It??????s not the Vita comeback we were hoping for, but the Sony??????s portable remote player is still a handy companion. Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge We may be out of the scarcity woods as it pertains to the PlayStation 5, but some of its accessories can still be hard to track down. Take the PlayStation Portal, for instance, which has been difficult to come by since it arrived on the scene in mid-November . Thankfully, Sony??????s handheld remote player is available once again ..

Image: The Verge A physical education teacher and former athletic director of a Baltimore County high school has been arrested and charged with using an AI voice cloning service to frame the school??????s principal. The Baltimore Banner reports that Baltimore County police believe a recording whiich circulated through social media in January with purported audio of Pikesville High School principal Eric Eiswert making racist and antisemitic comments was fake. Experts told The Baltimore Banner ..

Illustration: The Verge The reminders you??????ve jotted down in Google Keep will soon show up in Tasks. Google says the long-requested integration is coming over the next year, allowing you to see, edit, and complete your Keep reminders across Tasks, Calendar, and Assistant. The change will make Tasks the central hub for all to-dos and reminders, hopefully making them far easier to manage. It??????s something my colleague David Pierce suggested when talking about Google??????s upgraded Keep ..

Image: The Verge Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent. This is the second quarter in a row that Microsoft is including its additional revenue from its Activision Blizzard acquisition that briefly pushed gaming to be Microsoft??????s third-largest business. This time around, gaming is back into ..

Apple TV+ Before AI meant you could impersonate someone??????s voice with just a snippet of audio , con artists needed actual skill to impersonate famous figures. Take Hargobind Tahilraman i, who allegedly impersonated such powerful Hollywood women as Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, and Wendi Deng Murdoch. Now, it??????s a documentary from Tiger King ??????s Chris Smith. The scam artist dubbed ??????the Con Queen of Hollywood?????? sent victims to Indonesia, then extracted cash for what seemed ..

An EVgo charging station that has each DC fast-charging cable option including CCS, CHAdeMO, and Tesla??????s NACS. Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Tesla??????s NACS plug and Supercharger network might help solve North America??????s EV charging fragmentation problem, but EV buyers are still feeling uncertain. Continue reading???

Illustration: Beatrice Sala The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, is rolling out a program that warns organizations about potential ransomware attacks, CyberScoop reports . The program is currently running as a pilot and will be fully operational by the end of 2024. About 7,000 organizations have signed up for the pilot. So far, CISA has issued 2,049 warnings since the pilot was launched in January 2023. ??????The warning pilot is ..

Photo by Joe Scarnici / Getty Images Blizzard has announced it will not hold BlizzCon, the publisher??????s annual fan convention, this year. ??????After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024,?????? Blizzard wrote on its website . Instead of BlizzCon, Blizzard wrote that it would be holding other, smaller events throughout the year and mentioned participating in other trade shows, such as Gamescom. Additionally, 2024 marks ..

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The State Department will soon impose visa restrictions on people who it says have been involved in the development of spyware. In a press release issued on Monday , the department said it is taking steps to bar 13 people ??????who have been involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or who are immediate family members of those involved?????? from entering the United States. ??????These individuals have facilitated or derived financial ..

Cath Virginia / The Verge Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images Here??????s a roundup of all the news about a new law requiring parent company ByteDance to sell off its platform. Continue reading???

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The generative AI gold rush is underway ?????? just don??????t expect it to create profits anytime soon. That was the message from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investors during Wednesday??????s call for the company??????s first-quarter earnings report . Having just put its ChatGPT competitor in a bunch of places across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, much of the call focused on exactly how generative AI will become a money-making endeavor for Meta. The ..

Image: The Verge Threads is testing the option to automatically hide your old posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the feature is only available to a ??????small number?????? of users for now, but it will let you choose to archive individual posts manually or have them automatically archived after a certain amount of time. You can see an example of how the feature might look in Mosseri??????s post on Threads. Users with access to the test should be able to manually archive their content by ..

BattleGC Pro in limited-edition crystal. Image: Retro Fighters This new BattlerGC Pro controller looks like it could be the ultimate GameCube gamepad ?????? one with drift-resistant Hall effect joysticks, hybrid analog / digital triggers, programmable back buttons, a rechargeable battery with a USB-C port, and the ability to use it across different consoles and systems thanks to Bluetooth support. And of course, it??????s the latest controller to host the best face button layout ever, and I ..

Photo by Prince Williams / Wireimage While Drake??????s fans have been having a ball with the Canadian rapper??????s recently released track dissing fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar, the legal team representing Tupac Shakur is threatening to take legal action if the song isn??????t pulled off the internet. Billboard reports that late rapper Tupac??????s legal team is ready to take Drake to court over the release of ??????Taylor Made,?????? Drake??????s recently released song featuring the ..

