The US Department of Justice has reportedly opened an antitrust investigation to determine whether AT&T, Verizon, and mobile industry group GSM Association (GSMA) colluded to prevent consumers from easily switching carriers with devices that support eSIM, according to The New York Times.

Chinese technology company ZTE issued a statement today in response to the US government’s banning of American exports to the company.

Huawei may be effectively banned in the US, but if you’re really interested in snagging the impressive P20, the company just announced that the new devices will be coming to neighboring Canada next month.

If you want to buy one of the recent Star Wars or Marvel Cinematic Universe films on Blu-ray or DVD from Amazon, you’re out of luck if you’re not a member of Amazon Prime.

AT&T will be launching a “skinny bundle” of television channels that will only cost $15 a month, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In a moment seemingly engineered to generate enraged tweets from the president, former FBI director James Comey will speak to Amazon employees next week as part of his ongoing book tour.

Nintendo’s new cardboard creation experiment Labo is out today, but if you had concerns about your Toy-Con kits breaking or wearing out (because, well, they’re made of cardboard), fear not.

It was a slow week until Google decided to attempt another fix for Android messaging and Nintendo made the entire staff fall in love with cardboard.

I’m here to quell your health concerns: staring at a screen doesn’t damage your eyes.

To your health!.

AT&T has steadily improved its prepaid phone plans over the past few years, and today, it’s making a few more additions and improvements.

Apple’s efforts to diversify its reliance on Samsung as an iPhone display manufacturer has reportedly hit problems.

Sharp just put a price tag and European delivery date on its 70-inch 8K television already out in Japan and China: €11,199, sometime before April is done.

I’ve never been to Panama, but apparently its rainy season runs from May to December.

If you’ve been using Google’s messaging app, Allo, it’s probably a good time to start thinking about switching to something else.

How the successor to SMS will take on iMessage.

The Red Magic is the new phone from Nubia (a ZTE sub-brand in China), and it’s built for gaming.

Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 just released an app called Grasshopper, which teaches you how to code JavaScript through a series of fun mini-games, as reported by 9to5Google.

Ahead of Earth Day, Apple has debuted a new robot named Daisy that can take apart iPhones in order to recover valuable materials inside, as reported by TechCrunch.

The latest version of Google Chrome, version number 66, quietly added support for Oculus’ Rift headset, meaning you can now use the high-end VR device to browse the web in VR and make use of compatible WebVR applications.

Google is in discussions with brands about creating how-to videos for Google Assistant, according to CNBC.

Verizon has announced that, starting today, its parental controls product, FamilyBase, will be upgraded and renamed.

Amazon is making it possible for almost anyone to make their own Alexa skills with its new Alexa Skill Blueprints program.

Zink is a printing technology that makes me worried about the future of our species.

What is the future of robotics and automation in the home? Over the last few years, the most obvious trend has been for virtual assistants like Alexa to link together smart devices through voice commands.

eBay is updating its Android and iOS apps to streamline the listing process by letting sellers scan the barcode of an item, according to Engadget.

Nest announced the Power Project today, an initiative that the company says is meant to raise awareness about the burden that utilities like energy can place on low-income families.

Netflix is releasing a new feature today called mobile previews, which is essentially a version of stories on apps like Instagram and Snapchat that shows you previews of shows and movies on the subscription service.

Motorola is introducing its newest range of Moto G and Moto E smartphones today, which will sell in the $100 to $300 range.

I’ve been thinking about aspect ratios. After years of phones, laptops, tablets, and TV screens converging on 16:9 as the “right” display shape — allowing video playback without distracting black bars — smartphones have disturbed the universality recently by moving to even more elongated formats like 18:9, 19:9, or even 19.

Amazon is introducing a new way to create Alexa skills today, without the need for coding or tech skills.

Pipe cleaners probably played a large role in your life when you were a kid.

Autonomous cars won’t happen without tons of data. Tesla and Waymo have a big head start .

Over the last few weeks on YouTube, Nintendo’s been teasing what you can do with Labo — the DIY cardboard accessory kit for the Switch — which comes out this Friday.

