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Paul McCartney in 2022. | Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images The Beatles have been nominated for two Grammys — nearly 50 years after the band officially split up. Their final song, called “Now and Then,” was restored last year with the help of AI, and is now up for record of the year alongside the likes of Beyoncé, Charlie XCX, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift. It’s also been nominated for best rock performance, where it goes up against Green Day, Pearl Jam, and The B

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube’s premium subscriptions are about to get more expensive for long-time subscribers with legacy plans in more places. In December, YouTube told US subscribers with legacy YouTube Premium plans (stemming from discontinued services Google Play Music or YouTube Red) they’d need to start paying the current $13.99 per month price in the new year.
YouTube Music users in Europe have posted emails they received announcing a price increase for the

While the presidential election was the big national news story this week, a major natural disaster has gone under the radar: southern California's Mountain Fire.The enormous blaze has burned at least 19,643 acres, destroyed homes, forced the evacuation of residents, and blanketed cities like Santa Barbara in shrouds of smoke, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom recently proclaimed Ventura County — north of Los Angeles — in a state of emergency.SEE ALSO:Crisis hotli

As OpenAI enters the search engine market with ChatGPT Search, Google is ramping up its AI efforts to maintain its search engine dominance.The latest move? A real-time, conversational, voice-to-search feature right within Google Search.Google app tipster @AssembleDebug on X posted a video of a new feature that Google is currently testing out, which allows users to talk to Google Search within the Google mobile app.Tweet may have been deletedHow to use the new AI voice-to-search featureYou must p

“DJI’s $199 Neo selfie drone is going to be everywhere,” we wrote in September — while noting that the budget self-flying drone did have two major weaknesses over the competing $350 Hover X1. First, DJI’s drone didn’t shoot vertical video (a dealbreaker for TikTok and Instagram Reels influencers) and second, it couldn’t track our movements nearly as quickly as the competition.
But DJI is now fixing both, adding vertical video and dramatically increasing

Explore how AI can elevate your 9-to-5 — and energize your 5-to-9.Presented byAI apps can organize your life, and it’s more cool than scaryBy Rebecca RuizThese services help families level up when it comes to scheduling and planning.Read moreEnhanced with AI, this laptop is a powerful partner for creativesSponsored by Lenovo Makers are doing more with Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition. Here’s how your work can benefit. Read more30 of the best AI courses you can take for

Some iPhone users are reporting the sudden disappearance of content from the Notes app. Luckily for them, there seems to be a quick fix for it.According to 9to5Mac, this insidious little glitch can happen to anyone running an iPhone with any version of iOS 18 installed on it. I haven't been able to recreate it, but the way it reportedly works is that users are losing all of their notes after agreeing to new iCloud terms and conditions. The prompt comes up, people hit "agree," and the notes vanis

Explore how AI can elevate your 9-to-5 — and energize your 5-to-9.
You've chatted with ChatGPT and imagined with MidJourney, but you might still be wondering how AI can fit into your daily life. AI-powered devices like the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition laptop have some fantastic features that can really transform the way you work and have fun. Keep reading to discover how an AI-powered portable PC can boost your productivity and expand your creative horizons.PerformanceAI isn’t j

Explore how AI can elevate your 9-to-5 — and energize your 5-to-9.
The tools of the creative trade are always changing. Just ask a 50-year-old graphic designer how they worked before Photoshop. We’ve come a long way since then; with AI in hand, artists of all stripes are now producing innovative work with fewer hurdles between their vision and the final product.But the physical devices they use can still make a major difference. Whether you’ve been at it for years or are just

I've been seeing spaghetti squash recipes all over TikTok — even Martha Stewart recently shared her own spin on it over on X.Many of us love pasta — just not the refined carbs that often comes with it. And if there's one thing the internet loves, it's finding clever ways to keep the pasta vibes without the carb guilt.Remember the zoodles trend? Everyone was shoving zucchini through hand-crank spiralizers to recreate spaghetti noodles. Then came Chickpea pasta, sending health-consciou

Best headphone and speaker deals ahead of Black FridayBest headphone dealBose QuietComfort Ultra headphones$329(Save $100)Get DealBest earbuds dealSony WF-1000XM5$221.72(Save $78.27)Get DealBest Bluetooth speaker dealJBL Clip 5$49.93(Save $30.02)Get Deal
Black Friday is just around the corner, but retailers aren't waiting to bring headphones down to record-low prices.While we haven't spotted any new record lows so far, several headphones, including the Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones and the

A still photo from the film Heretic. When codirectors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods started thinking about who could play the antagonist in their new horror flick Heretic, they knew he had to have a few specific characteristics. The film is about a man who lures missionaries into his home, eventually turning a pleasant chat about religion into a nightmare scenario. So he had to be able to disarm with charm and humor, before switching gears to become intense and terrifying. “He had to have the

