Google denies Facebook collusion claims in new court filing and blog post
Google denies colluding with Facebook in new court filing | Illustration by Alex Castro Google has filed a motion to dismiss the antitrust complaint filed last week, which alleges it…
The best Chromebook for 2022
Acer’s Chromebook Spin 713 | Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge The best Chromebook laptop or two-in-one for every Chrome OS fan The best Chromebooks aren’t just laptops that…
I had to see these Hello Kitty gaming accessories, so now you do, too
There are cat ears on the headset. I wish I was joking. | Image: Razer Razer is known for making some of the best, flashiest gaming gear on the market,…
The Xbox Series S is on sale at Woot for its lowest price ever
Today only (or while supplies last), you can pick up Microsoft’s next-gen console for just $279.99. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge While nabbing an Xbox Series S…
Vergecast: Microsoft to acquire Activision, Google building a headset, and the 5G battle with airlines
Image: Blizzard Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where we discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. The…
The Beats Fit Pro get their first major discount and drop to $153
The Beats Fit Pro come in black, gray, white, and pink. Today’s deal is on the black and white colorways. | Image: Beats Time and time again, we see Apple…
Leak reveals Microsoft’s canceled Windows OS for dual-screen devices
Microsoft was working on a secret “pocketable” Surface device powered by a custom Windows OS before the company turned to Android for its Surface Duo. Codenamed Andromeda, the device appeared…
Kyocera DuraSport 5G UW review: tough choices
The DuraSport 5G is one of the few rugged options available After releasing the tank-like $899.99 DuraForce Ultra 5G UW in April 2021, Kyocera is back with a more subtly…
MSI Creator Z16 review: thin isn’t everything
The Creator Z16 is slim, powerful, and starved for battery MSI’s Creator Z16 is one of a new cadre of “creator” laptops that have been popping up from companies that…
How Twitter could take NFTs mainstream
Image: Twitter Today, just four months after announcing it was exploring the idea, Twitter began letting some people use non-fungible tokens as their profile pictures. Subscribers to the $2.99-a-month Twitter…
We regret to inform you that Apple now verifies anyone asking for educational discounts
Image: Apple Apple has introduced a new verification process in the US to ensure that customers who want to benefit from its discounted education pricing are actually involved in education.…
The PlayStation 5 is in stock at Target
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Target has restocked the $499.99 standard PS5 console, and may have the $399.99 Digital Edition available later. Unlike other retailers, Target doesn’t require…
Intel selects Ohio for ‘largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet’
A render of the planned site. | Image: Intel Chip manufacturer Intel will spend at least $20 billion on a new chip manufacturing site in New Albany, near Columbus, Ohio,…
This controller turns your Android phone into a portable Xbox
A good solution for mobile Game Pass games… or at least some of them It seems unlikely that Microsoft will ever make a portable Xbox. Between Sony’s failure with the…
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Blizzard boss details what the studio is doing to ‘rebuild your trust’
Blizzard chief Mike Ybarra posted a blog about the changes on Thursday. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of huge franchises like Diablo and…
Netflix co-CEO says there will ‘absolutely’ be a second season of Squid Game
Image: Netflix Hold on to your jumpsuits — Netflix’s wildly popular Squid Game series has been confirmed by the company for a second season. During its fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday,…
TikTok is thinking about letting its creators charge subscription fees
TikTok is testing paid subscriptions | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok confirmed Thursday that it is testing support for paid subscriptions, paving the way for creators on…
Netflix stock plunges as company misses growth forecast
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix investors have been worried that the company isn’t adding subscribers fast enough — and today, they started to panic. After Netflix reported…
The IRS will soon make you use facial recognition to access your taxes online
The IRS will use a third party facial recognition company to verify online taxpayers | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Internal Revenue Service will require people who…
Godzilla and the Titans will reunite in new Apple TV Plus Monsterverse series
Legendary Pictures Though Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong made waves last summer by debuting on HBO Max and quickly becoming one of the platform’s top performing features, the next time we…
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer wants to ‘keep Call of Duty on PlayStation’
Like with Minecraft, Microsoft might keep Call of Duty multiplatform. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The gaming industry is reeling from the potential ramifications of Microsoft’s massive…
Want to preorder Samsung’s next Galaxy phone sight unseen? You can
Image: evleaks (Twitter) For the launch of Samsung’s next flagship smartphones — the Galaxy S22, S22 Plus, and S22 Ultra, we think — the Korean electronics giant will once again…
Samsung confirms February Unpacked, hints at the end of the Note line
The Note 20 will likely be the last of its kind. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Samsung will host an Unpacked event next month, the company has…
You can create different Network Locations for different purposes in macOS
If you use macOS on a laptop and move from location to location, you owe it to yourself to start using this feature.
