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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Netflix’s more affordable Basic with Ads plan goes live today in several countries, but there’s one popular streaming platform where you won’t be able to access it on day one: it’s not supported on the Apple TV. Thankfully, this is only temporary and should be resolved in the … Read more

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

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

The Level Lock Plus and Level’s other locks will soon work with many more smart home platforms. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Level’s entire lineup of Bluetooth smart locks — best known for hardly looking like smart locks at all — have had hardware support for Thread this whole time and … Read more

Atreus and Kratos in God of War Ragnarök. | Screenshot: God of War Ragnarök Depending on what features your TV supports, there are as many as six different graphical modes you can use to play Sony’s upcoming God of War Ragnarök on PS5. That’s according to a promotional image released by its developer, Santa Monica … Read more

Peloton continues to spin both its wheels and numbers. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy is an optimist. During the company’s Q1 2023 earnings call, McCarthy said that the company was done with layoffs and that the “ship was turning,” referencing a colorful metaphor he issued during Q4 2022 … Read more

Illustration: The Verge Black Friday, the annual deals extravaganza that closes out the year, typically falls the day after Thanksgiving in the US. However, with the onset of the pandemic and the meteoric rise of online shopping over the past two years, we’ve begun to see more and more retailers kick-start their sales well before … Read more

Drone shows have proved a popular alternative to fireworks, though not everyone is happy about their potential for advertising. | Photo by Yang Bo/China News Service via Getty Images Five hundred light-equipped drones are being launched into the sky above New York City this evening to form a giant flying advertisement for the Candy Crush … Read more

Roku’s Streaming Stick 4K is selling for just $24.99 instead of $49.99, which is a new all-time low. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Want to get a super early head start on your holiday shopping before Black Friday rolls around? Today’s deal on Roku’s Streaming Stick 4K is a present that will … Read more

The CSA is hosting an event in Amsterdam this week to celebrate the launch of the new smart home standard Matter. | Illustration: The Verge Matter was finally released last month, and now, we are getting our first look at the devices that will work with the new smart home interoperability standard. At a Matter … Read more

Amazon’s latest smart speaker, the fifth-gen Echo Dot with Clock, will be a Matter controller next month. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon will start its Matter journey slowly, bringing support for the new smart home standard to 17 Echo devices in December. But this first rollout will only be Matter … Read more

The life-changing magic of adopting a decade-old technology. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I’ve used every new flagship phone from Apple, Samsung, and Google this year, and they’re great! But they’re also boring. They’re impressive feats of engineering and software smarts, but they’re mostly incremental upgrades. And none of them has … Read more

The latest generation of the Eve Motion is gaining Matter support next month. Thanks to its forward planning and early adoption of Thread, smart home device maker Eve System will be among the first companies with Matter devices. It’s making a free update available to its Thread-enabled Eve Energy smart plug, Eve Door & Window … Read more

Welcome to Versus. It’s been a while, but we’re back to pitting our favorite tech and gadgets in a head-to-head battle to determine the pros and cons of each. For our first episode, we’re diving straight into the Google Pixel Watch and the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5. Wear OS 3 is a work in progress, … Read more

Tuca and Bertie driving in a car. | Image: Adult Swim Adult Swim swooped in to bring Lisa Hanawalt’s Tuca & Bertie back from the dead following Netflix’s move to cancel the animated series in 2019 after just one season. After spending two seasons on its new network, though, Adult Swim is following in Netflix’s … Read more

Image: Connectivity Standards Alliance The smart home is entering a new phase of interoperability, and these are the first product announcements Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge This week, Amazon announced that it would open up its entire catalog of streaming music to Prime subscribers instead of the limited, downsized library they’d previously had access to. The number skyrocketed from 2 million songs up to 100 million. On its face, that sounds like great news. Who wouldn’t want more … Read more

Image: Philips Hue The Philips Hue Bridge is now Matter certified. Although parent company Signify hasn’t announced anything yet, the Hue Bridge was published in the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Matter certification database early Thursday morning, just as the Matter launch event kicked off in Amsterdam. The listing confirms that the Hue Bridge will support Matter … Read more

Nanoleaf’s new bulbs will support Thread and Matter. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf has announced the addition of four new Matter-compatible smart bulbs and light strips to its Essentials smart lighting line. The Thread-enabled LED lights will launch in Q1 of 2023 and include a light strip and A19, GU10, and BR30 bulbs, making them some … Read more

See your family’s Tile trackers within the Life360 app. | Image: Life360 Family locator and safety service company Life360 is adding the ability to display Tile tracker locations in its app. The new feature’s rollout starts today, and it will let subscribers view not only their family members on a map but also the locations … Read more

Image: AMD It’s November 3rd, which means it’s RDNA 3 day. AMD is ready to unveil its next line of powerful GPUs to the world in a livestream that promises “the next generation of AMD graphics” powered by AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture. After months of teases and a Ryzen 7000 CPU launch, we’re about to … Read more

An image of early pregnancies from five weeks (bottom left) to eight weeks (top right). The tissue has been rinsed of blood and the menstrual lining has been removed, leaving only the gestational sac. | MYA Network/Dr. Joan Fleischman, MD, MPA Most people don’t know what early pregnancy actually looks like. That complicates abortion discussions. … Read more

The new Amazon fashion shopping lenses allow Snapchat users to try on eyewear and then buy products via an on-screen link. | Image: Snap Snap and Amazon Fashion are partnering up to provide Snapchat users with the ability to try on branded glasses and sunglasses using augmented reality filters. Snapchat’s 363 million daily active users … Read more

Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz CTO Markus Schäfer is energized by his visit to Silicon Valley. The executive is at the automaker’s Sunnyvale, California, research and development center to meet with his team and local tech companies. “Very, very interesting discussions were had about potential partnerships in the future,” Schäfer tells The Verge as we sit down for … Read more

The Pocket S in green, gold, and rose gold. | Image: Huawei Almost a year after Huawei announced its first clamshell foldable in the form of the P50 Pocket, it’s back with a followup. The new device is called the Huawei Pocket S, and it maintains the same foldable form-factor as the P50 with circular … Read more

Image: Patreon Patreon is officially launching its own video hosting feature, nearly a year after it was first teased. The update marks a major shift in how creators on Patreon can share video content with fans. Previously, creators had to upload videos to third-party platforms like YouTube and Vimeo and then embed video players or … Read more

Over 40 existing Aqara devices will be Matter compatible after the Hub M2 is updated in December. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Aqara just lifted the veil on its smart home roadmap at the Matter launch event in Amsterdam. It starts with a free software update in December for the Hub M2 … Read more

Communities are like Discord, but for WhatsApp. | The Verge Meta is rolling out a few changes to WhatsApp that will make the app better to use for large circles of people, including the wide rollout of Communities. Communities are designed to house multiple related groups within bigger organizations of people, such as a neighborhood … Read more

Musk and his advisers are weighing cuts that would affect nearly 4,000 people. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Twitter employees have been bracing for layoffs since Elon Musk officially took over the company, and details are starting to trickle out about how many people could be affected. Wednesday evening, The … Read more