The best Black Friday deals on Apple devices
iPhone 12. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s rare that Apple slashes the prices on its own products. Fortunately, other retailers are putting a lot of Apple products on sale for Black Friday. A...
View ArticleRedmi’s first smartwatch announced for $45
Xiaomi’s budget sub-brand Redmi has never released a smartwatch before, and its first entry turns out to be what you’d expect: a pretty uninspiring design at a pretty attractive price. The Redmi Watch...
View ArticleSamsung may have just spilled the beans on how its next earbuds won’t be beans
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We kind of loved the beans. The Galaxy Buds Live’s bean-like shape made sense! But though it originally seemed like Samsung was in on the joke — the company called...
View ArticleThe best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on games
The Last of Us Part II Let’s be honest: gaming is expensive, but the holiday season is a good time to take advantage of deals and sales and buy more than one game. Whether you are adding games to your...
View ArticleSuper Nintendo World opens on February 4th with AR Mario Kart rollercoaster
Universal Studios Japan has announced an opening date for its long-awaited Nintendo-themed area. The Super Nintendo Land zone will open at the Osaka theme park on February 4th, 2021. That’s actually a...
View ArticleNintendo Switch update lets you share screenshots to your phone or PC
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo has released a new firmware update for the Switch, and for once it actually adds some features to the console’s barebones OS. The biggest one is a...
View ArticleZoom and Among Us dominate Apple’s most downloaded charts in 2020
2020 was a year when people around the world were forced to find new ways to connect, and that trend is clearly visible when you look at the most downloaded apps on Apple hardware. Today the company...
View ArticleVerizon’s Galaxy S20 models are the first to get Android 11 and One UI 3.0
Photo by Brennan King / The Verg Verizon revealed this morning that Samsung’s Galaxy S20 lineup will be the first Samsung phones to receive Android 11 and Samsung’s One UI 3.0 in the US, and now the...
View ArticleRazer’s Tomahawk modular gaming PC is finally a real product
Razer has been talking up modular gaming PCs with streamlined swappable parts for years. Now, after various concepts, CES reveals, and standard PC cases with associated branding, the company is...
View ArticleThe US government will let TikTok run out the clock and ‘overlook’ its own...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Trump administration won’t enforce its own deadline for ByteDance to sell or spin out video-sharing platform TikTok’s business in the US, according to...
View ArticleChina’s Chang’e 5 completes docking mission on its way back to Earth
The ascender of Chang’e-5 spacecraft flies above the surface of the Moon December 3rd. | Xinhua/Jin Liwang via Getty Images China’s Chang’e-5 mission completed a tricky docking maneuver on Saturday,...
View ArticleFloyd Mayweather is fighting Logan Paul in February
YouTuber Logan Paul has struck a deal to fight former boxing megastar Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a “special exhibition” match on February 20th. The bout will be streamed as a pay-per-view on Fanmio....
View ArticleChristchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report says
Illustration by Corey Brickley for The Verge The Australian white supremacist who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand was radicalized by YouTube, according to a 792-page...
View ArticleZoom, murder hornets, Among Us, and Joe Biden topped Google trending searches...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has released its list of the top trending searches in the US for 2020, and as one might expect, “coronavirus,” “election results,” and “Zoom” led the...
View ArticleFormer employees say Apple stood by while suppliers violated Chinese labor laws
Apple Factory Apple has been complicit in its suppliers’ violations of Chinese labor laws, according to a report from The Information. Suppliers have periodically filled their factories with temporary...
View ArticleThe 14 biggest trailers and announcements from The Game Awards 2020
There weren’t any bombshells on the scale of last year’s Xbox Series X reveal, but the 2020 edition of The Game Awards was still packed with news and trailers. There were game reveals like Perfect...
View ArticleGet another glimpse inside the PlayStation 5 with iFixit’s new teardown
Photo: iFixit iFixit has released its teardown of the PlayStation 5 and its DualSense controller — and it goes into even more detail than the one Sony did earlier this year. The gadget repair company...
View ArticleGoogle adds more AR animals to mobile Search and most of them are pretty cute
Giant AR cat is giant | Google Google has added 50 new augmented reality animals to Search which can be either cute, or in the case of the giant cat in the photo above, a bit disconcerting. Of course...
View ArticleEA is buying Codemasters for $1.2 billion to take lead in racing game market
Electronic Arts has agreed to buy out UK developer Codemasters in a move that could see the US publishing giant wrest control of the racing video game genre. The deal is expected to close in the first...
View ArticleNintendo completes Donkey Kong Country trilogy on Switch Online service
If you’ve been waiting until you could play all three SNES Donkey Kong Country games before picking up a Switch, you’re in luck. Nintendo has announced that the third game in the series, Donkey Kong...
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