TiVo could have been a contender. In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to "TiVo" the ... read more

The latest Motorola Razr is $300 off in multiple colors. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about buying a foldable phone that truly stands out, few models can ... read more

As part of its NES40 collection, 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller is getting its most dramatic makeover yet. | Image: 8BitDo Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in ... read more

Pokémon Legends: Z-A hadn't been out even a few hours before the tweets started rolling in: Shiny pokémon don't despawn. You can walk away from a shiny, and it'll still ... read more

I have been a fan of David Lynch ever since a friend's older brother interrupted a 13th birthday celebration to insist we all watch Eraserhead. In the realm of horror ... read more

Can you tell if I’m looking at a display, or just pretending for the camera? Outside a florist-cum-coffee shop in upstate New York, a row of vintage cars gleam in ... read more

Battery development in the GM Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. | Image: Steve Fecht / General Motors Inside General Motors' fast-growing battery labs in suburban Detroit, scientists and engineers are ... read more

Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more “shareworthy.” The only catch is that ... read more

Guests await the beginning of a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The officials announced that ... read more

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has asked the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to revive his lawsuit against Meta Platforms over ads that wrongly used his name and image to sell CBD gummies. ... read more

In T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men,” he writes: “This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” Well, the same could be said of Google’s Privacy Sandbox. Nearly five ... read more

Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature ... read more

Meta has announced the expansion of third-party verification for Threads - an effort o provide advertisers with more transparency around their in-feed placements. ... read more

Instagram is now providing parents with more control over their kids' use of in-app AI chatbots. ... read more

Walmart's retail media network "Walmart Connect" received its first accreditation from the MRC for its first-party click and impression metrics for Sponsored Search across desktop, mobile web, and mobile in-app devices for Display, Video and ... read more

Image: Nintendo | Image: Nintendo Though the Pokémon games' Rotom Phones haven't really changed all that much design-wise over the past few years, each generation has introduced new functionalities that ... read more

Ex-Luminar CEO Austin Russell is trying to wrest back control of his company. | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell ... read more

Amazon’s smart doorbell company Ring is now working with the AI-powered surveillance camera company Flock. According to a letter sent to the company by Sen. Ron Wyden, Flock had allowed ... read more

A Texas law requiring Google and Apple to prohibit minors from downloading apps without parental consent violates the First Amendment, the tech organization Computer & Communications Industry Association and a group of students argue in ... read more

Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the ... read more

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority released Google today from its legally binding Privacy Sandbox commitments after the CMA concluded that competition concerns no longer applies. ... read more

The Arctis Buds are great for gaming, whether you use a Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, or Steam Deck. | Image: The Verge When I have to decide which ... read more

The Intellivision Sprint features the same unique controllers as the original, but they’re now wireless and rechargeable. | Image: Atari Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, but this ... read more

It's a testament to the developers at Double Fine that it doesn't take long before controlling a sentient lighthouse with spidery legs starts to feel almost normal. Keeper, the latest ... read more

A real, and not AI generated photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Image: Getty Images OpenAI said on Thursday night that it has “paused” deepfakes of Martin Luther King ... read more

There’s a display but you’ve got to lift your head up to activate it. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that ... read more

Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year partnership today that will bring the races exclusively to Apple TV in the US, starting in 2026, when it will replace the series’ ... read more

CNN has announced a new subscription service called All Access that will launch in the US on October 28th, 2025. It will cost $6.99 per month, or $69.99 annually, with ... read more

DoubleVerify has expanded its partnership with Microsoft Advertising to further authenticate measurement across more of the company's platforms. It now supports audience-targeting ads across Microsoft properties and publisher partners as well as Bing, Outlook and ... read more

What looks like the spot for Qi2 charging is actually an excuse to show off the liquid cooling. Redmagic’s latest gaming phone has arrived in China with a neat trick ... read more

Large language models are currently everyone's solution to everything. The technology's versatility is part of its appeal: the use cases for generative AI seem both huge and endless. But then ... read more

Apple TV (rebranded recently from Apple TV+) and Peacock Premium or Peacock Premium+ will cost consumers $14.99 a month and $19.99 a month, respectively. The deal starts October 20th. ... read more

While it's often overshadowed by B2C, B2B is big business -- twice the size of consumer marketing. And "confident" B2B marketers are nearly four times more likely to report fully aligned relationship with sales, characterized ... read more

CTV has become a powerful full-funnel channel, attracting advertisers of all sizes – and the momentum isn’t slowing. CTV ad spend is projected to rise another 16% this year to $26.6 billion, according to the IAB. ... read more

A macabre graveyard of defunct educational kids' shows is a centerpiece of "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror" annual Halloween special. ... read more

A possible Versant-WBD deal has no broadcast license issues to consider -- it's just about cable TV networks, not over-the-air TV stations. ... read more

