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Image: Samsung AirDrop has long been a handy convenience that comes with using Apple gadgets, but Samsung has finally come up with its own version. And it’s debuting on the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra. It’s called Quick Share, and Samsung says it lets you “share everything with your friends instantly.” Quick Share is detailed toward the bottom of this page that’s about the S20’s camera.Similar to AirDrop, Quick Share can show “which of your cont

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Snapchat is launching a search tool called Here For You that will surface “safety resources” from mental health experts when users search for sensitive topics like anxiety, depression, suicide, and bullying, the company announced Tuesday.For instance, if a user searched for “thinspo” (content that may skew to be pro-anorexia), the search results would “intervene” with content by experts, Fast Company reports. While

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy S20 lineup will be the first non-Pixel phones to gain Google’s Live Caption feature, which transcribes and captions videos in real time with excellent accuracy — even when the volume is turned down. Live Caption debuted on Android 10 with the Pixel 4, and Google positions it as a helpful tool among Android’s accessibility features. It has since come to older Pixel devices, but Samsung is the first outside of Google to of

Generally, reverting back to pictographs to communicate embarrasses me.
I've resisted emoji in most of my texts and social media posts over the years, but last week, while working remotely in Santiago, Chile, I encountered a moment where emoji was a lifesaver. 
I was ordering groceries through the South American delivery app Rappi (it's like Amazon and Uber Eat and Lime rolled into one) when I quickly realized my Spanish vocabulary wasn't as robust as it'd need to be. The app is very much p

Microsoft released its first emulator for Windows 10X today, allowing developers to get a first look at the new operating system variant for dual-screen devices. Microsoft wants to give developers a head start on optimizing apps before devices launch later this year, so this basic emulator provides an early look at Windows 10X before it’s finalized.
My first thoughts? Windows 10X feels like a slightly more modern version of Windows 10 that has been cleaned up for future devices.
Windows 10

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge US officials say Huawei maintains backdoors into telecom networks across the world, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.The news comes after years of escalating sanctions against the company — including an executive order in May that prohibited US companies from licensing tech to Huawei — but the justifications for those sanctions have remained vague and clouded by secrecy. Now, officials are getting specific, claiming the Chinese

Taylor Hill/FilmMagic YouTube is reportedly mulling over offering third-party subscriptions to users that will take attention away from Amazon and Apple — and keep people in Google’s ecosystem.The company is considering giving customers the ability to sign up for a “wide range of subscription-streaming services run by entertainment companies,” according to a new report from The Information. Essentially, YouTube could allow people to purchase subscriptions to services fro

There was a sense of déjà vu on Capitol Hill today as a House panel convened yet another hearing on how to best regulate autonomous vehicles. But it wasn’t clear that any of the issues that sunk the previous effort had actually been resolved — which may mean that we’re headed for a very similar conclusion.
A quick recap in case you forgot: the Republican-controlled House of Representatives unanimously passed the SELF DRIVE Act in 2017, which would speed the adopti

Image: Canoo Hyundai and Kia will build new electric vehicles based on the technological platform developed by California EV startup Canoo, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Canoo and Hyundai Motor Group, Hyundai and Kia’s parent company, will develop a new electric vehicle platform that’s based on the one that powers Canoo’s own vehicle, which was unveiled last year. This EV platform will power small, “cost-competitive” electric

Image: Samsung Samsung announced the new foldable Galaxy Z Flip during the company’s Unpacked 2020 event, and you won’t have to wait very long to get your chance at buying one. It will be available for purchase starting this Friday, February 14th — a week before preorders for the Galaxy S20 phones even start. In case you were really striking out on Valentine’s Day gift ideas, here’s one on the house.
So far, only AT&T and Sprint have confirmed availability of t

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google parent company Alphabet has moved its Jigsaw technology incubator under Google management, The Information reports. It’s the first former Alphabet company to be shifted under Google since Sergey Brin and Larry Page stepped down from their management roles in December. Since the two were behind the creation of Alphabet in 2015, The Information suggests it may be a sign that Alphabet has outlived its usefulness as a holding company.Formerly cal

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung has announced the new Galaxy S20 lineup of phones, consisting of the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, S20 Ultra. Unlike previous years, preorders don’t start today. They’ll begin on Friday, February 21st at 12:01AM ET / 9:01PM PT. Launch day is Friday, March 6th.
This means that you have more time to reserve a spot in line for a preorder. If you reserve an unlocked or carrier-locked S20 series device from Samsung before preorders begin, then follow thr

