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Want to flex your Wordle habit beyond just keeping your streak? The New York Times has added badges to recognize certain achievements in Wordle, Spelling Bee, and Connections. Have you achieved the infamous Wordle in 1? What about the Perfect Connections Puzzle? How many Pangrams are under your Spelling Bee belt? Badges are rewards you [...]

Halo Studios has created something special for the 25th anniversary of Halo next year. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a full remake of the original Combat Evolved that launched alongside Microsoft's first Xbox console in 2001. It has a fully rebuilt campaign with 4K visuals, new weapons and vehicles, a four-player online co-op mode, and brand-new [...]

I use a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 every single week to help film Today I'm Toying With, and I love it to pieces. The baby steadicam's one of the most popular gadgets the company's ever sold, because it's so good at automatically capturing stabilized video of whatever I want, far better than a phone. What [...]

Halloween parties are fun. The preparation and cleanup? Not so much. Luckily for those looking to make life a little easier next week, Eufy's X10 Pro Omni is available from Amazon for $499.99 ($300 off) when you clip the on-page coupon, which matches the all-time low we last saw during Amazon's October Prime Day event. [...]

Two years after US-based Neato Robotics closed up shop in 2023, its robot vacuum cleaners have reached the end of the road (or rather, hallway). Users are receiving emails notifying them that their Neato robovacs will no longer have access to cloud services, meaning they can't be controlled through the robots' MyNeato app anymore. In [...]

The latest Nintendo Direct on October 23rd brought us an hour-long dive into Kirby Air Riders, as well as a surprising accessibility announcement. Hosted by game director Masahiro Sakurai, the Direct showed off more features, gameplay, and modes for the racing game releasing for the Switch 2 on November 20th. Tucked toward the end of [...]

When the Epomaker P75 launched last year, it impressed us with its build quality and laundry list of features, especially for a board that retails for less than $100. And while the mechanical keyboard has since been discontinued, it remains an excellent choice you can still pick up with either the linear or tactile switches [...]

Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind the mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, according to posts from staffers on LinkedIn. Netflix acquired Boss Fight in March 2022, with an executive saying at the time that the studio's extensive experience building hit games across genres will help accelerate our ability to provide Netflix [...]

Nike's new neuroscience-based footwear" is designed to activate an athlete's brain before and after a big game. The two shoes, a mule (the $95 Mind 001) and a lace-up sneaker (the $145 Mind 002), feature a distinctive array of 22 orange foam nodes embedded in each sole. Nike says the nodes each move up and [...]

Outlook users have only just got over the webification of Microsoft's email client in recent years, and already there are major changes on the horizon. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell me that the company recently reorganized its Outlook team under new leadership with a focus on rebuilding the email client for the AI era. [...]

Alongside a powered footwear system called Project Amplify and new performance apparel with improved airflow, Nike yesterday debuted a new jacket allowing athletes to regulate their body temperature without having to add or remove layers of clothing. Leveraging the company's longtime use of air bladders to improve the cushioning in its shoes, the Nike Therma-FIT [...]

Just eight months after introducing the Osmo Mobile 7 Pro, DJI has already announced a follow-up. The new Osmo Mobile 8 doesn't reimagine the now well-established design of the company's smartphone stabilizers. But it introduces new functionality, including the ability to rotate and pan a smartphone a full 360 degrees, and support for Apple's DockKit, [...]

Verizon is launching a new Lite" home internet plan for people in areas previously not covered by its fiber and 5G internet. The new plan offers download speeds of up to 25Mbps, but it costs as much as $60 per month without any discounts. Verizon says its Lite plan is best for light" internet usage [...]

We are saturated with superhero media to the point where even self-criticism has been done to death with franchises like Watchmen and The Boys. But with its debut choice-driven narrative adventure, AdHoc Studio has managed to find a unique angle for the superhero genre. In Dispatch, the story focuses on an office-based lackey and corporate [...]

OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that makes it easier to search for workspace information without switching between apps. The company knowledge" ChatGPT update for Business, Enterprise, and Education users is powered by a version of GPT5 that directly connects with tools like Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, and GitHub, allowing the chatbot to sift [...]

Snacking giant Mondelez is using generative AI to slash marketing costs and is preparing to release AI-generated TV ads next year, a senior executive told Reuters. Jon Halvorson, Mondelez's global senior vice president of consumer experience, said the company has spent more than $40 million on an AI video tool that can halve production costs. [...]

Web browsers have looked and worked basically the same way for more than a decade, to the point where they all have roughly the same features, in the same places, and are often even built around the same engine. But just about every company in tech suddenly wants to change them, all spurred by AI [...]

Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a gilded grand ballroom. The president says taxpayers won't be footing the $300 million bill and that private donors, himself included, will pick up the tab. Big Tech will be paying for a lot of it, if the list of donors [...]

Facebook and Instagram are breaching Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) rules related to the handling of illegal content, moderation, and transparency, according to a preliminary decision issued by the European Commission. TikTok and Meta have both also been found to be violating transparency obligations under the DSA. The Commission says that Meta is imposing confusing" [...]

With Windows 10 on its last legs, Intel is looking forward to the PC industry growing more than it has in years - the most since 2021, when the covid-19 pandemic revived industry growth by creating a huge surge in demand. But it seems the struggling Intel, which just received lifelines from Nvidia, Softbank, and [...]

Microsoft is joining the AI browser wave with the official launch of a new Copilot Mode" in Edge. The option, first announced in July, turns Copilot into your portal to the web, with each new tab opening a chat window where you can either ask a question, conduct a search, or enter a URL. Copilot [...]

The race to make the Lego Game Boy play actual Game Boy games ended before it even began. The same day Lego officially launched the set, Natalie the Nerd revealed she'd already transformed it to play real Game Boy cartridges on real Game Boy chips. Turns out she's not stopping there! Natalie is now working [...]

Nike is showing off new performance apparel today that it says it designed with climate change in mind. It introduced its new Aero-FIT performance cooling technology, which it says will make its debut in football kits Nike federations wear in 2026. The company claims the technology boosts sweating efficiency by allowing for more air movement [...]

If you're too tight on time to read through your backlog of books, audiobooks might be a more convenient way to get caught up. Amazon is offering a steep discount on Audible Premium Plus that lets new and lapsed subscribers pay $.99 (usually $14.95) per month for three months. The subscription includes one credit per [...]

Google's latest pledge to support a new clean energy technology is... a gas project? To be precise, it's a gas-fired power plant outfitted with filtering devices to capture its planet-heating carbon emissions. Is this just a polluting fossil fuel project in sheep's clothing? Google just inked an agreement to support the development of a new [...]

EA is partnering with Stability AI, the company that develops the Stable Diffusion AI image model, to help infuse AI into its development processes. The two companies will co-develop transformative AI models, tools, and workflows that empower our artists, designers, and developers to reimagine how content is built," EA says. The company says that humans [...]

On Thursday, Nike announced Project Amplify, the world's first powered footwear system," which it says isn't intended for pros - in fact, quite the opposite. Much like e-bikes provide pedal assistance, Project Amplify uses a lightweight robotics system to boost running and walking speed. The first-generation product, created alongside robotics partner Dephy, isn't designed for [...]

Fallout 4 will turn 10 on November 10th, and to celebrate the milestone, Bethesda is releasing a new anniversary edition of the game that same day on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X / S. With Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, you'll get the base game, six official expansions, more than 150 pieces [...]

As much as I love decorations, it's the music that really gets me into the holiday spirit. Luckily for those looking to capitalize on the upcoming holiday season, JBL's newer Charge 6 is on sale at Walmart for $154 (about $46 off), which is one of the lowest prices we've seen for the portable Bluetooth [...]

Changpeng Zhao, the founder of crypto exchange Binance, was pardoned by President Trump today, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move comes after months of lobbying by the company and Zhao's own efforts to boost the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. In April of 2024, Zhao was sentenced to four months in [...]

Krafton, the company behind games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds and the Sims-like InZOI, is making a big push into using AI within the company. Under this new AI First" strategy, Krafton plans to use agentic AI to help automate work and implement an AI-centered" management system, according to a translation of a press release. The [...]

Three of the rumored potential buyers for entertainment titan Warner Bros. Discovery are tech companies. Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are all interested in buying Warner Bros. Discovery as a whole or acquiring pieces of the company, like its content libraries and production assets, according to Bloomberg. Earlier this week, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it was [...]

Anthropic is rolling out an update for Claude that will let the AI chatbot remember" past conversations without prompting. The upgrade for all paid subscribers should make Claude more useful and convenient. Max subscribers will be able to turn on Claude's memory" in their settings from today, Anthropic said. The feature, which has been available [...]

Nintendo Switch 2 owners will have just a little bit longer to venture into The Lands Between. Developer FromSoftware announced today that its upcoming port of the open-world RPG Elden Ring - dubbed Tarnished Edition" - won't be launching in 2025 as originally planned. Instead, it will be out at some unspecified point in 2026. [...]

