Some of the best Android games are action games, and action games are often comprised of many genres, leaving us open to exploring some of the best, blood-pumping titles. Whether you're looking for an old-school shooter like Doom, a classic platformer like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, or feel like digging into the competitive fighting scene in Brawlhalla, no matter what, today's list should cover your needs. So let's dig in and explore precisely what kind of action games...

We've known since April 2021 that Apex Legends would be going mobile, with the release date finally revealed last week, set for May 17th. Well, that's today, and so the game is officially available. While it took its time coming, now that Apex Legends Mobile is here, it's time to see exactly how the mobile offering stacks up to its console and PC brethren.

Android's long had problems managing apps running in the background. While Google offers guidelines about how devices running Android should handle background processes, manufacturers still take it upon themselves to tweak Android's systems in the name of battery efficiency, often breaking intended app behavior in the process. At Google I/O last week, Google made it clear it's still working on it, highlighting ongoing efforts to tackle the issue from multiple angles.

Air purifiers have been around for a long time, but it’s only recently that popularity spiked in response to a global pandemic and the rising frequency of wildfires. While you might be more inclined to associate Wyze with things like security cameras and scales, the company is jumping into the air purifier market with its familiar strategy of turning common appliances into smart home devices and setting very competitive prices. And just as you might expect, the results are pretty...

Google I/O has been a bit low-key in the past few years—no surprise with the ongoing global pandemic. This year's Google I/O still wasn't the in-person soirée to which we've become accustomed, but there were a surprising number of hardware announcements like the Pixel 6a and Pixel Watch that attracted the most attention. However, one announcement might end up being the most important in the future: Its auto-summarization announcement, which debuts in Google Docs,...

Google rolled out self sharing in Nearby Share and a new developer service for Android 13's photo picker with the May 2022 Google System Update. Additionally, the build introduced improvements to the Play Pass and Play Points program along with the Play as you Download feature. Now, the big G has refreshed the Google System Update changelog again for this month to reflect a new feature that will be useful for parents who supervise their child's device.

Russia has been heavily sanctioned internationally ever since it started its attack on Ukraine, but it couldn’t have made such strides in the first few weeks of the offensive if it wasn’t for Belarus. The Russian military used the small neighboring country as a launchpad for the attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, after having performed week-long military drills on Belarussian ground before. The US and the European Union have both quickly sanctioned the Russian neighbor for...

There's no doubt that Samsung's foldable phones carry high price tags, but grab one of them, experience its gorgeous display, and you may think it's worth it. The phones are undeniably flagship devices, but it doesn't always feel like the case with the rear cameras. So far, the Galaxy Z Fold series hasn't been able to compete with the impressive performance of the Galaxy S series. While a rumor from last month hinted that Samsung might be working on closing that gap...

After Google finalized its purchase in early 2021, Fitbit has moved to become a crucial part of Google's fitness experience. We recently learned that it'd remain separate from the existing Google Fit app, at least for the time being, but that doesn't mean they can't coexist. Now, your Google Assistant can know a bit more about your daily fitness goals and progress, no matter whether you're using the Fitbit or Google Fit apps, thanks to newly-added integration settings.

Sony launched the uniquely designed LinkBuds earlier this year. They eschewed the traditional closed-ear design for a radical ring-shaped driver with a hole in the center that helped keep you in touch with the outside world while listening to music. In our LinkBuds review, though, we found them an expensive experiment that fell short of the best wireless earbuds on the market. Leaked images have already given us a look at Sony's next LinkBuds that will have a more traditional design...

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There are two things to like about version 2.0 of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling tech, which finally began appearing in actual games late last week. The most important is that the quality of the upscaled image is dramatically better than in FSR version 1.0. The second is that FSR 2.0 is compatible with all kinds of GPUs, including not just AMD's but older GeForce GPUs that aren't compatible with Nvidia's proprietary deep learning super...

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Elon Musk has cast more doubt on his willingness to buy Twitter, criticizing the company's CEO and saying the "deal cannot move forward" until Twitter provides data behind its estimate of spam accounts. Musk also said this week that renegotiating the deal at a lower price is "not out of the question."

