Assassin’s Creed Mirage is coming out a week early Image: UbisoftAssassin’s Creed Mirage will now be released on October 5th, which is a week ahead of its original October 12th release date, Ubisoft announced on Monday. The game has also gone gold, indicating that it’s locked for release. This new title in the Assassin’s Creed series takes place in Baghdad and stars Basim Ibn Ishaq, who appeared…

Netflix finally streams video games, too Oxenfree is one of two games available as part of Netflix’s initial cloud gaming test. | Image: Night School StudioNetflix is kicking off the first public tests of its cloud-streamed games. Beginning Monday, some Netflix subscribers in Canada and the UK will be able to check out Netflix games streamed to select TVs, connected TV devices, and on …

Ford’s hands-free BlueCruise feature is now available as a monthly or annual subscription Image: FordFord is changing how it sells its hands-free BlueCruise driver-assist feature to its customers. Previously, customers had to decide at the dealership whether they wanted to purchase a new Ford vehicle with BlueCruise hardware installed — and they couldn’t go back and change their minds if they opted not to include it. Now, the hardwar…

PayPal announces a new CEO as its crypto push accelerates Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergePayPal’s new CEO will be Alex Chriss, starting September 27th, as first reported by CNBC. Chriss is currently the senior VP and CPO of small business for Intuit, and he will replace Dan Schulman. Schulman, who has been PayPal’s president and CEO since 2014, had previously announced plans to step down by the…

Xiaomi’s latest foldable is durable enough to survive half a million folds The Mix Fold 3 has four rear cameras, ranging from ultrawide to periscope. | Image: XiaomiXiaomi has announced a new foldable for Chinese users to consider buying — and for the rest of the world to stare at wistfully from afar. The Mix Fold 3 is going on sale this week starting on August 16th, and based on Xiaomi’s approach with its Mi Mix Fold …

The Pixel Watch 2 may not get UWB support after all The rumored UWB feature was absent from the FCC filing. | Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeYou won’t have to wait too much longer for the Pixel Watch 2. Not only have rumors and leaks been gaining steam in recent weeks but FCC filings for the watch also arrived over the weekend. FCC filings generally happen shortly before the official la…

Saving sites: Pocket’s bookmarking app and its alternatives Screenshot: Barbara Krasnoff / The VergeIt’s hard to keep up with all the interesting, important, or just plain fun things you come across on the web. You may come across something you just don’t have time to read right now or want to save because it will come in handy later. But as most of us have discovered, creating a bookmark on a browser fo…

Amazon adds AI-generated review summaries so you don’t have to read the comments Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAmazon is using AI to make it easier to see if a product is any good. The company is now rolling out AI-generated review summaries, which boil down hundreds or thousands of Amazon reviews into a one-paragraph blurb explaining what most people like or dislike about a product. The summaries have been in testi…

Samsung’s Galaxy A54 phone with a lovely 120Hz display is $100 off The Galaxy A54 takes some cues from the pricier S23 line, but it makes sacrifices for a much lower cost. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The VergeSamsung’s midrange sleeper hit of a midrange Android phone is on sale and matching its lowest price to date. The Samsung Galaxy A54 5G is just $349.99 ($100 off) at Amazon in either its black or violet co…

Ford hires ex-Apple TV Plus chief Peter Stern to lead the customer software team Photo by Michael Short / Getty ImagesFord said it is hiring Peter Stern, the former Apple vice president of services who helped build up the company’s streaming TV operation, to lead its effort to improve customers’ software experience. Stern left Apple at the beginning of the year after a six-year tenure heading up the launch of a portfolio of…

Microsoft’s new Office default theme and font arrives in September Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is currently testing a new Office default theme that will roll out to all subscribers of Microsoft 365 next month. Microsoft says it’s refreshing the default Office theme with the new Aptos font, a new color palette, styles, and updated default line weights. Aptos, the new default font for apps like Word, Outlook, Power…

The New York Times prohibits using its content to train AI models Refusing to comply with the restrictions could result in unspecified fines or penalties. | Photo by Kena Betancur/VIEWpressThe New York Times has taken preemptive measures to stop its content from being used to train artificial intelligence models. As reported by Adweek, the NYT updated its Terms of Service on August 3rd to prohibit its content …

Firefox’s Android app is getting proper support for extensions once again Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFirefox’s Android app will soon support an “open ecosystem of extensions,” developer Mozilla has announced, allowing users to customize the browser with a wide range of third-party addons. An exact release date for the feature is yet to be announced, but in a blog post Mozilla’s Scott DeVaney said it should…

Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘time to move on’ from the Elon Musk fight Image: The VergeMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post today that “it’s time to move on” from Elon Musk’s cage fight antics. “We can all agree Elon isn’t serious,” he wrote, adding that the refusal of the X (formerly Twitter) owner to confirm a date and his offer to “do a practice round in my backyard instead” shows how unserious he is….

Apple’s M3 Ultra Mac Studio could have a 32-core CPU and up to 80 GPU cores The M3 Ultra Mac Studio. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeApple is reportedly testing an M3 Ultra chip with a significant CPU bump from 24 cores in the M2 Ultra to 32 cores in the next generation version of the chip, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. Developer logs reportedly also show a base config…

The ‘Apple Watch X’ is reportedly a major redesign, but it’s not coming this year Illustration: The VergeApple is preparing for its first major redesign in several generations of the mainline Apple Watch, but we won’t be seeing it this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter this morning. Instead, Apple is working on a thinner “Apple Watch X” with magnetic watch band attachment points, a blood pr…

The new app every movie lover needs Image: William Joel / The VergeHi friends! Welcome to the first-ever edition of Installer. My hope here every week is to be your guide to all the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. My original pitch for this was just “what if we just found all the cool apps/videos/creators/whatevers every week and put it all in one place,” and that’s what I…

iPhone 14, 14 Pro owners complain about battery capacity that’s already falling off Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeSome iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro owners have complaints reminiscent of the bad old days of “batterygate,” reporting that with less than a year of service on the clock, their phones are already reporting more battery degradation than expected. Sam Kohl of AppleTrack tweeted in July that his iPhone 14 Pro…

iRobot’s Roomba j7 Plus, our favorite robot vacuum, has hit an all-time low The Roomba j7 Plus offers everything you could want in a robovac, including an auto-empty dock. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeThere’s a reason people still often refer to robot vacuums as “Roombas.” The company behind the well-known robovac series, iRobot, has spent decades iterating in the space, resulting in some of the best ro…

The video call revolution is dead Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeThree years ago, video chat appeared set to revolutionize the way we work. All we actually got was slightly better video chat. Video-first communication obviously became much more important to many with the covid pandemic. With people suddenly forced to use video chat for work, school, and even to visi…