Remember back in 2023, when we told you how to get your cut of a $725 million class action settlement? A couple of years later, that money is going out. ... read more

FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was ousted earlier this year by President Donald Trump, asks the court to allow her immediate return to the agency. ... read more

Storytelling has always been at the core of brand marketing. Now, with AI becoming more deeply embedded in creative workflows, marketers are finding new ways to scale emotional, multimodal narratives that connect with audiences across ... read more

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is done with Google, and Google won’t be happy with the result. On Friday, the court completely denied its petition to have its Epic ... read more

Digital and brick-and-mortar commerce don’t have to be strangers. Increasingly, businesses realize the convergence of online and in-store strategies offers brands enhanced opportunities to influence consumer behavior directly at the point of sale. From personalized ... read more

An unlisted and now-removed video from Meta showed off a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses with a display and a wristband to help control them, as reported by ... read more

Educational content creators based in the U.S. will be able to apply to Pinterest's new "Educator's Fund," an offshoot of the platform's "Pinterest for Teacher's" initiative, from now through Sept. 26. ... read more

Protesters gathered in South Korea’s Incheon International Airport while hundreds of deported workers arrived. | Image: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump is trying to smooth things over ... read more

One of Google’s top executives defended its use of AI summaries in search results during an AI summit in New York on Monday.  When asked about a new lawsuit by ... read more

Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being ... read more

Former Congressman and convicted felon George Santos can't revive a copyright infringement suit against Jimmy Kimmel and ABC over prank videos, a federal appellate court said Monday. ... read more

Liquid Glass may polarize, but it’s here. Apple's new version of macOS, Tahoe 26, launches today for all compatible Macs. I've already shared many feelings about Liquid Glass in my ... read more

The Vision Pro is where Liquid Glass truly shines. Liquid Glass is a neat party trick. The new design system, which was built for nearly all of Apple's products and ... read more

macOS Tahoe 26 adds new ways to theme and personalize your Mac. | Image: Apple macOS Tahoe 26 is now available to everyone using compatible MacBooks and Mac desktops. It ... read more

watchOS 26 brings a glossier user interface to the Apple Watch. | Image: Apple The latest iteration of Apple’s wearable OS will look a bit different. For those who have ... read more

Apple is rolling out iOS 26 with a bunch of new features for the iPhone. The biggest change you’ll see upon installing the update is Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign, introducing ... read more

A New York law could require social media platforms to implement age verification. On Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released the proposed rules for the Stop Addictive Feeds ... read more

Nespresso and Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd) unveiled a first-of-its-kind collaboration celebrating the musician's Ethiopian roots to bring fans an immersive coffee and music experience through the Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab. ... read more

Nespresso and Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd) unveiled a first-of-its-kind collaboration celebrating the musician's Ethiopian roots to bring fans an immersive coffee and music experience through the Amazon Ads Brand Innovation Lab. ... read more

Spotify has removed restrictions that prevented free users from listening to specific tracks. With Lossless audio now finally rolling out to paying subscribers, the music streaming service has announced that ... read more

If you’ve been running out of storage on your PC or PS5, or you just want an SSD that’s faster than what you have, here’s a great deal: the PCIe ... read more

Elon Musk is responding to the unprecedented pay package proposal from Tesla’s board of directors by increasing his stake in the company. Musk bought $1 billion in Tesla stock through ... read more

Google Gemini is breaking out of ChatGPT’s shadow, likely on the wings of its Nano Banana image editor and the viral trend of AI-generated, lifelike figurines.  Google launched Nano Banana ... read more

The US and China have reached a “framework” deal to divest TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters during trade talks in Madrid on Monday. ... read more

A bigger story is that the quick all-cash bid was rushed to counter possible offers from companies "such as Amazon and Apple," per the "WSJ" report. That kind of news would really turn heads. ... read more

A bigger story is that the quick all-cash bid (with no share price information) was rushed to counter possible offers from companies "such as Amazon and Apple," per the "WSJ" report. That kind of news ... read more

In a recent interview, the retired dealmaker sounded like a moral critic, warning about media's drift and insisting that leadership is measured not only in dollars but in duty. ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Hank Green, the cofounder of Complexly, where we make SciShow, Crash Course, and a bunch of other educational YouTube channels. I’m back in ... read more

Amazon sent out invites to a fall hardware event for its Devices & Services division today. Amazon has sent out invitations to its annual fall hardware event, where it traditionally ... read more

Company shares on the London Exchange were down nearly 14% in afternoon trading on news of the earnings report. ... read more

When it comes to mainstream gaming appeal, it's hard to beat Mario Kart. Break out some controllers at a party and you'll likely get a grid full of eager racers. ... read more

Apple’s latest major iPhone update, iOS 26, releases today, and it has a new design language that gives just about everything on your iPhone a new look. Apple calls the ... read more

Snap’s 2024 Spectacles are still only available to developers. Last September, Snap revealed its fifth-generation Spectacles, upgraded AR glasses with a twist: they were only ever released to developers. One ... read more

