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  • Netflix’s next animated Witcher movie streams in February

    Image: Netflix We’re still waiting on the biggest news in the Witcher universe — just what Liam Hemsworth will sound like as Geralt — but in the meantime, Netflix has announced when fans can expect the next animated spinoff. The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep will start streaming on February 11th, 2025. And Doug Cockle,…

  • Eufy’s new smart lock may Matter to Apple Home users

    The Eufy Smart Lock E30 is a Matter-compatible smart lock with a fingerprint reader. It’s Eufy’s first lock to work with Apple Home. | Image: Eufy The latest smart lock from Eufy is its first product to support Matter. The Eufy Smart Lock E30 ($169.99) works over Thread, which should allow for faster responsiveness, longer…

  • Snap’s new Spectacles inch closer to compelling AR

    Photo by Nalani Hernandez-Melo for The Verge Will developers finally help Snap take AR glasses mainstream? Continue reading…

  • The first Thunderbolt 5 dock appears to have arrived

    The Kensington SD5000T5. | Image: Kensington The first Thunderbolt 5 cables arrived in July, and now it looks like we’re finally getting the first Thunderbolt 5 dock! Kensington has just announced the Intel-certified SD5000T5 EQ is now available to buy, seemingly beating every rival to the 120Gbps single-cable docking punch. (I just checked: Hyper, J5Create…

  • Final Fantasy XVI producer wants y’all to be chill about mods

    Image: Square Enix Final Fantasy XVI is out today on PC, and its producer is asking players to be chill about it. In an interview with PC Gamer, Naoki Yoshida has woefully underestimated the collective horniness of the internet by requesting that fans not create mods for the game that are “offensive or inappropriate.” Good…

  • Meta extends its Ray-Ban smart glasses deal beyond 2030

    Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta and eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica plan to work together on smart glasses “into the next decade.” The two announced a long-term agreement today to extend a partnership that started in 2019 and has yielded two generations of Ray-Ban smart glasses. The collaboration has helped Meta make smart…

  • In defense of the iPhone Action Button

    The iPhone 15 Pro Action Button: more than meets the eye. | Screenshot: iOS Action Button setting Apple’s announcement last week that the Action Button is now on all of its iPhone 16 models, rather than just the Pro model that the button debuted on last year, was a little overshadowed by the introduction of…

  • Snapchat is getting its biggest redesign in years

    The new “Simple Snapchat.” | Image: Snap Snapchat is undergoing its biggest redesign in years by simplifying from five to three tabs: one for messages and Stories with friends, one for the camera, and another for a TikTok-like feed of full-screen videos from creators and publishers. The redesign, dubbed “Simple Snapchat,” was announced onstage Tuesday…

  • Here’s how green bubbles are getting upgraded in iOS

    Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Green bubbles, rejoice: your iPhone-using friends are finally going to have a much better time texting you. As part of iOS 18, which was released for everyone on Monday, Apple added support for RCS, the Rich Communication Services protocol for messaging. This means that chats between iPhone and…

  • How to use macOS Terminal and what it’s useful for

    Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge With each operating system update, our computers get further away from their earliest, text-based interfaces, when copying files and launching programs required typing out specific commands rather than double-clicking on icons. But although a lot of today’s users won’t know these command line interfaces ever existed, and others…