As part of its NES40 collection, 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller is getting its most dramatic makeover yet. | Image: 8BitDo Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in North America, and to help celebrate the anniversary, 8BitDo has announced a new NES40 collection. It features updated versions of three of 8BitDo’s existing products, … Read more
Pokémon Legends: Z-A hadn’t been out even a few hours before the tweets started rolling in: Shiny pokémon don’t despawn. You can walk away from a shiny, and it’ll still be there when you come back. To shiny collectors, this is big news. In other Pokémon games, like Scarlet and Violet, pokémon despawn after you … Read more
I have been a fan of David Lynch ever since a friend’s older brother interrupted a 13th birthday celebration to insist we all watch Eraserhead. In the realm of horror movies, it’s a common way to be introduced to a seminal film: be it in a friend’s basement, illicit underage viewings, or a stray recommendation … Read more
Can you tell if I’m looking at a display, or just pretending for the camera? Outside a florist-cum-coffee shop in upstate New York, a row of vintage cars gleam in the sun. It’s unseasonably warm for early October, so there’s a veritable crowd of car enthusiasts snapping photos of Ferraris, Porsches, and a vintage Alfa … Read more
Battery development in the GM Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. | Image: Steve Fecht / General Motors Inside General Motors’ fast-growing battery labs in suburban Detroit, scientists and engineers are analyzing stresses on lithium-ion cells: desert heat, arctic cold, jungle humidity, enough charging and discharging for a half-dozen Frankenstein reboots. For The Verge‘s exclusive tour … Read more
Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more “shareworthy.” The only catch is that the feature is designed for your phone’s camera roll — not the media you’ve already uploaded to Facebook. If you opt in, Meta’s AI will … Read more
Guests await the beginning of a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The officials announced that experiments at the National Ignition Facility at the LLNL achieved ‘ignition.’ | Photo: Getty Images The Department of Energy (DOE) released a new … Read more
Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature extremely cool gadgets that we just wish were real, whether it’s an impossible VR headset or a smartphone powered by a ghost. So, every so … Read more
Image: Nintendo | Image: Nintendo Though the Pokémon games’ Rotom Phones haven’t really changed all that much design-wise over the past few years, each generation has introduced new functionalities that made upgrading a no-brainer. Sword / Shield‘s Rotom Phone – the very first one – came with a bare-bones camera that made it easy to … Read more
Ex-Luminar CEO Austin Russell is trying to wrest back control of his company. | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell abruptly resigned from his position after it was revealed he was the target of an ethics inquiry. Now, the 30-year-old billionaire is trying to wrest … Read more
Amazon’s smart doorbell company Ring is now working with the AI-powered surveillance camera company Flock. According to a letter sent to the company by Sen. Ron Wyden, Flock had allowed data access to the Secret Service and the Navy — as well as ICE, as previously reported by 404 Media. The partnership is through Ring’s … Read more
Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America’s greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her loudest movie yet and definitely her biggest budget to date. Reichardt even set out to make something different from her previous … Read more
The Arctis Buds are great for gaming, whether you use a Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, or Steam Deck. | Image: The Verge When I have to decide which wireless gaming earbuds that I want to use, it’s a tough choice between the SteelSeries Arctis Buds and the Sony InZone Buds. Both have a … Read more
The Intellivision Sprint features the same unique controllers as the original, but they’re now wireless and rechargeable. | Image: Atari Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, but this time it’s launching hardware from an old competitor. Atari and Plaion, a company that develops, publishes, and distributes games, have collaborated on the new Intellivision … Read more
It’s a testament to the developers at Double Fine that it doesn’t take long before controlling a sentient lighthouse with spidery legs starts to feel almost normal. Keeper, the latest from the studio behind Psychonauts and Grim Fandango, is obviously a strange game. You play as a building that can walk and solve puzzles and … Read more
A real, and not AI generated photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Image: Getty Images OpenAI said on Thursday night that it has “paused” deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. on its social app Sora after users created “disrespectful” AI-generated videos of the late civil rights leader. It said representatives or estates of other … Read more
There’s a display but you’ve got to lift your head up to activate it. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes … Read more
Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year partnership today that will bring the races exclusively to Apple TV in the US, starting in 2026, when it will replace the series’ current deal with ESPN. Apple: Apple TV will deliver comprehensive coverage of Formula 1, with all practice, qualifying, Sprint sessions, and Grands Prix available to … Read more
CNN has announced a new subscription service called All Access that will launch in the US on October 28th, 2025. It will cost $6.99 per month, or $69.99 annually, with a special introductory price of $41.99 for the first year for those who sign up by January 5th, 2026. Plans for the new subscription were … Read more
What looks like the spot for Qi2 charging is actually an excuse to show off the liquid cooling. Redmagic’s latest gaming phone has arrived in China with a neat trick up its sleeve: liquid cooling. It’s an active liquid cooling system, as opposed to the passive vapor chamber systems that have become pretty common in … Read more
Large language models are currently everyone’s solution to everything. The technology’s versatility is part of its appeal: the use cases for generative AI seem both huge and endless. But then you use the stuff, and not enough of it works very well. And you wonder what we’re really accomplishing here. On this episode of The … Read more
An early look at Instagram’s parental controls for teen AI use. After enthusiastically rolling AI chatbots out everywhere, Meta has announced new options for parents to get an idea of how teens are chatting with the digital characters and set some limits on use. The move comes as Meta works to rehabilitate its image after … Read more
Anthropic is integrating its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft 365 services so it can surface content from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails in conversations with the chatbot. It’s part of a series of updates to Claude to make the chatbot more useful at work. Claude will now connect with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive … Read more
Everything seems to be getting back-to-back price hikes right now, why not your home internet bill too? AT&T is raising prices by $5 a month on all AT&T Internet plans, the company confirms to The Verge. That’s on top of its $5-a-month increase from November 2024, and, it appears, a $5-a-month increase on some customers … Read more
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Around the middle of last year, Pim de Witte started reaching out to a handful of prominent AI labs to see if they’d be interested in using data from … Read more
Apple just announced 14-inch MacBook Pro updates that add a new generation M5 processor, faster storage, and a promise of 24-hour battery life, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports next year’s refresh will be more thorough. For several years, Gurman has said that, according to his sources, the next major MacBook Pro revamp would add … Read more
A rendering of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility. | Image: X-energy via Amazon Amazon shared some new details about its plans to help deploy more nuclear energy across Washington State, where the company is headquartered. About a year ago, Amazon announced an agreement with Energy Northwest, a consortium of public utilities in Washington, to support the development of … Read more
Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air is on sale for around $125 off. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you want a great laptop, you’re going to have to fork over a ton of money, right? Not necessarily. There are dozens of good laptops on the market at various price points. However, it can … Read more
On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation banning the use of price-fixing software by landlords to set rental rates. New York is the first state to outlaw algorithmic pricing by landlords, following a number of city-wide bans in Jersey City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. Software companies such as RealPage offer … Read more
The Trump administration’s heightened monitoring of immigrants’ social media accounts seeking grounds to revoke their visas stifles the speech rights of both noncitizens and citizens alike, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) alleges in a new lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks to end the State Department’s “Catch-and-Revoke” policy, which threatens to strip visaholders of their legal status … Read more