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Amazon has raised the price of its Music Unlimited service in the US, Canada, and the UK, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. In an update on its website, Amazon says it's raising the price for Prime members from $9.99 to $10.99 per month (or $99 to $109 / year), while the plan for non-Prime [...]

On an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent a lot of time talking up his companyas plans to ago ballistica on artificial intelligence, and very little time on Teslaas core business, which is making and selling electric cars. There was so little attention paid to Teslaas automotive business, that even a bunch [...]

In 2016, Tesla published a blog that said all EVs it produces have the hardware necessary to achieve Full Self-Driving," meaning owners of those Teslas could look forward to autonomous rides and could eventually send their cars out as money-making robotaxis when not in use. Tesla later deleted that post, and now we can see [...]

Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete practically all the background noise from our audio calls with a free app, and now the company's doing it again. My colleague and Verge senior news editor Richard Lawler just fired up Nvidia's just-announced Studio Voice" feature on his [...]

A year ago, Google started off 2024 with some layoffs. It hasn't taken similar steps (yet) in 2025, but employees are fearing the worst. And if the Platforms and Devices team is anything to go by, there's ample reason for concern. Google has distributed a memo to all US employees working on Android, Pixel hardware, [...]

The Sharge Retractable 65 was announced earlier this month, bringing the world a uniquely designed 65W GaN travel charger featuring an integrated and retractable USB-C Power Delivery 3.0 cable. It's incredibly compact and scratches our geeky itch with a translucent design. If you're looking for something a little different to throw in your pocket or [...]

Forza Horizon 5 is the next Xbox Game Studios title making the jump to PlayStation. The open-world racing game is launching on PS5 this spring and will include the same content as what's available in its Xbox and PC versions, according to a blog post. If you want to play the game online with your [...]

The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) has launched a digital library with more than 30,000 files of industry ephemera" from the VGHF's physical collection. The library, which is launching in early access, includes things like more than 1,500 full-text searchable out-of-print video game magazines, never-before-seen game development assets, artwork, promotional materials, and more gaming relics," [...]

There's no shortage of ways to play classic games. There are subscription services, robust retro collections, and modern hardware designed to play old titles. But even still, large swaths of video game history are disappearing. Researchers say that almost 90 percent of games made before 2010 are critically endangered." But archivists around the world are [...]

DeepSeek has secured a completely open" database that exposed user chat histories, API authentication keys, system logs, and other sensitive information, according to cloud security firm Wiz. The security researchers said they found the Chinese AI startup's publicly accessible database in minutes," with no authentication required. The exposed information was housed within an open-source data [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX is regulated by the agency. Musk publicly [...]

Max is putting you in the driver's seat for NASCAR's upcoming races. The streamer will now let you watch up to four in-car driver cams at once, starting with the Cook Out Clash on Sunday, February 2nd. You can switch between up to 40 different driver cams, with each 1080p feed offering the sounds of [...]

The Chinese startup DeepSeek shook up the world of AI last week after showing its supercheap R1 model could compete directly with OpenAIas o1. While it wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidiaas market value, Microsoft engineers were quietly working at pace to embrace the partially open- source R1 model and get it ready for Azure [...]

At Appleas September 2024 hardware event, the company announced its iPhone 16 lineup, which was abuilt for Apple intelligencea a but Appleas leap into AI has had a soft landing. The phones arrived without Apple Intelligence and, over the course of four months, Apple has been slowly rolling out some of the promised features through [...]

Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts - even detailed ones -isn't protected by current copyright law, according to the US Copyright Office. The department issued this guidance in a broad report on policy issues regarding AI, focused on the copyrightability of various AI outputs. The document concludes that while generative AI may [...]

Microsoft is bringing OpenAI's o1 reasoning model to all Copilot users this week. You won't need to subscribe to a $20 monthly Copilot Pro or ChatGPT Plus plan to get it either, as Microsoft is making it free for all users of Copilot. Think Deeper, as Microsoft calls its integration of o1, works by allowing [...]

On today's episode of Decoder, we're talking about the only thing the AI industry - and pretty much the entire tech world - has been able to talk about for the last week: that is, of course, DeepSeek, and how the open-source AI model built by a Chinese startup has completely upended the conventional wisdom [...]

The rumors are true. Microsoft is launching Intel-powered versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Available on February 18th, both of these new Surface devices are Copilot Plus PCs, but instead of using Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon X series of chips, they'll use Intel's Lunar Lake processors. Microsoft is targeting these models at [...]

While Nvidia's RTX 50-series graphics cards weren't the zaniest devices at CES 2025, they stole the show with their promised groundbreaking performance breakthroughs. The RTX 5070, in particular, made headlines as a card that can supposedly rival an RTX 4090 for just $549. We later learned it uses DLSS 4's AI-powered multi frame generation to [...]

It was a long three-year wait between the first seasons of Squid Game, but luckily, the finale is coming much faster. Netflix announced today that season 3 of Squid Game - which will also be the show's last - will start streaming on June 27th. That's around six months after the long-awaited season 2 premiered [...]

Nvidia is launching its next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs today, but it's also releasing an exciting update for existing RTX GPU owners. A new GPU driver (572.16) allows you to force DLSS 4 inside games or apps that don't currently support it, providing improved image quality and even less VRAM usage in some [...]

Resale platform Poshmark is launching Smart List AI, an automated product listing tool for sellers, the company announced today. The tool has been in beta testing since last fall and uses sellers' photos to generate details like the type of product, the size and brand, the style and color, and other details, as well as [...]

