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Image: Nintendo It’s been a long time coming, but the time is almost here: we’re going to get a look at Nintendo’s upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie. The animated feature was officially announced way back in 2018 as a collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio behind Minions, and today, the companies are … Read more

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 will be Uber and Motional’s robotaxi of choice. | Image: Uber / Motional Nearly two years after selling its autonomous vehicle research division to a competitor, Uber is finally back in the robotaxi business. The company signed a 10-year multimarket deal with Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, to … Read more

It’s now or never, Google. | The Verge Google’s fall hardware event comes at an uncomfortable time. The company just unceremoniously announced that it would shut down its Stadia cloud gaming service in early 2023. The company also canceled its upcoming Pixelbook well into its development and redistributed the team working on it to other … Read more

Last week, Facebook’s parent company Meta shared a new AI model that turns text prompts into short, soundless videos. But it turns out Google has been working on the same problem, and recently released two new AI text-to-video systems, one of which focuses on image quality while the other prioritizes the creation of longer clips. … Read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk will no longer be deposed by Twitter’s lawyers on Thursday morning, after both sides agreed to a delay as they worked to close the $44 billion purchase of the social media network, the Financial Times and Bloomberg report. Musk was scheduled to be deposed … Read more

Blizzard Two days into the launch of Blizzard’s revamped and now free-to-play Overwatch 2 experience, a Wednesday night post on its support forum addressed problems players have had with connections, SMS Protect, and missing account items or account merge troubles. In terms of the connection issues and long queues for entry that are keeping many … Read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Former Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan has been found guilty of charges that he covered up a 2016 cyberattack where a hacker downloaded the personal information of more than 57 million people. The information stolen from Uber included names, email addresses, and phone numbers for more than … Read more

The 2016 Google Pixel next to the 2017 Google Pixel 2. This is the midpoint in Google’s journey of delivering phones by Google. | Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Several years ago, if someone told you they had an Android phone, then it would have been safe to assume they were not talking … Read more

Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Back in February, Microsoft announced that an HDR Calibration app to help Windows 11 users optimize color accuracy and consistency for gaming on their HDR displays was on its way. The app, spotted by Thurrott, has now arrived and is available for download. The app includes three test … Read more

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro might be Google’s “fastest-selling Pixels to date,” but they haven’t been what I’d consider a slam dunk in the hardware department. I’m not talking about aesthetics here: I’m a fan of the camera bar look, personally, though I detest curved displays. To … Read more

Image: Blizzard Overwatch 2’s launch has been beset by all of the typical problems that come with the arrival of a hotly anticipated title. Server queues are tens of thousands of players long, and once you do get to the end of your long wait, you’re either booted right then to unceremoniously rejoin the queue … Read more

Tweets with multiple pieces of content will show up side-by-side or in a grid. | Image: Twitter Twitter’s rolling out a new feature on both Android and iOS that lets you combine text, photos, videos, and GIFs in a single tweet. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi back in April, with … Read more

What will happen to Tesla if Elon Musk owns Twitter? Probably near-term stock volatility and long-term foreign influence campaigns. | Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge Tesla shareholders may be experiencing déjà vu this week watching the company’s stock fall on the news that Elon Musk said he’d buy Twitter at the original offer … Read more

Spotify says the company has already been “critical to enhancing our approach to platform safety.” | Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify is acquiring Kinzen, a startup that specializes in using machine learning to analyze content and report potentially harmful statements to human moderators. In a press release, Spotify says the acquisition is meant to … Read more

The Pixel 6A is one of many Pixels with a virtual horizon since software updates brought it to models as old as the Pixel 3A. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Ever since the Pixel 5 came out in 2020, Google implemented a handy level feature in its camera app that I truly … Read more

Lille Allen / The Verge The Twitter trial is still on, says Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick in a new legal filing this morning. The judge — who is supervising the bench trial where Twitter is attempting to force Elon Musk to buy the company for $44 billion, as he agreed to do in April — says … Read more

You’ll need at least the Google Pixel Watch app and the Fitbit app to get the most use out of the forthcoming Pixel Watch. | Image: Google It’s an unfortunate truth that getting a smartwatch usually means needing multiple apps to control one device. And it looks like the Pixel Watch won’t be an exception. … Read more

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Back in April, Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter to save free speech. Now, he’s apparently buying Twitter again, and it’s revived questions about what exactly he meant. A lot of this attention has focused on Twitter’s moderation policies, particularly whether he’d let people like former President Donald … Read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Now seems like the worst time to announce that more ads are coming to Instagram considering the backlash the platform has experienced over its increased focus on video content (via TechCrunch). But Instagram’s doing it anyway, which means we’re going to start seeing ads on the Explore tab … Read more

Google will pay an $85 million settlement to the state of Arizona over claims that the company illegally tracked the location of Android device users.  | Illustration: The Verge Google will pay an $85 million settlement to the state of Arizona in order to resolve claims that the company illegally tracked the location of Android … Read more

Complete “campaigns” to earn rewards. | Image: Sony PlayStation Stars, Sony’s new loyalty program for PlayStation customers, is now live in the Americas, including the US. You can sign up for the program for free on the PlayStation Stars website or the PlayStation app as long as you have an adult account for the PlayStation … Read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A former Amazon employee based in Seattle has been sentenced for her role in a huge data breach that saw Capital One bank pay out more than $250 million to affected customers. Paige Thompson, known online by her handle “erratic,” was convicted in June for the 2019 … Read more

The Pro BFG is quite a sight to behold. It’s not as easy on the eyes as Sony’s DualSense, but it offers far more features that serious gamers will likely enjoy tinkering with. | Image: PDP A company beat Sony’s DualSense Edge controller to the quarter-circle punch. PDP’s Victrix sub-brand announced the Pro BFG, a … Read more

Image by Jess Weatherbed / The Verge Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives … Read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has big plans for Twitter, and they include people paying money to tweet, bots getting the boot, and a social media network that doesn’t care what you say as long as it’s legal. Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is rolling out updates to the Facebook Feed that give users additional ways to tell the company what kind of content they want to see. “Show more” and “show less” buttons will begin appearing below posts from friends and recommended content on users’ news feeds, Meta announced … Read more

Amazon and Samsung have knocked $100 off the Z Flip 4. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Both of Samsung’s foldable phones are currently matching their best prices ever. Available for $999.99 at launch, the 128GB configuration of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 is currently discounted to $899.99 at Amazon and Samsung … Read more

Image: WB Montreal The streets have not had a proper Batman: Arkham game since 2015, and Gotham Knights aims to remedy that. I got to try my hand at being a caped crusader in an extensive, hands-on preview event, and if you were aching for another Batman game, clear your schedule because this one seems … Read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Peacock now has a total of 15 million paid subscribers, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said during an interview with CNBC (via Variety). This means the service added 2 million paid subscribers in the third quarter of 2022 alone, as Peacock’s paid subscriber count stayed flat at 13 million … Read more