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Apple says visionOS beta will include the App Store this fall and, by default, iPad and iPhone apps will be published automatically on the Vision Pro app store (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple says visionOS beta will include the App Store this fall and, by default, iPad and iPhone apps will be published automatically on the Vision Pro app store — As developers continue to work on bringing their apps to Vision Pro, Apple has shared a new update via its website with

Amazon will now charge $1.99 per delivery for in-garage deliveries that used to be free if the date is outside a customer’s designated weekly “Amazon Day” (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge: Amazon will now charge $1.99 per delivery for in-garage deliveries that used to be free if the date is outside a customer’s designated weekly “Amazon Day” — / Now there’s an extra $1.99 fee to have Amazon drop packages off in your garage outside of your specified ‘Amazon Day.’

These Steam Deck custom resin buttons look phenomenal — and they’re for sale

GIF by DeckButtons Would you spend $40–$60 on artisan buttons for your Steam Deck? What if they were cast by hand from custom resin molds, made by just one guy in the USA? I imagine it would depend on how they look — but thankfully, they look amazing. GIF by DeckButtons Such shimmer. Today, Greg

Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple’s A&R label Platoon (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple’s A&R label Platoon — More than 80% of the music we listen to today is delivered over streaming, according to figures from last year.

Android 14 got a last-minute delay, here’s when we expect it

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google has delayed the release of Android 14. The delay reportedly came at the last minute. The new launch date could possibly be on October 4. Today was expected to be the launch of the Android 14 source code, but it looks like plans have changed. It appears OEMs

Elon Musk paid for our attention, but the price to keep it is getting higher

Say what? | Illustration: Laura Normand / The Verge I see Elon Musk has pivoted from pretending he’s going to physically fight Mark Zuckerberg to pretending he is going to sue the Anti-Defamation League. Okay. There are people who still take Musk seriously, and I wish them well on their journey. This blog is for

TikTok appears to be gearing up for a big push into messaging

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge There are messaging features inside of TikTok, but nobody really thinks of TikTok as a messaging app. The company appears intent on changing that, though: its parent company ByteDance is hiring for a slew of roles on a team called “TikTok Social,” which seems to be tasked with

Email: Genesis Global Trading plans to close its US-focused spot crypto trading platform on September 18 and all remaining open accounts by September 30’s end (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Email: Genesis Global Trading plans to close its US-focused spot crypto trading platform on September 18 and all remaining open accounts by September 30’s end — The subsidiary had escaped parent company Genesis Global’s lending-induced bankruptcy. — Genesis’ U.S.-focused spot crypto trading business …

iPhone and iPad apps will be available in the Vision Pro App Store by default

Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple’s upcoming App Store for its Vision Pro headset will include all compatible iPhone and iPad apps “by default.” In an update on Tuesday, Apple said it will release the new App Store with the developer beta of visionOS this fall. Both iPad and iPhone apps will appear alongside

Cinebench can now test GPU power

Image: Maxon Cinebench, the classic benchmark test that PC enthusiasts (not to mention Verge laptop reviewers like myself) use to measure the CPU performance of their devices, has gotten a major update, developer Maxon announced. The main thing to know is that the new release, dubbed Cinebench 2024, will introduce GPU benchmarking. This is a

Nintendo isn’t revealing Mario’s new voice actor until Wonder comes out

Getty Images Nintendo’s going to let us figure out who the next voice of Mario is on our own. In an interview with IGN, Nintendo of America’s president, Doug Bowser, said that the company doesn’t plan on revealing Charles Martinet’s replacement until folks roll credits on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. “I think people have recognized

Amazon’s in-garage delivery service is going to cost a little extra for the convenience

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will charge $1.99 per delivery for in-garage deliveries that used to be free if the customer wants to get them made outside of their designated weekly “Amazon Day,” as described in an update to Amazon’s blog post. Screenshots of in-app notifications posted on X (formerly Twitter) and

Star Trek is getting five new ‘very Short Treks’

Animated Neelix! | Image: CBS Studios CBS Studios just announced Star Trek: very Short Treks, a set of five animated shorts from Casper Kelly (the “Too Many Cooks” guy). The first of them will debut this Friday — Star Trek Day — in honor of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Animated Series. You

Hate hunting for new apps and games on the Play Store? Google has a new solution

Credit: Google Google Play is piloting a new video series called “The Play Report.” The video series aims to help users find apps and games similar to its editorial content. The Play Report will appear at the top of the Play Store page for some US users. When you go onto the Google Play Store,

Raspi-Powered Typewriter Is a Real MUSE

Thanks to parenting and life in general, [Brendan] had fallen out of the habit of writing and wasn’t happy about it. If you write anything ever, you already know there are endless distractions when it comes to doing so on a computer. Sure, there always typewriters, but it’s difficult to do anything with the fruits

Samsung announces date for SDC 2023 event

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung will hold its annual developer’s conference on October 5, 2023. There’s a good chance this keynote will be full of One UI announcements. The event is happening the day after Google’s Pixel 8 event. As summer draws to a close, event time is heating up. Apple is expected

Baldur’s Gate 3: all the news and updates on one of the best RPGs of the year

Image: Larian Studios You’re gonna be spending a lot of time down, down, down by the river. Continue reading…

Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die

Meta didn’t build those massive offices in the Bay Area just for them to sit empty, you know? | Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Starting today, Meta’s offices are going to be full again. The company has been saying since June that any employee assigned to an office — which

Spotify is testing making lyrics a Premium-only feature

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge A number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics, which typically pop up under the currently playing song, were suddenly locked away under a paywall. Instead, they saw only a notification bubble saying, “Enjoy lyrics on Spotify Premium,”

How to disable Chrome’s new targeted ad tracking

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge This summer, Google began rolling out its new Topics API, which “allows a browser to share information with third parties about a user’s interests while preserving privacy.” A part of Google’s new Privacy Sandbox, the API is supposed to replace the third-party cookies that have been following us

The best Labor Day deals you can still grab at Amazon and elsewhere

Apple’s latest iPad Mini is one of many Labor Day deals still kicking around. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Labor Day may mark the unofficial end to summer and the beginning of the school year for many students, but it’s also one of the last big sales weekends before the holiday shopping

Google is making the Android logo more dynamic and playful

Credit: Google Google has officially announced the new Bugdroid logo and the Android wordmark. The Bugdroid logo returns to its complete robot physique in a rounded and 3D avatar. The wordmark has also been switched to sentence-case, with a rounder “n” and “r.” Android as an operating system is not shy of changes. The OS

Jenny’s Daily Drivers: Raspberry Pi Desktop

One of the more exciting prospects upon receiving one of the earliest Raspberry Pi boards back in 2012 was that it was a fully-functional desktop computer in the palm of your hand. In those far-off days, the Debian OS distro for the board wasn’t even yet called Raspbian, but it would run a full-on desktop

AGs in all 50 US states urge Congress to study how AI can be used to exploit kids, including via AI-made pornography, and pass legislation to guard against it (Meg Kinnard/Associated Press)

Meg Kinnard / Associated Press: AGs in all 50 US states urge Congress to study how AI can be used to exploit kids, including via AI-made pornography, and pass legislation to guard against it — The top prosecutors in all 50 states are urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence can be used to exploit

Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as the EU’s competition chief to run for a job at the EIB, and justice commissioner Didier Reynders will now assume the role (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as the EU’s competition chief to run for a job at the EIB, and justice commissioner Didier Reynders will now assume the role — Belgian politician appointed while incumbent Margrethe Vestager targets top job at European Investment Bank

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