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Meta is planning to design the hardware and software for humanoid robots, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources tell the outlet that a newly formed team within Meta's Reality Labs division will start by working on humanoid robot hardware" capable of completing household chores. Bloomberg notes that Meta has broader goals of making the [...]

As the new Congress has already started working on legislation to protect kids from social media harms, Roblox is doubling down on its efforts to convince lawmakers it shouldnat be lumped in with products like Instagram and YouTube. Even though the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) failed to become law last year, despite passing handily [...]

Instagram is beginning to test a button that gives people a private way to signal that they don't feel good about that particular comment," Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says in a post on Threads. The button, based on a screenshot from a Threads user, is a downward-facing arrow next to the like button in comments. [...]

President Donald Trump's tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico are presented by the president and his boosters as a boon to American businesses. If products from China are more expensive, the argument goes, then people will instead buy from counterparts based in the US. But for small businesses manufacturing in the US, the tariffs are [...]

Robert Eggers' excellent Nosferatu remake will finally be available to stream very soon. Peacock announced today that Nosferatu - which stars Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Bill Skarsgard - will make its streaming debut on February 21st. Along with the film's original theatrical cut, Peacock subscribers will also be able to watch the extended cut [...]

The third season of Yellowjackets is a bit like getting lured back to the high school reunion that was delightfully fun the first time but eventually becomes an exercise in diminishing returns. Maybe itas part of our soft human inability to let go of the past, especially coming-of-age drama that seems increasingly romantic and valid [...]

It looks like Xiaomi is soon launching a new flagship Ultra smartphone model that takes its Leica licensing beyond just the lens. Android Headlines has posted what appear to be official renders of a Xiaomi 15 Ultra, with Leica camera styling that includes duo-tone white and rough-finished black verticle strips down the rear of the [...]

The paid search engine Kagi has added an even more private way to search. The new feature, called Privacy Pass, lets you make searches without having them traced back to you. Privacy Pass is based on an authentication protocol standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force. It works by allowing users to authenticate themselves to [...]

Protestors are planning more demonstrations outside Tesla showrooms nationwide this weekend, as Elon Musk's polarizing behavior and political activities within the Trump administration continue to have negative side effects on his electric car business. The protests are being advertised on BlueSky under the tags Tesla Takeover" and Tesla Takedown," similar to demonstrations held last weekend. [...]

Itas hard to think of a time when a single figure has been so central to seemingly everything in the way that Elon Musk is right now. Musk is overseeing and overhauling the federal government, while bending it toward his own financial gain. Heas also ubiquitous in the artificial intelligence world, where this week he [...]

Some Apple TV 4K users in the US are being prompted to connect their Netflix accounts to the Apple TV app. This would appear to signal an end to the streaming service's longtime refusal to have its content aggregated into third-party platforms. Users who link their accounts are able to add certain Netflix originals like [...]

Around 20 technologists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired on Thursday evening, gutting a team that specialized in understanding Big Techas entrance into financial products, three sources familiar with the matter tell The Verge. It follows an earlier round of layoffs of mostly contractors and probationary employees on Tuesday, as reported by Wired, [...]

My first time playing Elden Ring Nightreign, I was stressed the hell out. My team and I were in an underground dungeon, trying to make our way past traps and dangerous blind corners, all while knowing there was an invisible clock ominously ticking down above our heads. If we were still underground when it hit [...]

The open-source code repository Codeberg has blamed the far right for a recent campaign of abuse and harassment across its systems. Projects advocating tolerance and equal rights" were subjected to spam campaigns using abusive messages, which escalated to spam emails sent to users via Codeberg's own automated systems. Codeberg says it stands strong against hate [...]

The DOGE website created to document how Elon Musk's team is eviscerating the US federal government is wide open for anyone to edit. This is the same DOGE organization that has gained unprecedented access to sensitive US financial systems with data on millions of Americans. Two web development experts reported the security flaw to 404Media [...]

Microsoft is adding a super useful button to Outlook mobile that will let you quickly minimize a draft email and task switch on the go. If you're like me and you send a lot of emails from your iPhone or Android device, it can be really annoying to have to switch out of a draft [...]

