Money pit | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk has sold another $3.5 billion in Tesla shares, according to a form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Since November 2021, the high point of Tesla’s share price, Musk has sold more than $39 billion of shares, The Wall Street Journal … Read more
I think Lady Dimitrescu will be very scary in VR. | Image: Capcom Resident Evil Village’s VR mode will be available on the PlayStation VR 2 the same date Sony’s new VR hardware launches in February, Capcom announced on Wednesday. And even better, it’s being added as a free update for owners of the game. … Read more
Code blocks in Docs. | Illustration: The Verge Google Docs is getting a new feature that will make it easier to show code in an easy-to-understand way. The company announced that it’s adding code blocks to its “smart canvas” system, which will automatically add the proper spacing and color-coding for a variety of programming languages, … Read more
Twitter doesn’t seem to like the jet-tracker’s creator. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hours after suspending @ElonJet, an account that tracked the trips taken by Elon Musk’s private plane, Twitter has now banned the account’s creator, Jack Sweeney. Twitter is also blocking links to versions of the tracker on other platforms, like … Read more
A dust devil captured by instruments on the Perseverance rover. From the study authors: “These are images taken of the direct dust devil encounter by the rover’s Navigation Camera (Navcam). The images have been processed to show the quantity of dust. The colour scale ranges from lowest dust content (blue) to highest dust content (yellow).” … Read more
Microsoft’s Airband program has traditionally focused on fixed wireless, TV white spaces, fiber optics, and Citizens Broadband Radio Service. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As a variety of organizations and companies are working to expand (and sometimes restore) electricity to the hundreds of millions of people who don’t have it, tech companies … Read more
Image: Aniplex Nier: Automata, Yoko Taro’s quirky but heartfelt action RPG, is being adapted into an anime that will be streaming on Crunchyroll early next year. The show, which was first announced in February and officially titled Nier: Automata Ver1.1a, will begin streaming January 7th, Crunchyroll spokesperson Tyler Schirado said in an email to The … Read more
I dare anyone to turn their nose up when receiving a shiny iPad Air for the holidays. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The holiday shopping window is closing fast, but there’s still time to pick up a few things that will arrive in time for your favorite nondenominational gift exchange. Whether … Read more
FuboTV had issues in the hours leading up to the game. | Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images FuboTV is down during the World Cup, preventing users from watching the semifinal game between France and Morroco. According to FuboTV’s status page, the service has been experiencing issues since 9:20AM ET, affecting account creation and … Read more
Image: Getty Images For a few years, there was a boon of content, and we were all wonderfully spoiled. And now that’s over. Continue reading…
The goo gun was the best. | Image: Epic Games Epic just closed some doors, but it may be opening a very attractive window indeed. Today, it appears to have inadvertently announced a new completely free version of the excellent Unreal Tournament 3 that you’ll be able to crossplay with friends across Steam, the Epic … Read more
A live-action show featuring Kratos is in the works. | Image: Sony Amazon’s rumored God of War TV adaptation is a go. Deadline reported in March that Amazon was in talks to make a Prime Video series about the popular video game franchise, and on Wednesday, Amazon announced it had officially ordered the series. Based … Read more
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon’s launching the beta of its Plus Play service and is offering a year-long subscription to Netflix’s $19.99 per month premium plan to those who sign up. That adds up to savings of about $240, but as is the case with many Verizon products, there’s a catch: you’ll … Read more
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will be shutting down its newsletter product, known as Revue. Reports have been saying that the service would be axed for over a month, but now we finally have confirmation and a date: January 12th, 2023. People won’t be able to access their accounts after that date, … Read more
Population: One’s new Sandbox mode will be available on Wednesday. | Image: Meta Population: One, Meta’s VR battle royale title, is opening up its new Sandbox mode in early access to all players on Wednesday, allowing them to make their own levels with custom rules. With the new mode, developer BigBox VR follows in the … Read more
