Americas
Latest news and updates from Americas.
Process Zero is even better with a little processing on the side
Something happens every time I try to use an iPhone camera like a real camera. Here's how it goes: I shoot RAW in addition to the default HEIC output, and since...
U.S. unexpectedly adds 130,000 jobs in January after a weak 2025
U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in December. Annual revisions show that job growth last year was...
El Paso flights grounded for 10 days for ‘special security reasons’
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas, grounding all flights in and out of the airport for t...
T-Mobile will live translate regular phone calls without an app
T-Mobile is preparing to test a new AI feature that translates live phone calls into more than 50 languages. Live Translation is launching in beta "this Spring,...
Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
Uber announced a new AI feature called "Cart Assistant" for grocery shopping in its Uber Eats app. The new feature works a couple different ways. You can use te...
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
Keep your head down. Compartmentalize. Don't make trouble. That's what many tech workers are taking their CEOs' strategic silence to mean, amid an immigration c...
The Toyota Highlander is now a three-row electric SUV with 320 miles of range
Toyota unveiled the new 2027 Highlander, a fully redesigned midsize SUV that marks the brand's first three-row electric vehicle for the US market and the first...
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
Ring's new Search Party feature has once again drawn backlash for the company. A 30-second ad that aired during Sunday's Super Bowl showed Ring cameras "surveil...
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter is stepping down after six years
Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27...
Bezos could have saved the Washington Post’s local news and sports reporters
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politicking in the age of Trump. If you're a subscriber, you are dominant and tale...
ChatGPT’s deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT's deep research tool with a full-screen viewer that you can use to scroll through and navigate to specific areas of its AI-generated...
Samsung’s next Unpacked is confirmed for later this month
Samsung's annual Galaxy S-series reveal is later than usual this year, but we finally have a confirmed date to circle on the calendar: February 25th. And if you...