Ubisoft has officially announced The Division Resurgence, a free-to-play mobile game that it hinted was in the works last year. The company says it’ll be an open-world, third-person RPG shooter like the mainline games, with single-player and co-op modes that let players face off against the...
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Walmart’s InHome delivery costs $138 annually with Plus. | Image: WalmartWalmart is making its InHome delivery service available to Walmart Plus subscribers for an extra $7 per month or $40 per year. The service, which brings groceries and other goods from your local Walmart to the inside of your...
Ryuk the Shinigami eating an apple | Image: Nippon TelevisionThough Netflix already made a go at adapting writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata’s Death Note back in 2017, the streamer’s gearing up to give it another go with the help of the Duffer Brothers. Fresh off the success of...
The new season of Vox Media Podcast Network’s award-winning narrative podcast Land of the Giants is debuting next week, on July 13th. This time, Recode senior correspondent Shirin Ghaffary and The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath team up to tell the story of Meta, formerly known as Facebook, at a...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFederal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is facing new pressure from top Senate Intelligence leaders to investigate TikTok after new reports that the company shares US data with China-based workers. In a letter to Khan on Tuesday, Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and...
Image: Bandai NamcoAt this year’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Bandai Namco announced a new game based on the popular anime series My Hero Academia: a 24-player battle royale that pits teams of heroes and villains against each other. The free-to-play game, called My Hero Ultra Rumble, will be...
Amazon and Microsoft deny using Flickr pics for facial recognition, as suits test limits of privacy law
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A sample diagram released by IBM in 2019, illustrating the biometric markers available to researchers in its Diversity in Faces dataset, which was assembled using images uploaded by Flickr users under Creative Commons licenses.Facing a pair of related lawsuits, Amazon and Microsoft both acknowledge...
Patch 1.17 is available now. | Image: SonyHorizon Forbidden West now offers variable refresh rate (VRR) and high refresh rate support as well as a new 40Hz “Balanced” graphics mode on PS5, developer Guerrilla Games announced Wednesday. They’re available as part of patch 1.17, which you can...
The Ultrahuman Ring is the latest take on metabolism and fitness tracking. | Image: UltrahumanFitness startup Ultrahuman is launching a smart ring that it claims will give users “ultrahuman power.” And by ultrahuman power, the company means a fitness tracker that gives insights into your...
Insulting someone online could land an individual in Japan a one-year prison term under an amendment to the country’s penal code enacted on Thursday morning. Following the apparent suicide of Hana Kimura and a paltry ¥9,000 (around $81) fine for one of the men accused of bullying the Terrace...
The second quarter of 2022 was one for the books amid a tumultuous period of what I like to call market madness, and the evidence keeps stacking up for the crypto markets. Q2 was full of massive crypto “losses” across the web3 ecosystem, some 97% of which were the result of hacks, according...
Image: Sky MavisThe blockchain of high-profile crypto game Axie Infinity was reportedly hacked with an elaborate phishing scheme involving fake LinkedIn job offers. The Block reported the news today, citing two sources with knowledge of the incident. It revealed a new dimension to one of the...
The Marriott International hotel chain has confirmed that it has been hit by yet another data breach that exposed staff and customer information in another unfortunate security incident for a company that was affected by a number of major hacks in recent years. In the latest incident, first...
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SonySony’s upcoming historical action epic The Woman King from director Gina Prince-Bythewood tells the story of the all-female army that solidified the Kingdom of Dahomey’s status as a militaristic power player right up until the turn of the 20th century. Though the legacies of the actual...
Photo by Abigail Bassett for The VergeToyota sold its 200,000th plug-in electric vehicle in the US, triggering a slow phaseout of the federal EV tax credit over the next 15 months, according to Bloomberg. The automaker is the third manufacturer to pass this mark, following Tesla and General...
An artistic rendering of CAPSTONE at the Moon. | Image: NASA/Daniel RutterUpdate July 6th, 11:45AM ET: On Wednesday morning, NASA announced that the mission team had reestablished contact with CAPSTONE. Our original story about the communications blackout that occurred after spacecraft separation...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeCryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday in the wake of the collapse of the major crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). Voyager’s Chapter 11 filing comes just days after 3AC filed for bankruptcy — and about a week after...
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergePosting “online insults” will be punishable by up to a year in prison time in Japan starting Thursday, when a new law passed earlier this summer will go into effect. People convicted of online insults can also be fined up to 300,000 yen (just over...
Rivian’s promise to upend the auto industry with beautifully designed emissions-free, adventure-themed trucks and SUVs was almost dependent on the company’s ability to deliver actual vehicles to actual customers. And, in that respect, Rivian is getting slightly better. The company announced...
Image: NintendoBubbling up from the painted-splattered floor comes a new Switch OLED model. Nintendo has announced that on August 26th, it will release a special edition Splatoon 3 SWOLED. Check out the video highlighting all the details below. For those of you with misophonia (or you just hate...
Issue I was forced to manually shut down Chrome and reboot my computer — losing dozens of tabs. Quick fix Use History to restore complete Chrome windows, including all groups and tabs. The full story Over the weekend, I needed to use my somewhat elderly MacBook Pro — the one I usually use for...
Image: VizioPrime Day 2022 is quickly approaching. The two-day sale event that’s exclusive to Prime members will kick off Tuesday, July 12th, (who said Tuesdays always have to be boring?) and last through Wednesday, July 13th. We’ll be covering every great deal that’s available so you won’t...
An artistic rendering of CAPSTONE at the Moon. | Image: NASA/Daniel RutterNASA is having trouble establishing contact with its new CAPSTONE spacecraft, a tiny probe that just launched from Earth to test out a new orbit around the Moon. Because of these communication issues, NASA had to delay a...
RadioShack: dying IRL, thriving on social. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesThere are no good, practical, rational reasons to care about RadioShack anymore. So what do you do when your once-venerable electronics store goes the way of Blockbuster, Sears, and the local mall? You get super horny on...
God of War will be available on PS5 and PS4. | Image: SonyGod of War: Ragnarok, one of Sony’s biggest games of the year, now has an official release date. Sony announced today that Ragnarok will be hitting both the PS4 and PS5 on November 9th. In addition to the release date news, the developer...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeSocial media conglomerate Meta has created a single AI model capable of translating across 200 different languages, including many not supported by current commercial tools. The company is open-sourcing the project in the hopes that others will build on its...
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The UK government has tabled an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that could put it on a collision course with end-to-end encryption. It’s proposing to give the incoming Internet regulator, Ofcom, new powers to force messaging platforms and other types of online services to implement...
Apple’s upcoming M2 MacBook Air comes in four color options. | AppleApple’s upcoming MacBook Air with M2 processor finally has a shipping date. After a bit longer wait than usual, the new $1,199 laptop will begin shipping on July 15th, with preorders opening on July 8th at 8AM ET. The 13-inch...