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I realized quite late in Assassinas Creed Shadows that being this version of a shinobi is hard a but it was precisely the precision the game demanded that made it all the more rewarding. With Shadows, the Assassinas Creed franchise has achieved both its most impressive stealth and assassination mechanics. At its best, Shadows evokes [...]

Itas sold as an outdoor camplight, butBougeRVas very bright LED lanternis really a multifunctional work lamp for any place that needs an extra dose of lighting. Itas rechargeable and compact enough to serve as a long-lasting flashlight with three swiveling LED panels that can direct 3000 lumens onto your table, campsite, workspace, or engine block [...]

A court took action on Friday to keep the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from shutting down a consumer watchdog agency while its court case plays out. Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted a preliminary injunction to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from being further gutted while she decides whether [...]

Microsoft is no longer playing around when it comes to requiring every Windows 11 device be set up with an internet-connected account. In its latest Windows 11 Insider Preview, the company says it will take out a well-known bypass script that let end users skip the requirement of connecting to the internet and logging in [...]

A few years after buying Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk announced that his AI business xAI has acquired the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. In a tweet, he described it as an all-stock transaction, valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, including $12 billion in debt it had [...]

Microsoft is starting to test Quick Machine Recovery, a feature designed to prevent incidents like last year's Crowdstrike catastrophe. It's rolling out in its latest Windows Insider Preview build (6120.3653) and allows IT professionals to remotely recover Windows 11 devices even if they won't boot. Microsoft first announced Quick Machine Recovery last year as part [...]

After Google completed its acquisition of Fitbit in early 2021, the company integrated Fitbit's services with its own and required users to migrate existing Fitbit accounts to a Google account by 2025. But in an email sent to Fitbit users today, Google now says that deadline has been extended until next year. As we have [...]

The company that has pushed to open up the deep sea for mining is cozying up to the Trump administration after years of hitting roadblocks in international negotiations. The island nation of Nauru initially sponsored The Metals Company (TMC) and its deep-sea mining effort. In 2021, that triggered a race to develop regulations before TMC [...]

MrBeast teamed up with Alex Cross author James Patterson to co-write a thriller novel with Squid Game-like elements, according to a report from Deadline. The upcoming book, which doesn't have a title yet, has reportedly fetched eight-figure bids for the publishing rights. The book's logline, which reads, Players fight to survive deadly tests held in [...]

The SteamOS-powered version of Lenovoas Legion Go S handheld gaming PC debuted at CES 2025 with a somewhat attractive $499.99 price tag. At that price, The Vergeas Sean Hollister considered it a true Steam Deck rival, wedged neatly between the cost of Valveas $399 LCD and $549 OLED models. The handheld recently went up for [...]

Halfway through its first season, Appleas Mythic Quest threw a wild curveball with aA Dark Quiet Deatha a an unexpectedly dramatic episode that chronicled the rise and fall of another video game development team. aA Dark Quiet Deatha was the first instance of Mythic Quest switching up its comedic formula to tell an earnest story [...]

When I saw my colleague Kylie Robison's story about OpenAI's new image generator on Tuesday, I thought this week might be fun. Generative AI images raise all kinds of ethical issues, but I find them wildly entertaining, and I spent large chunks of that day watching other Verge staff test ChatGPT in ways that covered [...]

YouTube is switching off some push notifications for channels with frequent uploads in a new test that might make you miss alerts you've signed up for. The latest test announced by the official TeamYouTube community targets channels that users have notifications set to all" for, but often don't open those notifications. The test won't turn [...]

Google will pay $100 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company of charging for clicks on ads placed outside the geographic locations selected by advertisers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The proposed settlement was filed in a California court on Thursday and still requires approval by a judge. The lawsuit, first filed [...]

Some Helldivers 2 players are reporting that they can no longer play the game on their computers equipped with older CPUs. The issue stems from the developer Arrowhead Game Studios' and publisher Sony's requirement that users play on systems that support AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions), which has been a feature in many CPUs since 2013. [...]

As protests against Tesla continue to grow, Elon Musk is threatening to ago aftera the people who say or post anything negative about the company a which he labels apropaganda.aAA That was what I took away from Elon Muskas 38-minute interview on Fox News last night, which largely focused on the billionaireas efforts to eliminate [...]

