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Netflix's next stab at gaming is here. Starting today you'll be able to play a number of multiplayer party games on your TV using your phone as a controller. To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and Tetris Time Warp. A social deduction game based [...]

Another day, another AI browser. This time, it's Firefox, the self-described independent browser" from Mozilla. Firefox says it is building an AI browsing feature called AI Window that includes an AI assistant and chatbot. The company calls it an opt-in intelligent and user-controlled space" that is currently being built in the open" with user input. [...]

Amazon's Black Friday officially starts on November 20th, but in reality, it's already well underway. For the past week or so, we've been seeing the retailer drop a number of good Black Friday deals, and the latest Fire TV Stick 4K Max is one of the best. Right now, you can buy the streaming stick [...]

In recent years, we've seen generative AI move quickly through different eras: chatbots, image-generation, voice, video-generation, and more. But Dr. Fei-Fei Li, longtime AI pioneer and co-director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), is staking out what she thinks is the next frontier: spatial intelligence, a nascent field that she believes is the [...]

Tesla is expanding a Powerwall 2 battery recall that started in Australia last September to the US. A "third-party battery cell defect" can cause units to stop functioning normally, resulting in overheating, smoking and in some cases smoke or flame causing minor property damage." The company has received 22 reports of overheating, six reports of [...]

The wearable technology company Even Realities has taken the wraps off its latest pair of human-centric" smart glasses, which it claims are designed not to interfere with your everyday life. The G2 Display Smart Glasses come without outward-facing cameras and external speakers, a move Even Realities says removes the anxiety of being recorded, overheard or [...]

Tesla, one of the original Apple CarPlay holdouts, may finally be close to actually adopting the immensely popular phone projection system for its cars, Bloomberg reports today. The company has started testing the capability internally, anonymous sources tell the publication, and could be close to releasing it publicly, perhaps in a few months - or [...]

The Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and other consumer advocacy and tech groups are speaking up in defense of former FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was fired without cause by the Trump administration in March. A total of 40 groups -which also include Demand Progress Information Center and UC Berkeley [...]

Google is pairing up two of its research products: NotebookLM and Gemini's agentic AI tool Deep Research. On Thursday, the company announced that all users will have access to Deep Research in NotebookLM within a week. Google recently linked Deep Research to other Workspace products like Gmail and Drive, allowing Gemini to draw context from [...]

Google DeepMind's new AI agent learned how to play a bunch of video games -including No Man's Sky, Valheim, and Goat Simulator 3 - to become a viable interactive gaming companion." The new agent tool, SIMA 2, builds on its earlier iteration, SIMA (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent), which DeepMind released in March 2024. It also [...]

Disney's plans for the future of its streaming service may involve AI-generated videos. During an earnings call on Thursday, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company is really excited about AI," adding that the technology could allow Disney Plus to provide viewers with the ability to create" and consume" short-form AI videos. There's phenomenal opportunities [...]

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has been over a decade in the making, but its opening day is finally in sight. It's officially less than a year away on September 22nd, 2026. The museum will include over 40,000 works of narrative art," ranging from murals to comic book art and, of course, cinematic artifacts. [...]

So a lot of people think AI is a bubble. That includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who keeps saying AI is a bubble all while raising and spending enormous amounts of money in ways that seem like bubble indicators to everyone else. This is all pretty confusing. So we sent Verge senior reporter Liz Lopatto [...]

Dbrand did the thing: it announced a Portal Companion Cube skin for Valve's boxy new Steam Machine, allowing you to turn the new PC / console hybrid into a facsimile of gaming's most loyal sidekick. The Companion Cube skin is limited edition, and will release some time in 2026, though we don't know if it [...]

Have you ever laid down for the night, only to realize your phone charger is across the room? And then thought to yourself, "Nah, I'm not going to get up and plug it in"? And then known without a shadow of a doubt that you won't regret that decision tomorrow - that your phone will [...]

OnePlus wants to sell you its new flagship phone; it just doesn't know when it will be able to. Like so many other things these days, the OnePlus 15 is in limbo thanks to fallout from the government shutdown. The 15 launched earlier this year in China, and OnePlus has announced pricing for the US: [...]

Spotify is launching a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what you've already heard without needing to rewind. The company likens the feature, called Recaps, to a previously on" segment at the start of episodes in a TV series. Recaps will be available automatically in the iOS app for a limited number of English-language [...]

