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My phone dings, and a notification from Instagram pops up: aClarkas Closet Connectionas countdown has ended.a I click the alert to head to the profile page and start refreshing as new posts furiously come in on tonightas adrop.a Size 10 Mario sneakers. Moana-themed Hanna Andersson pajamas. A 3T Boden skort. Users, mostly moms, comment ame!a [...]

Tesla has a new entry-level Cybertruck with longer range, and it's the cheapest model yet at $69,990 before the federal $7,500 credit. Tesla pulled some significant features to achieve the price cut. The new long range" Cybertruck has just a single RWD motor compared to the two in the AWD model. It also lacks a [...]

Ever since Google debuted the original Pixel Watch in 2022, improving battery life has been a major focus of subsequent iterations of the smartwatch. Based on new leaks of the upcoming Pixel Watch 4, it looks like that might be the case again. Renders published by 91mobiles from leaker OnLeaks show a slightly thicker watch [...]

Six hours into a fantasy ball, actor Zach Harrison is sweating. Heas been wearing handmade leather armor, huge boots, and heavy six-foot bat wings all night, all while ballroom dancing and taking pictures with hundreds of fans without taking a break. But theyare not here to see Harrison. Theyare here to meet Cassian, Lord of [...]

Doctor Whoas shapeshifting Time Lord almost always has a plan when they encounter new threats from beyond the stars. And the Doctoras companions can usually count on them to pull a convoluted, crisis-averting trick out of their sleeves whenever things get too hairy. In the past, the Doctor has often been presented as more of [...]

(If youare reading this, please go vote for The Vergecast in the Webby Awards! Voting is open for roughly another week, and weare up against some steep competition a it would mean the world to us if youad pick us. Thank you so much!) Itas important to keep saying that we still donat know much [...]

On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape. Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the companyas 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the [...]

When Nintendo announced the Switch 2 would cost $450, my initial reaction was disappointment. aWhy does it cost so much more?a I thought to myself. aWhy does Japan get it cheaper?a my brain jealously added, once I learned that Nintendo would sell a Japan-only model for the equivalent of just $333. It felt like Nintendo [...]

WhatsApp has rolled out a dozen new features across chats, calls, and channels that make it easier to manage group conversations, alongside other general quality-of-life improvements. One of the more notable additions is a new Online" indicator for groups, which displays how many participants are currently using the app in real time. This is one [...]

Digg's return to the modern internet is one step closer with the launch of an early access" group called Groundbreakers. For a one-off $5 fee you can claim your username before someone else does and get a behind the scenes look at the new Digg as it comes together. Digg says that the $5 fee [...]

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a memory upgrade that allows it to recall old conversations that you didn't ask it to save. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that the chatbot can now reference all your past conversations," and that the update aligns with the company's goal to develop AI systems that get to know [...]

China has once again raised its tariff on US goods to match Trump's, for what it says is the final time. China's tariff is now set at 125 percent, as it warns that the US is on track to become an economic joke." In a statement from China's Ministry of Finance, which we've translated using [...]

Microsoft is starting to gradually roll out a preview of Recall, its feature that captures screenshots of what you do on a Copilot Plus PC to find again later, to Windows Insiders, according to a blog post published Thursday. This new rollout could indicate that Microsoft is finally getting close to launching Recall more widely. [...]

Bluesky is updating its app to version 1.100, and the update includes a more comprehensive search page and new chat reactions. The search page is now known as aExplore,a where you can find trending topics, suggested accounts, and starter packs to jump-start stuff for you to follow on the app. This new Explore page still [...]

After years of stuntwork largely being overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscars are about to add a new category. Today, the Academy announced that it intends to start giving out Oscar statues for stunt design starting with films released in 2027 for the awards ceremony's 100th anniversary. Since the [...]

Razer has finally launched its platform for streaming PC games to mobile devices at their native screen resolutions, aspect ratios, and refresh rates. Razer PC Remote Play is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play and is compatible with Windows, Apple, and Android mobile devices running at least Windows 11, iOS [...]

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired about 30 members of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in February, and many of them were part of a department that assesses the risks of self-driving cars, according to the Financial Times. One worker laid off from the NHTSA's so-called office of vehicle automation [...]

Garmin has announced a new addition to its Varia line of safety and visibility accessories for cyclists. The Varia Vue is the first to pair a bright headlight with a front-facing 4K camera designed to automatically record incidents and save the footage locally or send it to the cloud through a smartphone. It's available now [...]

