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Image: Qualcomm Can Qualcomm replicate Apple’s feat and finally create Arm-based laptops worth buying, 15 years after its first attempts? Here’s one incredibly promising sign it might: Qualcomm is telling game developers their titles should already work on a wave of upcoming Snapdragon-powered Windows laptops — no porting required.In a 2024 Game Developers Conference session titled “Windows on Snapdragon, a Platform Ready for your PC Games,” Qualcomm engineer Issam

Tim Burton spent the better part of the past decade talking about how ready he was to make a Beetlejuice sequel with Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton. And after all this time the perfectly named Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is finally seeing the light of day.
Set some years after the original movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice catches up with Lydia Deetz (Ryder) and her teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) as the pair travel home to Winter River to be with Lydia’s mother Delia (Catherine O’

With the rise of AI and ChatGPT, nothing seems too unthinkable and futuristic in the world of tech anymore. Moreover, products that once seemed advanced (read: the Amazon Echo when it was first released in 2015) don't seem to be all that advanced anymore. This means companies have to constantly innovate to continue attracting buyers, which is what Amazon did in 2022 when it released its 5th Generation Echo Dot. Since then, the corporate giant has unveiled even newer products (in the Echo Show an

Image: Ford Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone’s favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.The DOJ says that, like smartphones, vehicle infotainment systems have become a new way in which Apple exhibits anticompetitive behavior to harm consumers as well as its competitors.
Apple’s plans to introduce a more immersive version of CarPlay, in which the system displays key aspects of the vehicle’s fu

Dark clouds gather over the Baltic Sea on November 8, 2023. | Photo by Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images Brightening Earth’s clouds so that they reflect more sunlight just might cool the planet — that is if we can figure out how to do it without causing any unintended harm. To test the theory out, a group of over 30 leading scientists have written up a research road map that was published in the journal Science Advances yesterday.The paper focuses on how to approach atte

UPDATE: Mar. 21, 2024, 4:15 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with new Big Spring Sale deals on outdoor and camping gear, solar eclipse glasses, and Prime-exclusive deals.Best Amazon Big Spring Sale deals at a glance:Best Apple dealApple AirPods Pro (USB-C)$179.99 at Amazon(save $69.01) Get DealBest laptop dealSamsung Galaxy Book3$619.99 at Amazon(save $380) Get DealBest robot vacuum dealiRobot Roomba j7$299.99 at Amazon(save $300) Get DealBest headphone/earbud dealAmazon Echo Buds with Acti

Should you sit through the credits for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire? It's a question that Marvel movies have made a real concern for moviegoers. Sure, you might be eager to rush to the restroom, hit up a post-movie restaurant for a debrief with friends, or get back home to the sitter before it gets too late. But the MCU has made the end credits of movies fertile ground for bonus material. So — can you take the risk of running out as the end credits hit?Post-credit or mid-credit scenes

Green bubbles are actually a big part of the DOJ’s case against Apple. | Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge It’s no secret that Apple products work best if you stick with an iPhone. It turns out that’s a big reason why Apple landed in hot water today with the US Department of Justice, which alleges that the company went too far in locking down messaging, smartwatches, and digital wallets to intentionally hobble its rivals.This won’t be a surprise to most consumers.

The Music Frame comes with room to hold a physical art print or photo while integrating with voice assistants like Amazon Alexa. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung’s just opened up preorders for its 2024 TV and audio lineup, which includes everything from the latest version of The Frame TV to Samsung’s glare-free OLED TV. However, the real star of the show here is the Music Frame smart speaker, which was one of our favorite audio products from this year’s CES and now co

Reddit went public on Thursday, after much anticipation and speculation. The IPO price was set at $34 per share and, by 4 p.m. ET, when the closing bell rang, it had risen and held steady, closing the day at $50.31 per share. That represented a nearly 50 percent increase. Reddit is obviously an important website in the ecosystem of the online world. It has, however, never been a particularly profitable endeavor. In fact, in its 18 years of existence it has never turned a profit. That fact, paire

Image: The Verge Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that toggling on the feature will let you cross-post and view likes from other federated platforms, like Mastodon.
Threads previewed its fediverse integration earlier this week during the FediForum. As outlined on its support page, Meta says that you must have a public account to turn on fediverse sharing, which will allow users on ot

Following a wave of critical praise — including Mashable's review out of SXSW 2023— Late Night with the Devil has been catching heat online for its alleged use of AI-generated imagery. The movie stars David Dastmalchian as a late-night TV host looking to save his show with a Halloween special that goes demonically off the rails.The conversation around Late Night with the Devil's use of AI first began with a one-star Letterboxd review by user based gizmo from March 19, who wrote, "Lis

We've tracked down the best AirTag deals available on day two of Amazon's spring sale: Best AirTag deals during Amazon's Big Spring SaleBest AirTag DealApple AirTag$24 at Amazon and Walmart(Save $5) Get DealBest AirTag case dealBelkin Apple AirTag secure holder (2-pack)$15.99 at Amazon(Save $4) Get Deal
Sales can be a great time to pick up any travel essentials on the more expensive side, whether you need a new pair of noise-cancelling headphones or a Bluetooth tracker for your luggage. SEE ALSO

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Your PS5, PS4, PS3, and Vita might look normal — but if you’re having issues, it’s because Sony’s PlayStation Network is not completely healthy right now. Sony’s Network Service Status page is all red, and a spike at Downdetector suggests the partial outage began roughly two hours ago at around 12PM ET.Personally, we’re still seeing our friends online, can play games that require network authentication, download updates,

