Image: Laura Normand / The Verge The Department of Justice says that Google must divest the Chrome web browser to restore competition to the online search market, and it left the door open to requiring the company to spin out Android, too. Filed late Wednesday in DC District Court, the initial proposed final judgement refines the DOJ??????s earlier high-level outline of remedies after Judge Amit Mehta found Google maintained an illegal monopoly in search and search text advertising. The filing ..

Image: Honda Honda set up a demonstration facility in Japan to show off its plans to mass-produce solid-state batteries at lower costs, which could be crucial to unlocking higher-range, longer-lasting electric vehicles for the future. Solid-state batteries have been elusive for many companies due to the complexity of scaling up production. The technology swaps out the liquid electrolytes found in current lithium-ion batteries with dry conductive materials, promising higher energy density and ..

The SEL trim of the Hyundai Ioniq 9. Image: Hyundai The South Korean automaker unveiled its newest EV ahead of the LA Auto Show. Continue reading???

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were officially appointed the co-leads of President-elect Donald Trump??????s ??????Department of Government Efficiency?????? (DOGE) last week, and on Wednesday, the two men spelled out their plans for the advisory group in a long article in The Wall Street Journal . Musk and Ramaswamy say they will ??????serve as outside volunteers?????? making recommendations that allow the Trump administration to ??????cut the federal ..

The Blackwell B200 GPU. Image: Nvidia Nvidia has become the world??????s most valuable company on the back of AI chips, passing Microsoft and Apple along the way, and in today??????s Q3 2025 earnings, the company suggested its record AI revenue and profits are only the beginning. While The Information recently reported that its new flagship Blackwell AI servers might have cooling issues, the company didn??????t address that on today??????s call ?????? instead, Nvidia assured investors that ..

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images Apple urged a federal judge to dismiss the Department of Justice??????s antitrust case against it, saying the government??????s complaint includes speculative arguments and the government doesn??????t plausibly argue it has monopoly power. ??????The court is allowed to use common sense,?????? countered DOJ counsel Jonathan Lasken at a hearing in New Jersey on Wednesday. ??????We??????re here today based on the idea that ..

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images SafeRent, an AI screening tool used by landlords, will no longer use AI-powered ??????scores?????? to evaluate whether someone using housing vouchers would make a good tenant. On Wednesday, US District Judge Angel Kelley issued final approval for a roughly $2.3 million settlement to prevent SafeRent from discriminating against tenants based on income and race. The settlement stems from a 2022 class action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts. The suit ..

A conceptual rendering of Blue Origin??????s cargo lander. Image: Blue Origin / NASA After asking both SpaceX and Blue Origin to develop cargo landers for its Artemis missions, NASA has announced plans to use those landers to deliver heavy equipment to the Moon. The agency wants Elon Musk??????s SpaceX to use its Starship cargo lander to deliver a pressurized rover to the Moon ??????no earlier?????? than 2032, while Jeff Bezos?????? Blue Origin will be tasked with delivering a lunar surface ..

Image: The Verge Reddit appears to be having some issues, as many users can??????t get the platform to load reliably. ??????There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place and we??????re ramping back up,?????? Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt said in a statement to The Verge . Its status page says Reddit is experiencing ??????degraded performance?????? across the web and mobile apps, and that it??????s ??????currently investigating the issue.?????? For many Reddit users, ..

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 for months now, ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10 in October, 2025. Earlier this year, Microsoft started using fullscreen prompts to warn Windows 10 users about the support cutoff, and now it??????s using similar prompts to try and tempt people to buy a new Windows 11 PC instead. Over the weekend some Windows 10 users have noticed these new fullscreen prompts, ..

Image: Meta Meta has announced that it??????s adding HD video calling and noise suppression to its Messenger app, along with several other features like AI backgrounds that help bring it up to par with other popular smartphone video calling apps. HD video calling is enabled by default on Wi-Fi but can be turned on for calls using your cell data plan in the ??????Call settings?????? menu. You??????ll also find options to adjust noise cancellation or switch your call??????s audio output. Meta ..

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge After its foray into headphones, the next major new product category from Sonos is rumored to be a video streaming box similar to a Roku, Amazon Fire TV, or Apple TV. Such a device has been rumored for ages now, with Bloomberg previously reporting that its price is expected to fall between $150 and $200. And today we got confirmation (or at least something close to it) that the Sonos streamer will run an operating system built by The Trade Desk, a digital ..

Good one, T-Mo. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile isn??????t exactly known for having a stellar track record against hackers , but it seems that the company actually caught a recent cyberattack in progress and shut it down in time. Bloomberg reports that T-Mobile detected suspicious activity in a recent attempt to access customer data and kicked the cyber criminals out before they were able to infiltrate deeper levels of the network. The report doesn??????t name the hackers or ..