We've got several parents on our staff, and as members of The Verge, they are also into gadgets. Put the two together, and you've got some really interesting stuff that can be used to keep your infant, toddler, or child safe, happy, educated, and / or out of trouble. Here are some of the devices [...]

Mark Zuckerberg is planning some big changes for Facebook in a bid to make using the platform feel like it did back in the day." During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Zuck said that Facebook is an important part of its more than three billion monthly users' lives and that he's working on [...]

LG is adding Google Cast support to its range of hotel TVs, making it easier to stream content from your phone or other devices. Cast joins existing support for Apple Airplay, and LG is the first manufacturer to offer both options on its hotel TVs. If you stay in a hotel room with a compatible [...]

The Authors Guild - one of the largest associations of writers in the US - has launched a new project that allows authors to certify that their book was written by a human, and not generated by artificial intelligence. The Guild says its Human Authored" certification aims to make it easier for writers to distinguish [...]

Vodafone has made what it calls the world's first" satellite video call using a standard smartphone, in a test of a system it says will provide mobile broadband service to 4G and 5G phones without dedicated satellite hardware. The service, using satellites from SpaceX rival AST SpaceMobile, is expected to launch in Europe before the [...]

Nearly everyone seems to be suddenly freaking out about the rise of DeepSeek. Meta isn't worried, though. That was CEO Mark Zuckerberg's message to investors during his company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. During the Q&A portion of the call with Wall Street analysts, Zuckerberg fielded multiple questions about DeepSeek's impressive AI models and what [...]

Kia's electric vehicles will get Tesla Supercharger access sometime in March 2025," the company announced in a statement. Kia EVs, including the EV6 and EV9, were scheduled to get Supercharger access in January using NACS to CCS1 adapters, but that has been delayed. Kia's sister company, Hyundai, is beginning to ship new 2025 model year [...]

Tesla will launch an unsupervised, no one in the car" robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything's okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those [...]

Meta agreed to a $25 million settlement over a 2021 lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against Meta for suspending his accounts after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news, and Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the settlement to The Verge. It's a step [...]

Microsoft's cloud and AI businesses are doing pretty well -and their impact is being felt across the company. In its Q2 2025 earnings, Microsoft announced revenue of $69.6 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent year-over-year, and net income of $24.1 billion, which is up 10 percent year-over-year. As for the AI business, CEO Satya [...]

It's one week into Elon Musk's new role as chief cost-cutter for the Trump administration, but today, his side hustle as CEO of Tesla takes center stage with the release of the company's latest earnings report. During the fourth quarter of 2024, Tesla said it earned $2.3 billion in net income on $25.7 billion in [...]

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ingredients of life as we know it. The sample also included evidence of an ancient environment well-suited to kickstart the chemistry of life," according to a NASA [...]

Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek's R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI, is now part of a model catalog on Azure AI [...]

Garmin has shared new ways to fix its smartwatches that are stuck on the blue triangle of death," and says it has resolved the underlying issue causing a boot-up error that's been stopping owners from using their watches. The steps should get more watches working again -but some models will lose data in the process. [...]

Beyond: Two Souls, the Quantic Dream-made interactive thriller starring Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, is being adapted for TV by Page's Pageboy Productions, Deadline reports. The series is in early development and it's expected to explore the game's non-linear narrative," according to Deadline. In the game, you play as Jodie (portrayed by Page), and sometimes [...]

Netflix users on iOS no longer need to download episodes of their favorite shows one by one. The streamer just introduced a way to download an entire season of a TV show with one click on iPhones and iPads. Netflix first let users download content to watch offline in 2016 and, over time, has added [...]

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until a judge paused the order right before it was set to take effect. In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end [...]

Amazon's Prime Video is about to get a lot more Lionsgate films as part of a multi-year deal that will put the studio's entire 2026 slate of films on the service. Under the agreement, Prime Video will exclusively stream Lionsgate's upcoming films in the US after they first appear on Starz. The lineup includes titles [...]

Google's malware scanning Play Protect service will now automatically turn off an Android app's permissions if it's potentially harmful. The feature is designed to prevent malicious apps from having access to your phone's storage, photos, camera, and more. Though you can still restore the permissions for these apps, Google will ask you to confirm your [...]

Sony announced Wednesday that it will change to occasionally" including PS4 games as a PlayStation Plus benefit starting in January 2026. You'll still have access to any of the monthly PS4 games you've already redeemed to your account after that date, however, and you can still play PS4 games that are available on the PlayStation [...]

Waymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge. The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service. (They're also not precluded from launching a [...]

Sony announced Wednesday that you won't need to log in to a PlayStation Network account to play four of its single-player games on PC: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (which comes out tomorrow), The Last of Us Part II Remastered (which launches on April 3rd), God of War Ragnarok, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. However, to incentivize [...]

MGM Resorts International has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a lawsuit over data breaches that collectively exposed the personal information of 37 million customers. The case consolidated 22 class-action lawsuits filed over two security incidents: a data breach in 2019, and a ransomware attack in 2023. Lawyers for the victims said in district [...]

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed a and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: [...]

You can bet on seeing lots of AI ads during the Super Bowl LIX, according to Mark Evans, the executive VP of ad sales for Fox Sports. Evans told The Hollywood Reporter that AI will be coming like a freight train," and that some companies have paid over $8 million for 30-second spots during the [...]