Month: June 2022

Meta Quest virtual reality headsets will soon offer an option for hanging out with other people in your homescreen. The v41 Quest update will add a multiuser Horizon Home space,…

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to return monthly sales averages for the last n years in Microsoft Excel, by Susan Harkins. The post Sample file:…

Microsoft’s cloud-based file share extends the familiar office share into the cloud. The post What can you do with Azure Files? appeared first on TechRepublic.

Larry Ellison, Oracle board chairman and chief technology officer. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Just after closing a $28 billion deal to acquire electronic health records company Cerner, tech…

Another awesome discount on the LG C1 OLED TV. | Image: LG If you’re still struggling to find a gift for Father’s Day, you’re in luck. The 48-inch model of…

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large David Pierce, and managing editor Alex Cranz discuss the week in tech news with…

One of the advantages that Chromebooks offer is the ability to run many of your favorite Android apps alongside Chrome OS windows. For the most part, any Chromebook that was…

EV startup Lightyear revealed its first solar-powered electric vehicle, dubbed Lightyear 0, at an event this week in the Netherlands. The vehicle, which Lightyear describes as production-ready, has 388 miles…

Gary Vaynerchuk (left) spent hours taking selfies with fans. Hype and hustle at Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT conference Wyclef Jean is trying his best to get the crowd hyped. He’s making…

Image: Square Enix The long-awaited second part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake could be revealed on June 16th, or at least I hope it will. Square Enix’s Twitter account…

“Teddy bears on the moon, digital art,” created by DALL-E. Thoughts on my first week with OpenAI’s amazing text-to-image AI tool Disclaimer: All images in this story were generated using…

If you’re like most people, you may become overwhelmed by the number of passwords created, used and remembered in your everyday life. Password managers like Bitwarden and LastPass make those…

The device now tracks breathing disturbances and generates a comprehensive sleep report I first tested the $99.95 Withings Sleep back in 2018 when it was known as the Nokia Sleep.…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mozilla will let extensions use the most privacy-preserving blocking techniques on network traffic There’s a growing split over how much room browsers should…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Another NFT on the wall Last year, NFTs started to appear on a three-story brick apartment building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located at…

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Rapper Jay-Z and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey have teamed up to launch a bitcoin-focused financial literacy project named The Bitcoin Academy. The project consists of…

The new reporting flow in action. | Image: Twitter Twitter’s redesigned process for reporting policy violations on its platform is now widely available, the company has announced. It’s designed to…

Ikea’s upcoming record player. | Image: Ikea Ikea, which has never been scared to dive into new product categories, has announced plans to release a record player as part of…

This is second Brompton e-bike recall since April 2021. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge If you own a Brompton folding electric bicycle sold between May 2019 and…

Ikea’s upcoming record player. | Image: Ikea Ikea, which has never been scared to dive into new product categories, has announced plans to release a record player as part of…

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to use a video as a slide’s background in Microsoft PowerPoint, by Susan Harkins. The post Sample file: How to…

Windows 11 File Explorer with a Home page and Tabs | Image: Microsoft It’s been about four years since Microsoft tested and then abandoned an attempt at adding tabbed browsing…

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to populate a dropdown with data from another sheet in Excel, by Susan Harkins. The post Sample file: How to…

Insteon users have rescued the failing company. | Image: Insteon Following the report yesterday that smart home company Insteon’s servers had mysteriously fired up overnight, there is good news: Insteon…

TechRepublic’s Mackenzie Burke and Brian Stone along with CIO Insight’s Kaiti Norton recap the latest software, hardware and more announced at Apple’s WWDC 2022 keynote. The post WWDC 2022 Keynote…

Ooma and RingCentral are two of the best VoIP solutions. Learn about key features of the VoIP solutions in our head-to-head comparison. The post Ooma vs RingCentral: Compare VoIP solutions…

Leaders offer a visual guide to information separated between the left and right margins of a document. Learn how to add them and how to avoid potential problems. The post…

Image: Meta Meta has decided to not sell the first version of its full-fledged AR glasses, codenamed Orion, and will instead distribute them to developers so they can build software…

Apple’s AirTag location tracker is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you’re an iPhone owner planning on traveling this summer,…

Street Fighter V is one of eleven games included in the Humble Bundle. | Image: Capcom If you’re hyped up today for gaming news, there’s a very special deal running…

Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Apple retail workers at the Grand Central store in New York are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) rather than Workers United…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It has only been a few days since Apple introduced a new generation of its custom chip family with the M2 and a…

The Portal Go, released in 2021. | Photo by Jennifer Pattisson Tuohy The Verge Meta plans to stop making consumer versions of its Portal video calling hardware and instead pivot…

