iPhone 15 users should now see more battery-related information under Battery Health settings. | Image: The Verge Apple’s iOS 17.4 update is now available, introducing new emoji and a cryptographic security protocol for iMessage, alongside some major changes to the App Store and contactless payments for the iPhone platform in Europe. Apple is making several
Read MoreSome GE Appliance’s Café wall ovens can now recognize what’s in them and suggest cooking modes for you. | Image: GE Appliances If you have a smart GE Appliances wall oven, it’s about to get smarter. Cookcam AI is a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to recognize what you put in the oven and
Read MoreThe Verge Tidal seems to have decided that there just aren’t enough people willing to pay upward of $20 per month for the highest-possible audio fidelity. So starting April 10th in the US, the company will combine its existing HiFi and HiFi Plus plans into a single subscription tier that will simply be called “Tidal.”
Read MoreImage: Warner Bros. Discovery Wired reports that Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is gearing up to implement a new set of restrictions designed to prevent subscribers from sharing their passwords with people who aren’t paying for the service themselves. Speaking at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media & Telecom conference on Monday, WBD head of global streaming and
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are coming back online following an outage lasting about two hours. The three Meta-owned platforms stopped working for many users starting around 10AM ET. Some users experienced issues logging in to their Meta Quest headsets, too. Facebook logged users out of their accounts, while
Read MoreThe new chronograph can trace its bright look back to models designed to withstand the rigors of space travel, with a dial chosen for its ability to reflect the sun’s heat.
Read MoreMicrosoft has filed a motion seeking to dismiss key parts of a lawsuit The New York Times filed against the company and Open AI, accusing them of copyright infringement. From a report: If you’ll recall, The Times sued both companies for using its published articles to train their GPT large language models (LLMs) without permission
Read MoreApple’s iPhone shipments in 2024 will drop compared to 2023, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo forecasts, with a significant decline caused in part by lower shipments to China. Apple’s Head of Retail, Deirdre O’Brien, in Apple Sanlitun, Beijing Apple is having trouble in China, with reports of local sellers overtaking the iPhone in the market. It now
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is ending support for its Android subsystem in Windows 11 next year. The software giant first announced it was bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon’s Appstore nearly three years ago, but this Windows Subsystem for Android will now be deprecated starting March 5th, 2025. “Microsoft is ending support for the
Read MoreX, formerly Twitter, has opted its entire user base into receiving audio and video calls from anyone they follow, and you can’t turn it off on desktop browsers. Here’s how you can turn it off on your iPhone. How to turn off Twitter/X calls X now allows users to make audio and video calls to
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Google Play Store went down for some users today. Google’s app market seems to be back online again. The Google Play Store is the default app market on Android devices, but it looks like the store experienced major technical difficulties. Some users on social media and DownDetector reported
Read MoreAndy Stone, communications director at Meta, confirmed the outage on X and said the company is working to fix the issue. Read more: Facebook and Instagram down as Meta apps face outage
Read MoreThe U.S. government announced Tuesday sanctions against the founder of the notorious spyware company Intellexa and one of his business partners. From a report: This is the first time the U.S. government has targeted specific people, in addition to companies, with sanctions related to the misuse of commercial spyware. And it signifies an escalation of
Read MoreThe best part of Discover Samsung week is the knock-on effect that the sale has on the previous generation devices. We just spotted that the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, which is still the latest ‘Pro’ model of wearable, is at an all-time low on Amazon, taking a massive $250 price dive to just $199.99.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Kayak launched new AI features that let people ask a chatbot for travel tips and find flights with just a screenshot. This brings Kayak in line with many other travel sites that offer AI services for trip planning and, now, price comparisons. PriceCheck, one of Kayak’s two new
Read MoreBitcoin surged to a record as demand from new US exchange-traded funds and a looming reduction in the token’s supply growth fuel a breathtaking rebound in the original cryptocurrency. From a report: The largest digital asset rose as much as 2.5% to $69,191.95 as of 10:10 a.m. Tuesday in New York. Bitcoin has climbed about
Read MoreThis comes a day after four astronauts began their journey to the International Space Station aboard the Falcon 9 as part of the NASA Crew-8 mission yesterday. Read more: SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9
Read MoreAs concepts such as advanced 5G and generative AI continues to gain traction, some groups believe advanced technology may be the key to reducing emissions. Read more: ‘We can’t have a green transition without a digital transition’
Read More© 2024 Stellantis The electric Charger will come in two variants, but Dodge isn’t ready to abandon the gas-gargling V8 quite yet. Continue reading…
Read MoreA standout in a sea of same-looking budget phones. Budget phones tend to be pretty forgettable, but the Nothing Phone 2A isn’t your average budget phone — that much is obvious just looking at it. The 2A is Nothing’s third phone and its first attempt at a truly inexpensive device. And it’s very budget-friendly: the
Read MoreImage: Alex Parkin / The Verge There’s one thing you can count on at Mobile World Congress: a whole mess of Android smartphones. This year’s conference in Barcelona, Spain, delivered, with new devices from Xiaomi, Nothing, and others showing off the state of the art in the smartphone world. But there was something else brewing
Read MoreAmazon’s apt-titled thermostat can learn your habits over time and supports Alexa. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge While the days are getting brighter, spring isn’t set to arrive for another few weeks. Given we’re still dealing with storms in “sunny” Southern California, I’m going to venture a guess that it probably
Read MoreRIP to an iconic shape. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I had mixed feelings when Apple did away with the wedge in favor of a more traditional shape for the M2 MacBook Air. Did it feel a bit like sacrilege? Sure, but at least the wedge wasn’t gone gone. There was still
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The OnePlus Nord 4 (or Nord 5) is likely next to launch, according to a leaker. History tells us this could possibly be a rebrand of another OnePlus device. OnePlus recently launched the OnePlus 12, but we’ve now got a good idea of what’s coming next. It turns out
Read MoreIn a note seen by AppleInsider, investment firm Wedbush has told its clients that it is maintaining its price target for Apple, despite what it describes as a horror show of current problems. Tim Cook at a game tournament in Apple Taikoo Li, Chengdu Wedbush raised its Apple target price to $250 in December 2023,
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