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What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just abo...
A charity speedrunning event has turned into a per...
Games Done Quick, the biannual charity speedrunning event currently going on right now, not only hel...
The CES 2026 stuff I might actually buy
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 111, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world....
Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,0...
Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,...
Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near ...
Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like ...
X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA t...
X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA)...
This company could help bring Auracast to an iPhon...
One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies' lack of support...
AI is coming for collectibles next
AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, but among the horde of waddli...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been ...
This semi-secret Lego Smart Brick feature gives it...
We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026, and I wanted to stop by The Le...
Did you know that Gmail has emoji reactions?
Google rolled out emoji reactions to personal Gmail accounts a little over two years ago, and I comp...
Scenes from the anti-ICE march in New York City
On Thursday evening in Manhattan's Financial District, hundreds of protesters braved the cold to pro...
The latest on Grok’s problem with gross AI deepfak...
The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to g...
Meta expands nuclear power ambitions to include Bi...
Meta has forged agreements with three nuclear power providers in an effort to secure the vast amount...
Black Mirror has been renewed for another season
In an interview with Netflix's Tudum, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker announced today that the ...
I can’t find the Trump phone at America’s largest ...
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usua...
The first sets with Lego’s new Smart Brick are now...
It may have been one of the smallest devices announced at CES 2026, but Lego's new Smart Brick was a...
Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for co...
Following some controversy, the developers at Baldur's Gate 3 creator Larian Studios have further cl...