Musk says he thinks at least 20 percent of Twitter accounts are fake or spam, while Twitter said in a Securities and Exchange...

Enlarge / We already know plenty about the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi, launching later this month, but a lengthy feature out this week chronicles all the other Disney+ content coming soon from a galaxy far, far away. (credit: Lucasarts)

When it comes to learning about new Star Wars content, there's really no beating a massive, feature-length look behind the curtain at Lucasfilm and Disney. This month's launch of the simply named Obi-Wan Kenobi series has proven a good occasion to get...

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The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 through 11, the first booster dose for the age group intended to revive waning immune protection.

The authorization comes as the US...

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Lenovo is increasing the performance while shrinking the diagonal screen size of its P-series ThinkPad laptop workstation. The Lenovo ThinkPad P16 announced Tuesday aims to serve professionals with high-performance mobile needs with Intel's recently announced 12th Gen mobile HX-series processors and a taller display.

This is Lenovo's first product to feature Intel's HX-series mobile CPUs. Announced earlier in...

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Ratchet & Clank and Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games has made a $50,000 donation to the Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP), and its parent company, Sony, will reportedly match that number. But those donations come amid public silence from both companies on the contentious issue and reports of internal drama surrounding a response to the Supreme Court's reported efforts to overturn...

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The omicron coronavirus variant caused a spike in cases of a potentially severe breathing condition in babies and toddlers, according to a hospital study recently published in the journal Pediatrics.

The study is small, focusing only on COVID-19-associated cases at one large children's hospital in...

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Both members of our favorite mobile duopoly, Google and Apple, recently announced plans to cull outdated apps in their respective app stores. Last month, both companies decided any app that hadn't been updated in two years would be removed. Early in April, Google announced a two-year cutoff plan that would kick-in in November, and later in the month, Apple started emailing developers, giving them 30 days' notice to update or be removed. It's hard to know what...

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When you turn off an iPhone, it doesn’t fully power down. Chips inside the device continue to run in a low-power mode that makes it possible to locate lost or stolen devices using the Find My feature or use credit cards and car keys after the battery dies. Now researchers have devised a way to abuse this always-on mechanism to run malware that remains active even when an iPhone appears to be powered down.

It turns out that the iPhone’s...

Enlarge / Nvidia's "Lovelace" RTX 4000 GPUs will be faster than the top-end RTX 3090 Ti. (credit: Nvidia)

It has been nearly two years since Nvidia introduced its Ampere GPU architecture in the GeForce RTX 3080, and the company is reportedly gearing up to announce its replacement. Tom's Hardware reports, based on tweets from a normally reliable leaker, that the RTX 4000-series and its Lovelace GPU architecture will begin rolling out early in Q3 of this year.

It has been so...

Save $102: It's way past time to invest in a decent gaming TV. And go beyond decent with the popular Samsung Q80A 55-inch QLED TV now on sale for $897.99 at Amazon. As of May 17, this is the best price ever on this Samsung that was just released in 2021, after about a 10% discount.

That new gaming console you finally still requires a TV that can keep up. Not every 4K TV is cut out for gaming, but there are plenty of options that can match your PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X when it...

On Tuesday, the Biden Administration announced that it would be offering free at-home COVID test kits for the third time.

U.S. households are now eligible to order up to eight test kits by going to the website covid.org/tests and following the order instructions in the site. It should only take a few moments to complete.

The announcement follows a recent spike in COVID-19 cases. "As the highly transmissible subvariants of Omicron drive a rise in cases in parts of the country,...

We all have questions about sex. But not all of us get the answers we need during the most formative years of our lives.

Getting access to trustworthy, accurate, and sex positive information about sex can feel like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

New research by UK sex education charity Fumble found that nearly 80 percent of young people don't know what to trust when seeking sex ed online.

Fumble surveyed 200 young people aged between 11 and 25 living in the UK...

