Apple's restrictions on mobile browsers are limiting innovation and holding back new features that could benefit iPhone users, according to provisional findings published today by the UK's Competition and Markets…
Midas Touch It's been nearly a year since Nobel peace laureate and war criminal Henry Kissinger died — but he's somehow still offering policy suggestions from beyond the grave. In…
Season passes are one of the most common ways to generate revenue for games such as Fortnite or Call of Duty that want players to keep returning day after day,…
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge The auto industry is sending an urgent message to President-elect Donald Trump: spare the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. In a November 14th letter…
A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment. Dale and Jennifer…
Steam is issuing some buyer-friendly policies around season passes. The game platform has updated its documentation for developers, including new requirements regarding what studios have to give players in return…
Digital wallets and payment apps — like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo, and PayPal — are facing stronger regulations under the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the nation's bank…
Valve is implementing some new ground rules for how developers can offer Season Pass and DLC content on Steam, including rules aimed at cracking down on indefinite Season Pass delays,…
Welcome to Google's nightmare. Late yesterday, the US Department of Justice filed its proposed final judgment, officially recommending a broad range of remedies to end Google's search monopoly. Predictably, Google…
Mean Grocer President-elect Donald Trump successfully campaigned on lowering prices, especially at the supermarket. But this could be impossible to achieve if he wants to deliver on his other big…
X’s former top policy chief has taken a job at Tools for Humanity, the company building the tech to support World Network (formerly Worldcoin). Nick Pickles, previously head of global…
Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced today that she will leave the agency on January 20, 2025, the day of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. "Serving at the Federal Communications…
For years, hashing technology has made it possible for platforms to automatically detect known child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) to stop kids from being retraumatized online. However, rapidly detecting new…
Regulatory authorities aggressively approaching companies that are in violation of the anti-trust laws or have been trying to dominate the market has become the talk of the town, with tech…
When it comes to space policy, a hallmark of the first Trump administration was its embrace of private companies. NASA sought to build fewer expensive things and buy more lower-cost…
"Updating our site reputation abuse policy" is how Google, in almost wondrously opaque fashion, announced yesterday that big changes have come to some big websites, especially those that rely on…
Comcast today announced plans to spin off NBCUniversal cable TV networks such as USA, CNBC, and MSNBC into a new publicly traded company. Comcast is trying to complete the spinoff…
Now that president-elect Donald Trump has solidified his bromance with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the role of NASA could start to look dramatically different. Trump has put Musk in charge…
As the holiday season ramps up, so do the schemes of so-called "porch pirates" — and this time, they're alarmingly tech savvy.The Wall Street Journal reported last month on a…
Image: Strava Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps can show, refrain from replicating Strava’s look, and place…