Cameron Faulkner 2021-07-24 08:14:34 www.theverge.com The best deal available today is on the 40mm Apple Watch Series 6 with Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity. Usually $399, it’s just $279 at Best Buy through Saturday, July 24th. The thing is, this…
Alex Heath 2021-07-23 11:00:00 www.theverge.com Starting Friday, Facebook is bringing its nascent cloud gaming service to iPhones and iPads through a web app people will be able to add to their homescreens like a native app. The site will…
Jon Porter 2021-07-23 06:34:22 www.theverge.com A teardown of Apple’s new $99 MagSafe Battery Pack from Charger Lab has given us our best look yet inside the new accessory, and revealed more details about how it works. For starters, it…
Sean Hollister 2021-07-22 18:34:46 www.theverge.com Frankly, now that we’ve seen a leather case for your MagSafe charging puck, it’s all uphill from here. At least Apple’s new $99 MagSafe Battery Pack is something you’ll actually be carrying around and…
Catie Keck 2021-07-22 16:00:00 www.theverge.com The 2020 Summer Olympic Games are set to begin this week in Tokyo, with the opening ceremony kicking off Friday, July 23rd. While NBC and its streaming sibling Peacock will both carry coverage of…
Mitchell Clark 2021-07-22 13:18:40 www.theverge.com Many websites — including banking pages, brokerages, and gaming services — were affected for just over an hour Thursday, as part of a major internet outage. During the outage, consumers were unable to access…
Andrew J. Hawkins 2021-07-22 10:47:09 www.theverge.com Mercedes-Benz says it will go all-electric by 2030, but with conditions. The German automaker says it will only sell electric vehicles “where market conditions allow,” implying that Mercedes may still sell gas-powered vehicles…
Chaim Gartenberg 2021-07-21 13:23:57 www.theverge.com Amazon has quietly started rolling out a new masculine-sounding voice option to its Alexa virtual assistant along with a similarly masculine-sounding wake word to trigger the assistant: “Ziggy.” (The odd choice of name is…
Barbara Krasnoff 2021-07-21 09:54:52 www.theverge.com When you start using TikTok, you’re asked for a profile name and a username. If you’ve been using TikTok for a while, though, it wouldn’t be unusual to decide that you want to change…
Sam Byford 2021-07-21 02:27:08 www.theverge.com Big Picture, the mode that converts Steam’s user interface into a more console-like design better suited to TVs and controllers than monitors and mice, may not be long for this world. According to austinp_valve,…
Dieter Bohn 2021-07-20 20:00:00 www.theverge.com Samsung has officially announced when it will hold its next Unpacked product event: August 11th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It is widely expected to announce the next version of the Galaxy Z…
Jon Porter 2021-07-20 09:00:00 www.theverge.com Dropbox is getting a slew of interface tweaks alongside new tools and features. One of the more useful inclusions is a new file conversion feature, which lets Dropbox users convert images between different formats…
Jay Peters 2021-07-19 15:40:03 www.theverge.com Snap is introducing the ability to pose your Bitmoji avatar on your Snapchat profile in 3D, the company announced on Monday. For your 3D Bitmoji, you’ll be able to pick from more than 1,200…
Chaim Gartenberg 2021-07-19 17:25:41 www.theverge.com Louis Vuitton has revealed its next foray into tech products: the $2,890 Horizon Light Up Speaker, which looks less like either a gadget or a piece of high fashion, and more like an artifact…
Alex Heath 2021-07-19 16:03:00 www.theverge.com Snap is making a big bet on AR shopping. The parent company of Snapchat has bought Vertebrae, a company that lets brands create and manage 3D versions of their goods. Vertebrae’s 50-person team will…
Jay Peters 2021-07-19 12:00:00 www.theverge.com WhatsApp is rolling out a new joinable calls feature which will let you hop onto group calls after they’ve started, the Facebook-owned company announced Monday. The new feature means you’ll be able to join…
