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Photo: Dennis Troper (Facebook) Susan Wojcicki, Google’s 16th employee who helped jumpstart the company in her garage, ran its advertising business, and then helmed YouTube for most of the past decade, has died at 56, according to posts by her husband Dennis Troper and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. She joined Google in 1998 and was…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney’s D23 showcase of new projects from Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and more is upon us. Disney’s biennial D23 showcase of its upcoming projects is back, and with so many Marvel and Star Wars projects in the pipeline, it feels like the studio will have a lot to…

Disney After The Way of Water, James Cameron’s Avatar franchise is turning the fire up next December. At this year’s D23 Expo, James Cameron, Zoe Saldana, and Sam Worthington announced that Avatar: Fire and Ash will hit theaters on December 19th, 2025. Disney also revealed a new title card that makes it seem like the…

Nova Launcher, in a very dated screenshot on top of the project’s website. | Image: Nova Launcher Nearly the entire team working on Nova Launcher, one of the biggest names in Android homescreen replacements, has been laid off. The team is now down to just one full time developer: Kevin Barry, the launcher’s founder. Barry…

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has starting testing a new feature that looks a whole lot like Snap Maps. This allows Instagram users to post text and video updates to a map based on where they were taken. The map is shared with friends, whose updates can all appear alongside each other. It…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries. In Venezuela, the blockage follows the disputed results…

The Verge All the Matter-compatible devices you can buy, plus the latest on the Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung-backed smart home standard. Continue reading…

Final Fantasy VI is a hallmark of the series thanks in part to its dark story. | Image: Square Enix It’s wild to think that the Final Fantasy series is nearly four decades old, but it’s thankfully less hard to believe you can get all six of the original games in cleaned-up remastered form for…

Image: Netflix Several upcoming anime titles from Netflix have shown up on X and 4Chan, including season two of Arcane and Terminator Zero. Today Netflix confirmed the leaks, as reported earlier by IGN. “One of our post production partners has been compromised and footage from several of our titles has unfortunately leaked online. Our team…

Image: Neon Director Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo feels tailor-made for this summer of atmospheric, unsatisfying horror. Continue reading…