“I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump posted on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.”
We’re one year into the experiment of running The Verge with subscriptions, and so far things are going quite well – but we’ve heard a lot of feedback so far, and we’ve got some exciting changes in store to try and make this thing even better. We hit our subscriber goals for 2025, and an […]
Power strips are generally pretty boring. You plug stuff into them, then you try your best to hide the strip along with all of the cables feeding into it. But Genki’s Moonbase is meant to be displayed loud and proud on your desk. The retrofuturism-inspired strip we wrote about at the end of last year […]
OpenAI has turned off some promotional app messages in ChatGPT after users complained that the chatbot was showing them ads. In a post on X, OpenAI’s chief research officer, Mark Chen, said that the company is working to improve the experience after showing ChatGPT users in-app messages promoting companies like Peloton and Target, and that […]
The Boys’ fifth and final season is headed to Amazon Prime Video on April 8th, 2026. In addition to a release date, Prime Video revealed the trailer for season five during CCXP in Brazil, offering a look at the reunion between Supernatural costars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, as reported earlier by Variety. The Boys […]
Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile, $108.4 billion bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, days after Warner Bros. agreed to be acquired by Netflix for $82.7 billion.
Today, I’m talking with Willem Avé, who’s head of product at Square. You know Square — it was started by billionaire Jack Dorsey, of Twitter fame, more than 15 years ago, and it got big on the back of that little magnetic reader that plugged into the headphone jack of the iPhone and let small […]
IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to to bolster its data and automation products as ever more companies move their tech operations to the cloud and deploy AI technology.
Paramount has launched a $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, calling Netflix’s $83 billion arrangement to purchase the entertainment giant’s studios and streaming service “inferior.” The Paramount proposal, unlike Netflix’s, would also include the linear networks owned by WBD. Paramount says its deal offers a “superior alternative to the Netflix transaction,” citing […]
Segway’s modest e-bike lineup is about to gain a new entrant. The Ninebot-owned brand, once known for its pioneering self-balancing scooters, currently only sells two e-bikes: the moto-styled Xyber and the low-step Xafari. Now it’s getting a third, Myon, which it plans on officially debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next year. […]