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Tech event season is in full swing. This week, Stripe and Figma gathered thousands of people in downtown San Francisco for their respective conferences. I caught up with Figma CEO Dylan Field after his opening keynote at Config, where he announced the most significant product expansion in the company's history. Below, you'll find our chat [...]

Smartwatches have come along way since the first Apple Watch arrived on the scene more than a decade ago. However, despite how ubiquitous they've become, they're still nowhere near as discrete - or long-lasting - as a smart ring like the Samsung Galaxy Ring. Thankfully, if you're looking to ditch the watch, Samsung's first-gen smart [...]

On Friday, Donald Trump abruptly removed the three sitting Democrat appointees on the five-person U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - the independent watchdog agency that issues recalls and regulates everyday products, including consumer electronics. With no apparent cause for removal, the firings violate existing Supreme Court precedent dating back to 1935, as did Trump's removals [...]

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans on photographing every single person who leaves the US by car, an agency spokesperson told Wired. The agency says it will start using facial recognition technology at official border crossings to match all outbound travelers' faces to their passports, visas, or other travel documents, though there's no public timeline [...]

Outer Wilds developer Mobius Digital is working on a new game, but it might be a very long time before we hear anything about it, the studio's head of production tells The Verge. It's going to be quite awhile before we have any news or hints about our next game," says Jackie Kreitzberg. Likely on [...]

It's my final day at The Verge and Vox Media after over 13 years. And as luck should have it, I was able to wrap up my tenure here by interviewing Tom Conrad, the interim CEO of Sonos. I've covered this company more extensively than any other, and as our readers know, Sonos has been [...]

Chances are, your mom changed your diaper, packed your lunch, and helped guide you through your teenage years - all without expecting anything in return. She deserves a standing ovation, but since that's difficult to wrap, a thoughtful Mother's Day gift can make for a fine alternative. This year, we rounded up a collection of [...]

Disney is getting ready to launch ESPN's standalone streaming service - and apparently, it may just be called ESPN," according to a report from CNBC. Sources tell CNBC that ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro chose the name to simplify what's become a cluttered streaming world, filled with different media products that can be bundled with other [...]

Just days after an outage briefly knocked out radar and communications between air traffic controllers and planes at Newark Liberty International Airport, the FAA confirmed it happened again on Friday morning: There was a telecommunications outage that impacted communications and radar display at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark [...]

San Francisco's BART subway system is back up and running after service was suspended and shut down on Friday morning due to a computer networking problem." The service is back online system wide" as of about 9:17AM PT, but BART says to expect major delays in service toward all destinations due to an earlier train [...]

Arlo is introducing some new AI capabilities that allow its security and doorbell cameras to describe events and alert users when certain concerns are detected. The features are included in Arlo Secure 6, the latest version of Arlo's home security subscription service, which is set to start rolling out to customers sometime this month. Adding [...]

It's been a few years, but Peacemaker is finally about to make its return to streaming: Max announced that the DC series will back for eight episodes starting on August 21st. The news came along with a teaser trailer that includes the titular lead (played again by John Cena) seemingly struggling to join a new [...]

Spotify is working on an update that could allow iPhone users in the US to purchase audiobooks through external links. In a post on Friday, Spotify says it has submitted the update to Apple, and if approved, it would also let Premium users buy top-ups" for additional audiobook listening time. The change comes in response [...]

A brochure shared on Reddit provides new details on Eufy's first smart display. The Eufy Smart Display E10 hasn't been officially announced by Anker yet, but it's already received FCC certification and was recently demonstrated at a private event in New York. The smart display's manual has also leaked. According to the brochure, the Smart [...]

Smart home controller maker Brilliant NextGen has launched its second generation of touchscreen panels that replace traditional light switches. The new hardware, which looks like the previous model, has a 4x higher resolution screen and dual-band WiFi (2.4GHz and 5GHz) to help curb interference. It also has a more powerful processor that Brilliant says is [...]

For the past three decades, multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Zawada has produced art across various mediums: sculptures, paintings, videos, installations, and more. He's also been making visualizations with his friend Mark Pritchard, a record producer and experimental musician. They became close friends, talking nearly every day. But the relationship changed when Pritchard brought him a new, [...]

