Verizon’s prepaid services add a 365-day wait to unlock phones

It’s been just one week since Verizon got permission to lift its 60-day phone unlocking period, and the carrier is already making changes to its policy. Now, Verizon says customers…

Adobe Acrobat uses AI to turn your PDFs into podcasts

Adobe has added new generative AI features to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit PDFs and summarize them in audio and visual formats. These updates include chat-based editing…

Instagram’s top boss is missing the point about AI on the platform

A couple of weeks ago, Adam Mosseri posted to his grid. In a series of messages, Instagram’s top exec laid out his concerns for the platform in the coming year,…

TR-49 review: detective games get extra cryptic with this mystery

We’re living in a pretty great time for detective games. Over the last few years, developers have been experimenting with all kinds of different ways of turning the act of…

Burritos from Heaven: Are drones the future of delivery?

On a blustery afternoon late last year, on the lawn just outside City Hall in Rowlett, Texas, a strange-looking craft cleared the trees just before me. It hovered overhead for…

What a Sony and TCL partnership means for the future of TVs

I’m not sure anyone saw this news coming, but the TV landscape as we know it could change considerably over the next year or two. Sony, the storied Japanese TV…

OpenAI says its data centers will pay for own energy and limit water usage

OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. “We’re being good neighbors,” the company said, directly addressing the growing…

ChatGPT is using age prediction to restrict what minors see

ChatGPT’s age prediction model works by examining behavioral and account-level signals, including a user’s stated age, how old the account is, when the user is active, and usage patterns over…

One year in, Big Tech has out-maneuvered MAGA populists

Welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology and the tech bros upending American politics and the Trump administration. If you’re not a subscriber yet, and you’re…

FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust loss

The Federal Trade Commission will appeal its loss in a landmark antitrust case against Meta, the agency announced Tuesday. US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in November that the…