Photo by Urbanandsport / NurPhoto via Getty Images The Department of Transportation (DOT) finalized rules that will soon require airlines to quickly refund passengers if they cancel or delay flights or make significant changes. Airlines must pay passengers back either in cash or in the original form of payment, no matter the reason they cancel their flight. Alternatively, passengers can choose to accept travel credit, other kinds of transportation, or another flight offered by the airline. ..

Illustration: The Verge One more app joins the passwordless future we??????ve been promised . WhatsApp says it??????s now rolling out support for passkeys in the iOS version of the app. With the feature enabled, users of Meta??????s encrypted messaging app can use iPhone biometrics for login ?????? that is, Face ID or Touch ID ?????? or their phone??????s passcode. WhatsApp already supports unlocking its iOS app with one of these options, but this takes that a step further. Passkey support ..

The Digital Services Act strikes again. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok Lite users in Europe will have to find another way to earn an extra 38 cents a day . The light version of the TikTok app, which launched in two EU countries a couple of weeks ago, included a reward feature that paid users a small amount each day to engage with videos. European regulators launched an inquiry soon after , citing the feature??????s potential for encouraging addiction ?????? particularly in young ..

Cath Virginia / The Verge Photos from Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote to restore net neutrality on Thursday in the latest volley of a yearslong game of political ping-pong. The commission is expected to reclassify internet service providers (ISPs) ?????? e.g., broadband companies like AT and Comcast ?????? as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act. That classification would open ISPs up to greater oversight by the FCC. The vote is widely ..

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There are two types of parents I??????m friends with: those who let their kids watch YouTube and those who work very hard to keep their kids as far from YouTube as possible. Given I know at least one small child who developed an obsession with dictators after getting around the YouTube parental controls, I understand the divide. Streaming services seem to understand that divide, too, and are eager to provide an alternative to YouTube that gives parents ..

Illustration: The Verge Apple has been quiet about its plans for generative AI, but with the release of new AI models today, it appears the company??????s immediate ambitions lie firmly in the ??????make AI run locally on Apple devices?????? realm. Researchers from Apple released OpenELM , a series of four very small language models on the Hugging Face model library, on Wednesday. Apple said on its Hugging Face model page that OpenELM, which stands for ??????Open-source Efficient Language ..

Image: Mercedes-Benz AG Mercedes?????? box-shaped luxury off-roader finally gets an electrified makeover. Continue reading???

Cath Virginia / The Verge Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images A bill that would force China-based company ByteDance to sell TikTok ?????? or else face a US ban of the platform ?????? is all but certain to become law after the Senate passed a foreign aid package including the measure. It now heads to President Joe Biden, who already committed to signing the TikTok legislation should it make it through both chambers of Congress. The House passed the foreign aid package that includes the TikTok ..

Eight years ago, Valve began offering no-questions-asked refunds for any game you buy on Steam ?????? as long as you asked for that refund within 14 days of purchase and hadn??????t played more than two hours of a game. But when Valve started letting you play games ahead of their release dates with its ??????Early Access?????? and ??????Advanced Access?????? programs, it introduced a loophole: people could play for many, many hours ahead of launch and still request a refund after. Today, ..

That??????s a nice looking charger. Image by Elago MagSafe isn??????t a particularly controversial standard, but I??????ve heard people grumble about it . They get upset because it doesn??????t charge quite as efficiently as an old-fashioned cable and they get annoyed that any phone case needs to be MagSafe-compatible. But could charging by cable provide you with something as stupidly fun as this new phone stand from Elago? The Elago MagSafe MS W5 Charging Stand is a mouthful of a name for ..

Cath Virginia / The Verge The European Union has officially adopted a new set of right-to-repair rules designed to encourage people to repair broken devices, rather than replace them. One of the rules extends a product??????s warranty by one year if it??????s repaired while still covered. The European Union already requires companies to offer a two-year minimum warranty on products, but these new rules take things a step further. Even after the warranty period ends, companies are ??????still ..

The Model 3 might get an affordable younger sibling in 2025. Image: Tesla Tesla says it will build more affordable electric vehicles ?????? perhaps as soon as 2025 ?????? refuting recent reports that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had canceled plans for a cheaper ??????Model 2?????? vehicle in favor of getting a robotaxi out the door. But Musk didn??????t clarify whether the lower-cost EV would be a brand new model for Tesla or simplified versions of its current vehicles. ??????In terms of a new product ..

Illustration by The Verge Photo via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete agreements nationwide, saying that they are an ??????unfair method of competition.?????? Noncompete agreements ?????? which attempt to prevent employees from working for or starting competing businesses ?????? are especially prevalent in the world of tech, where we??????ve seen companies like Amazon enforce and then retract a noncompete agreement for warehouse workers. Acer even sued its ..

Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company . Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. That??????s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding ?????? it wants to expand beyond the laptop into ??????additional product categories.?????? Framework CEO Nirav Patel tells me that has always been the plan and that the company originally had other viable ideas beyond laptops, too. ??????We chose to take ..

