Category: Technology

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft launched its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this year without Intel chips, in a bid to promote Windows on Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips. Now, it looks like a Surface Laptop might arrive next year with Intel’s latest Lunar Lake chips. A Surface Laptop prototype has…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has pulled its $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, just days before Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 releases on October 25th. The 14-day Game Pass trial was removed on October 8th, preventing people from signing up for a trial and playing through the Black Ops 6 campaign…

Amazon’s new Kindle family. | Image: Amazon Amazon just announced four new Kindle e-readers. The Colorsoft Signature Edition is the first color Kindle, there’s a new Kindle Scribe note taker, a faster version of its most popular Paperwhite, and a new entry-level Kindle. The Spanish-language announcement with US pricing seems accidental as none of the…

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Former president Donald Trump threatened in an interview today that, if elected president, he would “do something” about Google but stopped short of specifically saying he would break up the company. In the interview, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait mentioned the US Justice Department’s proposal to possibly break up Google and…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound. The new “captured with a camera” label can be seen in action courtesy of digital content authentication service Trupic, which uploaded a video to its channel, triggering…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission is officially looking into broadband data caps and their impact on consumers. On Tuesday, the FCC approved a notice of inquiry to examine whether data caps harm consumers and competition, as well as why data caps persist “despite increased…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Whether you want everything but the kitchen sink or top-tier performance for a midrange price, you’ve got options. The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a much wider range of…

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Former President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial, launched its token sale on Tuesday — and its website crashed shortly afterward. The whitelist for the much-hyped but still largely unexplained decentralized finance project opened on September 30th for accredited investors and non-US persons. World Liberty Financial co-founder Zach…

Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From simple fitness bands and rugged sports watches to rings, these are the best trackers you can get. Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how well…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The FIDO Alliance, the organization that’s helping shepherd passkey adoption, announced a draft of new specifications that would let users securely move their passkeys across different password managers. Passkeys are great — it’s nice to be able to log in to apps and…