The 2011 book wants to have it both ways — just like Mark Zuckerberg.

Honor, Huawei’s lower-cost sub-brand, has announced its latest flagship phone: the Honor 10.

Qualcomm has started cutting jobs in California, with aims to let go of around 1,500 people to meet a $1 billion savings commitment the company made to investors, reports Bloomberg.

OnePlus has confirmed that it's partnering with Marvel on an Avengers-themed edition of the upcoming OnePlus 6.

Intel has confirmed that it plans to shut down the New Devices Group (NDG), and cease development on the Vaunt smart glasses project we revealed earlier this year.

Only Nintendo could make folding cardboard fun.

YouTuber Mars Argo is suing musician and internet persona Poppy and her creator, Titanic Sinclair, otherwise known as Corey Mixter.

Facebook looks to be in the early stages of developing its own silicon to power its devices and servers, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

Year after year, Amazon brags about selling more things than ever, and now the company has added turkey sales to its leaderboard.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed in his annual shareholders letter today that his company has over 100 million Prime members, marking the first time in the 13-year history of Amazon offering its Prime membership that the company has ever revealed its number of subscribers.

Whole Foods will shut down its rewards program, digital coupons, and customers’ online accounts on May 2nd and fold everything into Amazon Prime, according to an email to customers this week.

App developers won’t be able to use Google to get around internet censorship anymore.

Although the ability to publish pre-recorded video to Facebook Live has been an option for some time, it’s required the use of third-party programs like OBS and Wirecast.

Snapchat has slowly but surely been building out Lenses, its augmented reality face filter platform, both as a way to keep users hooked on taking selfies and as a way to earn money from advertisers.

It can be difficult to keep track of the progress being made in robotics, but one useful (if informal) marker is how good machines are at assembling Ikea furniture.

Silicon Valley is going to have to work through its qualms about providing AI services to the military, said Alphabet board member and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Microsoft is planning to launch Office 2019 later this year, and the company is changing the way OneNote is bundled.

Filings from the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database suggest new iPhones might be coming, potentially sooner than we thought.

French company Enhancia’s MIDI ring, which The Verge first saw at this year’s NAMM show, has debuted for preorder on Kickstarter.

This week’s slate of new releases for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One serves as an illuminating indicator of the state each console is in.

Disney is letting people play Star Wars’ Dejarik holochess game for free on iOS in augmented reality through ARKit, via 9to5Mac.

Android P is finally fixing its Bluetooth volume settings with an update that will allow the mobile OS to remember volume preferences on a device-by-device basis, according to Android Police.

Have you ever wanted to fly a drone with your body? How about while wearing a VR headset that shows you a first-person perspective from the drone and where it’s flying in real time? This is now a reality, thanks to a drone and exosuit developed by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne University in Switzerland.

Amazon is partnering with Best Buy to release a new wave of Fire TV Edition smart TVs that will exclusively be sold at Best Buy’s stores and website as well as on Amazon.

Chevrolet is teaming up with Shell to launch a new feature that allows drivers to pay for gas from their vehicle’s infotainment screen.

Everybody hates smartphone notifications. They’re interruptive, distracting, annoying, and increasingly less valuable.

Facebook is introducing new privacy controls to each of its 2 billion users as part of compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will come into effect on May 25th.

Microsoft has been working on its new Xbox Live avatars for at least a year, and a newly leaked video provides a much closer look at the refreshed system.

Microsoft is releasing its Windows Defender antivirus scanner for Google Chrome this week.

Amazon now has an Android web browser app that’s designed to use minimal storage and data.

The company behind Facebook’s massive data leak scandal, Cambridge Analytica, attempted to develop its own cryptocurrency this past year and intended to raise funds through an initial coin offering, Reuters and The New York Times reported today.

There have been reports about upcoming changes to Spotify’s free tier of service over the past couple of weeks, and it appears the music service is now serving the updated UI to select users.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t the most technologically sophisticated government agency in the US.

