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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Roku experienced a significant service disruption on Wednesday evening, which resulted in some of the company’s streaming devices and even Roku TVs getting…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re a new or existing user of YouTube Premium and Music Premium, which let you watch and listen ad-free, you might be…

Playdate Pulp is in public beta. | Image: Playdate Panic, the maker of the quirky Playdate handheld, has released a public beta of its Playdate Pulp in-browser game builder. The…

Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images The 2022 Super Bowl won’t be broadcast or streamed in 4K again this year when the game takes place on February 13th, NBC Sports has confirmed…

You can’t just throw it in the wash. | Image of cloth: Apple Here’s the scenario: you managed to get your hands on Apple’s hottest product, its $19 polishing cloth…

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Spinning most objects in Microsoft PowerPoint is easy, but circles need a bit of extra work to see the movement. Learn how to add objects that spin with the circle…

Disney has named Joe Earley, a former EVP of its tentpole streaming service Disney Plus, to the position of president of Hulu. Earley previously served as EVP marketing and operations…

Google is launching a limited beta of its app to bring Android games to Windows PCs. Google Play Games will be available in beta in Hong Kong, South Korea, and…

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge C-band’s rollout has endured months of controversy When AT&T and Verizon spent tens of billions of dollars for the rights to use the…

Photo by Apple A new trailer gives us a glimpse of Apple TV Plus’ WeCrashed, an upcoming miniseries about the real-life buildup and dramatic downfall of WeWork, the coworking space…

As more clinical health care challenges surface due to COVID-19, some tools are helping medical practitioners deliver better care to patients.

Update v37 adds many new features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is adding a new feature to its Quest virtual reality headsets that lets you…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, has finally confirmed that hundreds of user accounts were indeed compromised by hackers and had…

Similar to other software subscriptions, Setapp offers a variety of applications. But a few features set Setapp apart. Is this subscription service right for your business?

Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that more planes will be able to land in low-visibility conditions despite the rollout of…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re part of a business or school that is a G Suite legacy free edition user, your organization will soon have to…

irs (ray tsang flickr) When, in 2020, the IRS pushed the due date for federal income taxes from April 15th to July 15th because of the upheaval brought about by…

Halo Infinite multiplayer | Image: 343 Industries Microsoft’s latest Halo game has finally arrived, and as we’ve seen, the Infinite campaign mode delivers. But for players already missing features like…

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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic took everyone, including the IRS, by surprise, and the filing deadline for federal tax payments was moved from the usual mid-April date to July 15th.…

The cable is also a meter longer than Apple’s version. | Image: Belkin Belkin’s new Boost Charge Pro wireless charging pad takes Apple’s MagSafe puck and … well, makes it…

Image: Instagram US Instagram users will soon be able to subscribe to a small number of creators and influencers to access exclusive content and features. In a blog post, the…

Points of Interest is Strava’s latest feature | Screenshot: Victoria Song / The Verge There’s nothing like being 45 minutes into a run on a new route, far from civilization,…

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge When Nvidia announced the rollout of the Shield Experience 9.0 (Android 11) update for its Android TV devices, we were impressed by the…

AT&T is launching its expanded 5G service in eight metro areas. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images AT&T is lighting up its expanded 5G service in just eight…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amid an ongoing tussle with the FAA and airline industry, Verizon today flipped the switch on its mid-band 5G deployment, which uses spectrum…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday morning, Microsoft announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard, publisher of games ranging from the Call of Duty series to Candy Crush Saga,…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge This weekend, I noticed that my PS5 and Switch were literally collecting dust — and realized that’s because I’ve been playing my games…

N95 face masks offer better protection against COVID than cloth ones, the CDC says | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times The US government will make 400 million N95 face…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat is implementing a new safety feature that limits the friend suggestions teenagers see in the app (via 9to5Mac). Kids aged 13 to…

Also (unofficially) known as “the Cameron Faulkner collection” I’m not usually the kind of person who’s easily persuaded by new colorways of controllers that I already own. But Sony’s new…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power | Image: Prime Video Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series finally has a name, and it’s a damned good one.…

