Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images So far, possible answers include aliens, an international conspiracy, secret military tests, or just planes. 2024’s drone hysteria has gone on for weeks across ... read more

Not a Switch 2. Think bigger. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Last Friday, we brought you leaked dimensions of the next Nintendo Switch from the most likely source yet: ... read more

You’ll need to remove an AirTag’s battery door to install it inside the TimeCapsule. | Image: Elevation Lab Elevation Lab’s new TimeCapsule is a protective case for an Apple AirTag that turns ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge You were listening, walking, and playing, and they were watching. The app recaps, best-of lists, and awards for 2024 that we can find are here. It’s ... read more

A station render with Chargepoint-built GM Energy chargers. | Image: GM GM is partnering with ChargePoint to build out a new EV charging network under the GM Energy brand, the companies announced ... read more

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife acquired "Time" for $190 million in 2018. ... read more

Image: Ram Ram brand owner Stellantis is delaying its long-awaited all-electric Ram 1500 Rev pickup truck from the first half of 2025 to 2026. The automaker is now prioritizing the launch of ... read more

Another programmatic media network will launch, but this one will become the first to focus on the industry that sells and rents homes and properties. ... read more

"The goal of the Foreign Adversaries Act is to further the highly compelling state interest of preventing Chinese Communist mining of American data and deployment of subversive enemy propaganda through algorithmic curation," Senator Mitch McConnell ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is no longer developing a hardware subscription service for iPhones that would let subscribers get a new iPhone every year, according to Bloomberg’s ... read more

Other than Peacock, all streaming segments of the biggest U.S. media companies should be profitable in 2025 ... read more

Image: The Verge Threads is rolling out a new feature that lets you share someone’s photos and videos without including the original post. You’ll be able to add your own text alongside ... read more

Image: Amazon Amazon today announced that its Dual Audio feature for Fire TV, which lets viewers listen through a hearing aid while others in the room experience standard sound from a TV’s ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Never get locked out again with a smart lock you can control from your phone, with your voice, or with just a touch of your finger. Read the full ... read more

One Billion Users is currently on Kickstarter. | Image: Mike Masnick / Kickstarter My social network was booming. I had attracted top-tier users: the coveted Trendsetter, the popularity-lured Investor. I had bested ... read more

X has extended its partnership with the NBA, promising new experiences for 2025 beyond real-time scores, highlights and fan interaction. The platform has yet to clarify what these in-app experiences will be. ... read more

If you know someone who is looking to get in shape in the new year, the Fitbit Charge 6 is on sale for $119.95. | Image: Google / Fitbit Believe it ... read more

This is such a weird episode of The X-Files. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Phone cameras are incredible little machines, capable of way more than their tiny lenses ... read more

Rejecting arguments by the tech industry, the FTC has finalized a settlement with Rytr that prohibits the artificial intelligence company from advertising or selling a service that generates reviews. ... read more

Threads is testing post-scheduling - a much-requested update, especially by social-media managers, who soon will be able to develop a more comprehensive social-media strategy on the growing app. ... read more

LONDON – What constitutes a high-quality, “premium” TV viewing experience in the eyes of audiences? It’s a question that is hotly debated in the TV and advertising industries. To get a handle on it, NBCUniversal ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Contextual advertising has been around for years, but its role was somewhat diminished as marketers relied on tracking cookies to improve their audience targeting online. With connected television, which is a ... read more

With another Consumer Electronics Show just around the corner, professionals are set to flock to Las Vegas, including those from advertising and media. Serina Spencer, SVP, Enablement, PMX Lift, Publicis Media, is no stranger to ... read more

Addressable TV advertising has hit an inflection point. More marketers are turning to it as a “must-buy” to achieve better performance, even as overall TV ad spend remains under pressure. That was the view of ... read more

Image: The Verge For the 10th day of “ship-mas,” OpenAI rolled out a way to call ChatGPT for up to 15 minutes for free using 1-800-CHATGPT. The feature was a project spun ... read more

LG’s Signature OLED T, the transparent TV that was the company’s big flashy reveal at CES 2024, now has an official price: $59,999. It’s available beginning today in the United States “at ... read more

Sony is furthering its partnership with AMD so they can create more AI-powered technology to make games look and play better — and not just on PlayStation hardware. The two companies are ... read more

They said smart home hubs were dead, but 2024 has seen a resurgence of these multi-protocol machines that work with every smart home radio out there. Case in point: this week, Homey ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Shutterstock The Kids Online Safety Act was supposed to fix (or break) the internet. Now, after nearly three years of rewrites, it’s got days left to ... read more

The notion of authenticity will naturally change as more marketers begin to better understand the necessary balance among sponsored posts, embedded ads and interruptive ads. ... read more

Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images While its rivals have been stuck in perpetual testing or forced to shut down completely due to dry coffers, Waymo has quietly amassed a legitimate ... read more