It's been nearly 30 years since Microsoft's Office assistant, Clippy, first graced our screens as an annoying paperclip. After the Groucho-browed interruptions of Clippy came to an end in 2001 with Office XP, Microsoft tried to revive the spirit of an assistant with Cortana on Windows Phone. The technology still wasn't quite there a decade [...]

Microsoft is rolling out some significant changes to its Copilot AI assistant today. There's a new groups feature that connects multiple people into a Copilot chat, memory to let Copilot learn things about you, a new real talk" mode that will bring back some of Copilot's early personality, and more. Copilot Groups is designed for [...]

Talented Game Boy modder Natalie the Nerd was the first to turn Lego's impressive brick-built replica into a functional Game Boy. She's currently developing a kit so anyone can upgrade Lego's Game Boy to actually play games, but the creators of the BrickBoy have beaten her to the punch by taking a few shortcuts. Natalie's [...]

Well, that's not very subtle. In an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he needs more control over Tesla, as well as a pay package that could be worth nearly $1 trillion, in exchange for building a robot army." Otherwise, he could get ousted as CEO, and then, well, who would control [...]

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. What if you could make hundreds of millions of dollars with cheaply produced content, all while sidestepping powerful distribution platforms like Netflix and YouTube? This promise is at the core [...]

Amazon is launching a new AI-powered tool that's supposed to help you choose which product to buy. Now, when you look at multiple similar items on Amazon's app or mobile website, it may display a Help me decide" button that picks one for you based on your browsing activity, searches, shopping history, and preferences. As [...]

Google is expanding its AI features within Google Earth. It's now easier to chat with Google Earth AI models, introduced in July, to identify infrastructure vulnerable to an oncoming storm, for example, or spot communities at risk of dust storms during a drought. Google Earth now uses Gemini to connect various Earth AI models - [...]

Razer is launching the Raiju V3 Pro, a $219.99 wireless controller made for the PlayStation 5 and PC. It's an alternative to Sony's $199.99 DualSense Edge, which it shares many traits in common with, like adjustable trigger pull distances, swappable rear paddles, extra stick nubs, and a hard carrying case. Plus, it comes with a [...]

Pressure from Microsoft to achieve industry-topping profit margins has led to Xbox being butchered over the last two years, after not imposing specific targets on the gaming unit in the past. Citing sources with knowledge of internal matters, Bloomberg reports that Microsoft CFO Amy Hood set across-the-board targets of 30 percent profit margins in fall [...]

Fujifilm has announced the third iteration of its entry-level X-T30 interchangeable lens camera. The original debuted in 2019, while the X-T30 II launched in 2021 with minimal upgrades. The new Fujifilm X-T30 III also isn't a complete reimagining of the camera, carrying forward the previous model's 26.1-megapixel X-Trans CMOS 4 image sensor. But it comes [...]

Pokemon TCG Pocket is about to celebrate its one-year anniversary with a bunch of new features, events, and some very powerful monster cards. Today, the Pokemon Company announced TCG Pocket's forthcoming Mega Rising set, which will introduce a number of Mega Evolved pokemon that first appeared in the X / Y DS games (and return [...]

Netflix is bringing the Stranger Things series finale to theaters. The show's final episode will hit theaters at the same time it premieres on the streaming service on December 31st at 8PM ET. It'll be available in more than 350 theaters across the US and Canada, and will run through January 1st, 2026. The finale, [...]

Wyze has announced a new budget-friendly doorbell camera. The Wyze Battery Video Doorbell looks similar to the Video Doorbell v2 the brand released in 2023, but as the name implies, it adds a rechargeable battery so it's easier to install without the need for wiring or access to power. But wired power is also an [...]

Leica is announcing a new type of M-mount camera, its first that's not actually a rangefinder. The new M EV1 is based on the M11-P from 2023, but it strips out the traditional rangefinder in favor of a 5.76-million dot electronic viewfinder - hence the omitted viewfinder window on its front. The new camera is [...]

This week, OpenAI debuted its long-rumored AI browser that aims to put its AI chatbot at the center of the internet. The browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is entering a space that's already occupied by Perplexity's Comet and Google Gemini in Chrome. OpenAI is likely betting that putting ChatGPT front and center is enough to draw [...]

Ledger's fifth Nano crypto wallet marks a moment of reinvention: it's not nearly so nano" anymore, and Ledger would prefer you didn't call it a crypto wallet either. It's grown in size, picked up a full E Ink display, and is now being billed as a signer." The $179 Ledger Nano Gen5 resembles the $249 [...]