Month: January 2022

More free games are on the way to add to your backlog. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the hallmarks of the Epic Games Store is…

A Snoop Dogg experience inside The Sandbox. | The Sandbox Warner Music Group will open an outpost in virtual world The Sandbox, and it hopes music buffs will express their…

Colleges can apply for the funding to build labs that will teach students artificial intelligence in-person and online.

You can buy the GoPro Hero 10 for $349.98 from GoPro today. | Image: Becca Farsace / The Verge It’s nearly the end of January, which means the holidays are…

Senator Klobuchar of Minnesota poses for a portrait in her office in Washington, D.C. on January 19th, 2022. | Photo by Leigh Vogel for The Verge Antitrust reform is on…

A deluxe headset that should cost considerably less Master & Dynamic has released a wireless gaming headset that could be easily mistaken for a set of deluxe headphones. It’s called…

Photo by Alex Castro / Amelia Holowaty Krales These gift ideas ran Cupid’s arrow right through us Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, which means it’s time to remind your…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Fans of inky blacks and bright highlights rejoice: Netflix now officially lists HDR support for Google’s Pixel 6, 6 Pro, and more affordable…

Photo by Felix Zahn / Photothek via Getty Images When you’re in the middle of a Zoom video meeting at home and your cat suddenly decides to start bawling for…

GeForce Now is exiting beta on LG TVs. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia’s GeForce Now app for LG TVs has exited beta, the graphics card manufacturer announced today. The cloud gaming…

Google’s ambitions for gaming-focused Chromebooks might be close to reality. After years of teasing Steam for Chrome OS and even Nvidia demoing support for DLSS and ray tracing on Arm-based…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has shuttered a controversial influence campaign in which it paid workers to tweet about how much they love working at Amazon, reports…

Photo by Andrew Hawkins Lamborghini is accelerating into the world of the blockchain with the release of its first NFT (non-fungible token) next month. The Italian automaker, which is in…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is announcing 135 creators who will take part in the #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund, including a slate of 40 in the US and…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Small businesses will soon be able to use iPhones to accept payments without the need for Square-style extra hardware, according to a Bloomberg…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung Electronics broke both its quarterly and annual records for revenue in the fourth quarter of 2021, making 13.87 trillion won (~$11.5 billion)…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is moving forward with unionization efforts at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse after having “reached a sufficient showing of interest”…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix keeps getting more expensive — and HBO seems to think that’s great news for its own business. During the earnings call for…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has identified and is rolling out a fix for the bug that intermittently prevented third-party apps from syncing in iCloud (via 9to5Mac).…

The Cowboy 4 e-bike which just launched in the US. | Image: Cowboy Brussels-based electric bike maker Cowboy now has an additional $80 million in funding to help fuel its…

Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images This week, Neil Young published an open letter demanding Spotify remove his music because he didn’t want to share the platform with podcaster Joe Rogan.…

You’ll have to wait even longer now. | Image: Tesla Tesla’s Cybertruck and Roadster will be delayed to “hopefully next year,” the company’s CEO Elon Musk said in an earnings…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel is still feeling the burn from the chip shortage. It’s struggling to fully capitalize on tremendous pandemic-fueled demand for new PCs, because…

Image: Tesla Tesla’s fourth quarter brought in a record windfall, as the company announced Wednesday that it turned a $2.3 billion profit. The automaker produced 305,840 vehicles in the fourth…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord is experiencing a widespread outage, preventing many users from connecting to the communications app. The outage started at around 2:45PM ET and…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge On Tuesday, Apple quietly launched a Personal Safety User Guide to help “anyone who is concerned about or experience technology-enabled abuse, stalking or…

No “hey Google” required. | Photo: Dan Seifert / The Verge If your Google Assistant-powered smart home display or speaker is rambling on and on after you asked it for…

A leaked image, apparently of Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra. | Image: evleaks (Twitter) The Galaxy S22 will likely be the main event, but what else could there be? Another Samsung…

Image: Fanhouse After pushing back against Apple’s App Store fees last year, creator platform Fanhouse is introducing in-app purchases to its iOS app — now with a 30 percent surcharge…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple is releasing iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 for compatible devices today. It’s a fairly minor update, but it does come with an…

Image: Valve Valve announced that the Steam Deck will go on sale starting February 25th. According to the company’s blog, customers who have reservations will get an email on that…

The Appalachian Electric Power coal-fired Big Sandy Power Plant is seen June 3, 2014 in Cattletsburg, Kentucky. | Photo by Luke Sharrett/Getty Images Major tech companies are weighing in on…

Uber faces a negligence lawsuit from a Massachusetts man left paralyzed in a crash | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Massachusetts man is suing Uber for $63…

