The New Jersey drone hysteria exposes one salient truth: no one knows anything Is it a bird? Is it a plane? | Image: GettyOkay, I get it, we’re all sick of the drones. I went to two holiday parties over the weekend in the New Jersey suburbs, and it was all anyone wanted to talk about. The news coverage has been breathless, all-consuming, and most importantly, completely unhinged. No one knows anything. The cops don’t know…

This Z-Wave smart plug can work over a mile from your house Image: ShellyEuropean smart device manufacturer Shelly is launching 11 automation devices that can connect to the home from over a mile away. Shelly says its new and updated Wave devices are built around the Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR) specification, and will be available in the US in the first half of 2025. The benefits of Z-Wave LR are simil…

Social networks in 2024: bless this mess Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesWe didn’t all flock to a new platform or build on a thrilling new protocol. We went everywhere, and did everything, all at once. Read the full story at The Verge.

Death of a Unicorn’s first trailer brings a fairytale creature into a dark comedy Image: A24A24’s lineup of films for 2025 is starting to become stacked — with fantastical creatures, that is. While the fantasy adventure The Legend of Ochi is slated to hit theaters next February, the dark comedy Death of a Unicorn is due out in the spring. And you can get a feel for it in the brand-new trailer above. The film follows a father …

LG will bring its wireless TV tech to Mini LED models in 2025 Image: LGOften at CES, you’ll see a very impressive new technology debut at exorbitant prices before trickling down to more affordable models a couple years later. Lo and behold, that’s exactly what we’re seeing with LG and its Zero Connect Box. We got our first look at it with the M Series OLED in 2023. Now the company is bringing that Zero Con…

Seagate is getting ready to launch its first high-capacity HAMR hard drive Image: SeagateIt’s been more than two decades since Seagate began working on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) — and now the company may finally be ready to release a hard drive using the technology. A new product page spotted by Tom’s Hardware shows an Exos M hard drive sporting up to 32TB of storage using Seagate’s Mozaic 3 Plus HAMR pla…

Alphabet’s Wing will deliver DoorDash by drone in Dallas-Fort Worth Image: WingWing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is expanding its drone delivery service to DoorDash customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Starting today, 50 merchants from malls in Frisco and Fort Worth will be available for drone delivery through the DoorDash app, dropping meals and items to homes “in as little as 15 …

8 great games for your Steam Deck Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images2024 was filled with excellent portable PC games. Read the full story at The Verge.

Tech antitrust is about to get really weird Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump’s second term is a regulatory wild card hanging over Big Tech. Read the full story at The Verge.

Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews The Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition. | Image: IntelIntel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has alrea…

Grubhub pays $25 million for allegedly tricking customers and lying to drivers Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeGrubhub has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that claimed the food delivery service misled customers and drivers while also damaging the reputation of restaurants. The proposed settlement will require Grubhub to make several changes to the platform, such as showing the total d…

Apple Maps on the web now has Look Around Look Around Look Around at how lucky we are to have Apple Maps right now. | Screenshot: The VergeFollowing the beta launch of Apple Maps on the web in July, Apple has now recently added Look Around street-level views for several cities to the site, 9to5Mac reports. You can activate Look Around as you would in the Apple Maps app on devices like t…

Apple’s App Store is inviting me to ‘search the way you talk’ Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeI opened the App Store today to find an emulator I’d read about, and a new prompt appeared under the search bar inviting me to “search the way you talk.” I hadn’t seen the prompt before on my iPhone 13 Pro Max, and quite frankly, I had missed the iOS 18.1 update note about it. As it describes, Apple’s upda…

YouTube says that soon, its tech will be able to find AI copies of celebs and creators Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergeYouTube is partnering with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help creators identify content using their AI-generated likenesses on the platform and submit removal requests. The company will test the controls with celebrities and athletes early next year before rolling it out to “top YouTube creators, creat…

Threads starts testing scheduled posts Image: The VergeThreads is about to begin testing the ability to schedule posts, according to Instagram’s Adam Mosseri. “Replies cannot be scheduled,” he added, explaining that “we want to balance giving people more control to plan their Threads posts while still encouraging real-time conversation.” Mosseri also makes sure to note that Instagra…

iRobot’s founder is working on a new kind of home robot Colin Angle, the former CEO of iRobot, is launching a home robot startup. | Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesColin Angle, the co-founder of iRobot and its CEO for three decades, is getting back into robotics with a new startup called Familiar Machines & Magic. According to The Boston Globe, the company is developing a ne…

How to add extensions to Gemini Image: The VergeI was driving home the other day and wanted to call my partner and let him know that I was stuck in traffic. (Not an unusual event on Brooklyn’s Belt Parkway.) I’ve got a relatively old car (it’s a 2007 model, so we’re talking no real smarts), and so I depend on my phone rather than any built-in intelligence to deal with calls, m…

Delta emulator triples Apple’s prices to encourage external clicks Image: Riley TestutThe Delta gaming emulator is now providing a link to sign up for Patreon-exclusive membership perks directly within the iOS app in Apple’s US App Store. Developer Riley Testut is heavily encouraging users to click that external link by tripling the price you’d otherwise pay to Apple for In-App Purchase versions of those same P…

Leaks: Nvidia’s RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070 tipped with new ‘neural rendering’ This is the RTX 4080 Super, not the new cards. | Photo by Tom Warren / The VergeNvidia’s new RTX 50 series graphics cards are looking like more of a lock for CES 2025 than ever, with Zotac and Acer now having leaked as many as five new GPUs — ones which may also have a new AI trick up their sleeves that we’ve never seen before. Inno3D, an Nvidi…

Honda and Nissan explore merger to navigate uncertain EV future Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida with Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe at a press conference in March. | Image: HondaJapanese automakers Honda and Nissan are in talks to merge to better compete with electric vehicle manufacturers like Tesla, BYD, and others. As reported by Nikkei Asia, the two have discussed signing a memorandum of understanding that outlines p…