The Supreme Court will hear TikTok's First Amendment challenge to a law that will result in a ban on the app unless it separates from China-based parent company ByteDance. ... read more

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? | Image: Getty Okay, I get it, we’re all sick of the drones. I went to two holiday parties over the weekend in the ... read more

Surf’s homepage is just feeds. It’s feeds all the way down. | Image: David Pierce / Flipboard Mike McCue, the CEO of Flipboard and an internet entrepreneur since the Netscape days, is ... read more

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on whether a bill that could ban TikTok violates the First Amendment. The arguments will ... read more

Skateboarder Carlos Ribeiro during X Games Ventura 2024. | Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Roku got the exclusive US streaming rights to next year’s X Games Aspen and a “soon-to-be-announced” X Games ... read more

Google has alerted advertisers and publishers to changes prompted by shifts in its ad ecosystem to advance privacy in a variety of platforms. ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s second term is a regulatory wild card hanging over Big Tech. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Image: Wing Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is expanding its drone delivery service to DoorDash customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Starting today, 50 merchants from malls in Frisco ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images 2024 was filled with excellent portable PC games. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Image: Seagate It’s been more than two decades since Seagate began working on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) — and now the company may finally be ready to release a hard drive using ... read more

Image: LG Often at CES, you’ll see a very impressive new technology debut at exorbitant prices before trickling down to more affordable models a couple years later. Lo and behold, that’s exactly ... read more

Image: A24 A24’s lineup of films for 2025 is starting to become stacked — with fantastical creatures, that is. While the fantasy adventure The Legend of Ochi is slated to hit theaters ... read more

Image: Shelly European smart device manufacturer Shelly is launching 11 automation devices that can connect to the home from over a mile away. Shelly says its new and updated Wave devices are ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images We didn’t all flock to a new platform or build on a thrilling new protocol. We went everywhere, and did everything, all at once. ... read more

If 2024 was the "Year Of Attention Metrics," it's ending with a bang, including news this morning that Nielsen is partnering with Realeyes. ... read more

If 2024 was the "Year Of Attention Metrics," it's ending with a bang, including news this morning that Nielsen is partnering with Realeyes and IAS with Lumen Research. ... read more

LONDON – TV may have traditionally played a largely brand-building role for advertisers, but the new-look TV supports both branding and performance marketing. “I think it’s true that the lines between brand awareness and performance ... read more

LONDON – The advertising industry is grappling with a paradox. As premium video content flourishes, accessing it can sometimes seem like a labyrinthine process, particularly for smaller advertisers seeking to expand their reach. No wonder ... read more

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Authorities in the US are considering a ban on TP-Link internet routers over national security concerns due to their repeated ... read more

A new PBS special honoring individuals who have taken a leading role in environmental innovation has the approval of the Prince of Wales. ... read more

Linear TV's total TV/streaming ad time viewing has an 87% share vs. 13% for CTV, according to eMarketer. But CTV generates more revenue than linear TV on a per-hour viewing basis. ... read more

A federal judge has denied a bid by Disney, Fox Corp. and WBD to dismiss a lawsuit by virtual pay TV platform Fubo, that intends to prevent Venu Sports from operating. ... read more

Michelle Rohn / The Verge The internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random? Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

"This is about articulating and celebrating the ethos behind Lucid as a company, for the first time," Giant Spoon's Jonathan Haber tells "Marketing Daily." ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks back at the top topics and trends that overtook the TV, streaming and digital video industries in 2024. Year in review WBD’s trial separation, LinkedIn’s TikTok clone ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife Had enough of AI hype? Tough.  For a while, 2025 was shaping up to look like a period where everyone (at least in the business world) ... read more

LinkedIn may be chasing the deep pockets of mainstream brands these days, but it’s not neglecting the lifeblood of its ad business. B2B companies are still front and center of its latest market pitch.  Specifically ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. The time to reflect on the year is upon us, and for marketers in particular, it looks like 2024 ... read more

After an ambitious, but abortive, effort to diversify its business in 2023, the esports team 100 Thieves refocused on brand partnerships in 2024 – and was rewarded by a significant rise in sponsor interest. 100 ... read more

Netflix gained a rare spike of 1.43 million new subscribers for the high-profile boxing match - the largest single subscriber acquisition period, Antenna says, since it started covering the subscription video streaming business in 2019. ... read more

The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition. | Image: Intel Intel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I opened the App Store today to find an emulator I’d read about, and a new prompt appeared under the search bar inviting me to ... read more

Look Around Look Around at how lucky we are to have Apple Maps right now. | Screenshot: The Verge Following the beta launch of Apple Maps on the web in July, Apple ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Grubhub has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that claimed the food delivery service misled customers and drivers while also ... read more

OpenAI has made ChatGPT search available to all and its mobile and desktop apps available to all logged-in users. The update includes many new features including faster browser speeds and real-time video and screen-sharing. ... read more

OpenAI has made ChatGPT search available to all and its mobile and desktop apps available to all logged-in users. The update includes many new features including faster browser speeds and real-time video and screen-sharing. ... read more

