry-level EV, VW is hoping to [...]

All Elite Wrestling and Amazon's Prime Video today announced a multi-year deal that will see the streaming service carry AEW's pay-per-view events in the US, Canada, and the UK. Their partnership will start this coming weekend with AEW Revolution, which airs Sunday night. Unlike Thursday Night Football and other sports content that comes included with [...]

Netflix is diving deeper into live content with a new late-night talk show hosted by comedian John Mulaney. Starting March 12th, Netflix will air Everybody's Live with John Mulaney every Wednesday at 10PM ET. The late-night show, which Netflix will stream live for 12 weeks, will feature chats with celebrity guests. It marks the second [...]

The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the world, even those who are logged out of Google, will start seeing them too. There's an even more ambitious AI search tool coming to [...]

Delta Air Lines is backing a startup that wants to design more fuel-efficient, blended-wing-body aircraft in the hopes of reducing its carbon footprint and making air travel more sustainable. The airline said today that it will help support the development of startup JetZero's blended-wing-body (BWB) demonstrator aircraft that aims to cut fuel consumption, emissions, and [...]

Nintendo has won its legal battle against Dstorage, the French company it accused of hosting pirated games on its file-sharing site 1fichier.com. In a press release sent to outlets like Eurogamer and GBATemp, Nintendo says a French Court agreed that 1fichier.com is liable for failing to remove or block access to unauthorised copies of Nintendo [...]

YouTube is expanding its pilot of a new Premium Lite subscription plan to the United States, the company announced today. Priced at $7.99 per month compared to the $13.99 charge for regular YouTube Premium, the cheaper tier offers most" videos without ads - including gaming, fashion, beauty, news, and more." The major exception is music. [...]

Victoria Song is a senior reviewer at The Verge who mostly focuses on health tech and wearables and who, she says, occasionally has existential crises over silly gadgets I bought on TikTok against my better judgment." One of her favorite gadgets is the Logitech MX Vertical wireless mouse. When did you get the Logitech MX [...]

After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio with a curious new quirk: it straddles two generations, with an M4 Max for the base model and an M3 Ultra for the upgraded model. You can preorder both versions at Apple's site for $1,999 (M4 Max) and $3,999 (M3 Ultra), and [...]

Since its launch just over a year ago, Dyson's upgraded Supersonic r hairdryer has only been available for purchase by salons and professional stylists. But today the company announced the styling tool will be available to everyone in the US starting tomorrow, and in April for those in Europe, according to a report by Yahoo. [...]

Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option, and - most surprising of all - a lower price. The 13-inch starts at $999, while the 15-inch begins at $1,199. They're available to order now and launch on March 12th. Both 13- and 15-inch models of the MacBook [...]

It was a cold Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, and I was running late for my last appointment of the show. There was no telling how long an Uber might take, now that thousands upon thousands of CES 2025 attendees were leaving town and competing for space on the roads. aNo problem,a I told myself. [...]

Nvidia's dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange.A After a disappointing $549 RTX 5070, a $749 [...]

It was just a year ago that I had my first demo of the Humane AI pin - which was also my last, as it turned out. But another AI gadget at this year's MWC is trying to take off where Humane crashed and burned, and in ways it's even weirder than the AI pin. [...]

Chatbots canat think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well. In mid-February OpenAI released a document called a model spec laying out how ChatGPT is supposed to athink,a particularly about ethics. A couple of weeks later, people discovered xAI's Grok suggesting its owner Elon Musk and titular President [...]

Sometime last fall, Kevin Rose started thinking seriously about Digg again. A smidge over two decades ago, he'd launched a social and link sharing website that, for years, was known as the homepage of the internet." Since then, Digg had been through several owners and many pivots, Rose had gone on to several other careers, [...]

Volvo has pulled back the curtain on its upcoming ES90 electric sedan with 434 miles of range and a tech stack that includes Nvidia's powerful Drive AGX Orin computer in a dual setup. Volvo has been trickling news out about the ES90 over the past several weeks, but today's announcement includes our first full look [...]

Cadillac is taking its large and can-charge electric Escalade IQ and making it just a longer to accommodate some more luggage and leg room for third-row passengers. The new version, called the Escalade IQL, now surpasses the length of the longest gas-powered Escalade, while also adopting the ICE version's boxier silhouette. When it goes into [...]

Before Disney Plus and its parade of post-Endgame Marvel series, shows like Daredevil gave the studio a convenient way to infuse the MCU with a grittier, more dramatic energy. Being a Netflix project, the original Daredevil could go harder with its action and darker with its nuanced depiction of the man without fear. And with [...]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today dismissed a lawsuit against Early Warning Services, the company that runs the Venmo-like Zelle payment platform, as well as the three banks that share ownership of it, reports CNBC. The CFPB, which enforces regulations against the financial services industry, had claimed in its December 2024 lawsuit that the [...]

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition cards won't launch alongside other 5070s. Reviews of the new $549 graphics card just dropped today, but in an email to The Verge, Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo says the RTX 5070 Founders Edition will be available later in March." That means that people who want it [...]

Target and Best Buy say Trump's tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China could raise prices in their stores as soon as this week. During an interview with CNBC, Target CEO Brian Cornell said consumers will likely see prices increase over the next couple of days," while Best Buy CEO Corie Barry similarly told investors that [...]

YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan. The fake video has been shared privately with users and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an attempt to steal their credentials, according to an announcement on Tuesday. [...]

