What is an Xbox?

Microsoft's "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign in November always felt a little too early. If you ask a friend or family member what an Xbox is, the response is likely going to be "it's a game console." Xbox is ingrained in popular ... more - theverge

Here are 14 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s early Prime Day sale

Amazon’s next Prime Day event hasn’t officially kicked off yet, but in classic Amazon fashion, the retailer has already dropped a selection of early deals ahead of its four-day sale. While steeper discounts are not likely to arrive until next month, ... more - theverge

A week in Xbox VR with Microsoft and Meta’s new $399 headset

Microsoft and Meta announced an Xbox-branded Quest VR headset last year, and it's going on sale today for $399.99. The Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition is a custom colorway VR headset that comes bundled with an Xbox wireless controller, matching Touch Plus ... more - theverge

Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’

Today, I’m talking with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod. Hinge is one of the biggest dating apps in the United States — it’s rivaled only by Tinder, and both are owned by the massive conglomerate Match Group, which has consolidated a huge chunk of ... more - theverge

The first two Netflix Houses will finally open in late 2025

We don’t know an exact date, but the first Netflix House venues open later this year. | Image: Netflix Netflix has announced that its first two Netflix House venues will open in late 2025. There’s still no specific opening date yet. The venues were first ... more - theverge

Snapchat’s latest subscription tier will get you ‘hundreds’ of lenses

Snapchat has launched a new subscription tier that offers access to a wider selection of lenses and augmented-reality experiences. The Lens Plus subscription costs $8.99 per month and will include lenses made by Snapchat and “select” creators to start, ... more - theverge

Save $100 on Apple’s latest iPad Air with the M3 chip

Discounts have been tough to find on the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model), but there’s a good one happening on every color available at Amazon and Best Buy. Normally $599, the 128GB tablet is available for $499 — a price that it has ... more - theverge

Praise be, my visionOS 26 persona is significantly less cursed!

I look much more like myself in the visionOS 26 persona. For several months, my Slack avatar was a screenshot of my incredibly cursed Vision Pro persona. My virtual avatar's head was cocked back, cackling into the pixelated void, her hair one solid unmoving ... more - theverge

Snap will start selling AR glasses next year

Snap’s 2024 version of Spectacles for developers. | (Photo by Nalani Hernandez-Melo for The Verge) Snap plans to start selling its first pair of augmented reality glasses to the public in 2026. The coming release is part of CEO Evan Spiegel's decade-plus ... more - theverge

Apple WWDC 2025: the 13 biggest announcements

Apple packed a bunch of major updates into its annual Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. During the event, the company showed off the sleek design refresh coming to its operating systems, as well as a mix of new features for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, ... more - theverge

Apple’s visionOS 26 adds PSVR2 controller support and spatial widgets to the Vision Pro

With visionOS 26 the Apple Vision Pro will gain support for the PlayStation’s VR2 Sense spatial controllers. | Image: Apple Apple announced the latest major update for its Vision Pro headset during the company’s WWDC 2025 keynote presentation on Monday. ... more - theverge

Apple announces macOS 26 Tahoe with new design and revamped search features

Apple announced a new version of macOS during its WWDC 2025 keynote presentation, featuring a new design, improved search functions, a new Phone app, and an entirely new game launcher with overlay. The new update, expected later this year, is called ... more - theverge

WWDC 2025 live blog: a fresh new look at iOS, macOS, and more

Conference season is underway, and today we're live at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, for this year's WWDC. While we got a glimpse of the Vision Pro in 2023 and a preview of Apple Intelligence in 2024, this year is a bit of a wild card. Rumor has ... more - theverge

Apple’s latest AirPods Pro with USB-C just received a $70 discount

This year’s WWDC kicks off in less than a week, which means Apple is likely to announce a string of software changes in short order, some of which are designed to improve Apple’s latest pair of premium earbuds. Thankfully, if you haven’t yet pulled the ... more - theverge

