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PayPal might not be looking to sell itself, report

PayPal may not be in talks to be acquired, sources have told Semafor, after a previous news report that Stripe was sniffing around.

Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts nearly half of its staff in AI gamble

Jack Dorsey's Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by "nearly half" and axing more than 4,000 jobs. The company will shrink from more than 10,000 people to less than 6,000, Dorsey says in a post on X. And the reason why? AI. "We're not making […]

Lenovo leak reveals a foldable gaming handheld that’s also a Windows laptop

Lenovo's next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld gaming PC with two different display sizes, as WindowsLatest reports. Leaked images of the device show it attached to both a keyboard and controllers, with a hinge in the middle of […]

DHS detained — then released — a Columbia University ‘studytok’ influencer

Columbia University said Department of Homeland Security agents "made misrepresentations" about searching for a missing person to gain access to a residential building and detain a student on Thursday. By the afternoon, the student had been released after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a personal appeal to Donald Trump. The Columbia Daily Spectator, the […]

Why no magnets in Galaxy S26? Samsung R&D chief explains

Magnet rings have changed my life. I grip and mount and satisfyingly snap awesome accessories on and off my phone all day. Even Samsung sells neat ones like these folding magnetic mirrors. But unlike Apple and Google, Samsung refuses to put the magnets inside the phone. Why? I asked Samsung's Won-Joon Choi, the executive in […]

Qualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all

In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Windows gaming handhelds at the 2026 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - just in time to challenge Nvidia's own first Arm gaming CPU and Intel's first dedicated handheld gaming chips. But plans have shifted, Qualcomm now […]

Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher pricetag

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are "more of the same for more money," my colleague Allison Johnson reported this week. Now, Samsung is confirming what we previously only suspected: RAMageddon is partly to blame. Samsung's Won-Joon Choi, the COO of its mobile business, tells The Verge that the memory shortage alone made a […]

Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever

The smartphone industry could experience a record-breaking decline in 2026 as a result of the RAM shortage stemming from memory-hungry AI giants. That's according to the latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC), which forecasts smartphone shipments to plummet 12.9 percent this year, marking its "lowest annual shipment volume in more than a decade." […]

Layoffs at Block

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Google paid startup Form Energy $1B for its massive 100-hour battery

The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.