Month: December 2021

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Many of these games play well on Series S, too The latest generation of Xbox consoles recently celebrated their one-year birthday, though…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Steam Global seems to have been banned in China, according to a report from TheGamer. Only the Chinese version of Steam remains accessible…

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge If you’re lucky enough to have one, that is The PlayStation 5 was released in November 2020, but it’s still incredibly hard…

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The best games to play together or alone The recent release of the Nintendo Switch OLED has many people rediscovering their love for…

Who is temi temi is a multinational robotics company that Specializes is Robot as a Service solutions (RaaS), autonomous platforms, Al, smart assistant and cloud-based services. Temi The Personal Robot…

One of the best kept secrets is out! Enjoy one of the most beautiful sunset views and shisha at Gourmet District at The Pearl. I spent the evening with friends…

Microsoft is the latest company to drop a physical presence at CES, as the increased prevalence of COVID-19 spooks exhibitors. It joins a growing list of major companies ditching the…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple must allow dating app developers to offer non-Apple payment systems for in-app purchases or face a hefty fine, according to a detailed…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Russian court has fined Google $98 million over its failure to remove content deemed illegal in the country. The 7.2 billion rouble…

Photo by Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images An early-alert system designed to give people crucial seconds of warning before earthquakes lived up to its promise on Monday. It buzzed through…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Teens and adolescents might be turning to TikTok to learn about sex when their typical sex education isn’t sufficient. But the videos on…

If you’re a fan of The Expanse, like me, you’re probably wondering whether its final six episodes — currently airing each Friday through January 14th — are enough to wrap…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A former content moderator for TikTok has filed a lawsuit against the platform, alleging that parent company ByteDance provides inadequate safeguards to protect…

The Verge has smashed a bunch of phones… and other things This holiday season, let’s talk about the gadgets that are no longer with us anymore — not because they…

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Put these great creators into your algorithm Maybe you’re new to TikTok, or perhaps you’ve been on the app for a couple of…

China accounts for a quarter of Intel’s global revenue. | Credit: Xing Yun / Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images Intel has issued an apology to partners and customers in China…

Photo by Chukrut Budrul/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images As part of its annual holiday software update, Tesla has released a new feature that lets drivers turn their cars into megaphones.…

Like all technology, big data is continually evolving — and the start of a new year is a good time to take stock, seek areas of improvement and pursue new…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The pace of companies announcing they will forego the in-person parts of CES 2022 has only increased in the last 24 hours,…

Redout 2 playing on an unnamed HDR10+ gaming display | Image: Samsung Samsung has announced its first displays that will support the HDR10+ Gaming standard, an expanded games-focused version of…

LG’s A1 OLED is now available starting at just $799.99, making it one of the most affordable OLEDs to date. | Image: LG There are a lot of 4K TVs…

Tesla says it’ll turn off its Passenger Play feature with an update. | Image: The Verge Tesla won’t let people play video games on its cars’ built-in display while in…

The Anker 547 Charger has four USB-C ports, with one that’s able to pump out 100W. | Image: Anker Anker’s newly available 547 Charger may be a power brick to…

Jack Wallen explains how Google Calendar tasks and events differ and why you might benefit from using both features.

Learn how People Chips make it easy to connect Google Sheet cells to your contacts.

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge We’ve been keeping an eye out for end-of-year next-generation console drops in the US, and despite exceptions like a recent PlayStation 5 sale…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge CES 2022’s exodus of exhibitors over rising COVID-19 concerns continues, with the latest withdrawal coming from Intel. The company typically has one of…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has reached a nationwide settlement for six National Labor Relations Board cases, agreeing to notify workers of their rights and let workers…

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge With the current end-of-year promotion happening at B&H Photo, you can get the massive Samsung Odyssey G9 gaming monitor for its lowest price…

See the menu. Taste the menu. | Image: Meiji University If you’ve ever thought, “This 4K HDR OLED TV is great, but I sure wish it tasted better when I…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 2021 will have been the year that Apple finally embraced lossless music streaming and prices for hi-fi listening came down at Amazon and…

After decades of work, the launch is here On Christmas Day, NASA is slated to launch one of its most anticipated spacecraft in decades: a next-generation observatory dubbed the James…

