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Tesla slashes price for monthly Full Self-Driving subscription

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Tesla is reducing the subscription fee for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assist software in a reflection...

Tesla is reducing the subscription fee for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assist software in a reflection of the company’s continuing financial hardships. The company slashed the price to $99 / month, down from $199 where it has been since at least 2021. Tesla announced the price adjustment in a post on X, in wh...

Japanese man arrested for allegedly hacking Pokémon game to sell custom monsters

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Japanese police arrested a man after finding evidence that he illegally tampered with save data for...

Japanese police arrested a man after finding evidence that he illegally tampered with save data for the Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, which he used to create custom characters that he sold on an online gaming marketplace. According to machine translations of stories at NHK and the Asahi Shimbun, ...

The best smartphone you can buy for under $500

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Part of /Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an...

Part of /Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget nerd — then you can probably think...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season

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Game publisher blames media for studio closure

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The grim cadence of video game layoffs continues apace, but this latest news comes with a...

The grim cadence of video game layoffs continues apace, but this latest news comes with a strange twist. Prytania Media has shut down studio Possibility Space effective immediately. In an email to employees reproduced on social media by Polygon reporter Nicole Carpenter, Jeff Strain, Prytania’s co-founder, seemingly...

Out in the Vision Pro, having the time of my life with a bunch of friends.

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The inside of an Apple Vision Pro is a lonely place to be. My spouse and...

The inside of an Apple Vision Pro is a lonely place to be. My spouse and I can’t watch movies together. It’s hard to describe what the world looks like in there to curious friends. Even if I’m standing next to you, even if there’s a ghostly projection of my eyes on the front display — there’s a barrier between me an...

The Fitbit Charge 5 is a steal at 50 percent off

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With nearly a third of 2024 behind us now, you might think it’s out of season...

With nearly a third of 2024 behind us now, you might think it’s out of season to talk about resolutions and fitness goals. But for me, the renewal of the Earth’s vegetation and the prospect of pool parties encourages me to get out and move after a cold, muggy winter. If the same is true for you, a fitness tracker ca...

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

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House votes to reauthorize FISA, without the warrant requirement amendment

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After three failed attempts and a heated floor debate, the House voted on Friday to reauthorize...

After three failed attempts and a heated floor debate, the House voted on Friday to reauthorize a controversial program that lets US intelligence agencies spy on foreign communications without a warrant. The bill ultimately passed 273–147. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is scheduled by stat...

Spotify’s lossless audio could finally arrive as part of “Music Pro” add-on

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Could lossless streaming on Spotify actually be happening this time? We’ve been through so many twists...

Could lossless streaming on Spotify actually be happening this time? We’ve been through so many twists and turns with this saga already, but there’s new cause for hope. Code snippets in recent builds of Spotify for Android yet again tease the possibility of the company’s long-delayed lossless audio coming in the nea...

The MPA has big plans to crack down on movie piracy again

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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is going off on piracy again. During CinemaCon in Las Vegas,...

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is going off on piracy again. During CinemaCon in Las Vegas, MPA CEO Charles Rivkin announced that the organization plans on working with Congress to pass rules blocking websites with pirated content.The MPA is a trade association representing Hollywood studios, including Paramou...

How to tame notifications on iOS

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I don’t think I’m alone when I say that notifications are a nuisance. There are simply...

I don’t think I’m alone when I say that notifications are a nuisance. There are simply too many of them, and the helpful ones are often drowned out by the spam. Whether promotional notifications should be allowed at all on our phones is an open question (I have my own feelings on that!). In the meantime, it is possi...

New 14-inch gaming laptops are on their way from Acer.

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Acer announced Tuesday its first 14-inch gaming laptops: the Nitro 14 and Predator Helios Neo 14....

Acer announced Tuesday its first 14-inch gaming laptops: the Nitro 14 and Predator Helios Neo 14. It’s exciting to see Acer’s fabulous and well-beloved budget-friendly Nitro enter the 14-inch gaming laptop space, but even more so for the new Predator since it’s priced and specced competitively with the Asus ROG Zeph...

Asus’ Vivobook S and Zenbook 14 OLED laptops run on the latest AI-capable chips

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Asus has released two new laptop models: the Asus Vivobook S series and the Zenbook 14...

