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Razer is adding a fresh gaming laptop to the pile of new models up for preorder today: the Blade 18. Like its smaller (but far from small) Blade 16 cousin, the new Razer Blade 18 will come with Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs and Intel Arrow Lake CPUs. But one major way it differs is its [...]

Frameworkas mission is to afix consumer electronics, one category at a timea by making them modular, repairable, and upgradable. Itas the only laptop maker to ever truly succeed at that aupgradablea part. But desktop PCs are already modular, so why is Framework making one? At first, I thought it saw a unique opportunity to make [...]

Google is making it easier to remove and update Search results that contain your personal information. The company's Results about you" tool for detecting personal information like addresses and phone numbers that appear in Search has been updated to make it easier than ever" for users to sign up and for removals to be requested [...]

YouTube isn't a podcast app, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming the number one place people who want to consume online radio shows now turn to. According to the company, a staggering 1 billion people are tuning into podcasts every month on YouTube. That's not just more than either Apple or Spotify can claim [...]

More Android phones could soon provide longer lifetime support updates thanks to a new agreement between Qualcomm and Google. Qualcomm announced on Monday that up to eight consecutive years of software and security updates" will be available to Android phones running on future Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 7-series chips. As Android specialist Mishall Rahman points [...]

Volvo is continuing to drop hints about its upcoming high-tech electric sedan, the ES90, ahead of the EV's official reveal next month. Today, the Swedish automaker provided new details about the ES90's range and battery efficiency, calling it a car that goes further and charges faster than any electric Volvo before." That's mostly thanks to [...]

Two years ago, the last time Framework had an event in San Francisco, California, the highlight was the Framework Laptop 16 - a laptop promising the holy grail" of upgradable graphics cards, and easily one of the most ambitious laptops ever made. But today, the Framework Laptop 16 got little mention at its new event, [...]

The first PCIe Gen 5 SSDs from the likes of Seagate and Crucial began hitting the market nearly two years ago, but Samsung has been notably absent with its own model. That will change in March with the arrival of the Samsung 9100 Pro series, its first consumer-ready pure PCIe Gen 5 SSD built with [...]

The White House has named Amy Gleason as the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The news, delivered by an unnamed White House official to CNBC and other media outlets,follows days of obfuscation in courtrooms, the press, and the pseudo-department itself. It designates Gleason a likely target for the nigh-continuous legal challenges [...]

Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhone's dictation feature that briefly displays Trump" when someone says the word racist." The Verge has been unable to reproduce the issue, but it picked up attention on Tuesday after a video demonstrating the strange substitution went viral on TikTok and other social media. The company provided [...]

Since its app fiasco last year, Sonos has been busy slowly rebuilding its reputation with customers. This latest sale, which is exclusive to existing customers, seems to be a part of that strategy - and we're not complaining, because the deals are solid. Through March 2nd, Sonos is taking 25 percent off one select Sonos [...]

As part of its February Xbox update, Microsoft is making it easier to invite your friends to an Xbox Cloud Gaming session by letting you generate shareable links. You can send the link through an Xbox message or by copying it to your clipboard for pasting into any messaging app you want. Players can accept [...]

It's time to put all the lessons I've learned about Infinity Nikki's gacha system to the test. There's a new event coming to the game and with that comes a new outfit I actually want this time. After the game taught me an unfortunate lesson on the gacha economy, I've kinda taken it easy with [...]

8BitDo has released an upgraded version of its Ultimate controller now available to preorder through Amazon for $59.99 in purple, black, and white color options. The new 8BitDo Ultimate 2 features a similar asymmetrical stick layout to 8BitDo's original Ultimate controller that launched in 2022, but adds additional buttons, interactive LED lighting, and tunneling magneto-resistance [...]

Technicolor Group, the French VFX giant that owns some of Hollywood's most in-demand post-production houses, appears to be on the brink of collapse - putting thousands of jobs at risk. Variety reports that Technicolor has begun winding down operations after failing to secure a new round of investment necessary to keep the entire international outfit [...]

Warner Bros. Discovery is making even more big changes to its troubled gaming efforts. As reported by Bloomberg, the company's gaming division is canceling the Wonder Woman game announced in 2021 and shutting down three studios: Wonder Woman developer Monolith Productions, MultiVersus developer Player First Games, and Warner Bros. Games San Diego. WBD confirmed the [...]