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla provided a sneak peek of its upcoming ridehailing mobile app in the company??????s latest earnings report . The company??????s CEO, Elon Musk, has said that Tesla will unveil a long-gestating robotaxi in August . The company revealed five screens from the forthcoming feature. The first screen shows a big button that says ??????Summon?????? with a lower message for the possible wait time. The next screen has a 3D map with a little virtual vehicle ..

Demand for Vision Pro is falling. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is reportedly cutting its Vision Pro headset shipment forecast for the rest of the year due to cooling demand. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo writes that Apple cut orders for the Vision Pro even before it launched outside of the US. His sources claim that Apple now expects to sell only around 400,000 to 450,000 units in 2024, compared to what Kuo says was a ??????market consensus?????? of 700,000 to 800,000. Demand ..

Photo by VCG / VCG via Getty Images Tesla reported its first quarter earnings during an incredibly shaky moment for the company in which sales numbers and the stock price have both fallen. Against this backdrop, Tesla reported $1.1 billion in net income on $21 billion in revenue, down 9 percent from $23.3 billion the same time last year . The company??????s profits, once the envy of the auto industry, are at their lowest in six years thanks to rampant price cutting and slowing demand. Earlier ..

Wattpad says DMs will be shut down on May 6th, alongside the deletion of all existing messages. Image: Wattpad Community publishing platform Wattpad is removing the ability for users to send each other direct messages, claiming that the feature has ??????only been relevant to a small percentage?????? of its global user base. Users will retain access to their DMs until May 6th, after which all existing messages will be deleted and the feature will no longer be available, according to ..

Home internet for when you??????re not at home. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile has announced two new home internet plans: Home Internet Plus and Away. Well, technically that??????s one home internet plan and one anywhere-but-home plan. These new flavors of T-Mobile??????s 5G-powered internet service aim to address different customers, but both serve the same goal: leveraging that sweet 5G spectrum to do more than just keep our phones connected. The new Away plan, importantly, ..

Apple??????s next event will be all about iPads. Image: Apple Apple has gone and announced a spring event for May 7th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. While the company didn??????t say what the event is about, the Apple Pencil in its graphic suggests we??????re finally about to hear about new iPads ?????? but which ones? Well, almost certainly OLED iPad Pros, which we??????ve been hearing about for months, but the company might also announce a new iPad Air in two sizes for the first time. Rumors have also ..

YouTube Fortnite is rolling out an update on Tuesday that includes a new setting that filters out ??????confrontational?????? emotes . The v29.30 update will let players ??????choose not to see?????? the following emotes: ??????Laugh It Up??????, ??????Take the L??????, ??????Whipcrack??????, and ??????Make it Plantain.?????? The four emotes won??????t exactly be hidden per se, they??????ll appear as still images in the game ?????? but players performing them won??????t dance and they ..

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge DolphiniOS, a fork of the popular Dolphin emulator for Nintendo Wii and GameCube games, has confirmed that it??????s not coming to the Apple App Store even though emulators are now supported. In a post on Friday , the developer behind the emulator says it??????s because Apple doesn??????t allow DolphiniOS to use its underlying performance-boosting tech. As explained by developer OatmealDome, DolphiniOS ?????? along with other Wii and GameCube emulators ?????? ..

This drone might migrate south to a new location in Arizona. Image: Amazon Amazon is winding down its Prime Air drone delivery program in Lockeford, California ?????? an early testing zone for a service that allowed local residents to order products weighing up to five pounds and get them delivered to their location via drone in 30 minutes. In the same press release , Amazon also announced that the company is launching a new Prime Air location in Tolleson, Arizona. The new location is expected ..

Illustration: The Verge Former Meta executive Jason Taylor is joining Microsoft??????s AI supercomputing team. In a LinkedIn post on Monday , Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says Taylor will take on the role of corporate vice president and deputy CTO to help ??????build the next set of systems that will push the frontier of AI forward.?????? Taylor worked at Meta from 2009 to 2022, where he most recently served as the company??????s vice president of infrastructure. He handled AI, data, and privacy ..

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge Europe is warming up at twice the global average, leading to deadly heatwaves and severe flooding, according to the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) report for the year 2023 , released Monday. According to the report, temperatures in Europe are rising 2.3 degrees Celsius (or 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, according to a five-year average, compared to 1.3 degrees Celsius (roughly 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) globally. The report, jointly ..

Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Meta Connect 2023. Getty Images Meta has started licensing the operating system for its Quest headset to other hardware makers, starting with Lenovo and Asus. It??????s also making a limited-run, gaming-focused Quest with Xbox . On the theme of opening up, Meta is also pushing for more ways to discover alternative app stores. It??????s making its experimental App Lab store more prominent and even inviting Google to bring the Play Store to its operating system, which ..