Apple Music Classical is now available from the App Store

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music Classical, Apple’s long-in-the-works app for listening to classical music with an Apple Music subscription, is now available to download from the App Store. Apple Music Classical was born from Primephonic, which Apple acquired in 2021 with the intent of launching a classical music-focused...

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Elon Musk says Twitter’s For You page will only recommend verified accounts

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform’s For You page starting on April 15th, according to a Monday evening tweet from CEO Elon Musk. Given that Twitter has promised to start dismantling the “legacy” verified system at the beginning of...

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The Diablo IV beta let players do a lot — but not pet the dog

Blizzard Entertainment After two weekends of lengthy server queues, and a brief taste of the game’s opening areas and five classes, the Diablo IV beta is officially over. I personally didn’t get to play too much since I was doing other things, but I enjoyed the brief time I got to spend in Sanctuary. I went into both weekends as a Barbarian....

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Binance really loved telling people to use VPNs, allegedly

Nick Barclay / The Verge So I read through the CFTC complaint against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, and it seems like the lawyers are having fun with this one. For instance: “Binance’s decision to prioritize commercial success over compliance with US law has been, as Lim paraphrased Zhao’s position on the matter, a...

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Philips Hue is delaying its Matter update

Philips Hue’s lighting bridge will not get updated to Matter this month, as previously announced. | Image: Philips Hue Delays have been a major part of the Matter narrative, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to hear one of the biggest names attached to the new smart home standard is delaying its rollout. As reported by HueBlog.com,...

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Arc is coming to iPhone, but it won’t replace Safari yet, says CEO

Arc, a browser that my colleague David Pierce described as an attempt to be “the web’s operating system,” is getting a companion app for iPhones on March 30th. Josh Miller, the CEO of Arc developer The Browser Company, says the app is “NOT a replacement for your default mobile browser (yet),” but it should let Arc users access at least some of the features...

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The race for more battery materials could cause ‘irreversible’ damage under the sea

A deep-water fish, called a Rattail, brought up as part of research into the effects of mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean. | Image: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images From electric vehicles to renewable energy, the future runs on batteries. That’s driving soaring demand for raw materials used to make...

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Uber Eats is shutting down thousands of virtual restaurants to make the app less spammy

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Uber Eats is delisting some of the delivery-only restaurants on its app to help weed out low-quality listings, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company has confirmed to The Verge that it’s introducing a new set of standards for virtual restaurants that should help cut down on listings...

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — all the latest on Nintendo’s huge sequel

Link in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. | Image: Nintendo Nintendo’s sequel to Breath of the Wild launches on May 12th. Continue reading…

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Apple is bringing Martin Scorsese’s next movie to theaters before streaming

Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. | Image: Apple Apple is the latest streamer to discover that theaters are actually kind of useful. Following a Bloomberg report last week, the company has officially confirmed its first wide theatrical release: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. The movie will...

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