Jon Porter 2021-07-19 05:34:38 www.theverge.com Samsung is releasing a new version of The Wall, its massive modular MicroLED display. Measuring in at over 1,000 inches in size, the new “IWA Series” display is aimed at businesses and commercial applications…
Kim Lyons 2021-07-18 16:25:23 www.theverge.com If you’re looking to reserve a Steam Deck and haven’t managed to secure a reservation yet, it looks like you’ll be waiting a while to actually get your device. According to Steam’s store site…
Chaim Gartenberg 2021-07-18 09:00:00 www.theverge.com One of the most powerful new features in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, is Focus mode. At its core, a Focus mode is a more customizable version of Apple’s existing Do Not…
Chaim Gartenberg 2021-07-16 12:51:03 www.theverge.com The headline feature for Apple’s fall updates (including iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and macOS Monterey) is SharePlay. It’s a new software feature on top of FaceTime that allows you to watch and…
Barbara Krasnoff 2021-07-16 15:30:40 www.theverge.com Sometimes you want the text in your app to be smaller, so you can fit more content on a single screen. Sometimes you want it to be bigger, especially if you’ve been putting off…
Ian Carlos Campbell 2021-07-16 15:35:15 www.theverge.com So you just dropped a cool $59,000 on a Ford Mustang Mach-E GT, your own sporty slice of our electric future, made by a company that only knows how to build them tough…
Sean Hollister 2021-07-16 17:23:08 www.theverge.com Fakespot, known for its web browser extensions that try to weed out fake product reviews, suddenly no longer has an iPhone or iPad app — because Amazon sent Apple a takedown request, both Amazon…
Richard Lawler 2021-07-16 14:35:59 www.theverge.com Valve officially revealed its handheld PC gaming machine only a day ago, but that was apparently enough to spread the word — when the Steam Deck went up for preorder today at 1PM ET,…
Richard Lawler 2021-07-15 15:48:15 www.theverge.com Online shoppers will eventually see another option listed next to the usual payment methods, now that Facebook Pay will expand beyond the company’s own platforms. Not long after credit card companies dropped out of…
Jay Peters 2021-07-15 12:00:00 www.theverge.com Logitech-owned Streamlabs, maker of the popular livestreaming app Streamlabs OBS, is releasing a new tool today called Crossclip that lets you take your favorite Twitch clips and turn them into social videos formatted for…
Richard Lawler 2021-07-14 17:31:29 www.theverge.com Until now, using WhatsApp web on your desktop or any other device has required having a phone that’s powered on and connected, but a new beta test is trying out support for multiple devices…
Adi Robertson 2021-07-14 17:05:56 www.theverge.com A Facebook-backed initiative aiming to let people type by thinking has concluded with new findings published today. Project Steno was a multi-year collaboration between Facebook and the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab,…
Jacob Kastrenakes 2021-07-14 13:09:55 www.theverge.com Facebook plans to pay out $1 billion to creators over the next year and a half as part of an effort to court content makers to its many services. The money will be awarded…
Dave Gershgorn 2021-07-13 17:21:24 www.theverge.com Facebook is introducing a new feature called “Group Experts” today, which will allow admins to designate which members are highly knowledgeable about the group’s topic. Beyond the bragging rights, Group Experts will have a…
Cameron Faulkner 2021-07-13 11:00:00 www.theverge.com Razer has introduced the Barracuda X, a multiplatform wireless gaming headset that takes design cues from the company’s Opus noise-canceling headphones. They’re launching today for $99.99, which is more aggressive than I expected, given…
Sam Byford 2021-07-13 03:00:05 www.theverge.com A few days ago, Tag Heuer posted a teaser for a Super Mario-themed watch. You might have assumed that a Swiss-made mechanical timepiece was in the works, but now the news is out: it’s…
Jay Peters 2021-07-12 16:27:04 www.theverge.com After many teases, it seems as if a Samsung foldable is finally going to get support for an S Pen stylus. FCC filings for the S Pen Pro, a bigger version of the S…