You can easily change up your iPhone’s ringtone, alarm, and notification chimes. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple’s ecosystem can be a little “one size fits all”…

Image: Spotify This article first ran in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s audio industry newsletter. Spotify wants to make audiobooks the next pillar of its business. On Wednesday, company executives…

Customer Relationship Manager solutions don’t have to be just for businesses. Jack Wallen believes you can leverage a CRM platform for both personal and professional needs. The post More people…

The Last of Us Part I is finally coming to PCs. | Image: Naughty Dog A forum post at ResetEra points out a leaked listing on the PlayStation Direct site…

The federal government is upgrading its investigation into over a dozen incidents of Tesla vehicles using Autopilot that crashed into emergency vehicles. The probe is now designated as an “Engineering…

Porsche’s electric bike shopping spree isn’t over. The German automaker announced Thursday that it would be acquiring Fazua, an e-bike drivetrain manufacturer that specializes in lightweight motors. After buying a…

iOS users can try on various brands within the Amazon app. | Image: Amazon Amazon is now letting iOS users virtually try-on shoes, the company announced in a blog post.…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Chrome has built-in phishing detection that scans pages to see if they match known fake or malicious sites (using more than just…

The OnePlus 10 Pro. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge A higher-capacity version of this year’s OnePlus flagship, the 10 Pro, is releasing in the US and Canada…

I always thought the DJI Mini 2 was the perfect drone for most pilots — either beginners looking for a reliable drone or experienced pilots who want a more portable…

Image: the Dynamic World project A new dataset from Google shows the features on the surface of the Earth in near real time, the company announced Thursday. The tool, called…

Tonight, the Congressional committee tasked with investigating the Capitol riot will hold its first public hearing in months, part of a broader push to bring public attention to the committee’s…

Setting your organization on the path to customer obsession means modernizing, consolidating, and simplifying your tech stack. This includes sifting through the sea of emerging technologies to identify which will…

Digital transformation fundamentally changes the way customers, partners, and employers interact with and generate value from your company. To enable a customer-obsessed organization and drive digital transformation, IT must shift…

Brave and Firefox are web browsers that could easily replace your default. Each offers a different feature set, but their goal is the same. What are the differences and similarities,…

Renegotiating and consolidating software contracts might seem like a low-value administrative activity, but there could be millions of dollars in annual savings with minimal impact on end users. The post…

Dell’s new XPS 13 2-in-1 is a tablet now. | Image: Dell Dell is totally overhauling its XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop today by revealing a new design that’s a tablet…

Image: Dell Today Dell is launching the 2022 revision of its XPS 13 to include Intel’s latest 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs that add more cores and hybrid architecture, while saying…

Google’s new tools and partnerships are designed to make machine learning easier to deploy and work with in the real world. The post Google to preview new Vertex AI tools…

Whether you want to start programming with automated ease or just download a lightweight code editor, there’s a solution that’s right for you. The post WebStorm vs VS Code: Compare…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is working on Project Moorcroft, a program designed to bring early game demos to Xbox Game Pass subscribers. The demos will be…

Microsoft is planning to bring a lot more games to Xbox Cloud Gaming later this year, allowing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to stream most of their own game library.…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to Argentina and New Zealand today. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will be able to stream more…

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app later this month, allowing owners of Samsung’s 2022 smart TVs and monitors to play Xbox games without a game console. Xbox…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Xbox is announcing that everyone’s favorite gaming platform, Microsoft Edge, is getting a number of new features that prioritize cloud gaming integration and…

Image: Microsoft Xbox announcing a host of planned improvements to its hardware and services today. In addition to cloud gaming improvements and new supported platforms for the Xbox app, it…

There’s nothing particularly novel about the actual Xbox app. If you’ve used xCloud, you’ve seen this interface before. Playing games on the new Xbox app made for TVs feels like…

Mengxin Li / The Verge If you were passing through Art Basel Miami in December, you might have heard about a Pudgy Penguins club night. The founder Cole Thereum was…

Image: Microsoft Microsoft released the final version of its next big Windows 11 update (22H2) to Release Preview testers on Tuesday, and accidentally made it available to PCs that aren’t…

Mengxin Li / The Verge So let’s say you bought an NFT. Not because you want to make a bunch of money and you’re just going to flip it —…

The app lets you “schedule a break” after a set period of time. | Image: TikTok TikTok is adding a series of new features that are designed to stop you…

Google integrates hyperlocal data from PurpleAir’s network of sensors. | Screengrab by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Google Maps on both iOS and Android has a new Air Quality layer…

Apple is adding an easy method to swap your eSIM to a new iPhone in the upcoming iOS 16 release. Twitter user Carson Waldrop has spotted (via MacRumors) that iOS…

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge The Biden administration is revealing a new set of standards to help accelerate the installation of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers across the US…

