Snap’s AR Spectacles now support a virtual keyboard and GPS

Snap’s AR Spectacles can now access location data so they can point you to your destination. | Screenshot: Snap Six months after introducing its fifth-generation Spectacles and the second version featuring AR capabilities, Snap has announced new features ... more - theverge

The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down

Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to ... more - theverge

Snapchat is rolling out AI-powered video lenses

Snapchat Platinum subscribers will now be able to use video lenses featuring AI generated animals or flowers, Snap announced today. There will initially be three of the lenses, which Snap calls “AI Video Lenses.” The fox lens, for example, can have a ... more - theverge

All the news about daily puzzle games

There’s a lot of interest in daily puzzle games right now. The New York Times has a great collection of games like its crossword, Wordle , Connections , and Strands . Apple is in the mix with crosswords and more in Apple News Plus. Zach Gage’s puzzle ... more - theverge

Pokémon Go developer Niantic to sell gaming business to Saudi group

Niantic Labs has announced that it’s selling its video game division to Saudi Arabia-owned mobile developer Scopely for $3.5 billion after struggling to replicate the success of Pokémon Go across its other AR games. The newly inked agreement includes ... more - theverge

All the news about Netflix’s gaming efforts

Netflix is making a big push into video games. The company first dabbled in games with interactive titles like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and a Carmen Sandiego game. But starting in 2021, it made gaming a much bigger priority — Netflix hired a former ... more - theverge

One of my favorite pop albums is a video game — and now it’s on the PS5

Of all of my favorite games, Sayonara Wild Hearts might be the hardest to describe. It’s a rhythm game, but also you ride on a motorcycle and a dragon, wield giant swords while dodging fireballs, and teleport to a retrofuturistic VR world. It’s structured ... more - theverge

Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once

I tell Amazon’s Alexa to shut up on a near daily basis. I have almost zero interest in speaking to Gemini after our first awkward chat. The hitches, misunderstandings, and lag in any given AI “conversation” mean I’m always wasting time speaking when ... more - theverge

Sony drops PlayStation VR 2 price to $399

Sony is cutting the price of its PlayStation VR 2 headset in March. The VR 2 will be discounted to just $399.99, down from the original $549 pricing when it launched in February 2023. The headset will also see a price cut in Europe (€449.99), the UK ... more - theverge

iPhone 16E review: Eh, it’s alright

The cheapest iPhone still feels about $100 too expensive. The iPhone 16E is everything I love and hate about iOS. FaceTime at your fingertips. A reliable camera. Simplicity. Familiarity. They’re the pillars of the iPhone experience, and Apple’s newest ... more - theverge

Apple will fix many Vision Pro pain points in visionOS 2.4

The Vision Pro app for iOS will let you find new content and queue up downloads for the headset. One of the big problems with a VR headset is that anything you want to do, you have to do inside it. Apple is looking to tackle that and other Vision Pro ... more - theverge

Among Us 3D will let you deduce from a first-person perspective

Those little Among Us beans are being transported to a new dimension . Developer Innersloth has announced a new game called Among Us 3D , which is exactly what it sounds like: the hit multiplayer deduction game, but played in a three-dimensional world ... more - theverge

Verge staffers react to the iPhone 16E: what we love and don’t love

Apple has launched its new iPhone 16E with an updated design, additional features — and no home button or MagSafe charging. This revamped version of the company’s budget phone will be going for $599 and will include a USB-C port, a notch, a customizable ... more - theverge

It’s clearly time: all the news about the transparent tech renaissance

The new see-through Beats Studio buds along with other transparent tech. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Gadgets, much like fashion, can make style comebacks. For tech: we’ve lived through the ’80s beige keyboards, transitioned to the ’90s with gray ... more - theverge

Can Meta still make the metaverse?

