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A cable company that prided itself on no data caps says you’re getting data caps because pizza

Internet data caps are not like pizza — where taking a slice could mean fewer slices for everyone else. I don’t think Verge readers have trouble understanding this concept? It’s been well-established that ISPs have no trouble delivering unlimited data, even during — say — a global pandemic when vast throngs of the population have… Read more

Steam Survey Reveals: 6-Core and 8-Core CPUs Are More Popular Than Ever

Home News (Image credit: JCET Group) Sourced from Twitter; The day has finally come where higher core count six-core and eight-core CPUs are ready to overtake aging dual-core and quad-core solutions in market share. Thanks to Steam’s hardware survey, we are able to get precise details on how popular both AMD and Intel’s hexacore and… Read more

SpaceX rocket debris lands on man’s farm in Washington

A pressure vessel from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage fell on a man’s farm in Washington State last week, leaving a “4-inch dent in the soil,” the local sheriff’s office said Friday. The black Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessel, or COPV, was a remnant from the alien invasion-looking breakup of a Falcon 9 second stage over… Read more

Razer May Finally Launch Its First AMD Gaming Laptop

Home News Razer Blade 14 (Image credit: Razer) Razer has been a loyal supporter of Team Blue. However, the tech giant may have finally bitten the bullet and joined up with Team Red. If the recently discovered 3DMark submissions (via _rogame) are accurate, Razer will release the company’s first-ever AMD-powered gaming laptop soon. The mysterious… Read more

Study Shows How Fragile Semiconductor Industry Still Is

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) published a report today detailing the, well, semiconductor industry’s weaknesses as the entire world attempts to figure out how to respond to the ongoing chip shortage. Many enthusiasts probably know the biggest issue: The semiconductor industry relies on many companies… Read more

ASROCK Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

Clubhouse defined a format — now it has to defend it

Clubhouse had an incredible year in one most of us would rather forget. The live audio app launched during a pandemic; gained more than 10 million downloads for an invite-only, iOS-only app; and succeeded to the point that most every social platform wants to copy it. Congrats to Clubhouse. The company now faces its biggest… Read more

Supercell is making three new Clash of Clans games to further expand its fantasy universe

Finnish developer Supercell is best known for its mobile games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, and today, it announced plans to expand that fantasy universe in a big way. Supercell revealed that three new Clash titles are in development. “On top of offering a new Clash experience to current players, we want to broaden… Read more

Apple Arcade just got a huge update of new games, including some mobile classics

Apple’s gaming subscription service just got a massive influx of new titles. The headliner is Fantasian — the latest release from the creator of Final Fantasy — which is joined by other titles like new versions of NBA 2K and The Oregon Trail, and World of Demons from PlatinumGames. As part of the update, the… Read more

Microsoft Teams and Xbox Live are down for some users

Many Microsoft services, including Microsoft Teams and Xbox Live, are experiencing outages for some users as of Thursday evening. Microsoft’s Office 365 status page says there is a “DNS issue affecting multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services.” The page also says that Microsoft has “rerouted traffic to our resilient DNS capabilities and are seeing improvement… Read more

YouTube stars the Stokes Twins avoid jail after pleading guilty over fake bank robbery pranks

Alan and Alex Stokes, twin brothers who rose to fame on YouTube filming prank videos, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment and reporting false emergencies in connection with a pair of now-removed videos they filmed in the fall of 2019 in which they pretended to have just robbed a bank. The 23-year-old brothers were charged… Read more

TSMC Chairman: No Need to Expand Fabs in U.S. and Europe

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Marc Liu, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., believes that it is economically unrealistic to expand production of semiconductors in the U.S. and Europe as this will create excessive capacity that will generate losses. TSMC has enough capacity currently to serve demand for chips, Liu said. There are less than… Read more

Spotify Mixes is an all-new personalised playlist

Home News (Image credit: Spotify) Building on the success of its ‘Daily Mixes’ feature, Spotify is launching a new type of personalised playlist called ‘Spotify Mixes’. Its name may sound ambiguous, but it’s designed to give users more clearly defined playlists based on songs they already like, with themes and names that are easier to… Read more

Sony RA5000 speaker review: extravagant sound at an unreasonable price

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Sony’s new SRS-RA5000 is a $700 single-unit speaker that is filled to the brim with drivers, has convenient features like Spotify Connect and Chromecast built in, and is capable of producing immersive 360-degree audio. Though it’s only… Read more

Doom 3 for PSVR is a solid showcase for Sony’s Aim Controller

Doom 3 has a long history with VR, so it’s a little surprising that this week’s PlayStation VR release is the first version ever to go on sale. Almost nine years ago, we visited Id Software luminary John Carmack to see his duct-taped prototype “Oculus Rift” headset for the first time, and Doom 3 was… Read more