SAVE $10.58: Amazon and Walmart have LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga on sale for a new record-low of $49.41 as of May 17. It usually retails for $59.99, so this saves you about 18%.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is having a stellar week. After unseating Elden Ring to become the top-selling game of April 2022 (no small feat), its Nintendo Switch edition is now on sale for a new record-low price.

As of May 17, you'll pay just $49.41 when you grab The Skywalker Saga from...

Save $170: As a Deal of the Day at Best Buy on May 17, the 55-inch F50 Series Insignia QLED Fire TV is on sale for $329.99 — $20 cheaper than the TV's all-time low price at Amazon. But hurry: This deal is for May 17 only.

Prime Day is famously a great time of year to score a new TV, particularly ones equipped with Amazon's own Fire TV platform.

A remarkable deal on an Insignia Fire TV has emerged two-ish months before Prime Day's predicted calendar slot. But Amazon isn't...

If Chris Hemsworth asked you to participate in an experimental drug study, what would you say?

Well, if you're any of the inmates at the state-of-the-art penitentiary in Netflix's Spiderhead, you don't have much of a choice. In the upcoming sci-fi thriller, prisoners have the possibility to shave time off their sentence by participating in a study run by visionary Steve Abnesti (Hemsworth). Subjects like Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett) agree to be injected with mind...

For creators and businesses, Linktree has made it easy to condense and displays all relevant links in just one spot. You've likely seen these links across Instagram and Twitter profiles. Now, the company has announced a new set of NFT features for creators within the Web3 space, allowing creators to showcase digital collectibles.

The new features are born from a collaboration with OpenSea, the most widely-known (and seemingly largest) NFT marketplace.

Linktree's Web3 features...

Stories from the set of The Office are famously upbeat and lighthearted, but in their new book The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey chatted about one dreadful, disastrous, downright dangerous day on set.

In Chapter 12, titled "Death Bus," the former co-stars and current co-hosts of Stitcher's Office Ladies podcast shared that the cast almost died (twice!) while filming the Season 9 episode, "Work Bus," which was...

Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter acquisition is getting less and less likely – at least at the terms initially agreed upon.

On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Musk is looking to renegotiate the deal terms and possibly look to acquire the social media site at a lower price. Musk previously said he'd put the deal "on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users."

The report follows the remarks Musk made at...

There have been tens, and probably even hundreds, of movies about the apocalypse by this point. But at least to our knowledge, this is the first time one has been set in a peep show in 1980s Chicago.

Starring Caito Aase and Shaina Schrooten, Luke Boyce's horror sees a stripper joining forces with a religious protester after the two become trapped together while all hell pretty much literally breaks loose outside.

Expect gore and silliness aplenty.

Revealer is available to...

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, which turned 20 this week, forever changed what we’d seen of the Jedi Order on film with the climactic battle in the Geonosian arena. As Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Padmé averted execution, they found themselves among friends as hundreds of Jedi ignited lightsabers across the crowd—our first…

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Since the release of a Pentagon report on unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) last year, the number of reports by Navy Pilots of mysterious, odd aircraft sightings has grown to approximately 400, top Pentagon officials revealed at the first public hearing on UAP held in nearly 50 years.

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Netflix’s new film, Spiderhead, has nothing to do with spiders. It does, however, have a lot to do with “heads” and the heads involved in it are truly impressive. It’s from director Joseph Kosinski (Tron Legacy and Top Gun Maverick), writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland) and stars Thor himself,…

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A new advisory from three U.S. federal agencies is warning businesses of North Korean hackers pretending to be your friendly neighborhood IT professional looking for contract work. Imagine Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but instead everyone’s on the internet, and suddenly it doesn’t seem like an international spy thriller…

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It is with a delighted heart and a joyful mien that I can finally, declaratively say without a doubt that the public can no long ignore the sheer expanse of homoerotic subtext at the core of Obi-Wan and Anakin’s relationship. Why can we no longer live in ignorance, denying ourselves the basic truth of canon that was…

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MIT researchers have found that the clay that soaks up odors in kitty litter could be used to grab methane out of the air. The scientists put the zeolite clay in a copper solution to create a compound that absorbed methane and released it as carbon dioxide, a less potent greenhouse gas.

