Now that there is some much-needed competition in the foldable space, the form factor is poised to finally fulfill its promise of delivering a tablet experience in a pocketable size. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 showed us what a polished foldable looks like, and the Google Pixel Fold revealed what new ideas can bring to the category. Now, the OnePlus Open is blending the best of the two to make a completely new product. That's without mentioning the brands that are doing impressive things with foldables that aren't sold in the North American markets.

Illustration: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 16, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome to our delightful corner of the internet, sorry about all the productivity apps, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Hope you all had a great holiday, or at least a great week with one fewer email in your inbox. This week, I’ve been testing Supernotes as a daily diary app, reading about what it takes to make an iPhone in India and whatever “gamified theater” is, unsubscribing to every brand that sent me a “Happy Holidays!” email, hunting for games to play on my new Backbone controller, watching Mike Birbiglia’s excellent The Old Man and the Pool special (and listening to his... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know you’ve been waiting all year to hear this: You can use Zoom on your 2nd gen or later Apple TV 4K. Yesterday, AppleInsider spotted a post from Sigmund Judge about the “Zoom - for Home TV” app that quietly showed up in the tvOS App Store. Earlier this year, Apple’s tvOS 17 update enabled Continuity Camera for the Apple TV, making it possible for anyone with a 2nd-generation-or-later version of the streaming box to use their iPhone or iPad as a webcam for FaceTime on a TV. The iPhone can do the same thing for meetings on macOS. Image: Wes Davis / The Verge Zoom on an Apple TV. Using Zoom’s new app is fairly straightforward. Logging into it is a lot like signing into most third-party video streaming apps —... Continue reading…

Image: Pophouse Entertainment Kiss has been on a really, really long tour. The biggest glam rock band of all time has been playing its End of the Road tour for the last four years, and just wrapped the final show of its final farewell tour in New York City at Madison Square Garden on Friday. Kiss has done several farewell tours, but this time might be for good.At the end of the show, after Kiss finished playing its last song (“Rock and Roll All Nite”), they disappeared in a hail of fire and smoke. After the smoke faded away, the lights went down, and on the screen behind the stage, a camera zoomed across a spooky lake on some fantastic planet toward the silhouettes of four figures: the new digital avatars of Kiss, in what I suppose must be their final form. Then... Continue reading…

Media files sent as documents don’t display a preview in WhatsApp, but you can view them in-app by tapping on them. | Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature on iOS that allows users to share photos and videos as a document to preserve their original quality. As spotted by WABetaInfo the official changelog provided alongside WhatsApp’s 23.24.73 update on iOS notes that users can now “easily send original quality media as a file,” as an alternative to the compressed approaches the communications app defaults to.This feature was spotted being tested by a small subset of users in November, but is now releasing to all iOS users. The changelog notes that this is rolling out “over the coming weeks” so it may take a while to appear on your device, but when it does you can access it by tapping the “+” in chat, selecting “Document” and then “Choose Photo or... Continue reading…

If you're interested in tinkering around with computers and want to build something of your own, you may want to start off small. Rather than putting together an entire PC by yourself, you may want to learn the basics, especially when it comes to the motherboard. That's where the Raspberry Pi comes in. Raspberry Pi are single-board computers that hold the memory, IO ports, and CPU all on one motherboard. You can choose to use your SBC as a computer, or you can utilize it to automate some of what's going on in your home, like running and setting up lights, controlling robots, or other home hobbyist chores.

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify is laying off 17 percent of its employees in an attempt to cut costs, its CEO Daniel Ek announced to staff today. Based on its total headcount of 9,241 revealed during its last earnings release, the cuts are expected to impact over 1,500 people.In a memo sent to staff, Ek said slowing economic growth and rising costs were to blame for the cuts, which he said would make Spotify a leaner company. “Today, we still have too many people dedicated to supporting work and even doing work around the work rather than contributing to opportunities with real impact,” Ek wrote. “As we’ve grown, we’ve moved too far away from this core principle of resourcefulness,” he later added.“As we’ve grown, we’ve moved too far away from this core... Continue reading…

Image: Epic Games Fortnite is heading underground. Following The Big Bang event on Saturday, which led to the destruction of the Chapter 4 island, some big changes are coming to the battle royale in a new season dubbed “Underground.” That includes a new island, gameplay features like boss battles, Lego skins, and of course more licensed characters like Metal Gear’s Solid Snake and Peter Griffin from Family Guy.Let’s start with the island. In the update — which brings the game to Chapter 5: Season 1 — the battle royale island has been completely changed, which means a number of new locations. There’s a railway — complete with a train you can actually travel on — as well as marinas, mansions, and an all-new grassland area. There’s also quite a bit of snow.... Continue reading…

Sometimes, I feel that years pass by without leaving their mark, fading into each other and losing their individual identity. It feels just like yesterday when I built my first-ever PC with a humble dual-core Intel CPU back in 2007. From those days of playing game demo discs to death to barely finding time to play anything on my Zen 3 Ryzen gaming rig, my PC has been a steady companion.

Logo: Filmic / Image: The Verge Bending Spoons has reportedly laid off all of the staffbehind popular iOS and Android mobile filmmaking app Filmic Pro. That’s according to PetaPixel, which reported on Friday that it learned Filmic now has no dedicated employees and that the layoffs included the company’s founder and CEO, Neill Barham.Some former high-level employees posted about their departure. Christopher Cohen, who was Filmic’s technical chief officer, posted on November 3rd that he was no longer with the company. Kevin Buonagurio, the company’s now-former chief operating officer, replied to a LinkedIn user who’d shared the PetaPixel story yesterday, saying that “pushing the envelope” of mobile filmmaking was part of “what made the Filmic journey so fulfilling for... Continue reading…

While the Venu 3 series ticks off a lot of the right boxes, it’s a little pricey considering the competition. But at least you’ll finally get credit for your naps. Continue reading…

Are you starting to notice lag in games that ran perfectly well before, or perhaps your graphics card is overheating, and the fans have become louder than normal? This is what we call thermal throttling, and it happens when the thermal paste on your GPU dries out. Thermal paste is an essential part of your GPU, helping it run smoothly and transferring heat away from the GPU's processing unit.