The best iPhones

New iPhones for the AI era. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Whether you want a battery that lasts for days or the very best deal, we’ve got some recommendations for an iPhone you’ll love. New iPhones are here, but Apple Intelligence is MIA. The much-hyped AI features will start to ship with iOS…

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Alabama executes man who killed 5 in drug-fueled rampage

Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to allow his lethal injection to go forward. Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He pleaded guilty in a…

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Bill Maher questions media avoiding Doug Emhoff controversies: ‘Wouldn’t that make it look worse?’

“Real Time” host Bill Maher questioned whether it was wise for the liberal media to continue avoiding the growing controversies surrounding Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. “There’s a lot of scuttlebutt in the news this week about Doug,” Maher said in a panel discussion on Friday’s “Overtime” online segment of his HBO show. “If people don’t…

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The best deals on MacBooks right now

Some of the latest M3 MacBooks are on sale, and you can find great discounts on older models, too. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series chips in a wide range of sizes and price points. It recently discontinued the M1 MacBook Air to make…

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Activision says it’s fixed an anti-cheat hack in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone

Image: Activision Activision says it has “disabled a workaround to a detection system” in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone that led to legitimate players getting banned by the Ricochet anti-cheat system. The company says the problem “impacted a small number of legitimate player accounts,” and all accounts affected were restored. However, zebleer,…

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