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Vimeo is getting bought up by Bending Spoons, a European software company that has amassed a growing portfolio of businesses, including Evernote, WeTransfer, and Meetup. Bending Spoons will pay $1.38 billion to acquire the video hosting platform, and it expects to close the deal later this year. Vimeo launched in 2004 as a spinoff of [...]

Apple announced the new Apple Watch Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3 smartwatches during its annual iPhone hardware event on Tuesday. The 2025 models are somewhat iterative in terms of their designs. However, there are plenty of new features present in each that could make either one a worthy upgrade over previous generations, depending [...]

If you need another sign that the go-go 80s are back, look no further than the return of the fabled Ferrari Testarossa nameplate, which the Italian automaker announced this week in Milan. But this is no retread: the new 849 Testarossa now sports a hybrid powertain for added oomph. How much oomph we talking? The [...]

At its latest hardware event on Tuesday, Apple officially announced the new 2025 iPhone lineup. That includes the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and the slimmed-down iPhone Air, which looks to be the standout model this year. The devices come equipped with Apple's latest A19 processors and a few other notable [...]

A smart lock and video doorbell are great tools for beefing up your home's security system, and Eufy's FamiLock S3 Max combines the functionality of both into one device. It's currently $339.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, The Home Depot, and from Eufy, which matches its all-time low price. Verge senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy recently [...]

When you have children of different ages, finding stuff to watch together can be a big challenge. Both of my kids - aged 10 and 12 - have a budding interest in horror, and there's not a lot of scary stuff that's appropriate for all of us. That's why I was pleasantly surprised while watching [...]

There's been no official announcement from DJI yet, but leaked images appear to confirm a follow-up to the company's modular and compact Action 2 camera that debuted in 2021, as spotted by Notebookcheck. The new DJI Osmo Nano takes a similar approach with accessories like a screen that attach using magnets, but the camera itself [...]

Amazon's Zoox announced today that it's making its robotaxis available to all customers in Las Vegas. The company says it is the first to operate with a purpose-built autonomous vehicle in commercial service. And the news comes a few weeks after federal regulators gave the company the green light to expand the use of its [...]

A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), an open content licensing standard that enables publishers to outline how bots should pay to scrape [...]

For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. This expansion caters to what has been the number [...]

Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud - upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it's also adding thousands more titles to the bring-your-own-games service by letting you install them yourself, [...]

Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities. The platform has announced that it's removing the member count metric that appears on subreddit pages - located under the page bio on the right for desktop users, or at the top under the subreddit name on mobile - [...]

Last month, Joby Aviation purchased Blade Air Mobility's helicopter taxi business for $125 million, with the goal of eventually replacing those noisy, polluting helicopters with its more quiet, battery-powered air taxis. But while it waits for FAA certification, Joby is teaming up with Uber to get more passengers in its newly acquired fleet of helicopters. [...]

For months, Lyft has watched while its rival Uber made deals with seemingly every autonomous vehicle operator under the sun. But the smaller ridehail company has been quietly building a fleet of its own, and Lyft is ready to launch its first customer-ready robotaxi pilot in Atlanta. Lyft is teaming up with May Mobility, an [...]

The skepticism I had about Apple's rumored crossbody iPhone strap can be put to rest now that it's officially announced as part of yesterday's big iPhone 17 event. I'm suitably impressed. And if we can clear up some of the confusion about why it exists in the first place, then I think more people will [...]

It's been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio. Rumors have been circulating about a high-fidelity offering since as early as 2017. In 2021, Spotify claimed it was "coming later this year." And by May of 2024 it was "almost ready." So, when rumors started picking up again in June of [...]

Ask someone their worst fears about AI, and you'll find a few recurring topics - from near-term fears like AI tools replacing human workers and the loss of critical thinking to apocalyptic scenarios like AI-designed weapons of mass destruction and automated war. Most have one thing in common: a loss of human control. And the [...]

Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready driver today in preparation for the Borderlands 4 release later this week. There's also an Nvidia app update arriving today that includes a new RTX Remix update to allow modders to improve fire and smoke effects in older games. Today's Game Ready driver (581.29) includes optimizations for [...]

