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Image: The Verge CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas personally accepted a “Most Epic Fail” award over the weekend at the annual Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference for the company’s software update that caused a global IT outage last month. While accepting the award, he said it was “super important to own it when you do…

Image: Caltrain For the first time, California has two new all-electric commuter trains operating along a major corridor. It could be a sign that the US is finally ready to catch up to the rest of the world in electrifying its rolling stock. The two new trains are operated by Caltrain. California Governor Gavin Newson…

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Even four years on, Sony’s WH-1000XM4 remain a stalwart choice among wireless noise-canceling headphones — especially now that they’ve returned to their lowest price of about $198 ($150 off) at Amazon, B&H Photo, and Best Buy. That’s thanks in large part to their very good sound quality (which…

Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by Replika The head of chatbot maker Replika discusses the role AI will play in the future of human relationships. Continue reading…

The PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter, and everything that plugs into it. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge The biggest problem with Sony’s PSVR 2 virtual reality headset is the dearth of games. I’d hoped Sony’s PC adapter would change that. The chance to play Half-Life: Alyx, the best VR game made yet, seemed…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Brandon Bell, Getty Images Former President Donald Trump confirmed his campaign was hacked just hours after Politico revealed it had been sent internal documents from the campaign. In a statement to CNN, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said, “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign…

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) are refreshing their licensing agreements to expand the use of the publishing giant’s content on more Meta social apps. The new multiyear agreement announced on Monday now includes licensed media in content like shortform videos on Threads and WhatsApp as well as Facebook,…

Image: Tango Gameworks Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks has been spared closure, three months after Microsoft announced plans to shut down the studio. Krafton, the South Korean publisher behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and The Callisto Protocol, announced on Monday that it had acquired the game and its Japanese studio, and is working with Xbox to enable…

A Waymo car out on the job. | Photo: Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images If you’ve ever wondered what happens to all those self-driving taxis when the world is asleep, one YouTube channel has you covered. Since the beginning of the month, software engineer Sophia Tung has been livestreaming a San Francisco parking…

Two words: headphone jack. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Although Apple’s tablet lineup has undergone several shakeups over the last several years, we long considered the ninth-gen iPad to be the best budget iPad you could get. That changed when Apple dropped the price of the 10th-gen iPad to a more sensible…