It looks like Fortnite’s post-apocalyptic crossover with Fallout will include Power Armor, though it’s unclear now if they’re just character skins or some kind of in-game power-up. All should be clear when the new season of Fortnite drops on Friday.

While we wait for the final season of Stranger Things and its animated spinoff, Netflix is teasing fans with a trailer for The First Shadow, a play in London that also serves as a prequel. But hey, maybe the trailer is a sign that a home version of the production will eventually be available to stream.

Apple Music’s team of experts crowned Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as the number one album, followed by Michael Jackson’s Thriller in second and The Beatles’ Abbey Road in third. You can check out the full list of top 100 albums from Apple’s website.

The Unicode Consortium has proposed adding these seven additional emoji to the standardized catalog referenced by iOS, Android, and other devices.

The beta review period for Unicode 16.0 lasts until July 2nd, after which the new emoji should be officially approved. It can, however, take several months for companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google to make their own designs so don’t expect to see them immediately.

The video call works, barely, and that’s before fighting other LTE-compatible phones for access to the T-Mo service first announced in 2022.

But when the choice is no coverage versus this, well, I’d call that a win. And it’ll only be available for texting later this year in the US, with data coming in 2025 as SpaceX launches more D2C Starlink satellites.

According to current employees who spoke to The Information after being told of the cuts: 

“The layoff will affect a large percentage of the roughly 1,000 people working in TikTok’s global user operations, content and marketing.”

TikTok cut about 60 workers from its sales and advertising teams back in January.

Remember this? I’ve been waiting for a good reason to share it on The Verge, and all of Kingdom Hearts coming to Steam seems like a good enough one to me! Spoilers, obviously.

As Google plugs AI into search, what happens to the web? Nilay Patel discussed that topic with Google CEO Sundar Pichai this week on the Decoder podcast. It quickly became a deeper discussion about the new AI Overviews results, but you can start with a small bite here.

The old discounted education store looked pretty outdated, but it’s been redesigned and now it looks a lot closer to Apple’s mainline digital shop, and it’s much easier to find discounts on specific items.

Maybe a good excuse to go rooting around for gifts for grads?

Android Police spotted that as of the April 30th Hue Android app update, you can change what all the lights in a zone or room do after they regain power by tapping the three dots menu for that room or zone, then Edit Room > select all > Edit.

You can also just tap “Move to” and move them somewhere else. The iOS app works the same way.

KCCI reporter Zane Satre saw at least three 250-foot towers snapped by tornadoes, leaving some buckled and on fire. The Des Moines Register reports more than 35,000 people are without power, and the National Weather Service has a tornado watch in effect across most of the state until 9PM CT.

As an engineer for DEC in 1965, Bell played a pivotal role in shrinking room-sized computer systems into minicomputers.

An $18,000 prototype Bell created inspired the compact PCs we enjoy today. Bell later started the Computer History Museum.

As promised, owners of older Pixels are starting to see Magic Editor features unlocked and free to use in Google Photos. Other Androids and iPhones will get them, too, but you’ll need a $9.99 Google One subscription to save more than 10 edits per month.

The editor lets you make complex photo adjustments automatically, such as removing people from scenes.

In a new video, game creator Masahiro Sakurai says all SSBU fighters have an online victory rate between 47.18 percent and 51.43 percent, giving them all about the same shot at winning.

And that one character you think is OP? Sakurai blames the online “echo chamber” for pushing the idea that some fighters are stronger or weaker than others.

This feature was available before Sonos sued Google but didn’t return when Google restored most software features following its victory last October.

But with Android 15 Beta 2, Pixel users will once again be able to control the volume of grouped speakers with the phone’s buttons from outside the app that’s casting.

Pew research found that more than a third of webpages from 2013 are now inaccessible. 23 percent of news webpages have at least one broken link, and 54 percent of Wikipedia articles have at least one reference link going to a page that doesn’t exist anymore.

The feature uses AI to dub spoken content into the language of your choice.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just stepped onstage at Microsoft Build. He’s having a conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about what’s next for OpenAI and Microsoft’s big supercomputer plans.

Sal Khan, CEO of Khan Academy, is up onstage at Microsoft Build to talk about the nonprofit’s use of AI in education. Microsoft is partnering with the Khan Academy for AI-powered tutoring tools that will be free for all US educators as of today.