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One of the stranger details that came out of last weekas big Nintendo Switch 2 event was the existence of game-key cards. They wonat be used for all releases, but essentially theyare Switch 2 cartridges that donat actually contain a game, but instead feature a akeya thatas used for adownloading the full game to your [...]

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a hackathon" next week in order to create a mega API" for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform - potentially a third-party one - to serve as [...]

People are gathering in cities all over the United States and globally to protest an illegal, billionaire power grab" by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They're being put on by over 150 different organizations, including civil rights groups, labor unions, and LGBTQ+ advocates, and span more than 1,300 locations. Last weekend, Tesla Takedown" protests [...]

If you're taking your laptop away from the safe environs of your home or office desk and still want to stay online, you've got a couple of choices (assuming it doesn't have cellular connectivity built in): hunt around for a Wi-Fi network you can connect to or run a Wi-Fi hotspot from your phone. Running [...]

Hundreds of thousands of people signed up to attend over 1,300 Hands Off!" protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk yesterday. Today, estimates from groups involved in planning the protests suggest the protesters in the US and abroad may have actually numbered in the millions. Activist group MoveOn is estimating millions of attendees" went [...]

My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data across 60-plus devices that span five generations of Wi-Fi. Everything on it, from my iPhone 15 Pro all the way down to my Nintendo Wii, manages to connect to the internet, most of it wirelessly through my router, with shockingly few issues. Thatas [...]

The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift. Drifting is the most common term for an issue where joysticks detect false inputs a even when no one is touching a controller a causing unwanted movements to happen [...]

Your House is a visual novel that is the closest game Iave played to reading an actual book. In Your House, you play as Debbie, a girl who receives a mysterious postcard on her birthday with an address and a key. The address leads to a mansion thatas filled with secrets and puzzles for you [...]

Surrounding the Washington Monument Saturday were thousands of signs with messages spanning innumerable topics. aSupport Ukraine,a aBeware of DOGE,a aProtect Trans Lives,a were just a few of them. Others struck a note of exasperation: aWhere do I startaa The nationwide Hands Off protests this weekend turned out millions of protesters across 1,300 different events, organizers [...]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 78, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youare new here, welcome, sorry everythingas about to get so expensive, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, Iave been reading about baseball bats and work-life balance and [...]

The best method that we have for defining color is by using math. Specifically, mind-boggling mathematical models called color spaces that use geometry to assign colors as a fixed point that we can reference, ensuring the blue that I see is the same blue you see. As a creative-leaning person who can barely split a [...]

Meta has announced Llama 4, its newest collection of AI models that now power the Meta AI assistant on the web and in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. The two new models, also available to download from Meta or Hugging Face, are Llama 4 Scout - a small model capable of fitting in a single Nvidia [...]

Microsoft unveiled its Xbox AI era earlier this year with a new Muse AI model that can generate gameplay. While it looked like Muse was still an early Microsoft Research project, the Xbox maker is now allowing Copilot users to try out Muse through an AI-generated version of Quake II. The tech demo is part [...]

Disney just released the first trailer for Tron: Ares, the long-planned Tron: Legacy sequel. The minute-and-a-half trailer doesn't say much about the story but shows plenty of the movie's visuals, which look dark, moody, and filled with the series' signature light trails. The trailer opens in the physical world at night, as Jared Leto's Ares, [...]

Thereas a famous two-decade-old Paris Review interview with Haruki Murakami in which he, one of the worldas most celebrated novelists, details his daily routine. He wakes up at 4AM, works for five hours, goes for a run, reads, goes to bed, and then repeats it all over again. The rigor and repetition are the point. [...]

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says it's delaying shipments to the US this month while it works out how it will deal with the wide-ranging tariffs President Donald Trump announced this week, according to The Guardian. As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including [...]

Views are the most visible metric on the internet. You can see, in more or less real time, how many views something got on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and most other video platforms. X tracks views for every single thing you post, as does Threads. A view is the universal currency of success a more [...]

