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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 01/17/2026 13:38 EDT

Disney deleted a Thread because people kept quoting its movies at it

"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the […] Read more ›

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 01/17/2026 12:36 EDT

The Setapp Mobile iOS store is shutting down on February 16th

Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). While the law may have forced Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devices, it couldn't make users actually embrace them. MacPaw, the Ukrainian developer behind the subscription-based Setapp, […] Read more ›

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Brandon Widder @ The Verge · 01/17/2026 10:38 EDT

The LG C5 and Apple’s M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend

Happy Saturday, folks! This week, Best Buy kicked off its so-called “Winter Sale,” introducing a whole host of price cuts that range from not-so-good to legitimately great, at least for this time of year. We’ll be publishing many of the highlights in a dedicated news post tomorrow, though, per usual, not all of this week’s […] Read more ›

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 01/17/2026 10:00 EDT

All You Need Is Kill is a dazzling movie with the soul of a video game

While Hollywood has repeatedly tried adapting stories from Japanese manga, vanishingly few of them have been as good as Edge of Tomorrow - Warner Bros.' 2014 live-action film based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka's sci-fi light novel All You Need Is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow wasn't a one-to-one translation of All You Need Is Kill's original story […] Read more ›

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Sarah Jeong @ The Verge 3 place · 01/17/2026 09:00 EDT

Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition

As masked and armed men in combat armor swarmed throughout the Twin Cities, Gov. Tim Walz took to primetime television to ask Minnesotans to film ICE. The videos, he said, would "create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans - not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution." […] Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 01/17/2026 09:00 EDT

A cute frog game that remixes Nintendo’s best

While playing Big Hops, a new 3D platformer starring an adorable frog, I kept feeling like I was breaking the game - and, like with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, breaking it is kind of the point. In Big Hops, you play as a frog named Hop. Early on, Hop is taken […] Read more ›

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge · 01/17/2026 08:00 EDT

Fear and blogging (and prerelease laptop testing) in Las Vegas

At CES, I did what you're not supposed to do: I brought a pre-production laptop to use as my primary workhorse during a hectic event. The unproven rifle in question is the new Arm-based Asus Zenbook A16. It's a 16-inch laptop that weighs less than a 13-inch MacBook Air and comes with a high-end Snapdragon […] Read more ›

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 01/17/2026 08:00 EDT

Our favorite cozy game is back

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 112, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I hope your home is warmer than mine right now, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about WhatsApp and Gavin […] Read more ›

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Thomas Ricker @ The Verge 3 place · 01/17/2026 03:55 EDT

TCL’s PlayCube projector is more fun than a Rubik’s Cube

The best all-in-one portable projector is the one that makes all the right compromises. It needs to balance image and sound quality with battery life and responsiveness in a device that's not too expensive and small enough to take anywhere. TCL's fun little PlayCube delivers the right mix to justify paying $800 for a 1080p […] Read more ›

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 18:48 EDT

The best deals on MacBooks right now

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the company’s newest operating system, macOS 26. Purchasing a new MacBook can be complicated if you’re trying to figure out what specs you need, but finding a deal on a relatively speedy […] Read more ›

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 17:36 EDT

Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling

Google is appealing a federal court's decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to restore competition to the online search market. "As we have long said, the Court's August 2024 ruling ignored the reality that people use […] Read more ›

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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 15:51 EDT

Trump and Mid-Atlantic governors want tech companies to pay for new power plants

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants. Together, they're "urging" PJM to hold an "emergency" auction for companies to procure electricity over 15-year contracts. The unusually […] Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 15:20 EDT

Fortnite blocks creators from selling prize wheel spins

Epic Games is making a big change to the rules for Fortnite creators just days after allowing them to publish experiences with in-game transactions. Beginning January 20th, experiences - which Epic Games calls "islands" - will not be able to offer in-island transactions as "a 'spin' or 'increased luck' for a prize wheel," according to […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 14:37 EDT

Google brings its AI videomaker to Workspace users

Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May, Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace plans can access it, too. Flow uses Google's AI video generation model Veo 3.1 to generate eight-second clips based on a […] Read more ›

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 14:25 EDT

The two things AMD subtly revealed at CES that actually excite me

As we predicted, the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs - not from Nvidia, not from Intel, and not from AMD. But if you dig deep, AMD said two things […] Read more ›

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Stevie Bonifield @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 13:41 EDT

Verizon-owned Visible is offering outage credits, too

Customers of Visible Wireless, which is owned by Verizon, may be getting a $5 credit toward their next bill in response to a Verizon cell service outage earlier this week. Verizon customers were offered a $20 credit after the outage. As spotted by 9to5Google, a message sent to Visible customers explains: "Yesterday we let you […] Read more ›

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 13:24 EDT

Ted Sarandos says Netflix will commit to 45-day theatrical releases

Though Netflix's plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery has prompted concerns about how the deal might hurt the movie theater business, the streamer's co-CEO says that there is nothing to worry about. In a new interview with The New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that, should the WBD acquisition go through, the streamer […] Read more ›

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Elissa Welle @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 13:00 EDT

OpenAI releases a cheaper ChatGPT subscription

OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to Friday's global release. "In markets where Go has been available, we've seen strong adoption and regular everyday use for […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 13:00 EDT

Ads are coming soon to ChatGPT, starting with shopping links

ChatGPT will soon start showing you sponsored products or services if they're related to your conversation. In an announcement on Friday, OpenAI says it will start testing ads in the coming weeks for logged-in users in the US who use the app for free or have a ChatGPT Go subscription. The "clearly labeled" ads will […] Read more ›

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Stevie Bonifield @ The Verge · 01/16/2026 12:09 EDT

X is still having issues following an hour-long outage on Friday

On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having problems. Attempts to load the site with either the Twitter.com or […] Read more ›

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