The year of the music licensing legal wars
By the time MGM v. Grokster hit the Supreme Court, the file-sharing industry had been roiling with lawsuits for years. The record labels had sued Napster in December 1999, baptizing…
Global Smartphone Shipments Rise in Q3 as Growth Streak Continues
Market watchers may not agree on how much smartphone shipments grew in this year’s third calendar quarter, but they do agree on one thing: the market is emerging from its…
The Nintendo DS introduced touchscreens to a generation of gamers
Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Decades before we got married and started a family, my partner and I connected over a little Boxer pup named Charlie. We tossed…
Adobe’s experimental tool can identify an artist’s work online or on a tote bag
Project Know How builds on Adobe’s work with Content Credentials. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of Adobe’s most notable experiments this year could help combat misinformation…
Facebook put us out there
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge In February 2004, a 19-year-old, flip-flop-wearing Mark Zuckerberg released an online directory of Harvard students. In those days, the internet still felt small. It…
Microsoft pulls $1 Xbox Game Pass trial just before new Call of Duty release
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has pulled its $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, just days before Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 releases on October 25th. The…
Microsoft’s prototype Surface Laptop leaks with Intel’s Lunar Lake chips inside
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft launched its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this year without Intel chips, in a bid to promote Windows on Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon…
Amazon’s new Kindle family includes the first color Kindle
Amazon’s new Kindle family: The Colorsoft Signature Edition, Kindle Scribe, Paperwhite, and entry-level Kindle. | Image: Amazon Amazon just announced four new Kindle e-readers. The Colorsoft Signature Edition is the…
Here’s a bunch of bananas shit Trump said today about breaking up Google
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Former president Donald Trump threatened in an interview today that, if elected president, he would “do something” about Google but stopped short of specifically saying…
Trump’s crypto website crashed after its token went on sale
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Former President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial, launched its token sale on Tuesday — and its website crashed shortly afterward. The whitelist…
