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Image: 2K Games It’s been a long wait, but the next Civilization has finally been revealed. At the main Summer Game Fest keynote, publisher 2K officially announced Civilization 7, the first new entry in the strategy series since 2016. We didn’t get any real details or actual gameplay, but instead a very brief teaser trailer that looked a lot like, well, Civilization. But there’s one thing we do know: the game won’t be launching until 2025. More details will be coming in A

Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment One of the cuter reveals at Summer Game Fest was the Lego-ified version of Horizon’s postapocalyptic future. The game is called Lego Horizon Adventures, and it looks like a playful action-adventure game set (obviously) in the Horizon universe. Naturally, there’s lots of building as well. And co-op play. And some very goofy jokes fitting Lego’s many video game spinoffs.
This isn’t the first collaboration between the two, as Lego releas

I have never rooted harder against a central movie romance than I did while watching Winter Spring Summer or Fall. Led by Wednesday co-stars Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White (who is not returning for Season 2), Winter Spring Summer or Fall seems to think it's a Gen Z Before Sunrise. Two unlikely individuals connect — on a train, no less! — and kick off a romance with a seemingly firm expiration date, as one half of the pair leaves for college in the fall. Not only is Winter Spring

Image: Alex Choi A YouTuber was arrested after posting a video showing two people in a helicopter shooting fireworks at a Lamborghini. On Thursday, the US Department of Justice charged Suk Min Choi — known as Alex Choi on YouTube — for allegedly breaking the law against having an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft.
The now-deleted video, titled “Destroying a Lamborghini With Fireworks,” was posted on July 4th, 2023. Choi, who has more than 924,000 YouTube subsc

Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Biden administration released another vehicle emission rule that was not as strict as the one the president originally proposed.Under the new rules, fuel economy will increase 2 percent per year for model years 2027–2031 for passenger cars, while light trucks will increase 2 percent per year for model years 2029–2031. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), these increases will bring the average light-duty

Creatives are fearful of how Adobe’s adoption of generative AI will impact their privacy and rights over their work. | Illustration by Haein Jeong / The Verge A recent notification from Adobe about a terms of service update caused outrage online once many people — forced to accept the new terms for continued access to its apps and services — interpreted it to mean Adobe was permitting itself free rein to access and use their work to train AI models.
Specifically, the notificati

When he takes the stage for his keynote at Apple's 2024 Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC) Monday, Tim Cook will find himself at the crossroads of a Choose Your Own Adventure. Will he bend to the whims of a market that worries Apple isn't doing enough "AI stuff," and breathlessly hype up any aspect of machine learning or large-language-modeling in iOS 18 that could be described as Apple Intelligence (the "that's so Apple" name that will reportedly be used Monday)? Or will he stay the course

iOS 18, Apple's next big annual update, is expected to roll out with some major AI-powered updates.Yes, rumors are already flying around about iOS 18, the theoretical follow-up to last year's iOS 17 update. I say "theoretical" because Apple has yet to publicly talk about it, but you can rest easy knowing it'll almost certainly come out at some point this year. And when it does, it may or may not be a total overhaul of the iOS experience (more on this later).Here's everything we know about iOS 18

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta now allows users to create giant group chats without having an associated Facebook page, as reported by TechCrunch.
The groups, called “Communities,” allow admins to add up to 5,000 people, even if they’re not part of the same Facebook group. Meta previously introduced that feature in 2022, allowing Facebook group admins to create Discord-like chatrooms for members. This new type of chat, meanwhile, is open to anyone — users co

The original MSI Claw. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge If you’re still under the impression that an original MSI Claw might be a worthy purchase, I beg you to reconsider. MSI has now announced not one but two successors to the embarrassing handheld that are coming this fall — and hinting it might show off yet another one at CES in January.
MSI already revealed an eight-inch Lunar Lake version dubbed the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus at Computex this week, but the company will put Intel&rs