Microsoft made OpenAI's o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users last month, and now it's providing unlimited use of this model and Copilot's voice capabilities to everyone. Previously, both Think Deeper (powered by o1) and Voice in Copilot had limits for free users, but Microsoft is removing these today to allow Copilot users to [...]

Online education company Chegg filed a lawsuit on February 24th against Google claiming that the company's AI-generated summaries of search results have hurt its traffic and revenue, Reuters reports. It's believed to be the first antitrust lawsuit filed by a single company over the AI Overviews feature, Reuters says. Chegg claims Google uses its power [...]

Tesla is starting to push a software update to its customers in China that appears to fulfill a long-gestating goal for the company to offer its controversial Full Self-Driving features in its largest car market. Or does it? According to Not a Tesla App, it's unclear whether the version of FSD that Tesla is offering [...]

The BlackBerry might be dead, but one of its best ideas - a tiny thumb-friendly keyboard for phones - lives on in the Clicks keyboard case, which will soon be available for several Android devices. Over 100,000 of the original Clicks keyboard cases have been sold around the world, the company says in a press [...]

Automattic-owned Beeper has announced a new beta update to its desktop and iOS apps to finally merge its service with Texts, which Automattic acquired in 2023. You can download the desktop version or see instructions for using the iOS beta in TestFlight by going to this page. Beeper says the new desktop version is built [...]

Major newspapers across the UK today are all on the same page for once. Specifically, their front covers, which feature the same campaign imagery protesting government proposals that could eviscerate copyright protections against artificial intelligence. Brits popping into their local store or newsagents will be greeted by a spread of bright blue pages demanding the [...]

Microsoft has decided to delay the release window of its upcoming Fable game to 2026. The Xbox maker originally said last year that Fable would arrive at some point in 2025, but now Xbox Game Studios chief Craig Duncan has provided an update on the game during an appearance on the official Xbox podcast. We [...]

Peloton was a pandemic darling - one of the businesses that seemed to find its purpose as something more than a cultish fad when the world shut down. And then, everything went horribly wrong. First, the supply chain issues with monthslong delays for bikes that irked new customers. Then, a disastrous recall affected both of [...]

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you're not really buying an ebook or video game. Wyden's letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed [...]

Starting May 12th,YouTube saysit will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at natural break points" like pauses or transitions, according to a help page on the change. The company says it's also inserting additional, automatic ad-slots at natural break points" into older videos with manually-placed slots, [...]

I am the last person on earth who needs another watch. As The Vergeas resident wearables reviewer, Iam always double-wristing the latest smartwatches. I am also the last person who needs another ring after spending a whole summer wearing six of them like a high-tech mafia wife. But I never said I had good sense, [...]

To be the best at their jobs, people need relationships in the workplace. Employees who feel comfortable taking work challenges to peers or problem solving in tandem are more likely to excel in their work. Theyare also more likely to be happy, as recent research has revealed. Social connections in the workplace contribute to a [...]

With the rapid introduction of computing that leverages AI, the gaming experience is set to take a step forward in 2025. In January, at CES, GIGABYTE provided a glimpse at that future when it introduced its B800 series motherboards. Built to work with Intel B860 and AMD B850 chipsets, the mainstream B800 series models are [...]

The modern internet is nearly three decades old, and itas starting to show its age. Think back to the a90s: some of what we built back then, though groundbreaking, now feels outdated. The Verge recently created a special issue on what we were doing online in 2004, highlighting how Web 2.0 was born. Take a [...]

Panasonic has announced an upgrade version of 2019's Lumix S1R with a new sensor, smaller body, faster autofocus, and video recording that tops out at 8K at 30 frames per second. Although the Lumix S1RII's new 44.3-megapixel back-side illuminated CMOS sensor is smaller than the 47.3-megapixel sensor in its predecessor, its improved video capabilities, including [...]

Like Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Konami and Bloober Team are back in action together. Bloober Team announced that it will continue its partnership with the Japanese publisher working on a new project. The trust built upon the success of Silent Hill 2 laid the foundation for signing another agreement for a new project," the [...]

There was a time, not so long ago, when people wouldnat shut up about a revolution in automobiles. No matter where you looked, youad find someone telling you about how self-driving, all-electric vehicles would change the way we think about car ownership, lead to a total reinvention of how cities work, change the economy, and [...]

Trello is launching several new features this week, all designed to turn the Atlassian-owned app into something like a universal to-do list for everything in your life. By integrating with Slack (and soon Teams), email, and Siri, the company is hoping it can help you put all your important stuff in one place -and then [...]