If you were hoping to cop a OnePlus Watch 3, you can finally buy one starting today. The problem is it's no longer the $329.99 price that was originally intended when OnePlus announced the device a few months ago. It's now $499, a $170 or roughly 52 percent markup. The price hike was spotted by [...]

Vampire Survivors is finally launching cross-saves today, but they won't be available on PlayStation to start and have a very slim" chance of coming to the platform because of a legal issue." Last month, we told everyone that cross-save would be available on PlayStation 4 / 5, PC, Xbox, Android and iOS alongside our next [...]

Three years after signing an overall TV production deal with Amazon, Mike Flanagan is finally developing a new project for the studio. Deadline reports that Amazon is moving forward with a Carrie series adaptation from Flanagan based on Stephen King's 1974 novel about a girl born with telekinetic powers. In addition to writing and showrunning [...]

Canva is launching its latest smorgasbord of generative AI-powered workspace tools in its attempt to cram everything that Microsoft, Google, and Adobe can do into a single platform. Canva's Visual Suite is being redesigned to combine its design and productivity tools into a single interface, alongside adding new coding, photo editing, spreadsheet, and AI chatbot [...]

As Sonos continues a company-wide effort to redeem itself after last year's app snafu, it's adding a well-known industry name to its board of directors. This morning, Sonos announced that Hugo Barra is joining the board to replace Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years - the longest tenure of any board member. [...]

President Donald Trump's 90-day pause" on high tariffs for many countries could be good news for Nintendo. The shift marks an opportunity for the company to ship more Switch 2 units from Vietnam to the US. And customs data reported on by Bloomberg suggests the company has already been stockpiling Switch 2 units from Vietnam [...]

Just ahead of the second season of The Last of Us on HBO, Sony is making it a little easier for newcomers to get the full game experience. The company just announced The Last of Us Complete for the PS5, which is exactly what it sounds like: a collection feature The Last of Us Part [...]

Apple airshipped 600 tons of iPhones to the US from India before new US tariffs were scheduled to take effect, as reported by Reuters and The Times of India. Meanwhile, Nikkei Asia reports Apple, Dell, Microsoft, and Lenovo were pressing to ship as many premium" devices as possible, like high-priced computers above $3,000 that would [...]

Earlier this year, modular computer company Framework began a quest to fix entry-level laptops" with the Framework Laptop 12, its first 12-inch laptop and its first 2-in-1 touchscreen PC. And as you might expect, Trump's new US tariffs are making entry-level pricing difficult for Framework, which at least briefly delayed US preorders of the new [...]

Last week, President Donald Trump declared a series of tariffs that pitted the United States against the rest of the world. Big companies stayed nervously silent; small ones panicked. The stock market plunged. And surely worst of all, Switch 2 preorders were delayed. Then, the same day the largest tariffs went into effect, Trump hit [...]

Bosch should be worried after several bicycle brands just announced their first e-bikes built on top of DJI's compact and lightweight Avinox drive system, which is surprisingly powerful and torquey.These international brands include Forbidden, Unno, Smartmotion, Megamo, Paprika 53, and Teewing, all of which have new e-bikes built around the 1000W Avinox motor that's capable [...]

I wasnat really sure what to expect from Microsoftas 50th birthday party. Sure, cofounder Bill Gates and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would be there, but I was keen to see how Microsoft would create a party atmosphere while also launching new Copilot features. As it happens, having three CEOs onstage, some energetic hosts, and [...]

OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a number of new AI models, sources familiar with the companyas plans tell The Verge. Among the new AI models will be a release of what Iam expecting will be branded GPT-4.1, which one source describes as a revamped version of OpenAIas GPT-4o multimodal model. GPT-4o was originally introduced [...]

Over a weekend in April each year, the InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township, New Jersey host the Vintage Computer Festival East, which welcomes hundreds of attendees to a former army base to check out a bunch of vintage hardware a not only on display, but also currently in working order.A aaThat's one [...]

Today, I'm talking to Rohit Chopra. He was the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) until the end of January, when President Donald Trump fired him and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began trying to dismantle the agency. The CFPB has been around for just under 15 years now. Congress created [...]