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On Tuesday morning, the FDA announced that it was officially authorizing the use of covid-19 booster shots for children 5-11 years old. Specifically, the administration is authorizing a single, additional Pfizer-BioNTech booster dose for kids at least five months after the second shot in the initial course.

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Paleontologists in Laos have uncovered an ancient molar that likely belonged to a young Denisovan girl. The discovery is a big deal, as the Laotian cave in which the molar was found is now one of only three spots known to host these enigmatic humans.

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It looks like we’re not the only ones celebrating the 25th anniversary of Luc Besson’s surreal science fiction cult classic. Courtesy of Fathom Events, The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, and a truly career-defining performance by Chris Tucker, will rocket back into theaters for …

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Lenovo is expanding its popular ThinkPad series with two new models that, in some ways, are opposites. In one corner is the ThinkPad P16, a workstation housing the most powerful mobile components in a chunky chassis. In the other is the new ThinkPad C14 Chromebook Enterprise, a colorful portable device running…

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Behaviour Interactive has shed some light on what's ahead for its massively popular horror franchise Dead by Daylight. One of the more surprising announcements was for a spinoff game that will take the horror-heavy series in a completely new direction — it's a dating sim.

I Love You, Colonel Sanders! developer Psyop is working on the visual novel, which is called Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim. Instead of desperately trying to avoid killers like The Trapper and...

Ford’s self-driving Argo AI unit has hit a major milestone. On Tuesday, it began driverless operations in Austin and Miami. The company’s cars aren’t carrying paying customers just yet, but they’re now allowed to ferry Argo AI employees without a safety driver at the wheel. Argo called the announcement an “important step” in its plan to commercialize autonomous driving technology by providing a suite of APIs designed to allow ridesharing, delivery and logistics companies to incorporate its...

Meta has nearly doubled the amount of violent content it removes from Facebook. During the first quarter of 2022, the company took down 21.7 million pieces of content for breaking its rules around violence and incitement of violence, an increase from 12.4 million in the previous quarter.

Takedowns were also up for the quarter on Instagram, but only slightly. The company removed 2.7 million posts for breaking its rules around violence, up from 2.6 million during the last quarter of...

Apple Store employees who are organizing in Atlanta have accused the company of union busting and violating the National Labor Relations Act. The Communications Workers of America submitted an Unfair Labor Practice filing on behalf of workers at the Cumberland Mall store, who say Apple has conducted captive audience meetings in an attempt to fight their union drive.

For decades, companies have been allowed to conduct captive audience meetings until 24 hours before a union election...

You might not have to worry that Disney+ will bombard you with marketing when the ad-supported tier arrives later this year. Disney has confirmed to TechCrunch that it will limit the volume of ads to an average of four minutes per hour with this cheaper plan, or far less than the 7.4 minutes you endure with Hulu. Content aimed at preschoolers won't include any ads, and Disney will "never" target ads at individual kids.

It's still not clear how much the ad-backed...

If you’re a vegan or eco-conscious consumer, there are plenty of options when you want a burger or chicken nuggets. But there aren’t many plant-based eggs. Sure, you can find powdered substitutes, but a “whole” egg with a runny yolk is a different matter. A startup wants to change that.

Yo! Egg claims to have developed the first plant-based poached and sunny-side-up eggs. Following a limited rollout in its native Isreal, the company is bringing its products to the US, starting with a...

The days of the gas-powered lawn mower and leaf blower are numbered in California. Last October, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1346, banning the sale of new gas-powered tools in the state by 2024, akin to its ban on new internal combustion vehicle sales by 2035.

And the Golden State is far from alone, "I think that the easier the manufacturers make it for other states to adopt the same sort of ban, the more states will do it," University of Southern California...

Amazon isn't the only one hoping you'll be willing to use biometrics to pay at the store. Mastercard has unveiled a Biometric Checkout Program that aims to set standards for paying with scans or gestures. The company hopes to make the purchase as simple as smiling for a camera or waving your hand in front of a reader — you wouldn't risk holding up the queue by reaching for your card, phone or watch.

