Family reunion! Usually my younger siblings wait until I’m done with work — they’re in earlier time zones than I am, so they’re being polite — then the group chat lights up: “Splat.” “Splat.” “Splat.” This is our shorthand for…
The entry-level Apple Watch SE is a gateway smartwatch if there ever was one. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Editor’s note: Following a lost bid to halt a recent ban on selling its newest Apple Watches,…
Image: OpenAI The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has denied OpenAI’s application to register the word GPT, which means generative pre-trained transformer, saying GPT is too general a term to register and can prevent competitors from correctly describing their…
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Update February 16th, 6:35PM ET: Sony appears to have sold out of the PlayStation Portal, as the handheld remote player is no longer available via PlayStation Direct. Sony’s PlayStation Portal is…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Switch 2 rumor mill continues to grind. The original reporting on the Switch 2’s release date pegged it for a fall 2024 release in time for the holiday rush. Now, according to…
The majority of traffic from Elon Musk’s X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
This week, Super Bowl 2024 shattered records, with the NFL championship broadcast on CBS becoming the most-watched televised event in U.S. history.Also riding high from the big game? Elon Musk’s X. The company formerly known as Twitter published its own…
UPDATE: Feb. 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m. EST This story has been updated with new Presidents Day laptop deals, pricing, and availability. The best Presidents Day laptop deals of the week at a glance: Best laptop deal under $300 Dell Inspiron…
Google’s description of the feature in Search Labs. | Image: Sterling Google is testing a new “Talk to a Live Representative” feature that allows the company’s software to call a business on your behalf, navigate through its phone tree, wait…
Image: The Verge Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent. I personally experienced the bug last month, after I rebooted my PC…
Select iPad models go on sale quite frequently, but some discounts on aging models are getting harder to find. | Image: Procreate While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Amazon’s…
