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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 [...]

Meta's US fact-checking program will come to an end by Monday afternoon. In a post on X, Meta's global policy head Joel Kaplan said there will be no new fact checks and no fact checkers" across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by that time as the company replaces it with Community Notes. Meta first announced its [...]

In the second major disruption of today's 50th anniversary event at Microsoft's headquarters, another employee stood up and began yelling at Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer, and Bill Gates - the company's current and past CEOs - in protest of Microsoft's dealings with the government of Israel. Shame on you all. You're all hypocrites," said Microsoft [...]

AI companies canat figure out if the Trump tariffs are about to decimate them a and the fact that no one has a clear answer is sending them, and the tech industry overall, into a confusion spiral. The markets are in disarray. Nvidia is down 7.59%, TSMC is down 7.22%. In San Francisco, sources tell [...]

French satellite network company Eutelsat has been providing Ukraine with much-needed internet access for almost a year with the help of the German government, Reuters reports. Eutelsat's OneWeb division operates low-orbiting satellites that communicate with terrestrial terminals for internet connectivity - similarly to rival SpaceX's Starlink network, which has been the primary supplier of satellite [...]

Donald Trump's initial 75-day delay against enforcement of the TikTok ban law would've expired this weekend, but on Friday, he announced on Truth Social that I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days." This week, Trump announced new taxes on products coming into the US, including [...]

On April 2nd, President Donald Trump announced staggering new tariffs on imports from dozens of countries that could raise the price of almost everything you buy. It hasn't taken long for the impact on tech to start to take shape, with Nintendo delaying preorders of the Nintendo Switch 2 and experts telling The Verge that [...]

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company's 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI. Shame on you," said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. [...]

Two members of Elon Muskas Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were spotted at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week, sources tell The Verge. Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant were seen in the building and are now listed in the FTCas internal directory under the Office of the Chairman with their own agency emails, according [...]

Sphere Entertainment has announced two new immersive experiences coming to its 516-foot wide spherical venue in Las Vegas. An enhanced version of The Wizard of Oz will premiere on the Sphere's 160,000 square foot screen on August 28th, 2025, while a new film by Academy Award-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) [...]

Sarah Wynn-Williams, the ex-Meta employee who authored Careless People, will testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee next week. On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wynn-Williams will address Facebook's cooperation with the Communist regime in China, including FB's plan to build censorship tools." Despite Meta's attempts to silence Wynn-Williams with a gag order preventing her [...]

Microsoft is making changes to Copilot that will allow the artificial intelligence assistant to complete online tasks for you. Using simple chat prompts," these Actions" can be performed in the background while you work on other tasks, according to Microsoft, and can do things like book restaurant reservations, event tickets, and purchase items to ship [...]

After an agonizing wait, Nintendo finally revealed more details on the Switch 2 during a Direct presentation on the morning of April 2nd. While Nintendo told us very little in the official reveal of the console in January, the company announced during the Direct that the Switch 2 would launch on June 5th and cost [...]

The invention of Matter was a grand kumbaya moment for the smart home. Built on the foundations of almost every concept smart home companies had dreamed up a from Appleas HomeKit to Googleas Thread a the idea was to create a new technology on top of existing ones. One common standard to make it easier [...]

Nintendo is pushing back preorders for the Switch 2 due to concerns about Donald Trump's newly announced tariffs. According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th: Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April [...]

I'm always on the lookout for deals on Philips Hue gear, in part because that stuff's expensive and I'm not keen on paying full price. Still, it's worth the money to get the lighting exactly how I want it in each room - down to the precise color temperature that fits the mood or time [...]

Iave always been fascinated by Microsoft, and itas led me on a somewhat surreal path to covering the company for most of my life. It all started in my teenage years, when my curiosity over the inner workings of Windows led to brief moments of fame and lots of moments of trouble with Microsoftas lawyers. [...]

Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft's 50th Anniversary by sharing the source code that created the company's foundation. The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates' blog contains the origins of Altair Basic - a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer - and remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," according [...]