Meta’s reportedly shopping for exclusive content on its upcoming VR headset

“Loma” could be an AR headset akin to the Meta Ray-Bans (pictured) The Wall Street Journal reports Meta is in talks with Disney and A24 to try and secure exclusive streaming content for a new headset it’s developing. WSJ says Meta’s new device is a glasses-like ... more - theverge

Here’s what’s inside Meta’s experimental new smart glasses

Meta has revealed more information about Aria Gen 2, its experimental smart glasses designed to serve as a test platform for research about augmented reality, AI, and robotics. The glasses pack several improvements into their lightweight frame that could ... more - theverge

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app

Today, I’m talking with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. This is Brian’s fourth time on the show, and he’s one of my favorite guests because he’s so clearly obsessed with things like company structure, design, and decision-making. You know, Decoder stuff. We ... more - theverge

Blink’s budget buzzer gets some worthwhile upgrades

Blink launched the second generation of its video doorbell this week. Amazon’s budget security camera company, Blink, has launched the second generation of its popular video doorbell. The new Blink Video Doorbell adds a head-to-toe view and improved ... more - theverge

Sony’s ringing in the Switch 2 launch with PS5 deals

Contrary to widespread concern that Sony was about to increase the cost of the PlayStation 5 in the US, the company is — for now, at least — cutting gamers a break with costs through June 11th. Select PS5 bundles, including the PS5 Pro, PlayStation VR ... more - theverge

The deluxe Scott Pilgrim graphic novel box set is cheaper than ever

The price of the excellent 20th anniversary collection of Scott Pilgrim graphic novels is only going in one direction: down — way down. That’s good news for anyone who’s looking for an affordable way to get every installment, whether you first got into ... more - theverge

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome

Today, I’m talking with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. We recorded this conversation in person after the Google I/O developer conference last week in what’s becoming a bit of a Decoder tradition. This is the third year that we’ve done Decoder ... more - theverge

Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

Valve CEO Gabe Newell pretends to get a hole drilled into his head for a brain-computer interface. Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, the company behind Half-Life and DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike and preeminent PC game distribution platform Steam, has ... more - theverge

Valve’s huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds

Valve has been building up to this for months, first in preview, then beta, and now finally in a full stable release: a new version of SteamOS that brings brand new features to the Steam Deck and supports third-party handhelds like Lenovo’s Legion Go ... more - theverge

Apple’s first smart glasses could arrive next year

A source tells Bloomberg that Apple’s glasses will be similar to Meta’s but “better made.” Apple is planning to debut its first pair of smart glasses next year, according to a report from Bloomberg . The upcoming glasses will reportedly come with cameras, ... more - theverge

What in the world are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?

The mystery is the point, but it’s also indicative of where AI hardware is. The last 48 hours have been a wild rollercoaster ride for AI hardware. On Tuesday, Google ended its I/O keynote - a roughly two-hour event with copious references to AI - with ... more - theverge

3D Instagram photos are coming to Meta Quest headsets

Meta is beginning to test showing 3D photos on Instagram if you’re looking at your feed on a Meta Quest VR headset. “Thanks to our AI view synthesis algorithms, we can transform the existing photos that show up in Instagram feed pixel by pixel – no fancy ... more - theverge

Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you

Shahram Izadi, Google’s head of Android XR, talking about the advantage of using Gemini. Google's AI models have a secret ingredient that's giving the company a leg up on competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. That ingredient is your data , and it's ... more - theverge

We tried on Google’s prototype AI smart glasses

Proof that there’s a display. Here in sunny Mountain View, California, I am sequestered in a teeny-tiny box. Outside, there's a long line of tech journalists, and we are all here for one thing: to try out Project Moohan and Google's Android XR smart ... more - theverge

The 15 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2025

Google just wrapped up its big keynote at I/O 2025. As expected, it was full of AI-related announcements, ranging from updates across Google’s image and video generation models to new features in Search and Gmail. But there were some surprises, too, ... more - theverge

Android XR is getting stylish partners in Warby Parker and Gentle Monster

Google’s prototype glasses’ demos included integration with its AI assistant. | Image: Google Google’s second era of smart glasses is off to a chic start. At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced that it’ll be partnering with Samsung, ... more - theverge