Category: Technology

The Echo Spot is a smart alarm clock / speaker hybrid that’s $5 shy of its all-time low price. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The clocks have fallen back an hour for many of us, and if it all feels a bit disorienting, you’re not alone. Thankfully, Amazon’s versatile Echo Spot…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A representative of Elon Musk’s America PAC said the winners of its $1 million voter sweepstakes aren’t randomly selected. The people who are awarded the checks are chosen to be paid “spokespeople” for the pro-Trump PAC, lawyer Chris Gober testified in a Philadelphia court on Monday, as…

Image: Sony Ahead of the PS5 Pro launch later this week, we have confirmation of a few more official specifications for the most powerful version of the PS5 yet. Digital Foundry has shared details from the manual included with its PS5 Pro review unit, confirming the console is powered by an AMD Ryzen Zen 2…

The French-language app shows new movies like Terrifier 3 and Venom: The Last Dance. | Image: Thomas Ricker / The Verge Another illegal streaming app has made its way to the App Store — but it only surfaces pirated films for people in certain regions outside the US, including France, Canada, and the Netherlands. As…

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Riot Games’ investment into its Vanguard system is paying off. Multiplayer games on PC were a mess back in 2020. Developers were struggling to respond to blatant cheating as more and more people turned to gaming at home during the covid-19 lockdowns. Call of Duty: Warzone, PUBG, and Destiny…

Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: GM GM’s Baris Cetinok is committed to building a custom experience to rival that of Apple and Google. Today, I’m talking with Baris Cetinok, who has one of the longest titles of any person we’ve had here on Decoder. He is, officially, General Motors’ senior vice president, software…

Photo: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images The New York Times Tech Guild went on strike at 12:01AM ET today, reports The Washington Post. The guild represents over 600 software engineers, product managers, data analysts, and designers for the media company. Its strike leaves the company bereft of crucial technical expertise just one day…

Illustration: The Verge This weekend, X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announced it’s “starting to launch” a controversial change to how blocking works on its platform. Company owner Elon Musk first revealed the change in September, which will allow people you’ve blocked to continue to see your posts, and, as noted by TechCrunch, your…

The hardware is chunky and the software is clunky, but this is the best portable audio player I’ve ever heard. Do you want to hear the best-sounding portable music player in creation? Something that plays your favorite songs better than you’ve ever heard them? Do you have an extra $3,000, another couple grand worth of…

The Verge AI search company Perplexity is putting to the test whether it’s a good idea to use AI to serve crucial voting information with a new Election Information Hub it announced on Friday. The hub offers things like AI-generated answers to voting questions and summaries of candidates, and on November 5th, Election Day, the…