You can get a great device for less than $500 these days if you know how to pick your priorities. | Image: The Verge You can’t have everything at this price, but you can get a great smartphone. Whether you want an iPhone, a 120Hz screen, or water resistance, you’ve got options. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Image: The Verge Xbox is putting on a 20-minute “no fluff, all games” showcase from third-party studios. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The best from Apple, Bose, Samsung, Sony, Beats, Google, and more. Continue reading… Read more ›
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Illustration: Beatrice Sala The FBI has arrested an Alabama man who is accused of hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account in January. The indictment (PDF) alleges that 25-year-old Eric Council Jr. worked with co-conspirators to take control of the account and post a fake message from SEC Chair Gary Gensler about Bitcoin ETFs that caused the price of Bitcoin to jump by more than $1,000 momentarily. To carry... Read more ›
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The new AirPods 4 deliver better sound and voice call quality than prior models. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-popular AirPods. Although we’ve yet to see major deals on the new AirPods 4 and the updated AirPods Max, both the second- and third-gen AirPods can still often be found at a steep discount. The... Read more ›
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Image: Jack Bullard for The Verge In Stardew Valley, you can usually only speak to characters a few times per day. This limitation has led to a number of mods that add things for them to say so that players can spend more time with their virtual pals. But like many games, Stardew recently turned to AI, resulting in the addition of a mod with the ability to have theoretically... Read more ›
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Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Digitas The future of marketing — and, in a way, everything else — is getting a shakeup. Continue reading… Read more ›
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SETIA ALAM, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - 2024/07/21: A charging plug seen attached to BYD car 6 at the EvX expo. | Photo” Getty Images Automakers aren’t doing enough to identify and prevent human rights abuses along supply chains for EV batteries, Amnesty International warns in a new report. The charity ranked 13 of the world’s largest EV manufacturers, giving each a score based on its human rights policies and practices.... Read more ›
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The park expansion is still under construction, but some early illustrations (pictured) give us an idea of what to expect. | Image: Universal Universal’s Florida resort will open new worlds themed around franchises like Harry Potter and Super Mario on May 22, 2025. The announcement sets a date for the new park expansion, dubbed “Epic Universe,” which consists of four new worlds connected via a centralized hotel and shopping distinct... Read more ›
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Laura Normand / The Verge Donald Trump said Apple CEO Tim Cook called him to discuss the billions of dollars that Apple has been fined in the European Union. Trump made the statement during his appearance on the PBD Podcast — and said that he won’t let the EU “take advantage” of US companies like Apple if reelected. “Two hours ago, three hours ago, he [Cook] called me,” Trump said.... Read more ›
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Sorry, Chris Redfield, but Leon S. Kennedy is still Resident Evil’s best protagonist. | Image: Capcom The Silent Hill 2 remake just came out for those looking for a nostalgic scare, but if you’re in need of heebie-jeebies on a budget, the Resident Evil 4 remake is just as capable. It’s down to $21.99 ($8 off) at Amazon for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. That’s the lowest price we’ve... Read more ›
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Amazon’s 2024 lineup includes a new note-taking Kindle Scribe, a faster Kindle Paperwhite, an upgraded entry-level model, and the apt-titled Colorsoft. Earlier this week, Amazon refreshed its entire Kindle lineup while adding a new color model to the mix. The updated entry-level Kindle ($109.99) and Kindle Paperwhite ($159.99) are available now, while the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition and updated Kindle Scribe will launch on October 30th and December 4th, respectively.... Read more ›
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Ferrari F80. | Image: Ferrari Ferrari’s new F80 hypercar can record the track it is driving on and will boost the driver at the right time during the next lap. The “Boost Optimization” feature reads the straights and curves of the circuit and, with no further action from the driver, delivers more power to its hybrid system to help achieve the best lap time possible. You can use Boost Optimization... Read more ›
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The latest update to the Philips Hue app adds the ability to customize the intensity and color of lighting effects. | Image: Signify Philips is introducing four new lighting effects through its Hue app including an underwater option simulating the glimmer of light beneath the waves. The added effects are part of a new app update, spotted by Hueblog, that also introduces the ability to customize the lighting effects already... Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is launching several new features designed to protect teens from sextortion scams, which occur when scammers threaten to share intimate images of victims unless they receive a payment or more photos. One guardrail that’s rolling out soon will prevent people from screenshotting or screen recording disappearing images or videos sent in a private message. If the sender enables replays of the image... Read more ›
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Image: Netflix Seven years after Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State was picked up for a live-action adaptation, and a few weeks after first-look images were revealed, we finally have the first trailer. The clip sets up what seems like a big battle in a retrofuturistic world — but it’s hard not to focus on the cartoonish tech and robots, which feel like goofier takes on Stålenhag’s distinctive art. The Netflix... Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge In early 2004, the world was shaking it like a Polaroid picture, flocking to theaters to see what was going to happen with all those hobbits, and wondering if that Tom Brady guy was something special. Meanwhile, a few folks around the world were inventing the web as we know it now: A world-shaking social network was brewing in a Harvard dorm room. A... Read more ›
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge, Getty Images In 2024, you can go onto YouTube, one of the most popular media distributors in the United States and the world, and you can pull up Janet Jackson’s 2004 performance at the Super Bowl. There are videos with her whole 11-minute performance and others that show only the three seconds that shook the country. Justin Timberlake, standing to Jackson’s left and singing... Read more ›
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I never owned an iPod Mini. Even as a college freshman back at the time of its introduction, I was already more of a full-size iPod kind of nerd. Mine was the third-gen model with the backlit buttons, which I maintain was the best version ever released. I wanted the most storage possible for the flourishing music collection that I’d amassed through years of painfully slow downloads over Napster, LimeWire,... Read more ›
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In 2004, I was an undiagnosed neurodivergent teenager who had given up on trying to fit in. It felt like everyone was trying to mold me into their version of perfect by chastising me when I did something “wrong.” It was confusing, exhausting, and demoralizing. I managed to make a few friends in high school who seemed to just get me, but the last thing I wanted to do was... Read more ›
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