Now that Apple has finished announcing its slate of new M4-equipped Mac computers, we’ve finally been able to see them in person. The Verge’s Vjeran Pavic got some hands-on time with the new products and took some gorgeous photos that you can peruse below. I’m blown away by how small the new Mac Mini is; the old Mac Mini, which was already small, seems giant in comparison. Vjeran tells me that, in person, the smaller Mac Mini is cute but that it’s “more like a mini Mac Studio than a mini Mac Mini.” He also says that there’s no way to reach the power button, which is on the underside of the computer, without lifting it up. As for the other computers, the new colors on the iMac really pop when they’re lined up together in these photos, if... Continue reading…

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft has quietly released its own NFT game to join the ranks of other vaunted, widely-played blockchain enabled titles like Axie Infinity and...uh, Ember Sword. Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles launched earlier this month with relatively little fanfare or marketing. The game comes two years after Ubisoft’s failed bid to make NFTs work in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, a solid three years after NFT prices and purchases fell off a cliff, and barely a week after it announced it would disband the team behind the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Surface level, Champions Tactics is a PC strategy game where players assemble teams of champions to fight their way up the rankings. Teams are composed of three champions,... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Kids will soon be able to download the Google Wallet app on their Android phone, allowing them to buy things in store via Google’s tap-to-pay feature, reports 9to5Google. The news comes after Google first added the feature to its kid-focused Fitbit Ace LTE fitness tracker in August. In a statement given to 9to5Google, the company said there will be ways for parents to supervise usage, with control over approving new cards, removing cards, and viewing transaction history. Parents can supervise children’s accounts via the Google Family Link app that lets parents set restrictions for content and screen time, and added the ability to see when kids leave school and arrive home in 2022. Kids will be able to make tap-to-pay purchases using... Continue reading…

The first place where many migrants sleep after entering Mexico from Guatemala is inside a large structure, a roof above and fencedin sides on a rural ranch. They call it the "chicken coop" and they don't get to leave until they pay the cartel that runs it.Migrant...

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday railed against Vice President Kamala Harris as a "simpleton" and accused her of waging a "campaign of hate" after President Joe Biden's comments that appeared to label Trump supporters as "garbage."

A whistleblower claimed then-FBI Director James Comey created a secret operation to target Donald Trump soon after he announced his campaign in June 2015, more than a year before the bureau officially launched its investigation regarding alleged Russian collusion.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Wednesday endorsed Donald Trump for president, citing the former president's elevation of "human space exploration."

Prosecutors plan to argue that a Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine should serve nearly 17 years in prison.In a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday, prosecutors said Jack...

The 2024 presidential election has never been more secure, Jen Easterly, the director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said.

The groups promoting ballot measures to add amendments to the constitutions in nine states that would enshrine a right to abortion have raised more than $160 million.That's nearly six times what their opponents have brought in, The Associated Press found in an analysis of...