General Timothy Haugh, the director of the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command, was fired on Thursday, according to a report from The Washington Post. His removal reportedly occurred just one day after right-wing activist Laura Loomer pushed for his firing during a meeting with President Donald Trump. Wendy Noble, the Deputy Director and [...]

In 2005, Microsoftas leaders were starting to get worried. Windows and Office were doing well, but the companyas lead software architect, Ray Ozzie, warned them that an emerging trend threatened Microsoft's very existence. A new business model has emerged in the form of advertising-supported services and software," warned Ozzie in his famous memo. This model [...]

Fifty years ago today, Micro-Soft was founded by friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen. As the name implies, Microsoft was originally focused on microprocessors and software, and Gates and Allen created the company to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Founded on April 4th, 1975, Microsoft went on to strike a [...]

Microsoft was originally founded on April 4th, 1975, and the tech giant is now celebrating its 50-year anniversary. Microsoft started with a focus on personal computers, building the very software that helped it achieve an early goal of a PC on every desk and in every home. The success of Windows and Office has allowed [...]

First things first, some exciting news: The Vergecast has been nominated for a Webby Award! This one means a lot to us, especially because itas an award you get to vote on. Wead be so grateful if youad go vote for us once, or 40 times, or however many times the site will allow. (Also, [...]

Honda is looking to the stars for its next hydrogen breakthrough. The automaker is teaming up with space tech companies Sierra Space and Tec-Masters to test its high-differential pressure water electrolysis system on the International Space Station. The test is part of Honda's vision to support life on the Moon and elsewhere in space using [...]

China has responded to Donald Trump's new trade tariffs with its own charges on US goods. After Trump announced the imposition of an additional 34 percent charge on Chinese imports into the US, China has announced a levy at the same rate for US goods shipped to China. It has also barred 11 US companies [...]

When you set up a new camera, or even go to take a picture on some smartphones, youare presented with a key choice: JPG or RAW? JPGs are ready to post just about anywhere, while RAWs yield an unfinished file filled with extra data that allows for much richer post-processing. That option for a RAW [...]

Though Superman is clearly going to get the living daylights beat out of him at some point in James Gunn's upcoming DC Studios feature, the movie's latest trailer puts a spotlight on how the Man of Steel gets put back together again. During its presentation at this year's CinemaCon, Warner Bros. shared an extended sneak [...]

The CEO of Steve Jackson Games, which makes board games and card games, says that the 54 percent tariff on goods imported from China that will go into effect on April 5th is a seismic shift" for the board game industry and that prices are going up." At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing [...]

If you were wondering how President Trumpas tariffs may impact gadgets like smartphones, laptops, and smartwatches, thereas some bad, and perhaps slightly less-bad news. Unless something changes, Trumpas sweeping tariffs will lead to increased prices for consumers. But it will likely take some time before that actually happens. Modern gadgets generally arenat made or assembled [...]

Google's upcoming base Pixel 10 might come with primary and ultrawide cameras that match the hardware recently introduced in the budget Pixel 9A, which aren't as good as the cameras on the Pixel 9, Android Authority reports. However, the new phone may get a telephoto camera, which the Pixel 9 and other base Pixels haven't [...]

The card grading service PSA will no longer take direct submissions from outside the US in response to the Trump administration's new far-reaching tariffs. In an update on Wednesday, PSA says it's reluctantly taking these measures to protect our international customers from significant tariff expenses." As noted by PSA, the tariffs are against the value [...]

The US smartphone market is weird. Most of us buy our phones through some combination of installment plans, trade-in offers, and carrier deals, so answering the question aHow much does this phone cost?a can sometimes require a little galaxy-brain math. President Trumpas 34 percent tariff increase on Chinese goods is set to take effect on [...]

TikTok is shutting down Notes, its photos-sharing app that rivaled Instagram. In a notification to users, the TikTok Notes team says the app will stop working starting May 8th, and all related features will no longer be available." TikTok first rolled out Notes in April of last year, which lets users share photos alongside a [...]

Microsoft is testing out resizable taskbar icons in Windows 11 that can shrink as you open more apps or stay at a smaller size for good. The new options are included in the latest Insider Preview Beta. If you're on the beta, under Taskbar settings > Taskbar behaviors, you can now select options under Show [...]