Verizon owned TracFone said attackers gained access to customer accounts | Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Customers of Verizon-owned TracFone saw their numbers transferred to different…

Update January 26th, 12:23PM ET: The bundles have sold out and are currently unavailable. GameStop has just restocked the Xbox Series X, with one caveat: it’s only available as part…

It’s a major international expansion. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney is planning to launch Disney Plus in 42 countries and 11 territories this summer, according to…

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge HBO Max reached 73.8 million subscribers at the end of 2021, 46.8 million of which are located in the US, marking a 5.3…

Substack’s video feature is now in a private beta. | Screenshot: Andrew Zimmern via Substack Substack, the platform where creators can share free or paid newsletters, has announced a new…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The White House released a new cybersecurity strategy Wednesday aimed at reducing the risk of cyberattacks against government infrastructure. The strategy outlines the…

Araya Doheny/Getty Images Isabelle Fuhrman’s performance as Esther in Paramount Pictures’ first Orphan film stunned audiences in no small part because of what the movie’s disturbing twist revealed about its…

Part of its TruScale portfolio, the new service will bring cloud-like management of HPC resources to local data centers, allowing smaller businesses to access HPC services more rapidly.

Boston Dynamics is synonymous with four-legged robots, particularly its consumer model Spot. But in the past few years, the company has been expanding into logistics — one of the most…

Akili Interactive’s first product is a video game for ADHD. | Akili Interactive Akili Interactive, the company behind the first video game to get approved as a medical treatment, announced…

In partnership with Epic Magazine She was known, back then, as Susan Thunder. For someone in the business of deception, she stood out: she was unusually tall, wide-hipped, with a…

Johns Hopkins engineers built the chatbot to respond to common questions about COVID-19 shots.

Microsoft is planning to launch a public preview of its Android apps for Windows 11 next month, alongside some taskbar improvements and redesigned Notepad and Media Player apps. Windows chief…

A moon set can make for dramatic photos of the night sky. I always thought that taking a photo of the night sky meant mounting expensive cameras onto heavy telescopes…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In case you were looking for a deal on the Oculus Quest 2, Amazon has you covered. Its “Renewed Store,” where refurbished…

The Chaparral and its cargo pod in front. | Image: Elroy Air Elroy Air, a startup that wants to make cargo deliveries using autonomous hybrid-electric aircraft, has unveiled its pre-production…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge So long, Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets; hello, Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association! The AV industry’s top lobbying group in Washington, DC is rebranding,…

Crytek has teased a new entry in its long-running Crysis series in a short trailer posted from its Twitter account. “Join the journey. Become the hero,” the trailer reads as…

Xiaomi has announced the Redmi Note 11 series, continuing its popular line of budget-friendly handsets that sell in huge numbers in India and various other markets. There are four phones…

Huawei’s P50 Pocket. | Image: Huawei Huawei, the embattled Chinese tech giant that continues to be the target of strict US sanctions, has announced that its flagship P50 Pro and…

Over 20 million people have played Halo Infinite. Microsoft seems to have had a lot of success getting people to try out its games. During the company’s earnings call on…

You can now auto-upload your PS5 captures from your console to your phone | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is making it a lot easier to share…

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge More than two years after it was first announced, the Facebook-sponsored cryptocurrency formerly known as Libra appears to be coming to an end.…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Activision plans to release at least the next three Call of Duty games on both Sony and Microsoft consoles, Bloomberg reports. The new…

El Salvador introduced Bitcoin as a legal tender alongside the US dollar in 2021. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The International Monetary Fund’s executive board has recommended…

Image: Netflix | NIKO TAVERNISE/NETFLIX Don’t Look Up is Netflix’s second most popular film debut to date, coming in around 4 million viewing hours short of Netflix’s crown jewel Red…

The FTC fined a fashion website for allegedly blocking negative customer product reviews | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Fashion Nova,…

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge If you’re hunting for an Xbox Series X, you might want to check your email inbox. As we noted last fall, Microsoft has…

The Galaxy S22 leaks are coming in hot ahead of the upcoming Unpacked event scheduled for February. | Image: Samsung Samsung has confirmed a date and time for its next…

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft posted the second quarter of its 2022 financial results today, reporting revenue of $51.7 billion and a net income of $18.8 billion.…

Ryan Wyatt is leaving YouTube to join Polygon Tech. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s head of gaming who oversaw some of its big deals…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today, the White House is saying out loud what you’ve likely already heard: the chip shortage won’t end anytime soon. “We aren’t even…

A week after the news Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard, and amidst news of alleged union-busting, labor strikes, unionization and the continuing investigation of allegations of discrimination and abuse, Blizzard…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook partners with mobile carriers in developing countries like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Pakistan to give users free access to Facebook and a…

