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

Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission has approved a new rule preventing hotels and ticket sellers from hiding extra fees associated with a purchase. Under the rule, ... read more

Image: Honda Out to prove that the sports coupe is far from dead, Honda announced the return of the Prelude with an all-new hybrid-electric powertrain. It’s been over two decades since Honda ... read more

The death of linear TV may have been greatly exaggerated, says a UK executive who has an expanding portfolio of live sport, coupled with a growing range of ad-tech products. “We talk a lot about ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – As CEOs, CMOs and agency clients demand AI strategies, marketing executives are grappling with how to harness the potential of artificial intelligence in its early, fast-evolving days. So, how have the ... read more

The new tool, dubbed Swell.AI, was developed in partnership with KERV, and utilizes proprietary object-level image-recognition tech. ... read more

Companies that made gains month-to-month include YouTube at 10.8%, Paramount Global at 9.3%, Fox at 8.6% and Netflix at 7.7%. ... read more

An upcoming Fox drama about a doctor with amnesia seems to fall into the same category as ABC's former series about a doctor on the autism scale. ... read more

Making gains month-to-month include YouTube at 10.8%, Paramount Global at 9.3%, Fox at 8.6% and Netflix at 7.7%. ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Google Home is testing a new feature that will allow friends and family members to help manage smart devices around your home. Two access levels are available: “Admin” which ... read more

2024 feels like a year that can be split in two: In the first half we saw some expected marketing trends panning out in expected and unexpected ways (Google’s cookie confusion, retail media obsession and ... read more

Influencer companies have been muscling into the talent management business recently — and now they’re hoping to make use of artificial intelligence and connected TV gimmicks to entice talent managers and brands to broker more ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife Corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs came under fire in 2024 in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court banning race-based college admissions in June 2023. ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Over the last few years, marketers have been trying to flip their position in the cultural zeitgeist — making moments themselves as opposed to retroactively marketing around them. That’s ... read more

AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new revenue share model back in July, amid the wave of deals between AI tech companies and publishers this year. But the way Perplexity is sharing ad revenue with ... read more

If you’ve worked in marketing or media in some capacity over the last 25 years, there’s a chance you’ve come across Kevin Wassong, who seemingly knows everyone in the business thanks to his long agency ... read more

Photo by Andrej Sokolow / picture alliance via Getty Images Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are going to Tokyo, marking the first time that the Alphabet company is deploying vehicles on public roads in ... read more

Select users of Meta's mixed-reality Ray-Ban glasses can now experiment with several new AI-powered features, including the ability to translate between languages in real-time, and label music playing in the vicinity via a Shazam integration. ... read more

The Whisk tool allows users to prompt the technology with multiple images for the subject, scene and the style. Google also will fill in some images as prompts if the user does not have any. ... read more

The Whisk tool allows users to prompt the technology with multiple images for the subject, scene and the style. Google also will fill in some images as prompts if the user does not have any. ... read more

Framework’s double SSD caddy for its Framework 16 expansion bay. | Image: Framework The most ambitious laptop ever made just got a long-promised modular upgrade. Starting today, you can pay $39 to ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Threads now has more than 100 million daily active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday. It’s a notable milestone not just because it’s a big number; it’s ... read more

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is set to meet with President-Elect Donald Trump on Monday as the platform faces a ... read more

Sub.club, which lets fediverse creators offer paid subscriptions and premium content and launched at the end of August, is already shutting down. “With regret, we will be winding down this project over ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram will now let you schedule direct messages, as first reported by TechCrunch. With this feature, you can long-press on the “send” button and then ... read more

"The Act will shutter one of America's most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration," the company writes in a petition seeking an emergency block on the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. ... read more

The "account health report" is intended to help TikTok Shop creators more easily keep track of their policy violations and plan for future changes. ... read more

CES 2025 is expected to showcase the ways that technology companies and makers of consumer electronics are adopting artificial intelligence to improve their products and services. For AI to be effective for advertisers and marketers, ... read more

Addressable advertising is making great strides in fulfilling its promise to show different commercials to different households during the same television programming. These capabilities rely on various sources of first-party data, which advertising data and ... read more

The worlds of television and streaming have blurred, and many children no longer recognize the difference between traditional television and apps, according to Travis Scoles, EVP, Advanced Advertising at Paramount. Scoles highlighted how this generational ... read more

Blackmagic has announced that its URSA Cine Immersive commercial camera for shooting high-quality 3D immersive video is now available to preorder “direct from Blackmagic Design Offices,” with the first deliveries going out ... read more

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Police in Serbia are using mobile device hacking tools to break into the phones of activists and journalists and then installing spyware ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is rolling out a way for creators to let third-party companies use their videos to train AI models. To be clear, the default setting ... read more