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AMD claimed back in 2020 that 4GB of VRAM was “insufficient” for modern PC games and could result in error messages, warning limits, lower framerates, and even gameplay stutter or…

Microsoft Corp. With the impending purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion dollars, Microsoft is now the third-largest video game publisher in the world by revenue. It owns several of…

As we approach the two-year mark for this pandemic, it is very clear that everyone could use a refresher course in looking their best on camera. Nice lighting and perfectly…

Philips Hue’s white smart bulbs have dropped to an all-time low. | Image: Signify If you’re looking to light up your home with smart home tech for less, Philips Hue…

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano(pictured here on January 6th) erupted on January 14th. | Photo by Maxar via Getty Images The effects of a colossal volcanic eruption in the Pacific…

Image: FuboTV Live streaming app FuboTV is bringing its FanView widgets to Apple TV users, allowing them to view stats alongside single or multi-view match streams. Multi-viewing, which allows sports…

Screenshot: Arcanium: Rise of Akhan Netflix’s foray into the mobile gaming subscription market is showing no signs of slowing down. This week it added a pair of new titles to…

The image from Samsung’s website, showing the unannounced tablet. | Image: Samsung A Samsung support page for, of all things, Bixby, may have just given us our first official look…

Nintendo has announced the next game coming to its Switch Online service: Nintendo 64 platforming classic Banjo-Kazooie. The game is inextricably associated with the N64 — it’s a collect-a-thon with…

Photo by BENOIT DOPPAGNE/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images It looks like the FAA may have made a whoopsie. Remember when the US aviation authority suggested that FedEx might possibly potentially maybe…

Photo by Elizabeth Frantz-Pool / Getty Images As the Senate Judiciary Committee inches towards passing legislation that could loosen Big Tech’s grasp on consumers, Big Tech is expectedly outraged. Both…

Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Emirates, Air India, ANA, and Japan Airlines have all announced they’re canceling some flights to the US due to this week’s rollout of…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft released an out-of-band (OOB) update yesterday to fix some Windows issues caused by last week’s monthly patching cycle on Patch Tuesday. The…

The site appears to be handling the traffic. | Image: USPS The US government’s site to claim free COVID tests, which has started accepting orders a day before it was…

Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Nearly a month after President Joe Biden first announced that Americans would be able to order rapid at-home COVID-19 tests for free from the government,…

With the rise of the Omicron variant, we’ve been urged to use COVID-19 rapid antigen tests to make sure that we don’t spread the virus to friends and family. However,…

The PlayStation epic God of War was released to PC a mere four days ago but is currently discounted to just $37.76 at Eneba, an excellent break on the regular…

California prosecutors filed two felony charges against the owner of Tesla Model S for a deadly crash in 2019 that involved the vehicle’s Autopilot system, marking the first time that…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube will scale back a significant portion of YouTube Originals, which produced original content including scripted series, educational videos, and music and celebrity…

Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images On Tuesday, Democrats introduced a new bill that would ban nearly all use of digital advertising targeting on ad markets hosted by platforms like Facebook,…

Microsoft decided the Advanced Boot Options menu was no longer needed, but with the help of a command line prompt and BCDEdit, we can overrule that decision and add it…

Image: William Joel/The Verge The best laptops for you, from ultraportables to high-powered editing machines The best laptop of 2021 can come with a variety of brands, prices, and features.…

The carrier says airlines “have not utilized the two years they’ve had to responsibly plan for this deployment.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T has announced it…

Photo Illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images With its pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft could soon add the likes of Diablo, Warcraft, and Call of Duty to its lineup of…

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Coinbase is partnering with Mastercard to allow card payments on its upcoming NFT marketplace. This means you’ll be able to directly purchase…

COVIDTests.gov is now available. | Screenshot: COVIDTests.gov Last week, the White House announced COVIDTests.gov, a site that you can use to order four free at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen tests per…

Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images On Tuesday, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission launched a joint effort to modernize antitrust enforcement, seeking comment on how the agencies can apply…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Well, hi, everyone! You’ve got Aria. Real excited to be here with y’all. As a reminder, Ashley’s out this week, so if you…

Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Since Activision Blizzard was sued in July by the state of California for a culture of “constant sexual harassment,” among many other…

A screenshot from Call of Duty: Warzone, Activision Blizzard’s free-to-play FPS game. | Image: Activision Everything you need to know about gaming’s biggest acquisition yet Microsoft announced that it intends…

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It premieres soon. | Image: Netflix Netflix announced Tuesday that its years-in-the-making show based on the Cuphead video game premieres on February 18th, and it has debuted an action-packed new…

As part of Microsoft’s plan to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, the software giant has created a Microsoft Gaming division. Phil Spencer, former head of Xbox, will now lead…

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Buying a TV can be a confusing ordeal, but it doesn’t need to be Every year after CES, there can be a new…

tl;dr papers shows AI’s potential to condense research Academic writing often has a reputation for being hard to follow, but what if you could use machine learning to summarize arguments…

Illustration by Samar Haddad / Photo by Becca Farsace Remember last summer, when things were starting to open up and Omicron was just a Greek letter you found in crossword…

Microsoft is acquiring Activision, the troubled publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The deal will value Activision at $68.7 billion, far in excess of the $26…

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s Chrome OS competitor, Windows 11 SE, is making its way onto a handful of laptops. After detailing Windows 11 SE in November, Microsoft’s OEM partners are now…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service now has 25 million subscribers. That’s up from the 18 million Microsoft previously reported in January last year.…

Garmin’s new Fenix 7 series | Image: Garmin Despite being leaked to hell and back, the Garmin Fenix 7 series was a no-show at CES 2022. That’s because Garmin decided…

United Airlines was among those to issue a warning. | Photo by Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images CEOs from major US airlines including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United…

The next big update for Fortnite brings back something old and adds something new. As fans have long expected, the snow on the battle royale island has slowly melted, revealing…

The Logitech Pen doesn’t requiring pairing, thanks to its USI support. But, it won’t work on every Chromebook released. | Logitech Logitech has announced a new stylus called Pen, and…

Samsung has announced the Exynos 2200, its new in-house mobile processor for smartphones. It’s the first mobile system-on-a-chip to include a GPU with AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture, enabling features…

In this game you put events from Wikipedia in a timeline. If you’re a history buff, or are looking for a new web game to play, Wikitrivia may be worth…

Some Nest customers are unhappy with Google’s changes. | Photo: Dan Seifert / The Verge Google offers many ambient sounds from the Google Assistant, including one for white noise that…

Some Nest customers are unhappy with Google’s changes. | Photo: Dan Seifert / The Verge Google offers many ambient sounds from the Google Assistant, including one for white noise that…

Kushner acted as a presidential advisor in the Trump administration. | Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law who acted as a senior…

Spice DAO Last year, a collective of cryptocurrency fans pooled millions of dollars to buy a copy of the story bible for director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary never-made adaptation of the…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 37 Activision Blizzard employees have reportedly “exited” the company since July of last year as part of the company’s attempt to crack down…

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Spain has announced new rules for how social media influencers and others can advertise cryptocurrency assets, Reuters reports. Starting next month, the Spanish…

Mitchriz speedruns Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice while blindfolded at AGDQ 2022. | Screenshot: Games Done Quick via YouTube Games Done Quick has raised $3.4 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation…

Illustration by Samar Haddad / Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales You now interact with coworkers through a flat rectangle — let’s get you a larger, better one The shift to…

Home robots are getting smarter Robot vacuums have come a long way since the days I used to babysit my original Roomba (circa 2006), following it around to make sure…

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Life these days can be very complicated, and many of us — I’d guess that most of us — are constantly looking for…

Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images Amazon says it will continue to accept payment in the UK from Visa credit cards, reversing a decision to ban the cards…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has started testing some deeper YouTube integration in its Edge browser. The latest Canary developer builds of Edge include a new “followable…

You can even sell the games you create with this drag-and-drop game development bundle, specifically designed for non-technical users.

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Details on Oppo’s upcoming flagship phone are starting to come together. Multiple leaks are suggesting it’ll be called the Find X5 Pro, with a similar design to last year’s Find…