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TikTok creator @pwinpudding specializes in ahaul videos,a specifically all things pink, pastel, and cute. Her videos show a collection of packages received from sites like the Chinese retailer AliExpress, as well as Amazon and the Japanese retailer Daiso and the accessories, clothes, plushies, and other items she took out of them. In her most recent [...]

Tesla's battery range extender accessory for Cybertruck, which promised to give the electric pickup the capability to drive about 445 miles on a single charge, was removed from the online configurator over the weekend, Electrek reports. The Cybertruck Range Extender was announced at the vehicle's delivery event as a $16,000 add-on that appears to take [...]

Marble run toys typically rely on just gravity to send a marble careening through a complex maze of obstacles, but the creator of Marblelous thinks they can be improved through technology. These new marble run building sets feature powered Wi-Fi-connected components that can keep balls rolling continuously and a marble-detecting sensor that can incorporate your [...]

Microsoft has fired one of the employees who disrupted the company's 50th-anniversary event. In an email seen by The Verge, Microsoft told Ibtihal Aboussad that their employment has been terminated due to acts of misconduct." Aboussad was one of two protesters that interrupted Microsoft's 50th anniversary event on Friday by calling Microsoft's AI CEO, Mustafa [...]

Waymo has no plans" to use footage from cameras inside its robotaxis to train AI models for targeted ads, spokesperson Julia Ilina said in an email to The Verge. Ilina was responding to an unreleased page from Waymo's privacy policy that appears to offer customers the ability to opt-out from having their personal information," including [...]

Following the reveal of Nintendo's new game-key cards during its Nintendo Switch 2 event last week, we're finally getting more details about why they exist and how they can be used. Although they don't contain a physical copy of a game, Nintendo's Tetsuya Sasaki explained to GameSpot that game-key cards aren't permanently tied to a [...]

Sure, the stock market is melting down after the US declared a global trade war. But have you considered that crypto is also melting down? Starting around April 6, the Bitcoin price fell off a cliff - and is sitting at $78,800 as of this writing, after touching a low of about $74,000. That's quite [...]

Google TV streaming devices will be required to have a Free TV" or Live TV" button on their remotes that opens up the Live tab where you can watch free, ad-supported TV channels via Google TV FreePlay, a company spokesperson confirmed to Android Authority. Google TV gives users access to a wide range of free [...]

Hundreds of publishers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Verge parent company Vox Media, are running an ad campaign this week urging the government to protect content from AI. The campaign, called Support Responsible AI, is run by the News/Media Alliance trade association and consists of several ads that [...]

Alienware's 27-inch 4K QD-OLED, the AW2725Q, hit shelves about a month ago. It was the first of several faster, better models to launch after being announced at CES 2025, with a 240Hz refresh rate, VRR, and a high 166 pixels per inch display. In short, it rules, so I'm tickled to find it already selling [...]

Last month, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal group chat about a military strike in Yemen planned for later that day. Now, sources inside the White House have apparently told The Guardian that an internal investigation revealed the roundabout way that happened: Siri was being helpful. When national security adviser Mike Waltz [...]

Apple's AirPods Pro are some of the best wireless earbuds money can buy, but only if you're embedded in Apple's ecosystem. If you want a cheaper pair of earbuds that play well with both iOS and Android devices, the Beats Studio Buds Plus are a great alternative. They usually run $169.95, but right now you [...]

Nintendo's hoping to relieve some of the sticker shock it gave fans with its game pricing with the news that the Switch 2 upgrades for both Legend of Zelda games will only cost $10 if you already own them. The games are priced for the Nintendo Switch 2 at $69.99 for Breath of the Wild [...]

The first season of HBOas The Last of Us wasnat just one of the most impressive video game adaptations to date, it was also one of the most faithful. The show did a remarkable job of replicating the characters, locations, and moments of the game, to the point that it felt like it was just [...]

The Death Stranding movie, an adaptation of Hideo Kojima's supernatural UPS delivery guy walking simulator, has its director. A24 has announced that Michael Sarnoski will both direct and write the project. Sarnoski's previous work includes directing the surprisingly stunning Nicolas Cage drama Pig and monster movie thriller A Quiet Place: Day One. Death Stranding, released [...]

