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Kia revealed the exterior design of the upcoming PV5 electric van, the automaker's first EV to come out under its Platform Before Vehicle" (PBV) brand. With the PV5, Kia has declared its intention to compete with heavy hitters like the Volkswagen ID Buzz, Ford E-Transit, Mercedes eSprinter, and Ram ProMaster EV. There are very few [...]

DJI has announced a new version of the smallest camera stabilizer in its Ronin series. Like last year's RS 3 Mini, the upgraded RS 4 Mini is a more compact, lighter, and cheaper alternative to DJI's RS 4 and RS 4 Pro stabilizers, but designed for smaller mirrorless cameras and smartphones. Although it's slightly heavier [...]

The iPhone 15 Pro will get Visual Intelligence, Apple's Google Lens-like tool that lets you point your phone's camera at things in the world to learn more about them, in a future software update, Apple representatives told John Gruber of Daring Fireball. Visual Intelligence was originally introduced with the initial iPhone 16 lineup in September, [...]

Those little Among Us beans are being transported to a new dimension. Developer Innersloth has announced a new game called Among Us 3D, which is exactly what it sounds like: the hit multiplayer deduction game, but played in a three-dimensional world from a first-person perspective. If that sounds familiar, it's because that's what the VR [...]

In a first for a smart thermostat company, Tado is exploring charging its customers 1 / 1 a month just to control their devices from its app. Multiple users have reported that Tado, manufacturersof smart thermostats, radiator valves, and heat pump controllersfor Europe and the UK, sent a message through their app alerting them to [...]

Amazon is ending Android support for its Appstore this year on August 20th. The retail giant announced the update on an FAQ support page with no explanation for the shutdown, but said its Appstore will still be available on Fire TV and Tablet devices, where it serves as the default app marketplace. Apps downloaded from [...]

One of Apple's next big sci-fi shows has a premiere date. The company announced that its adaptation of Murderbot, based on the novels by Martha Wells, will debut on Apple TV Plus with two episodes on May 16th. The season finale will stream on July 11th. The show will star Alexander Skarsgard in the titular [...]

Microsoft engineers are currently readying server capacity for OpenAIas upcoming GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models, according to a source familiar with the companyas plans. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged recently that GPT-4.5 will launch within a matter of weeks, I understand that Microsoft is expecting to host the new AI model as early as next [...]

Grand Theft Auto V on PC will be getting a bunch of improvements, including upgrades that were previously added to the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S versions of the game, through a free update that will be available on March 4th, Rockstar announced on Thursday. The update will include things like PC-exclusive ray [...]

Appleas goal with the new iPhone 16E seems to be the same as with the iPhone SE: offer a very good, cheap smartphone to entice price-sensitive shoppers to either leave Android or upgrade from a much older iPhone. From what weave seen so far, the company seems to have succeededa but maybe a little too [...]

Aside from an October 2025 release, the teaser Lego and Nintendo released in January for their upcoming Game Boy collaboration was light on details. But according to an Instagram account that Video Games Chronicle says has a reliable track record for sharing accurate details about new sets before Lego does, the brick-built Game Boy will [...]

Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, announced its first hands free, eyes off" partial autonomous driving feature. The company is pitching this new feature, which is called STLA AutoDrive, as for drivers who want to reclaim valuable time" while stuck in stop-and-go traffic. But that said, Stellantis isn't launching the feature quite [...]

Barbara Broccoli's longstanding beef with Amazon is a big part of what kept the e-commerce giant-turned-studio from producing new James Bond movies following its acquisition of MGM in 2021. But now, it seems like both parties have set aside their differences in order to get the ball rolling on 007's next chapter. Today, Amazon MGM, [...]

We all have our favorite stuff. It could be a laptop that you've used for several years or the snazzy new one that just arrived last week. It could be the headphones that deliver your favorite music and podcasts, the controller that helps you win your games, or the app that puts a weird background [...]

Spring is my busy season. Since my kids were old enough to play team sports, the impending arrival of March brings an avalanche of organizational tasks. Practice schedules, game schedules, and snack signups equal so many dates to remember. They arrive in different ways a paper flyers, Excel sheets, text chains, or through yet another [...]

Hello, and welcome to a special episode of Decoder! This is David Pierce, editor-at-large at The Verge. Nilay is off this week for a much-deserved break from what I can only describe as a pretty bleak news cycle. So I'm filling in for him, and the Decoder team thought this would be a good opportunity [...]