The race between Apple and Android features might be getting closer.In the everlasting battle between Apple phones and Android phones, Android has been ahead in one key feature: you can schedule texts ahead of time on Android devices. Sure, you can schedule texts on an iPhone — if you have the time and patience to create a complicated Shortcuts automation for it. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is about to announce that iOS 18 will allow users to compose a message in Mess

This year’s edition of TNW Conference is right around the corner — along with summer, we hope. We have a spectacular line-up of speakers and we cannot wait to share the special atmosphere that sets TNW apart from other tech conferences out there with you. Leading up to the event, the editorial team will be sharing some of their highlights and what not to miss from the TNW flagship conference taking place in Amsterdam on 20 and 21 of June. We hope you are as excited as we are and can

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Since the release of Bad Boys in 1995, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have traded quips over bullets, car chases, and Michael Bay-sized explosions along various stretches of Miami (or locations meant to resemble Miami). Their characters, Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence), have survived each other's teasing, breakups, parenthood, betrayal, and the loss of their beleaguered but dedicated boss, Captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano). Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's Bad Boys: Ride or

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The older iPad Pros are compatible with the second-gen Apple Pencil (pictured) as well as the new Pencil Pro. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s a good time to be a late adopter, as the last-gen M2 iPad Pros are falling to record low prices on their way out the door, allowing you to save anywhere from $200 to $400. Apple’s M4-based iPad Pros may be the hot new tablets for 2024, with ultrathin builds and OLED displays, but 2022’s iPad Pros are still formidable slates for do

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Image: Microsoft Microsoft says it’s making its new Recall feature in Windows 11 that screenshots everything you do on your PC an opt-in feature and addressing various security concerns. The software giant first unveiled the Recall feature as part of its upcoming Copilot Plus PCs last month, but since then, privacy advocates and security experts have been warning that Recall could be a “disaster” for cybersecurity without changes.
Thankfully, Microsoft has listened to the compl

Videoverse. | Image: Kinmoku Running concurrently with Summer Game Fest, the Access-Ability Summer Showcase redresses what gaming events leave out. Organized by accessibility consultant and critic Laura Kate Dale, it’s a reaction to events designed to build hype and how disabled gamers too often have to temper excitement with caution over whether revealed games will be accessible. A frustration, Dale told The Verge, driven by “the industry’s unwillingness to be open and transpa

Prepare for changes to your binging habits. Netflix could soon look a lot different on your TV. The streaming giant is testing a homepage redesign for its TV app, The Verge reported. The changes are pretty substantial. Basically, if you select the tile for show or movie, it immediately expands. Then, if you hover over it long enough, the tile begins to play a preview of the title and display info about it, such as genre and number of episodes. This is a big change the current static tiles with a

National Samsung Electronics Union members strike outside of Samsung’s office building in Seoul, South Korea. | Photo by Anthony Wallace / AFP via Getty Images Samsung Electronics workers went on a strike on Friday for the very first time in the company’s history. The move comes at a time when the Korean corporation faces increased competition from other chipmakers, particularly as demand for AI chips grows.
The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), the largest of the company&rs

Image: Adata Adata has become the latest company to join the hype surrounding PC gaming handhelds — but the XPG Nia prototype it revealed during Computex 2024 is completely different from what we’ve seen so far. The handheld is the first to come with LPCAMM2 memory, making it far easier to swap out and upgrade RAM.As reported by Liliputing, you’ll be able to access the device’s storage beneath the kickstand on the back of the device. You can also remove and replace the de

WWDC 2024 is looming — and we now have a pretty good idea of what to expect during event, thanks to a new report from Bloomberg's Apple insider Mark GurmanGurman published a handy list of what we can anticipate from the artificial intelligence portion of Apple's upcoming software-focused keynote address. AI will reportedly take up roughly half of its runtime. More importantly, the general suite of AI features coming to iPhones, iPads, and Macs apparently has a name: Apple Intelligence.SEE