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Season 3 of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone arrives today, and Activision reveals all the big changes for this new season of Call of Duty. The Season 3 patch notes include changes to perks, major weapon balancing, and some quality-of-life changes. The season launches with three new weapons in the battle pass, four multiplayer maps, Capture the Flag mode, new perks, and Rebirth Island's return to Warzone. Season 3 also adds the Plunder and Buy Back modes to Warzone Mobile. Several bundles...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ford’s electric vehicles aren’t doing too bad despite a lot of gloom in the industry over a slowdown in EV sales growth. But hybrids are where the Blue Oval is really crushing it, posting its best quarter in its nearly 20 years of selling gas-electric hybrids. The automaker sold 38,421 hybrid vehicles in the first three months of 2024, representing an increase of 42 percent compared to Q1 in 2023. Sales of the hybrid version of Ford’s midsize...

Dragon's Dogma 2 players have discovered a few tricks that signal to other players a pawn is infected. Careful, spoilers for Dragon's Dogma 2 follow. In the game, players' companions known as pawns can become inflicted with a disease known as Dragonsplague. These pawns will be especially bold in combat and speech, they may begin to discuss the plague, and their eyes may start to glow red. The Dragonsplague cannot be cured, but if a pawn dies or if you dismiss the pawn, you can avoid the...

Illustration by Samar Haddad for The Verge | Photo by The Verge One of the coolest things you can do with the Apple Vision Pro is use your Mac screen — either floating by itself in a virtual landscape or, better yet, in mixed reality. It’s hard to make work exciting, but if you can, why not work on the Moon? Or on top of Haleakalā in Hawaii? You can also blow up that Mac screen as big as you like or even stick it on the ceiling if you’re so inclined. The catch is that, for now, you can’t...

Par38 Matter-compatible floodlight. | Image: Lifx Lifx is bringing its high-end smart bulb chops to Matter with two new bulbs that support the standard over Wi-Fi. The two bulbs are an A21 indoor bulb ($39.98) and a Par38 indoor / outdoor option ($34.98) and will be available only through The Home Depot, starting today. The big advantage Lifx has over many smart light bulbs is their brightness, and it looks like that’s the case here — both are 1,600-lumen bulbs, making them brighter than...

Studies show that consumers associated Tesla with Musk, which might be damaging the EV brand’s bottom line. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s controversial behavior in recent years is “very likely” to be a contributing factor in Tesla’s declining sales, according to corporate reputation tracking firm Caliber. Survey data reported by Reuters found that Tesla’s “consideration score” — a metric used by Caliber to track consumer interest in brands, based on...

Photo by Matt McClain / The Washington Post via Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission will vote on April 25th on a proposal to restore net neutrality rules, the agency announced on Wednesday. If the five-member panel votes to restore the rules, internet service providers (ISP) will be reclassified from information services to common carriers, bringing stricter regulations with the change. The idea of net neutrality is to keep ISPs from treating internet traffic differently by...

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge For many years, Spotify held strong at its monthly subscription of $9.99, but that changed last July when Premium jumped up to $10.99. Now it appears that the leading subscription music service is planning another price hike — and not waiting nearly as long this time. Bloomberg reports that the cost will go up by between $1 and $2 in the UK, Australia, Pakistan, and two other markets by the end of April, with an increase planned for US customers...

Now you can customize these bad boys. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is rolling out a new ChromeOS update (M123) to its stable channel yesterday that brought features like the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons and enabled hotspot connections on cellular Chromebooks. The company’s April updates also brought updates and bug fixes to Pixel Watches and Pixel phones from the 5A and up. The keyboard shortcut feature will work like it does in other...

Fujifilm x100VI vs. Ricoh GR IIIx: battle of the best point-and-shoot The $1,599.00 Fujifilm X100VI and the $1,046.95 Ricoh GR IIIx are two of the most popular digital point-and-shoot cameras for folks who aren’t looking to break the bank. They both come in a small package and have an APS-C sensor and a fixed focal length lens that can produce crisp images. In fact, these systems are so similar that, as a viewer, it can be hard to tell images from them apart (check out 1:29 in the video...