Scuf just announced its latest pro-style controller for Xbox and PC, the first to come close to the $100 price point. The $99.99 Scuf Valor Pro - available for purchase starting today in 15 different styles - isn't exactly a budget controller in its own right, but context matters. I've tested the delightfully translucent version [...]

Spotify is bringing more AI-narrated audiobooks to its platform via a new partnership with ElevenLabs. On Thursday, the audio streaming giant announced it would begin accepting audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs' AI voice software, saying it recognizes the potential of digital voice-narration to grow and expand the audiobook market." To be clear, AI-recorded audiobooks are already [...]

For the first time since the iPhoneas debut in 2007, Apple no longer sells a smartphone with a home button. The iPhone 16E announced yesterday removes it. The removal was long overdue, having been surpassed by all touchscreen controls many years ago. But while the home buttonas time is over, it leaves behind an important [...]

Today Oppo launched the Find N5, the thinnest book-style foldable phone yet, but there's more to the phone than a slim design: it's capable of connecting to a Mac for file transfers and even remote control. It's not quite the first Android phone to do so, but it is the only one you can buy [...]

Oppoas Find N5 feels like the end game for foldable phones. Not because itas make or break for a segment of the phone market that never quite took off like manufacturers hoped it would, but because I simply donat know where we go from here. Thereas scarcely room to make the phone thinner without ditching [...]

Oppo has launched the Find N5, the thinnest foldable phone in the world. It's launching in markets worldwide, including across Europe and Asia, at $2,499 SGD (about $1,867 USD). That's more expensive than either the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 or Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold in Singapore, though comparable once you adjust for storage. [...]

Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. On Wednesday, the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for highlights and uploads starting on April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit. Twitch [...]

Volvo's next electric vehicle, the ES90 midsized luxury sedan, sounds like its got some serious computing chops. The new EV will come with a dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration, making it the most powerful car Volvo ever created in terms of core computing capacity," the company claims today. The new supercomputer is included as [...]

The Humane AI Pin has collapsed, but Rabbit is still kicking. The company published a blog post and video today showing off a generalist Android agent," slowly controlling apps on a tablet in much the same way that Rabbit claimed its R1 device would over a year ago. (It couldn't, and can't.) The work builds [...]

With artificial intelligence being so prevalent across, well, just about everything these days, it's no small feat for AI developers to make their products stand out among the deluge. Very few have managed to capture as much attention as Rabbit, the AI startup that's managed to sell 40,000 units of its standalone $199 R1 gadget [...]

Remember PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate destructible cloth, shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and other particle effects? It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games - but with PhysX turned on, those games reportedly now run faster on Nvidia's last-gen cards than they do on a new RTX [...]

Apple has launched its new iPhone 16E with an updated design, additional features - and no home button or MagSafe charging. This revamped version of the company's budget phone will be going for $599 and will include a USB-C port, a notch, a customizable Action Button, a fast A18 chip, and lots of extras. So [...]

The original BBC Radiophonic Workshop put itself on the map by crafting the music for radio adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the original Doctor Who theme song before shuttering in the late 90s. The Workshop's experimental approach to audio engineering in pursuit of unique sound effects made them early pioneers of [...]

Rivian announced the California Dune edition of its R1 electric vehicles, with new 20-inch All-Terrain wheels, a new paint color, and a protective underbody shield for those with a desire for some serious off-roading. The company says the California Dune edition vehicles are built to tackle the toughest terrains." Rivian's tri-motor EVs already offer a [...]

Hades II's second major update today, dubbed The Warsong Update," is available now, and it adds a new final boss, another hot god to receive boons from, and a bunch of other changes, according to developer Supergiant Games. Supergiant is keeping the identity of the new boss a mystery, but they will be the final [...]

Apple has stopped selling new iPhones with Lightning ports with the launch of the iPhone 16E and the removal of the iPhone 14 and the third-generation iPhone SE from its website. All new iPhones have a USB-C port. Finally. This change isn't a surprise. Apple has slowly migrated its products to USB-C from Lightning, which [...]

What if a smartphone maker decided to cram as many features into a device as possible and not worry about maintaining a pocket-friendly design? That's the approach that Oukitel has taken with its new WP100 Titan smartphone. The company is known for creating chunky phones with extended battery life, and its new 1.3-inch thick Titan [...]