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Your PS5, PS4, PS3, and Vita might have looked normal — but if you had issues, it’s because Sony’s PlayStation Network was not completely healthy. Sony’s Network Service Status page was red for hours, after a partial outage began at roughly 12PM ET. By 4:30PM ET, service had reportedly been restored, and it’s all green now.
At the time, we could still see our friends online, play games that require network authentication, down

UPDATE: Mar. 21, 2024, 2:00 p.m. EDT This post has been updated with the robot vacuum deals live at Amazon on the second day of its Big Spring Sale.A quick look at the best Amazon Spring Sale robot vacuum deals:Best budget dealiRobot Roomba j7$299.99 at Amazon(save $300) Get DealBest self-emptying dealEufy X8 Pro$399.99 at Amazon(save $250) Get DealBest robot vacuum/mop dealShark Matrix Plus 2-in-1$429.99 at Amazon(save $270) Get Deal
With big Amazon sale events happening in summer, fall, and w

Image: The Verge / Android Google’s second developer preview for Android 15 has arrived, bringing long-awaited support for satellite connectivity alongside several improvements to contactless payments, multi-language recognition, volume consistency, and interaction with PDFs via apps.These developer-focused betas are a proving ground for features that will likely make it into the final public release scheduled for later this year. According to Google, public beta releases should be availab

Incorrect spelling will be a thing of the past in Notepad soon. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is bringing the spellcheck feature to its Notepad app on Windows 11. Testers can now access the new spellcheck support in Notepad, which will be available to all Windows 11 users later this year.
Spellcheck in Notepad works much like it does in Microsoft Word or inside the Microsoft Edge browser. Misspelled words are automatically underlined in red, and you can fix mistakes with a right-click to see sugg

Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple is facing a monumental antitrust lawsuit from the Department of Justice, and a large part of the agency’s argument centers around Apple’s alleged attempts to suppress cloud gaming services and so-called “super” apps. Namely, the DOJ claims Apple stifled the development of both types of services to maintain its monopoly on the mobile market.
As cloud streaming services started becoming more popular in 2020, Apple introduced new rules that se

Apple CEO Tim Cook. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images The US Department of Justice is suing Apple for “monopolizing smartphone markets” to help guarantee the iPhone’s continued success — to the detriment of consumers and third-party developers. The suit was filed on March 21st and will take a long time to play out. It touches on everything from iMessage lock-in and App Store developer fees to “super apps” and cloud gaming. If the g

Image: BMW BMW announced a new concept car, the Vision Neue Klasse X, that the automaker says will inform the direction of its future lineup of electric vehicles. The vehicle is a crossover SUV with BMW’s distinctive kidney-shaped grilled (extremely distinctive, but we’ll get to that in the second) and a bunch of innovative features, especially around its battery and electric architecture, that suggest there’s a lot of exciting stuff to come in BMW’s future.
For years, th

Apple’s best AirPods are getting better and cheaper with time. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We’re still soaking in savings from Amazon’s Big Spring sale event that started yesterday, and through March 25th, you can still shop all of the best deals we’ve found. Today, however, we’re digging for stragglers that got lost in the mix and new deals that have popped up overnight. For example, Amazon and Best Buy are now discounting the second-generation AirPods Pro w

This is for you, old-school nerd dads. | Image: Converse / Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons has a bunch of brand collaborations lined up to celebrate the game’s 50th anniversary, but its partnership with Converse is especially neat for old-school players. Converse is releasing a limited edition collection of D&D-themed shoes and apparel next month, most of which has been designed around elements from the earliest versions of the game.
The collection includes several Chuck Ta

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images George state Senator Colton Moore, a vocal opponent of legislation that would ban deepfakes of politicians, recently spoke out in support of a bill that would do just that. “The overwhelming number of Georgians believe the use of my personal characteristics against my will is fraud, but our laws don’t currently reflect that,” Moore said in a recent video. Except Moore never said that. The video was a deepfake — the exac

House of the Dragon’s first season closed out with House Targaryen divided into two factions readying themselves for an all-out war to claim the Iron Throne, and in the show’s new season 2 trailer(s), both sides seem ready to burn the entire world down in order to win.
Keeping in theme with this season’s further exploration of George R.R. Martin’s novella The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens, HBO has debuted two new House of the Dragon trailers &mdas

The new Surface Pro 10 for Business is easier to repair. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is making it easier to service and repair its new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 devices. The software giant is adding QR codes on the internal components of both new Surface devices, alongside internal markings on the Surface Pro 10 for Business, to make it easier to identify the screws and driver types for certain components.
“They have easy serviceability with clear visual icons and built-in repai

Microsoft’s new Surface hardware is designed exclusively for businesses. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is gearing up for its “year of the AI PC” with two new Surface devices that won’t be sold directly to consumers. The Surface Pro 10 for Business and Surface Laptop 6 for Business both feature Intel’s latest Core Ultra processors, Microsoft’s new Copilot key, and a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to accelerate some existing and upcoming AI-powered features in Wind

Cath Virginia / The Verge The US Department of Justice announced today that it’s suing Apple for illegally monopolizing the smartphone market and using its position “to extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants.”
In the 88-page suit, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Justice Department alleges that Apple is using a variety of unfair tactics to entren