A screenshot of today??????s NYT Connections on the alternate puzzle creator . Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge The New York Times wants to shut down a copy of its popular Connections word game. The publication sent a cease and desist letter to the owner of a website that lets you make your own Connections games. The site also has a full archive of all of the NYT??????s past Connections puzzles, which the NYT keeps behind a paywall. The Connections creator website is built and run by ..

Image: Strava Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps can show, refrain from replicating Strava??????s look, and place a ban on using data ??????for any model training related to artificial intelligence, machine learning or similar applications.?????? The policy is effective as of November 11th, even though Strava??????s own post about the change is dated November 15th. Effective November 11, the updated API agreement ..

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Niantic has announced that it??????s building a new ??????Large Geospatial Model?????? (LGM) that combines millions of scans taken from the smartphones of players of Pok????mon Go and other Niantic products. This AI model could allow computers and robots to understand and interact with the world in new ways, the company said in a blog post spotted by Garbage Day . The LGM??????s ??????spatial intelligence?????? is built on the neural networks developed as part of ..

People loved uploading videos from their iPhone Camera Roll directly to YouTube. Image: The Verge The ??????IMG_0001?????? website features a frame with an old TV static effect and a floating retro Panasonic remote that you can click to start watching random YouTube videos from over a decade ago that were recorded and uploaded from devices such as 2010??????s iPhone 4. Riley Walz, a tech worker who helped stage a fake steakhouse restaurant in Manhattan last year, built the site. He credits this ..

Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi. But as part of a new system update that??????s rolling out starting later today, you??????ll be able to stream select PS5 games from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog to your PlayStation Portal. Sony is launching the feature in beta, and you??????ll need to be a PlayStation Plus ..

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Following ongoing reports that Amazon??????s generative AI makeover of Alexa is not going well, it appears Amazon may take a more practical approach to making its smart assistant more useful. According to Business Insider , Amazon is partnering with several companies to make Alexa better at doing things you might want a digital assistant to do: including calling an Uber, tackling Ticketmaster for events, booking dinner through OpenTable, and handling ..

Image: Warner Bros. A Minecraft Movie has a new trailer giving us a taste at the kind of story moviegoers can expect. The trailer predominately features Jack Black as Steve, the silent protagonist players embody in Minecraft . In the trailer, Black??????s Steve is way more chatty, giving us his backstory as a child who quite literally yearns for the mines. As an adult, Steve finds a special blue cube that transports him to the Minecraft world where, ??????anything you can imagine is ..

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix ???? 2024 Despite widespread issues with video quality and buffering , Netflix??????s live-streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match brought in an average of 108 million viewers , based on TVision data in the US and first-party data in global markets. With 65 million concurrent streams, Netflix says the fight was the ??????most-streamed global sporting event ever.?????? Of those simultaneous streams, 38 million were from households in the US, and ..

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge Wear OS is much better than it used to be, so there??????s never been a better time to consider a smartwatch. Continue reading???

Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that intends to name Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr, a commissioner at the FCC since 2017, has made a name for himself by threatening to use the commission??????s powers to regulate speech online and over the airwaves. Carr authored Project 2025??????s section on the FCC, using it to propose restrictions on social media platforms meant to bolster conservative speech. He ..

I haven??????t been able to find mine for years. Image: Apple The Apple Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter may have bitten the dust, as it??????s sold out at Apple??????s online store in the US and much of the world, MacRumors reports . The accessory is reportedly still available from Apple in some countries, including France, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. If it??????s truly gone, then this feels like the end of an era. Apple introduced the Lightning headphone adapter in 2016 ..

Image: The Verge An Ohio man named Larry Dean Harmon will serve three years in prison and forfeit more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency and other assets, the Department of Justice announced on Friday . Harmon was indicted in 2020 on money laundering conspiracy charges related to Helix, a darkweb cryptocurrency ??????mixer?????? service he ran. Also known as crypto ??????tumbling,?????? services like Helix are designed to hide cryptocurrency transactions ?????? often for illegal drugs ..

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk??????s X may have tweaked its algorithm to boost his account, along with those of other conservative-leaning users, starting around the time he announced his support of Donald Trump??????s presidential campaign. That??????s according to a new study published by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), which found that Musk??????s posts in particular were suddenly much more popular. The study??????s authors ?????? QUT ..

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Ge Wang doesn??????t use computers to make music the way most people use computers make music. He uses computers to make... computer music. Wang works at Stanford, as an associate professor in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He also conducts the school??????s famed Laptop Orchestra , was a co-founder of the music app maker Smule, and created a programming language called Chuck that turns code into sound. He understands how computers, ..

