YouTube is courting creators — and sponsors — with streaming shows
YouTube is courting creators — and sponsors — with streaming shows In the ongoing fight for content and talent, YouTube is pitching itself as the connector between the creators and advertisers – and marketing its creators not just as the future of social media, but also of advertising, TV, streaming, and entertainment more broadly. At […]
AMD’s best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too
AMD's best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too For the first time, AMD is including its 3D V-Cache tech in its commercial workstation processors with a refreshed line of Ryzen PRO 9000 series chips. Up until now, AMD’s 3D V-Cache chips have mainly been geared toward gamers, but they’ve also gotten better […]
The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it.
The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it. Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe […]
Everything at The Criterion Collection is 30 percent off right now
Everything at The Criterion Collection is 30 percent off right now Classics as well as newer films like Anora are on sale. | Image: Neon If you’ve been meaning to grow your physical movie collection, now’s a good time to do it. Through May 25th, The Criterion Collection is taking 30 percent off every disc […]
Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos
Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls “Instants,” which are ephemeral photos that you can’t edit and that you can only share with your close friends or followers that follow you back. Instants […]
Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat
Mark Zuckerberg announces 'completely private' encrypted Meta AI chat Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is “the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.” Messages in Incognito Chat aren’t saved or stored in users’ chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, […]
Microsoft doesn’t want any of this
Microsoft doesn't want any of this Maybe I’m just punch drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don’t want to be here any more than I do. Their opening statement was honestly one of the most Microsoft […]
Swatch’s latest luxury collaboration is a $400 pocket watch
Swatch's latest luxury collaboration is a $400 pocket watch The pink, yellow, and teal Otg Roz is one of the Royal Pop’s eight unique designs. | Image: Swatch Following a series of cryptic newspaper ads and Instagram teasers that had watch fans speculating about its next collaboration, Swatch announced a new timepiece collection created with […]
Why does the Googlebook exist?
Why does the Googlebook exist? Google announced its new Googlebook laptop platform yesterday, and so far I’ve been left asking, “Why?” Why is Google blowing up its Chromebook and ChromeOS platform for this? I’ve been excited by the prospect of Android and ChromeOS unifying under the long-rumored Aluminium OS. The theory was that Aluminium might […]
The border is everywhere
The border is everywhere Verge reporter Gaby Del Valle demonstrates the size of Sherp’s ATV at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. No one paid attention to the gunshots that echoed through the convention center. They were real enough, and so were the screams that accompanied them, in the […]