CapCut users can proceed with claims that the app wrongly collected their data, including photos and videos, location information and biometric data. ... read more

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints. ... read more

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints. ... read more

Car prices are already at record highs, and President Donald Trump’s tariffs — if they stay in place — could send them into the stratosphere. The situation remains extremely fluid, with Trump administration ... read more

The firm reported its full-year 2024 financial results today, the first time it has released results as a publicly traded company since 2017, when it was acquired by Vivendi. ... read more

The web is about to be predominantly mobile, video and AI, and general pageviews and impressions will fall. ... read more

Kia EV9 owners can soon take advantage of the SUV’s Vehicle-to-Home power backup capabilities with the availability of a bi-directional charger coming in June. The new Wallbox Quasar 2 electric vehicle ... read more

Full of grand notions and vitriol, his address to Congress caught Democrats flatfooted Tuesday. ... read more

No, not a tower but a joint sovereignty pact with Denmark. ... read more

In what other industries do we think customers are better off being forced to pay for a poorly run monopoly? ... read more

So many financial levers—endowment, tuition, excess costs—yet the institutions cry poor? ... read more

‘President Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t need or want my business.’ ... read more

The echoes of 1939 in 2025. ... read more

Either my stealing was a sin—or it wasn’t. ... read more

A reply to FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff. ... read more

The affordable EV won’t go into production until 2027. | Image: VW Volkswagen is bringing up the lights on the ID. EVERY1 show car that it says will become the promised €20,000 ... read more

With Muse, Wayfair is testing a new way to shop -- one where images, not words, lead the way to finding the perfect piece. ... read more

All Elite Wrestling and Amazon Prime Video today announced a multi-year deal that will see Amazon’s streaming service carry AEW’s pay-per-view events in the US, Canada, and the UK. Their partnership ... read more

Netflix is diving deeper into live content with a new late-night talk show hosted by comedian John Mulaney. Starting March 12th, Netflix will air Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney every Wednesday ... read more

For some brands, the tactic of working with “influencers” may have morphed into “creator” partnerships – but, still, too many are viewing the relationship mechanistically. That’s the view of Aaron Miller, head of influencer and ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR — Big jumps in Google search activity followed Super Bowl ads for established brands this year, defying assumptions that only new product commercials or DTC advertisers cause such traffic spikes. This shows ... read more

The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the ... read more

Word of the endorsements comes about two weeks before the shareholders of both companies are scheduled to vote on the merger in separate meetings on March 18. ... read more

Roku is projected to hit $3.02 billion in ad revenue in 2025, with slower gains in 2026 to $3.5 billion - driven by heavy cost-per-thousand viewer discounting and stronger new demand-side platform partnerships. ... read more

As a consumer talks with Microsoft Copilot, the Showroom Ads technology dynamically changes content on the screen to provide the personalized information each interaction requires. Microsoft has found that AI can generate the information users ... read more

As a consumer talks with Microsoft Copilot, the Showroom Ads technology dynamically changes content on the screen to provide the personalized information each interaction requires. Microsoft has found that AI can generate the information users ... read more

JetZero aims to launch a demonstrator proof-of-concept by 2027. | Image: JetZero Delta Airlines is backing a startup that wants to design more fuel efficient, blended-wing-body aircraft, in the hopes of reducing ... read more

Nintendo has won its legal battle against Dstorage, the French company it accused of hosting pirated games on its file-sharing site 1fichier.com. In a press release sent to outlets like Eurogamer ... read more

YouTube is expanding its pilot of a new Premium Lite subscription plan to the United States, the company announced today. Priced at $7.99 per month compared to the $13.99 charge for ... read more

The renewal builds on Pepsi's exclusivity at MSG venues and properties, including the largest LED screen in the world: the exterior of Las Vegas' Sphere. ... read more

While brands see creators as a safe bet to boost awareness or drive conversions, they’re missing something. Analyzing influencer campaigns from 2024 uncovered an intriguing trend: that much of the industry isn’t necessarily utilizing or ... read more

Petey the cat pretends to ignore Victoria’s wireless mouse. Victoria Song is a senior reviewer at The Verge who mostly focuses on health tech and wearables and who, she says, occasionally ... read more

Tyler Romasco, svp of global publisher development, OpenX It’s no secret that CTV is experiencing explosive growth. By 2026, nine streaming services are projected to generate over $1 billion in ad revenue, up from just ... read more

