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Michael Eisner, Disney's former CEO who ran the company for 21 years and oversaw its acquisition of ABC in 1995, does not think his successor, Bob Iger, made the right decision in moving to put Jimmy Kimmel Live! on indefinite pause following threats from Trump-appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr. In a post to X about [...]

Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.99 price. The Xbox Series S will move to $399.99, up from $379.99. Microsoft blames the price hikes [...]

On Wednesday evening, I had a profound sense of deja vu. When I watched Mark Zuckerberg open his Meta Connect keynote by giving the world a live backstage tour from his new glasses, I was transported back to 2012. I was in the live audience at Google I/O when Sergey Brin introduced the world to [...]

Happy iPhone Day! If you're picking up the new iPhone 17 or iPhone Air and want to avoid scratches or cracks on its front glass, we spotted a great deal on a two-pack of amFilm's OneTouch screen protectors over at Slickdeals. Designed specifically to fit the front of the new 6.3-inch iPhone 17, you can [...]

Ugreen has released a new wallet tracker that's just as thin as the FineTrack Slim Smart Finder the company debuted earlier this year, but with a massive boost in battery life from 12 months to five years. However, while the previous version was compatible with Apple's Find My network and recharable, the new FineTrack Slim [...]

China and the US have made progress" on granting permission for ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American consortium, fulfilling a nine-months-overdue legal requirement. After saying a tentative deal had been reached Monday and that approval would come Friday, President Donald Trump's administration has issued an update that leaves the current status ambiguous and the [...]

The only true surprise about this latest MAGA influencer civil war is how quickly it happened, given the circumstances: Charlie Kirk, an ubiquitous presence, influential political force, and seemingly everyone's best friend, had been dead for barely a week before everyone began fighting each other for a piece of him. The indictment of Tyler Robinson, [...]

It feels like we've reached total saturation when it comes to streaming services, but apparently people are happy to sign up for one (or two) more services if they include live sports. According to Antenna, a firm that tracks the streaming industry, the new ESPN service and Fox One signed up about a million new [...]

One of the mysterious AI devices that OpenAI is considering developing with Apple's former chief design officer, Jony Ive, resembles a smart speaker without a display," The Information reports. People with direct knowledge of the matter" told the publication that OpenAI has already secured a contract with Luxshare, and has also approached Goertek - two [...]

Meta obviously believes in smart glasses. It's not alone: Google, Apple, Samsung, and others all appear to be heavily invested in the idea that the next big gadget will be on your face. But at least for now, it appears Meta is the company building the best, most interesting, and most successful version of that [...]

Following the announcement that it is bringing Gemini to its Google Home smart home platform, it appears the company is updating its Google Home app to incorporate the new features. Android Authority dove into code for the upcoming v3.41.50.3 version of the app and found a significant redesign." While the overall UI doesn't look like [...]

There is a certain degree of body horror baked into American football that becomes readily apparent whenever players sustain gruesome, career-ending injuries on camera. For some, football's overt violence is part of its appeal, and players are seen as people who have chosen to risk their safety in pursuit of fame and glory. Over the [...]

When The Verge's senior smart home reviewer, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, offered to give us a tour of her smart backyard, I was thrilled. Firstly, I have never seen a technologically advanced backyard curated by an industry expert before, and secondly, I wasn't even sure what to expect. My vision of a smart home includes automated [...]

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. There's a hard conversation to be [...]

This week, Google announced that it has finally completed moving "the best" of its Nest-branded smart home devices from the Nest app to the Google Home app. This means users of Google Nest hardware shouldn't have to bounce between two apps anymore and can finally delete the Nest app. (The "best" qualifier is doing some [...]

Nothing is teasing a second set of headphones that it will release through its CMF affordability-focused subbrand. The launch comes after Nothing released its Headphone 1 wireless over-ear cans earlier this year. The CMF Headphone Pro will launch on September 29th, 2025, and while the company hasn't revealed any specifics on performance, the teaser videos [...]

In case it wasn't clear, The Last of Us made it obvious: at their very best, big-budget video games should be comparable to prestige television, so much so that adapting one for HBO is a relatively straightforward affair. This bar-setting exercise is further exemplified by other PlayStation franchises marching toward adaptation: Ghost of Tsushima is [...]

The iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 fleet of phones took the spotlight during Apple's Awe dropping" event. If you weren't tempted by the new phones, the fact that the entire Apple Watch lineup got refreshed might have been even bigger news to you. The Apple Watch SE 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and Apple [...]

Apple's most impressive wireless earbuds are now available fromAmazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target for $249. Our reviewer Victoria Song had a lot of good things to say about them in our review. But if it's an in-depth spec showdown that you're looking for, between the AirPods Pro 3 and the rest of Apple's AirPods [...]

Autumn is a time for renewal. Summer, a time for vacations and relaxation, is over. And now, we must look to the start of a new school year and a renewed attention to work. It can sometimes be difficult to make the transition - many of us would rather spend a little more time in [...]

A wise person once observed that cycling in my neighborhood in Seattle is like going uphill both ways. It's the absolute truth. My house? On a hill. The business district I want to get to? On a different hill. The route to the coffee shop? Hills galore. And inevitably, as I'd grind through another steep [...]

To cover American tech policy over the past few years has been to watch a series of individually dangerous waves of regulation and political operations roll toward an inevitable convergence. To cover American tech policy over the past few months is to watch those waves collide invisibly beneath the surface and head squarely in the [...]

Fall Upgrade Week feels like an odd time to celebrate my move to a 50-year-old film camera, but there's logic to it: not because film photos are timeless, or because I want to wax lyrical about warmth and grain and analog appeal, but because I don't think there's any better way to teach yourself about [...]

Apple's iPhone 17, the 17 Pro, the 17 Pro Max, and the thin iPhone Air are now available in stores and online. Beyond the Air's shockingly slim design, Apple's latest iPhone lineup features a number of notable updates worth upgrading for, especially if you have a phone that's a few generations old. The standard iPhone [...]

Security researchers employed ChatGPT as a co-conspirator to plunder sensitive data from Gmail inboxes without alerting users. The vulnerability exploited has been closed by OpenAI but it's a good example of the new risks inherent to agentic AI. The heist, called Shadow Leak and published by security firm Radware this week, relied on a quirk [...]

Meta ran into some spectacularly embarrassing technical issues during the live demos of its new smart glasses this week, and now we know why. Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, explained in an Instagram AMA why two notable demos - an influencer asking the AI assistant for cooking instructions, and Mark Zuckerberg attempting to pick [...]

In the future, Intel will make CPUs with Nvidia graphics inside - among other things, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute GPU chiplets" that Intel can place alongside its x86 CPU cores instead of the Arc integrated graphics it develops in-house today. But, at least for now, Intel says that doesn't [...]

The microphones in your earbuds probably suck. You know it, I know it, and apparently Nothing knows it too. Its fix? Better microphones - but in the charging case, not the buds. The Ear 3 buds feature what the company calls "Super Mic." What that really means is a pair of microphones built into the [...]

Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world's most valuable company (Nvidia's at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. Nvidia quickly shut down several possible explanations. Huang claimed it had nothing to do with Trump, who famously [...]

Today, the CEO of Hyundai sought to distance his company from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid earlier this month at the company's battery factory in Georgia, which resulted in the arrest of hundreds of South Korean workers. The factory is operated by LG Energy Solutions, and most of the workers that were detained were [...]

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Like many backpackers, I'm a sicko. I have weighed all my gear in order to maintain a spreadsheet for pack weight on every trip I'm on. I've spent more money than I care to think about in order to drop pounds, or even ounces. This is why I'm the proud new owner of a power [...]

Ubiquiti has announced a collection of new storage solutions compatible with its UniFi lineup of networking devices that already includes routers, switches, and security cameras. Compared to other desktop network attached storage (NAS) solutions from companies like Synology and Ugreen, Ubiquiti's UNAS 2 and UNAS 4 look more like sleek wireless routers than storage solutions [...]

At its Connect keynote on Wednesday, Meta officially introduced the $799.99 Meta Ray-Ban Display, also known as Hypernova. The brand's new, high-end smart glasses feature an in-lens display you can control with wrist-based gestures via the new Meta Neural Band that's included. The display pairs with your phone and allows you to see everything from [...]

