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Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Our staff lists their choices for the best of the year It’s been a difficult year, and with the appearance of the…
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Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Our staff lists their choices for the best of the year It’s been a difficult year, and with the appearance of the…
Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Follow the white rabbit It’s the end of year two of the pandemic and many of us staying inside — both to avoid…
“By the way, I’m much more than just a voice-activated timer.” | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you regularly use an Alexa device, you’ve probably been upsold…
Huawei has officially announced the P50 Pocket, a clamshell-style folding smartphone that has a circular, 1-inch external display for quick access to notifications and widgets. The device launches in China…
Adata teases first PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs. | image: Adata Samsung and Adata are both teasing PCIe 5.0 SSDs ahead of January’s big CES event. With read/write speeds up…
Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images Over the last couple of weeks, several Apple Stores around the US have closed due to rising COVID-19 infections among staff members, and a report…
Image: LG Display Would it even be a tech tradeshow without a new throne? 2020 brought us the scorpion chair, 2019 gave us the “fully-immersive” toilet, and attempts to encase…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, have refiled a union petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), NLRB press secretary…
As our tech-driven world accelerates year after year, so does the number of books that attempt to explain its history, its present state, and how it can be used more…
Want a custom security dashboard to bring together data from multiple places? Microsoft Power BI can do that and help you spot what’s changing.
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The WarnerMedia-owned platform HBO Max packs a lot in its two-minute 2022 preview reel, introducing a number of lower-profile Warner Bros. films making…
Who knew that leaving the top spot at Twitter could make someone a more interesting follow? The co-founder and (for the second time) former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey recently…
The other day, I was watching the documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which flashes on the screen the names of the songs being played and happened to miss the identification…
RadioShack, the venerable retailer relaunched as an online-focused brand in 2020, now wants to chart a future as a cryptocurrency exchange. Earlier this week, the company announced RadioShack DeFi (short…
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Much like last week’s in-person restock of the PlayStation 5, GameStop is once again hosting another day of in-store new console sales. This…
Tom Merritt explains how a data lakehouse tries to give you the best of both a data warehouse and a data lake.
How is a data lakehouse similar to a data warehouse and a data lake? Tom Merritt answers that question and more in this brief overview about data lakehouses.
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon launched its own branded Fire TV television sets last month with attractively low price tags for a large, if underwhelming, 4K screen…
Image: Level Level teased a new keypad product on its website today (via HomeKit News) that will give owners of the company’s elegant and discreet Level Touch smart locks another…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a weird internet mix-up, it looks like Amazon briefly suspended its Spanish-language Prime Video Twitch channel on Sunday after a host exposed…
The object of your desire can now be yours (if it’s a Nintendo Switch OLED). | Image: Nintendo When the Nintendo Switch OLED Model launched in the fall, it immediately…
You can get a better OLED notebook for less money Zenbooks of this size are all usually a pretty similar deal — if you’ve used one, you’ve used them all.…
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft’s Xbox Series X keeps coming and going, but the next-gen console remains tricky to get a hold of. We just saw it…
Year-end Mac maintenance is always a good idea for your work laptop or desktop, but the 2021 holiday season is full of distractions. These quick steps will help keep your…
Fedora Kinoite is a great start for a desktop that could be ideal for business use cases, if it can only overcome one glaring caveat.
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s warehouse employees across the US will once again have to wear masks, according to an internal notice obtained by CNBC. The company…
The NHTSA is investigating Tesla vehicles that allow games on their touchscreens | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US government says it is investigating more than half…
The Apple Watch Series 7 and its larger screen has a full keyboard for tapping and gesture swiping. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s beginning to look…
Zillow Have you ever wanted to aimlessly scroll through Zillow and admire all the heinously expensive houses that you’ll never be able to afford thanks to the skyrocketing price of…
With new Apple Silicon, iPhones, iPads and Macs earning rave reviews and record sales, Apple spun a great 2021. But there were still a few hiccups. Here are Apple’s three…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Xbox Series X console has remained hard to come by, and with the holidays looming the window to get one in time…
Detect A new medical testing startup called Detect began selling at-home molecular COVID-19 tests through its website last week. The company also announced its CEO — Hugo Barra, a former…
Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Here’s what to stream over the holidays When reuniting with loved ones for the holidays, a post-festivities, good old-fashioned movie night may be…
Is cellular good enough for a home internet connection? I was interested in T-Mobile’s Home Internet service from the first time I heard about it: it’s $50 (a price that…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s crucial web services business AWS is experiencing problems today, with issues affecting services like Slack, Imgur, and the Epic Games store for…
Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images The metaverse and Web3 are two trends supposedly set to revolutionize the digital world. But the richest man IRL, Elon Musk, is…
Former Huawei sub-brand Honor has teased the launch of its first foldable smartphone, the Honor V. An image shared on its Weibo and Twitter accounts teases the design of the…
Image: TCL After briefly halting sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs due to sluggish, buggy software, TCL this evening announced that the TVs are back. “Recent software updates…
Image: LG Are monitors with traditional aspect ratios just not getting the job done for you? LG might have the answer. Today the company has announced what it touts as…
The Apple Watch Series 7 is one three models Apple continues to sell. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Thinking about picking up a new Apple Watch? It…
Amelia Holowaty Krales Another year, another gigantic tech tradeshow that looks like it may be falling apart as the COVID-19 pandemic continues — now that T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert, one…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel has reportedly notified employees that anyone who remains unvaccinated will need to get the COVID-19 vaccine or submit an exemption by January…
Jack Wallen dons his mysterious prognostication cap and predicts how the upcoming year will unfold for Android.