Some parts of X's notification system have been down since Thursday afternoon, making it hard for users to see when accounts they follow have posted something. User reports can be seen across Reddit and X, and my colleagues at The Verge have noticed zero new notifications even with alerts enabled on accounts that have posted [...]

Former Apple designer Jony Ive says the work on his next product is driven by owning the unintended consequences" associated with the iPhone. During an interview with Stripe, Ive said there's not anything that I can be more preoccupied or bothered by" than the potentially adverse effects smartphones have on their users. I think when [...]

Google is in antitrust court, fighting to preserve the search engine business that has made it so historically successful. At a few different moments through the various stages of the trial, high-powered executives from Apple have taken the stand - and largely taken Google's side. Just this week, Apple's Eddy Cue made the case that [...]

Amazon is expanding its prescription medication business to include your pooches and pussycats. Through its Vetsource partnership announced on Thursday, Amazon says that hundreds of prescription pet medications" will now be available for US customers to purchase via Amazon's storefront, including treatments for fleas, ticks, and chronic conditions. Prescription pet drugs can be found by [...]

Threads is getting a new transparency feature that allows users to see how their accounts are being reprimanded for breaking the platform's rules. Video ads are also making their debut on the platform. The new account status dashboard is similar to existing account features on Instagram and Facebook, showing when posted content has been removed [...]

The moment the white smoke appeared above the Sistine Chapel, I immediately turned on my television, because I wanted to see who the new pope would be, and then hopped on social media, because I knew that the internet could tell me more about the new pope faster than television could. That, and the memes [...]

Netflix is removing the last two shows listed on its Interactive Specials page: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, reports What's on Netflix. The two specials will be pulled on May 12th, 2025, according to the publication, so if you want to watch them, you'll want to catch them soon. [...]

When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he'd later call "concerning" drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was [...]

Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud that led to billions in losses," the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Celsius, which held $25 billion in assets at its peak, abruptly halted withdrawals and transfers during a broader [...]

Apple is launching a new global Viral Chart playlist in Apple Music that consists of tracks people are discovering through the company's Shazam service. The playlist, which is updated daily, shows the top 50 songs people have heard playing out in the real world and have logged through Shazam. You can see charts on Shazam's [...]

Razer has announced three new products today, including an alternative to wireless headphones called the Clio that's designed to attach to your gaming chair and double as a head cushion. Powered by a 5,400mAh battery that Razer says is good for up to 14 hours of use, the Clio uses adjustable straps to attach to [...]

The US government is bringing up Starlink adoption in the midst of tariff trade talks with other countries, according to a report from The Washington Post. In recent weeks, several countries have moved forward with licensing the Elon Musk-owned satellite internet company, including India, Somalia, Lesotho, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam. [...]

The Senate has voted to end a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that used federal funding to cover Wi-Fi hotspots that could be used outside of school and libraries. The program, first implemented by former FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, applied funds from the $2.6 billion federal E-Rate program to a program that enabled schools and [...]

If you've been harboring complaints about Ticketmaster, now's the time to let it all out. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are inviting the public to submit comments about harmful practices in live ticketing as part of efforts to identify unfair and anticompetitive" behavior in the industry. In March, President Donald Trump [...]

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation ago. If you play games on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you have the unenviable task of choosing between [...]

Ecobee has announced an update to its Smart Doorbell Camera that finally adds integration with Google's Home app and smart displays. The company's video doorbell debuted with support for both Apple Home and Amazon Alexa when it launched in late 2023, but integration with Google's smart home ecosystem was promised as a future update arriving [...]

Apple has made progress" on a chip for potential smart glasses that would be competitors to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, according to Bloomberg. The chip is apparently based on the chips Apple uses for the Apple Watch, though the company has removed parts and is being designed in such a way that it can [...]

If you're tired of spending your weekends cleaning, you might want to check out today's deal on Roborock's S8 MaxV Ultra. It'll take care of the vacuuming and mopping for you so you can reclaim your free time, and is currently available at an all-time low price of $999.99 ($800 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, [...]

