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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As antitrust pressure mounts against Apple’s App Store policies, The New York Times is reporting on how vacation rental company Airbnb and fitness class service ClassPass have run afoul of the policies in recent weeks. According to the report, both companies started offering virtual services as a result of the COVID-19 … Continue reading Airbnb shared antitrust concerns with lawmakers after App Store standoff Continue Reading →

An artistic rendering of the interior cabin of VSS Unity. | Image: Virgin Galactic I was standing inside Virgin Galactic’s tourist spaceplane with three translucent green heads floating in front of me. One of the heads was explaining how the white-and-teal passenger seats that dotted the walls of the cabin were made out of aluminum and … Continue reading Virgin Galactic unveils the interior cabin of its tourist spaceplane Continue Reading →

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Drugstore chain Rite Aid secretly deployed facial recognition software across a network of security cameras in hundreds of locations in the US, according to a new investigation from Reuters published on Tuesday. The company had been doing so for more than eight years, and it only recently stopped using the technology, it … Continue reading Rite Aid used facial recognition in secret across hundreds of its stores Continue Reading →

The nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards are in, and once again, streaming services dominated the nominees. Netflix led the pack with 160 nominations, with Amazon and Hulu making waves, too. But there are also some big new names on the list this year, with Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, and even Quibi picking up their first … Continue reading Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus get their first big Emmy nominations Continue Reading →

In this week’s Vergecast interview series, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Wired senior editor Andy Greenberg, author of Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers. As the title describes, Greenberg’s book is all about a group of hackers inside the Russian government called Sandworm, who were responsible for damaging cyber warfare attacks in … Continue reading Sandworm details the group behind the worst cyberattacks in history Continue Reading →

Whenever I’ve tried using Discord’s mobile app to call a friend, I’ve found the audio quality to be pretty subpar. Sure, Discord’s desktop app gives you a few options, like simply using a better mic, and there are a few ways to add noise suppression — particularly if you have an Nvidia graphics card. But now, Discord has … Continue reading Discord’s mobile app is getting background noise suppression because life is noisy Continue Reading →

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris, France after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on May 10, 2019. Macron and Zuckerberg discussed the spread of misinformation and hate speech. | Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images A majority of polled voters, 64 percent, think Facebook should be held accountable for failing … Continue reading Voters want Facebook to be accountable for climate misinformation, poll finds Continue Reading →

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Television’s most important award might be going to its least important streaming service: Quibi. The service was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards, of which it’s almost certain to win at least one. Quibi — which one estimate claims retained only 8 percent of people who signed up for its three-month free … Continue reading Quibi’s recipe for winning an Emmy without really trying Continue Reading →

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You can now play games on Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service on your Android phone over 4G and 5G connections, though you have to opt in to an “experiment,” Google announced today (via 9to5Google). Since the service’s launch in November 2019, you’ve only been able to play Stadia games on … Continue reading Google Stadia tests 4G and 5G game streaming Continue Reading →

Movies Anywhere is rolling out a new “Watch Together” viewing party feature for its movie locker apps, allowing multiple users to sync up and enjoy a film together. While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise in viewing party apps for streaming services (both third-party and official), Movies Anywhere’s version differs by letting you watch films you’ve purchased, instead of … Continue reading Movies Anywhere is the latest service to add a viewing party feature Continue Reading →