Nearly a month after it was banned in the US, TikTok has returned to the App Store for iPhones and other Apple devices as well as the Google Play store for Android phones and tablets. The return follows US Attorney General Pam Bondi sending a letter to Apple assuring that it won't be fined for [...]

Google's Gemini AI assistant can now recall past conversations to provide more relevant responses if you have a subscription to Gemini Advanced via Google One AI Premium. With the update, you'll no longer have to recap previous chats or search for a thread to pick up a conversation, as Gemini will already have the context [...]

As always, the most important Nvidia graphics card is the one you can actually buy, and Nvidia's talked a big game for its RTX 5070, making the dubious but nuanced claim it can deliver RTX 4090 performance for just $549. On February 28th, AMD will get its chance to intercept with the Radeon RX 9070 [...]

If you're on the market for an excellent Android phone, multiple retailers are offering some of the best prices we've seen on some of Google's devices. The last-gen Pixel 8 (8GB RAM/128GB storage) starts at $399 ($300 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, for example, but the real highlight is the Pixel 9 lineup. Right [...]

TikTokas app is still working for people in the US a as long as itas already on their phone. While the service quickly returned after the brief shutdown in January, the app itself is no longer available on either Appleas App Store or Googleas Play Store. That means that if you removed the app, never [...]

Amazon's Prime Video app just got a big update on Apple TV. The app is now better optimized for tvOS, allowing you to swipe on the Siri Remote to scroll through Prime Video's shows and movies as well as use touchpad gestures for fast-forwarding, rewinding, and scrubbing through content. Amazon has updated the app's search [...]

Audio-Technica has announced a new version of its open-ear cartilage conduction headphones the company says deliver improved sound and better battery life. The headphones use a technology that's similar to bone conduction headphones from companies like Shokz and Suunto but instead deliver sound through the softer cartilage around your ears. The approach still leaves the [...]

I like my phone, so I put a ring on it back in 2022 a the year my colleagues Jen and Allison introduced me to the Anker ring we now call aThe best MagSafe phone gripa. Itas a simple magnetic ring attached to a non-magnetic finger ring that doubles as a kickstand. But what if [...]

Apple is preparing a new 27-inch display with Mini LED backlighting for release later in 2025 or early next year, according to analyst Ross Young (and highlighted by MacRumors). The purported follow-up to 2022's Studio Display would leave the monitor's size unchanged but offer meaningful gains in contrast, black levels, and (potentially) overall brightness. Even [...]

On Wednesday, reports from The New York Times and Drop Site News pointed out that the US Department of State included an order for $400 million worth of armored Teslas in its 2025 procurement forecast. But shortly after these reports emerged, the agency replaced its mention of Armored Tesla (Production Units)" with a much vaguer [...]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now President Donald Trump's new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) following a Senate confirmation vote. As head of the HHS, Kennedy will oversee agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. While Kennedy has said that he is [...]

Google is releasing the second public beta of Android 16 today that will introduce new features for professional photographers who want more control while capturing images and videos. The upgrades include new manual control options when using auto-exposure, precise color temperature and tint adjustments, and support for Ultra HDR images in the HEIC image format. [...]

With its first few Captain America films, Marvel Studios sold audiences on the idea that its superhero movies could be more than live-action cartoons. By borrowing from other genres, they could become gritty, character-focused thrillers like The Winter Soldier or splashy crossover events like Civil War. And the tonal shifts between each feature made it [...]

OnePlus says it won't launch a new foldable phone this year, axing expectations that the company was prepping a proper sequel to its Open foldable from 2023, 9to5Google reports. A new OnePlus Open 2" could have followed the blueprint of its subsidiary company Oppo's new ultra-thin Find N5 that's launching in China and internationally next [...]

Apple has confirmed a product launch on February 19th, and we think it'll be the new iPhone SE. That could mark a major shake-up to the company's affordable iPhone line, adding in Face ID and killing off the classic home button. We don't expect Apple to hold a full launch event for the new SE, [...]

Iave been thinking a lot about the next Xbox lately. While Microsoft publicly lines up a busy year of game releases and ports for the PS5 and Switch 2, the company has also been secretly building its future Xbox hardware and platform. There havenat been any giant leaks about next-gen hardware yet, but Microsoft has [...]

