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T-Mobile is bringing some of its Uncarrier energy to Ultra Mobile, the carrier's international-focused MVNO that operates on its network. It announced that its plans now have slightly higher data caps and more international perks, but with the same prices as before for new and existing subscribers - a rare thing to see these days. [...]

Senate Republicans today passed a sweeping spending bill that narrowly avoided punitive tax measures on renewable energy but still threatens to stall its growth in the US. After wrangling over hundreds of amendments for more than 24 hours in a so-called vote-a-rama" on Monday and Tuesday, Senate Republicans advanced the bill with provisions that make [...]

Grammarly plans to acquire the buzzy email app Superhuman, according to a press release. Email is already the number-one use case" of Grammarly for professional users, the company says, with the AI assistant helping to revise over 50 million emails per week across more than 20 email providers." Buying Superhuman makes some sense, then: it [...]

Earlier this year, Sonos permanently dropped the price of its Era 100 speaker to $199, making it more affordable for people looking to build a multiroom wireless speaker setup. Now, the small-but-mighty speaker is even cheaper to kick off summer. Sonos is offering the refurbished Era 100 for just $119 ($40 off), the lowest price [...]

Major League Soccer (MLS) is now nearly halfway through its 2025 season, and Apple is giving fans a great reason to tune in. For a limited time, the MLS Season Pass is available for just $49, offering new and returning subscribers access to every remaining match at half the regular price. If you're an Apple [...]

Laptop Mag is shutting down after nearly 35 years of providing consumers with in-depth information about laptops and other technology. In a staff meeting seen by The Verge, Faisal Alani, the global brand director at Laptop Mag owner Future PLC, said, After careful consideration and a review of our long-term strategy, we've made the decision [...]

Nothing's first pair of over-the-ear headphones has arrived, bearing the company's signature retro-transparent design that it introduced with the Phone 1. But until now, that design has mostly been in your pocket or peeking out of your ears. With the $299 Nothing Headphone 1, you have to commit to having that aesthetic wrapped around your [...]

Nothing has launched its first pair of over-ear headphones, imaginatively named the Headphone 1. At $299, these are priced to compete with flagship fare, distinguished primarily by their distinctive Nothing design language - right down to the buttons. While the boxy outline calls to mind Apple's AirPods Max, the semi-transparent detailing on the outside of [...]

The Glyph interface is not a gimmick," Nothing founder and CEO Carl Pei told the press as he revealed the Nothing Phone 3 for the first time, shortly before announcing that its new iteration lets you play Spin the Bottle on the back of the phone. It's mixed messaging, but in Nothing's defense, you couldn't [...]

Apple is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential Vision Pro headset research before leaving to join Snap's product design team. In the complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on June 24th, Apple accuses Di Liu of downloading thousands of documents containing proprietary information from Apple's internal systems and saving them to [...]

AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that's designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number transfers, SIM card changes, and updates to billing information. SIM swapping attacks have become increasingly common in recent [...]

Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone. You can now privately message other users on the Meta-owned X rival, though Threads will only allow DMs between your followers or mutual followers on Instagram to start. You can send a DM on Threads by selecting the envelope icon in the toolbar at the bottom of [...]

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's fighting over the big, beautiful" domestic policy bill has returned to the spotlight, with the president telling reporters on Tuesday that we'll have to take a look" into deporting the billionaire. He also proposed targeting Musk via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying, We might have to put [...]

Update, July 1st: Casio has sold out of its online inventory of the Ring Watch. Casio's $120 CRW001-1 (AKA the Ring Watch) is back in stock on Casio's website for the first time since it launched - then swiftly sold out - in December. The Ring Watch was released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of [...]

As previews for Donkey Kong Bananza come in ahead of the game's July 17th release date, one tidbit has stood out on the development of this game. It's been nearly eight years since Super Mario Odyssey, and now we know what that team has been up to, as Nintendo has officially revealed that the developers [...]