After a bit of a brief, unexpected delay due to a component issue, the Google Pixel 9A is here - and it was worth the wait. Allison Johnson's review of the midrange phone just went live today, and the 9A seems like the ideal phone for those who want many of the same perks found [...]

Live from London, it's Saturday Night" is a phrase you're going to start hearing on a weekly basis next year. Variety reports that Sky Studios is working on a British adaptation of NBC's long-running Saturday Night Live sketch series. Like its American counterpart and previous international riffs on the series, Saturday Night Live UK will [...]

Around 2009, Dweezil Zappa ran into a space problem. He was busy touring the US, performing some songs written by his father, Frank. Recreating those signature apeculiar sounds,a as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig a roughly the size of two large refrigerators a held together by more than 200 connections and [...]

Allison Johnson is the smartphone reviewer for The Verge, along with, as she says, a bit of telecom on the side, which means I am a professional phone user." She came to The Verge from DPReview, where she covered digital cameras and smartphone cameras. That looks like a cozy space. Where in your home is [...]

The United Kingdom is preparing to respond to the series of tariffs President Donald Trump has introduced since taking office. New taxes on everything from pure-bred horses to bourbon are on the table, but the Labour government seems more interested in a conciliatory approach, and it's considering sacrificing a popular tax on American tech companies [...]

The creators of the Flipper Zero, a sort of electronic Swiss army knife for communicating with other devices, have come up with another tool that's designed to boost productivity and reduce distractions. The Busy Bar is a customizable app-connected pixelated display that lets others know when you need to be left alone to focus, but [...]

The A-series Pixels have been very good over the past few years. And in the Pixel 9A, Google has taken a good midrange phone and made it great. Itas $499, which feels just right for what you get in the 9A. Spend a bit more for the Pixel 9, and youall get some upgrades like [...]

Along with a new season of Black Mirror, Netflix might have just released its most interesting licensed game today. Season 7 of the sc-fi anthology includes an episode called Plaything," in which a genius coder in the 90s - the same one from the interactive Bandersnatch" episode - creates a new game that's a little [...]

Black Mirror started out as a grim, dark, and nihilistic exploration of near-future tech. But with the tragic romance of aSan Juniperoa in season 3, the anthology slowly started to shift its priorities. Early on, everything was bad: the technology and the people. And the former was used to show how awful the latter was, [...]

Oppo's new Find X8 Ultra is the latest entrant in the ongoing competition between Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo to produce the world's best camera phone. But unlike its rivals, Oppo has decided that bigger might not be better. Let's be clear: the Find X8 Ultra isn't a small phone by any means, with a 6.82-inch [...]

A man's recent attempt to use an AI-generated avatar in his legal appeal made an immediate impression on a New York courtroom, but probably not the one he was hoping for. Jerome Dewald - a 74-year-old that The Register notes is behind a startup that says it's revolutionizing legal self-representation with AI" - was chewed [...]

China says it will cut the number of US films that are imported into the country in retaliation against the latest wave of tariff increases imposed by the Trump administration. A statement issued by the Chinese Film Administration (CFA) on Thursday, which we've translated using Google, said that the decision to increase tariffs against China [...]

ChargePoint is ready to speed things up. On Thursday, the EV charging company revealed new AC Level 2 EV chargers that it says effectively double the speed of typical Level 2 chargers. The new architecture also supports bidirectional charging, so owners can use their EVs to power their home or business if the need arises. [...]

Next week, Waymo's driverless vehicles will begin testing on public roads in Japan for the Alphabet company's first international trip. Waymo has yet to confirm whether it will eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service in the country, but the company is still celebrating the excursion as a significant milestone." Waymo describes it as a simple [...]

OpenAI filed a countersuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday, saying on X that Elon's nonstop actions against us are just bad-faith tactics to slow down OpenAI and seize control of the leading AI innovations for his personal benefit." In the lawsuit, OpenAI's lawyers argue that Musk's continued attacks on OpenAI, culminating most recently in the [...]

Meta's latest whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams, got a warm reception on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as the Careless People author who the company has fought to silence described the company's chief executive as someone willing to shapeshift into whatever gets him closest to power. The message was one that lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime [...]

Adobe is building AI agents for Photoshop and Premiere Pro that can suggest ways to edit your photos or videos and then carry out the tasks for you, according to a blog written today by Ely Greenfield, Adobe's CTO of digital media. Adobe Photoshop's agentic AI, or what the company calls its creative agent," will [...]