Image: The Verge ChatGPT’s AI search engine is rolling out to all users starting today. OpenAI announced the news as part of its newest 12 days of ship-mas livestream, while also revealing ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The software tools to automate the buying and selling of digital and mobile advertising are transforming the connected television ad market. The adoption of these programmatic tools are helping startup CTV ... read more

Schmidt predicts, the industry will advance from AI agents - software that can complete complex tasks autonomously - to tell the computer to learn everything. "At that point we need to think about unplugging it," ... read more

An AI-generated image I made in Whisk using Google’s suggested images as prompts. | Image: Google via Whisk Google has announced a new AI tool called Whisk that lets you generate images ... read more

More AI features are rolling out to the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta just announced three new features are rolling out to its ... read more

Event highlighted not just the technical prowess of CUNY's brightest minds, but also the transformative impact of one of New York City's most promising tech education initiatives. ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular apps such as ChatGPT, is changing the way brands and agencies develop campaigns, and the reshaping has only just begun. “Generative AI is ... read more

"Squid Game" new ad partnerships include Burger King, Domino's, Google, Xbox, Johnnie Walker, Dos Equis X, Carl's Jr. and "Call of Duty." ... read more

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Instagram will now let you showcase your favorite moments from 2024 by adding a collage to your story. The new feature, which is only available ... read more

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away broadband providers who sought to challenge a New York law requiring them to offer $15 a month service to low-income residents. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The next time you comment on a YouTube video, you could hear its creator’s voice respond to you. YouTube says it’s testing out a feature ... read more

Sony’s XM5 deliver impressive noise cancellation, sound, and comfort. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The holiday season is a time of celebration, but it can also be chaotic. With ... read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer during a December 15th press conference. | Screenshot: NBC News Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has asked the Department of Homeland Security to provide New York and New ... read more

Lance Brothers, Chief Revenue Officer, Adstra In an increasingly fragmented ecosystem, brands face challenges navigating signal loss, privacy regulations and complex customer journeys with traditional identity solutions. As digital transformation continues to reshape all business ... read more

The Anbernic RG34XX is now available in four colors, including transparent red and green options. | Image: Anbernic Anbernic’s latest handheld, which upgrades the design of Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance with a ... read more

Image: The Verge T-Mobile is letting customers sign up to be the first to test its upcoming Starlink satellite direct-cell service, which promises to fill in 500,000 square miles of terrestrial cell ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Workers at a Staten Island, New York Amazon warehouse voted on Friday to authorize a strike if the company doesn’t agree to set dates for ... read more

Photo by Jia Tianyong / China News Service / VCG via Getty Images The same day that General Motors announced that it would stop funding its beleaguered robotaxi company Cruise, one of ... read more

Image: The Verge; Photo: Hollie Adams / Bloomberg via Getty Images The head of the ubiquitous chip design firm on the ‘breathtaking’ pace of AI.  Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Eufy’s new Indoor Cam E30 can sit on a table or be mounted to walls and ceilings, but you’ll need to run a power cable. | Image: Eufy Eufy has announced a ... read more

Image: Apple The end of the end of the world is now in sight. Apple just announced that its post-apocalyptic series Silo, which is in the midst of its second season, has ... read more

Dentsu this morning unveiled a new dedicated influencer marketing practice, including a fancy new logo aptly branding it "Dentsu Influence." It claimed the practice's platform "transcends traditional influencer databases." ... read more

Research on Facebook and X shows teen daily usage at 32% and 17%, respectively. Digital media around these platforms could be compared to the historical trend of cable TV when it comes to teens and ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat is tweaking how people earn money on the platform by introducing a new, unified monetization program. The new program will cover content posted to Stories ... read more

The public trading, under the ticker symbol HAVAS, "marks a pivotal step towards the realization of our long-term vision," Chairman and CEO Yannick Bollore said in a statement this morning, adding: "It gives us additional ... read more

To support healthcare advertisers and marketers, WebMD Ignite designed ad capabilities to reduce waste by finding and targeting ads to specific audiences - designed to achieve "zero waste" in campaigns and drive the highest engagement ... read more

WebMD Ignite, which supports healthcare advertisers and marketers, designed a suite of ad capabilities that it says reduces waste by finding and targeting ads to specific audiences. It can help reach more than 98% of ... read more

A Starlink terminal in the wild. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The EU has signed a deal for its IRIS² constellation of 290 communication satellites that will operate in ... read more

A new restructuring plan announced last Thursday by Warner Bros. Discovery basically splits up the management of the company into the old and the new. ... read more

Reddit’s sports fan communities grew rapidly in the last year. Perhaps no great surprise, given 2024’s bumper sporting schedule, which saw the Olympic Games, Copa America and Euro 2024 tournaments catch the attention of ... read more

TikTok’s turbulent year in the U.S. barely rattled marketers — until now. As the app enters its final countdown, marketers are taking the ban more seriously than ever because it’s looking increasingly like TikTok, at ... read more

