The new PS5. | Image: Sony The new PlayStation 5 hasn’t come out yet — it doesn’t even have a specific release date — but a few YouTubers have gotten their hands on it, including Dave Lee from the Dave2D channel. Lee posted his teardown of the console yesterday, and if you’ve been curious about how that detachable disc drive works, this is the best look you’ll get at it without buying the $499.99 PS5 yourself later this month.After Lee pries off the PS5’s plastic side cover, you can see the drive sitting there with three screws staring back at you. I thought they were pentalobe screws at first, but a later zoomed-in shot shows they’re just standard crosshead screws. Philips head, if you like. Okay, no surprises there. Good. Clip: Dave2D / GIF:... Continue reading…

Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer at BlizzCon 2023. | Photo by Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio’s future. Continue reading…

Buying the best graphics card allows you to enjoy your favorite PC games as the developers intended. The card is capable of running games at resolutions up to 4K, so long as you don't mind turning down a setting or two to achieve the most stable frame rates. In terms of competition, you could compare the RX 7900 XT against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080. Here's a collection of our favorite RX 7900 XT GPUs.

Android 14 wreaked havoc on some Pixel phones with multiple user profiles. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Google’s November update should be coming very soon to Pixel phones, providing some relief for a critical bug affecting people with multiple user profiles on their devices. The update — spotted by 9to5Google — contains a fix for an issue “occasionally causing devices with multiple users enabled to show out of space or be in a reboot loop,” which was affecting Pixel 6 phones and later running Android 14. The update will start arriving on Pixel phones beginning today, with the rollout continuing through the next week.This particular bug was a nasty one. In some cases, people were unable to access their media storage, while others were entirely shut out of their phones in a boot cycle that required a factory device reset. For people with... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it’s available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Continue reading…

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won’t be able to post screenshots and clips to X from those consoles.“As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles,” Sony said in a support message on its website. “This includes the ability to view any content published on X on PS5/PS4, and the ability to post and view content, trophies, and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or link an X account to do so).” Wario64 posted a screenshot of a similar message on Threads that appears to have popped up on a PS5 console.Sony didn’t elaborate on why it’s cutting off its X... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Co-working office space provider WeWork has filed for bankruptcy covering its locations in the US and Canada, and in a filing, it said it had liabilities of between $10 and $50 billion. It’s the latest turn for a company that went from being valued at $47 billion in January 2019 to unsuccessfully attempting an IPO later that year. Investors were unimpressed with a company that counted its founder and CEO, Adam Neumann, as a significant risk factor. Its fall was eventually captured in both a documentary for Hulu, WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, and the podcast-turned-TV show for Apple TV, WeCrashed.As Elizabeth Lopatto described its IPO paperwork:That paperwork revealed, all in one place, the following... Continue reading…

The latest Macs are powered by Apple silicon and macOS Sonoma, making them capable yet energy-efficient powerhouses. Their capability, however, doesn't explicitly revolve around the professional app suites they support. The computers themselves pack plenty of advanced features that enable users to make the most out of their time and resources. These include some key combinations that can execute useful tasks. Below, you will find a comprehensive list of the Mac's keyboard shortcuts.

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund will come to an end on December 16th, 2023, the company told users today. Creators in the US, UK, Germany, and France will no longer be able to monetize their content through the original fund, TikTok spokesperson Maria Jung says. TikTokers in Italy and Spain aren’t affected by the change.The creator fund was originally introduced in 2020, with the company promising to pay out $1 billion over the course of three years to people making the app’s viral content. Along the way, influencers and other content creators have noted the low payouts — sometimes just a few dollars for millions of views — making it impossible to earn a living through the creator fund alone. TikTok didn’t respond to questions about... Continue reading…

Apple’s second-gen AirPods Pro are often on sale. If you know where to look, there are often some great discounts available on Apple’s ever-popular AirPods. Since Apple launched the third-gen AirPods toward the end of 2021, we’ve seen the starting price of the second-gen, entry-level model slowly dip to around $100. And now that the second-gen AirPods Pro has been on the market for a year, we’re also seeing their price fall more often, too. With Black Friday quickly approaching, we’re starting to see a number of great deals trickle in — including those on the new AirPods Pro with USB-C. We’ll likely see even steeper discounts as we get closer to the main event, too, which is why we’ve started tracking the best early Black Friday deals. In the meantime, however, here are the best deals... Continue reading…

Over the past couple of years, the need for a great webcam has increased significantly. Many of us now work from home, and virtual meetings have become much more common. Even spending time with family has to be done virtually sometimes, so it's more important than ever to have a great webcam. While you can buy some fantastic external webcams, that can be a clunky solution, so we've rounded up the best laptops you can buy that have 1080p (or higher) cameras built-in, so you don't need any peripherals.

The Marvel Spotlight logo. | Image: Marvel Studios In an effort to help viewers understand which of its spinoff projects will have significant connections to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe and which are really meant to work as standalone stories, Marvel’s rolling out a new kind of branding just in time for its upcoming Echo series.Ahead of Echo’s debut on both Disney Plus and Hulu, Marvel announced today that it will be the first series to arrive under the studio’s new Marvel Spotlight banner: the brand consisting of all the MCU’s spinoffs that, while set in the same universe where the Avengers exist, are not required watching to understand what’s happening in the next Avengers movie, for example.Speaking to Marvel.com, Marvel’s head of streaming, Brad Winderbaum, likened the... Continue reading…