Mill’s ambitious smart trash can isn’t going to solve the food waste problem This $400 kitchen bin eats your leftovers and promises to turn them into chicken food rather than landfill. A nicer-smelling kitchen and less waste are great, but not at this price. Continue reading…

How to set up parental controls on your PS5 Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeToday’s kids are tech-savvy at a very young age, but you might not want your children sitting down in front of a PS5 without some guardrails in place. Sony has built parental controls right into the software for its console, and they can be used in combination with the user profiles feature to put limits o…

Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesFTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been on house arrest in California since December while awaiting trial on fraud and money laundering charges over the crypto exchange’s collapse, but today he was sent to jail, as first reported by Inner City Press. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the former bill…

Zuckerberg says he’s ready to fight and that Elon keeps making things up The VergeMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Threads that he’s “ready to fight” X owner Elon Musk but not to believe that there’s a scheduled date until he confirms it. Musk claimed Friday morning that the fight would be livestreamed on X and “Meta,” and that everything you’d see on camera “will be ancient Rome.” Italy’s culture minister promptly i…

Is this the PS5 Slim? Image: BwE (X)Sony has been rumored to be working on a revision of the PlayStation 5, often referred to as the PS5 Slim, that includes a removable disc drive. Now images and a video have leaked of a PS5 model that looks slimmer and slightly shorter, and may well have a removable disc drive. The first image leaked of the rumored PS5 Slim in a Chi…

Zoom rewrites its policies to make clear that your videos aren’t used to train AI tools Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeZoom has updated its terms of service and reworded a blog post explaining recent terms of service changes referencing its generative AI tools. The company now explicitly states that “communications-like” customer data isn’t being used to train artificial intelligence models for Zoom or third parties. What i…

Nearly 400 sickos have beaten Baldur’s Gate 3 already Image: Larian StudiosToday, Larian Studios shared a ton of interesting player stats for Baldur’s Gate 3, the seriously massive RPG boasting over 10,000 unique endings and 174 hours worth of cutscenes. Those stats included class / race breakdowns, total number of hours played, and how many times players have pet the dog. Let’s take a look at what…

These are the Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones — now with spatial audio Image: The VergeWe’ve already seen the design thanks to leaked renders and marketing images, so how about the next best thing to having them on your own head? The Verge has obtained numerous real-world photos of Bose’s upcoming headphones, the QuietComfort Ultras. They look quite sleek and combine design elements from the company’s recent models…

There’s a disconnect between health tech and the people it’s supposed to help Despite the push toward advanced heart health features, a pair of Yale studies finds those most at risk of cardiovascular disease aren’t using tech to improve their health. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeThere’s no shortage of apps and wearables that aim to help people improve heart health. However, a pair of recent Yale studies fi…

Apple is winding down its classic iTunes Movie Trailers app The-long standing iTunes Movie Trailer app with an ominous banner on top. | Image: Umar Shakir / The VergeApple’s classic iTunes Movie Trailers app for iOS is miraculously still around, but MacRumors reports that it won’t be for much longer. The more-than-decade-old app that lets people watch film trailers and previews and get movie theater show…

Field workers can tap their phones and access AI. Microsoft is bringing generative AI to frontline field workers by integrating its Copilot AI assistant into its field services platform, streamlining workflows but also enabling supervisors to know what technicians are doing on the job. Copilot, first introduced in March, is already on Microsoft 365 enterprise platforms and was first used by de…

What cash discounts tell us about payment defaults I’ll see you at the ATMLast night, when I was settling up at the dive bar, I began thinking once again about the tradeoffs of technology. I was thinking about it because I paid in cash. Post-pandemic, it seems that more people than ever are using credit cards for payments; they are now the vast majority of transactions, according to a report fro…

Canon is getting away with printers that won’t scan sans ink — but HP might pay Image: HPWere you hoping Canon might be held accountable for its all-in-one printers that mysteriously can’t scan when they’re low on ink, forcing you to buy more? Tough: the lawsuit we told you about last year quietly ended in a private settlement rather than becoming a big class-action. I just checked, and a judge already dismissed David Leac…

Why fire is a growing risk in Hawaii An aerial image taken on August 10th, 2023, shows destroyed homes and buildings on the waterfront burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii. | Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty ImagesMaui faces a long road to recovery from the devastating blazes this week — Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster …

Rockstar officially teams up with GTA V roleplay server developer Image: Rockstar GamesRockstar Games is working with a popular mod developer team to bring in official support for roleplay servers to the company’s games. Announced today, Rockstar says it’s “partnering with the Cfx.re team,” the creator of the FiveM and RedM modding tools that lets players make and play through entirely custom experiences in ga…

Vampire Survivors: our collective obsession with the quirky, genre-defining indie game Image: PoncleKeeping up on the latest news, updates, and musings on this juggernaut of an indie game. Continue reading…

The Verge Launches “Installer,” a Newsletter About the Next Big Things to Download, Watch, and Explore Every weekend, The Verge’s editor-at-large will tell you about the best and Verge-iest stuff you should know about Continue reading…

Bose’s next flagship headphones could add premium flair to the QuietComfort formula Image: MySmartPriceBose is nearing the announcement of its latest flagship headphones and earbuds, according to leaked images published by MySmartPrice. Both products will reportedly be branded under a new “QuietComfort Ultra” name when they ship in the coming months. The QuietComfort Ultra headphones look like a mashup of the Noise Canceling He…

Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro is up to $300 off right now These are the best prices yet on the M2 Pro MacBook Pro. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeIf you’re in need of a speedy laptop that can handle some extensive creative workflows with long battery life, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything better than Apple’s latest crop of MacBook Pros. And with the base-model 14-inch MacBook Pro wi…

Audacy takes $10 million hit to leave ‘onerous’ podcasting deal with APM Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesThis story originally ran in Hot Pod Insider, a newsletter from The Verge on podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here. American Public Media and Audacy’s Cadence13 will exit a multiyear advertising partnership at the end of August — roughly a year before its intended end date, Hot P…