Valve has created a PC-based game console that lives under your TV. The Steam Machine takes everything that's great about the Steam Deck and adds the raw power to compete with the latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles. It also puts a huge amount of pressure on Microsoft to perfect its Windows and Xbox combination, as [...]

After launching exclusively in China last month, DJI is announcing wider global availability for its Neo 2 selfie drone, including Japan, Canada, the UK, and other countries where the company sells its drones. But as with the Mavic 4 Pro and 8K Osmo 360 camera, the Neo 2 won't be available in the US. DJI [...]

Google says that it's softening its plan to require every Android developer - even outside of the Play Store - to verify their identity, a move which critics warned could kill sideloading for good. The company now says it's developing a workflow to allow experienced users" to install apps from unverified developers. Mandatory verification for [...]

Reputable gadget leaker Evan Blass has taken to X with some confirmed details" on Samsung's upcoming trifold phone. It'll be called the Galaxy Z TriFold," according to Blass, with a 6.5-inch cover display that maxes out at 2600 nits brightness. It unfurls to produce a 10-inch display on the inside capable of reaching a peak [...]

The rumored MMO set in Sony's post-apocalyptic Horizon universe is real. We spilled details about the game before it was revealed based on an announcement video we saw, and that video has been officially posted - and more has been shared about the title, too. The new game is called Horizon Steel Frontiers, and Sony [...]

In its new Steam Frame VR headset, Valve put dual audio drivers on each side in the included head strap. That puts the audio near your ears while you're wearing it, and in my brief time trying the device at Valve's headquarters recently, I thought the sound was just fine. But the choice to have [...]

The most high-stakes United Nations climate change conference in years is taking place this November in Belem, Brazil. It's the 10th anniversary of the landmark Paris agreement, which committed nearly every country on Earth to working together to limit global warming. They're off track, making this an important moment to show the world whether world [...]

Valve's new streaming-first VR headset-the Steam Frame - employs a clever trick to help make game streaming feel as low-latency as possible. It's called foveated streaming, and it means the headset requests a higher-quality image for the content that's right in front of your eyes while lowering the resolution of your peripheral vision to reduce [...]

Hi! I'm Jay Peters, a senior reporter here at The Verge. I'm perhaps the site's second-biggest Steam Deck fan, surpassed only by Sean Hollister, our unofficial handheld gaming PC reviewer. So you can imagine how excited we were to visit Valve's headquarters to try the company's three new hardware products: the Steam Frame, a streaming-focused [...]

Valve just announced the Steam Frame, a new standalone VR headset that can both stream games from a PC and play games locally thanks to an onboard Arm chip. The headset is quite a bit different from Valve's previous model, the Index, which had to be tethered to a gaming computer with a physical wire. [...]

Valve won't talk about a Steam Deck 2. It probably wants to keep the attention on its just-announced living room console, comfy new controller, and Arm-based headset instead. But now that the company is preparing to sell an Arm headset, one that can even run Android apps, there's an obvious question. Is Arm a one-off [...]

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.1 today, an update to the flagship model it released in August. OpenAI calls it an upgrade" to GPT-5 that makes ChatGPT smarter and more enjoyable to talk to." The new models include GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. The former is warmer, more intelligent, and better at following your instructions" than its [...]

You can think of the just-announced Steam Frame as a wireless VR headset for your PC, or a Steam Deck for your face. But another way to think about it is that Valve is finally entering the mobile realm. The Frame doesn't just run Windows games on its Arm-based Qualcomm Snapdragon chip - Valve will [...]

Valve has just announced the Steam Frame, its new VR headset that can play games streamed directly from your PC using a dedicated streaming stick and run Windows games locally thanks to an Arm chip in the headset itself. At the same time, Valve is also moving on from its previous VR headset, the Valve [...]

Valve has just announced its biggest hardware push that it's arguably ever made - a living room game console called the Steam Machine, a headset called the Steam Frame, and the long-awaited sequel to its Steam Controller it hinted about three years back. But Valve won't say the first word about its next gaming handheld, [...]

One of the best parts of the Steam Deck is its many different controls, and how you can customize them to let you do whatever you want with every single one of your games. Now, Valve is bringing that same level of flexibility into a new gamepad. I recently got to try it at Valve's [...]

Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be. Most VR headsets I've tried have ended up collecting dust after the novelty wore off, and I thought I had sworn off VR for good. But after trying Valve's new headset [...]

Valve is about to challenge the Xbox and PlayStation on their home turf. Ten years to the month after Valve's original Steam Machines went on sale, the company is announcing... the Steam Machine. I flew to Valve's headquarters to try the company's new PC-based game console, alongside a brand-new Steam Controller and the new Steam [...]

On the 15th floor of an upscale office building in Bellevue, Washington, security guards line the halls. They're here to make sure we don't stray - because I'm visiting Valve's headquarters, a place few journalists ever get to go. The guards help escort me to a tiny demo room, where a pair of Valve engineers [...]

In 2012, The Verge broke the news that Valve was making a game console. Gabe Newell himself dished on the company's grand plans. By 2015, the Steam Machines" had utterly flopped. But Valve never stopped quietly working on the idea. The Steam Deck handheld became the seed for a grand reboot of Valve's console and [...]

The longest government shutdown in the nation's history may soon be over. Once it is, federal museums and monuments will reopen. SNAP payments will start flowing again. And tens of thousands of essential federal employees, including air traffic controllers, will get paid for the first time since October. But air travel won't go back to [...]

Something that I'm seeing more often as we get closer to Black Friday is the rise of sub-$1,000 65-inch OLEDs. It used to be that 55 inches was the biggest OLED TV you could typically buy without passing the $1K threshold. But, despite this being a year marked by rising tech prices and tariffs, you [...]

Waymo is finally ready to hit the highway. Starting today, the company's robotaxis will gradually start to include more highway trips in its routes in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In addition, Waymo's Bay Area service is extending south to San Jose, including 24/7 curbside access at both terminals of San Jose International Airport [...]

Amazon just yanked the Haribo gummy bear power bank from its website and is canceling orders for the ultralight device. In an email sent to customers, Amazon says it has learned of a potential safety or quality issue" regarding the power bank, and that it's not charging customers who recently purchased it. The gummy bear [...]

Nomad released a new version of its tracking card designed to be carried in wallets or billfolds that comes with a big boost to battery life. Its new Tracking Card Pro will last for up to 16 months on a full charge, while the standard version maxes out at up to five months. It's available [...]

Amazon's newest Echo Show smart displays launch this week. They're purpose-built for the new AI-powered Alexa Plus, which comes preloaded in the US. I've had a couple of days to play with them, and I have some early thoughts to share. Overall, the devices are a significant upgrade from the last-gen Show 8 and aging [...]

The first full Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer has finally landed, and it looks like Nintendo and Illumination are doing it big for their next animated feature. Though there are a few shots of the Mushroom Kingdom and a very miniscule Bowser (Jack Black) imprisoned in a tiny castle, The Super Mario Galaxy Movies new [...]

One of the most consequential rounds of global climate negotiations has kicked off in Belem, Brazil. Leaders from nearly every country in the world - but notably, not the US - are gathering to try to ramp up action on climate change during a time of tremendous transformation when it comes to both energy systems [...]

After acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo last year, Google has relaunched a version of the service that makes it easier for Windows-based organizations to migrate over to ChromeOS. Now called Cameyo by Google," the Virtual App Delivery (VAD) solution allows users to run legacy Windows apps in the Chrome browser or as web apps, preventing [...]

Elden Ring Nightreign is keeping things fresh with downloadable content that will add additional playable characters, bosses, and a new area. The Forsaken Hollows DLC costs $15 and launches on December 4th, but players who purchase or own Elden Ring Nightreign's deluxe or collector's editions will receive it for free. Elden Ring Nightreign launched in [...]

Sony announced a new 27-inch monitor for the PlayStation 5 targeting console gamers who prefer playing on a desk. The monitor features a 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, supports HDR with automatic HDR tone mapping during setup, and variable refresh rates of up to 120Hz when connected to the PS5 or PS5 Pro, or up to [...]

Disney and Pixar have released the first teaser trailer for Toy Story 5, showing tablet screens as an all-new threat to playtime." The trailer introduces - much to the horror of Woody and co - a new character called Lilypad," a frog-shaped tablet played by Greta Lee (Russian Doll, Tron: Ares), alongside the tagline the [...]