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Image: Crystal Dynamics In addition to announcing a second season of Mr. And Mrs. Smith and a fifth season of The Boys, Amazon is adding another new series to its television lineup: a live-action Tomb Raider series. The series will be produced in collaboration between Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge serving … Read more

Image: Sony Pictures The classic competitive game show Jeopardy! is getting a spinoff series on Prime Video. Sony Pictures Television is producing Pop Culture Jeopardy!, which turns the classic academic quiz show with three challengers into a team-based trivia game that touches on music, movies, culture, sports, celebrities, entertainment, and more. The new series marks … Read more

The annual rings on the trunk of a conifer tree. | Photo: Getty Images A summer marked by deadly heatwaves across Asia, Europe, and North America last year turns out to have been the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in at least 2,000 years, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. Officially, … Read more

Workers are producing structural components of EV batteries at a production workshop in Qingkou Automobile Industrial Park in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, on February 23rd, 2024. | Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images The Biden administration announced much higher tariffs today on key goods from China that the US will need to meet … Read more

The Arctis Nova 5 headset’s mic can retract into the earcup when not in use. | Image: SteelSeries If you hate (or simply can’t be bothered) to adjust your audio profiles when setting up a new gaming headset, then you might be the target demographic for SteelSeries’ latest offering. Introduced on Tuesday, the new Arctis … Read more

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures The second chapter of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune saga is streaming very soon: Max announced that Dune: Part Two will be hitting the service on May 21st. The film originally premiered in March and — as the title implies — follows the first movie in telling the complete story of Frank Herbert’s … Read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge AWS CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3rd, according to a leaked email from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy viewed by The Verge. Matt Garman, the SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO. Amazon confirmed The Verge’s reporting in … Read more

Photo by Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images Nicolas Cage is ready to don the Spider-Man Noir suit again — only this time, in live-action. Amazon has confirmed that Cage will be reprising the role that he previously voiced in the animated film Into the Spider-Verse. The new series, which was first reported last year, is … Read more

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The new iPads are out, and they’re terrific. They’re also expensive, and they’re a lot of iPad. Do you really need an OLED screen, an M4 processor, all that engineering to make it so thin and light, and the increasingly great but also increasingly expensive new controllers? On this … Read more

After gestating in the mind of writer / director Francis Ford Coppola for the better part of the last century, Megalopolis is finally making its way to the big screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. And from the looks of the sci-fi epic’s first teaser trailer, it might be just about everything Coppola always … Read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is bringing more of the perks of postpaid phone plans to its prepaid lineup. The company announced new plans for its prepaid business, Metro by T-Mobile, that come with a free phone for signups and ongoing access to the same trade-in deals that it offers new customers … Read more

The Sims 4. | Image: Electronic Arts Midsummer Studios is a new game studio founded by two former Firaxis developers, Jake Solomon and Will Miller. Before founding Midsummer, the two worked on XCOM, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Today, the new studio has announced its first game: a next-gen life sim game with … Read more

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Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Federal safety investigators have opened a preliminary investigation into dozens of incidents involving Waymo’s driverless vehicles, including several “single-party” crashes and possible traffic law violations. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation is looking into 22 incidents in which Waymo’s robotaxis were “the sole vehicle … Read more

Image: Google Google’s most AI-focused developer conference yet is kicking off on May 14th. Continue reading…

Image: The Verge NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is already running over budget and behind schedule. But it may also be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life. Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is appointing co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino to lead its PlayStation business from June 1st. Hermen Hulst, who currently serves as PlayStation studios chief, will be appointed as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) studio business group. Hideaki Nishino will be appointed CEO of SIE’s platform … Read more

The Dyson WashG1 can wipe up wet messes. | Image: Dyson Dyson’s newest device for dealing with dirt in your home is a mechanical mop. Unlike the British engineering company’s flagship fans, hair dryers, and vacuums, the new Dyson WashG1 floor washing machine doesn’t use precision-engineered fans or a fine-tuned Hyperdymium motor. Instead, the mop … Read more

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is testing a more robust search results page, including using generative AI. The feature appears to be a new and is called “search highlights.” A snippet of AI results appear at the top of some search results pages, and clicking into the section opens a new page … Read more

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images When New York City Mayor Eric Adams was first introduced to a representative from Evolv, the AI gun detection company, he was given a list of places the scanners could be used, including hospitals, schools, Times Square, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. … Read more

Image: Rozetked It’s a day that ends in Y, so naturally, we’re dealing with yet another Google Pixel hardware leak. This time, the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL can be seen side by side in new images from Rozetked — a full five months before Google’s typical October release timeframe. I have … Read more

Photo by Stacy Revere / Getty Images Roku will exclusively stream Major League Baseball Sunday Leadoff games starting with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox on May 19th. The games will air live on The Roku Channel — no subscription or sign-up required. To watch the games, you’ll have to download The … Read more

The iPad Air is an excellent iPad — and that’s all. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge The iPad Pro is a beast. The two-year-old iPad is more compelling than ever. So what is the Air even for anymore? Continue reading…

Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images Independent presidential candidate and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing Meta for allegedly violating the First Amendment and engaging in “election interference” because it removed a video about him. The lawsuit is not likely to advance far, considering that the First … Read more

Photo by Noam Galai / Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative Melinda French Gates has stepped down from her position as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. French Gates, who will officially leave on June 7th, will continue her philanthropy elsewhere, to the tune of $12.5 billion. The money stems from an agreement … Read more

Apple and Google collaborated on the new Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers industry standard. | Image: Apple A new industry specification devised by Apple and Google to address the safety risks of Bluetooth tracking devices is now live. Apple announced this week it has implemented alerts for unknown third-party Bluetooth trackers in iOS 17.5, following Google … Read more

Image: Square Enix Everybody’s getting bitten by the multiplatform bug; now, it’s Square Enix. In its earnings report released earlier today, the publisher shared plans to increase profits, stating that it will “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs.” Right now, Square Enix’s biggest games, like Final Fantasy XVI … Read more

Photo: Warner Bros. OpenAI is releasing a Her-inspired voice assistant feature that can read your facial expressions and translate spoken language in real time — and hopefully do it all without abandoning you like in the movie. During a livestream demonstration on Monday, OpenAI engineers and CTO Mira Murati gathered around a phone to show … Read more