Images of the prototype device published by Bloomberg. | Image: Bloomberg Meta has halted development of a smartwatch with two built-in cameras, Bloomberg reports. The device — codenamed “Milan” —…

A glimpse into the new Vivaldi Mail 1.0. | Image: Vivaldi Vivaldi has launched its own free built-in email client, Mail 1.0, with Vivaldi’s Calendar and Feed Reader integrated. Mail…

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. | Image: Netflix With all of the drama surrounding Cyberpunk 2077’s initial launch, it would be easy to forget that there’s another exciting project on the way: an…

Entergalactic. | Image: Netflix The first-look trailer for Entergalactic — a musical animated series from Kid Cudi and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris — is brief, but it’s bursting with style…

Commentary: MongoDB World 2022 kicks off this week, and it offers a glimpse into how much the industry has changed, and stayed the same, since the company’s first big event…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Another executive change is hitting Meta after the recently announced departures of COO Sheryl Sandberg and head of AI Jerome Pesenti. David Mortenson,…

Image: Kojima Productions After Tom Henderson of tryhardguides.com published an article reporting the existence of a new Hideo Kojima game in development under the title Overdose, he says Kojima Productions…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s going to handle the lending for its new buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, and doesn’t plan on shifting that responsibility to…

From small to large projects, a workflow template can help you identify everything needed to complete a project. This guide covers the six steps for creating a successful project management…

Need to be able to work from anywhere without compromising on security or speed? Getflix Smart DNS & VPN has you covered. The post Work smarter and safer from anywhere…

Charging cables for different mobile phone models. | Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images Slashing e-waste was a major driver in European Union lawmakers’ proposal yesterday to mandate…

A rendering of a high-tech facility representing eBay’s new 31,000-square-foot vault facility that stores collectables. | Image: eBay Consider dusting off your attic shoeboxes filled with baseball cards; eBay might…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is getting into the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) business with its new Pay Later service built into Apple Pay and Apple…

Learn how to review group memberships, manage message delivery, access all group messages, restrict group additions and invitations, and leave groups you no longer need. The post 5 tips to…

Use a video to add a bit of movement behind your text in a Microsoft PowerPoint slide. The post How to use a video as a slide’s background in Microsoft…

Last year’s iPhone 13. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge This week, European Union lawmakers agreed on new proposals to force manufacturers of everything from smartphones and headphones…

If your list and dropdown are on different pages, you’ll need to know this trick to make the dropdown dynamic. The post How to populate a dropdown with data from…

Averaging is easy until you want to dynamically average the last few years on the fly. There are at least two easy ways to accommodate the n requirement. The post…

Android 13’s latest beta arrives today. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced Android 13’s third public beta today and says that it has reached platform stability.…

It’s no secret that Infinity Ward has been working on a sequel to 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and, now, the studio is finally unveiling its next blockbuster. It’s…

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter is preparing to grant Elon Musk unprecedented access to platform data in an effort to address his concerns about automated accounts, The…

Insteon hubs are back online. | Image: Insteon Last April, Smartlabs switched off its cloud servers, leaving users of its Insteon smart home system without app or voice control of…

Image: Unit 2 Games Crayta, a platform that lets players create, share, and play games with friends, is coming to Facebook Gaming’s cloud-streaming service. The collaborative game-building platform is built…

Image: Apple Apple isn’t inventing anything new with its medication tracking feature for iPhone and Apple Watch, which the company announced as part of watchOS 9 at WWDC 2022 this…

Mass Effect Legendary Edition is just one of the games the contractors have worked on. A team of quality assurance (QA) contractors who work closely with BioWare, a studio owned…

Security is at the heart of every business transaction carried out over the internet. Consequently, websites and web applications are becoming strict with their password requirements. The post Bitwarden vs…

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge The best ways to carry around a Switch in style Let’s face it: protective carrying cases for the Nintendo Switch are a…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is testing a new shopping feature for previewing upcoming product releases. The feature, called Product Drops, allows brands to tease items before…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge At WWDC 2022, Apple announced it was adding a number of big fitness updates to watchOS 9. Most notably, that included a ton…

Installing a wired Ring doorbell such as this Ring Pro 2 takes about 45 minutes. Installing a Ring video doorbell is one of the easiest smart home upgrades to tackle…

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony’s WH-1000XM5 are the company’s latest flagship noise-canceling headphones. And as our review can attest, they’re perhaps the most comfortable, best-sounding set in…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A YouTuber named Yannic Kilcher has sparked controversy in the AI world after training a bot on posts collected from 4chan’s Politically Incorrect…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft says it’s “significantly” scaling down its business in Russia, more than three months after Russia invaded Ukraine. The software giant first pulled…