Category: Tech

Live Nation’s monopoly trial is reportedly fracturing T...

Live Nation executives have reportedly sidestepped the Justice Department's antitrust division to negotiate directly with more sym...

HBO Max is finally launching in the UK next month

Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that streaming service HBO Max will make its long-awaited debut in the UK and Ireland on Marc...

Animal Crossing started life as a dungeon crawler

Despite the convoluted journey between concept and finished product, despite all the many things that change between initial proto...

PlayStation’s next big games showcase is on February 12...

Nintendo and Xbox each had their turn, and now PlayStation is up. Sony just announced its next big State of Play showcase, which w...

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ...

Discord announced on Monday that it's rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will auto...

OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT tod...

OpenAI plans to start testing ads in ChatGPT today, according to a report from CNBC. The "clearly labeled" ads will appear in a se...

Siemens CEO Roland Busch’s mission to automate everythi...

Today, I’m talking with Roland Busch, who is the CEO of Siemens. Siemens is one of those absolutely giant, extremely important, bu...

YouTube TV’s sports-focused package will cost $64.99 / ...

YouTube TV has shared more details about the custom channel packages it will start rolling out this week. The new packages are che...

Linux 6.19 arrives with a teaser for Linux 7.0

On Sunday, Linux developer Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.19, which will be the last update in this kernel cycle,...

GOG is already working on native Linux support

GOG recently posted a job listing for a senior software engineer focused on porting its Galaxy desktop client to Linux. Now, in re...

Former Tumblr head Jeff D’Onofrio steps in as acting CE...

After what can generously be called a contentious tenure as the CEO of The Washington Post, Will Lewis is stepping down following ...

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

It's a complete coincidence that I installed Linux around the same time as my colleagues Nathan Edwards and Stevie Bonifield. A fe...

The best way to watch the Olympics

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 115, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome,...

Cairn is a climbing journey about perseverance and obse...

I'm an awful rock climber. Being scared of heights probably doesn't help. But when I've tried it, I've loved the slow, methodical ...

Anker’s new charger with a screen would feel less gimmi...

The latest Anker 45-watt Nano charger, announced in January, which remains one of the smallest 45-watt chargers on the market, add...

The second-gen AirTags are a scatterbrain’s best friend

In a somewhat controversial Vergecast episode, I declared that AirTags are a superior product to iPads. The iPad lovers roasted me...

LG’s C5 TV and Anker’s powerful power bank are this wee...

It’s the first weekend of February, which can only mean one thing: The Super Bowl (or “Benito Bowl,” if you’re mainly tuning in fo...

Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now

If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 ...

The Jeffrey Epstein Fortnite account is fake

Fortnite developer Epic Games says the account some people believed to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a "ruse." In a reply on X, ...

There isn’t even a cynical explanation for Jeff Bezos d...

300 journalists have lost their jobs at The Washington Post. Over 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Be...

This is the Trump Phone

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phon...

Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay

CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot of choice instead of Siri. As Bloomberg reports, Apple is working to add sup...

We found 20 Verge-approved gifts on sale ahead of Valen...

Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and if you haven’t started shopping yet, there are a lot of great gifts on sale that should sti...

Uber found liable for sexual assault in first of thousa...

A federal jury in Phoenix has found Uber to be liable for the sexual assault of one of its passengers, potentially setting a prece...

Can China’s No. 2 automaker make it in America?

Is the long freeze on Chinese automakers selling cars in the US finally starting to thaw? China is the largest auto market in the ...