Sundar Pichai. | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees ahead of Election Day to make sure “the products we build” are “a trusted source of information to people of every background and belief.”“As with other elections, the outcome will be a major topic of conversation in living rooms and other places around the world,” Pichai said in an internal memo on November 4th obtained by The Verge and first reported on by The Washington Post. “And of course, the outcome will have important consequences.”“Whomever the voters entrust, let’s remember the role we play at work, through the products we build and as a business: to be a trusted source of information to people of every background and belief. We will and must maintain that.”Naturally, Google has... Continue reading…

Some iOS users with the Washington Post app installed may have looked down at their device tonight only to find an undismissable black toggle hovering on their screen, with electoral vote counts in the 2024 presidential race slowly ticking upwards. (On my own iPhone it appears as the dynamic island.) If you tap on it it merely expands to give you more information about the race, along with little drawn portraits of the candidates, which is decidedly not the content you want if you were just trying to find the button to make the whole thing go away. The Washington Post app has put this little window at the top of my iPhone screen and I can't make it go away. I don't even know what it means. WHAT DO THE DASHES EVEN STAND FOR AT THIS... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Nintendo hasn’t announced its Switch successor yet, but we do know one thing for sure: it will be able to play current Switch games and have carryover for your Nintendo Switch Online services and account. The news was announced during Nintendo’s midyear policy briefing, with further information promised “at a later date.”Nintendo also talked about numbers for the current Switch (PDF), noting that it sold 4.72 million units in the past three months, a drop of 31 percent compared to the same period last year but well above previous consoles eight years after they launched. That adds up to 146 million Switch units sold and a new record for software sales on a Nintendo platform, which reached 1.3 billion units as of September 30th, 2024.... Continue reading…

If you're looking for storage that's fast, durable, and can be used on the go there's no better solution than going with a portable SSD. While there are plenty of great portable SSD options out there, Samsung's T9 series is going to be the best that you can buy in 2024. Not only does this portable SSD come with tons of storage at 4TB, but it's also extremely fast when it comes to performance.

Apple has a new lineup of great iPhones, and the iPhone 16 Plus is one of the best options for the average user. It brings a 6.7-inch display, an upgraded A18 processor, and an all-new Camera Control button for photography. Unfortunately, these changes mean that the iPhone 16 Plus won't be compatible with the great iPhone 15 Plus cases you may have around already. Fear not, because there are a handful of excellent iPhone 16 Plus cases you can buy before your new phone even ships.

If you've been looking for the perfect time to upgrade your PC or laptop, now's going to be it. This Samsung 990 Pro SSD is one of our favorites, and while it's usually pretty pricey, we're now seeing a discount that drops the price by $100, coming in at $150. This price won't be around for long since it's a limited-time promotion. So grab it for a great price while you still can.

Suzuki is finally making an EV. | Image: Suzuki Suzuki and Toyota have been working together on a new 4WD-capable electric SUV, and in Italy yesterday, Suzuki revealed the fruits of the collaboration: a new compact called the E Vitara. It’s the automaker’s first EV, and it’s scheduled for production at Suzuki Motor Gujarat in India starting next spring.The E Vitara will launch in Europe, India, and Japan “around” the summer of next year, and there will be a Toyota-badged version, which will probably look a lot like the Urban SUV Concept Toyota revealed in 2023. Toyota similarly shares its mediocre bZ4X EV with Subaru, which is rebadged as the Solterra EV. Image: Suzuki Toyota and Suzuki have been slow to adopt EVs into their lineups, with Toyota refocusing on... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Steam Game Recording is officially out of beta and available to all users, giving PC, Mac, and Steam Deck players a built-in way to record and share audio and video from their gaming sessions. It joins many other ways PC gamers have been able to record their highlights, including as a feature of tools like the Xbox Game Bar, Nvidia GeForce, and AMD’s Adrenalin.This version of the Steam client is also the first to drop support for Windows 7 and 8 machines, as well as Macs running macOS 10.13 and 10.14 after Valve announced the move at the beginning of this year. Image: Valve After an automatic update, players can start recordings manually using a hotkey (Ctrl + F11 is the default) or set it to trigger automatically,... Continue reading…

If you enjoy recording your gameplay to show off to others, you'll likely already know that Steam got its own recording tool a few months ago. If you wanted to give it a shot, you had to be signed up for the Steam beta, which isn't a big task in itself but it still meant some people couldn't use the tool. Fortunately, Valve has deemed the recording tool fit for release, and now everyone can give it a spin without any third-party apps.

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Arizona resident Jacqueline McAferty is suing Elon Musk and his pro-Trump America PAC in a Texas federal court, alleging that the PAC’s $1 million-a-day lottery to registered voters in swing states was fraud. The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed a day after a Philadelphia judge denied the city’s request to order Musk to end the lottery — and seems to have been spurred by Musk’s legal defense in the Philadelphia case.The complaint, filed in a federal court in Austin, alleges that Musk falsely claimed the PAC would choose sweepstakes winners randomly when the selections were, in fact, predetermined. The complaint cites comments made yesterday by Chris Gober, a Republican lawyer CNBC identified as America PAC’s former treasurer. “... Continue reading…

With the introduction of new features at the Adobe Max 2024 conference, the Adobe apps will upgrade for anyone with a Creative Cloud subscription. Photoshop 2025 introduces new features along with updates to old features, so we'll help you relearn these edits using the improved techniques available within the app. Theres always things to learn in Photoshop, new or old, but here are some interesting twists that Photoshop 2025 will require you to relearn.

If you have an SBC, then chances are you've been looking at what you can do with it. There are a ton of incredible projects you can use it for (for both beginners and enthusiasts), but at the end of the day, an SBC is also just a computer in a single board. Because of that, there are games you can play on your SBC, and these are some of the best.