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We called Bowers & Wilkins' PX7 S2e the best-sounding wireless headphones" in our noise-canceling headphones buyer's guide, but the company's latest could be a new contender for that title. Bowers & Wilkins says its PX7 S3 headphones have a re-imagined industrial design" that's more comfortable with a new button layout that's more intuitive. The headphones [...]

Nintendo's GameCube controller for the Switch 2 will cost $64.99, according to the controller's listing on the company's website. The controller releases on June 5th, the same day as the Switch 2, but Nintendo will be making it available to order ahead of that date. Initially, the controller will be available to buy from May [...]

The summer of video game releases is starting to heat up. Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake and Control, announced that its first multiplayer title FBC: Firebreak will launch on June 17th. It'll be available on PC (both Steam and the Epic Game Store), the PS5, and Xbox. It'll also be available on subscription [...]

Threads on the web has a new address. Now, you can access the Meta-owned network by heading to Threads.com instead of Threads.net. The move will likely make it easier for users to find the website, as traffic to an unrelated messaging app startup, Threads.com," spiked following the platform's launch. Meta finally acquired the Threads.com" domain [...]

Kia is the latest automaker to be granted Tesla Supercharger access, allowing owners of the company's EVs to connect to over 21,500 stalls across North America. Kia EVs were originally supposed to get access to Superchargers in January, but it was delayed until March, and now it has finally gone through. The news comes as [...]

Tired of your coffee going cold halfway through the cup? Ember's smart mugs are designed specifically to solve that problem, and right now the black Ember Tumbler is on sale for half off. Regularly $199.95, you can buy the travel-friendly smart mug for just $99.95 at Amazon and Walmart, which is $20 shy of its [...]

Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed. The cuts affected teams working in Oculus Studios, Meta's in-house games division for Quest headsets, as well as some employees involved in the company's hardware efforts, according to people familiar with the matter. Specific titles impacted by [...]

Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue. Before this change, Netflix offered Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC), which show spoken dialogue along with speaker names and descriptions of sounds, such as [phone buzzing]" or [dramatic music swells]." The new option drops these audio cues. It [...]

Though Ryan Coogler's Sinners is crawling with vampires and steeped in supernatural mythology, the film's monsters are far from the most magical thing about it. Those aspects of Sinners' story are exciting, and they help illustrate many of its ideas about the US' legacy of racism. But in terms of showing you both the beauty [...]

After debuting a fun Piranha Plant-inspired alternative to Nintendo's own $50 Switch 2 camera, Hori is back with another camera accessory for the console that's less fun but more functional. Standing just shy of two inches tall and weighing 30 grams, the camera is small and light enough to be connected to the Switch 2's [...]

Netflix's Love, Death, and Robots anthology series has always featured pretty stacked casts, and it doesn't sound like the show's next season is going to be any exception. Along with a new trailer for the upcoming season, Netflix released a full listing of Love, Death, and Robots Vol. 4's episodes detailing their plots and highlighting [...]

Motorola is kicking off hot foldable summer in style - and a little early this year. This time around it's offering not two but three Razr models with the introduction of the premium Razr Ultra. It comes with some notable upgrades, and all three phones get some quality-of-life improvements like a sturdier hinge. But the [...]

Phones aren't the only gadgets that Motorola is announcing today. But whereas the new Razr foldables evoke a sense of nostalgia, its latest smartwatch and earbuds summon a powerful feeling of deja vu. Handling the new Moto Watch Fit and Moto Buds Loop, it's like I'm looking at Motorola-flavored clones of the Apple Watch and [...]

The first time I met Jon Friedman, corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft, was in 2019 when he was spearheading a new open approach to design at Microsoft to make its hardware and software look like it came from one company. That's a largely successful work in progress, so these days Friedman [...]

GameStop's online Nintendo Switch 2 preorders went live at 11AM ET, and like the preorders from other retailers overnight, things immediately got off to a rocky start. However, shortly after 11:30AM ET, it appears some people started to be able to complete orders, including one Verge staffer. Right as the clock rolled over to 11AM, [...]

If you've got pets or kids, in addition to a vaccum, you may also have a carpet and upholstery deep cleaner like Bissell's Little Green machine to deal with their worst messes. But with Eufy's new Omni E28 floor-mopping robot vacuum you only need one device to get everything: it comes with its own deep [...]

Editor's note: So far, GameStop's preorder rollout for the Switch 2 has been as messy. Multiple Verge staffers have encountered Cloudflare and bad gateway" notices; we'll update this post if availability changes. Most major retailers launched their Nintendo Switch 2 preorders at 12AM ET on April 24th and sold out quickly - but thankfully, GameStop [...]

