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An unlisted and now-removed video from Meta showed off a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses with a display and a wristband to help control them, as reported by UploadVR. The video also features a new pair of wraparound Sphaera" Oakley smart glasses with a camera on the nose, meaning that Meta itself may [...]

President Donald Trump is trying to smooth things over with South Korea after his administration arrested hundreds of workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia earlier this month. Just hours after reports indicated that South Korea would open a human rights investigation into the detention of Korean employees, Trump said he doesn't want to frighten [...]

One of Google's top executives defended its use of AI summaries in search results during an AI summit in New York on Monday. When asked about a new lawsuit by Rolling Stone's parent company, Penske Media Corporation, over Google's AI Overviews, the company's vice president of government affairs and public policy Markham Erickson said user [...]

Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Copilot Chat [...]

Apple's new version of macOS, Tahoe 26, launches today for all compatible Macs. I've already shared many feelings about Liquid Glass in my look at the developer and public betas, and my opinion on the new, polarizing UI remains lukewarm. But after using Tahoe through the beta periods to full release, I can confidently say [...]

Liquid Glass is a neat party trick. The new design system, which was built for nearly all of Apple's products and is rolling out this week, is built on the idea that interfaces should be three-dimensional: in the world of Liquid Glass, buttons and menus sit on top of whatever you're doing or looking at, [...]

macOS Tahoe 26 is now available to everyone using compatible MacBooks and Mac desktops. It was first announced last June at WWDC 25 and made available for testing through developer and public betas released over the past three months. This will be the last major macOS update for older Intel-based Macs - specifically those featuring [...]

The latest iteration of Apple's wearable OS will look a bit different. For those who have been holding off on testing the developer and public betas, Apple has finally released watchOS 26 to the masses and the update is available for several different iterations of the Apple Watch including the Series 6 to the new [...]

Apple is rolling out iOS 26 with a bunch of new features for the iPhone. The biggest change you'll see upon installing the update is Apple's Liquid Glass redesign, introducing translucent buttons, sliders, tabs, and other navigational elements across the iPhone's interface. iOS 26 also includes Live Translation, an AI-powered feature that automatically translates texts [...]

A New York law could require social media platforms to implement age verification. On Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released the proposed rules for the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act, which would force platforms to confirm that someone is over 18 before allowing them to access an algorithm-driven feed or [...]

Spotify has removed restrictions that prevented free users from listening to specific tracks. With Lossless audio now finally rolling out to paying subscribers, the music streaming service has announced that it's also allowing non-paying listeners to search, play, and share any song they want, without having to upgrade to a Premium subscription. The update is [...]

If you've been running out of storage on your PC or PS5, or you just want an SSD that's faster than what you have, here's a great deal: the PCIe Gen 5-compatible 990 Evo Plus M.2 SSD from Samsung is selling at a bargain today, with its 2TB and 4TB versions selling for $99.99 and [...]

Elon Musk is responding to the unprecedented pay package proposal from Tesla's board of directors by slightly increasing his stake in the company. Musk bought $1 billion in Tesla stock through an irrevocable trust on September 12th, according to a regulatory filing released Monday. Tesla shares were trading up over 5 percent on the news, [...]

Google Gemini is breaking out of ChatGPT's shadow, likely on the wings of its Nano Banana image editor and the viral trend of AI-generated, lifelike figurines. Google launched Nano Banana in late August. It hyped the model as a way to transform images in amazing new ways" inside the Gemini app. To get the perfect [...]

The US and China have reached a framework" deal to divest TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters during trade talks in Madrid on Monday. As noted by Reuters, Bessent confirmed that the framework is for a switch to a U.S.-controlled ownership." He said Trump will confirm the deal with [...]

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Hank Green, the cofounder of Complexly, where we make SciShow, Crash Course, and a bunch of other educational YouTube channels. I'm back in the Decoder guest host chair for another couple of episodes while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I'm talking with Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi, [...]

Amazon has sent out invitations to its annual fall hardware event, where it traditionally launches a slew of new products, including Echo smart speakers, Fire TV devices, Kindles, and sometimes dozens of other gadgets. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, September 30th, 2025, in New York City. The invitation hints at new Kindles - possibly [...]

When it comes to mainstream gaming appeal, it's hard to beat Mario Kart. Break out some controllers at a party and you'll likely get a grid full of eager racers. The game's seamless way of balancing disparate levels of skill and aggression creates an addictive experience for just about everyone. Real-world karting, on the other [...]

Apple's latest major iPhone update, iOS 26, releases today, and it has a new design language that gives just about everything on your iPhone a new look. Apple calls the design Liquid Glass," and it means that a lot of things on your iPhone will now have a glassy sheen. The edges of app icons [...]

Last September, Snap revealed its fifth-generation Spectacles, upgraded AR glasses with a twist: they were only ever released to developers. One year later, we still haven't seen even a glimpse of the consumer-ready version of those glasses, which the company still says is coming in 2026, but Snap is ready to show off Snap OS [...]

The AirPods Pro are about as ubiquitous as earbuds can get. Step outside your door, and you're almost certain to see people wearing them. For good reason, too. Their active noise cancelling (ANC) is excellent for the price, sound quality is great, and they're comfortable and convenient. If it ain't broke, why fix it? After [...]

Qualcomm has announced that its upcoming flagship mobile chipset is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5," a confusingly named successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. While the processor itself will be unveiled during the Snapdragon Summit on September 23rd-25th, Qualcomm has already published an explanation for the branding update. It might look like we skipped [...]

Microsoft has started testing a change to how Xbox controllers operate on Windows 11. The change will allow Xbox controllers to easily access the Task View on Windows 11 to tab between apps and games, using the Xbox button. A new change we're introducing is when you long press the Xbox button, it will open [...]

Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the introduction of LaCie's Rugged line, which features a bright orange bumper to protect data from drops. Today, Seagate announced an updated version of the LaCie Rugged Mini SSD with a few small design tweaks and a big boost to transfer [...]

Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched a world's first last week inside the very dull sounding Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max." It's the first charger to support the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol, giving you some of the benefits of a more powerful 60W charger in a compact 40W [...]

We only just put Apple's iPhone 17 launch event behind us, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is already glancing into his crystal ball to see what's next for the company. In today's Power On newsletter Gurman says that there are at least 10 more products from Apple that are expected to launch either later this year [...]

Disclosure: Penske Media Corporation is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge's parent company. Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first major American media company to sue Google over its AI summaries. The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of [...]

Well, I was wrong, and I did manage to make it to one last day at the Toronto International Film Festival. One of the movies I wanted to see the most this year was Scarlet, the latest from Mamoru Hosoda, whose most recent film was the metaverse fairy tale Belle. Whereas that film was a [...]

I would not call the time I'm having with Hollow Knight: Silksong "fun," and yet I'm still playing. In the depths of The Marrow, the second major area of Silksong, there's a particularly nasty midboss. I eventually beat him, but my reward wasn't a new ability, item, or a bench where I could rest and [...]

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It's been a few years since Netflix confirmed that Liam Hemsworth would be taking over as Geralt of Rivia in the live-action Witcher series. And while we caught a brief glimpse of him in action last year, the first proper clip from season 4 of the show reveals just how Hemsworth will be inhabiting the [...]

It's September, and many among us are dealing with back to school, and anticipating the colder weather that's on its way (at least, if you live in the northern climes). This, plus a somewhat fraught political atmosphere, means that you might be looking for reliable, affordable ways to escape the doldrums. You don't need us [...]

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days - with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone - you will never notice a difference between Spotify's high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with [...]

Imagine if George Cukor's The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodovar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweights like Joan Crawford [...]

Few video game adaptations understand their source material quite like the Exit 8 film. It takes the rules and structure of the game - which strands players inside of a looping hallway in a Tokyo subway station - and then builds on them with actual characters and a story. And according to director Genki Kawamura, [...]

While interviewing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought up his belief in a conspiracy theory that former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji was definitely murdered." The researcher's death in November 2024, which was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco police, followed his release of statements online and in [...]

Elon Musk is pressing Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to look into Blizzard employees who criticized Charlie Kirk after his death. Musk's post quotes an X thread listing names and screenshots of the developers. What's going on here, @satyanadella?" Musk said. These are Microsoft employees," he added in another post. Musk's direct question to Nadella follows [...]

While I generally respect The Wall Street Journal, every once in a while it sees fit to remind me that it is, in fact, owned by Rupert Murdoch. This time, it printed something dangerously close to anti-trans blood libel in the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting. In its live-update blog yesterday, the Journal wrote, "Ammunition [...]

In wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's public killing, around two dozen Republican lawmakers are pushing for House leadership to create a new select committee that would investigate The money, influence, and power behind the radical left's assault on America and the rule of law." The letter amounts to a request for subpoena power to [...]

Discord denies that the suspect accused of killing Charlie Kirk used the messaging platform to discuss his crime, following the service getting mentioned by law enforcement in a press conference -and after accusations that it helped radicalize the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson. In a statement to The Verge, Jud Hoffman, Discord's vice president of trust [...]

Stellantis announced that it was discontinuing its Ram 1500 REV electric truck, citing slowing sales of heavy-duty electric trucks. The name plate, however, will live on. Stellantis said that it was renaming its Range-Extended Electric Vehicle (REEV) Ramcharger pickup to Ram 1500 REV. This vehicle will set a new benchmark in the half-ton segment, offering [...]

The circle is now complete: you can install your Steam copy of Hollow Knight Silksong on an Android phone, play it with your automatically downloaded Steam save games - and today, as of the new GameHub 5.0.4 update, you can easily upload your phone savegame back to Steam to resume on PC. To get save [...]

The AI web search company Perplexity is being hit by another lawsuit alleging copyright and trademark infringement, this time from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster. Britannica, the centuries-old publisher that owns Merriam-Webster, sued Perplexity in New York federal court on September 10th. In the lawsuit, the companies allege that Perplexity's answer engine" scrapes their websites, steals [...]

Tyler Robinson, apprehended last night in connection to the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, allegedly left engraved bullets at the crime scene that were covered in a furry meme, a reference from the video game Helldivers 2, and an extremely online taunt. In an FBI briefing this morning about his arrest, Utah Gov. [...]

Apple's new smartwatches have the spotlight this week, but Android users have a reason to celebrate, too. That's because Samsung's gorgeous, Bluetooth-enabled Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is cheaper than ever at Woot through September 19th. It's down to $359.99 ($140 off), nearly matching the price of the $349.99 Galaxy Watch 8. Not a bad discount [...]

Apple will release iOS 26 on September 15th and along with new iPhone features like the company's new Liquid Glass design language and live translation capabilities, the update will bring new features to the Powerbeats Pro 2. Released earlier this year, they were Apple's first earbuds with heart rate monitoring but after next week's big [...]

There was a lot in September's Nintendo Direct. We got a new trailer for the Super Mario Bros Movie sequel, a new Yoshi game, a new Mario Tennis game, this weird thing, a Hades II release date, a new Pokemon game, and Metroid Prime 4's release date. But if that weren't enough, and apparently it [...]

We still don't know all that much about Pokemon Legends Z-As main storyline, but Nintendo is already hyping up a big expansion for the new game. During today's hourlong Direct showcase of upcoming games, Nintendo revealed that Pokemon Legends Z-A is getting a paid DLC update titled Mega Dimension that will introduce more story content [...]