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President Donald Trump has cast his shadow over the latest forecast on US greenhouse gas emissions. Reductions in planet-heating pollution are already expected to slow over the next decade, setting the US and the world back in efforts to stop climate change. Here's what could have been. Taking previous climate policies into account, research firm [...]

The AirPods Pro 3 seem like a solid upgrade, but they have one significant drawback: Apple isn't including a charging cable in the box, MacRumors reports. Apple spells it out right on the AirPods Pro 3 tech specs page, saying in the In the Box" section that USBC Charge Cable sold separately." That means that [...]

PlayStation is launching a new PlayStation Family app for iOS and Android to help parents manage their child's playtime on PS5 and PS4. Parents can already set parental control features directly on a console, but this app gives parents another way to set limits and keep track of what their kid is playing. The app [...]

Bluesky will now check the ages of users located in South Dakota and Wyoming to comply with local online safety laws. The platform announced on Wednesday that users in both states will be able to prove their age using an ID, payment card, or other method. Just like Bluesky's age verification launch in the UK, [...]

Microsoft is allowing developers to submit apps to its Windows store without having to pay any onboarding fees. Individual developers in nearly 200 countries can now sign up to publish apps on the Microsoft Store with just a personal Microsoft account, and no more one-time fees. Microsoft started cutting its $19 one-time fee to publish [...]

It was briefly mentioned by Apple's Greg Joswiak during the company's Awe dropping" event yesterday, but today Blackmagic Design officially announced its new Camera ProDock that adds professional camera connections to iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max." These include additional USB-C ports for connecting accessories like external storage drives and BNC connectors that [...]

Apple made a lot of noise about its super-slim iPhone Air and super-citrusy iPhone 17 Pro this week, but the company gave the base iPhone 17 some major updates that make it a really great deal - and all without raising its $799 starting price. Let's start with the iPhone 17's display, which is now [...]

Elon Musk can no longer claim the title of the world's richest man - at least for the time being. The net worth of Oracle CTO and co-founder, Larry Ellison, ballooned by $101 billion on Wednesday morning, bringing his total fortune to $393 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. Ellison's wealth now surpasses Musk's, [...]

In 2021, when former Meta employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on dangers that the company's platforms posed to kids, Meta realized it needed to change. "I'm here to tell you today that Meta has changed," said one of a new set of whistleblowers - former Meta user experience researcher Cayce Savage - before the [...]

One night, a friend of mine went out for dinner with her husband and toddler. The toddler, who sometimes had trouble swallowing, choked on his food - and threw up, repeatedly, in the restaurant. People around them were laughing while my friend and her family were in distress, adding to their embarrassment. But that wasn't [...]

Apple's 2025 fall event was not the splashiest set of announcements in the company's history. Some phones, some watches, some headphones, some cases. Some good stuff! But there was only one thing that seemingly caused deep feelings in everyone, both live in Cupertino, California, and online: the orange iPhone. THE ORANGE IPHONE. On this episode [...]

Everything from smartphones to handheld consoles now come in a variety of different colors, but what if you didn't get to pick your favorite? That's how the new Kodak Charmera is being sold. It's a tiny digital camera released in seven different retro styles and colors but in blind box packaging so you don't know [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]