Playdate is getting a second season of games in 2025
Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge When the Playdate first launched, one of the hooks was that the little yellow handheld came with a “season” of 24 games from notable…
FCC and the broadband industry argue net neutrality’s future
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Attorneys for the Federal Communications Commission and groups representing the broadband industry argued about the future of net neutrality to…
Android 16 will ship early in 2025
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For the last decade or so, Google has released major Android updates in the fall after an extended developer and beta preview process,…
UN Special Rapporteur Recommends Unseating Israel From UN Over Genocide in Gaza
We are joined by U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, who says Israel is committing genocide on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Facing accusations of antisemitism…
Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apex Legends is one of the only battle royale games that lets you play on a Steam Deck gaming handheld — Fortnite, Valorant…
OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT
Image: The Verge ChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today (along with SearchGPT waitlist users), with free,…
WordPress cofounder asks court to dismiss WP Engine’s lawsuit
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic have asked a court to dismiss WP Engine’s lawsuit accusing them of libel and extortion. In…
Harvard “Embraces Diversity” on Day of the Dead, Unless the Dead Are Palestinian
In my inbox, there’s an email with a purple flier attached. Distributed by the Harvard Library, it depicts a white skull in a decorative hat, announcing a “Día de los…
Native Tribes Call for 3 New National Monuments to Protect Land From Extraction
This week, representatives of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe and the Pit River Nation used the 16th United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity, or CBD, in Cali, Columbia to…
Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft is finally revealing that it will charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10. Support for Windows…