Zillow is launching an AI-powered feature that will allow home hunters to empty the room of furniture or subtly change the design style. The intent is to make it easier to overcome the owner's dodgy design choices and questionable furniture so buyers can better picture themselves living in a property. In concept, the tool, called [...]

Nikon has just unveiled the ZR, its first official co-brand with RED, the cinema camera company it purchased in April of last year. The ZR takes what Nikon has already been doing well, with its heavily adaptable Z-mount, internal RAW video recording and popular color science and turns it up to 11 for video shooters. [...]

It's less noticeable than a thinner profile or trick camera lenses, but Apple is pointing out another upgrade in the iPhone 17 family of phones that it says is part of the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems." Explicitly targeting the spyware industry that produces exploits for tools [...]

iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users are getting another year of free access to satellite connectivity features, according to a footnote on Apple's newsroom posts for the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro. The free trial will be extended for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users who have activated their device in a country that [...]

Anthropic's $1.5 billion book piracy settlement has been put on pause after the federal judge overseeing the class action case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. During a hearing this week, Judge William Alsup rejected the settlement over concerns that class action lawyers will create a deal behind closed doors that they will [...]

Apple just announced a bunch of new health-tracking features alongside its new smartwatch lineup - but you might not need to upgrade your device to get access to them. With the launch of watchOS 26 next week, Apple will bring hypertension notifications, live translation, and the new wrist-flick gesture to the Watch Series 9 and [...]

Determined to give us something new to talk about, Apple has introduced its ultra-thin iPhone Air. It's just 5.6mm thick with a 6.5-inch ProMotion display, a 48-megapixel dual camera, a selfie camera that supports Center Stage, and an add-on MagSafe battery. Among other things. We asked the staff of The Verge for their first impressions [...]

Apple just announced arguably its boldest Pro iPhone color ever: the new "cosmic orange" for the iPhone 17 Pro. And to my surprise, I think it looks really good. In choosing a bold hue as its hero shade for the iPhone 17 Pro, Apple also seems to have nailed one of the season's hottest colors. [...]

The iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 fleet of phones took the spotlight during Apple's Awe dropping" event. If you weren't tempted by the new phones, the fact that the entire Apple Watch lineup got refreshed might have been even bigger news to you. Soon, the Apple Watch SE 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and [...]

Apple's chunky old MagSafe Battery Pack was beloved by a subset of iPhone owners, and now the company is bringing it back and slimming it down for the iPhone Air. I took a first look at the battery pack this afternoon, and it has a significantly slimmer design than the old version. This version of [...]

Apple's big fall event just wrapped up, and we rushed out of the Steve Jobs Theater to get our hands on the latest iPhones. Here's a look at the new iPhone 17, Apple's base model this year, which is joined by the thinner iPhone Air and beefier iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max - there's [...]

Apple's hotly-anticipated Apple event was chock-full of news about updates to AirPods, the Apple Watch, the new suite of iPhones, and more. But during the one-hour-and-fifteen-minute presentation, which was considerably shorter than usual, there was one notable buzzword missing from a good chunk of the fanfare: AI. Although CEO Tim Cook said during the livestream [...]

Inside Apple's splashy iPhone 17 lineup is a new chip: the N1. It's a wireless networking chip made in-house by Apple, allowing its devices to support the latest networking technologies, including Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and the smart home protocol Thread. Apple previously used chips made by Broadcom to power Bluetooth and Wi-Fi within its [...]

Apple just announced a new, official MagSafe battery for the super-slim iPhone Air, but if you were hoping the battery would work with other iPhones, it apparently won't. According to the product page for the $99 battery, the iPhone Air MagSafe Battery was created exclusively for iPhone Air," and the compatibility list includes just the [...]

Following Apple's "Awe dropping" event today, we've been able to try out all the new Apple Watch models announced today including the Series 11, the Ultra 3, and the refreshes SE 3. The entry-level Apple Watch SE was last updated in 2022 with the second-generation model, but the new SE 3, which starts at $249 [...]

Apple just wrapped its extensive fall hardware keynote, which featured the marquee announcement of the thin iPhone Air, along with other iPhone 17 models, plus a suite of new Apple Watch wearables, and the new AirPods Pro 3 - phew, that was a lot. All of Apple's new tech is releasing on September 19th. In [...]

