Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Still on the hunt for a PlayStation 5? Today could be your lucky day: you now have a chance to buy the disc-based PS5 as part of the Horizon Forbidden West bundle for $549.99. Even better, unlike some of Best Buy’s past console restocks, this one is available
Read MoreMike Allen / Axios: Jay Carney, senior VP of global corporate affairs at Amazon, will join Airbnb in September as global head of policy and communications — Jay Carney, who was White House press secretary under President Obama, will move from Amazon to Airbnb as global head of policy and communications.
Read MoreKillzone Shadow Fall. | Image: Sony Guerrilla Games, the Sony-owned studio most recently known for Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, is shutting down online multiplayer for three games in August (via Polygon). The shutdowns, which will happen on August 12th, will affect Killzone: Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall, and Rigs: Mechanized Combat League. “Online
Read MoreThe Lockly Vision Elite is a $500 do-everything smart lock. | Image: Lockly Smart door locks and video doorbells are useful for keeping an eye on and controlling what’s going on at your front door. But there are very few that actually work together, meaning you end up with two different apps or two different
Read MoreThe HomePod Mini is a Thread border router. With the launch of the new Thread specification, border routers from different manufacturers can now be part of a single Thread network. | Photo by Jennifer Tuohy / The Verge Matter is getting closer. The new smart home standard promising to make setting up a smart home
Read MoreInto the Breach is free on iOS with its Advance Edition update, all thanks to Netflix.
Read MoreSometimes you need to get a project to talk to you, so you can see what’s going on inside. The ESP32 console Arduino library from [jbtronics] promises just that. The library adds a simple serial console to the ESP32, and is compatible with the Arduino ecosystem to boot. It’s set up to allow the easy
Read MoreHarry Baker / UploadVR: Meta introduces a Mature Worlds Policy for Horizon, a new content rating system which will default to 18+ if creators do not apply for a rating — Meta is adjusting its content policies for Horizon Worlds and introducing a new content rating system for “mature audiences”.
Read MoreA bathtub ring watermark at Hoover Dam / Lake Mead has dropped two inches every day since February (26 feet in one year) is viewed on July 12th, 2022, near Boulder City, Nevada. | Photo by George Rose/Getty Images The US’s largest water reservoir, Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam, is in very, very bad
Read MoreCredit: 9to5Google The Fitbit Sense 2 and Fitbit Versa 4 just leaked. Both devices appear to have physical buttons. There are some subtle design refinements, but no major shifts it seems. Fitbit hasn’t launched a new smartwatch since 2020. The two watches it launched in September that year were the Fitbit Versa 3 and its
Read MoreBloomberg: Source: FTX is in advanced talks to buy South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb — FTX, the crypto trading platform co-founded by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, is in advanced talks to buy South Korea’s Bithumb, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Read MoreMinecraft has become a gaming staple over the years, allowing players to build the world of their dreams. But what if that dream included NFTs? Developer Mojang has clarified its position on NFTs, and it’s not good news for anyone who was hoping to inject crypto scarcity into the block-based world. Mojang says NFTs will
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Canadian town of St. Marys, Ontario, has been hit by a ransomware attack that has locked staff out of internal systems and encrypted data. The small town of around 7,500 residents seems to be the latest target of the notorious LockBit ransomware group. On July 22nd, a
Read MoreEncryption is a powerful security feature, getting stronger over the years to protect data as exploits keep getting more powerful every day. While it’s commonly used in enterprise solutions, you can use encryption for your data as well, and you probably should. Encrypting a hard drive on your computer isn’t very hard, either. It’s very
Read MoreSurround sound is what makes watching movies at a theater that much more exciting. This creates an immersive, exhilarating experience, and it’s no wonder people want to emulate it at home. But what if you don’t have multiple speakers peppered throughout your living room? That’s where spatial audio comes in. Using technology and some advanced
Read MoreCan a $30 dongle make you a better player? | Image: Razer Razer continues to stretch the limits of what gamers are willing to buy to get the edge on their opponents. Starting today, fans of the Razer Viper V2 Pro wireless gaming mouse can obtain the luxury of having a higher polling rate than
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A Samsung business customer says they are missing $45,000 in Samsung trade-in credits. The credits stem from a supposed purchase of 125 Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra devices. The customer was allegedly able to partially recover some of the funds from their credit card company. If you’ve ever traded in
Read More(Photo: Jed Owen/Unsplash)If you happen to catch a farmer tucking a pair of briefs into the soil, relax: they aren’t trying to plant an underwear tree. They’re actually testing the soil for beneficial microbes, which are key to keeping a steady supply of healthy crops. Farmers in Delaware have begun using cotton underwear to see
Read Moreoversightboard.com: Meta’s Oversight Board Trust says the company is giving $150M to the trust as part of ongoing financial support, following a $130M contribution in 2019 — Today the Oversight Board Trust announced that Meta has made a commitment that provides for ongoing financial support for the Oversight Board.
Read MoreThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have had its problems on the ground, but it all paid off. The new space telescope is performing perfectly, and NASA just released the first images captured with the main mirror. With so much more power than Hubble, designers had to give the telescope a good-sized chunk of
Read MoreWhen we first saw the VBA curve tracer, we thought it might have something to do with Visual Basic for Applications. But it turns out it is a mash up of the names of the creators: [Paul Versteeg], [Bud Bennett], and [Mark Allie]. [Paul] designed an original prototype back in 2017. Since then, the project
Read MoreFlorence Pugh as Alice Chambers in Don’t Worry Darling. | Warner Bros. In Warner Bros.’ upcoming thriller Don’t Worry Darling from director Olivia Wilde, most everything about the fictional company town of Victory seems perfectly normal from a distance — as do the handful of picture-perfect nuclear families who call the place home. But there’s
Read MoreThe collision of gaming and fashion continues to manifest in unexpected ways: the latest example is a web game to promote a collaboration between Gap, Balenciaga, and Ye. The game, which launched at the same time as the in-store Yeezy Gap Balenciaga collection and its very expensive T-shirts, is a fairly straightforward mobile title with
Read MoreEvery Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Fridays, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large David Pierce, and managing editor Alex Cranz discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. In today’s
Read MoreRaindrop works practically everywhere, like any good bookmarking app should. | Image: Raindrop Bookmarking apps are a lost art. They were once a hot industry, where Delicious and Diigo and Wink and Furl (these are all real names, I swear!) competed to be the home for all your URLs. But those went out of style
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