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Our staff lists their choices for the best of the year It’s been a difficult year, and with the appearance of the…

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Follow the white rabbit It’s the end of year two of the pandemic and many of us staying inside — both to avoid…

“By the way, I’m much more than just a voice-activated timer.” | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you regularly use an Alexa device, you’ve probably been upsold…

Huawei has officially announced the P50 Pocket, a clamshell-style folding smartphone that has a circular, 1-inch external display for quick access to notifications and widgets. The device launches in China…

Adata teases first PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs. | image: Adata Samsung and Adata are both teasing PCIe 5.0 SSDs ahead of January’s big CES event. With read/write speeds up…

Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images Over the last couple of weeks, several Apple Stores around the US have closed due to rising COVID-19 infections among staff members, and a report…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, have refiled a union petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), NLRB press secretary…

Image: LG Display Would it even be a tech tradeshow without a new throne? 2020 brought us the scorpion chair, 2019 gave us the “fully-immersive” toilet, and attempts to encase…

As our tech-driven world accelerates year after year, so does the number of books that attempt to explain its history, its present state, and how it can be used more…

Want a custom security dashboard to bring together data from multiple places? Microsoft Power BI can do that and help you spot what’s changing.

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The WarnerMedia-owned platform HBO Max packs a lot in its two-minute 2022 preview reel, introducing a number of lower-profile Warner Bros. films making…

Who knew that leaving the top spot at Twitter could make someone a more interesting follow? The co-founder and (for the second time) former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey recently…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Much like last week’s in-person restock of the PlayStation 5, GameStop is once again hosting another day of in-store new console sales. This…

RadioShack, the venerable retailer relaunched as an online-focused brand in 2020, now wants to chart a future as a cryptocurrency exchange. Earlier this week, the company announced RadioShack DeFi (short…

The other day, I was watching the documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which flashes on the screen the names of the songs being played and happened to miss the identification…

How is a data lakehouse similar to a data warehouse and a data lake? Tom Merritt answers that question and more in this brief overview about data lakehouses.

Tom Merritt explains how a data lakehouse tries to give you the best of both a data warehouse and a data lake.

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon launched its own branded Fire TV television sets last month with attractively low price tags for a large, if underwhelming, 4K screen…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a weird internet mix-up, it looks like Amazon briefly suspended its Spanish-language Prime Video Twitch channel on Sunday after a host exposed…

Image: Level Level teased a new keypad product on its website today (via HomeKit News) that will give owners of the company’s elegant and discreet Level Touch smart locks another…

You can get a better OLED notebook for less money Zenbooks of this size are all usually a pretty similar deal — if you’ve used one, you’ve used them all.…

The object of your desire can now be yours (if it’s a Nintendo Switch OLED). | Image: Nintendo When the Nintendo Switch OLED Model launched in the fall, it immediately…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Series X keeps coming and going, but the next-gen console remains tricky to get a hold of. We just saw it…

Year-end Mac maintenance is always a good idea for your work laptop or desktop, but the 2021 holiday season is full of distractions. These quick steps will help keep your…

Fedora Kinoite is a great start for a desktop that could be ideal for business use cases, if it can only overcome one glaring caveat.

Zillow Have you ever wanted to aimlessly scroll through Zillow and admire all the heinously expensive houses that you’ll never be able to afford thanks to the skyrocketing price of…

The Apple Watch Series 7 and its larger screen has a full keyboard for tapping and gesture swiping. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s beginning to look…

The NHTSA is investigating Tesla vehicles that allow games on their touchscreens | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US government says it is investigating more than half…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s warehouse employees across the US will once again have to wear masks, according to an internal notice obtained by CNBC. The company…

With new Apple Silicon, iPhones, iPads and Macs earning rave reviews and record sales, Apple spun a great 2021. But there were still a few hiccups. Here are Apple’s three…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Xbox Series X console has remained hard to come by, and with the holidays looming the window to get one in time…

Detect A new medical testing startup called Detect began selling at-home molecular COVID-19 tests through its website last week. The company also announced its CEO — Hugo Barra, a former…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s crucial web services business AWS is experiencing problems today, with issues affecting services like Slack, Imgur, and the Epic Games store for…