The crypto market never closes, so it was fitting President Donald Trump made the announcement on a Sunday: he was going to reward the billionaires who funded his presidential run. aA U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden Administration,a Trump wrote in a post on Truth [...]

YouTube is tightening its policies on gambling content. The platform has announced that it will soon prohibit creators from verbally referring to gambling services not approved by Google, as well as displaying their logos and linking to them in videos. The new rules, which go into effect on March 19th, may also put age restrictions [...]

Though only out for a grand total of four days, Monster Hunter Wilds has sold an astonishing 8 million copies. That's according to Capcom, reporting that the monster hunting action RPG has become the company's fastest selling title ever. The Monster Hunter franchise has racked up a number of superlatives for its publisher with 2018's [...]

Apple is pushing back against the UK's secret order to give the government access to encrypted iCloud files. The company has filed an appeal with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which deals with complaints about the unlawful intrusion" of UK intelligence services and authorities, according to a report from the Financial Times. As noted by FT, [...]

The Nintendo Switch is now eight years old and the company is announcing what could be its final retail bundle push before the introduction of the Switch 2. The new bundle includes the Nintendo Switch OLED system with a digital copy of Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a 3-month Nintendo Switch Online individual membership for [...]

Dotemu, the studio and publisher best-known for retro revivals like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and Streets of Rage 4, has announced its next game - and this time it's a brand-new property. Called Absolum, and it's a fantasy beat em up with roguelike elements; it's being described as a rogue em up." Dotemu [...]

After a whole lot of teasing, it's now official: remakes of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 are on the way. Activision officially announced the new release - called Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 - which will include remakes of both seminal skateboarding games and is launching on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and [...]

Sony is launching a new PlayStation beta program to offer an easier, more consolidated way for gamers to sign up to participate in future PlayStation betas across a wide range of PlayStation experiences," according to a blog post by Sony's Sid Shuman. By signing up for the beta program (technically called the Beta Program at [...]

Split Fiction, the new game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, doesnat do anything particularly new. The game is a straightforward co-op adventure that strings together disparate sci-fi and fantasy games like links on a chain. If you bundled together the sci-fi and fantasy sections as separate entities, they wouldnat form a cohesive experience [...]

The cameras on our phones wonat stop getting bigger. Xiaomias new 15 Ultra is dominated by an enormous ring of cameras on the back, Nothing has rethought its camera layout from scratch to fit a periscope into the Phone 3A Pro, and consistent rumors suggest that even Apple is going to strap a big ola [...]

Leadership and staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are clashing in court over whether the Trump administration is seeking to wind down the agency and if it has allowed workers to continue their legally required duties. Now, a key agency executive is expected to testify in a hearing next week, after a judge [...]

For the first time in more than two years, there's a new base-model iPad on the market. Apple just announced the 11th-generation iPad with a press release, as it has done with a number of recent devices. The new iPad comes equipped with an upgraded A16 chip, along with double the starting storage" at 128GB. [...]

The iPad Air is a tricky tablet. At times, it has been the most compelling of Apple's lineup, the Goldilocks-perfect combination of features and price. Other times, it starts to feel like an awkwardly placed option, both too expensive and not good enough. With the new model, which Apple just announced via a press release, [...]

2024 was the year OLED cemented its victory - and 2025 might let more gamers actually afford the glorious screens. Today, Alienware says it will try* to bring the price of a QD-OLED gaming panel down to $549 this summer with the AW2725D, a new 27-inch 2560 x 1440 QHD monitor that'll offer OLED's incredible [...]

The RTX 50-series launch hasnat gone smoothly so far. Severely limited stock, high prices, and manufacturing issues have left PC gamers frustrated. Now, Nvidia is trying to get things heading in the right direction with the RTX 5070, a GPU that it promised would deliver $1,599 RTX 4090-like performance for $549. It doesnat, and it [...]

If you're a Windows and Android user who has been envying the iPhone mirroring capabilities of macOS, there is a similar feature you can use a albeit with a caveat. First, the good news: this is a free tool thatas built right into Windows 11, with no extra download required. It works as part of [...]

Bald head. Big muscles. Once a renowned businessman, now making a series of questionable decisions in order to obtain more political power. Weird side hobbies, some involving rockets. Perfect recipe for a Bond villain! Also a decent description of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. So maybe itas appropriate that Amazon has struck a deal to give [...]

President Donald Trump has followed through on his temporarily delayed tariff threats. The US will impose a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico and Canada, while China will face an additional 10 percent tariff on top of the 10 percent tax previously enacted. On Monday, Trump dashed hopes that a deal could be [...]

Today's the day: Waymo's unlikely partnership with Uber is now live in Austin, Texas. The former rivals have joined forces in the hopes of accelerating the transition to autonomous vehicles, and as of today, any Austin resident with a desire to take a trip in a fully driverless robotaxi can open their Uber app and [...]

The Nothing 3A phones were just announced with a new take on the company's make tech more fun again" ethos. These devices have improved hardware over the Phone 2A, updated cameras, and a new feature called the Essential Space to store and index your miscellaneous screenshots, voice memos, and photographs, all through a dedicated button. [...]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. - the world's biggest chipmaker - will invest at least $100 billion to expand chip manufacturing in the US. During a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump said the funding would go toward building two additional chip manufacturing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona. The $100 billion investment builds upon the $65 [...]

Google is making some changes to Google Play on Android devices to better highlight apps that include widgets, according to a blog post. The changes include a new search filter for widgets, widget badges on app detail pages, and a curated editorial page dedicated to widgets. Historically, one of the challenges with investing in widget [...]