Here’s how to back up and restore a website on Linux
Ever wonder how to back up a website on Linux? Jack Wallen shows you how easy it can be.
GameStop will have PlayStation 5 bundles in stock tomorrow at 11AM ET
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re one of the many still on the hunt for a PlayStation 5, you’re about to have another shot at GameStop, as…
Apple’s head of comms is leaving after less than a year
Apple is renowned for a culture of secrecy, one that’s managed in no small part by the company’s head of communications. But it’s had a hard time filling that role,…
AirBuddy 2.5 for macOS adds better Bluetooth control for some non-Apple headphones
AirBuddy 2.5 has a new “Proximity Engine” v2 that should detect and hand off peripherals faster. | Image: Buddy Software A new version of AirBuddy for macOS Monterey is available…
How to play Wordle
Wordle is the free word game everyone on Twitter seems to be playing. | Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images By this point in the pandemic, we’re all looking for something…
FAA estimates 78 percent of US planes can now land at airports with 5G C-band
There were concerns some altimeters might not properly filter 5G signals. | Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images The FAA has announced that an “estimated 78 percent of the…
TikTok marketing lead behind its NFTs and ghost kitchens no longer at the company
TikTok has had some… interesting marketing campaigns recently. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nick Tran is no longer TikTok’s global head of marketing, reportedly because the company…
Twitter brings NFTs to the timeline as hexagon-shaped profile pictures
Twitter NFT profile pictures | Image: Twitter.com Twitter said in September that it would add a way for users to authenticate non-fungible tokens (NFT), and now the feature is live…
Lawmakers approve Big Tech antitrust overhaul, but with strings attached
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Congress is one step closer to actualizing transformative antitrust reform for the tech industry after sending their most viable bill to the Senate floor. The…
Epic pushes to overturn App Store ruling in opening appeal brief
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games has filed its opening brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking to overturn the previous ruling that Apple’s control…
Peloton’s woes continue as it temporarily halts bike, treadmill production
Peloton is pausing production of its connected bikes and treadmills. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton’s pandemic fortunes began waning in 2021, and it appears that…
The PlayStation 5 is available once again at Best Buy right now
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update January 20th, 2:58PM EST: The PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for $399.99 has also gone up for sale at Best Buy. We have…
Why Netflix keeps cranking up its prices
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Every year, the cost of streaming gets more and more expensive — and just last week, prices started going up again. Netflix announced…
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is hiring a clinical trial director
Musk says trials should start this year. | Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink has a new job posting for a clinical…
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NYC Mayor Adams will convert his city paycheck to cryptocurrency via Coinbase
NYC Mayor Eric Adams will convert his paycheck into cryptocurrency | Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Brooklyn Academy of Music Following through on a plan he announced before he…
Messenger Kids’ new internet safety games are mostly teaching kids how to use Messenger
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Google is building an AR headset
Google VP Clay Bavor. | Photo By Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Project Iris could see Google go up against Meta and Apple in the coming headset…
Many game developers hate NFTs, too
Ubisoft’s NFTs, pictured here, received a critical reception when they were announced. | Image: Ubisoft NFTs have been a contentious topic in the video game industry as of late. Fans…
Save $250 on iRobot’s poop-avoiding Roomba j7 Plus vacuum
iRobot’s Roomba j7 Plus and its auto-empty base. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Let’s get down to the dirty business of things and keep it professional.…
Many of the best Xbox backward-compatible games are discounted
Microsoft is hosting steep discounts on backward-compatible digital games from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras, as it does occasionally. If you agree with the opinion that being able…
How to decide whether to use Windows 10 or 11 for Windows IoT
Microsoft now has two versions of Windows IoT Enterprise. So how do you choose between them?
How to get your money back for at-home COVID test kits
Image: USPS While it’s nice that the government will be sending us four free at-home rapid COVID test kits a month, that’s not going to be enough for many households.…
Boost Celero 5G review: budget phone with budget battery life
Boost’s first 5G phone is cheap but unremarkable Boost Mobile, the MVNO owned by the Dish Network as a result of the Sprint / T-Mobile merger, is in a tricky…
WAN report: Complexity continue to grow as more organizations close legacy data centers
The sixth annual report from Aryaka found that IT teams are planning to invest more in 2022 but expect more transparency and control.