Is cellular good enough for a home internet connection? I was interested in T-Mobile’s Home Internet service from the first time I heard about it: it’s $50 (a price that…

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Here’s what to stream over the holidays When reuniting with loved ones for the holidays, a post-festivities, good old-fashioned movie night may be…

Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images The metaverse and Web3 are two trends supposedly set to revolutionize the digital world. But the richest man IRL, Elon Musk, is…

Former Huawei sub-brand Honor has teased the launch of its first foldable smartphone, the Honor V. An image shared on its Weibo and Twitter accounts teases the design of the…

Image: TCL After briefly halting sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs due to sluggish, buggy software, TCL this evening announced that the TVs are back. “Recent software updates…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel has reportedly notified employees that anyone who remains unvaccinated will need to get the COVID-19 vaccine or submit an exemption by January…

Amelia Holowaty Krales Another year, another gigantic tech tradeshow that looks like it may be falling apart as the COVID-19 pandemic continues — now that T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert, one…

The Apple Watch Series 7 is one three models Apple continues to sell. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Thinking about picking up a new Apple Watch? It…

Image: LG Are monitors with traditional aspect ratios just not getting the job done for you? LG might have the answer. Today the company has announced what it touts as…

Jack Wallen dons his mysterious prognostication cap and predicts how the upcoming year will unfold for Android.

President Biden details plans to make coronavirus tests easier to find amid the surge of the omicron variant. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Biden said today that Americans…

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google Voice now lets you create rules that dictate how the service responds to incoming calls from specific contacts. And yes, this includes having…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Tesla announced an early Christmas present for all those pre-dawn road trippers: free vehicle charging at certain Supercharger locations if you get there before 10AM…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When Apple introduced its updated Apple Wallet in June, the company said it was working to ensure you could use it to…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Buyers hoping to get a limited-edition NFT from Fractal, a new marketplace for game item NFTs, were given an unpleasant and costly surprise…

Mint Mobile says it will comply with the board’s decision. | Image: Mint Mobile The National Advertising Review Board has denied Mint Mobile’s appeal defending its use of the word…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new blog post from Meta marks the six-month anniversary of its newsletter publishing platform, Bulletin. Amid its plugs for the writers who…

Adidas Forum Tech Boost Series X | Image: Microsoft Adidas and Microsoft have collaborated on three different pairs of shoes this year to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Xbox, and…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New forensic analysis indicates that representatives of the United Arab Emirates government installed Pegasus spyware on the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of…

“Habenero” Jack Dorsey did some spicy tweets last night. The Twitter founder and Block CEO tweeted out some thoughts on crypto and “Web3” that managed to exasperate some of the…

Microsoft decided to block a Registry File hack that allows users to display seconds in the Windows 11 system clock. Now to get seconds to display, Windows 11 users have…

The recently released Pixel 6 Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Pixel 6 Pro owners just got another reason to give Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud game streaming service a…

It’s been spotted. | Original image: Boston Dynamics Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics has released a holiday video featuring its dog-like Spot robot, and it’s turned out as creepy as ever. The…

Image by DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo, the company best known for its privacy-focused search engine of the same name, is working on a desktop browser that should bring the same focus on…

You can keep your iPhone and Outlook contact lists synchronized. Here are four ways to get it done.

When inserting a table in a Word document, you can stick with the default alignment or change it in any number of ways.

President Biden will announce a plan to send 500 million free coronavirus test kits to Americans | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The White House says President Biden will deliver…

Image: Nikola Hydrogen trucking startup Nikola Corp. agreed to pay $125 million to settle charges that it defrauded investors by misleading them about its products and technical achievements, the US…

A set of noise-canceling headphones should definitely come in handy if you’re planning to travel soon. They’re essential if you want to silence the hum of the jet engines or…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’re nearly there. 2022. These are times of deep uncertainty, so I’m glad I can offer you something you can depend on: a…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2017, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings infamously told investors his streaming platform not only competes with its counterparts for attention but also with…

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon Bracken Darrell talks about the mouse and keyboard renaissance Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it’s been around since 1981, selling all kinds…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The years-old browser game became a competitive thrill this year The camera-mounted Google truck that drove through South Africa’s Kruger National Park is…

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge A handy guide for finding the best stuff released this year As Netflix has become more ubiquitous, it’s also become more of a…