After one of the biggest telecom hacks in US history, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to enforce strict standards on carriers' cybersecurity measures. On Thursday, the agency is set to vote to roll back those requirements, arguing they were an unnecessary overstep of its authority.
The China-linked Salt Typhoon hack revealed last year impacted telecom companies including...
The Matter smart home standard is adding cameras to its latest spec.
It's finally happening. Three years after Matter launched, the interoperability standard now includes the most popular smart home devices: cameras.
The Matter 1.5 spec, announced today, adds support for all types of video cameras - from indoor and outdoor, wired and battery-powered cameras, to video doorbells, baby...
Last year Qualcomm promised that games would “just work” on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year on, Windows on Arm is a lot more ready for gaming, thanks to emulator improvements, driver updates, a new Snapdragon Control Panel, and Qualcomm’s work on anti-cheat compatibility.
Qualcomm is releasing its Snapdragon Control Panel...
President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the attorney general, "whose sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws."
According to a draft of the order obtained by The Verge...
Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its platform and continues to grow its library of sports programming in an arrangement that Front Office Sports reports is worth about $50 million per year.
Netflix will stream a single game on Opening Night of...
Nvidia just sold more AI chips than it's ever sold before, blowing past its own estimates in today's Q3 2026 earnings. Not only did it pull in a record $57 billion in revenue - and roughly $4,000 of pure profit per second - it grew its data center business by $10 billion in a single quarter alone. It reported a record $51.2 billion from that data center business, a 66 percent increase over...
Google has announced it's testing a new AI-powered search tool, Scholar Labs, that's designed to answer detailed research questions. But its demonstration highlighted a bigger question about finding "good" science studies. How much will scientists trust a tool that forgoes typical ways of gauging a study's popularity with the scientific establishment in favor of reading the relationships...
The holidays have a way of sneaking up on us. One minute you're trick-or-treating with your kids, and the next you're panic shopping in a Buc-ee's gift aisle. But it doesn't have to be that way. With the right cheat sheet, you can keep the holiday spirit high and stress levels low.
Fortunately, we did some planning on your behalf. As much as we love playing with the latest gadgets and...
This is just a little public service announcement ahead of Black Friday. Walmart will once again tout the M1 MacBook Air as an unbeatable deal for laptop shoppers. It sure is tempting at $599, especially if you haven’t seen the deal before. It might even be the right choice for some people.
But for most Verge readers buying either for themselves or for someone who needs to get stuff done...
Companies making Google TV devices could soon include remotes that won’t ever need fresh disposable batteries. | Image: Epishine
Epishine, a company that makes solar cells optimized for indoor lighting, has announced its technology is being used in a new remote control for Google TV devices, as spotted by 9to5Google. The remote will rely on rechargeable batteries instead of disposable ones...