What a month last week was, right? Omnicom’s proposed $30 billion stock acquisition of rival holding company Interpublic Group caught an entire industry by surprise when the news broke in a report in the Wall ... read more

The influx of AI agents is quickly creating new ways to autonomously browse the internet and shop online. However, the feature also poses potential challenges for publishers, advertisers, and e-commerce companies — including new problems ... read more

A federal appeals court late Friday rejected TikTok's request for an emergency order halting a law that will result in a ban on the app unless it separates from China-based parent company ByteDance. ... read more

A Harris Poll-Nerd Wallet survey finds that 22% have made impulse purchases that have significantly affected their finances in the past 12 months. ... read more

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge In a series of Threads posts this afternoon, Instagram head Adam Mosseri says users shouldn’t trust images they see online because AI is “clearly producing” ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The fragmentation of media has made it much harder for marketers to achieve the kind of reach and scale they once enjoyed through traditional linear channels. But an omnichannel approach, informed ... read more

The PS Placeable makes the PSP into a tiny PS2. | Image: Retro Mod Works What if you could turn a PSP with a broken screen into a miniature PS2, connect a ... read more

CES showcases the latest electronic hardware such as high-definition televisions, gaming computers, wearable devices and WiFi gear, but they all need software including videogames for the fullest “wow” effect. “We love going to CES. It ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Programmatic ad-buying has long relied on carefully selecting digital properties and packaging them for buyers. Traditionally, supply-side platforms (SSPs) like OpenX have curated ad inventory by choosing websites and apps, bundling ... read more

Perceptions of women business leaders may have shifted in recent years — but is there still a misunderstanding about female leadership? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Kristi Argyilan, SVP, Retail Media, Albertsons Companies, said ... read more

Don’t you just want to bend this right in half? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple hopes to release a foldable 18.8-inch creaseless iPad by about 2028, Bloomberg’s ... read more

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Hello! I’m here from the future. And I have some news. 12 months from now, all the Big Tech CEOs are still in their jobs, everybody’s ... read more

The Magic Mouse with USB-C was the tiniest revision. | Photo by Nathan Edwards / The Verge Apple is working on a redesigned successor to the Magic Mouse, according to Bloomberg’s Mark ... read more

Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon | Neon Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a musical about wicked people. But it’s very different from Wicked. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 64, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for some weird documentaries, and also you ... read more

Illustration: The Verge This week, Google announced it’s rolling out ChromeOS M131 to non-beta users, bringing with it a handy “Safety reset” feature that lets Chromebook users reset their laptops without totally ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s Phone Link app is warning that Android smartphones using the latest version of Android 15 won’t display certain “sensitive” notifications, according to a post from ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube announced a hefty subscription price increase this week that will shoot the monthly cost up by $10 to $82.99 on January 13th for existing ... read more

Photo: Wes Davis / The Verge The group behind the HDMI standard, HDMI Forum, says that it will detail a new spec release in a press conference on January 6th that will ... read more

There may be no setting that the new Paperwhite doesn’t look crisp in. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you missed the first sale on the 2024 Kindle ... read more

Illustration: Beatrice Sala Rhode Island took its RIBridges system for applying for public assistance programs like Medicaid offline Friday following a cyberattack that may have exposed the personal data of hundreds of ... read more

Image: Infold Games Breath of the Styled. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

I wanted the Colorsonic to zap my grays. Instead, I got a lesson in tradeoffs. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Actor Brandon Wilson dons the first-person camera rig. | Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures When RaMell Ross signed on to direct the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys, he wanted nearly ... read more

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity. In a ... read more

Ilya Sutskever. | Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left to start his own AI lab ... read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet with President-elect Donald Trump for dinner on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to The New York Times. It’s reportedly Cook’s first time meeting ... read more

Frank McCourt. | Getty Images / The Verge So far, ByteDance has shown zero willingness to spin off TikTok in the US. The Chinese parent company seems to be banking on the ... read more

Image: The Verge OpenAI is rolling out a feature called “Projects” to ChatGPT. It’s basically a folder system that makes it easier to organize things you’re working on while using the AI ... read more

When the first grainy images of the UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect emerged, some viewers noticed a seemingly small detail: he looked like he was wearing a Peak Design Everyday V1 backpack. Now, on ... read more

Illustration by William Joel Texas is suing a New York doctor for prescribing mifepristone and misoprostol — the pills used for medication abortion — to a Texas resident via telemedicine, an alleged ... read more

Google is slowly rolling out its Gemini-powered Google Assistant to some users of its smart speakers. | Photo: Dan Seifert / The Verge Google has slowly started rolling out a Gemini-powered Google ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We’ve already seen our fair share of bad Apple Intelligence-summarized notifications, but now that the feature is live in the UK, the BBC isn’t finding ... read more

It's not often that advertisers select "vaguely threatening" as the chosen tone for a campaign. ... read more