Apple's new iPhone Air contains more recycled titanium than any of its predecessors, the company announced at the Tuesday Keynote. It's using 80 percent recycled titanium. The phone as a whole is made with 35 percent recycled material by weight, compared to 30 percent recycled material for the iPhone 17. The iPhone Air incorporates a [...]

There were two surprises for me when I picked up the iPhone 17 Pro. For one, the colors are bold - a nice change of pace from last year's barely-there pales. But the bigger surprise is just how much has changed about the back of the phone. By all accounts, this still feels like an [...]

Apple just announced the iPhone Air, which, as you might guess by the name, is something Apple is marketing as extremely thin and light. It's 5.6mm thin and has a ProMotion display, one camera, Apple's Ceramic Shield 2 glass on both sides, and an A19 Pro chip. But what does it actually feel like to [...]

Apple has announced a new line of accessories designed specifically for the just-announced iPhone Air, including a slim MagSafe battery, a translucent case, a bumper case, and a crossbody strap. With the MagSafe battery, Apple claims that the iPhone Air will get up to 40 hours of video playback. Based on images from Apple, the [...]

Apple has announced the iPhone 17 Pro, the top model in its new iPhone 17 lineup, alongside the regular iPhone 17 and all-new iPhone Air. It's returned to an aluminum build, runs on the A19 Pro chip, and boasts what Apple is calling a full-width camera plateau" on the back. Earlier this year, Apple announced [...]

Apple just announced the thinnest iPhone ever, the iPhone Air, which measures just 5.6mm thick. CEO Tim Cook said it promises pro performance in a thin and light design." The new iPhone Air comes with a 6.5-inch ProMotion display and a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. It also has 3,000 nits of peak brightness. [...]

Apple has announced the iPhone 17, the latest edition of its standard model iPhone. This iteration has been upgraded with a larger 6.3-inch display and a 120Hz ProMotion refresh rate. It comes in some lightly refreshed color variations, but otherwise preserves much of the iPhone 16 design. Some of the biggest updates for this generation [...]

Apple just announced the Apple Watch Ultra 3, which now includes 5G, up to 42 hours of battery life and satellite connectivity. It also has a slightly bigger display - the size of the watch is the same, but the screen goes closer to the edges. The new Ultra gets notifications for signs of chronic [...]

Apple has a refreshed entry-level smartwatch for 2025, the new Apple Watch SE 3. Announced at the awe dropping" event alongside new iPhones, the SE 3 has a faster S10 processor, longer battery life, stronger front glass, and (finally) an always-on display. It starts at $249 for a 40mm model and is set to launch [...]

Apple just announced the Apple Watch Series 11, which looks similar to its predecessors but is the slimmest Apple Watch to date and includes new features like 5G cellular connectivity and stronger glass. The Series 11 is the first Apple with 5G connectivity and features a modem and antenna that will provide improved coverage while [...]

Apple just announced the AirPods Pro 3, the first major update to the product in three years. Apple is introducing a new heart rate sensor in the AirPods Pro 3, as well as improved active noise cancellation (ANC), and a live translation feature. You'll be able to preorder the AirPods Pro 3 today for $249, [...]

Apple is ready to announce the iPhone 17 line, and this promises to be a bigger launch than most. We're expecting a major redesign to the cameras and looking forward to an entirely new addition to the lineup: the extra-thin iPhone 17 Air. Alongside the new iPhones, Apple is likely to update its Apple Watch [...]

At an event in Las Vegas yesterday, Tesla revealed a new utility-scale battery configuration that it claims can significantly lower construction costs for utilities, along with faster installation. Its new Megablock" is pre-engineered; more assembly done in a factory allows for 23 percent faster installation, according to Tesla. That's supposed to translate to up to [...]

It's official, Microsoft is asking employees to return to the office three days per week. Amy Coleman, executive vice president and Microsoft's chief people officer, revealed the news to Microsoft employees in a memo this morning. "We've looked at how our teams work best, and the data is clear: when people work together in person [...]

Hyundai is out with a new concept car that previews a smaller EV that could slot below the Ioniq 5. And while the design is pretty bold, and full of what seems to be veiled references to Star Wars, the idea of a smaller (and hopefully less expensive) electric hatchback is surely one of the [...]