With the announcement of this year's Grammy nominations, Beyoncé has officially made history.The music superstar picked up 11 nominations, the most of the year, officially becoming the most-nominated artist in Grammy history. On top of her 99 career nominations, Beyoncé is also the artist with the most Grammys ever (32), a lead she could very well extend on Feb. 2, 2025, during the next Grammys.SEE ALSO:Social media feeds toxic fandoms. Is there a solution?
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge People across the country received racist text messages in the days after Donald Trump was elected to a second term for president, and now federal authorities are investigating.
“In multiple states, including Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, Black women, men, and students have reported receiving racist text messages from an unknown source, urging them to report to a plantation to pick cotton,” the NAACP said in a press release. Me

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge It’s “virtually certain” that 2024 will go down in the books as the hottest year yet. The planet is on track to pass a worrying threshold when it comes to global average temperatures, warns the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
After a scorching summer, and with countries making slow progress on climate change, it’s not too surprising that 2024 is going to be off the charts. Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels

You've never quite sure what food TikTok is going to obsess over next. One month it's cottage cheese in everything, the next it's a dense bean salad. Right now TikTok is really into — of all things — onions. Most notably lots of folks are cooking a dish colloquially dubbed an "onion boil," which is effectively all the things you'd see in a seafood boil — lots of butter and seasoning — stuffed inside an onion. SEE ALSO:The best TikTok food trends of 2024 (so far)
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Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We’re flush with great options for noise-canceling headphones that sound good, but if you care most about sound quality (without spending pricey audiophile money) a great choice is the Bowers and Wilkins PX7 S2e — which are on sale for $279 ($120 off) in all five color options at Amazon, Best Buy, and direct from Bowers and Wilkins.
The PX7 S2e may not have the most charming sounding name, but they do have a clean design and warm, detailed sound that

Google Maps users with cars are getting even more customization options soon.Four years(!) after Google introduced the ability to change what your vehicle looks like on the navigation screen, Google is expanding those options even further, per Android Police. An upcoming update to the Google Maps app will include the option to choose from five new car models — including a hatchback, a Jeep, and something resembling a Tesla — along with eight new colors, giving users more control than

UPDATE: Nov. 8, 2024, 10:34 a.m. EST Target's Black Friday deals are officially live. We're tracking the sale as products come in and out of stock.Best Target early Black Friday dealsBest Apple DealApple iPad, 9th generation (A13, 64GB, WiFi)$199.99(Save $130)Get DealBest headphone and speaker dealBose QuietComfort Headphones$199.99(Save $150)Get DealBest TV and Soundbar dealWestinghouse 65-inch 4K Ultra HD Roku TV$299.99(Save $100)Get DealBest Kitchen and Home dealKitchenAid 5.5-Quart Bowl-Lif

Finally some good news for iPhone and Android users in the same group chat. Emoji reactions, or Tapbacks, now work properly between iPhone and Android messages. According to The Verge, which discovered this quiet update, when an Android user sends a reaction to an iPhone via RCS message, the emoji displays inline instead of as a separate message. The same goes for when an iPhone user reacts to a message sent from an Android. SEE ALSO:The DOJ accuses Apple of a 'green bubble' problem. Here's why

That Mac Mini SSD is removable! | Image: X user @L0vetodream Apple’s redesigned Mac Mini M4 has ditched the previous M2 machine’s SSD that was soldered to the logic board, as confirmed by teardowns like this one posted on X showing it has a single removable SSD module. It’s not Apple’s first desktop computer to go in this direction, as we saw similar modules in the Mac Studio and Mac Pro.
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SAVE $50: The Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 are on sale for $179.99 at Amazon, down from the usual price of $229.99. That's a 22% discount and the first sale price we've seen since they launched in September.Opens in a new windowCredit: GoogleGoogle Pixel Buds Pro 2$179.00 at Amazon $229.00 Save $50.00Get DealGetting your hands on the latest version of any tech comes with some pretty great benefits. You'll be first in line to take advantage of better quality, longer battery life, and often better perf

Best early Black Friday fitness tracker dealsBest fitness tracker dealFitbit Charge 3$69.95(save $30)Get DealBest smartwatch dealSamsung Galaxy Watch 6 (44mm)$169.99(save $160)Get Deal
2025 is nearly upon us, and we can already feel those New Year's resolutions brewing. If your resolution has anything to do with becoming more active, you may want to consider picking up a fitness tracker to assist you in achieving your goals next year. Luckily, Black Friday deals are already starting to rear thei

