Month: February 2022

A year after launch, Sony’s PlayStation 5 remains (almost) as elusive as ever. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge While both the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition have…

Photo: Alcon Entertainment Blade Runner’s next act will apparently be a live-action TV series from Amazon, with original director Ridley Scott set to return as an executive producer on the…

Before Disney Plus, Netflix’s Marvel TV shows were pushing the edge of MCU-adjacent content on streaming, but soon, you won’t be able to watch Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron…

Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images Major automakers are feeling the strain of the anti-vaccine mandate protests in Canada that have blocked several major bridges on the US-Canada border.…

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images One of the many aspirations for “web3” is that you could potentially take certain messy, emotional human processes and clean them up…

Happy Friday. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter appeared to be having some issues Friday; it’s not working on desktop for some people, and the problems seem…

iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch are all at risk, and it doesn’t matter what web browser you use: All of them could let an attacker execute arbitrary code on…

Twitch has updated its usernames policy | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Video streaming website Twitch has updated its policy to ban usernames that have explicit references to…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales/ The Verge The Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 remains one of our favorite gaming laptops, despite its lack of a webcam. This cool and powerful laptop…

Photo illustration byJakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images You may be switching jobs, or maybe you’ve decided to stop using a specific email account, or maybe you just want a copy…

The metaverse is still a futuristic technology for most companies, but it’s not too early to start planning your strategy. The post Is the metaverse big data’s next big thing?…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news…

I have nothing against Google’s Meet videoconferencing platform — in fact, I’ve used it a few times — but I can’t help being annoyed when the feature is pushed at…

What’s an excellent treadmill like you doing in this corporate disaster saga? While running on the Peloton Tread, I couldn’t help but think about how Peloton the company was spiraling…

Do you really need another program in your Mac or iPad dock? You do if your Stickies are absent. Erik Eckel explains. The post The surprising utility of Apple’s free…

Ever wanted to make your own video or VR games? Here’s your chance to learn with this deeply discounted bundle. The post Train to create your own games even with…

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge 2021 is in the rearview mirror, but the year’s final reckoning didn’t come until the past week — at least where Wall Street…

Illustration by Alex Castro What do you do with the IP rights to your very expensive cartoon primate? Put him on cannabis packaging When Richard Lee first brought his business…

This size reduction comes with a mix of good and slightly disappointing results A welcome trend is well underway in the realm of gaming laptops: some of them are getting…

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole ‘There are all sorts of obstacles that are thrown up in front of artists’ Matt Buchholz’s artwork is usually a hit during the holidays. Under…

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Alienware’s new 14-inch X14 gaming laptop is now on sale, following its announcement in January at CES 2022. While the X14 is considerably…

Image: Western Digital Western Digital says it has lost at least 6.5 exabytes (6.5 billion gigabytes) of flash storage due to contamination issues at its NAND production facilities. The contamination…

A close-up of the 2015 BlackBerry Priv. | Image: The Verge Plans to resurrect the Blackberry brand with a new keyboard-equipped 5G Android device have been shelved, according to reports…

Tiramisu (the cake, not the Android version). | Image: Getty Android 13’s first developer preview has confirmed what we’ve long-suspected: that the dessert-based codename for this year’s Android update is…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies and replace them with a bundle of new standards referred to as the “Privacy Sandbox” just…

Currents was introduced in 2019. | Image: Google Currents Google has announced that it’ll shut down Currents, which was introduced in 2019 as a replacement for Google Plus for G…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tinder is adding a new “Blind Date” feature that switches up the dating app’s usual left or right swipe: this time, you have…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Two years after the wildly popular subscription service MoviePass crashed and burned, its co-founder Stacy Spikes is determined to bring it back. Spikes…

Wordle, the extremely popular online puzzle, is now officially being run by The New York Times after its creator sold it a few weeks ago. It lives at a new…

Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images California, you may have noticed more robot cars on your roads than usual over the past year. That’s because autonomous vehicle…

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Gary Bowser, a leader of a group that sold mod chips for video game consoles, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison…

Photo by Joshua Yospyn/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Amazon Music has signed an exclusive deal with NPR to distribute Guy Raz’s How I Built This podcast a week…

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge If, like me, you’ve missed the taskbar time and date on multiple monitors in Windows 11, you’ll be pleased to hear it’s returning.…

Apple says the issue affected Intel Macs. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has released an update to solve the battery drain issues some Mac users…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced last month that it plans to make free “legacy” G Suite accounts pay for a subscription by May 1st. The move…

