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On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at least two users on X sharing screenshots of the dislike button moved into the three-dot menu.

For years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability to add their own vehicles to the company's robotaxi fleet.

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI.

Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives.

Actors Taye Diggs, Autumn Federici, Gary Entin, Troy Brookins, Edmund Entin and Eric Guilmette attend the world premiere of Microhouse Films and Lifetime's Reunion Island during the ALZA Festival. | Getty Images for Lifetime.

Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general.

Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people's dogs.

As the smoke clears from its outrageous Roadster demo, Tesla reported Q3 earnings on Wednesday - and the cold reality is that revenue has flatlined.

Bose announced today it has acquired Skullcandy.

Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules.

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet.

Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you.

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The Cambridge Analytica scandal has come back to haunt Meta after a New Mexico judge ordered it to pay $25 billion in penalties for more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair pra…

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a big new 2.5 update that, among other features, brings cross-platform mod support to consoles and content inspired by the new season of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime on Netflix.

Microsoft asked its employees to return to the office three days per week last year, and it's now upping this requirement to four days a week for most Xbox employees.

Zero Company will have you teaming up with some unlikely new allies. | Image: EA and Disney If you’ve been curious about Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, Amazon has both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S…

Microsoft announced last month that it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass.

A vehicle is welded by robot arms as it goes through the assembly line at the General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant March 10, 2010 in Lansing, Michigan. | Photo: Getty Images General Motors is still very much in the business of selling gas-…

A TP-Link Wi-Fi 8 router. | Image: TP-Link TP-Link, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer Wi-Fi routers, is in a precarious position in the US.

Samsung’s latest version of The Frame TV is $400 off. | Image: Samsung If you want a TV but prefer something that won’t clash with your room’s decor, Samsung’s The Frame is a standout option that’s designed to look like a piece of framed art instead of a…

BioWare, the legendary studio behind RPGs like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, is shutting down, the company confirmed in a statement.

Your blood, for “immortality.” | Image: Cath Virgina / The Verge, Getty Images This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change

Despite Meta saying it would stop creating new content for Supernatural, the beloved fitness VR game is back after spinning off to go its own way and is relaunching with an Early Access preview in the Meta Horizon Store.

Apple is officially launching a rebrand of Apple Music.

After introducing its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto last year, Google is now bringing it to Apple CarPlay users.

There are quite a few 5K monitors out there.

Apple says it will have "limited" iPhone Duo models for sale in stores, according to a report from Reuters.

From left to right, here are the Outdoor 2K XR Plus and Mini Pant-Tilt 2K Plus (top), and the Spotlight Cam 2K Plus, Mini 4K Plus, and Frontier XR Plus (bottom). | Image: Amazon / Blink Amazon is launching a new lineup of Blink security cameras, including…

OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks.

Serato DJ for iOS is finally bringing the company's pro-level DJ suite to the iPhone and iPad.

Nvidia is rolling out a new GPU driver today (621.01) that enables Microsoft's new Advanced Shader Delivery technology to speed up game launches.

I'm The Verge's senior smartphone reviewer and I've been using the iPhone Duo for the past week.

The iPhone Duo is the riskiest Apple product in years.

Easy on the eyes.

Spotify announced Wednesday the launch of its next-generation, fully native in-car app, built directly on Google's Android Automotive operating system.

This PHP issue sounds like a pretty huge problem. | Illustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge Security patches for the PHP programming language, widely used to build websites and web apps, are expected to roll out today, with the goal of fixing two critic…

YouTube appears to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, as reported by 9to5Google.

On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood.

Influencer Nick Shirley listens as US President Donald Trump makes an announcement on fraud in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 20, 2026.

Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini AI in your car.

Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger, Elon Musk said during the latter's third quarter earnings call Tuesday.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time.

Netflix is making monetization a top priority amid reports of falling viewing time.

Snap has a new brand ambassador for its Specs AR glasses: Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr.

SpaceX announced revenues of $14.6 billion in its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which it says was a growth of 161 percent year-over-year "fueled by our Super Intelligence (SI) segment and accelerated growth in Connectivity."

Oura is introducing two new cardiovascular-focused health tracking features to its smart rings designed to help users better understand the effect regular workouts and exercise are having on their long-term health, and whether they need to ramp it up or d…

Trying to pull up information for certain peptides on TikTok is now returning a "no results found" page when searching for terms like semaglutide, BPC-157, retratutide, and others.

Looking for a way to try the haptics-equipped G Pro X2 Superstrike wireless gaming mouse without spending full price?

DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 is a big upgrade from your phone’s video quality. | Image: The Verge If you’re the kind of person who likes to document everything, either for professional and/or personal reasons, and your phone’s camera isn’t cutting it, you might be

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning new rounds of layoffs for sometime this month, November, and January, according to Fortune.