A year after launch, Sony’s PlayStation 5 remains (almost) as elusive as ever. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As Sony’s PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Digital Edition approach their second birthday, supplies of both of next-gen consoles may finally be catching up with demand. Both models still tend to sell out quickly…
Games that can’t be played may have an exclamation point icon. | Image: Eden Marie on Twitter Scrolling through your Xbox game library, it can be difficult to tell which games you can actually play at the moment — perhaps you downloaded something from Game Pass, but it’s no longer on the service, or your…
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge While a PlayStation 5 is still not yet a thing you can find on every store shelf any day of the week, availability has certainly gotten better in recent weeks. Sony has been dropping public restocks with some velocity of late, and today is another chance. You can…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber’s decision to not offer wheelchair-accessible service in every US market does not violate the federal law prohibiting discrimination against disabled individuals, a federal judge ruled this week. The ruling represents a win for the ride-hailing service, which has been criticized by disability advocates for providing only limited…
Discord voice calls on Xbox | Screenshot: Tom Warren / The Verge Discord and Microsoft announced Discord voice chat last week, making it available initially to invite-only Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox testers. The new feature is now available to Xbox Insiders in the Beta ring, which doesn’t require an invite. Microsoft is releasing a…
IPWatchdog’s Second Annual Meeting, IPWatchdog LIVE 2022 is less than two months away. Originally planned to start on March 16, 2020, we had to cancel our inaugural annual meeting when the pandemic shut the world down. We had no choice but to postpone the event on three separate occasions, but we were finally able to…
Enlarge / The Pixel 6a back is very flexible. (credit: PBK Review) What’s in the Pixel 6a? PBK Reviews has gotten ahold of the device and ripped it apart. It features fairly basic innards for a fairly basic phone. The screen is glued on and has plastic reinforcement clips. Once that’s heated up and pried…
Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) Last year, Hulu raised its ad-supported subscriptions by a dollar, shortly after prompting subscribers to submit more feedback on ads. Since 2017, vocal members in the Hulu community have complained about seeing the same political ads “1,000 times,” with some claiming they were repeatedly served ads from…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Namthip Muanthongthae) The CEO of a purported cryptocurrency investment company pleaded guilty for his role in a crypto fraud scheme that raised $21 million from investors, the Department of Justice said. Michael Alan Stollery (aka “Michael Stollaire”), 54, was CEO and founder of the California-based Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services (TBIS)….
Enlarge / This week for Meta and its Quest 2 VR system, it’s all about the Benjamins. One Benjamin more, to be specific. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Meta) Many categories in consumer tech have seen substantial jumps in cost over the past two years due to a strained supply chain, chip shortages,…