Search for aSimCity 4a on YouTube, and youall see players constructing multilevel highway interchanges and intricate railroad networks, or maybe even a swooping flyby of a sprawling metropolis. None of these features came with the original game, which was released just after the turn of the millennium. Theyave been developed slowly and painstakingly over the [...]

After several days of not providing a direct answer about the technology used in the Switch 2's Joy-Cons, Nintendo has finally confirmed that the new console's controllers do not employ anti-drift Hall effect joysticks. When asked about the technology inside the Switch 2's Joy-Cons that feels so different to the original Switch's analog stick" during [...]

After multiple delays, Chris McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is finally making its way into theaters this summer, and Ethan Hunt is giving his all in the movie's new trailer. Though it's filled with footage from previous movies, the new trailer teases a bit of how Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is about to [...]

The United Kingdom has banned outrageous fake reviews and sneaky hidden fees" to make life easier for online shoppers. New measures under the Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumer Act 2024 came into force on Sunday that require online platforms to transparently include all mandatory fees within a product's advertised price, including booking or admin charges. [...]

WhatsApp is testing a new advanced chat privacy" option that lets you control whether others you're chatting with can easily export your chats or automatically save media you send them, reports WABetaInfo. The feature appeared in a recent app beta on iOS, and WABetaInfo spotted the toggle in an Android beta on Friday as well. [...]

In a dimly lit, cluttered workshop in Delhias Nehru Place, the air hums with the sound of whirring drills and the crackle of soldering irons. Sushil Prasad, a 35-year-old technician, wipes the sweat off his brow as he carefully pieces together the guts of an old laptop. It is a daily ritual a resurrecting machines [...]

Today, I'm talking with Daniel Dines, the cofounder and, once again, the CEO of UiPath, a software company that specializes in something called robotic process automation (RPA). We've been featuring a lot of what I like to call full-circle Decoder guests on the show lately, and Daniel is a perfect example. He was first on [...]

Netflix is adding a Peppa Pig game to its roster of available titles for subscribers in June, the company announced on Monday. World of Peppa Pig will be available alongside new episodes of the popular children's show in the US. From spot the difference and interactive mini games to coloring books, dress up games and [...]

In addition to a new console and lineup of games, Nintendo also revealed some sticker shock at its Switch 2 event last week. The console will cost $449.99 a a big jump from the original Switch, which debuted at $299.99 in 2017. Some have speculated that the price hike was at least partly due to [...]

One of the stranger details that came out of last weekas big Nintendo Switch 2 event was the existence of game-key cards. They wonat be used for all releases, but essentially theyare Switch 2 cartridges that donat actually contain a game, but instead feature a akeya thatas used for adownloading the full game to your [...]

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a hackathon" next week in order to create a mega API" for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform - potentially a third-party one - to serve as [...]

People are gathering in cities all over the United States and globally to protest an illegal, billionaire power grab" by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They're being put on by over 150 different organizations, including civil rights groups, labor unions, and LGBTQ+ advocates, and span more than 1,300 locations. Last weekend, Tesla Takedown" protests [...]

If you're taking your laptop away from the safe environs of your home or office desk and still want to stay online, you've got a couple of choices (assuming it doesn't have cellular connectivity built in): hunt around for a Wi-Fi network you can connect to or run a Wi-Fi hotspot from your phone. Running [...]

Hundreds of thousands of people signed up to attend over 1,300 Hands Off!" protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk yesterday. Today, estimates from groups involved in planning the protests suggest the protesters in the US and abroad may have actually numbered in the millions. Activist group MoveOn is estimating millions of attendees" went [...]

My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data across 60-plus devices that span five generations of Wi-Fi. Everything on it, from my iPhone 15 Pro all the way down to my Nintendo Wii, manages to connect to the internet, most of it wirelessly through my router, with shockingly few issues. Thatas [...]

The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift. Drifting is the most common term for an issue where joysticks detect false inputs a even when no one is touching a controller a causing unwanted movements to happen [...]

Your House is a visual novel that is the closest game Iave played to reading an actual book. In Your House, you play as Debbie, a girl who receives a mysterious postcard on her birthday with an address and a key. The address leads to a mansion thatas filled with secrets and puzzles for you [...]