The biggest threat to the Steam Deck in 2025 wonat be the arrival of other Windows-based handheld gaming PCs. Instead, itall likely be the Nintendo Switch 2, which arrives on June 5 for $449.99 a smack dab between the cost of the $399 Steam Deck LCD and the $549 Steam Deck OLED.A Ironically, the Steam [...]

Amazon is comparing a new feature for the Kindle to the Previously on..." segments that TV shows frequently use. But the Kindle's Recaps feature is instead focused on book series and provides a quick refresher on storylines and character arcs" before readers start the next book, Amazon says. The short Recaps, which do include spoilers, [...]

Amazon is testing a new Buy for Me" button that will let you purchase products from third-party websites without leaving the e-commerce giant's mobile app. The feature is powered by agentic AI, allowing the company to purchase items on your behalf. Last month, Amazon rolled out a test that directs you to other brands' websites [...]

Even with all the self-induced turmoil that Sonos has been through over the last year, if you've been eyeing any of the company's products, it might be wise to buy sooner than later. In an email, spokesperson Erin Pategas tells me that Sonos is closely monitoring developments related to the proposed tariffs and actively assessing [...]

With every new portable console comes a mountain of new third-party accessories. We've already seen Hori's Piranha Plant alternative to the Switch 2's USB-C camera, but Genki has announced a larger lineup of accessories designed to help protect the portable console while you're playing away from home, plus some clever ways to keep it and [...]

Just about everything with the Nintendo Switch 2 is more expensive than the original Switch. Itas perhaps not unexpected that the console itself costs more money than the first Switch. That device launched more than eight years ago, after all. But following yesterdayas big Switch 2 Direct, there has been a lot of sticker shock [...]

Hyundai's Ioniq 6 electric sedan already had a polarizing streamliner" design that only owners seem to love. Now the automaker has massaged the front a bit more for a new look for 2026. The latest Ioniq 6 has squintier daytime running lights and headlights that are lower down into the bumper, something that we're seeing [...]

Two leading AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, just announced major initiatives in higher education. Itas the constant one-upping weave all become familiar with: this week, Anthropic dropped their announcement at 8 AM Wednesday, while OpenAI followed with nearly identical news at 8 AM Thursday. For Anthropic, this weekas announcement was its first major academic push. [...]

Fiber internet providers are worried they won't see the funds promised under a Biden-era initiative that would bring reliable internet service to rural areas. Louisiana fiber internet provider Cajun Broadband was granted $33 million as part of the plan, but the money isn't flowing" and concerns are growing over whether the new administration will prioritize [...]

Nintendo's Switch 2 tech specs yesterday vaguely said that the console is powered by a custom processor made by Nvidia," but in a new blog post, Nvidia has shared a little more detail about how it's powering the device. Nvidia says that its chip enables DLSS support on the Nintendo Switch 2, allowing the console [...]

Though Blumhouse's first M3gan feature was a near-perfect blend of techno-horror and ridiculous comedy, the sequel looks like it's going to blow its predecessor out of the water. Set a couple of years after the first film, M3gan 2.0 once again centers roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams) and her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) - two of [...]

aLiberation Daya has arrived. Get ready to be liberated from affordable vehicle prices. As promised, President Donald Trumpas 25 percent tariffs for imported vehicles went into effect Thursday, sending the auto industry into full panic mode. Some analysts are predicting a $5,000 to $10,000 price hike on new cars out of the gate, while others [...]

Democrats are calling on Treasury Department and General Services Administration watchdogs to investigate a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee's access to sensitive data. In a letter to Deputy Inspectors General Loren Sciurba and Robert Erickson, Reps. Lori Trahan (D-MA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Shontel Brown (D-OH) say the probe should address DOGE staffer Marko [...]

If you're trying to declutter your desk space, a versatile charger that won't eat up a lot of space like the Twelve South HiRise 3 Deluxe could be a good investment. That's especially true today now that the $149.99 charging stand is down to a new all-time low price of $99.99 ($50 off) at Amazon, [...]