Earlier this week, when it seemed as though TikTokas fate in the US would actually be decided by April 5th, everyone a from Amazon to the founder of OnlyFans a was coming out of the woodwork to buy it. As it turns out, none of them had a chance. And now, thanks to President Donald [...]

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has infiltrated the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an agency that has a say over resources Musk needs or could benefit from for some of his private sector business, The Verge has learned. Three people who have been identified as DOGE staffers are listed in a public directory called [...]

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to Amazon this week, coming back to the company just about two years after he left, Bloomberg reports. He's now a vice president at the company, and he will be heading up the Ring, Blink, Amazon Key, and Sidewalk teams. Siminoff is replacing Liz Hamren, who had taken over following [...]

Nice economy you have there, said President Donald Trumpas administration. It would be a shame if something happened to it. The something, announced earlier this week, is a set of globally applied tariffs that make no sense on their face. No sane economist would endorse this. Through a combination of stupidity, incompetence and sheer gangsterism, [...]

President Donald Trump's additional 75 day delay to TikTok's sale-or-ban deadline leaves service providers like Apple, Google, and Oracle on shaky ground, and, according to one influential Democrat, is straight-up against the law." After Trump announced the extension on Friday, 12 Republican members of the House Select Committee on China, including Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI), [...]

President Donald Trumpas 25 percent tariffs on all auto-related imports have been called aa debacle of epic proportionsa and a sure-fire way to tank the auto market by crushing demand. Analysts have been predicting everything from $12,000 per vehicle price hikes to the possible aCubanizationa of the US car fleet. Now that theyave had a [...]

Microsoft is bringing its Copilot Vision feature to Windows and mobile, moving it beyond the web. Copilot Vision was a big part of Microsoft's Copilot redesign last year, but so far, it has been limited to Edge webpages to help guide you through what you're seeing. Copilot Vision will now be able to analyze real-time [...]

Four Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers have access to the governmentas data on an untold number of immigrants, FedScoop reports.A US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that handles legal immigration, recently granted access to Kyle Shutt, Aram Moghaddassi, Payton Rehling, and Edward Coristine a the 19-year-old DOGE employee who also goes by [...]

Meta's US fact-checking program will come to an end by Monday afternoon. In a post on X, Meta's global policy head Joel Kaplan said there will be no new fact checks and no fact checkers" across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by that time as the company replaces it with Community Notes. Meta first announced its [...]

In the second major disruption of today's 50th anniversary event at Microsoft's headquarters, another employee stood up and began yelling at Satya Nadella, Steve Ballmer, and Bill Gates - the company's current and past CEOs - in protest of Microsoft's dealings with the government of Israel. Shame on you all. You're all hypocrites," said Microsoft [...]

AI companies canat figure out if the Trump tariffs are about to decimate them a and the fact that no one has a clear answer is sending them, and the tech industry overall, into a confusion spiral. The markets are in disarray. Nvidia is down 7.59%, TSMC is down 7.22%. In San Francisco, sources tell [...]

French satellite network company Eutelsat has been providing Ukraine with much-needed internet access for almost a year with the help of the German government, Reuters reports. Eutelsat's OneWeb division operates low-orbiting satellites that communicate with terrestrial terminals for internet connectivity - similarly to rival SpaceX's Starlink network, which has been the primary supplier of satellite [...]

Donald Trump's initial 75-day delay against enforcement of the TikTok ban law would've expired this weekend, but on Friday, he announced on Truth Social that I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days." This week, Trump announced new taxes on products coming into the US, including [...]

On April 2nd, President Donald Trump announced staggering new tariffs on imports from dozens of countries that could raise the price of almost everything you buy. It hasn't taken long for the impact on tech to start to take shape, with Nintendo delaying preorders of the Nintendo Switch 2 and experts telling The Verge that [...]

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company's 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI. Shame on you," said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. [...]

Two members of Elon Muskas Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were spotted at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week, sources tell The Verge. Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant were seen in the building and are now listed in the FTCas internal directory under the Office of the Chairman with their own agency emails, according [...]

