The shark still looks fake. | Image: Wes Davis / The Verge Remember Google’s AR search, which can make augmented reality bugs, dinos, neat objects, and buildings appear atop the real world through the lens…
TikTok goes full YouTube
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Vertical video platform TikTok wants users to turn their phones around and start shooting horizontal videos — long ones, too. TikTok appears to be incentivizing creators to start posting…
Microsoft says Apple’s new App Store rules are…
Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Apple’s new plan to comply with the European Union’s tech regulations has already drawn criticism from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Spotify. Now Microsoft is weighing in…
Embracer lays off 97 Eidos employees and cancels…
Embracer Group, the company attempting to forge one video game publisher to rule them all, has just presided over another round of layoffs. Eidos Montreal is letting go of 97 game developers and support staff,…
The Kobo Elipsa 2E, our favorite ebook reader…
There’s a lot to like about the Kobo Elipsa 2 compared to something like the Kindle Scribe, especially with today’s discount. | Image: Kobo As much as I like physical books, I’m planning a move…
GM should just bring back the Chevy Volt
Amelia Krales General Motors’ shift from an internal combustion engine-producing company to one that makes electric motors is sputtering. EV sales are up, but growing slower than expected. The company’s next-generation Ultium platform, in particular,…
The $10 trillion benefits of overhauling our food…
Bundles freshly harvested chard. | Photo by Waltraud Grubitzsch/picture alliance via Getty Images One of the most ambitious assessments yet of our global food system calculates the health, environmental, and economic losses of business as…
The MSI Claw will not have a VRR…
The MSI Claw gaming handheld. | Image: MSI The MSI Claw will be one of the first handheld gaming PCs with an Intel Core Ultra processor inside — but despite what the company told us…
Anker’s MagSafe-friendly 622 Magnetic Battery is half off…
You can buy the portable power bank on sale at Amazon in a variety of colors. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Anker’s new Qi2-compatible chargers may be capturing all the…