Image: Qualcomm Can Qualcomm replicate Apple’s feat and finally create Arm-based laptops worth buying, 15 years after its first attempts? Here’s one incredibly promising sign it might: Qualcomm is telling game developers their titles should already work on a wave of upcoming Snapdragon-powered Windows laptops — no porting required. In a 2024 Game Developers Conference session titled “Windows on Snapdragon, a Platform Ready for your PC Games,” Qualcomm engineer Issam Khalil drove home that the unannounced laptops will use emulation to run x86/64 games at close to full speed. Those laptops may be coming fast. Qualcomm has confirmed it will launch Snapdragon X Elite systems this summer, and unannounced consumer versions of the Surface Pro 10 and Surface... Continue reading…

Tim Burton spent the better part of the past decade talking about how ready he was to make a Beetlejuice sequel with Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton. And after all this time the perfectly named Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is finally seeing the light of day.Set some years after the original movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice catches up with Lydia Deetz (Ryder) and her teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) as the pair travel home to Winter River to be with Lydia’s mother Delia (Catherine O’Hara) in the wake of a sudden family loss. It’s not clear whose funeral the Deetzes are attending in the new trailer, or how any of them feel about the person who died. But between Astrid’s discovery of the old miniature model of Winter River, and Lydia... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that toggling on the feature will let you cross-post and view likes from other federated platforms, like Mastodon.Threads previewed its fediverse integration earlier this week during the FediForum. As outlined on its support page, Meta says that you must have a public account to turn on fediverse sharing, which will allow users on other servers to “search for and follow your profile, view your posts, interact with your content, and share your content to anyone on or off their server.” Image: Meta There are still a few limitations, though. The beta currently doesn’t let... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Your PS5, PS4, PS3, and Vita might look normal — but if you’re having issues, it’s because Sony’s PlayStation Network is not completely healthy right now. Sony’s Network Service Status page is all red, and a spike at Downdetector suggests the partial outage began roughly two hours ago at around 12PM ET. Personally, we’re still seeing our friends online, can play games that require network authentication, download updates, and access the PlayStation Store, but there are a lot of “Can’t load data” error messages under player profiles, and the web version of the PlayStation Store isn’t loading.And when I tried to fire up multiplayer in Hot Wheels Unleashed, I got this communication error: Photo by Sean Hollister / The... Continue reading…

When you buy a Mac, you're paying for the hardware and software. This means you can access and use the latest macOS Sonoma for free. But what if you want to use macOS on non-Apple hardware, such as a Windows laptop? That's possible, and virtualization is one of the most straightforward methods to do so. You can also rely on virtualization to install a separate copy of macOS in an isolated sandbox on your Mac for testing or other purposes. Here's how to install macOS in VirtualBox.

Any PC gamers planning to build or upgrade their rigs are in a tough spot, as graphics cards seem to be getting outdated faster and faster. On top of that, GPU manufacturers are increasingly shifting their focus to making cards for AI applications, leaving gamers in the lurch. Things are much better now than during the crypto-mining boom and supply chain issues of 2020-2021 when GPU prices skyrocketed. PC builders looking for the best GPU under $300 have quite a few options in 2024.

MSI's first gaming handheld has finally landed, and even though it looks a lot like an Asus ROG Ally painted black, it's very different from the high-end handhelds we're used to under the hood. With its Intel Core Ultra processor and Arc 5 graphics, the Claw puts plenty of power on your palms, but is it better than its biggest rivals? Should you spend your money on a Legion Go instead? Let's find out.

Dark clouds gather over the Baltic Sea on November 8, 2023. | Photo by Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images Brightening Earth’s clouds so that they reflect more sunlight just might cool the planet — that is if we can figure out how to do it without causing any unintended harm. To test the theory out, a group of over 30 leading scientists have written up a research road map that was published in the journal Science Advances yesterday. The paper focuses on how to approach attempts to artificially shade Earth’s surface with marine clouds by spraying saltwater into the air from ships, a strategy called marine cloud brightening (MCB). They’ll need to be really careful with any future experiments, which would fall into the controversial category of solar geoengineering. The idea is to counteract some of the effects of climate change by finding ways... Continue reading…

The Music Frame comes with room to hold a physical art print or photo while integrating with voice assistants like Amazon Alexa. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung’s just opened up preorders for its 2024 TV and audio lineup, which includes everything from the latest version of The Frame TV to Samsung’s glare-free OLED TV. However, the real star of the show here is the Music Frame smart speaker, which was one of our favorite audio products from this year’s CES and now comes with $50 in Samsung credit when you preorder it for $399.99 for arrival on April 1st.There are a few caveats to keep in mind, though. First, you won’t be able to use the $50 to offset the cost of the smart speaker itself, but you can spend it on other Samsung devices. Second, you won’t see the credit for a while. Samsung will only email details about how to redeem it after the speaker is delivered, and it may take up to... Continue reading…

Image: Ford Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone’s favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay. The DOJ says that, like smartphones, vehicle infotainment systems have become a new way in which Apple exhibits anticompetitive behavior to harm consumers as well as its competitors. Apple’s plans to introduce a more immersive version of CarPlay, in which the system displays key aspects of the vehicle’s functions like speed and HVAC, are further evidence of the company’s illegal monopoly over smartphones, prosecutors say. Infotainment systems have become a new way in which Apple exhibits anticompetitive behavior“By applying the same playbook of restrictions to CarPlay,... Continue reading…

Building a new PC from scratch or even buying a prebuilt desktop PC to replace your crusty old computer can cost you a pretty penny. Even if you manage to find all the parts at a reasonable price, there's no denying that it'll still cost you more than, say, upgrade a few components on your existing PC to improve its performance.

Green bubbles are actually a big part of the DOJ’s case against Apple. | Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge It’s no secret that Apple products work best if you stick with an iPhone. It turns out that’s a big reason why Apple landed in hot water today with the US Department of Justice, which alleges that the company went too far in locking down messaging, smartwatches, and digital wallets to intentionally hobble its rivals. This won’t be a surprise to most consumers. We’ve all known for years about green bubbles and that you can’t bring your Apple Watch to an Android phone. What the DOJ is saying is that, altogether, this series of protective policies makes it extremely difficult for an iPhone user to leave its walled garden, limiting competition so much that it breaks the law.MessagingGreen bubbles make a key appearance in the lawsuit. It’s... Continue reading…