Disney, which acquired the polling data aggregator 12 years ago, had already redirected it to ABC News, which is undergoing a new round of layoffs. ... read more

The Dyson Supersonic r is finally getting a wider release. | Image: Dyson Since its launch just over a year ago, Dyson’s upgraded Supersonic r hairdryer has only been available for purchase ... read more

It may look like silver in some cool-toned lighting, but it’s actually sky blue. Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option, and — ... read more

The New Mac Studio. After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio with a curious new quirk: it straddles two generations, with an M4 Max for the ... read more

It was a cold Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, and I was running late for my last appointment of the show. There was no telling how long an Uber might take, ... read more

Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 ... read more

Hi, me. It’s me. It was just a year ago that I had my first demo of the Humane AI pin — which was also my last, as it turned out. But ... read more

Google last week asked officials from the Justice Department to take a less aggressive approach other than breaking up the search engine company after last year's ruling that the tech giant illegally monopolized online search, ... read more

The appointment came after a formal review following Adobe's decision to roll up regional marketing assignments into a single global remit. ... read more

Netflix has four of the top five and six of the top 10 streaming revenue generating titles from a Best Picture nominee. The biggest overall was "All Quiet on the Western Front." ... read more

Two sets of viewership numbers told different stories about the ratings for last Sunday's Oscar telecast on ABC. ... read more

Clearing up initial news reports, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says the company is looking at a streaming service in much more modest terms - perhaps around 5 to 6 million subscribers. ... read more

Netflix has four of the top five and six of the top 10 streaming revenue generating titles from a Best Picture nominee. The biggest overall was "All Quiet on the Western Front". ... read more

Hyundai is teaming up with Yandex spinoff Avride to jointly develop fully driverless cars for autonomous ridehailing, the companies announced today. The partnership will enable Avride to deploy 100 Hyundai Ioniq ... read more

If an out-of-control trolley is racing toward four AI engineers, potentially killing them, is it ethical for AI to throw a switch so only one engineer is killed instead? | Image: Cath Virginia ... read more

Andrew Barto (left) and Richard Sutton (right) have won the 2024 Turing Award. | Image: Association for Computing Machinery Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental ... read more

Digg, the once-dominant social news aggregator, is set to relaunch with a vision that seeks to recapture the spirit of early internet communities while addressing the shortcomings of Web 2.0.  Founded in 2004, Digg once ... read more

The new Digg looks a lot more like 2025 than 2005. | Image: Digg Sometime last fall, Kevin Rose started thinking seriously about Digg again. A smidge over two decades ago, he’d ... read more

No word on when the ES90 will make it to the US. | Image: Volvo Volvo has pulled back the curtain on its upcoming ES90 electric sedan with 434 miles of range ... read more

Journal writers size up the president’s address. ... read more

YouTube’s short-form video push has created new opportunities for dance creators to make money on the platform — but some creators believe these changes are too little and too late to reverse the dance community’s exodus ... read more

Amazon’s ads business is muscling in on the same ad tech players that once fueled its rise. Granted, it’s been edging into that cottage industry for years but its latest moves make those earlier steps ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how Hulu’s error-prone Oscars live stream exemplifies the development that streaming still needs to undergo to usurp traditional TV. Downstream effects MLB’s streaming rights plan, Paramount’s ... read more

Curation has its fair share of skeptics but Index Exchange CEO Andrew Casale isn’t one of them. He sees it as the biggest shake-up in programmatic advertising since header bidding — maybe even bigger. In ... read more

The Escalade IQL has a boxier rear-end. Cadillac is taking its large and can-charge electric Escalade IQ and making it just a longer to accommodate some more luggage and leg room for ... read more

Before Disney Plus and its parade of post-Endgame Marvel series, shows like Daredevil gave the studio a convenient way to infuse the MCU with a grittier, more dramatic energy. Being a ... read more

A sorely needed message of free trade arrives from a MAGA favorite. ... read more

Whatever happened to GOP concern for the working class? ... read more

Maybe next time don’t insult stalwart allies during a TV interview. ... read more

Will Trump now take yes for an answer and lift his arms embargo on Kyiv? ... read more

The Justices decline to resolve a circuit split on campus ‘bias’ inquiries. ... read more

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today dismissed a lawsuit against Early Warning Services, the company that runs the Venmo-like Zelle payment platform, as well as the three banks that share ... read more