Image: Square Enix We??????re in a pretty good moment for sprawling, complex role-playing games. New releases like Metaphor: ReFantazio and Dragon Age Absolution , along with older titles like Elden Ring ( including this year??????s expansion ), Cyberpunk 2077 , and Baldur??????s Gate 3 have sucked millions of people into their expansive worlds. They can be all-consuming experiences, offering players all kinds of freedom to explore their worlds and characters. But honestly? Sometimes I ..

Netflix had a very big night. Photo: Al Bello / Getty Images for Netflix Netflix peaked at ??????65 million concurrent streams?????? during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went out to 60 million households globally, the group said in a press release shared with The Verge via email. That??????s more than twice the traffic Netflix could see for its Christmas Day NFL stream this year , if ..

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have dropped for the third straight year, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday. Reports of such calls have fallen by over 50 percent versus 2021, according to the FTC ?????? a decline that could be thanks in no small part to stepped-up government efforts to fight irritating telemarketing and phone scams. There were about 33,000 fewer unwanted call complaints during the 2024 fiscal year ..

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Thanks to Qi2, there are way more great chargers for your MagSafe phone than ever before. Continue reading???

Concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 , from the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary. Screenshot: YouTube Unsurprisingly, yesterday??????s big Half-Life release wasn??????t the sequel to Half-Life 2 or even the third Half-Life 2: Episode entry, but a 20th-anniversary update to Valve??????s legendary 2004 game. And given what studio co-founder Gabe Newell has to say on the subject in a 2-hour documentary that the company released in tandem with the update, it seems less likely than ever ..

Photo: Sarah Stier / Getty Images for Netflix Netflix??????s livestream of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match was a mess. I??????m not talking about the bout itself ?????? although people had their qualms with that , too ?????? it??????s the livestream, which people across the internet complained was plagued by buffering, unstable, and unwatchable muddiness. That doesn??????t bode well for Netflix??????s live sports ambitions, especially its upcoming Christmas Day NFL games . I had the ..

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, you??????ve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark . Along the way, it??????s gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages , pinned posts , and the ability to post videos up to 60 seconds in length . But there??????s a lot more to it than that, and I??????m not only talking about lore. ..

Image: Playstack / Color Gray Games The Case of the Golden Idol was a rewarding series of point-and-click murder mysteries that became one of my favorite games of 2022. And while I felt there was more story to explore about the titular golden idol, I wasn??????t sure if a potential sequel could live up to its clever puzzles and fascinating, slowly unfolding story. Turns out, I had nothing to fear: The Rise of the Golden Idol , the newly launched sequel , easily surpasses the original by ..

In which various government bodies fight over ??????permissionless?????? assets Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Securities and Exchange Commission wants to ??????unilaterally wrest regulatory authority away from the States?????? when it comes to crypto, according to a lawsuit from 18 states . These states want to halt the SEC??????s enforcement actions, so they can manage crypto regulation instead. Also named as a plaintiff on the suit is the DeFi Education Fund , a special ..

Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp dropped the most ??????I can??????t believe this wasn??????t already there?????? feature this week: message drafts . Now, WhatsApp lets you know if you have unsent messages typed up in chats so you know to get back to them later. To let you know about a draft, messages you??????ve started writing will show a green and bold ??????Draft?????? word followed by what you??????ve typed up. That way, you can ponder about finishing it when you open the app and not ..

Image: Valve Half-Life 2 is getting a major update in celebration of the classic title??????s 20th anniversary. In addition to Steam Workshop support directly within the game, Valve has fixed bugs and restored some content, added new graphics settings, updated gamepad controls, and a whole lot more. You??????ll also be able to get the game for free on Steam through November 18th at 1PM ET. After that, it will cost $9.99. Valve is also now including the Episode One and Episode Two expansions ..

Image: ESPN ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday college football show SEC Nation . Dubbed FACTS, it??????s going to be ??????...promoting education and fun around sports analytics?????? with information drawn from ESPN Analytics, which includes data like the Football Power Index (FPI), player and team statistics, and game schedules. We haven??????t seen the avatar in action, but it sounds like a bot-ified version of stats encyclopedia Howie Schwab , who was ESPN??????s ..

Illustration: The Verge Google Workspace is rolling out a Gemini-powered AI image generator directly in Google Docs that lets you quickly whip up visuals for your writeups. Essentially, it's a clip art maker that follows in the footsteps of Microsoft??????s AI-generated art feature in its Office products. Google??????s image generator in Docs is available to paid Workspace accounts that include the Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, Education Premium, or Google One AI Premium add-ons. ..