From a $637 million PE acquisition of healthcare of a DSP to acquisitions of freshly minted startups, there’s been a flurry of ad tech deals this month. And they have one thing in common: AI. ... read more

For too long, marketers have been stuck in a false dilemma: Do you want reach or relevance? Mass exposure or accurate targeting? That trade-off made sense in a world dominated by cookies and basic demographics. ... read more

Rembrand, the virtual product placement startup helmed by ad tech vet Omar Tawakol, and creative automation startup Spaceback share a similar a schtick, which is to create ads that don’t look like ads. Now they’re ... read more

Search metrics were added to Walmart Data Ventures' Scintilla Digital Landscapes tool last week, part of a redesign introducing more than a dozen new insights into pre-purchase customer behavior on Walmart.com and the Walmart app. ... read more

Search metrics were added to Scintilla Digital Landscapes last week as part of a redesign that introduced more than a dozen new insights into pre-purchase customer behavior on Walmart.com and the Walmart app just in ... read more

Skydance's prospective takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery represents the arrival of an entirely new kind of player in the TV business. ... read more

Metrics were added to Scintilla Digital Landscapes last week as part of a redesign that introduced more than a dozen new insights into pre-purchase customer behavior on Walmart.com and the Walmart app just in time ... read more

The AirPods Pro 3 are the slam dunk win of this product cycle. The AirPods Pro are about as ubiquitous as earbuds can get. Step outside your door, and you're ... read more

Qualcomm has explained why this isn’t the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. Qualcomm has announced that its upcoming flagship mobile chipset is the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5,” a confusingly ... read more

Microsoft has started testing a change to how Xbox controllers operate on Windows 11. The change will allow Xbox controllers to easily access the Task View on Windows 11 to ... read more

The new LaCie Rugged SSD4 is compatible with computers, tablets, and smartphones. | Image: Seagate Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the ... read more

Apple’s 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max. | Image: Apple Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched a world’s first last week inside the very dull sounding ... read more

The FTC probes Google and Amazon over transparency in their search businesses; Walmart will only allow authorized sellers; and Perplexity's ad business garners criticism. The post Endless Antitrust; Third-Party Sellers Lose Their Party Invites appeared ... read more

Dell Technologies is implementing an in-house approach to its global media-buying operations, estimated to be more than half a billion dollars annually, as part of a strategy that will alter its relationships with partners.  It’s ... read more

The next wave of AI isn’t just about smarter tools, it’s about autonomous ones. And that poses some sticky questions: who is really in control when agents are instructing other agents, and who is accountable ... read more

As Discord steps up its pitch to advertisers, brands are increasingly approaching the platform as an influencer marketing play, sponsoring niche Discord servers to reach particularly engaged consumers. To make it easier on marketers, Discord ... read more

Not too long ago, Dmexco was considered the gut of ad tech — crowded, chaotic and central to the industry’s forward momentum. It was where deals were sparked, rivalries played out and the future of ... read more

As the holding companies look to either get bigger or bow out of the race to the top of the heap, the rest of the media agency world is readying themselves to offer similar tools ... read more

Designer Edvin Thompson's collection shared the spotlight with the all-electric ID. Buzz. ... read more

The 2023 Super Bowl spot starred actor Jason Jones as the spokesperson in a spot that riffs off of the ubiquitous "Ask your doctor" pharma ads. ... read more

In the podcast Tom Denford and his fellow ID Comms co-founder David Indo give their take on the challenges facing newly installed WPP CEO Cindy Rose as she tries to revitalize the company in the ... read more

We only just put Apple's iPhone 17 launch event behind us, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is already glancing into his crystal ball to see what's next for the company. In ... read more

The suit alleges that Google uses material without paying for it. ... read more

Disclosure: Penske Media Corporation is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company. Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first ... read more

"Yesterday was an interesting day for the Helldivers community." That's the very obvious understatement that announced the reopening of the Helldivers gaming subreddit in the small hours of Saturday morning. ... read more

Scarlet. Well, I was wrong, and I did manage to make it to one last day at the Toronto International Film Festival. One of the movies I wanted to see ... read more

AMENIA, NY — Advertisers continue to rely on general metrics that may offer the value of industry-wide standardized comparisons across media channels, but provide little actionable insight while the identity resolution landscape rapidly shifts toward ... read more

I would not call the time I'm having with Hollow Knight: Silksong "fun," and yet I'm still playing. In the depths of The Marrow, the second major area of Silksong, ... read more

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on phones and other tech outside the US, follow Dominic Preston. The ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 97, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're having a good iPhone / ... read more

It’s been a few years since Netflix confirmed that Liam Hemsworth would be taking over as Geralt of Rivia in the live-action Witcher series. And while we caught a brief ... read more

It’s September, and many among us are dealing with back to school, and anticipating the colder weather that’s on its way (at least, if you live in the northern climes). ... read more

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days - with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out ... read more

Imagine if George Cukor's The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series ... read more

Few video game adaptations understand their source material quite like the Exit 8 film. It takes the rules and structure of the game - which strands players inside of a ... read more

While interviewing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought up his belief in a conspiracy theory that former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji was “definitely ... read more