Sphere Entertainment has announced two new immersive experiences coming to its 516-foot wide spherical venue in Las Vegas. An enhanced version of The Wizard of Oz will premiere on the Sphere's 160,000 square foot screen on August 28th, 2025, while a new film by Academy Award-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) [...]

Sarah Wynn-Williams, the ex-Meta employee who authored Careless People, will testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee next week. On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wynn-Williams will address Facebook's cooperation with the Communist regime in China, including FB's plan to build censorship tools." Despite Meta's attempts to silence Wynn-Williams with a gag order preventing her [...]

Microsoft is making changes to Copilot that will allow the artificial intelligence assistant to complete online tasks for you. Using simple chat prompts," these Actions" can be performed in the background while you work on other tasks, according to Microsoft, and can do things like book restaurant reservations, event tickets, and purchase items to ship [...]

After an agonizing wait, Nintendo finally revealed more details on the Switch 2 during a Direct presentation on the morning of April 2nd. While Nintendo told us very little in the official reveal of the console in January, the company announced during the Direct that the Switch 2 would launch on June 5th and cost [...]

The invention of Matter was a grand kumbaya moment for the smart home. Built on the foundations of almost every concept smart home companies had dreamed up a from Appleas HomeKit to Googleas Thread a the idea was to create a new technology on top of existing ones. One common standard to make it easier [...]

Nintendo is pushing back preorders for the Switch 2 due to concerns about Donald Trump's newly announced tariffs. According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th: Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April [...]

I'm always on the lookout for deals on Philips Hue gear, in part because that stuff's expensive and I'm not keen on paying full price. Still, it's worth the money to get the lighting exactly how I want it in each room - down to the precise color temperature that fits the mood or time [...]

Iave always been fascinated by Microsoft, and itas led me on a somewhat surreal path to covering the company for most of my life. It all started in my teenage years, when my curiosity over the inner workings of Windows led to brief moments of fame and lots of moments of trouble with Microsoftas lawyers. [...]

Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft's 50th Anniversary by sharing the source code that created the company's foundation. The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates' blog contains the origins of Altair Basic - a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer - and remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," according [...]

General Timothy Haugh, the director of the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command, was fired on Thursday, according to a report from The Washington Post. His removal reportedly occurred just one day after right-wing activist Laura Loomer pushed for his firing during a meeting with President Donald Trump. Wendy Noble, the Deputy Director and [...]

In 2005, Microsoftas leaders were starting to get worried. Windows and Office were doing well, but the companyas lead software architect, Ray Ozzie, warned them that an emerging trend threatened Microsoft's very existence. A new business model has emerged in the form of advertising-supported services and software," warned Ozzie in his famous memo. This model [...]

Fifty years ago today, Micro-Soft was founded by friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen. As the name implies, Microsoft was originally focused on microprocessors and software, and Gates and Allen created the company to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Founded on April 4th, 1975, Microsoft went on to strike a [...]

Microsoft was originally founded on April 4th, 1975, and the tech giant is now celebrating its 50-year anniversary. Microsoft started with a focus on personal computers, building the very software that helped it achieve an early goal of a PC on every desk and in every home. The success of Windows and Office has allowed [...]

First things first, some exciting news: The Vergecast has been nominated for a Webby Award! This one means a lot to us, especially because itas an award you get to vote on. Wead be so grateful if youad go vote for us once, or 40 times, or however many times the site will allow. (Also, [...]

Honda is looking to the stars for its next hydrogen breakthrough. The automaker is teaming up with space tech companies Sierra Space and Tec-Masters to test its high-differential pressure water electrolysis system on the International Space Station. The test is part of Honda's vision to support life on the Moon and elsewhere in space using [...]

China has responded to Donald Trump's new trade tariffs with its own charges on US goods. After Trump announced the imposition of an additional 34 percent charge on Chinese imports into the US, China has announced a levy at the same rate for US goods shipped to China. It has also barred 11 US companies [...]

When you set up a new camera, or even go to take a picture on some smartphones, youare presented with a key choice: JPG or RAW? JPGs are ready to post just about anywhere, while RAWs yield an unfinished file filled with extra data that allows for much richer post-processing. That option for a RAW [...]