Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber to rolling out a few new features for its teenage customers in the first major update since first opening up its platform to teen riders over a year ago. Last year, Uber launched teen accounts in two dozen cities, in which parents and guardians can create accounts for minors aged 13–17. Since then, the list has grown to over 250 cities in all 50 states. Uber says the latest update is in response to feedback from teen users and their families. Uber says the latest update is in response to feedback from teen users and their familiesParents and guardians can now hail a ride for their teenager from their own accounts. Previously, rides could only be hailed from the teen customers’ accounts. The ride will feature all the same safety... Continue reading…

Google's Pixel phones are considered second-to-none in the camera department, as they take advantage of the company's amazing software to produce stunning shots using unique features. The Pixel phones particularly excel in low-light photography, thanks to the Night Sight feature that debuted in 2018.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A French investigative judge has charged Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with enabling illegal transactions among other alleged offenses, according to reports from NBC News and Le Monde. Durov had been arrested Saturday as part of an investigation into child sexual abuse material and other criminal activity on Telegram.French prosecutors will release Durov under judicial supervision on a €5 million bail, but he won’t be allowed to leave France. As noted by Le Monde, Durov also faces charges of refusing to comply with authorities and complicity in the criminal distribution of CSAM.Durov was arrested as he deplaned in Paris on a warrant issued by France’s OFMIN agency that’s tasked with preventing violence against minors. An agency official... Continue reading…

With Intel in the middle of an AI-based hardware race, it's pulling out as many stops as it can. We've seen it discuss how it wants to achieve 100 TOPS of AI performance in its next generation of CPUs, but it also wants to discuss what it's up to with its new Xeon processors. Turns out, Intel has been hard at work ensuring that its Xeon 6 chips can handle AI workloads, improving its performance by 17x over four years.

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit experienced a widespread outage that impacting the entire site and subreddits earlier today. Millions of Reddit users were met with a “Server error. Try again later” message in a red banner at the top of the site for around 45 minutes today. The same outage error was displayed on subreddits and individual posts, too.The status page for Reddit initially indicated the site was experiencing “degraded performance” at 4:16PM ET, before identifying the issue just minutes later and then implementing a fix at 4:45PM ET. “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results,” says Reddit.This latest outage follows similar issues with Reddit in April, where users were met with the same “try again later” message after a back-end... Continue reading…

The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 have a dedicated speaker for bass. The OpenRun Pro 2 add USB-C charging, a dedicated speaker for bass, reduced vibration, and AI noise cancellation. Continue reading…

Evernote, once a darling of digital note-takers, has been through tough times due to growing criticism from the community. The company replaced its native apps with below-average Electron solutions, hiked subscription prices, and crippled the free plan with a number of limitations, the latest of which permits connection to only a single device. If you are fed up with Evernotes subpar experience and looking to jump ship, you have come to the right place.

Illustration: The Verge Apple Music subscribers can now transfer their playlists over to YouTube Music, according to a recent support document spotted by MacRumors. Up until now, Apple did not offer native tools for transferring playlists to rival music services, making YouTube Music the first.There are some caveats, however. Only songs available on YouTube Music can be transferred over, which means you won’t be able to migrate audio files like podcasts or audiobooks. You also can’t transfer curated or non-collaborative shared playlists, music files, or the folders you’ve created to organize playlists in Apple Music. To move your playlists over to YouTube Music, you must have an active ‌Apple Music‌ or iTunes Match subscription, as well as an active YouTube... Continue reading…

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X is all you need for an AM5-powered gaming PC. It has 12 physical cores that can boost up to 5.6 GHz with the right CPU cooler. Working with the best GPUs you can afford, your PC will be transformed into a capable gaming rig with plenty of computing headroom. I recommend spending as much as you can on the GPU to avoid having to upgrade early. It's always better to buy an overkill GPU than an underpowered one for your monitor and overall setup.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sonos has released an update to its app as it attempts to reverse the fallout from a disastrous redesign. But while the update adds enhanced accessibility settings and improved stability during the product setup process, the update addresses just a fraction of user complaints.Sonos is reintroducing the ability to clear your music queue on the Android app — a feature that’s been sorely missed since the app’s relaunch. It also added a Night Mode toggle for sound bars, which enhances dialogue without you having to turn up the volume on your TV.There’s still plenty of room for improvement, and Sonos has a long list of features to add in its queue. Since the app’s controversial redesign in May, Sonos CEO Patrick Spence apologized for... Continue reading…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Yelp, one of Google’s most persistent and outspoken rivals, has finally filed its own antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, less than a month after a federal judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist.Yelp alleges that Google has created or preserved its monopoly in local search services by preferencing its own inferior vertical over competitors’, which Yelp says harmed competition and reduced the quality of local search services. Yelp claims that the way Google directs users toward its own local search vertical from its general search engine results page should be considered illegal tying of separate products to keep rivals from reaching scale.Yelp wants the court to order Google to stop the allegedly anticompetitive conduct and... Continue reading…

Image: Meta Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds, its 3D social platform, to users between the ages of 10 and 12, the company announced on Wednesday. As part of the rollout, parents will have a significant amount of control over what experiences their preteens can access, and experiences will get age ratings to help parents determine which ones are appropriate for their children.For a preteen to use Horizon Worlds, they’ll have to have a parent-managed Meta account and request access to Horizon Worlds itself. Once a parent has approved that, preteens can request access to individual experiences, or parents can mark a setting that lets their preteen jump into all experiences that fall within a certain age rating. (Meta will rate experiences as... Continue reading…