Let's start with the numbers. 
Around the world today, only 30 percent of researchers — and just 35 percent of students in STEM related fields — are women, according to the United Nations. 
And yet, despite the barriers that women in science continue to face, they have revolutionized our world, conducting pioneering research and forging innovation the world over, from Katherine Johnson, whose calculations helped to put man on the moon, to Françoise Barré-Sinou

Photo: Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games On a typical game day, the area outside of Riot’s Los Angeles studio, which plays host to the League of Legends Championship Series, is usually full of fans. Each of the 10 teams in the league has an outdoor booth area, where visitors can buy jerseys and other gear, or snap a photo with their favorite player. There’s elaborate cosplay and co-ordinated team chants. Amidst this scene, FlyQuest’s booth stands out. There you’ll find fans

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Samsung has just announced the Samsung Galaxy S20 lineup, and they look to be good upgrades over last year’s Galaxy S10. This year, there are three new models: the Galaxy S20, the bigger Galaxy S20 Plus, and the spec-stuffed Galaxy S20 Ultra.One of the headline features of the S20 is a screen that you can toggle between a 60Hz and a super-smooth 120Hz refresh rate. The phones also have a lot of camera tech on board: the S20 has three cameras, the S20 Plus

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung has debuted its new Galaxy S20 lineup of phones, and since it’s one of the first big releases of 2020, it gets to set the bar for what kind of power and features you should expect from a new phone. Given the strong suits of the smallest Galaxy S20, including specs like a quad-lens rear camera array, the Snapdragon 865 processor, a high 12GB RAM count, and a display with a variable refresh rate, it will give other companies a high bar to match.And

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Samsung’s Unpacked 2020 event has wrapped. The company jumped right in with the announcements by unveiling the Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone, and introduced the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra.
If you want the play-by-play of each moment with commentary from The Verge’s Dieter Bohn, check out the live blog. But if you want the biggest headlines with the need-to-know facts, you’ll find all of that below. This post will be ordered from

Image: Spin Master Games and Cmon Board games that hit Kickstarter are often small-scale passion projects, but the latest is something much bigger — and much less in need of crowdfunding. It’s a tabletop game called Marvel United, featuring dozens of classic Marvel heroes. While its developers may not need the funds to get Marvel United off the ground, the platform they’re launching it on is still an important part of the game. In fact, it was designed from the start to go big

On Tuesday at its Unpacked event, Samsung finally told us what we all expected to hear: Its new flagship phone line is called the Galaxy S20, and all three models support 5G.
This is big news for fans of speedy mobile networks. A handful of 5G-enabled devices launched in the United States last year, but Samsung is going all in. These aren't just more expensive models of existing phones like the Galaxy S10 or Note 10; these are arguably Samsung's most important phones, and they all work with 5G o

Image: Samsung Samsung announced its newest folding phone, the Z Flip, at its annual Galaxy event today, but the company promises it won’t be plagued with the same problems as its other folding phone, the Galaxy Fold.
The Z Flip is Samsung’s second foldable phone, following last year’s Galaxy Fold. The Z Flip’s 6.7-inch display folds into a pocketable square shape, and the phone has an ultra-thin flexible glass display that should resist scratches better than the plastic

Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip has something that’s been on no other foldable phone to date: a folding glass screen. So far, every foldable phone and tablet has relied on plastic to cover up the display. It feels worse, dents easily, and likely contributed to their delicate builds. Glass was always hoped to be the future, whenever manufacturers could figure out how to make it.
The phone’s display uses “ultra-thin glass” durable enough to withstand 200,000 f

Samsung’s Unpacked 2020 event is happening now. The company jumped right in with the announcements by unveiling the Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone. We also expect the company to unveil the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra. That’s already plenty of announcements, but there could be a few more.
If you want the play-by-play of each moment with commentary from The Verge’s Dieter Bohn, check out the liveblog. But if you want the biggest headlines with the need-to-know facts

Samsung is unveiling its latest foldable Galaxy Z Flip phone today. It looks a lot different than the troubled Galaxy Fold, and it folds up much like the new Motorola Razr. It’s clearly designed to be a full phone with a 6.7-inch OLED display that folds and shrinks into a much smaller square when it’s closed. Samsung is planning to launch the Galaxy Z Flip on February 14th, priced at $1,380.
Think of it as a tiny phone that slips into a pocket or bag and can be folded out like a regu

Samsung is unveiling its latest foldable Galaxy Z Flip phone today. It looks a lot different than the troubled Galaxy Fold, and it folds up much like the new Motorola Razr. It’s clearly designed to be a full phone with a 6.7-inch display that folds and shrinks into a much smaller square when it’s closed. Samsung is planning to launch the Galaxy Z Flip on February 14th, priced at $1,380.
Think of it as a tiny phone that slips into a pocket or bag and can be folded out like a regular f