Elon Musk is pressing Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to look into Blizzard employees who criticized Charlie Kirk after his death. Musk’s post quotes an X thread listing names and screenshots ... read more

Comcast has sued to invalidate a new Washington state law that imposes a tax on online advertising services such as creating and placing digital ads, analyzing their performance and planning online campaigns. ... read more

Rupert Murdoch’s fortress While I generally respect The Wall Street Journal, every once in a while it sees fit to remind me that it is, in fact, owned by Rupert ... read more

In wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing, around two dozen Republican lawmakers are pushing for House leadership to create a new select committee that would investigate “The money, ... read more

The FTC has ordered Meta, OpenAI, Snapchat, X, Google and Character AI to provide information on how they measure, test and monitor the potentially harmful impacts of their chatbots on children and teens. ... read more

The FTC has ordered Meta, OpenAI, Snapchat, X, Google and Character AI to provide information on how they measure, test and monitor the potentially harmful impacts of their chatbots on children and teens. ... read more

Discord denies that the suspect accused of killing Charlie Kirk used the messaging platform to discuss his crime, following the service getting mentioned by law enforcement in a press conference ... read more

Advertisers with a Meta sales rep can now experiment with Reels trending ads, which use AI to curate trending short-form video inventory for brands running campaigns across Meta's family of apps. ... read more

Advertisers with a Meta sales rep can now experiment with Reels trending ads, which use AI to curate trending short-form video inventory for brands running campaigns across Meta's family of apps. ... read more

Stellantis announced that it was discontinuing its Ram 1500 REV electric truck, citing slowing sales of heavy-duty electric trucks. The name plate, however, will live on. Stellantis said that ... read more

The circle is now complete: you can install your Steam copy of Hollow Knight Silksong on an Android phone, play it with your automatically downloaded Steam save games — and ... read more

Search advertiser PVC Fence Wholesale "does not -- and cannot -- identify a single term in the Parties' contract that Google purportedly breached," the company argues. ... read more

"Core separation-of-powers principles, bolstered by long historical understanding, require that the President have the authority to remove at will officials like Slaughter who wield substantial executive power," a Florida-led state coalition argues to the Supreme ... read more

TikTok this week released search ad campaign data to demonstrate its worth as its extended Sept. 17 deadline to be sold to a U.S. owner or face a ban in the U.S. quickly approaches. ... read more

The government isn’t required to grant perpetual access to federal property for worship purposes. ... read more

The AI web search company Perplexity is being hit by another lawsuit alleging copyright and trademark infringement, this time from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster. Britannica, the centuries-old publisher that owns ... read more

Tyler Robinson, apprehended last night in connection to the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, allegedly left engraved bullets at the crime scene that were covered in a furry ... read more

Apple’s new smartwatches have the spotlight this week, but Android users have a reason to celebrate, too. That’s because Samsung’s gorgeous, Bluetooth-enabled Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is cheaper than ever ... read more

The Powerbeats Pro 2 are getting many of the heart monitoring features announced for the AirPods Pro 3. Apple will release iOS 26 on September 15th and along with new ... read more

The consumer production division of the FTC reportedly is investigating whether Amazon and Google misled advertisers about the terms and pricing for ads on their websites. ... read more

There was a lot in September’s Nintendo Direct. We got a new trailer for the Super Mario Bros Movie sequel, a new Yoshi game, a new Mario Tennis game, this ... read more

Newspeak messaging aside, rebranding America's military from "defense" to "war" isn't just stupid, it's a $1 billion "branding boondoggle," according to pro-democracy veterans advocacy group VoteVets.org. ... read more

We still don’t know all that much about Pokémon Legends Z-A‘s main storyline, but Nintendo is already hyping up a big expansion for the new game. During today’s hourlong Direct ... read more

That's how WPP Media's Kate Scott-Dawkins responded when I asked if we hadn't already arrived there, biometrically speaking. Full disclosure: I have not. ... read more

A new Pokémon spinoff is on the way, and it looks very different than any other entry in the long-running franchise. In fact, it looks a little bit like Minecraft ... read more

Everybody say thank you Nintendo! During its Direct livestream Hades II, the follow-up to Supergiant Game’s phenomenal roguelike Hades, finally has a release date. Prepare to bring death to Chronos ... read more

There's a lot happening in the world of artificial intelligence. There is always a lot happening in the world of artificial intelligence. The money is enormous; the stakes are high; ... read more

I don’t look like Vegeta in these, but while Meta nailed the execution, it now has to move things forward. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This is ... read more

You won’t have to wait too long now for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Nintendo surprised us so soon after the Kirby Air Riders direct with another direct showcase today. Clocking ... read more

Nintendo’s oft-maligned VR headset the Virtual Boy is getting a new life on modern hardware. Nintendo announced that the platform will be coming to its collection of retro games available ... read more

The Bolt NFC, a keypad smart lock that works with Apple Home Key, now supports Android phones for tap-to-unlock. The Ultraloq Bolt NFC smart lock is receiving a free upgrade ... read more