Meta is clearly all in on AI, and for good reason. With models like Llama, products like the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and a monetization plan like Facebook ads, it’s one of the companies best positioned to make AI really work. But it wasn’t that long ... more - theverge

The Vision Pro NBA app turns some games into a miniature 3D diorama

It really makes you want to reach out and pick up one of the players. The NBA has introduced a new AR feature for its Vision Pro app this week called Tabletop, which places a floating render of a basketball court in your space during “select” live games, ... more - theverge

Vision Pro apps: the good, the bad, and the ridiculous

The Vision Pro is Apple’s newest computing platform, and that means we’re going to see a whole bunch of new apps. Apple pitches apps built for the Vision Pro as “spatial” experiences, and even after our initial review experience, we’ll have to see how ... more - theverge

Meta is working on ‘humanoid’ robots too

Meta is planning to design the hardware and software for humanoid robots, according to a report from Bloomberg . Sources tell the outlet that a newly formed team within Meta’s Reality Labs division will start by working on “humanoid robot hardware” capable ... more - theverge

How to watch PlayStation’s State of Play for February 2025

It’s still relatively early in the year, but 2025 has already been a pretty busy one for gaming announcements. Nintendo officially unveiled the next Switch (with more details on the way), Xbox had an impressive game-filled event, and now it’s Sony’s ... more - theverge

CES 2025: all the news, gadgets, and surprises

CES 2025 was a wild ride, and The Verge was on the ground in Las Vegas to cover the biggest gadgets, press conferences, and surprises of the show. You can follow along below for all the news, impressions, and takeaways from the biggest tech event of ... more - theverge

Roblox: all the news about the popular social and gaming platform

Roblox is a massive app — as of September 2023, Roblox says it has more than 65 million daily active users — and it’s becoming an increasingly interesting platform to watch amid growing competition from social and metaverse platforms like Epic Games’ ... more - theverge

Civilization VII is getting a Quest VR port this spring

Finally, a strategy board game without all the setup. | Image: 2K Games The Civilization franchise is getting the VR treatment with Sid Meier’s Civilization VII – VR on Meta Quest headsets this spring, 2K and Firaxis Games have announced. The “virtual ... more - theverge

Now you can strap Crocs to your face with this Vision Pro faceplate

Dbrand’s Aperture protects the curved laminated glass display on the front of the Apple Vision Pro. | Image: Dbrand Dbrand has announced a unique (disturbing? unsettling?) way to protect the Apple Vision Pro that completely negates the sleek aesthetics ... more - theverge

Let’s talk about the battery in smart glasses

It’s hard for these to become an all-day AI companion gadget if they don’t actually last all day. We were whizzing down the slopes, screaming because it is sort of ridiculous to go flying down a snowy hill in an inflatable tube. There was a friendly ... more - theverge

Google expects to spend $75 billion this year on the AI race

Google parent company Alphabet expects to invest “approximately $75 billion” in capital expenditures in 2025, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai in Alphabet’s Q4 2024 earnings release. Capital expenditures have become a hot topic as of late ... more - theverge

Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and more: all the news about the handheld PC gaming revolution

Valve’s Steam Deck and its carrying case. | Image: Valve In July 2021, Valve revealed the Steam Deck, a Switch-like handheld device packed with features including a huge variety of control options, a 7-inch touchscreen, the ability to connect to external ... more - theverge

The tech industry’s layoffs and hiring freezes: all of the news

Companies have been cutting costs. | Photo by Natt Garun / The Verge Over the last couple years, it feels like we’ve heard news of mass layoffs and hiring freezes from tech companies nearly every week, and since the beginning of 2024, there’s been a ... more - theverge

Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project

Apple’s N107 smart glasses would’ve connected to a Mac as a portable virtual screen. While Mark Zuckerberg and Meta press forward with augmented glasses projects buoyed by its million-selling set of smart Ray-Bans, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says ... more - theverge

From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs ... more - theverge

Samsung and Google are developing AR glasses together

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung and Google are partnering up to build AR glasses, Samsung’s TM Roh told Bloomberg . But there aren’t many other specifics beyond the fact that they’re in development — there’s not even a specific release ... more - theverge