Apple TV Plus has steadily become the preeminent home of streaming sci-fi shows, and that reputation has really only grown over time. Silo just wrapped up its thrilling second season, Severance is back after a long hiatus, and promising adaptations of Neuromancer and The Murderbot Diaries are in the works. Even the serviceas detective shows [...]

Square Enix has shut down the iOS version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and removed it from the App Store following an unfixable bug that blocked people from accessing content they had paid for. The issue is due to changes made to the in-app purchases model," Square Enix says in a post. Further investigation revealed [...]

It's going to be a hot vehicular combat summer: Peacock has announced that the second of Twisted Metal will start streaming later this year. The show, which is an adaptation of a classic and long-dormant PlayStation series, premiered in the summer of 2023 and was renewed later that year. Season 1 was an origin story [...]

Apple is getting ready to show its newest device during an event on Wednesday, February 19th. Tim Cook revealed the date in a post on X, saying Get ready to meet the newest member of the family," alongside a GIF of the Apple logo. Apple is widely expected to reveal the latest generation of its [...]

I've been the editor-in-chief of The Verge for over 10 years now, and a tech journalist for about 15 - and until recently, it felt pretty safe to assume that there was a zero percent chance that the US government would punish me for doing my job. There's that whole First Amendment in this country, [...]

At least one more season of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be coming to the small screen sooner than later. Today, Amazon announced that it has greenlit production on another installment of its Lord of the Rings prequel series starring Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Charlie Vickers as Sauron, Robert [...]

The Dell XPS 13 was once the best thin-and-light Windows laptop you could get, with amazing build quality, good battery life, and decent port selection (and eventually, a serviceable webcam). But it peaked in 2020 and itas been slipping since. It got OLED screen options that tanked the battery life. Then there was a baffling [...]

The first teaser for Sony and Screen Gems' big screen Until Dawn adaptation made it seem like it might just be another supernatural horror with a splash of Groundhog Day tossed in to keep things mildly interesting. But judging from the way the studios are describing the film, it sounds like this Until Dawn will [...]

YouTube has added new generative AI video features that creators can use when making Shorts. The video platform announced that Google's Veo 2 video model is being integrated into YouTube's experimental Dream Screen feature, alongside allowing users to generate standalone video clips that can be added to Shorts. Dream Screen was introduced in September 2023 [...]

Honda and Nissan have announced they are calling off a $60 billion plan to merge their two companies. The pair were in talks for just over a month trying to join forces, a plan that was especially important for Nissan, since it reportedly would only survive another year due to nosediving profits. The merger could [...]

Alibaba has announced that it is partnering with Apple to provide artificial intelligence features to iPhones in China. Apple Intelligence features have not yet been enabled in China, which is thought to have contributed to the company's local decline in smartphone sales. They talked to a number of companies in China. In the end they [...]

Apple has quietly released a new app that suggests it may soon allow third-party retailers to sell its Vision Pro headset. The Vision Pro Demo Fit" app was spotted in the App Store Preview by Apple firmware detective Aaron Perris (seen via 9to5Mac), and includes various features for matching customers to their required Vision Pro [...]

Apple's Vision Pro is finally here. Tim Cook arrived at Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York City to greet the crowd of customers at the doors who were waiting to try out the headset or buy one for themselves. The Vision Pro is Apple's take on a mixed-reality headset, which,according to our review,"feels like [...]

Weare likely still a long way out from Bethesdaas next Elder Scrolls game. But that wait isnat such a big deal when the Xbox has other excellent roleplaying games like Avowed. The latest from Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian, Avowed doesnat shake up the genre. Itas just a really solid fantasy [...]

As Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have sought to gut and remake the federal government to their liking, federal workers have changed how they communicate with one another and with friends. They have locked down communication channels, migrated to new platforms, and what was once skepticism has grown into deep distrust - not just [...]

Apple has resumed advertising on X for the first time since pausing ads more than a year ago. The company was one of many to halt advertisements over concerns for brand safety following Elon Musk's purchase of the social network. While X's approach to content moderation has changed little since then, Big Tech's relationship with [...]