Life safety manufacturer First Alert launched a new line of smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms this week that will work with Google Home. Following Google's decision to discontinue its Nest Protect smart smoke alarm, the company has announced it's partnering with First Alert on the First AlertSmart Smoke & Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarm. The [...]

A concert on Monday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents' wedding anniversary. He didn't end up seeing the show - and before he could even get past security, he was informed that he was in fact banned for life from the venue and all [...]

If you hadnat heard of Signal before this week, chances are youare well aware of it now. The messaging app was thrust into the news on Monday when The Atlanticas editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to a group chat involving top military officials planning an airstrike. Even though it entered the discourse for extremely [...]

The Trump administration planned a military strike in Yemen the way normal people plan a surprise birthday party: in a group chat. As detailed by The Atlantic earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and other senior officials used a Signal group to discuss an attack on Houthi targets, sharing [...]

Baking sourdough bread may seem pointedly old-fashioned, but that doesn't mean it's immune to the allure of a novelty gadget. That's where the Sourdough Sidekick comes in: a new countertop appliance that automatically feeds your sourdough starter so it's ready to bake the moment you need it. The Sidekick is a joint project by FirstBuild [...]

Trevor Milton, the founder of Nikola Motors who was convicted of defrauding investors in his zero-emission truck company, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump, the White House confirmed Friday. A federal jury convicted Milton of lying about Nikola's capabilities, including an assertion that it had built its own electric truck, the Nikola One, from [...]

Google has announced that it will release the Pixel 9A in the US, Canada, and the UK on April 10th. The budget-friendly device was initially expected to launch shortly after its reveal on March 19th, but Google delayed it to investigate a component quality issue." The Pixel 9A will arrive throughout the rest of Europe [...]

NASA and Boeing are preparing the Starliner for its next flight after technical issues left the spacecraft unable to ferry its astronauts back to Earth for months. On Thursday, NASA announced that it's working with Boeing to resolve Starliner's in-flight anomalies" before a crewed flight that could take place later this year or in early [...]

Following the news that Google is discontinuing its Nest x Yale Lock, Yale has announced a new smart lock that fits into the Google Home ecosystem and is designed to complement Google's Nest video doorbells. However, thanks to Matter-over-Thread compatibility, the Yale Smart Lock with Matter will also work with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Samsung [...]

In this week's least surprising news, Google has announced it's discontinuing the Nest Protect Smart Smoke and CO alarm and the Nest x Yale smart door lock. The Nest Protect, which has long been one of the best smart smoke alarms you can buy, has been hard to find for a while now, with users [...]

aIs the rage boiling over?a Bennett Foddy asks me as I fall down a wooden plank for the dozenth time. The creator of QWOP and Getting Over It is known for games that can be both frustrating and meditative, pairing challenging physics with thoughtful design. The latest, Baby Steps, is similar a but a whole [...]

Though the first chapter of Adult Swim's Common Side Effects animated series is about to wrap up this Sunday, the story isn't over yet. Today, Adult Swim announced that Common Side Effects has been renewed for a second season that will continue the story of a man trying to save the world (and upend big [...]

Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon MGM Studios, is stepping down from her role and will instead focus on producing, according to an internal memo obtained by Deadline. In the memo, Mike Hopkins, Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios head, tells employees that the company will not fill Salke's role as part of efforts to [...]

Nintendo's news app is already breaking some news: today it revealed the premiere date for the upcoming live-action Zelda movie. The film, which appears to be called simply The Legend of Zelda, will hit theaters worldwide on March 26th, 2027. Here's a screenshot of the reveal: We still know next to nothing about the movie, [...]

WhatsApp is reviving some old school internet nostalgia with a new feature that allows users to add temporary music clips to their profile updates. Snippets from popular songs can now be featured in WhatsApp statuses, with availability rolling out globally and expanding over the coming weeks," according to parent company Meta. WhatsApp's status feature is [...]

When you can create art just by asking for it, what might you create? If youare anything like the internet these last few days, youad create some lovely things a stylized family portraits, a thousand different looks for the Distracted Boyfriend meme aAand some truly, deeply, unfathomably horrifying ones. But most of all, it turns [...]

Google is adding gaming support to Android Auto, with titles including Candy Crush Soda Saga and Angry Birds 2 playable from compatible cars' touchscreens. The new feature is included in the beta version of Android 14.1, which is rolling out to testers now. Only four games are currently supported, with Candy Crush and Angry Birds [...]