Meta is going to let apps access the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses thanks to a new Wearable Device Access Toolkit for developers. Our first version of the toolkit will open up access to a suite of on-device sensors- empowering you to start building features within your mobile apps that leverage the [...]

Notion has entered the agent era of its AI evolution with the launch of the Notion Agent on Thursday. The announcement forms the bulk of the Notion 3.0 roll out available to all users. The company calls the new product a teammate and Notion super user" that can do everything a human can do in [...]

I got to try Kirby Air Riders this morning at a Nintendo holiday showcase, and I wasn't prepared for how difficult it was - and how bad I am at it. The Switch 2-exclusive racer launches November 20th, and it's full of modes, collectibles, and new characters to play as. To be clear, there's absolutely [...]

Microsoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Facilitator agents will now sit in on Teams meetings, creating agendas, taking notes, and [...]

The latest targets in the White House's on-again-off-again antitrust war are Ticketmaster and Live Nation, two villains that everyone appears to agree on. The Federal Trade Commission is accusing Ticketmaster (which owns Live Nation) of allowing ticket brokers to illegally exceed limits on purchases and then profiting off the inflated resale value. Customers often pay [...]

Google is stepping things up in the AI agent browser wars. The company is launching a suite of new features deeply embedding Gemini into Chrome. That starts with the announcement thatGemini in Chrome will no longer require a membership fee and will begin rolling out to both Mac and Windows users in the US starting [...]

Yesterday, Disney-owned ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live "indefinitely" for a comment Kimmel made about the response to Charlie Kirk's death. The response from Republican commentators has been predictably gleeful. They've positioned the suspension as a reversal of "cancel culture," a "deplatforming" that's simply fair retaliation for antagonizing them. "Jimmy Kimmel does have Free Speech, he [...]

In a sign of the times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement denying a massive conspiracy that had overtaken the MAGA discourse: that Israel was behind the death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. "Somebody has fabricated a monstrous big lie - that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk's horrific murder," [...]

Microsoft only started testing its new Gaming Copilot in the Windows Game Bar last month, and it's now starting to roll out to all Windows 11 users today. While the initial preview was limited to certain markets, Microsoft says today's release has regional support everywhere except mainland China." Microsoft is also bringing its Gaming Copilot [...]

"Some of the biggest businesses we've built might not be as relevant going forward," admitted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an employee-only town hall last week. Nadella was responding to a question about the perceived change in culture inside Microsoft, but his answer revealed a lot more about his own fears over Microsoft's future in [...]

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) has issued a formal notice with more details about the five power banks that Anker voluntarily recalled earlier this year. The agency has received 33 reports of incidents involving fires and explosions caused by the power banks, with four of them causing minor burn injuries" and one resulting [...]

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with a cyberattack against London's public transportation network in August 2024. UK investigators believe the network intrusion" that impacted Transport for London (TfL) last year was carried out by members of the Scattered Spider online criminal group and caused significant disruption and millions in losses," according to Paul [...]

In December, Meta announced a multiyear partnership with James Cameron's Lightstorm Vision to bring 3D entertainment to Meta's Quest headsets. This week, Cameron joined Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on stage during the company's Meta Connect conference to share a first result of that partnership: Quest owners are able to watch an exclusive preview clip for [...]

Today Microsoft announced its plans to bring a Fairwater AI data center, which it claims is the world's most powerful," online in early 2026. The $3.3 billion construction in Wisconsin is housed at the site of Foxconn' s failed LCD factory which was announced in 2017, but by the end of 2018 was already being [...]

Undeterred by the recent ICE raid that rounded up hundreds of its workers in Georgia, Hyundai announced a fresh slate of investments in the US, including $2.7 billion into the EV battery factory where the raid took place. The automaker also plans to release a range of new electrified models, including extended-range EVs and over [...]

One of the many unpublicized changes introduced with the iOS 26 update released earlier this week is that screenshots now automatically open into a full-screen preview. The new approach provides immediate access to a handful of useful tools for editing a screenshot, but they now dominate your iPhone's screen when captured, instead of shrinking into [...]