President Biden details plans to make coronavirus tests easier to find amid the surge of the omicron variant. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Biden said today that Americans…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Buyers hoping to get a limited-edition NFT from Fractal, a new marketplace for game item NFTs, were given an unpleasant and costly surprise…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When Apple introduced its updated Apple Wallet in June, the company said it was working to ensure you could use it to…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Tesla announced an early Christmas present for all those pre-dawn road trippers: free vehicle charging at certain Supercharger locations if you get there before 10AM…
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google Voice now lets you create rules that dictate how the service responds to incoming calls from specific contacts. And yes, this includes having…
Mint Mobile says it will comply with the board’s decision. | Image: Mint Mobile The National Advertising Review Board has denied Mint Mobile’s appeal defending its use of the word…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A new blog post from Meta marks the six-month anniversary of its newsletter publishing platform, Bulletin. Amid its plugs for the writers who…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New forensic analysis indicates that representatives of the United Arab Emirates government installed Pegasus spyware on the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of…
Adidas Forum Tech Boost Series X | Image: Microsoft Adidas and Microsoft have collaborated on three different pairs of shoes this year to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Xbox, and…
“Habenero” Jack Dorsey did some spicy tweets last night. The Twitter founder and Block CEO tweeted out some thoughts on crypto and “Web3” that managed to exasperate some of the…
Microsoft decided to block a Registry File hack that allows users to display seconds in the Windows 11 system clock. Now to get seconds to display, Windows 11 users have…
Image by DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo, the company best known for its privacy-focused search engine of the same name, is working on a desktop browser that should bring the same focus on…
It’s been spotted. | Original image: Boston Dynamics Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics has released a holiday video featuring its dog-like Spot robot, and it’s turned out as creepy as ever. The…
The recently released Pixel 6 Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales Pixel 6 Pro owners just got another reason to give Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud game streaming service a…
When inserting a table in a Word document, you can stick with the default alignment or change it in any number of ways.
You can keep your iPhone and Outlook contact lists synchronized. Here are four ways to get it done.