Nintendo has revealed something new about Switch 2 games on a day it wasn't planning to talk about the new system. After today's Nintendo Direct stream, the company revealed the existence of Switch 2 Edition" games on its webpage about the new Virtual Game Card lending system, VGC reports. The Virtual Game Card system launching [...]

On Thursday, several conservative podcasters were invited to the White House to participate in Podcast Row, an event meant to engage alternative media by granting them hours of unprecedented access to senior Trump Administration officials. The White House intends to make this a recurring event. aBringing in new media outlets has obviously been a priority [...]

Unsurprisingly, Amazon is discounting a variety of e-readers during its Big Spring Sale, including its first color e-reader. But if you like to take notes while reading, there's only one Kindle that allows you to do so: the Kindle Scribe. Luckily, the 16GB version of the latest model is on sale for an all-time low [...]

Staff at the Federal Trade Commission have been instructed to no longer refer to the agency as independent" in complaints, according to an email obtained by The Verge. Moving forward, when describing the Commission as the Plaintiff in a Complaint, please track the below edit," Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Christopher Mufarrige said in a [...]

Ploopy, a Canadian company known for its customizable open-source peripherals, has announced an upgraded version of its Classic trackball mouse. The Classic 2 has the exact same shape and ergonomics as the original but offers improved connectivity, a more accurate and reliable scroll wheel, and an upgraded design, making it easier to 3D print without [...]

Facebook is trying to go back to its roots with a new Friends" tab that filters out the algorithmic recommendations that have taken over its main feed. The new tab is rolling out in the US and Canada, and will show your friends' stories, reels, posts, and birthdays. In a blog post announcing the feature, [...]

I admire birds as much as the next person, but taking up birdwatching isn't something I've considered. I don't have the patience, nor do I own a good pair of binoculars - which is necessary for seeing the majestic, winged creatures up close. What I might sooner settle on, however, is the Bird Buddy Pro, [...]

The biggest news at Nintendoas March Direct showcase was a software update. Mixed in amongst a trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and the surprise reveal of a mobile news app, the company also announced what it calls avirtual game cards.a Theyare billed as a lending system that makes it relatively straightforward to share digital [...]

The two Democratic Federal Trade Commission members illegally fired by Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit against the president and newly appointed Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as fellow commissioner Melissa Holyoak and executive director David Robbins. Commissioners Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya write that, Last week, President Donald Trump purported to fire [...]

The fervor around ChatGPT's more accessible (and more advanced) image generation capabilities has forced OpenAI to temporarily" put a rate limit on image generation requests, according to CEO Sam Altman. It's super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT, but our GPUs are melting," he posted on X today. Altman didn't specify what the rate [...]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved quickly to get DeepSeekas R1 deployed on Azure in January. Nadella appeared to have anticipated the rise of a breakthrough like R1, and now he says a new bar has been set for the companyas own AI work. Speaking at an employee-only town hall last month, Nadella and his senior [...]

While we expected to find out much more about Nintendo's upcoming game system next week during the Switch 2 Direct event on April 2nd, a tiny new detail has been confirmed in this promo image for the new Nintendo Today news app. One of the screenshots listed in App Store and Google Play shows a [...]

Forget about Black Friday and Cyber Monday - or Prime Day, for that matter. For the second year in a row, Amazon has launched a spring sales event, which will run through Monday, March 31st, offering Prime and non-Prime members alike an opportunity to save big well ahead of the traditional shopping season. As you [...]

You can now choose WhatsApp as your iPhone's default app for calls and text messages, as noted by WABetaInfo. After updating WhatsApp to version 25.8.74, you'll see the app appear as an option in your Messaging and Calling default app settings. Apple first announced that it would let iPhone users in the European Union change [...]

Robosen's partnership with Hasbro continues with a new Bumblebee self-transforming robot toy launching this summer. Powered by 31 servo motors, Bumblebee transforms from a bright yellow bot to a classic Beetle with a scaled-down design officially licensed by Volkswagen that can be driven using a smartphone and Robosen's app. They even brought back Dan Gilvezan, [...]

Ahead of Star Wars Celebration Japan getting underway on April 18th in Tokyo, Audio-Technica has announced four new limited edition versions of its ATH-CKS50TW2 wireless earbuds that originally debuted at CES 2025. Functionality is the same, but the earbuds have gotten a Star Wars-themed makeover with new colors and details inspired by R2-D2, Grogu, the [...]