Surrounding the Washington Monument Saturday were thousands of signs with messages spanning innumerable topics. aSupport Ukraine,a aBeware of DOGE,a aProtect Trans Lives,a were just a few of them. Others struck a note of exasperation: aWhere do I startaa The nationwide Hands Off protests this weekend turned out millions of protesters across 1,300 different events, organizers [...]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 78, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youare new here, welcome, sorry everythingas about to get so expensive, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Iave been reading about baseball bats and work-life balance and [...]

The best method that we have for defining color is by using math. Specifically, mind-boggling mathematical models called color spaces that use geometry to assign colors as a fixed point that we can reference, ensuring the blue that I see is the same blue you see. As a creative-leaning person who can barely split a [...]

Meta has announced Llama 4, its newest collection of AI models that now power the Meta AI assistant on the web and in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. The two new models, also available to download from Meta or Hugging Face, are Llama 4 Scout - a small model capable of fitting in a single Nvidia [...]

Microsoft unveiled its Xbox AI era earlier this year with a new Muse AI model that can generate gameplay. While it looked like Muse was still an early Microsoft Research project, the Xbox maker is now allowing Copilot users to try out Muse through an AI-generated version of Quake II. The tech demo is part [...]

Disney just released the first trailer for Tron: Ares, the long-planned Tron: Legacy sequel. The minute-and-a-half trailer doesn't say much about the story but shows plenty of the movie's visuals, which look dark, moody, and filled with the series' signature light trails. The trailer opens in the physical world at night, as Jared Leto's Ares, [...]

Thereas a famous two-decade-old Paris Review interview with Haruki Murakami in which he, one of the worldas most celebrated novelists, details his daily routine. He wakes up at 4AM, works for five hours, goes for a run, reads, goes to bed, and then repeats it all over again. The rigor and repetition are the point. [...]

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says it's delaying shipments to the US this month while it works out how it will deal with the wide-ranging tariffs President Donald Trump announced this week, according to The Guardian. As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including [...]

Views are the most visible metric on the internet. You can see, in more or less real time, how many views something got on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and most other video platforms. X tracks views for every single thing you post, as does Threads. A view is the universal currency of success a more [...]

Earlier this week, when it seemed as though TikTokas fate in the US would actually be decided by April 5th, everyone a from Amazon to the founder of OnlyFans a was coming out of the woodwork to buy it. As it turns out, none of them had a chance. And now, thanks to President Donald [...]

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has infiltrated the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an agency that has a say over resources Musk needs or could benefit from for some of his private sector business, The Verge has learned. Three people who have been identified as DOGE staffers are listed in a public directory called [...]

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to Amazon this week, coming back to the company just about two years after he left, Bloomberg reports. He's now a vice president at the company, and he will be heading up the Ring, Blink, Amazon Key, and Sidewalk teams. Siminoff is replacing Liz Hamren, who had taken over following [...]

Nice economy you have there, said President Donald Trumpas administration. It would be a shame if something happened to it. The something, announced earlier this week, is a set of globally applied tariffs that make no sense on their face. No sane economist would endorse this. Through a combination of stupidity, incompetence and sheer gangsterism, [...]

President Donald Trump's additional 75 day delay to TikTok's sale-or-ban deadline leaves service providers like Apple, Google, and Oracle on shaky ground, and, according to one influential Democrat, is straight-up against the law." After Trump announced the extension on Friday, 12 Republican members of the House Select Committee on China, including Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI), [...]

President Donald Trumpas 25 percent tariffs on all auto-related imports have been called aa debacle of epic proportionsa and a sure-fire way to tank the auto market by crushing demand. Analysts have been predicting everything from $12,000 per vehicle price hikes to the possible aCubanizationa of the US car fleet. Now that theyave had a [...]

Microsoft is bringing its Copilot Vision feature to Windows and mobile, moving it beyond the web. Copilot Vision was a big part of Microsoft's Copilot redesign last year, but so far, it has been limited to Edge webpages to help guide you through what you're seeing. Copilot Vision will now be able to analyze real-time [...]

Four Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers have access to the governmentas data on an untold number of immigrants, FedScoop reports.A US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that handles legal immigration, recently granted access to Kyle Shutt, Aram Moghaddassi, Payton Rehling, and Edward Coristine a the 19-year-old DOGE employee who also goes by [...]