The risk of a power bank causing a fire, which is the result of a chain reaction known as a thermal runaway, is low. But when it does happen, the fires are intense, occasionally explosive, and difficult to extinguish. Early in June, Anker recalled more than 1.1 million aging power banks, and while the company [...]

The Federal Communications Commission will suspend the enforcement of a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. On Monday, the Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced that prisons won't have to comply with the pricing rules until April 1st, 2027, reversing plans to apply the caps this year. Family members [...]

Allison Johnson is a reviewer for The Verge who writes about phones and mobile technology. Occasionally," she adds, I yell at your wireless carrier." I asked her if there were any items that she especially liked using, and after thinking about it, she eventually came up with... a pencil sharpener. Where did you first hear [...]

AMC Theatres is making it easier for moviegoers to know the actual start time of their film screening and avoid sitting through lengthy ads. A new notice has started appearing when people purchase tickets via the AMC website, warning that movies start 25-30 minutes after showtime." This already mirrors the estimated runtime of AMC's pre-show [...]

The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican big, beautiful bill." Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1 to drop the controversial proposal during a protracted fight over the omnibus budget bill, which is still under debate. The vote followed failed attempts to [...]

As promised, the first trailer for director Edgar Wright's take on Stephen King's novel The Running Man is here - and it looks like a playful throwback to 80s action movies. The story centers on a struggling man named Ben Richards, played by Glen Powell, who is a contestant on a mega-popular TV game show [...]

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a flood of interest in the metaverse, despite the movie's deeply dsytopian undertones. If you've talked to anyone working in AI, they've surely told you about [...]

Several moments of my two-hour hands-on preview of Donkey Kong Bananza felt like I was playing the gritty 2009 action game Red Faction: Guerilla - except this time I was actually playing as a gorilla. For example, I had to level a multistory building during a timed minigame. Just like in Guerilla, I targeted the [...]

The Google graveyard has claimed another victim: the company has killed the Apple Watch version of its Keep app. While the note-taking app is still available for iPhone and iPad, the 2.2025.26200 Google Keep App Store update released on Monday has removed watchOS support, bringing the total number of Google apps for Apple Watch back [...]

On June 2nd, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy traveled to Newark Liberty International Airport to celebrate the reopening of runway 4L-22R. This was unusual: few runway openings are glamorous enough to warrant a visit from the airport's CEO, let alone a cabinet secretary. But as we reported last month, few airports have come to symbolize [...]

The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from accessing content without permission or compensation," according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cloudflare will start asking new domain owners whether they want to allow AI scrapers, and will even let some publishers implement [...]

Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to provide a biometric Face Check" scan to confirm their face matches their profile photos for the dating service, Axios reported on Monday. The Face Check [...]

Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out a game's overall frame rate, it can tell you how many of those frames were generated by techniques like Nvidia's DLSS or AMD's FSR, according [...]

AT&T believes its network wasn't at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being totally unable to make their equipment work properly." Instead, AT&T is blaming an unnamed conference call platform." Earlier on Monday, President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social about apparent issues with AT&T's network during a [...]

Apple is considering enlisting the help of OpenAI or Anthropic to power its AI-upgraded Siri, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. As Apple continues to struggle with the development of an upgraded LLM Siri," it reportedly asked OpenAI and Anthropic to create versions of their large language models to test on the company's [...]

Finding a Nintendo Switch 2 hasn't been easy since its launch on June 5th, with sporadic availability over the past few weeks at various retailers. Luckily, if you've missed chances to pick one up, Best Buy will have more stock at its retail stores across the US starting tomorrow, July 1st. The Verge has reached [...]

The US Department of Justice notched an initial win in its antitrust case against Apple today, with a federal judge rejecting Apple's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit outright. The government's allegations are sufficient to demonstrate Apple's specific intent to monopolize the smartphone and performance smartphone market, Judge Julien Neals wrote in an opinion on Monday. [...]