The collapse of the customer buying journey into a couple of taps in a few seconds or minutes may be one of the most profound ways to describe the future of online advertising through agentic ... read more

An early look at Instagram’s parental controls for teen AI use. After enthusiastically rolling AI chatbots out everywhere, Meta has announced new options for parents to get an idea of ... read more

Anthropic is integrating its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft 365 services so it can surface content from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails in conversations with the chatbot. It’s ... read more

Everything seems to be getting back-to-back price hikes right now, why not your home internet bill too? AT&T is raising prices by $5 a month on all AT&T Internet plans, ... read more

Shortly after Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green said the DSP would splinter off from Prebid, he showed up at the Prebid Summit. Then, at ScreenShift, we learn what the TV industry thinks about AI. The ... read more

What does it feel like to be a media buyer and planner in 2025? That question launched a fascinating “Ask Me Anything”-style discussion at Cynopsis ScreenShift in New York City on Tuesday. The post Everything ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Race To The Bottom appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Cloudflare restricts how bots can scrape content; TiVo's customer base stays loyal, even as TiVo leaves the DVR business; and Nestlé announces a stark reduction in headcount. The post Scrapers Gonna Scrape; No More Fast-Forwarding ... read more

OpenAI’s launch of Sora 2, its video generation tool and would-be social network for the slop age, was the latest attempt by the generative AI developer to expand the copyright Overton Window. Sora 2 initially ... read more

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. In 2019, Walmart’s e-commerce chief at the time, Marc Lore, drew a line in the sand. “You’ll notice that we don’t sell the No. 1, ... read more

This story was originally published on sister site, WorkLife. The traditional career playbook is being rewritten, one TikTok video at a time. While HR executives have long relied on performance reviews, mentorship programs and communications ... read more

L’Oréal is building a data layer beneath its creator economy push. The cosmetics giant is looking for partners to help make sense of the data from all its creator campaigns, according to two separate sources ... read more

AI royalties are finally on the table for small and midsize publishers. Don’t credit OpenAI’s ChatGPT, credit corporate LLMs — enterprise RAG is what’s creating royalty revenue for publishers. RAG — retrieval augmented generation — kicks ... read more

AI video tools like OpenAI’s Sora are edging into mainstream culture while marketers watch — some intrigued, others concerned. The promise of near-instant, realistic video may sound like a dream for cash-strapped, content hungry brands. ... read more

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Around the middle of ... read more

Apple just announced 14-inch MacBook Pro updates that add a new generation M5 processor, faster storage, and a promise of 24-hour battery life, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports next ... read more

A rendering of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility. | Image: X-energy via Amazon Amazon shared some new details about its plans to help deploy more nuclear energy across Washington State, where the company ... read more

On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation banning the use of price-fixing software by landlords to set rental rates. New York is the first state to ... read more

Continuing its effort to cut down on low-quality "AI slop" spam content, Pinterest has updated its "tuner" tool to help users limit the amount of AI-generated content they see on their Pinterest feeds. ... read more

Ariel Deitz, vp, east at Blis Many marketers are curious about omnichannel advertising, but often settle for multichannel, where multiple channels are activated but not orchestrated into a cohesive strategy. In reality, most campaigns are ... read more

The company said that clients would benefit from RealClear's audience, op-ed aggregation and polling capabilities. ... read more

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the new decision brings an end to a federal lawsuit by California Crane School, which alleged that Google's longstanding arrangement to serve as the default search engine for Apple's Safari ... read more

The Trump administration’s heightened monitoring of immigrants’ social media accounts seeking grounds to revoke their visas stifles the speech rights of both noncitizens and citizens alike, the Electronic Frontier Foundation ... read more

Residents And Protesters Clash With Federal Agents In Chicago, Illinois. | Getty Images Judge Sara L. Ellis of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said during ... read more

The LiPlay Plus is designed to be held vertically, but can be used to snap photos in a landscape orientation, too. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm has announced an update to ... read more

Pinterest is rolling out a tool that allows users to “dial down the AI” in their feed, the company says. Users can select which categories they want populated with more ... read more

California resident Michael Salazar wants the Supreme Court to revive his claim that Paramount violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by allegedly sending his identifiable video-viewing information to Meta. ... read more

The next generation of Salesforce Marketing Cloud - Agentforce Marketing - was developed to support marketers and advertisers. CMO Bobby Jania said the platform has little resemblance to ExactTarget, the email-only platform acquired by Salesforce ... read more

X is planning to roll out a new profile display that will include more personal information about the individual user. ... read more

Starting next week you can bundle Apple TV and Peacock with a significant discount. | Image: Apple Apple has partnered with NBCUniversal for a new subscription bundle that includes Apple ... read more

TV is one of the fastest-changing ad channels — which says a lot in the context of today’s ad landscape. The way viewers access content and entertainment through TV is shifting at a breakneck speed. ... read more

Marketers surveyed admitted that influencer vetting remains largely manual and inconsistent. ... read more