The initiative would have you enroll either at the store or through an...

As part of Cooking Week, we set out to test some of the most niche (and, in some cases, ridiculous) kitchen gadgets we could find. We wanted to know if these impressive-looking appliances actually do what they claim and if they’re worth the splurge. These are our findings.

I’ve been drinking non-dairy milk almost exclusively for about eight years, but only recently did I think to make my own. Even since I made the transition from cow to almond milk, many more non-dairy milk options...

The Ford Mustang Mach-E GT suffers from long-name syndrome. Most of it has to do with cramming with the word “Mustang” onto the front, which has really angered some Mustang owners on the internet. They can be mad all they want because the GT is a great addition to the Mustang lineage, even though it’s an electric SUV.

Starting at over $60,000, the GT is not cheap fun, but it is exhilarating enough that if you’re in the market for a Mach-E and crave an all-wheel-drive torque machine,...

Sony’s follow-up to the unconventional LinkBuds could be the lightest active noise cancellation (ANC) earbuds yet. According to WinFuture, the new earbuds — supposedly called the LinkBuds S — weigh just 4.8 grams each.

And while the LinkBuds released earlier this year are slightly lighter, weighing in at only 4 grams per bud, the new LinkBuds S come with ANC while the LinkBuds do not. Other ANC earbuds, like the AirPods Pro (5.4 grams...

So does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter or not? This morning, the company’s prospective new owner insisted (in a tweet, of course) that the $44 billion deal he’d agreed to “cannot move forward” until he sees the proof he’s looking for about its active user numbers.

With needling current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and texting former CEO Jack Dorsey having failed to hit the spot, Musk — seemingly jokingly — pulled in another...

A little over a month after Robinhood publicly released its first crypto wallet, the company has announced it’s working on a second. The new wallet will be non-custodial, giving users sole custody over the private keys necessary to control their money on the blockchain. That means users won’t be dependent on Robinhood if the system fails but will also risk losing their funds entirely if they misplace the private key.

Robinhood says the...

Google announced a new initiative Tuesday aimed at securing the open-source software supply chain by curating and distributing a security-vetted collection of open-source packages to Google Cloud customers.

The new service, branded Assured Open Source Software, was introduced in a blog post from the company. In the post, Andy Chang, group product manager for security and privacy at Google Cloud, pointed to some of the challenges of...

Unlike many of the games we use to test gaming laptops here at The Verge, such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Red Dead Redemption 2, CS:GO doesn’t have a built-in benchmark. But not to worry — there are third-party benchmarks you can run to see what kind of frame rates your device puts up on this first-person shooter. The one we commonly use, the FPS Benchmark by Ulletical, is free and easy to install.

Here’s how to run Ulletical’s FPS Benchmark for CS:GO:

Now is the best time to stargaze in the UK since 2011, according to the results of a new citizen science survey led by the countryside charity CPRE. Light pollution in the UK has dropped to its lowest levels since CPRE began its annual study more than a decade ago.

Light pollution peaked in 2020 (before the COVID-19...

For Ben Heck, it started as a kindness. He was an engineer who made cool things and a veteran reached out to see if he could make him an Xbox controller that would let him play video games with one hand. Twenty years later, he’s still making controllers for people with limb differences. But he’s not the only one.

In the two decades since Heck started modding Xbox controllers for accessibility purposes, a community of controller modders...

The Pentagon’s new task force for tracking unidentified aerial phenomena (or UAPs) has collected roughly 400 reports, an official told Congress in an open hearing on Tuesday.

The comments came from Scott Bray, the deputy director of US naval intelligence, who testified today as an expert witness in a hearing about UAPs hosted by a subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee. The hearing marked the first time Congress has held a...

Skiff has spent the last couple of years developing a privacy-focused, collaborative document editing platform that you could most succinctly describe as “encrypted Google Docs.” Now, it’s coming for Gmail. The company is launching an email service called Skiff Mail that aims to be, well, encrypted Gmail — and eventually much more than that.

Ultimately, Skiff co-founder and CEO Andrew Milich says Skiff...

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