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition cards won’t launch alongside other 5070s. Reviews of the new $549 graphics card just dropped today, but in an email to The Verge, Nvidia GeForce ... read more

Target and Best Buy say Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China could raise prices in their stores as soon as this week. During an interview with CNBC, Target CEO Brian ... read more

Students discuss the president managing a deal between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. ... read more

Adherence to international law makes it harder for the Estonian navy to protect critical undersea cables. ... read more

Capping ‘indirect funds’ for researchers at 15% is a good start at curtailing the administrative bloat. ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR – Ad fraud hasn’t gone away. Still in 2025, the problem is costing advertisers billions of dollars every year. Some studies estimate that ad fraud now costs $30 billion in the US. ... read more

Snap aims to expand its creator offerings through a partnership with Later, which manages social media and influencer campaigns in which creators receive commissions for posting sponsored content. ... read more

As with Joe Biden, having a hand on Ukraine isn’t the same as playing it. ... read more

Ankara wants a success story without Western oversight. ... read more

YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan. The fake video has been shared privately with ... read more

Oh boy, I wonder who will get rich from this! The crypto market never closes, so it was fitting President Donald Trump made the announcement on a Sunday: he was going to ... read more

The Supreme Court has asked Meta Platforms to respond to a petition filed by the anti-vaccine nonprofit Children's Health Defense -- an organization formerly led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -- which is seeking to ... read more

Mobile World Congress 2025 is well under way in Barcelona, Spain, and while there’s still two days left, the mobile-focused show has already delivered lots of new laptops, smartphones, concepts, and ... read more

The new iPad is a minor upgrade over its predecessor that starts at $349. As predicted, Apple announced not one but two new iPads this week. The new entry-level iPad starts at $349, ... read more

‘The lunar landing was great TV and the Friday press-conference blowup, a win for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.’ ... read more

Karl Rove contends that the president ‘presided over the Tariff of Abominations.’ This requires some clarification. ... read more

We saw the actor on the set of ‘The Conversation’ in 1973. ... read more

Bipartisan lawmakers on Tuesday again introduced a bill that would further restrict companies' ability to collect and harness data from users under the age of 17. ... read more

With the world still swirling around media measurement, could AI lend a hand? Digitas North America is kicking the tyres of that opportunity – but it’s too soon to get out on the road. In ... read more

YouTube is tightening its policies on gambling content. The platform has announced that it will soon prohibit creators from verbally referring to gambling services not approved by Google, as well as ... read more

Though only out for a grand total of four days, Monster Hunter Wilds has sold an astonishing 8 million copies. That’s according to Capcom, reporting that the monster hunting action RPG ... read more

Apple is pushing back against the UK’s secret order to give the government access to encrypted iCloud files. The company has filed an appeal with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which deals ... read more

‘Business leagues’ from the PGA Tour to Pharma collectively earn billions in untaxed revenue. ... read more

It reveals the U.S. president’s amoral, might-makes-right view of global affairs. ... read more

The Nintendo Switch is now eight years old and the company is announcing what could be its final retail bundle push before the introduction of the Switch 2. The new bundle ... read more

After a whole lot of teasing, it’s now official: remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 are on the way. Activision officially announced the new release — called Tony ... read more

Sony is launching a new PlayStation beta program to offer “an easier, more consolidated way for gamers to sign up to participate in future PlayStation betas across a wide range of ... read more

Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that ... read more

Google Messages is introducing an AI feature that aims to help protect Android users from text message scams. The new AI-powered scam detection tool was announced today alongside other new features, ... read more

Microsoft is finally rolling out a native version of its Copilot Windows app, nearly a year after turning it into a basic web app. A new Copilot app is rolling out ... read more

When its Google Ads platform stopped serving ads this past weekend, Google apologized to advertisers that experienced the disruption, which began March 1. An update published Monday to the Google Ads Status Dashboard said the ... read more

According to three separate sources familiar with the developments, Blis has been exploring its exit options in recent weeks, conducting discussions with both private equity and strategic suitors. However, according to separate sources, the U.K. ... read more

Many marketers struggle to adopt the technology and possible use of AI agents. GAI needs to understand a company's products and services and what makes them appealing to specific consumers or businesses. ... read more

The Trump administration has been hacking away at federal government websites, taking down information about climate change and anything deemed “woke.” Now, there’s an online tool you can use to track ... read more

Dotemu, the studio and publisher best-known for retro revivals like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and Streets of Rage 4, has announced its next game — and this time it’s ... read more