Thirty-four major technology companies — including Facebook, Microsoft, HP, ARM, Cisco, and Oracle — have signed a new Cybersecurity Tech Accord.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into bitcoin exchanges today, his office announced.

Mignon Clyburn, one of five commissioners for the Federal Communications Commission and a staunch supporter of net neutrality, announced her decision to step down from her role today after more than eight years at the agency.

Ian Balina, a former IBM salesman who became a full-time cryptocurrency trader and pundit, is not known for his modesty.

In December 2016 — in the wake of sexual assault allegations against prominent men like Bill Cosby, Roger Ailes, and then-President-elect Donald Trump — tech writer April Glaser posited a simple solution for combating sexual assault: create a tool that would combine identity verification, encryption, anonymization, and messaging to enable sexual assault victims to report their assaults and connect with other victims who had reported the same perpetrator.

Casio is introducing a new smartwatch for the outdoors today that runs Google’s Wear OS, but it doesn’t look all that different from some of Casio’s older Wear OS watches.

The new $170 Jabra Elite 65t earbuds are my go-to recommendation for anyone who wants truly wireless earbuds that aren’t Apple’s AirPods.

What does the future of fake news look like? No one really knows, but here’s a little sampler from Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed, who teamed up to make the above PSA.

It’s been more than a year since Apple released the AirPods, but it’s only now that other companies are really starting to match them when it comes to the style and shape of wireless earbuds.

Cambridge Analytica and its partners used data from previously unknown “Facebook-connected questionnaires” to obtain user data from the social media service, according to testimony from a former Cambridge Analytica employee.

When one of the most prominent information security conferences in the world, the RSA conference, announced its keynote speakers in February, professionals across the industry went to Twitter complain.

If you need to know one thing about rare earth metals, it’s that they’re crucial to modern technology, helping power everything from MRI machines and satellites to headphones and nuclear reactors.

Boosted is best known for its orange-wheeled electric longboard, but that’s about to change because the company has made the biggest expansion yet to its product lineup.

All the talk about virtual reality revolutionizing the gaming industry is “just first-day stuff,” says VR expert Peter Rubin.

Walmart has announced that it is revamping its website, introducing a completely new design beginning in May.

Facebook is introducing third-party fact-checking in India, with a pilot program first starting in the state of Karnataka.

Sprint has announced that on June 1st, it’ll be ending its long-offered Google Voice integration, which let users use their regular Sprint number on their phone as a Google Voice number, via Android Police.

B&O Play is launching a new Bluetooth speaker that does what all B&O Play speakers do best: look really good, cost a lot of money, and probably sound good, too.

Season two of Circuit Breaker Live is almost over, so you have to enjoy the show while you still can.

Libratone announced the wireless Track+ headphones earlier this year at CES, and they’re finally available in the US today for $199.

Snap is expanding its developer platform to let creators build face filters for the first time, the company said today.

Grubhub has come out with a Venmo integration, which it officially announced today.

Pornhub has started accepting cryptocurrency as a payment option, the company announced today.

We’re chugging along with Why’d You Push That Button. We’ve got a few more episodes left in the season, and today’s is about music social networks.

Amazon is updating its mobile apps with a new International Shopping experience that makes it easier to shop for products on Amazon abroad within the app.

Facebook could face billions of dollars in fines after a federal judge ruled that the company must face a class action lawsuit.

If you want to know the reason I’m not on WhatsApp with its other 1.

Matthew Marchetti was among thousands of Houstonians motoring through the turbulent, murky stormwaters of Hurricane Harvey as the sun set on August 27th, 2017.

Apple acquired the “Netflix of magazines” last month, and it’s now planning to create its own premium news service.

The Sonos One just got an update. No, it’s not the Google Assistant integration we’ve been waiting for, but an updated color palette that adds some lovely new hues (and cost) to the company’s smart speaker.

Sennheiser is unveiling a new line of monitoring headphones that are designed for professional content creators working on set, or on the go.

Microsoft was planning to launch its next major Windows 10 update, codenamed Redstone 4, last week.

Intel is planning to allow virus scanners to use its integrated graphics chipsets to scan for malicious attacks.