We’ve called it a cross between the Battle School from Ender’s Game and ultimate frisbee. We’ve called it Final Fantasy X blitzball meets VR. It made two of our Best VR Games lists — three, if you count the one I did for CNET before returning to The Verge. It convincingly sticks you into a
Read MoreA photo from E3 2019, the year before the pandemic. | Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Plus GM’s Hummer EV SUV goes into production, and Paramount’s streaming service gets a rebrand. Continue reading…
Read MoreFrontier joins AT&T as another 5-gig capable ISP available in the United States | Graphic by William Joel / The Verge Frontier, an internet service provider (ISP) that services 25 US states, has just launched 5 Gig fiber internet service across its entire network. Frontier launched 2 Gig fiber internet service less than a year
Read MoreSohee Kim / Bloomberg: As memory prices plunge, SK hynix reports a Q4 operating loss of ~$1.4B, its biggest quarterly operating loss yet, vs. ~$900M est., on a 38% YoY drop in revenue — South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. reported its biggest quarterly loss on record, due to plunging prices in memory chips as
Read MoreA screenshot from Half-Life 2, which is included in The Orange Box. | Image: Valve Microsoft will be removing a bunch of beloved games from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on February 7th, according to a support page on the Xbox website (via Wario64), meaning you won’t be able to buy them after that date. It’s
Read MoreJohn Lewis used his AirTag to track his lost wallet being flown by American Airlines across 35 cities.
Read MoreRode’s NTH-100M headset | Image: Rode Rode is packaging the NTH-100 headphones with a headset microphone for broadcast, streaming, and other voice operations and calling it the NTH-100M. There is virtually no difference between last year’s NTH-100s and the new $189 NTH-100M outside of the new removable boom microphone and the required TRRS cable for
Read MoreSamsung is holding its Galaxy Unpacked event today. The event will be both in-person and live-streamed, which you can watch right here. Samsung will show off the Galaxy S23 series and more. The wait is over; the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event happens today. And you can watch all the reveals from the comfort
Read MorePassenger aircraft as seen flying over the Netherlands. | Image: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images With business continuing as usual, climate pollution from aviation could nearly triple by 2050 as demand for air travel grows, according to a new study published yesterday in the journal Nature Sustainability. It would cost up to $1 trillion to
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Microsoft disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Cloud Partner Program accounts for creating malicious OAuth apps used to steal customers’ emails — Microsoft has disabled multiple fraudulent, verified Microsoft Partner Network accounts for creating malicious OAuth applications …
Read MoreSylvia Varnham O’Regan / The Information: Sources: seeking to boost Reels’ quality, Meta executives are leaning toward relaxing the company’s long-standing opposition to sharing ad revenue with creators — When Wall Street analysts dial into an earnings call tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg, they’re likely to pepper the Meta Platforms CEO …
Read MoreApple’s T2 security chip is causing a ton of secondhand MacBooks to get scrapped.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge People aren’t buying as many computers, and chipmakers are getting hit hard — but AMD thinks that should improve long before the year is out. “The first quarter should be the bottom for us in PCs,” AMD CEO Lisa Su said today on the company’s Q4 2022 earnings
Read MoreOne of the most convenient things about having cats is their independent lifestyle: most are happy to enjoy themselves outside all day, only coming back home when it’s time for dinner and a nap. What your cat gets up to during the day remains a mystery, unless you fit it with a GPS collar. When
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A judge for the National Labor Relations Board has determined that Amazon broke labor laws in the run-up to union elections at its JFK8 and LDJ5 facilities in Staten Island, New York. According to the judge, the company threatened workers by saying they wouldn’t get raises or additional
Read MoreOpen for business. | Image: DIY Perks The Framework Laptop has been a godsend for DIYers. Not only does the modular design allow for quick and easy repair, but the swappable mainboard is a robust platform for all sorts of bizarre builds. Tons of tinkerers have used the modular mainboard design to create their own
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: AMD reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $5.6B, vs. $5.5B est., net income down 98% YoY to $21M, and Client segment revenue down 51% YoY due to weak PC chip sales — – AMD reported fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations for sales and profit, but guided
Read MoreSean Hollister / The Verge: Anker admits its Eufy security cameras are not natively E2E encrypted and produced unencrypted video streams for Eufy’s web portal, but says the flaws are fixed — / Anker admits its always-encrypted cameras weren’t always encrypted — and promises to do better. … First, Anker told us it was impossible.
Read MoreTJ Denzer / Shacknews: EA Q3: revenue up 5% YoY to $1.88B, vs. $2.5B est., net income up 209% YoY to $204M, net bookings down 9% YoY to $2.34B, and lowers FY guidance; stock drops 5%+ — The game publishing giant reduced its full year revenue expectations by about half a billion dollars in its
Read MoreA screenshot from Apex Legends Mobile. | Image: EA Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment announced the game’s mobile version will shut down in all regions on May 1st, just a few weeks shy of its one-year anniversary. As if that wasn’t enough bad news for players, it also said that once the game is gone,
Read MoreYou may have already known about the Shopify marketplace and how it is one of the best platforms to make money by selling your products and services online. Whether you are a Shopify designer, developer, industry authority, or someone who wants to start a Dropshipping business, to become an expert, you will have to learn
Read MoreImage: Blizzard Entertainment To coincide with the release of season 3, Overwatch 2 is reintroducing Overwatch credits, giving players ways to earn those credits via battle pass progression, and adding Overwatch’s epic and legendary skins to its shop at reduced prices. Altogether, this currency overhaul is meant to address the long-standing complaint that the new
Read MoreCredit: Tubi Tubi is among the best free streaming services out there, with a huge library of movies and TV shows you can watch on-demand or on live channels, all without paying any fees. That begs the question: how does Tubi make its money? And is Tubi safe to use? Tubi recently signed a deal
Read MoreImage: Second Dinner Marvel Snap’s Battle Mode update is now live, and my biggest problem right now is that no one wants to play. Is it because my handful of Marvel Snap friends and colleagues are afraid of the awesome power of my decks? Perhaps. Is it because it’s 2:30PM ET on a workday? Also
Read MoreJonathan Vanian / CNBC: Snap Q4: revenue flat YoY at $1.3B, vs. $1.31B est., DAUs up 17% YoY to 375M, vs. 375.3M est., and a $288M net loss, vs. $23M in net income YoY; stock down 13%+ — – Snap missed on revenue for the fourth quarter but beat on earnings. — Snap had a
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