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, the new LOTR movie that will feature Andy Serkis as both its star and director, will premiere in theaters on December 17th, 2027, Deadline reports. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens, who were all key to the original film trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, will [...]

A federal judge in Florida dismissed most claims against athletes, actors, YouTubers, and other celebrities who endorsed Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange, ruling that there isn't sufficient proof that they knew about FTX or Bankman-Fried's fraudulent acts. The high-profile defendants, sued by a group of FTX investors, include Tom Brady and his ex-wife, the model Gisele [...]

Kickstarter's new Pledge Manager, featuring tools that "simplify logistics and fulfillment" after funds have been successfully raised, is now available to all creators. It was first announced last February as part of a sneak peek at Kickstarter's 2025 Product Roadmap. Initially only available through the platform's beta program, the Pledge Manager includes Kickstarter's new Tariff [...]

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is on the stand today in Meta's antitrust trial. In trying to prove the social network is not a monopoly, he shared that the Threads app could have been just a feature inside of Instagram. Meta was working on built-in Threads features for Instagram first to compete with Twitter, which pioneered [...]

OpenAI has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Facebook app chief, as the head of the company's apps business. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says introducing the new role will allow him to focus on research, compute, and safety." After joining Facebook in 2011, the company appointed Simo [...]

The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation is challenging the United Kingdom's online safety rules in court over concerns they may enable vandalism, disinformation, or abuse" to go unchecked on its Wikipedia platform. Wikimedia announced on Thursday that its legal challenge specifically targets the Online Safety Act's (OSA) categorization regulations, which the foundation says are written broadly enough [...]

The Old Guard was one of Netflix's more memorable action flicks, and if the first trailer is anything to go on, the same will be true of its sequel. The streamer just released the first proper look at The Old Guard 2, which continues to follow Andromache (Charlize Theron) as the leader of a squad [...]

Apple asked a judge to halt an order forcing it to give up control over App Store payments while it appeals the decision. In a filing on Wednesday, Apple says the order contains extraordinary intrusions" that could result in grave irreparable harm" to the company. Last week, California District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found [...]

Today, I'm talking with Paul Bascobert, who is the president of Reuters, the news and information service you have undoubtedly heard of. This is part of a special Thursday series we're running this month to explore how leaders at some of the world's biggest companies make decisions in such a rapidly changing environment. You know, [...]

Bill Gates took aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk during an interview with The New York Times, saying funding cuts to USAID will cause childhood deaths to increase. On childhood deaths, which over the next few years should have gone from five million to four million - now, unless there's a big reversal, [...]

Following companies like Amazon and Spotify, the Delta emulator is the latest iOS app to take advantage of last month's ruling by Epic Games v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Although it has appealed the decision, Apple has complied with the ruling that it can no longer restrict developers from directing users to alternate payment [...]

Peloton said it's not sweating tariffs in its Q3 2025 earnings today, noting it is predominantly a subscription business" while acknowledging that macroeconomic uncertainty could impact demand for its pricey bikes and treadmills. During the period of GDP decline between 2008 and 2009, external data showed that us spend[ing] on fitness continued to grow, and [...]

Ever since Google introduced the "Audio Overviews" feature into its NotebookLM research tool, I have been experimenting with feeding it bodies of text that I did not want to sit and read: stereo instructions, Wikipedia rabbit holes, my Q1 performance review, etc. With this AI tool, two uncanny valley robot voices are generated to "dive [...]

The ongoing lawsuit between Nintendo and Palworld developer Pocketpair has forced the studio to make some changes to its Pokemon-like game. In a new blog post, Pocketpair explained that a patch in November removed certain gameplay features, and that an upcoming update will cull even more. We have had to make certain compromises in order [...]

It's a scorching afternoon in August 2024, with temps hovering at 101 degrees. I'm flat on my back, sweating under a 1970s Land Rover, trying to rescue a Segway Navimow. It turns out that the first rule of using a robot lawnmower is "don't let anyone park on your lawn." Robot lawnmowers have been around [...]