There are plenty of beautiful outdoor cafés hidden away, and if you know where to look, you’ll unearth some of Qatar’s outdoor hidden gems this winter.⁣Thank you for taking the…

Ahhh, a comforting roast to end the weekend… what a wonderful British tradition. Is it really the weekend if you haven’t had a family roast with veg? The SATURDAY ROAST…

Al Rayyan International University College (ARIU) in partnership with the University of Derby will offer UK-accredited undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Qatar. Apply now for an International Business Management, International…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is walking back plans to replace third-party cookies with FLoC by instead proposing the Topics API, a new system for interest-based advertising.…

Recently, I got Slacked by a colleague who was really annoyed and had to let off a bit of steam. It seems that a writer had shared a new Google…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The chairman of NSO Group, the Israel-based company whose spyware has been used to surveil journalists and human rights defenders around the world,…

Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images General Motors announced a $7 billion investment in growing its electric vehicle manufacturing capabilities in Michigan, calling it “the single largest investment announcement in GM…

Exactly Right Media Hello, hello. I’m back! Welcome to the week from sunny Los Angeles. My trip through California had me disconnecting from the internet, spotting Michael Keaton at a…

How is he doing that!? Good. Clean. Honest. Fun. That’s what the iBeer app represented to a generation of early iPhone users, and that, I’m afraid, is very much what’s…

Respawn, the studio behind games like Apex Legends and Titanfall, is making a big push into the Star Wars universe. The developer announced that it’s working on three new Star…

Elgato is launching a new Stream Deck Pedal today, alongside official Discord integration. The Stream Deck Pedal is an $89.99 pad that has three pedals that can control software, hardware,…

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Not all M.2 SSDs are PS5-compatible. They need to be PCIe 4.0-ready and boast a 5,500MB/s read speed (though some slower drives may…

A triumph for Intel, but a shrug from us Well, it’s that time of year again. Intel has come out with a new line of mobile processors, and we’re all…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube NFTs may be in the works. In a letter published today, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki suggested the company is looking to branch…

A render of Amazon’s upcoming store in Mill Creek. | Image: Amazon Amazon is bringing its cashierless Just Walk Out technology to a new format of stores aimed at suburbs,…

Image by Plaid Plaid, a go-between for financial apps like Robinhood, Venmo, and Betterment and bank accounts, has created a privacy hub where you can manage all of your financial…

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia is reportedly preparing to give up on its $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm, according to Bloomberg News. The deal has faced intense…

Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images After the gold rush of signing Joe Rogan, Spotify now has to deal with the harvest. The latest difficulty in reaction to Spotify’s controversial star…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Dutch competition regulator, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), has fined Apple €5 million (around $5.6 million) for failing to let…

Mission: Impossible Fallout | Photo: Paramount Pictures The release dates of the seventh and eighth installments of the Mission: Impossible series have been pushed back again due to pandemic-related delays,…

When you put your Steam Deck into sleep mode, Dynamic Cloud Sync will upload modified save data to the cloud. | Image: Valve Ahead of the Steam Deck’s launch, Valve…

Philips Hue’s new smart outdoor light fixture the Inara harkens back to a less high-tech time. | Image: Signify Spring is coming (soon, we promise), and smart lighting company Philips…

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge We’re not out of the woods yet — not even close — but it looks like the prices of Nvidia and AMD GPU…

Threat intelligence company Black Kite found that the majority of attacks were against healthcare providers, involved ransomware and succeeded thanks to software vulnerabilities.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update January 24th, 4:56PM ET: Costco’s listing sold out at this time and has been removed from its site for now. We are…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter appears to be working on a feature that lets you share tweets with a specific group of people (via Input). If this…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge My TikTok For You page is generally a wonderland of soothing cooking videos, lesbian carpentry, dieticians frothing at the mouth at fitness scams,…

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge First, he forgot his PIN — then he started looking for hackers In early 2018, Dan Reich and a friend decided to spend…

Airstream eStream concept by Thor Industries — being towed by a Tesla Model X | Image: Thor Industries Recreational vehicle manufacturer Thor Industries revealed last week an electric tow assisted…

Even in handheld video, the truck looks a little unreal. | Image: Cybertruck Owners Club We got the closest look yet at an alleged prototype of the Tesla Cybertruck, thanks…

The Surface Duo is getting Android 11 at last. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge At the beginning of this month, my colleague Monica Chin published an article…

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google is working on a lower-end Chromecast with Google TV that would slot in below its current model in price — and also…

The Wordlinator account tweeted rude messages with spoilers at people posting results. Twitter has banned @wordlinator, a bot that replied to people’s Wordle posts with rude messages that include spoilers…