Category: Technology

Bluesky experienced a major outage on Thursday evening that lasted around an hour. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed wouldn’t load at all, just showing a spinning loading circle. I saw something similar with the mobile app; I could log in, but when I did, the feed didn’t show. Other Verge colleagues were also…

Ziff Davis, the owner of several digital outlets like CNET, PCMag, IGN, and Everyday Health, is suing OpenAI over claims of copyright infringement, as first reported by The New York Times. In the lawsuit, the digital media company accuses OpenAI of  “intentionally and relentlessly” creating “exact copies” of its outlets’ works without permission. The company…

Today is Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call, and the first we’re truly hearing from new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over the company on March 18th. But he didn’t wait until the call to announce major changes at Intel, nor did he begin his reign by laying off 20 percent of the company’s employees,…

You can stream The Studio and other Apple TV Plus hits for just $2.99 a month. | Image: Apple From The Studio to Severance, Apple TV Plus is home to a variety of high-quality originals that we highly recommend. And now through the end of today, you can get access to the streaming platform’s entire…

Legacy search brand Yahoo has been working on its own web browser prototype, and says it would like to buy Google’s Chrome if the company is forced by a court to sell it. The information came out during the fourth day of the Justice Department’s remedies trial to rectify Google’s search monopoly. The DOJ has…

Google’s AI Overviews in Search now have “1.5 billion users per month,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement as part of Alphabet’s Q1 2025 earnings. Google started to widely roll out AI Overviews last May. Despite some awkward suggestions found shortly after their launch, the company has continued to expand upon the tool with…

Meta is ramping up efforts to rid Facebook of spammy content, the company announced on Thursday. It’s cracking down on accounts that try to “game” the Facebook algorithm with lengthy posts and numerous hashtags. The platform is also taking action against accounts that create posts with captions completely unrelated to an image. Now, if Meta…

Bowers & Wilkins’ new PX7 S3 are slimmer than the S2e, and include a smaller carrying case. | Image: Bowers & Wilkins We called Bowers & Wilkins’ PX7 S2e the “best-sounding wireless headphones” in our  noise-canceling headphones buyer’s guide, but the company’s latest could be a new contender for that title. Bowers & Wilkins says…

In a surprise move, President Trump’s transportation department has decided to keep the Biden-era rule requiring automakers and tech companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially autonomous vehicles. But they’re making a few changes that are likely to have a big impact on one company. In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued…

At 16 ounces, the Ember Tumbler is the biggest smart mug Ember sells. Tired of your coffee going cold halfway through the cup? Ember’s smart mugs are designed specifically to solve that problem, and right now the black Ember Tumbler is on sale for half off. Regularly $199.95, you can buy the travel-friendly smart mug…