AMD’s $35 billion acquisition of semiconductor company Xilinx is officially going through, with the deal — originally announced in October 2020 — finally meeting all the various regulatory approval it…

Social media is a crucial component to a successful business plan. But what about Social CRM? Is this an actual thing, and is it something you need? Jack Wallen answers…

Photo by BILL O’LEARY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images In a markup hearing on Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a controversial new bill targeting Section 230 protections for content involving online…

The feature will be arriving “soon.” | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google’s Material You dynamic color theming, which lets you more easily match your phone’s color palette…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Back in April 2019, Google announced that Gmail would natively support email scheduling, and the feature became available on desktop and mobile about…

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 A new bipartisan bill,…

EA has decided it will not sell the newest The Sims 4 wedding expansion pack in Russia due to the country’s anti-LGBTQ “gay propaganda law.” The Sims 4: My Wedding…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Following multiple reports of stalking, Apple says it plans to improve AirTag safeguards against unwanted tracking later this year. Specifically, Apple says users…

Material You’s dynamic app icons are being extended beyond Google’s apps. | Image: Google Android 13’s first developer preview has just been released, and it offers a couple of interesting…

StockX Nike is suing an online marketplace for launching non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on Nike shoes, testing the limits of crypto trademark law and what an NFT actually is. StockX…

Image: Tesla Tesla announced a recall of about 579,000 vehicles that have the novelty “Boombox” external music software feature (via Bloomberg). The company plans to remedy the issue by removing…

Jack Wallen gives the latest release of Peppermint Linux a taste and finds it is no longer the user-friendly distribution it once was. The post Peppermint Linux has lost some…

The ultimate romantic gesture is to whisk your loved one to an exotic island. Nothing says romance more than a decadent escape from the hustle-bustle of the city. Picture turquoise…

The K70 RGB Pro. | Image: Corsair Corsair’s latest mechanical keyboard is the K70 RGB Pro, which adds a numpad to the K70 RGB TKL released last year while retaining…

Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge Today on YouTube’s official blog, chief product officer Neal Mohan published “Look at 2022: Community, Collaboration, and Commerce,” where he announced new product…

This Chromebook didn’t blow me away, but I think the next one could be great Chromebooks are growing up. When I first began reviewing them, Google’s Pixelbook was largely still…

Employees at your organization can purchase Microsoft 365 and other products at a reduced rate. The post How to get product discounts with the Microsoft Home Use Program appeared first…

Despite changes in how TIOBE determines its rankings, there was little change in the index for February. The post Python remains atop the TIOBE programming language index appeared first on…

Auto Save Example In PHP & MYSQL. In this post we’re going to learn how to save data automatically in database on specific time interval using Ajax Jquery with PHP…

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge The Biden administration announced a five-year $5 billion plan to shore up the nation’s patchy electric vehicle charging network, tapping into funds that…

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Carvana gave me more than I ever dreamed it was worth — how? In December 2014, I bought a Honda Fit right off…

The Key Light Mini is compatible with Elgato’s Stream Deck. | Elgato If you want to appear your best during a video call, or in any kind of video appearance,…

The Galaxy S22 phones come in three different sizes. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s that Samsung time of year again when an Unpacked event announces new…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gmail offers you several customizable formats — so many that you can have multiple Gmail accounts and they can all look completely different.…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Inside the weird world of celebrity NFTs Famous people have embraced the NFT world lately, and for those of us who grew up…

With Microsoft’s mobile Outlook app, you can dictate emails and set up meetings using just your voice. Here’s how. The post How to use your voice to work with the…

The new offerings include Rise with SAP and options to use a hybrid approach for regulated and non-regulated industries. The post IBM partners with SAP to move more workloads to…

Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — and the most profitable way to make a mobile game Gabriele Cirulli was 19 years old when…

Bose’s Quiet Comfort 35 II are just $179 today when you buy them from Bose. Noise-canceling headphones can be useful, allowing you to easily silence outside noise so you can…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube TV users are about to get some much-requested features baked into their streaming experience, including a wider rollout of picture-in-picture support for…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is expanding the ways creators can monetize their content, interact with viewers, and generate new ideas for their channels. The new features…

Image: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft’s gaming strategy is getting interesting Ever since Microsoft announced its $68.7 billion plan to acquire Activision Blizzard, the big question has been…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Target is once again restocking PlayStation 5 consoles today. The major retailer now has the standard $499.99 PS5 console on sale, while the…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has just delivered its first major business update with new CEO Parag Agrawal at the helm. Its average monetizable daily active users…