It's a photo you may have already seen. Captured in stark black and white, several Vietnamese children run down a road, flanked by soldiers. In the left foreground, there is a crying child whose mouth is contorted. But the viewer's eye drifts toward the center and the main subject of the photograph: a 9-year-old girl, [...]

Today, we're talking about the very real possibility that the United States government might break up Google. To figure that all out, I invited Jonathan Kanter, the former assistant attorney general for antitrust under the Biden administration, to join me on Decoder again. Jonathan left the DOJ after President Trump was elected, but he was [...]

11 years after its launch, Grand Theft Auto V is still massively popular, becoming the most watched game on Twitch. The streaming platform has shared some of its viewership stats from last year with GTA V capturing over 1 billion hours watched. Here's an infographic breaking some of the stats down: Twitch also revealed insights [...]

The next set of Pokemon TCG Pocket cards feels like a reminder that spring and summertime is almost here. Today, The Pokemon Company announced that Celestial Guardians, Pokemon TCG Pocket's next expansion, is set to release next week on April 30th. The new set will feature a number of monsters from the Pokemon Sun and [...]

Google announced an extended repair program for the Pixel 7A that promises free repairs for devices that suffer from unexpected battery swelling" issues, 9to5Google reports. The program covers symptoms that directly indicate an expanding battery, including bulging of the device or separation of the phone cover. Google also indicates that rapid battery draining could be [...]

It is our lot in life to poop. We eat stuff, digest it, and then the waste must be expelled. That's just the way it is, which means we are destined to spend a not-insignificant portion of our time sitting on the porcelain throne. So why not make that as pleasant an experience as possible? [...]

The European Union has announced details of new mandatory labels for smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc, which include ratings for energy efficiency, durability, and repairability. Hardware will also have to meet new ecodesign requirements" to be sold in the EU, including a requirement to make spare parts available for repair. The labels, which [...]

Stellantis says its solid-state batteries are getting closer to reality. The parent company of brands like Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and many others is working with startup Factorial on the new batteries, which have just been successfully validated for automotive use and will be installed in a demonstrator fleet in 2026. Most EVs use wet" lithium-ion [...]

Volkswagen isn't typically mentioned in conversations about robotaxis, but the German auto giant has been quietly working on its own self-driving technology for over a decade. And now the company is ready to deploy its first autonomous vehicles on Uber's ridehailing platform, starting with a commercial robotaxi service in Los Angeles in 2026. The vehicles [...]

OnePlus has launched the 13T, which packs a larger battery than most Ultra flagships despite being barely bigger than an iPhone 16 or Samsung Galaxy S25. OnePlus calls the 13T's 6.32-inch OLED screen small," though it's slightly larger than the displays in either the Apple or Samsung flagships. The 13T is bigger and heavier than [...]

Adobe has a new tool that makes it easier for creatives to be reliably credited for their work, even if somebody takes a screenshot of it and reposts it across the web. The Content Authenticity web app launching in public beta today allows invisible, tamper-resistant metadata to be embedded into images and photographs to help [...]

Adobe has launched two new versions of its text-to-image generative AI model alongside a host of new Firefly features and Creative Cloud app updates coming to Photoshop and Illustrator. The fourth-generation Firefly Image models follow a similar precedent that OpenAI and Google have set for their chatbot releases, providing users with a choice between one [...]

LinkedIn is expanding its free verification system to the wider web, allowing external sites and platforms to integrate LinkedIn verification rather than building their own tool. Adobe is among the first companies to sign up. Adobe is integrating LinkedIn verification into its new Content Authenticity app and existing Behance portfolio platform, allowing creators who've gone [...]

In a recent update to its website about its direct sales program for the Switch 2, Nintendo says that due to the very high demand" for the console, delivery by June 5 is not guaranteed" and that your invitation email may arrive after the Nintendo Switch 2 launch." Nintendo has already said that the initial [...]

Nintendo's delayed Switch 2 preorders finally kicked off in the US at 12AM ET on Thursday at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart, and almost immediately, there were some big problems. After nearly an hour of frustration, many of us here at The Verge secured preorders, but it seems like preorders are out of stock at [...]

Over the past 24 hours, the auto industry has experienced some of the most extreme whiplash in the saga of the Trump administration's tariffs, ending on Wednesday night with two contradicting policy proposals coming out of the White House: China may be granted exemptions on auto part tariffs, but Canada's car tariffs might increase. Last [...]

