The Best of The Verge

Staff say Red Ventures has breached CNET’s editorial firewalls

A revealing look at the threats posted by AI junk

Sen. Michael Bennet is demanding the companies restrict downloads of the app.

Apple’s iPhone sales are down 6 percent, but there are now 2 billion of the company’s devices active out there.

A new report calls Apple and Google “gatekeepers.”

But using AI to help write a paper is fine, with proper disclosure.

The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can fix it.

Matt Mullenweg explains the myriad challenges now being faced by Elon Musk.

Doing even more of the math for you

Try it out if you don’t believe me

An interview with AI image generator CEO David Holz

«“in 10 years, you’ll be able to buy an Xbox with a giant AI processor, and all the games are dreams.”»

AI for all, from Bayes to bias

I dedicate this to the energy of We.

Sellers are calling for a shopping boycott beginning April 11th.

From Google Glass and fidget spinners to iPhones and the Tesla Model S.

We spent time with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Horizon Workrooms, the company’s new attempt to build a metaverse for work collaboration in Oculus VR.

«It was there that Zuckerberg first appeared through his webcam before donning a headset and teleporting into a chair at the table as his own legless avatar.»

And they have more in-game events planned for this fall

Google’s cloud gaming service launched three years ago.

A new ‘Learn with Google AI’ site will serve as a hub for AI and machine learning resources

Turns out YouTube is a big moneymaker for Google.

Fluid is Microsoft’s big push for entirely new documents on the web.

Microsoft employees also have options to relocate across the US or internationally

Finally taking podcasts seriously.

New ad technology for Spotify-exclusive podcasts is coming

Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?

Voice notes with viral dreams

The new internet cold war is all about lying to ourselves.

Get ready for more random videos in your feed.

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

Machine learning tools have always been the ideal content moderators for Facebook, Google and Twitter — but COVID-19 is forcing their use before they’re ready

The dream of an embodied future internet is back.

«The metaverse is bigger than any one service, except when it’s convenient to call that service the metaverse»

Two decades of pat-downs, and there is little evidence that we are any safer.

The tech giant wants to be known for more than social media’s ills.

«we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company»

One TikTok created a mystery for some scientific surveys.

«A member of the Stanford Behavioral Laboratory posted on a Prolific forum, “We have noticed a huge leap in the number of participants on the platform in the US Pool, from 40k to 80k. Which is great, however, now a lot of our studies have a gender skew where maybe 85% of participants are women. Plus the age has been averaging around 21.”»

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