The 42mm Connected Calibre E4 (left) and the 45mm model (right) | Image: Tag Heuer Tag Heuer has officially debuted its fourth-generation of luxury Wear OS-powered smartwatches, the Connected Calibre…

A recent report recorded a rise of 178% in malicious e-commerce fraud websites observed from October to December of 2021, compared to the rest of the year. What caused this…

The Nord CE 2. | Image: OnePlus OnePlus has another entry in its Nord lineup coming next week: the Nord CE 2. The handset is the successor to last year’s…

Workers assemble Model S Sedans at the Tesla Fremont factory in 2012. | Photo by Patrick Tehan/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images Tesla has been sued by a state…

A new voice command feature is available in the second PS5 beta. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s latest PS5 beta, which began rolling out Wednesday, adds…

100Mbps for $30 a month — or free, through a federal program. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AT&T has announced that it’s offering a new tier of…

Nintendo Switch Sports. Fresh off of launching the much-anticipated Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Nintendo held its first Direct presentation of 2022. And it was a big one: the livestream was 40…

To close out a presentation that did not feature Mother 3 or Mario Kart 9, Nintendo debuted the trailer for a hotly anticipated Japanese RPG series that hasn’t had a…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney today reiterated its commitment to expanding its sports streaming portfolio, with Disney boss Bob Chapek confirming that the company is bidding for…

No Man’s Sky is coming to the Nintendo Switch, developer Hello Games revealed during the latest Nintendo Direct announcement. The Switch port is set to be released sometime this summer.…

Image: Nintendo Nintendo is bringing the Mario Strikers soccer series to the Switch with a new title called Mario Strikers: Battle League. The company debuted the game at Wednesday’s Nintendo…

Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images Canada Unity 2022, the group of anti-vaccine protestors who have snarled traffic in Ottawa and earned accolades in the right-wing media, wants to…

A size comparison between the S22 Ultra, S22 Plus, and S22. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The latest iteration of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy series is official. The…

Frozen Mazda | Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some Mazda drivers in and around Seattle this week discovered they could no longer change the radio station or play…

Image: Nintendo Nintendo is bringing back some of its classic Wii Sports games in a new game called Nintendo Switch Sports. You’ll be able to play tennis, bowling, and chambara,…

Heather Morgan was arrested on Monday, and goes by the online persona “Razzlekhan.” | Image: Forbes Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced it had finally recovered almost all the Bitcoin…

Will this drama never end? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy’s first day is not off to a good start. The company,…

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch is getting a massive influx of new content, with Nintendo announcing that it’ll be steadily adding 48 remastered courses from previous Mario…

You can now record and listen to past talks. | Image: Reddit Reddit Talk, the platform’s audio-only chatrooms, now support recordings. As outlined in a post on Reddit’s blog, this…

Need to learn more about how to use Google and its apps? Here is a training bundle that can get you up to speed on how to use them. Then…

In Windows 11, you can use and tweak the touch keyboard when you don’t have a physical keyboard. Here’s how to use this handy feature. The post How to use…

When collaborating in Excel, sometimes the collaboration can be distracting. Here’s how to make a static image so you can do your own work without interruption. The post How to…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung just announced its highly anticipated Galaxy S22 lineup, but many who have tried to preorder the new smartphones report that they can’t…

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – OCTOBER 22: Protestors line up as Andy Jassy the CEO of Amazon speaks at the ceremonial ribbon cutting prior to opening night for the NHL’s newest hockey…

It’s fast and secure, but there are better options outside the walled garden Apple HomeKit users are a patient bunch. The development of HomeKit compatible products has been a slow…

Horizon Forbidden West comes out on February 18th, and while Sony has spent the bulk of its time showcasing the upcoming open-world title on the powerful next-gen hardware of the…

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft has announced a set of best practices called the Open App Store Principles for its Windows app store and future game console…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has long argued that its Xbox store should be treated differently than the app store ecosystem around PCs or phones. The software…

Are your NGINX websites underperforming? If so, Jack Wallen shows you how to speed them up with the PageSpeed module. The post How to install Google PageSpeed to improve NGINX…

The new Galaxy S22 lineup | Image: Samsung At Samsung’s first Galaxy Unpacked event for 2022, the company introduced a new lineup of Galaxy S22 phones: the Galaxy S22 and…

Photo by Clive Rose – Gran Turismo/Gran Turismo via Getty Images AI agents have bested humans at many games, from chess to Go to poker. Now, the machines can claim…