Anker's new all-in-one Nebula X1 smart projector has everything you'd want from a cinema-grade outdoor entertainment system." It produces a bright 4K image from a triple-laser light engine capable of 3,500 ANSI lumens, automatically finds the best place to project an image optimized for the environment, has Google TV built-in to unlock 4K Netflix streams, [...]

Perplexity's iOS App just got an update enabling support for the company's conversational AI voice assistant. Now Apple users can activate the assistant in the app and ask it to perform tasks like writing emails, setting reminders, and making dinner reservations. You can even navigate away from the app and continue to speak to Perplexity, [...]

Anker has announced its first Thunderbolt 5 dock. At roughly 5.2 inches wide and 3.4 inches tall, the Anker Prime TB5 Docking Station is not as compact as some competitors, like CalDigit's Element 5 Hub. But inside its aluminum alloy housing is an integrated GaN power supply delivering up to 232W of combined power output, [...]

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent Apple CEO Tim Cook a letter asking for information regarding Cook and Apple's conversations with President Donald Trump's administration about tariffs and any special exemptions from the tariffs, Bloomberg reports. Warren's letter, obtained by Bloomberg, points out that Apple appeared to have invested heavily in influencing the Trump Administration" through [...]

Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said he didn't want to testify in a trial about how to resolve Google's search monopoly because he feared retribution from Google. But after being subpoenaed to appear in court, he seized the moment to pitch a business opportunity for his AI company: buying Chrome. If Judge Amit Mehta [...]

It was really great seeing all the excitement from fans when Oblivion shadow dropped earlier this week. For a lot of people, the fourth installment in the Elder Scrolls series is the game, the experience that either was the impetus for their career in video games, instilled in them an everlasting love for the format, [...]

Lexus's mid-sized ES luxury sedan is getting a redesign for its eighth generation that includes some edgier styling and a significant platform change that accommodates both an all-electric drivetrain and a regular hybrid one. Revealed at the Shanghai Auto Show today, the 2026 ES is Lexus' second electric vehicle after the RZ, which was just [...]

iRobot just launched its ninth new robot vacuum of the year. That's a record number for the company, which is struggling to dig itself out of the giant financial hole it was left in after Amazon's bid to buy it fell through. The new Roomba Max 705 has the same design and lidar navigation as [...]

I find something weirdly captivating about tech products that come with transparent cases that let you see the works inside. We all know that there are all sorts of chips and wires in there that make the product do what it does, but unless we plan to break the thing open (and void the warranty), [...]

WhatsApp is launching a new Advanced Chat Privacy" feature that aims to prevent people from taking conversations outside the app. When the setting is turned on, you can block others from exporting your chat history and automatically downloading photos and videos sent in the app. The feature will prevent people from using messages for Meta [...]

A Democrat has entered the manosphere. Pete Buttigieg, the former Secretary of Transportation in the Biden Administration and a presidential candidate in 2020, sat for a three-hour appearance on Andrew Schultz's Flagrant on Wednesday to discuss current events, the state of politics, and the culture wars - his latest foray into breaking outside of the [...]

Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and will be replaced by former Activision Blizzard and King exec Humam Sakhnini, according to a press release. Sakhnini takes over on April 28th. Citron will stay on the board of directors and serve as an advisor to the CEO. As we enter our next phase, [...]

Last month, Roku ensnared itself in controversy after customers quickly complained about a limited test where an advertisement for Moana 2 started playing as soon as the company's products were powered on. Across Reddit and other social media channels, people threatened to ditch their devices if Roku repeated such an experiment. The message, at least [...]

OpenAI's upgraded image generator in ChatGPT brought a surge of users to the AI service thanks to its ability to create Studio Ghibli-style images and really dull dolls, and now it's coming to other apps. The company says the same natively multimodal model" powering the image generator will be accessible in its API via gpt-image-1," [...]

It only took five years, but Netflix has finally locked in its plan to premiere The Old Guard's long awaited sequel. Today, Netflix announced that director Victoria Mahoney's (You, Lovecraft Country) The Old Guard 2 is slated to debut on July 2nd. Rather than dropping a trailer, Netflix released a handful of new stills from [...]

We're used to seeing Predators do the hunting - it's in the name, after all. But it looks like the roles will be reversed somewhat in Predator: Badlands, at least according to this new teaser trailer. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg - who also helmed the excellent Predator spinoff Prey - Badlands follows a young Predator [...]

Operation Rolling Thunder was meant to be an act of persuasion. The US believed that a drawn-out bombardment would pressure the North to cease its aggression on the South -or, at least, encourage it to ease up. I saw our bombs as my political resources for negotiating a peace," President Lyndon Johnson claimed. His framing [...]