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Why COP27 matters for the climate, but maybe not as much as the hype suggests

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Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 on November 1, 2021, in Glasgow, United Kingdom.  | Photo by Yves Herman – WPA Pool / Getty Images More than 30,000 people representing governments, businesses, and environmental and human rights groups around the world are expected to gather next week to … Read more

Samsung Odyssey Ark review: curved and cursed

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For its $3,500 price, Samsung left a lot of ambition on the table with the Ark. Its curved, bright, and fast panel doesn’t make up for it not being as rich to look at as a cheaper OLED or as useful with multitasking as a couple of cheap monitors stuck together. Continue reading…

Now’s the time to buy last year’s iPad

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Is this the 2022 iPad Pro, or is it last year’s model? You can’t tell, and you won’t tell when using it, either. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s iPad releases this year have been, well, lackluster to say the least. That isn’t to say the new 10th-gen iPad and the M2-equipped … Read more

How Marvel Snap was designed to fit into your life

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Second Dinner The developers at Marvel Snap have done their job a little too well. In an interview with The Verge, the developers spoke about how, when designing Marvel Snap, they wanted to create a game that could “fit into your life.” Well, it seems like I and millions of others have not only managed … Read more

Cherry’s new keyboard switch is inspired by the rare 1980s ‘Nixie’

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Cherry’s new MX Black Clear-Top switches. | Image: Cherry Cherry’s latest mechanical keyboard switch is the MX Black Clear-Top. It’s a design that’s based on a rare linear switch that was produced briefly during the 1980s for Nixdorf keyboards, leading to them being nicknamed “Nixies” by enthusiasts. The retro switches, which are effectively a variant … Read more

Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs start Friday

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Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Twitter has notified employees that the company will be “reducing our global workforce” on Friday, November 4th, according to an unsigned internal memo seen by The Verge. The confirmation comes a week after Elon Musk became Twitter’s new owner and quickly started making changes to how the social … Read more

Samsung is building an ‘8K’ ultrawide monitor to succeed its massive Odyssey Neo G9

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Screenshot by Mitchell Clark / The Verge Were Samsung’s jaw-dropping 49-inch Odyssey G9 and Neo G9 not enough monitor for you? Did the 55-inch swiveling cockpit that is the Odyssey Ark leave you cold? The electronics and semiconductor giant is preparing to announce an unprecedented 8K resolution version of its massive curved screen, AMD just … Read more

Vonage to pay $100 million to settle ‘junk fee’ allegations

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Getty Images On Thursday, the internet-based telecom provider Vonage agreed to pay $100 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that it created an artificially burdensome process to cancel the service that included hidden termination fees. In its complaint, the FTC alleged that Vonage, an Ericsson subsidiary, made it easy for consumers to … Read more

Blood oxygen monitors face scrutiny from FDA panel

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Photo by Jon Akira Yamamoto/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Devices that monitor blood oxygen levels in the hospital and at home need to be more carefully regulated, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel indicated at a meeting Tuesday. The devices are everywhere in healthcare settings, and people regularly purchase them for at-home use. But research … Read more

VR is still too expensive

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The PSVR2 starts at $549.99 and launches next year. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge PlayStation VR2 costs more than the most expensive PS5. I get why, but it’s still too much money. We’re on the precipice of a new era for virtual reality. Meta just launched its high-end Quest Pro, Sony will … Read more

How to set your Google calendar to private

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Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Recently, journalist, author of Platformer, and former Verge reporter Casey Newton tweeted something that had many readers both laughing and panicking: that entrepreneur David Sacks’ calendar at Twitter was not set to private and, as a result, was being carefully scrutinized by curious Twitter employees. My favorite silly … Read more

The NYPD has joined Amazon’s Ring Neighbors surveillance network

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Amazon Ring spotlight camera. | Image: Ring The New York Police Department has joined Ring Neighbors, the neighborhood surveillance network built around Amazon’s Ring security cameras. The partnership, announced yesterday, means the NYPD will view people’s posts on Neighbors and be able to post directly to it, including requests for public help on “active police … Read more

OpenAI opens up AI text-to-image generation to businesses with launch of DALL-E API

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An example of DALL-E’s “outpainting” function, which generates imagery outside an initial starting frame. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is making its image generation software DALL-E much more widely available to businesses with the launch of an API in public beta. The API will make it easier for companies to add DALL-E’s text-to-image functionality to their … Read more

Elon Musk’s first Hyperloop tunnel in California is gone

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The Hyperloop tube hosted student competitions in 2018 and 2019. | Photo by Pauline Acalin for The Verge Elon Musk’s first prototype Hyperloop tunnel is no more. Bloomberg reports that the roughly one-mile-long white steel tunnel running along Jack Northrop Avenue near SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, has been removed and will be replaced with … Read more

Netflix’s $6.99 per month ad tier is now live

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Now you can get Netflix cheaper — but with ads. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix with ads is finally here. After resisting ads in its streaming service, the company is rolling out its Netflix Basic with Ads in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the UK, the US, … Read more

Europe is warming faster than any other continent

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A pedestrian uses an umbrella to protect herself from the sun, at Canary Wharf, during a heatwave in London, UK, on Monday, July 18th, 2022. | Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images Europe is heating up faster than any other continent in the world, a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) finds. Since … Read more