Samsung is unveiling its latest foldable Galaxy Z Flip phone today. It looks a lot different than the troubled Galaxy Fold, and it folds up much like the new Motorola Razr. It’s clearly designed to be a full phone with a 6.7-inch display that folds and shrinks into a much smaller square when it’s closed. Think of it as a tiny phone that slips into a pocket or bag and can be folded out like a regular flip phone.
The Galaxy Z Flip also includes a clever cover display that highlights no

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung’s phones are well-known for their outstanding cameras. So when word went around that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor would be the chip that would power the new Galaxy S20 line, many suspected that one of the new features of the phone would be the ability to record 8K video.And now we know: Samsung’s three new Galaxy S20 5G phones will indeed allow you to record in 8K for high-quality, brilliantly colored videos. These aren’t the

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge All of Samsung’s Galaxy S20 phones — the S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra — support 5G. But at launch, only the latter two will be compatible with ultra-fast millimeter wave networks, like the one Verizon currently bases its entire 5G experience on. The standard Galaxy S20 only supports “sub-6” 5G used by AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint in the United States.Sub-6 5G offers better coverage and range than millimeter wave, but peak data sp

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung is knocking at least $150 off the cost of its entire Galaxy S10 lineup of phones, which includes the S10E, S10, and S10 Plus. These permanent price cuts are effective immediately, and it’s happening on the heels of Samsung’s Unpacked event where it unveiled its new Galaxy S20 generation of flagship phones.These 2019 phones have already seen a good deal of discounts in the year that they’ve been available, and with this price

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Samsung has just announced its second-generation true wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds Plus. They feature a design that’s more or less identical to the original Galaxy Buds but offer a number of improvements. The Galaxy Buds Plus are priced at $149 and will come in black, white, and blue color options.Specs for the Galaxy Buds Plus were leaked ahead of Samsung’s Unpacked event and revealed that the latest model makes impressive strides in battery lif

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy S20 Ultra offers a new feature that the company is calling “Space Zoom,” which allows its cameras to offer a total combined optical and digital zoom of 100x. That sounds like one of the biggest zooms we’ve seen on a mainstream smartphone, but there’s a lot of nuance to how Samsung’s phone achieves the figure. In short, it’s all down to a combination of optical zooming hardware, image proce

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In an effort to help political campaigns tighten security, Google is partnering with nonprofit organization Defending Digital Campaigns to give qualifying political groups free access to Titan security keys. The physical keys, used as part of Google’s Advanced Protection security program,provide another level of two-factor authentication to protect Google accounts. And perhaps even more significantly, the new partnership won’t leave it to camp

Microsoft is backtracking on its original plans to force the Chrome default search engine over to Bing using the company’s Office 365 installer. Microsoft was planning to include a new Chrome extension with its Office 365 ProPlus installer, used by businesses, that would switch Chrome’s default search engine to Bing. The software giant originally announced its plans last month, and IT admins weren’t happy.
“We heard that customers don’t want Office 365 ProPlus to ch

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google announced today that Nest customers will soon be required to enroll in two-factor authentication. In theory, that should provide a good extra step of security for devices that regularly monitor and help secure your home.
Google says that beginning this spring, any Nest users who haven’t already enrolled into two-factor authentication or migrated their Nest account to a Google account will have to verify their identity over email when they try to log

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Jaguar Land Rover plans to stop making the I-Pace electric SUV for a week because of a battery shortage at supplier LG Chem, The Times reported on Sunday.The production halt will start Monday, February 17th, in Graz, Austria, where contract manufacturer Magna Steyer makes the I-Pace for Jaguar Land Rover. When the I-Paces stop rolling off the line, it will be at least the third time that a battery shortage at LG Chem has affected the production of an elect

Windows 10X | Microsoft Microsoft is revealing more about its Windows 10X operating system today, which is designed for new dual-screen devices. The software giant has re-engineered this special variant of Windows 10 to install and update the operating system a lot faster. This will allow Windows 10X to download an OS update and simply switch to it at reboot, all within less than 90 seconds.
That’s a big difference from what we’re used to with Windows 10 day, which involves the OS d

Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday that it will begin reviewing past acquisitions made by big tech companies, including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.In orders issued to the companies, the FTC said that it was seeking “information and documents on the terms, scope, structure, and purpose of transactions” made between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2019. This would include Facebook’s acqu

Photo by Stringer/Getty Images The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that the disease caused by the new coronavirus will be referred to as COVID-19. Until this point, the illness was known as 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease. Experts refer to the virus that causes the disease as 2019-nCoV, which stands for novel coronavirus 2019.
There are around 43,000 cases of the illness around the world, and it has killed over 1,000 people so far.“Having a name matters to prevent the