Image: The Verge Threads is about to begin testing the ability to schedule posts, according to Instagram’s Adam Mosseri. “Replies cannot be scheduled,” he added, explaining that “we want to balance giving ... read more

"Without this court's prompt intervention, the government will soon ban Americans from accessing a social media application, TikTok, that millions use every day to communicate, learn about the world, and express themselves," the ACLU and ... read more

LONDON – Every major brand of smart television has its own operating system to run apps for connected television, but this predicament isn’t ideal for consumers who want a user-friendly experience. Xperi, the parent company ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is partnering with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help creators identify content using their AI-generated likenesses on the platform and submit removal requests. The ... read more

Snapchat says the program now places ads within a creator's Stories as well as longer Spotlight videos. ... read more

Snapchat says the program now places ads within a creator's Stories as well as longer Spotlight videos. ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Forbes will stop using freelancers for some types of stories indefinitely — and has blamed the change on a recent update to Google Search ... read more

Starting Dec. 17, Roblox users can enter Netflix's "Nextworld" and "NFL Universe Football" to participate in football challenges themed after Christmas Day football matchups. ... read more

The degrees of separation between the wild outer fringes of social media and the mainstream information sources that we use to view the world through are disappearing. ... read more

Did VideoCardz obtain an image of the PC, too? | Image: VideoCardz In August, an Asus thermal engineer goofed by revealing the existence of possibly the most powerful tablet PC ever made ... read more

A federal appellate court upheld the dismissal of a privacy lawsuit by a consumer who claimed the company violated California's wiretap law by using tracking technology that's capable of logging keystrokes. ... read more

Image: Amazon Amazon’s push into video game adaptations shows no signs of letting up. Today the company announced that Secret Level — an anthology of animated shorts all based on different video ... read more

As for U.S. mobile app traffic on Apple App Store apps, Verve was the No. 1 SSP with 20% market share. ... read more

Advertisers have not yet awoken to the revolution of Google's quantum computing chip breakthrough, announced last week. It will change online advertising and AI. ... read more

Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida with Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe at a press conference in March. | Image: Honda Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan are in talks to merge to better compete with ... read more

This is the RTX 4080 Super, not the new cards. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia’s new RTX 50 series graphics cards are looking like more of a lock ... read more

Image: Riley Testut The Delta gaming emulator is now providing a link to sign up for Patreon-exclusive membership perks directly within the iOS app in Apple’s US App Store. Developer Riley Testut ... read more

Image: The Verge I was driving home the other day and wanted to call my partner and let him know that I was stuck in traffic. (Not an unusual event on Brooklyn’s ... read more

Women in the past 50 years have steadily risen into top managerial roles in the advertising and media industries, but there’s still more work to be done in terms of equal pay and greater diversity ... read more

Colin Angle, the former CEO of iRobot, is launching a home robot startup. | Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Colin Angle, the co-founder of iRobot and its CEO ... read more

Nvidia announced the latest in its Jetson Orin Nano AI computer line, the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit. Sort of like a Raspberry Pi but for powerful AI processing, the tiny ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – While Publishers Clearinghouse is well known as a sweepstakes company, it has evolved in the past decade into a digital marketing and commerce company that has vast troves of opt-in data ... read more

The Roomba Combo j7 Plus is a highly capable robot vacuum / mop hybrid that comes with its own auto-empty dock. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Cleaning up after ... read more

The 30-year-old Cologne, Germany-based firm provides monitoring and data analytics for Fortune Global 500 companies. The company has additional offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Washington and Zurich. ... read more

A 15-second time exposure image. | Image: Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit created his own device to help him take photos of the stars while on the International Space Station — ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The ever-dwindling field of games media has a new player: Walmart. Restart is new website run by Moonrock — a marketing company specializing in bringing brands ... read more

Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Nearly three years ago in January of 2022, the Senate seemed poised to reform antitrust law and place a check on Big Tech’s power. The Senate Judiciary ... read more

Damian Garbaccio, Chief Business and Marketing Officer, Affinity Solutions CTV and retail media are some of the fastest-growing advertising channels and the spend is only going to increase. CTV ad spend is forecast to reach ... read more

Google announced a bunch of new stuff last week, from Gemini 2.0 and Project Mariner to Android XR and Project Moohan. As ever with Google, it feels like a lot of stuff ... read more

Traditional search engines from Google and Microsoft have skyrocketed, but newcomers are now taking significant market share, which will change the dynamics in 2025. Search advertising also will change from informational to actionable, especially as ... read more

Image: A New Social, NASA The open social web still isn’t as open as we all might want, but a non-profit is being formed to try and change that. The non-profit, called ... read more

The fourth generation of the Nest Thermostat improves on the original in almost every way, and it’s still a stunner. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Disney's Deborah Armstrong says "too much money is not coming to TV and it's going elsewhere" - adding that "the pie is flat." ... read more