A quick look at the best self-emptying robot vacuum deals ahead of Black FridayBest under $300Dreame D10 Plus Gen 2279.99(save $120)Get DealBest Roomba dealiRobot Roomba Combo j5+399(save $330.99)Get DealBest hybrid deal with self-cleaning mopping padsRoborock Qrevo S549.99(save $250)Get Deal
The majority of robot vacuums you'll see on sale this Black Friday will be self-emptying ones, and there's a reason that feature is more common than not nowadays. Having a robot vacuum typically means you'l

Best Buy kicked off the first portion of its holiday savings schedule today (Friday, Nov. 8), dropping a preview of its top Black Friday deals alongside four tech doorbusters. These include deep discounts on a Dyson stick vacuum, a 75-inch Samsung smart TV, an HP gaming laptop, and a 45-inch LG curved OLED gaming monitor with built-in speakers.The electronics store will release additional rounds of doorbusters every Friday through Dec. 20, with paid members of its My Best Buy program receiving e

SAVE $80: As of Nov. 8, you can get a Google Nest Doorbell for just $99.99 and save 44%.Opens in a new windowCredit: GoogleGoogle Nest Doorbell$99.99 $179.99 Save $80.00Get DealGoogle Nest is one of the most advanced video doorbells around. With built-in smarts that differentiates people from animals, packages, or passing cars, the Google Nest Doorbell Wired keeps you abreast of the action. Notifications are sent wirelessly right to your phone. SEE ALSO:4 futuristic AI features now common i

If you know someone who eats, sleeps, games, and repeats — we don’t envy you when it comes to buying gifts for them. Even if you’re looking to upgrade your own setup, scrolling through the sea of specs can be exhausting. We’ve rounded up 15 picks for every type of gamer on your list, including yourself. Each of these gaming laptops, PCs, and Graphics Cards comes with its own unique perks, but they also have something in common: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs and N

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If retail therapy is just what the doctor ordered, you'll be thrilled to know you can get more for your money with these early holiday deals at Amazon. As of N

SAVE UP TO $1,900: The Samsung early Black Friday sale has major discounts on TVs, tablets, watches, earbuds, home appliances, and more. Slash $1,700 off the 4-Door Flex refrigerator.Best early Black Friday deals at SamsungBest earbuds dealGalaxy Buds3 Pro$209.99 at Samsung(save $40)Get DealBest home appliance dealSamsung Bespoke 4-Door Flex Refrigerator (full-depth)$3,299 at Samsung(save $1,700)Get DealBest TV dealSamsung 55-inch Class Neo QLED 4K$999.99 at Samsung(save $400)Get Deal
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Google Vids’ “Help me create” screen powered by Gemini AI. | Image: Google Google is generally rolling out its Gemini AI-powered Vids app that lets you create video presentations using a prompt. Some of Vids’ key features include letting Gemini auto-insert stock footage for you, generating a script, and making AI voiceovers so you don’t have to speak. Google advertises that the tool can help turn customer support articles into videos, make training videos, share com

Samsung’s Galaxy S24 is just one of the many phones that use Gorilla Glass. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass, is set to receive up to $32 million in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. In an announcement on Friday, the US Commerce Department said the proposed funding will help Corning increase production of its glass products used in the chip-making process.
The announcement comes just days after the European Commission opened an antitrust inv

Google Slides is getting more professionally designed templates for businesses, teachers, and students. | Image: Google Google is introducing a new collection of modern templates to Google Slides the company says have been “professionally designed” to “cater to a wide range of use cases.” There are new templates for sales pitches, product roadmaps, lesson plans, book reports, workshop facilitation, and even “team game templates” for companies looking to bolste

TL;DR: Live stream Ireland vs. New Zealand in the Autumn Nations Series for free on Virgin Media Player. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.The Autumn Nations Series brings together the biggest international sides in the world of rugby. Outside of the World Cup, this series of fixtures offers the best chance of seeing the northern and southern hemispheres battle it out.The biggest game from the second round of Autumn Internationals is surely Ireland vs

T-Mobile’s early Black Friday sale has started, offering up to 4 new iPhone 16 phones for free with trade-ins of eligible phones and new lines.Opens in a new windowCredit: AppleiPhone 16Get 4 free iPhone 16s with eligible trade-in and new lines at T-MobileGet DealHas your phone seen a little wear and tear this year? Now’s the time to do something about that with T-Mobile’s new iPhone 16 deal for up to four phones. If you have a qualifying used phone, you can trade it in to get

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for

Image: Palworld Palworld developer Pocketpair has revealed the patents at the center of the infringement lawsuit Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed in Japan back in September. Pocketpair has also shared that, in addition to 5 million yen each plus late fees, they’re “seeking an injunction against the game and compensation for a portion of the damages incurred between the date of registration of the patents and the date of filing of this lawsuit.
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