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Queen Camilla’s son, Thomas Parker Bowles, dismissed rumors about his mother’s health as she continues to recover from pneumonia. The 49-year-old food writer and restaurant critic shared an update on the 77-year-old royal’s condition during a recent appearance on “The Go To Food Podcast.” “Most pressingly, how is your ma doing? Because she was a…
President-elect Trump on Tuesday announced several picks to join his incoming administration, including tapping Jacob Helberg to serve as his Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment and Kimberly Guilfoyle to serve as ambassador to Greece Trump announced the picks on his Truth Social platform. “In this role Jacob will be…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube says it has expanded its AI-powered auto-dubbing to “hundreds of thousands of channels” in the YouTube Partner Program that are “focused on knowledge and information.” YouTube says it will bring the feature to “other types of content soon.” What the dubs consist of depends on the language…
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Steam Deck OLED, the best version of Valve’s gaming handheld with additional battery life, a slight increase to performance, and an eye-popping screen, can now be purchased refurbished for $110 less than it costs brand-new. Valve has just begun selling certified refurbished Steam Deck OLED models starting…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress parent company Automattic. On Tuesday, a California District Court judge ordered Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with its plugins. The preliminary injunction comes after WP Engine, a third-party WordPress hosting service, filed a…
A University of Pennsylvania professor made some of her social media accounts private and appeared to take down her TikTok account after going viral for appearing to celebrate that the suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was a graduate of the Ivy League school. Luigi Mangione, 26, is accused of executing the former insurance…
The New York Yankees‘ pivot is on. The Bronx Bombers lost Juan Soto to their crosstown rivals earlier this week, but the show must go on, and the Yankees made a big splash. The Yanks and Max Fried are reportedly in agreement on an eight-year deal worth $218 million, the most lucrative deal ever given…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple enabled non-emergency satellite messaging from iPhones earlier this year. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it may do the same for the next Apple Watch Ultra in addition to adding the long-rumored blood-pressure monitoring feature. Satellite messaging on the Watch Ultra has been rumored since before we…
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Even with the abundance of streaming services we’re using now, Windows PC storage can still fill up quickly. Games, photos, movies, and apps can take up significant chunks of room, and before you know it, that SSD is starting to run low on free space. And a cluttered…
Ozzy Osbourne’s son, Jack Osbourne, is sharing how his multiple sclerosis diagnosis affected his career. While speaking at Steel City Con in Monroesville, Pennsylvania, Friday, the 39-year-old media personality explained that, following his diagnosis with MS in 2012, he was declared an “insurance risk” and he “couldn’t get hired on productions” for a while. “Professionally,…