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Apple has agreed to hire a third-party firm to conduct an audit of its US labor practices, according to an investor coalition that has pushed for the assessment (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: Apple has agreed to hire a third-party firm to conduct an audit of its US labor practices, according to an investor coalition that has pushed for the assessment — The tech giant will assess its compliance with its official human rights policy, according to a federal filing.

The Willow breast pump now has an Apple Watch app to make pumping slightly less terrible

The Willow 3.0 in-bra breast pump now comes with a handy Apple Watch companion app. | Image: Willow The Willow 3.0 in-bra breast pump is designed to help nursing parents carry on with their lives while pumping, and its latest new feature adds an extra level of convenience: a companion app for the Apple Watch.

Coachella will continue streaming on YouTube through 2026

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Can’t fly to California for Coachella? No problem. You’ll still be able to stream the annual arts and music festival live from the comfort of your own home for at least another few years. YouTube and Coachella organizers Goldenvoice announced on YouTube’s official blog that they’ve renewed their

Microsoft set to lay off thousands of employees tomorrow

The Verge Microsoft is preparing to announce job cuts tomorrow. Sky News reports that thousands of roles will be cut, with the software giant said to be looking at cutting around 5 percent of its workforce. With more than 220,000 employees at Microsoft, that could mean more than 10,000 layoffs. While Sky News doesn’t name

Discord acquires Gas, the popular app for teens to compliment each other

High schoolers have been gassing each other up in this popular app. | Image: Gas Discord has acquired the Gas social app. The poll-based app has become popular among teens in recent months, allowing friends to share compliments with each other. The app is designed for anonymous compliments and positive affirmations or, as kids say,

How to activate Bluetooth on your Stadia controller

Once the Stadia service goes down on January 18th, 2023, this controller is useless. That is, unless you turn on its Bluetooth mode before the end of the year. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is turning off its Stadia cloud game streaming service on January 18th, 2023, but it’s giving

You might need a new PC to play Forspoken properly

Image: Square Enix From the beginning, Forspoken was pitched as a technological showcase for PS5 and PC, offering the latest in SSD game load times and AI upscaling technology. But until today, it hadn’t quite sunk in just how much power the “magical parkour” game will demand. Square Enix has now revealed the PC system

Megahex will Give You Robo-Arachnophobia

Some projects start with a relatively simple idea that quickly turns into a bit of a nightmare when you get to the actual implementation. [Hacksmith Industries] found this to be the case when they decided to build a giant rideable hexapod, Megahex. [YouTube] After seeing a video of a small excavator that could move itself

2023 will be the year of the display

Razer’s Blade 16 is only one of the gaming laptops with decked-out screens coming in 2023. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The laptops of 2023 will get new chips and new graphics. Many will get new touchpads, some will get new fans, and a few will get funky styluses. But some of

Meta’s Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Meta’s Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people — Meta’s Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company’s takedown …

NASA Wants Your Help to Discover New Worlds

NASA needs your help. The next time you settle in for a Netflix binge, you might instead consider joining the newly expanded Exoplanet Watch. It gives you access to the data and tools used by NASA scientists to hunt exoplanets. It’s an involved project that requires a little bit of homework, but you could end

Netflix’s iPhone app gets a big & whimsical new look

Netflix has a new interface on the iPhone — and it’s so much better it’s difficult to know where to start.

Twitter says it’s enforcing “long-standing third-party API rules” that “may result in some apps not working” but does not specify the rules allegedly broken (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Twitter says it’s enforcing “long-standing third-party API rules” that “may result in some apps not working” but does not specify the rules allegedly broken — Twitter confirmed that it’s purposefully blocking third-party apps like Tweetbot and Twitterific following days of silence.

You can now switch your Stadia controller to Bluetooth, but only until December

Google is now allowing users to switch their Stadia controllers to Bluetooth. Once enabled, the controller will start using Bluetooth Low Energy connections. The update will only stay available until December 31, 2023. Google revealed that at some point this week it was going to allow Stadia controller owners to enable Bluetooth, allowing the controller

Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that’s popular among teens for helping them share compliments with each other (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that’s popular among teens for helping them share compliments with each other — Discord has acquired the Gas social app. The poll-based app has become popular among teens in recent months, allowing friends to share compliments with each other.

Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting roughly 5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)

Mark Kleinman / Sky News: Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting roughly 5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days — Microsoft is finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce amid a global economic slowdown, Sky News learns.

JEDEC Says Dell’s CAMM Laptop Memory Tech Will Replace SO-DIMM

Back in April last year, Dell introduced an all-new type of memory module for some of its mobile workstations. It was dubbed CAMM, which stands for Compression Attached Memory Module. We publicly complained that it was something “proprietary” to Dell at the time, which it was. However, it now appears it’ll be adopted across the

It’s not the M2 MacBook Pros that have given me and my MacBook Pro 2021 buyers remorse – it’s the Mac Mini

While the new models with M2 look great, they weren’t quite cool enough to make me feel bad about my new MacBook.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 is getting a battery diagnostic tool

Battery life was the most disappointing thing about the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 at launch. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Battery life was one of the most disappointing things about the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5. Despite Samsung touting bigger upgraded batteries for the Watch 5 series, the claims didn’t hold up

Apple M1 Pro and Max vs M2 Pro and Max: What’s the difference?

Apple now has two heavy-hitting lines of Apple silicon chips in the form of the M1 and M2 chip, here are the main differences.

Supercon 2022: All Aboard the SS MAPR with Sherry Chen

How do you figure out what is in a moving body of water over a mile wide? For those in charge of assessing the water quality of the Delaware river, this is a real problem. Collecting the data required to evaluate the water quality was expensive and time-consuming, taking over six years. Even then, the

Samsung Details the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s 200MP Camera Sensor

Numerous leaks have pointed to a major camera upgrade for Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone, and although the Galaxy S23 Ultra won’t be revealed for a few more weeks, we know everything about its new primary camera sensor. Samsung has taken the wraps off its new ISOCELL HP2, which has a whopping 200 megapixels of resolution.

New MacBook Pros look great on the inside – it’s a shame there’s nothing new on the outside

There are three new Macs now available to order. Each contains either an all-new M2 Pro or an M2 Max chip. Here’s our early take on each of these.

In a first, Samsung adds laptops to its Self-Repair Program, now covering the 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro and 15-inch Book Pro 360 PCs, following Apple and Google (Rob Pegoraro/PCMag)

Rob Pegoraro / PCMag: In a first, Samsung adds laptops to its Self-Repair Program, now covering the 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro and 15-inch Book Pro 360 PCs, following Apple and Google — DIY-minded Samsung owners now have officially supported options to repair more smartphones and, for the first time, laptops from that firm.

FEC dismisses GOP complaint that Google censored fundraising emails in Gmail

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Elections Commission dismissed a Republican-led complaint that Google’s filters in Gmail unfairly send GOP fundraising emails to spam folders at a higher rate than those from Democrats. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the FEC’s dismissal on Tuesday, citing a commission letter to

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