Image: Nikola Hydrogen trucking startup Nikola Corp. agreed to pay $125 million to settle charges that it defrauded investors by misleading them about its products and technical achievements, the US…
President Biden will announce a plan to send 500 million free coronavirus test kits to Americans | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The White House says President Biden will deliver…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’re nearly there. 2022. These are times of deep uncertainty, so I’m glad I can offer you something you can depend on: a…
A set of noise-canceling headphones should definitely come in handy if you’re planning to travel soon. They’re essential if you want to silence the hum of the jet engines or…
Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon Bracken Darrell talks about the mouse and keyboard renaissance Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it’s been around since 1981, selling all kinds…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2017, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings infamously told investors his streaming platform not only competes with its counterparts for attention but also with…
Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge A handy guide for finding the best stuff released this year As Netflix has become more ubiquitous, it’s also become more of a…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The years-old browser game became a competitive thrill this year The camera-mounted Google truck that drove through South Africa’s Kruger National Park is…
Researchers were able to exploit Ellume’s at-home test. | Image: Ellume A security researcher was able to change the results of an at-home COVID test and get those results certified…
A screenshot of the Sonic 1 title screen opened in the Tesla web browser taken prior to its release. | Photo by Umar Shakir / The Verge Tesla’s annual holiday…
A teaser poster for the event. | Image: Xiaomi Exactly one year from the launch of the Mi 11, Xiaomi is set to launch the successor on December 28th, the…
Ever lose your mouse cursor? It’s not hard to do when you’ve sitting in front of multiple monitors or perhaps a super-ultrawide or maybe even a monstrous TV — but…
Google OnHub router Google’s insistence on cloud-based controls for its networking products has occasionally caused issues, even though it was supposed to make life with OnHub routers simple. Now it…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Live Studio, TikTok’s new livestreaming app for Windows, supposedly uses code from the free livestreaming program Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) (via Protocol). This…
Steve Ballmer wanted Microsoft’s Cortana AI to be called “Bingo” so it would be more Microsoft-branded, according to the Big Bets newsletter. That’s according to former Microsoft product manager Sandeep…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is taking legal action against the bad actors who allegedly impersonated Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram to conduct a phishing scam. The…
If you’re an Android user and a multitasker, check out scrcpy – a gem of a tool that makes it simple to mirror your Android device on Linux, macOS and…
Yuji Naka showing off his solo-developer skills | Image: @nakayuji via Twitter Yuji Naka — former head of Sonic Team — released a new game under his one-man studio Prope…
iOS 15 has brought with it a number of features that don’t affect your privacy, your efficiency, or your fitness. They’re — well, just nice. One of them is the…
With iCloud increasingly storing vital information, an useful new iOS 15.2 feature lets you recover an account from a deceased friend or family member to preserve their digital legacy.
Have you run into a situation where your Mac’s internal drive is full? Do you use Final Cut Pro X? If so, Jack Wallen is pretty confident he knows what…
iDrive offers its own remote desktop tool to help you connect to other computers on your network.
Image: Canoo EV startup Canoo is losing three top executives, including its chief technology officer Peter Savagian, as part of an apparent shakeup of its leadership team. Savagian, the former…
I’ve always been a light sleeper, and that has not improved over the last few years. So I thought I was the perfect person to try out the latest version…
With Bookings, Office focuses on frontline workers by simplifying the process of scheduling appointments and meetings.
If you were saving up Ethereum for a set of Discreet Music NFTs, we’ve got bad news. In an interview with Crypto Syllabus (conducted by longtime tech critic Evgeny Morozov,…
Image: Alex Castro / The Verge A prominent agency that manages accounts for OnlyFans creators has been accused of having its employees catfish fans by reading and replying to messages…
There’s more to The Witcher universe than just Geralt, and Netflix gave the first glimpse at that with an early look at Blood Origin. The trailer was initially revealed as…
photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images There’s something extraordinarily frustrating about subscribing to a TV service only for that service to lose the programming you signed up for.…
Image: Amazon Amazon has announced that it’ll be adding exclusive items to Amazon Games’ popular MMORPG New World from Amazon Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time TV series, which fans…
Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule today aimed at reducing tailpipe pollution from cars and light-duty trucks — an effort by President…
Airbnb is cracking down on New Year’s Eve parties | Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Airbnb said Monday it’s tightening its policy restrictions on New Year’s Eve parties,…
Image by Waze Waze can finally help you locate and drive to nearby electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the US, letting you find EV pit stops just as easily…
The Ford Mustang Mach-E is hitting the streets of New York City as the latest electric vehicle to join the ranks of the city’s iconic yellow taxi fleet. The Mustang…
It turns out that designing autonomous vehicles for disabled passengers is an immense challenge For years, people with disabilities have been promised that autonomous vehicles are right around the corner.…
Photo by Jennifer Tuohy / The Verge Apple’s short, stout HomePod Mini usually costs $99.99, but Best Buy is offering a $20 discount today on the smart speaker. You can…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Taco Bell, the restaurant known for having ground beef that’s utterly indescribable, reportedly told Beyond Meat that its version of carne asada wasn’t good enough…
Six people were killed when an Amazon warehouse in Illinois was struck by a tornado A group of progressive Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Reps. Cori…
Time Person of the Year 2021, Elon Musk. | Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIME Elon Musk expects to pay over $11 billion in taxes in 2021, the Tesla…
The laptop features an RGB keyboard. | Image: LG LG has announced what it’s calling its “first gaming laptop,” the UltraGear 17G90Q. The 17-inch laptop is powered by a combination…
Tom Brady rage quitting Microsoft Surface. After throwing a fourth-quarter interception to seal a 9-0 loss against the Saints on Sunday night, Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady managed to connect…