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Paramount has reached a settlement with California and the 11 other states that sued to block its planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

Months after seemingly giving up on Destiny 2, Bungie now says it's planning to restore vaulted content in the game like campaigns, destinations, and raids.

Newegg is hosting a bundle that includes Microsoft’s wireless Xbox controller (in black) and a $50 digital Xbox gift card together for $80.

Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the upcoming podcast Power On.

Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout.

All three new X500 phones support at least one of Vivo’s teleconverter lenses. | Image: Vivo Vivo's new X500 flagship phones have arrived in China, and as usual the company's focus is firmly on photography.

Google and partners are finally announcing the first laptops under the new Googlebook banner.

Googlebook OS is a little bit like ChromeOS and a whole lot like Android.

What’s in the box?!

Apple’s little computer gets a little spendy.

Googlebooks look like fancy Chromebooks at first, but there are interesting software ideas. | Photo: Antonio G.

Dell’s XPS Googlebook is just one of the devices Google needs to be great.

Apple has developed an unexpected workaround to prevent the iPhone 18 Pro Max from being hit by shipping restrictions on big batteries.

Each of those teeny lens blades is around the same thickness as a human hair. | Image: iFixit iFixit's latest device teardown shows us the inner workings of the new variable aperture lens inside Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, alongside some repair…

The United Nations logo at the UN headquarters in New York. | Getty Images Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major

Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports.

In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode in over two years.

The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades.

After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator's latest title would be coming to Xbox, there were a flurry of rumors about the falling out.

The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force."

After the success of Backrooms, it looks like A24 is trying to cash in on yet another internet horror craze with a new installment in the V/H/S horror anthology series set in the SCP Foundation universe.

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Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing.

The same calculator has been on most kids' back to school shopping list since the early 2000's and the dominance of Texas Instruments' calculator division goes back even farther.

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Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy.

On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border.

Waymo Ojai fully autonomous ride-hailing vehicle travels along a city street, San Francisco, California, August 20, 2026.

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”?

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts.

The refurbished Apple TV 4K with its voice remote. | Image: The Verge Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices.

When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One.

In early September, two teenagers got into a Waymo, but then ended up in the back of a police car.

Camp Snap is expanding its small collection of screenless digital point-and-shoot cameras with the new pocket-friendly 110D featuring a thin horizontal design first popularized by Kodak film cameras in the 1970s.

The interface of the Nova plugin for browsing and loading Nova plugins inside your DAW. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plugins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launch…

In 34 of the 37 surveyed countries, people are more likely to believe AI will lead to job losses over the next 20 years. | Image: Pew Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life…

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI.

Getting added to Spotify's Fresh Finds playlists can be a huge break for artists trying to cut through the noise on streaming.

Bose announced a new version of its Ultra Open Earbuds that helped kick off the industry trend of clip-on wireless earbuds nearly two-and-a-half years ago.

After teasing a music-related reveal a few days ago, Rockstar has officially announced the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto VI.

This time, heart rate monitoring is truly continuous.

On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building.

The Toronto International Film Festival is a place to go to see the future of film, but this year it also provided a glimpse at what is coming very soon in the realm of streaming.

My favorite part of wearing the Specs, Snap's new augmented reality glasses, was playing dominoes.

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information.

Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers.

E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns.

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Samus is geared up for another adventure. | Image: Nintendo The Metroid series is going back to its 2D roots again with Metroid Ravenous for the Nintendo Switch 2, the first side-scrolling game in the series since 2021’s Metroid Dread for the Nintendo Swi…

According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with NVIDIA to make it happen.