The Beatles: Rock Band is just one of many games affected. | Image: Harmonix Epic Games is beginning to shut down online services for a large selection of its older games, including Rock Band 1 through 3, The Beatles: Rock Band, and Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004. The company is making the changes as “we … Read more
The Verge WhatsApp is working on a picture-in-picture mode for iOS that will let you open up other apps while on a video call. In a post on the WhatsApp blog, the company says the feature’s currently in beta testing and that it will become widely available starting next year. The feature, which WABetaInfo first … Read more
Adam Driver as 65’s protagonist Mills. | Sony The idea of the modern-day world becoming overrun by genetically engineered dinosaurs is only but so alarming because, at the end of the day, they’re just animals who probably aren’t well-suited to survive on the planet as it currently exists. But the situation in Sony’s upcoming sci-fi … Read more
Sonos has a speaker for practically every price point. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos has an ever-growing lineup, and after you’ve bought your first speaker, you’ll likely want to put one in every room. Continue reading…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Department of Justice has charged eight online finance influencers with criminal securities fraud for running a $114 million pump-and-dump scheme on their collective 1.5 million Twitter followers. According to an indictment, members of a Discord-based forum called Atlas Trading used that platform and Twitter to promote … Read more
The star of Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure. | Image: Netflix Of all the many Sanrio characters, none speak to me quite like Gudetama: a genderless, aimless egg that wants nothing besides some soy sauce and to be left alone. Same. The character makes for adorable stickers and T-shirts, and now it’s being stretched out into … Read more
Super Nintendo World Hollywood. | Image: Universal Studios Nearly two years after Universal Studios opened its first Super Nintendo World park in Japan, the second one will debut in the US as promised at Universal Studios Hollywood next February. When it opens, there will only be one ride, the augmented reality-enhanced Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge. … Read more
Redwood Materials is locating its new EV battery recycling facility in the “heart of the ‘Battery Belt’”. | Image: Redwood Materials Redwood Materials, the battery recycling company founded by a former Tesla executive, announced today that it will build a massive $3.5 billion facility in South Carolina. The 600-acre plant, which will be located just … Read more
Image: Warner Bros. Director Patty Jenkins pushed back on rumors that she walked off the Wonder Woman 3 project, saying on Twitter that there was “nothing” she could do to “move anything forward at this time.” Jenkins instead blames the film’s cancellation on the massive restructuring that’s underway at Warner Bros. following its merger with … Read more
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images @ElonJet, the account tracking the movements of Elon Musk’s personal jet, has been suspended from Twitter. Musk said in November that the account was a “direct personal safety risk” but that he would not ban it as part of his “commitment to free speech.” It’s … Read more
The new Air’s display is noticeable taller and larger than the old one, and it includes a notch. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge The 2022 MacBook Air laptop with the M2 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage is now $999 at Amazon (in the starlight color, which will arrive after … Read more
Owners of VW’s electric ID cars all over the world have reported problems with infotainment screens. The German automaker’s ID family of electric cars are plagued with buggy software, causing customer headaches and leading to major setbacks for the company’s next-gen Trinity project. How can VW patch the problem? Continue reading…
Polestar’s Cake moped will come in a Sky Blue exterior paint. | Image: Polestar EV maker Polestar is extending its collaboration with Swedish e-motorbike company Cake to release a new battery-powered moped that, for the first time, will be available in North America. The limited-edition, customized version of Cake’s Makka moped will feature a Sky … Read more
Google has launched chatbots like Assistant, but has kept AI improvements to its search engine in the background. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The launch of ChatGPT has prompted some to speculate that AI chatbots could soon take over from traditional search engines. But executives at Google say the technology is … Read more
Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok has started testing a new horizontal full-screen mode. TechCrunch reports that select TikTok users are starting to see a new full-screen button on regular square and rectangular videos. The button, much like a similar one on YouTube, shifts the TikTok video into a horizontal full-screen mode. TikTok confirmed the … Read more