Chiaki Kuriyama plays one of the students forced to fight to the death in Battle Royale. | Image: The Criterion Channel Twenty years later, you can still see the bloody fingerprints of one violent Japanese film on pop culture today. Continue reading…

It’s not quite as powerful as the gargantuan Strix Scar X3D, but it’s also not quite as expensive. Continue reading…

It has been well-known for the last couple of months that Microsoft has decided to stop supporting Windows 11 21H2 Home and Pro editions after October 10, 2023. And now that we are a month away from the announced date, Microsoft is again notifying users about the Windows 11 21H2's end-of-support date.

If you don’t mind refurbished headphones, this is a great deal. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge While Labor Day promotions have already been going on all week (despite the holiday itself still being another three days away), some early deals have been fairly attractive. A noteworthy one is eBay’s 20 percent off sale on refurbished items, which is running through September 4th when you use code LABORDAYTWENTY at checkout. You can use this deal twice to save up to $500, and while plenty of crap is on offer, there are some genuinely good refurb deals to be had, many of which include a two-year third-party warranty from Allstate.One such deal is on the Bose QuietComfort 45 noise-canceling headphones, which you can get refurbished for $199.20 ($130 off) through the official Bose store on eBay. The Bose QC45 are one of the best ANC... Continue reading…

It's time to head back to school and all the fun and new experiences. As always, your bright minds would be brimming with big ideas to create a new tune, an innovative app, or a new theory that starts a revolution. Yes, you have all the potential to make bigger impacts that matter. To power your ideas, Dell is back with its cool back to school deals on the latest and best computing gear, with whopping discounts of up to $500 off!

Although PCIe 5.0 SSDs are just now coming onto the scene, PCIe 4.0 drives are still very much relevant and will continue to be some of the best SSDs for at least a year. Among PCIe 4.0 SSDs, Samsung's 990 Pro has reigned as the fastest SSD (or at least tied as the top with WD's SN850X), and I was pretty confident that it would remain that way forever when I reviewed it back in April.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is trying to expand its video chat platform into a full-service office suite, and its latest addition hits on the need to create and share documents. The company is adding a feature called Notes that allows users to create, share, and simultaneously edit a text document.Notes will appear alongside a video call where Zoom’s chat box usually is. People in the call can hop in to make edits as the meeting is happening, making it easier to keep paying attention to the conversation than if they had to switch over to another screen. Image: Zoom Zoom Notes show up beside a video call. The feature is being pitched as a handy meeting prep and follow-up companion. Zoom wants users to make a doc with a meeting... Continue reading…

Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) is among the prominent voices in Congress advocating for a smooth transition to electric vehicles. Dingell, who was first elected in 2015, represents suburban Detroit, home to a large swath of the American car industry and the labor force that builds those vehicles. I spoke with Dingell, a former GM executive who serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, about the pressing issues facing legislators as the country races to make EVs dominant. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.You’ve been supportive of laws that have boosted EV investment in this country. Do you think that our government should have moved faster with these kinds of laws?It’s a complicated subject.... Continue reading…

Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy. | Netflix Netflix’s One Piece succeeds where other live-action anime adaptations have failed by understanding its limits and knowing how to work within them. Continue reading…

Powered by macOS Sonoma and Apple silicon, the Mac Studio (2023) is the best Mac for stationary professionals. Not only does it pack some of the company's most powerful processors, but it also has a wide port variety for accessories. However, one downside to owning a Mac Studio is its constant need for AC power. So if you damage its power cable, you immediately won't be able to use it at all. That's why buying a power cable replacement for your Mac Studio is a smart idea.

The Verge Disney has blocked its channels from being accessed by the nearly 15 million subscribers to Charter’s Spectrum service, the second-largest cable TV provider in the US. The blackout means that viewers in major markets like New York and Los Angeles can’t access ABC, ESPN, FX, Freeform, National Geographic and a dozen other Disney-owned channels.Carriage disputes happen with some frequency when network owners, like Disney, renegotiate contracts with service providers, like Charter. Disney is seeking higher fees, Charter doesn’t want to pay them, and so Disney has yanked its programming as a negotiation tactic.Charter says that Disney is “demanding an excessive increase” in fees and wants to force customers to “pay for channels you may not... Continue reading…

Since XDA launched over 20 years ago, computing has been at the heart of everything that we do. We started out as a Windows development community, after all, and are named after the O2 Xda. That evolved into Android, and more recently, we’ve expanded into being an all-encompassing tech site. If it’s got a processor in it and you compute with it, we probably cover it.