The VergeGaming Why Control is my game of the year The Verge - Sam ByfordThere’s a moment near the end of Control that is so unabashedly thrilling, joyous, and decadent in its design that it would make most roller coaster creators reflect on their life decisions. To say much
The VergeApps Google Maps now filters searches for EV charger plug types The Verge - Jon PorterGoogle Maps has added a new feature that lets you search for electric car charging stations according to which plug types they work with. Now, when you search for a place to charge your car, you’ll see
The VergeComputers Go read this AMD vs Intel comparison of the Surface Laptop 3 The Verge - Jon PorterWith the recent launch of an Intel-powered 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 for businesses, we now have the rare opportunity to directly compare it to an almost identical laptop with a consumer-oriented AMD chipset.
The VergeChristmas Music Wham!’s Last Christmas has been remastered in 4K and it looks incredible The Verge - Tom WarrenChristmas has arrived early this year, in the form of a 4K remaster of Wham!’s iconic “Last Christmas.” It’s living proof that the 1980s did really happen, complete with the crazy hair styles, shell suits,
The VergeStar Wars J.J. Abrams shows off Star Wars clip inside Fortnite, and now lightsabers are in the game The Verge - Andrew WebsterStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is so inescapable that it’s even started invading video games. This afternoon, director J.J. Abrams stopped by a unique location to show off a new clip from the movie:
The VergeWatchmen No matter how Watchmen ends, it’s already done more than enough The Verge - Joshua RiveraIt was the Rorschach mask in the glove box that sold me. Watchmen, HBO’s sequel / reinvention of the comic of the same name by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore, came out the gate swinging with a prologue set
The VergeGhostbusters New trailers: Wonder Woman 1984, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, In the Heights, and more The Verge - Jacob KastrenakesI recently saw Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton’s adaptation of the two-decade-old Jonathan Lethem novel about a private investigator with Tourette syndrome. I’ve never read the book, but from what gather,
The VergeTechnology The Snapchat cat filter shows how little we know about cat cognition The Verge - Nicole WetsmanApologies to Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber, but the most interesting cat content online right now is a Snapchat filter that lets humans try on a feline face. The resulting clips are adorable, confounding,
The VergeApps WWE joins TikTok and brings popular entrance music to the app The Verge - Chris WelchWWE has one of the most popular YouTube channels in the world and has become a social media force, and today (as reported by Variety) the company officially joined TikTok. There’s a WWE TikTok channel,
The VergeTechnology ISPs flex their influence on FCC’s speed checks, WSJ report says The Verge - Makena KellyIt’s an awful feeling realizing that your internet speed is far slower than what your provider promised. But according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, the Federal Communications
The VergeDiabetes FDA approves new closed-loop insulin delivery system for people with Type 1 diabetes The Verge - Nicole WetsmanA new software system that will let people with diabetes customize their treatment and automatically adjust their insulin levels was just approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. It will patients
The VergeGoogle Earth Google reveals just how much of the world it’s mapped with Street View and Earth The Verge - Chaim GartenbergIt’s common knowledge that Google has photographed a huge amount of the planet for its Street View and Google Earth projects. But for the first time, Google has revealed how much of the world it has photographed:
The VergeTechnology PSA: RCS, the successor to SMS, is now live for all US Android users The Verge - Jay PetersIn November, Google said that it was starting to roll out RCS Chat, the successor to SMS, as Android’s primary texting platform, and as of Monday, if you are an Android user on any carrier in the US, should
The VergeMusic Billboard is changing its albums chart to count YouTube streams The Verge - Dani DeahlBillboard has announced that YouTube streams will be factored into the Billboard 200 albums chart starting early next year. Video streams from other platforms will also count, including Apple, Spotify,
The VergeeCommerce Amazon is delivering half its own packages as it becomes a serious rival to FedEx and UPS The Verge - Nick StattAmazon has been steadily growing its logistics operation over the last decade, and it now delivers more than half of all Amazon packages in the US, according to an estimate from Morgan Stanley published
The VergeStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Get the first six Star Wars movies for the lowest price yet ahead of Rise of Skywalker The Verge - Chaim GartenbergStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is just days away, bringing a promised end to the nine-episode Skywalker saga on December 20th. But if you want to catch up on the earlier movies, you can pick up digital
The VergeTechnology Google’s 4K Pixelbook Go is now available for purchase The Verge - Jay PetersWhen Google announced its relatively inexpensive new Pixelbook Go, it said that a more expensive Pixelbook Go configuration with a 4K screen was on the way, and that model is finally available for purchase
The VergeGaming How to watch Fortnite’s exclusive Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker clip this Saturday The Verge - Nick StattFortnite is about to host another of its now-iconic in-game live events, but this one has a pretty important real-world connection. For the first time, Epic’s battle royale game will host an exclusive
The VergeLong-form Journalism Showdown in Wisconn Valley The Verge - Josh DziezaWhatever Foxconn is building in Wisconsin, it’s not the $10 billion, 22 million-square-foot Generation 10.5 LCD factory that President Trump once promised would be the “eighth wonder of the world.” At
The VergeMichael Bloomberg Bloomberg’s climate plan doesn’t set him apart from other 2020 candidates The Verge - Justine CalmaPresidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has just released his plan for taking action on climate change. For now, it sticks to familiar goals that most Democratic presidential candidates share: re-committing
The VergeIPad Air The latest iPad Air is now $100 off at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy The Verge - Aliya ChaudhryIf you’ve been holding out on a deal for the latest iPad Air, the wait is over. The Wi-Fi-only version of this year’s iPad Air is $100 off at Target and Best Buy. That makes it $399.99 for the 64GB model
The VergeXbox The best gaming deals right now are these Xbox and PS4 bundles The Verge - Aliya ChaudhryIf you’re looking for some good gaming deals, and particularly, if you were hoping to get a deal on Call of Duty, today’s your day, because both Best Buy and Walmart have sales on consoles and games. Buy
The VergeFacebook A thief stole unencrypted hard drives filled with 29,000 Facebook employees’ information The Verge - Dami LeeBanking data for 29,000 Facebook employees, which was stored on unencrypted hard drives, was stolen by a thief from a payroll worker’s car, according to a Bloomberg report. The hard drives contained information
The VergeTechnology Amazon teams up with Citizen for a classier looking Echo wall clock The Verge - Chaim GartenbergWatch company Citizen is expanding its (less well known) line of wall clocks today with two new models that add support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, in what are effectively nicer looking versions
The VergeFacial Recognition Researchers fooled Chinese facial recognition terminals with just a mask The Verge - Jay PetersFacial recognition has been heralded as a secure way to confirm your identity on your phone or at payment terminals, and with features like Face ID on your iPhone, it sometimes seems like the tech really
The VergeMacBook Pro Vergecast: Apple’s expensive Mac Pro, gadgets of the decade, and Twitter’s project Bluesky The Verge - Andrew MarinoNot only is the year ending, but the decade is ending, too. So The Verge lists the most influential gadgets in the first decade of its existence. Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller discuss how picked
The VergeAlexa Apple and Spotify can now play podcasts on your Alexa-enabled devices The Verge - Ashley CarmanStarting today, Apple Podcasts is available through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like Echo speakers. People just have to say, “Alexa, play (insert show name here) on Apple Podcasts” to get a program. Podcasts
The VergeGear & Gadgets The HP Elite Dragonfly is too stylish for the boardroom The Verge - Dan SeifertCorporate office drones need nice computers, too. For too long, they’ve had to put up with soulless utilitarian machines that, while very functional, didn’t exactly inspire joy or creativity. HP’s latest
The VergeSamsung Galaxy Fold Samsung says it hasn’t actually sold a million Galaxy Folds The Verge - Dan SeifertUpdate, 12:52PM ET, December 13th, 2019: After the original publication of this artlce, Samsung has since clarified to Korea’s Yonhap News Agency that it hasn’t actually sold one million Galaxy Fold devices,
