Elgato’s Stream Deck XL has dropped to its best price of the year The Elgato Stream Deck XL is $50 off. | Image: ElgatoIf you’re looking for a way to streamline your workflow, the Elgato Stream Deck XL is a handy little tool that’ll help you do just that. It’s normally $249.99, but right now, you can buy it on sale for $199.99 ($50 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. That’s the best price we’ve seen on the device all…

Sony claims its new earbuds won’t suffer battery drain problems like the WF-1000XM4 Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeAn issue that has slowly reared its head over the lifespan of Sony’s otherwise excellent WF-1000XM4 earbuds is one centered around battery drain. As I mentioned in my review of the brand-new WF-1000XM5, a significant number of people who bought the company’s last flagship earbuds have encountered this problem — to…

Threads is rolling out its Following feed Illustration: The VergeOne of Instagram Threads’ most requested features is finally here: the Following tab that lets you see only the people you, er, follow. “Ask and you shall receive,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads quoting a user asking for the feature. For those of us who have the Following feed, we can make it appear and dis…

Check out 13 minutes of Armored Core VI gameplay Image: FromSoftwareAs the Fires of Rubicon heat up, FromSoftware has released an in-depth look at Armored Core VI’s gameplay. The roughly 13-minute presentation covered everything from armored core movement capabilities and customization options to the kinds of enemies you’ll face as the mercenary 621. Check it out. From the story trailer that …

GM is making a new Chevy Bolt EV with an Ultium battery No launch date has been provided for GM’s new Chevy Bolt as the company tackles production issues impacting its Ultium battery packs. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesGeneral Motors announced today that it’s developing a next-generation Chevrolet Bolt based on the automaker’s Ultium battery and drive technology to deliver “great affordab…

ChatGPT for Android is now available Illustration: The VergeThe ChatGPT for Android app is now available in the Google Play Store, launching a few months after the free iOS app brought the chatbot to iPhones and iPads. According to a company tweet, it’s available first in the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with other countries set to follow later, mimicking the staged rollout w…

Rivian CEO: ‘There’s far too much greenwashing in the system’ Photo by Mitchell Clark / The VergeRivian CEO RJ Scaringe is fed up with companies exaggerating their environmental credentials. “There’s far too much greenwashing in the system,” he said in a recent interview. For Scaringe, it’s all too easy for a company to obfuscate the source of its power consumption, especially when it doesn’t actually cre…

EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025 A typical scene at ultra-fast charging stations in Europe: everything working and lots of availability. This one had a long protected walking path for the dog along the right-hand side bordering a creek. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The VergeThe Council of the EU has adopted new rules intended to make it much easier for EV owners to travel across …

Spotify now has 220 million paying subscribers Nick Barclay / The VergeSpotify had 220 million Premium subscribers and 551 million monthly active users as of June 30th, the company announced today in its latest earnings report. That represents a 27 and 17 percent increase, respectively, compared to the same period last year and is above its outlook released last quarter. But while listener n…

AMD ‘Zenbleed’ exploit can leak passwords and encryption keys from Ryzen CPUs AMD is rolling out patches for at-risk CPUs, though these updates may impact system performance. | Illustration: Beatrice SalaA new vulnerability impacting AMD’s line of Zen 2 processors — which includes popular CPUs like the budget-friendly Ryzen 5 3600 — has been discovered that can be exploited to steal sensitive data like passwords and encry…

July heatwaves ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change A heat advisory sign is shown along US Highway 190 during a heat wave in Death Valley National Park in Death Valley, California, on July 16th, 2023.  | Photo by Ronda Churchill / AFP via Getty ImagesIt’s been a viciously hot July for much of the planet thanks to heatwaves made worse by climate change. A new study breaks down how much of a role t…

Looking back at the original Chromecast, which just turned 10 years old Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeTen years ago today — July 24th, 2013 — Google announced a $35 streaming stick called the Chromecast. I was one of the first journalists to lay hands on the dongle, and it wasn’t yet clear how big a deal it’d be. The demo was choppy! It could arguably be classified as a me-too product given Apple’s AirPlay was…

Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived The Twitter sign is coming down in San Francisco. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesTwitter, in case you somehow haven’t heard, is rebranding as “X,” ditching one of the world’s most iconic and theoretically valuable brands in exchange for Elon Musk’s personal idea of cool. Today, the theoretically-not-Musk-led company owned by Musk also …

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem Illustration: The VergeMastodon, the decentralized network viewed as a viable alternative to Twitter, is rife with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a new study from Stanford’s Internet Observatory (via The Washington Post). In just two days, researchers found 112 instances of known CSAM across 325,000 posts on the platform — with…

House GOP could try to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesRepublicans on the House Judiciary Committee may vote to hold Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt later this week, according to a new report from Punchbowl News Monday. The potential contempt vote hinges on a February subpoena from the committee demanding Meta produce documents and communications related …

The Boys spinoff Gen V looks like a bloody bacchanal in new trailer Amazon’s live-action adaptation of The Boys has always been a uniquely blood-filled superhero series, and the same has seemed to be true of Gen V — the streamer’s upcoming spinoff show focused on college-aged superheroes training for the big leagues. But unlike the thick, red liquid pouring out of The Boys — which has always felt like an excessi…

No, Ubisoft won’t delete your game-filled accounts, it claims Image: UbisoftUbisoft now says it will not delete your games just because you didn’t sign in often enough. “Accounts that include purchased PC games are not eligible for deletion,” Ubisoft senior corporate communications manager Jessica Roache tells The Verge. Last week, a tweeted screenshot of a Ubisoft email put gamers in something of a panic…

Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeGoogle Docs now lets you add line numbers to documents. With this feature, Google can automatically assign numbers to each line, which you can then configure to span an entire document, a page, or a certain section. Line numbers are often used by legal professionals to make it easier to point to specific pi…

Tencent set to acquire Dying Light studio Techland Image: TechlandTencent, the billion-dollar Chinese holding company that owns either wholly or in part game studios like Riot Games, Epic Games, and many others, is in the process of adding another studio to its long list of subsidiaries — Techland. CEO Pawel Marchewka announced the news, saying, “Teaming up with Tencent will allow us to move ful…

Sony WF-1000XM5 noise-canceling earbuds review: better in every way — for now Sony’s latest flagship earbuds are excellent on multiple fronts, but the lack of an ecosystem will hold them back in the not-too-distant future. Continue reading…