A bunch of Verge staffers came back from the weekend chatting about our experiences withElden Ring Nightreignasnetwork tests. We generally enjoyed the fast-paced, co-op-focused spin on Elden Ring that takes cues from roguelikes and battle royale games a and when things were good, they werereallygood. But we also ran into some frustrating connection issues that [...]

After launching several privacy-focused smartphones, Murena has released its first tablet. The French company customizes mobile devices with a version of Android called /e/OS that removes Google's apps and services so the search giant can't collect your data and personal info. The company is sticking with that familiar playbook for the Murena Pixel Tablet which [...]

Google is rolling out new search gestures that allow iPhone users to highlight anything on their screen to quickly search for it. The Lens screen-searching feature is available on iOS in both the Google app and Chrome browser and provides a similar experience to Android's Circle to Search, which isn't supported on iPhones. The new [...]

Instagram's direct message function is getting a big infusion of features today, including scheduled direct messages that you can prewrite and set to send on a later date, up to 29 days in advance. You can also now pin up to three messages to the top of the chat. Meta says the changes are intended [...]

Earlier this week, the US-based developers working on Marvel Rivals began reporting on LinkedIn that they had been laid off. The developers did not give a reason for the layoffs, which came as a shock to the gaming community because of Rivals' evident success. However, in a statement to The Verge, NetEase has clarified that [...]

Apple has just introduced the iPhone 16E, a spiritual successor to the iPhone SE line that has a significant first: it introduces Apple's long-awaited in-house 5G modem called the C1. The chip, which Apple says is the most power-efficient modem in a phone, is Apple's bid to end its reliance on Qualcomm's 5G chips. Apple [...]

Apple appears to have stopped selling the iPhone 14. The device, first released in 2022, seems to have vanished from Apple's website following the launch of the iPhone 16E. Apple removed the mention of the iPhone 14 from its website's navigation bar, and even though the device still appears in search results, selecting it redirects [...]

Apple may not have given the full launch event and keynote treatment to the iPhone 16E, but it dropped a launch video for the new affordable iPhone that shows it off. The video was uploaded to YouTube and added to the company's iPhone 16E launch page. Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the new member of [...]

Struggling electric truck company Nikola said it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday and would sell off its assets, effectively ending a challenging journey punctuated by rapid cash burn, allegations of fraud, and the incarceration of its first CEO and founder. Nikola said it would seek an auction and sale process, pending [...]

After a very long windup, Humane finally revealed all the detailsof its AI-powered wearable at the end of 2023. The small gadget could attach to your clothes using a magnetic battery pack so that it's within easy reach. By tapping the AI Pin, you could ask it to do smartphone-y things like make phone calls, [...]

Anker's smart home arm, Eufy, has announced its first smart lock that uses palm vein recognition to unlock your door. The $399 FamiLock S3 Max is also a video doorbell with a 2K-capable camera and an interior screen that shows a live video feed through the door lock. The S3 works over Wi-Fi 6 and [...]

Subreddit r/WallStreetBets has been the talk of the Internet this week, as its members have driven GameStop's stock prices from around $20 to over $300. The community brands itself as like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal," and as time has gone on, it's targeted other unlikely stocks like AMC, Blackberry, and Tootsie Roll. They've also [...]

Elden Ring is finally here. The huge game, from Dark Souls developer FromSoftware, is set in a world created in part by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin. It largely lives up to the massive hype, but it didn't have a perfect launch. Bandai Namco issued a PSA on the day of release, promising [...]

Newly appointed Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson praised his former boss, the conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as athe most important judge of the last 100 years,a in a memo to agency staff honoring Black History Month. The message, obtained by The Verge and confirmed by the FTC, sheds light on how Ferguson [...]

A US federal judge declined to block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing or transferring data from seven government agencies, or stop further firings of their workforce. DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a temporary restraining order (TRO) sought by a group of 14 Democratic state attorneys general, led [...]

Humane is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support document. After that date, Pins will no longer connect to [...]

Marvel Rivals, the Overwatch 2-lunch-eating multiplayer shooter that boasted 20 million players within days of its December 2024 launch, has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its US operations, according to separate posts by recently laid off employees on LinkedIn. Welp, just got laid off from my job working on Marvel Rivals with [...]