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Ball x Pit's first update brings an endless mode and much more to the chaos
It’s time to jump back into the pit. Ball x Pit is one of the very best games of 2025 and there’s now even more to play around with in the brick-busting rogueli...
TikTok says a power outage is causing issues with the app in the US
If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it's not just you. TikTok says it's working to fix its service in the US following a power outage at one of it...
Winter Olympics: How to watch, schedule of events, and everything else you need to know about the 2026 Milano Cortina games
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are coming up. (Mattia Ozbot/Getty Images) Mattia Ozbot via Getty Images The 2026 Winter Olympics are taking p...
Internal chats show how social media companies discussed teen engagement
Recently released documents show the big business opportunity that social media companies saw in recruiting teens to their platforms and how they discussed risk...
OpenAI is working out how much to charge for ChatGPT ads
OpenAI is reportedly asking a high price to advertise on ChatGPT, around $60 per 1,000 views, or triple what ads on Meta's platform usually cost, according to T...
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
For many years, credit card companies and other payment methods were aggressive about policing child sexual abuse material. Then, Elon Musk's Grok started undre...
TikTok blames its US problems on a power outage
TikTok says a power outage is causing ongoing issues and outages that started in the US early Sunday morning. In an email to The Verge, TikTok USDS spokesperson...
Monarch Money's budgeting app is 50 percent off for new users right now
The start of the new year is a great time to get your finances in order, and a good budgeting app can help with that. Instead of laboring over a spreadsheet, yo...
A powerful AMD gaming desktop is hundreds off at Costco
Given that RAM has become so expensive to buy recently, you might have considered buying a prebuilt desktop computer. If so, and you’re leaning toward a high-en...
Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator "...
Blizzard lines up WoW, Overwatch, Hearthstone and Diablo showcases
While we got a peek at a few Xbox Game Studios projects during last week’s Developer Direct event, neither Bethesda nor Activision Blizzard made appearances. Fa...
2026 is the year of social media’s legal reckoning
Over the next year, top social media executives are expected to take the witness stand to defend their companies from an avalanche of claims about their failure...