Since it launched in November 2023, you could catch everything from rocket launches to documentaries about space on the NASA Plus streaming service. Starting this Summer, NASA Plus' live programming will also be available on Netflix, and continue to be ad-free. NASA Plus' live programming also includes astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage, and breathtaking live views [...]

In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's new Meta Superintelligence Labs" group that will head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports. Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as part of a multibillion dollar deal earlier this month, will head up the group as the company's chief AI [...]

A summer camping trip is the perfect excuse to stop staring at screens, but it doesn't mean you need to go completely off the grid. Jackery's Explorer 1000 Power Station V2 lets you charge your gadgets and have more fun while you're camping. For instance, you can plug in a projector, speakers, or a space [...]

Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won't be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you'll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password management solution instead. Microsoft also plans on deleting your saved payment information in Authenticator this July [...]

Date Everything! isn't the dating sim it appears to be. Though the game's cutesy art style and lighthearted premise indicate an unserious game that's making yet another joke at the expense of the genre, Date Everything actually contains novel explorations of human relationships and sharp-as-shit political critique. Date Everything (the title technically includes an exclamation [...]

Kallie Plagge, The Verge's senior copy editor, has been working in the media for over 10 years now, mainly at gaming websites. She was primarily a video game critic for a lot of that time and was the reviews editor at GameSpot for about three years, before eventually becoming the senior copy editor at Polygon. [...]

The Insta360 Link 2 is more than just a webcam - it's a smart camera that actively follows your movements whether you're presenting, streaming, or pacing during a call. It's also packed with an impressive array of productivity features. And right now, it's available at a new all-time low of $149.99 ($50 off) at Amazon. [...]

After retreating from watchOS several years ago, Google now only offers a handful of apps for the Apple Watch. That list is expanding to four in total with the launch of a new Google Calendar app rolling out alongside the existing iPhone version, as spotted by 9to5Google. Apple's native calendar app on watchOS includes customization [...]

Automattic's plan to move Tumblr's backend over to WordPress is now on hold," Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says in a Decoder episode published today. The company announced the plan to move over the more than half a billion blogs on Tumblr last year, saying that the change would make it easier to share [...]

Apple Music is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its streaming service by giving users a throwback to their favorite hits over the last decade. Replay All Time" - a special version of Apple Music's annual Replay experience - is being launched for subscribers that allows them to view and listen to their most played songs [...]

Canada has scrapped its tax targeting Big Tech companies in the US after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade talks in response to the fee. On Sunday, the Canadian government announced that it will no longer implement the Digital Services Tax as it works to reach a trade deal with the US by [...]

It's been more than a decade since Apple unveiled the original version of CarPlay. In that time, the system has become indispensable for countless drivers all over the world. But while new iterations of iOS have introduced user interface tweaks and some additional customization features, its basic functionality hasn't advanced much since that announcement back [...]

Google announced a variety of new features for its Classroom software suite, including free Gemini AI tools for educators and NotebookLM for users under 18 -the first time the tool has been available to minors. Teachers with a Google Workspace account will have a new dedicated Gemini tab in their Google Classroom, offering tools that [...]

Anker has issued its second product recall so far this month, warning customers that five additional power bank models should stop being used immediately due to the risk of overheating, melting, smoke, or fire." While the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal, out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to initiate a voluntary [...]

When Ela Darling began performing in porn at the tail end of the 2000s, tube sites like Pornhub were relatively new, and major studios like Vivid and Digital Playground still dominated the market. For performers, the job was straightforward: show up to set, turn in a good performance, and collect a check. Everything else - [...]

Joby Aviation is getting ready to take flight. The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) company has delivered its first production aircraft to Dubai, where it plans to launch a commercial air taxi service in early 2026. Joby, which has successfully completed multiple flight tests with a pilot onboard, says it has begun in-market testing [...]

Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access devices that are still using default passwords. Eight new vulnerabilities, one of which cannot be fixed by patching the firmware, were discovered in 689 kinds of Brother home and enterprise printers by security company Rapid7. The [...]