Fifty-two percent of Americans hadn't read a book in a year -- a stat perhaps pointing toward a scary future in a post-literate society. ... read more

Digital advertising has never offered more ways to connect with people — but with that abundance comes complexity. Marketers now have more channels and formats to reach consumers, and people engage with ads in more ... read more

The Prebid Summit in New York City on Tuesday offered plenty of new details about The Trade Desk’s OpenAds and PubDesk products that were announced earlier this month. For one thing, OpenAds – TTD’s version ... read more

AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment. Now, AI companies are devoting even more time and resources than before to make their agents actually useful ... read more

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Big hero images highlighting select ... read more

Ke Yang, who had recently been appointed to lead Apple's ChatGPT-like search project, has left the company for Meta Platforms. ... read more

Domain extensions, or top-level domains (TLDs), have been around for decades. As the internet continues its rapid expansion, traditional TLDs have been claimed with increasing frequency, making it difficult for businesses to find available, appropriate ... read more

Herschend operates more than 40 leading attractions across North America, including Dollywood Parks & Resorts, Silver Dollar City Parks & Resorts, Wild Adventures Theme Park & Safari Campground, Kennywood, and Adventure Aquarium. ... read more

OxygenOS 16 brings with it some wide-ranging upgrades. OnePlus has announced OxygenOS 16, its take on Android 16, with upgrades to its Mind Space AI tool including complete integration with ... read more

John Krichefski previously served as CEO of GroupM (now WPP Media) EMEA. He is based in London. ... read more

Google is trying to capitalize on what it calls “frequent and severe” Microsoft 365 outages by offering up services like email, storage, and videoconferencing to businesses in the event of ... read more

Digital video recording device maker TiVo, which had been the go-to company for consumers in the early days of digital video recording, is leaving this part of their core business after 26 years. ... read more

Hy-Vee's "RedMedia" retail media ad network is part of the remit, the companies said, citing iProspect's Merkury identity platform as an integral part of the win. ... read more

The remedies phase of the Google antitrust trial concluded last week. And after 11 days in the courtroom, there is a clearer sense of where Judge Leonie Brinkema is focused on, and how that might ... read more

Casio’s new calculator watch features design details inspired by Back to the Future’s DeLorean. | Image: Casio It wasn’t the first watchmaker to release a wristworn calculator, but by making ... read more

Ugreen’s Revodok Max 208 is on sale for $169.98 If your laptop doesn’t have enough ports, you can fix that issue with Ugreen’s Revodok Max 208, an 8-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jake Kastrenakes, executive editor at The Verge. I’m filling in for Nilay for one Thursday episode while he’s settling back into full-time podcast ... read more

In its quest to become the ultimate app for “flexible work,” Uber launched today a new pilot to allow its US drivers and couriers to earn extra money by performing ... read more

"It felt like you were watching the first banner ad being served," quipped long-time digital ad native Adam Broitman, referring to AT&T's "You Will" media buy 31 years ago on HotWired.com. ... read more

According to the company, Brown will continue to contribute to the firm's "long-term vision" while management responsibilities will remain under the leadership of CEO Jamie Posnanski. ... read more

Guillermo del Toro has been thinking about Mary Shelley's novel for a lifetime. He has described Frankenstein as "the quintessential teenage book," and his famous Bleak House in Los Angeles ... read more

The recently-rumored AI partnership between Spotify and the major record labels is now a reality. The streaming service announced today that it’s entering into an agreement with Sony Music Group, ... read more

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next? ... read more

While oceans of ink paint trans women as a monstrous threat or pitiable curiosity, trans women themselves have often remained locked out of the publishing world as both writers and ... read more

As Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 10 and gets ready to mark the 40-year milestone of its operating system, it’s looking forward to what’s next for Windows. Microsoft might not ... read more

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in Tempe, Arizona, on the outskirts of Phoenix, on September 15, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via ... read more

It’s Android flagship season in China right now, and today is Oppo’s turn. It has revealed the Find X9 and Find X9 Pro, with industry-leading specs for both the cameras ... read more

Ever wanted a robot lawnmower you can ride? If the answer’s yes, then Honda has something for you. The Japanese company will be debuting its new ProZision series of riding ... read more

As AI sweeps the tech landscape, new startups continue to emerge. Here are seven former ad tech execs' thoughts on best AI practices and starting their own companies. The post 7 Ad Tech Veterans Who ... read more

It has long been understood that brand is advertising’s most powerful driver of growth. Yet, in a marketplace worth more than one trillion dollars, less than 10% of digital campaigns track brand outcomes. This leaves ... read more

Ekko Astral is not a trans band. They may have a trans frontwoman in Jael Holzman. Much of their material may deal with being trans. Plus, they may have grown ... read more

A new music-competition show from America's heartland may be the best reality talent contest since "American Idol" ushered in the modern era of such shows in 2002. ... read more