Jess Weatherbed

News Reporter

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer, and part of The Verge UK-based team. While passionate about the future of technology, she originally trained as a prosthetics makeup and wig-making technician, fuelled by a love of animatronics and practical movie effects. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews across computing, PC gaming and streaming. Additional bylines can be found at GamesRadar, PCGamer, Creative Bloq and Space.com.

Jess WeatherbedSep 25

Here’s the Apple Music Hall opening lineup.

Ticket sales for the first shows at Apple’s new live music venue in London will open on Monday September 28th at 9AM GMT (4AM ET), but competition will be fierce — there’s only 600 seats to fight over. If you fancy your chances though, these are all the acts announced so far:

Elton John: September 28th
Baby Keem: October 2nd
Skye Newman: October 7th
Troye Sivan: October 13th
Arlo Parks: October 22nd
Burna Boy: October 29th
Chase & Status: November 26th
Charli XCX: December 3rd

Jess WeatherbedSep 25

Photoshop and Lightroom tools are now in Gemini.

After bringing its plugin to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Slack, Adobe’s app is now available in Google’s chatbot too. Just tag “@Adobe” in Gemini with your request after installing the plugin, and it’ll surface the best Creative Suite tools for editing photos, generating marketing designs, and more.

an image illustrating Adobe tools arriving in Gemini.

Adobe is aggressively expanding it’s creative tool suite to third-party platforms.

Image: Adobe

Jess WeatherbedSep 25

Get ready for The Witcher 3 remaster.

11 years after the game first launched, the free upgrade for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hit RPG includes improved visuals, combat mechanics, UI designs, and more. It’s rolling out on September 29th, and you can now check the release map below for the exact global availability timings. Happy hunting!

A global release map for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered.

Mark your calendars for the exact release time in your region if you’re as excited as I am to jump back into Redania.

Image: CD Projekt Red

Jess WeatherbedSep 24

Here come those promised Pixel Watch health features.

The blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends, and sleep breathing quality metrics mentioned at the 2026 Made By Google event weren’t available when the Pixel Watch 5 launched last month, but now Google says they’ll start rolling out to Watch 3 models and later this week. You can set them up in the Google Health app, and trend reports will arrive in “early October.”

Here’s the preview of the blood pressure trend feature we got last month.

Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge

Now Google Chrome shares tabs to new devices that save where you were

Jess WeatherbedSep 24

Ruby on Rails creator: ‘We’re done writing code by hand.’

David Heinemeier Hansson, who also leads technology at Basecamp developer 37signals, announced the company is moving away from Ruby in favor of vibe-coding everything with AI agents. That’s despite admitting that attempts to do so with Basecamp 5 this spring provided “mixed” results, and claiming last year that he doesn’t use AI because he “can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.”

Jess WeatherbedSep 24

Here they grow again.

The next Gremlins movie is now coming on October 6th, 2028, 38 years after the release of Gremlins 2. It’s been pushed back by a year since Gremlins 3 was first announced, but now we have a seven-second teaser as reassurance it’s actually happening — and it looks like real puppets are involved!

Jess WeatherbedSep 24

YouTube is cooking up new Live features.

The Watch With live reactions feature is being expanded to all long-form videos later this year. Additional features are coming in 2027, including livestreamer matchmaking, interactive fan funding on co-hosted streams, and automatic speech translation and dubbing.

New YouTube Live tools for fan funding, dubbing and more

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