Asus has released two new laptop models: the Asus Vivobook S series and the Zenbook 14 OLED (UM3406). Along with offering OLED displays, the laptops run on some of the latest AMD and Intel processors.We’ve yet to put the laptops to the test, but the new chips should be able to better handle AI with neural processing...

Miku fans wanted a hologram concert — they got a TV show instead

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If you made it through that headline and you’re confused, don’t worry — I was, too,...

If you made it through that headline and you’re confused, don’t worry — I was, too, at first. Hatsune Miku is an internet fandom thing. She’s not a real person, and she didn’t get her start in some obscure anime — she’s a Vocaloid, which is a synthetic voice that can be fed melodies and song lyrics to output as voca...

Destiny 2: The Final Shape is going to break the game, in a good way

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Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion has a lot riding on it. It’s the culmination of...

Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion has a lot riding on it. It’s the culmination of a 10-year story and the conclusion of Destiny’s light and darkness saga. After a four-month delay, fans haven’t really seen much of The Final Shape, but today, Bungie delivered a preview of what’s to come. The teaser left me thinki...

SwitchBot’s robot vacuums now work with Matter, but the platforms need to step up support

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This week, SwitchBot announced that almost its entire line of smart home devices can now work...

This week, SwitchBot announced that almost its entire line of smart home devices can now work with Matter through its SwitchBot Hub 2. This includes its mini K10 Plus robot vacuum — one of The Verge’s picks for best robot vacuum — as well as the soon-to-be-launched SwitchBot S10. Along with Ecovacs’ recently launche...

Star Wars Outlaws preorders are up, bringing exclusive skins and DLC in tow

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It’s official: Star Wars Outlaws launches on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X / S, and...

It’s official: Star Wars Outlaws launches on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X / S, and PC on August 30th. Ubisoft shared the news alongside a new trailer for the upcoming next-gen title, which is an original adventure set in the ever-expanding galaxy of games based on Lucasfilm’s beloved franchise. You can preorder ...

Adobe overhauls Frame.io to make it a little more Trello-like

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Adobe has introduced the latest version of Frame.io, overhauling the cloud-based media collaboration service with oodles...

Adobe has introduced the latest version of Frame.io, overhauling the cloud-based media collaboration service with oodles of new workflow and tagging capabilities that make it easier for creatives to manage their entire projects on the platform. Initially launching in beta, Frame.io V4 starts rolling out to Free and ...

The best iPad to buy

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Editor’s note: According to a recent report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple plans to introduce several...

Editor’s note: According to a recent report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple plans to introduce several new iPads at the beginning of May, including an OLED iPad Pro with Apple’s M3 chip and both an 11- and 12.9-inch iPad Air. If you’re looking to pick up one of Apple’s latest iPads — or a discounted older model ...

Nothing’s next set of earbuds might include a Playdate-inspired glow-up

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Consumer tech startup Nothing, which is expected to launch its newest earbuds later this month, will...

Consumer tech startup Nothing, which is expected to launch its newest earbuds later this month, will also debut a new color variant that evokes a certain yellow handheld, according to leaked renders shared by Android Headlines. Nothing previously announced that it would be dropping numbers in its naming strategy, so...

WWE went big on AR at WrestleMania 40

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WWE marched into what its top executives described as “a new era” over WrestleMania 40 weekend...

WWE marched into what its top executives described as “a new era” over WrestleMania 40 weekend this past Saturday and Sunday. That phrase was bandied about because there were a number of firsts that went down in Philly. This was the first WrestleMania produced under Endeavor, which acquired WWE last year and combine...

It’s true: people like leaving their TVs on in the background

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The rise of free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) seems to have little to do with what’s...

The rise of free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) seems to have little to do with what’s playing — and more like how it’s playing. Metrics compiled by Bloomberg suggest that people really do just like to leave their TVs running in the background while working around the house or scrolling through social med...

Lawmakers unveil new bipartisan digital privacy bill after years of impasse

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A pair of bipartisan lawmakers released a new comprehensive privacy proposal on Sunday, the first sign...

A pair of bipartisan lawmakers released a new comprehensive privacy proposal on Sunday, the first sign in years that Congress could have a shot at breaking the long-standing impasse in passing such protections.Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy M...