Crypto.com admits over $30 million stolen by hackers
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a blog post published in the early hours of Thursday morning, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com acknowledged that the company had lost well over…
Streaming music report sheds light on battle between Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Google
Market share for the world’s largest music streaming services. | Image: Midia Research Spotify was the largest music streaming service in the world as of the second quarter of 2021…
Mercedes-Benz acquires stake in lidar maker Luminar, will use its sensors for future autonomous vehicles
EMBARGO: June 15, 2021, 10:30am ET | Photo by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Mercedes-Benz announced it will integrate Luminar’s lidar sensors into future production vehicles to enable autonomous…
Twitter Communities now work on Android
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is rolling out its Communities feature, a rival to Facebook Groups and Reddit, to Android users worldwide. Since its launch in September,…
Facebook and Instagram are reportedly exploring plans to make, showcase, and sell NFTs
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Social media conglomerate Meta is exploring plans to let users create, showcase, and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, according to a report…
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Windows 11 is getting a new Task Manager design
Microsoft is getting ready to overhaul the Task Manager in Windows 11. Like the rest of the operating system, the Task Manager is getting a new design that matches Microsoft’s…
Amazon’s first clothing store lets you summon clothes to the fitting room
Image: Amazon Amazon Style is a new kind of physical store from the online shopping giant that will focus on clothing, footwear, and other fashion accessories, the company announced today.…
Sony expects Microsoft to ‘continue to ensure’ Activision games stay multiplatform
Sony has responded to Microsoft’s blockbuster proposal to buy Activision Blizzard with a comment on what that might mean for the future games like Call of Duty on PlayStation consoles.…
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are personally lobbying senators against antitrust legislation: report
Photo credit should read NOAH BERGER/AFP via Getty Images The United States’ biggest tech companies are seriously worried about new antitrust legislation. So much so that Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Canon’s EOS R5C is a 2-in-1 stills and cinema camera
Canon has announced a new camera that brings cinema-grade video capabilities to a conventional full-frame mirrorless body. The EOS R5C looks a lot like the EOS R5, which in turn…
Roku outage leads to frozen TVs and unresponsive devices
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…
You can now save $20-$36 a year on YouTube Premium and Music Premium with new annual plans
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…
You can now make a Playdate game right in your browser
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…
Super Bowl 2022 won’t stream in 4K on NBC
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…
Here’s how to clean your $19 Apple cleaning cloth
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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Disney is putting a Disney Plus exec in charge of Hulu
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 launches beta of Android games on Windows PCs
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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The battle between the FAA, AT&T, Verizon, and airlines over 5G
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…
Apple TV Plus teases its WeWork series with Jared Leto
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…
5 virtual care clinic tools helping medical practitioners deliver better care
As more clinical health care challenges surface due to COVID-19, some tools are helping medical practitioners deliver better care to patients.
New Meta Quest update lets you access some settings with a pinch
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…
Crypto.com CEO confirms hundreds of accounts were hacked, hedges on other details
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…
Setapp’s Mac software service confirms app subscriptions are here to stay
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?
The FAA says some 777s are cleared to fly to airports with 5G C-band
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…
Google will make free ‘legacy’ G Suite accounts pay for its office apps starting in July
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…
How to file for a tax extension
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Halo Infinite gets a hotfix to address Big Team Battle problems, but it hasn’t helped
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…
GM announces plans to make mobile power generators using hydrogen fuel cells
GM’s EMPOWER rapid charger can help retail fuel stations add more affordable DC fast-charging capabilities | GM General Motors announced plans to manufacture mobile power generators using its Hydrotec-branded hydrogen…
How to file and pay your 2021 taxes online
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.…
Belkin’s Boost Charge Pro is a $60 MagSafe puck with a kickstand and braided cable
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…
Instagram is testing paid subscriptions with a small group of creators
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…
Strava can help you avoid the runs on those long runs
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Nvidia added a buggy Android 11 update to its Shield TV lineup
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 begins 5G C-band rollout in limited number of metro areas
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…
Verizon’s faster C-band 5G is live and off to a promising start
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…
Is Microsoft building a gaming monopoly?
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,…
With Activision, Microsoft is one gigantic step closer to game subscription dominance
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…
White House says 400 million free N95 masks will be available at US pharmacies
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…
Snapchat to limit friend suggestions for teenagers to prevent contact with strangers
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…
Sony’s colorful DualSense controllers harmonize with my color palette
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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series finally has a name
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AMD hides its claim that 4GB of VRAM is ‘not enough’ just as it launches a 4GB GPU
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…