Adobe has released a powerful new Photoshop mobile app that includes many of the design, editing, and generative AI tools found on the desktop version. The app integrates with Photoshop on the web to allow creatives to work on projects across multiple devices and is globally available today on iPhone, with Android coming later this [...]

On a recent Saturday afternoon, around 50 sign-wielding protesters stood outside the Tesla showroom in Manhattan's Meatpacking neighborhood, screaming insults at passing Tesla vehicles. aUncool car!a aDonat buy a Swatsticar!a aMajor loser!a The excitement peaked when an unsuspecting Cybertruck suddenly pulled around the corner. As a woman in the passenger seat stared wide-eyed out the [...]

It looks like Samsung may have an answer to Oppo's Find N5 after all, as new leaks claim that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will only be fractionally thicker than the world's thinnest foldable. That's according to renders created by OnLeaks based on leaked information. OnLeaks, together with Android Headlines, reports that the Z Fold [...]

Today is the third anniversary of Valveas Steam Deck, the handheld gaming PC that all but created the market for handheld gaming PCs. It was a mess to start! But three years later, The Verge has data showing how it has dominated the nascent market. While Valve told us in November 2023 that it had [...]

A free version of Gemini Code Assist, Google's enterprise-focused AI coding tool, is now available globally for solo developers. Google announced today that Gemini Code Assist for individuals is launching in public preview, aiming to make coding assistants with the latest AI capabilities" more accessible for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups. Now anyone can more [...]

Microsoft has started testing a free version of Office for Windows that includes ads. Right now, you have to pay for a monthly Microsoft 365 subscription to get access to the full desktop version of Office, but Microsoft has been quietly testing an ad-supported version in certain countries. Beebom first noticed that the ad-supported version [...]

I've never reviewed a perfect product, but Logitech's Powerplay Wireless Charging System comes close. For over three years and counting, I've never even had to think about charging my wireless mouse. It's so dead simple, it feels like magic, and it's a shame that most people probably can't afford it at $120. The good news: [...]

Disney has had a tumultuous run since Bob Iger's return as the company's CEO, which came just two years after he handed the reins over to Bob Chapek. Iger has since worked to undo some of Chapek's changes as the company contends with a streaming-focused future. Iger has big plans for the future of Disney [...]

When Nvidia originally confirmed that some of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards had a rare" manufacturing issue that left them missing some promised render units and a slight amount of performance as a result, it only named three affected cards: the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti. But now, Nvidia has confirmed [...]

After months of preparation, Epic Games will finally take on Apple in court in a trial that could fundamentally change the makeup of the App Store. The fight dates back to August, when Epic added a direct payment mechanism to its hit battle royale game Fortnite in violation of Apple's rules. The iPhone maker quickly [...]

Ongoing scarcity has made it challenging to purchase Nintendoas adorable Alarmo since its soft launch last year, but it appears those days are behind us. The $99.99 alarm clock is now readily available from third-party retailers in the US, starting with Best Buy. You can also buy it directly from Nintendo without a subscription, with [...]

We're nearing the deadline that Elon Musk imposed for government workers to reply to a mass email about productivity, and the results have been predictably confusing - with even a direct statement from President Donald Trump failing to clear things up. Government agencies have taken significantly different tacks toward the Musk-promoted email, which he announced [...]

A pivotal trial over the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline opens today that could have grave consequences for protests in the US and the future of the environmental group Greenpeace. Members of theAStanding Rock Sioux and more than 500 other tribes protested the development of the pipeline alongside demonstrators who joined from across the US nearly [...]

SpaceX believes it knows what caused the explosion during the seventh test flight of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster on January 16th, 2025. Fires in the aft section of Starship, located between the bottom of its liquid oxygen tank and rear heat shield, caused all but one of Starship's engines to execute controlled [...]

Verizon and AT&T have each announced milestones in making cellphone-to-satellite video calls in partnership with satellite company AST SpaceMobile. Verizon has completed its first cellphone-to-satellite video call, while AT&T has completed its first using satellites that will be used as part of a commercial network. There's lining up competition to T-Mobile's arrangement with SpaceX and [...]

Amazon is holding a press event this week, where we expect it to finally launch its new" Alexa. This could be the beginning of a major shift in how we use generative AI in our homes, or it could be a big disappointment. The latter seems likely, based on the delays and persistent rumors that [...]