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Heatwaves, mold, and plastic pollution pose new risks to businesses and insurance companies, a new report by reinsurer Swiss Re warns. What do these things have in common? Fossil fuels make matters worse.
They release the greenhouse gases warming our planet and are the primary ingredients for plastics, of course. Swiss Re’s annual report flags new or changing risks that “could have a major...
The Asus ROG Ally X alongside an original ROG Ally and Steam Deck. | Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge
I love modern handheld gaming, and I recommend it to anyone and everyone. Just maybe not today? If you decided today was the day to finally drop hundreds of dollars on your first handheld, I might advise you to wait.
Four reasons:
The best handhelds are sold out
The second-best handhelds...
Bungie announced Tuesday that it’s delaying Marathon, its new extraction shooter that had been set for a September 23rd release date. The studio isn’t providing a new release date just yet, though has promised to share it sometime this fall.
The studio outlined a few “immediate focus areas” for the game. It plans to make AI encounters “more challenging and engaging” and make combat “more...
Microsoft is confirming today that it’s working on a next-gen Xbox console in partnership with AMD. Xbox president Sarah Bond made the announcement in a minute-long video posted to YouTube, promising to deliver “an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one device.”
Bond says Microsoft is partnering with AMD for a “strategic multi-year partnership” that will include the pair...
LG’s C4 OLED TV is over half off.
It’s official: Amazon’s Prime Day event is just three weeks away, and it’s possible we’ll see a number of great TV deals during the four-day event. But if you’d rather not wait and see, LG’s C4 OLED TV has hit a new low price, starting at $699.99 ($800 off) for the 42-inch model at Amazon and Best Buy. Some larger configurations like the 77-inch model are on...
Choose your fighter.
In case you missed it, the Trump Organization announced yesterday that it plans to release a $499 Trump-branded, "built in the United States" phone later this year. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization doubled down on this claim to The Wall Street Journal, saying "manufacturing for the new phone will be in Alabama, California and Florida."
But unless the organization...
It looks like Amazon has decided that two days isn’t enough for its annual Prime Day deal celebration. This year, the event will last a startling four days, running from 3AM ET on Tuesday, July 8th, through 3AM ET on Saturday, July 12th. (Why is it still called Prime Day instead of Prime Days? Dunno — ask Amazon.)
The nice thing about having a longer sale period is that you have extra days...
Were it not for Neil Gaiman getting caught up in a sexual misconduct scandal, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of The Sandman comics could have run for much longer given how much source material there is to be pulled from. But you can see in the new trailer for the show’s second and final season that the streamer is going to try to fit in as many of Dream’s remaining stories as it possibly...
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 10: In an aerial view, Waymo cars are seen parked at a Waymo facility on June 10, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Waymo is continuing its slow and steady approach to the robotaxi business by gradually expanding its service area in the key cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The company said that starting June...
Max — soon to be called HBO Max again — is rolling out an update that automatically plays video previews when you hover over shows and movies. The video previews are launching to users in the US now, but Max is still working on an “AI-assisted” tool to pick the clips that go in them.
In the “coming weeks,” Max says its AI tool will automatically identify “standout” scenes from its shows and...