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Benn Jordan longs for the days of tech that didn’t...

Benn Jordan may have initially gained notoriety for his music as Flashbulb and later, reviewing synt...

82-0 is the best basketball game, to hell with NBA...

82-0 marries the stat nerd fun of fantasy basketball with instant gratification and a bit of dumb lu...

Chinese EVs are circling the US market. Detroit’s ...

Chinese electric vehicles face 125% cumulative tariffs, a proposed Senate ban, and fierce opposition...

Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed...

Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbai...

Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be r...

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be ...

Swiss startup GR3N raises €15.5M to build the worl...

Swiss cleantech startup GR3N has raised €15.5 million in a Series B round to build the world’s first...

Kabuto Park captures the fleeting joy of summer va...

There are a lot of games that remind me of summer - hot days in the backseat with a copy of Dragon W...

Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft Git...

The self-replicating Miasma worm has reached Microsoft‘s own GitHub repositories. GitHub disabled 73...

An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,00...

A security startup’s autonomous AI agent found 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the ...

The next YouTube phenomenon hitting the big screen...

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 131, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world....

Here comes new Siri again

Apple has been on its back foot, AI-wise, for the past few years. But in a strange way, playing from...

EU trade chief wants a new tool to break Europe’s ...

EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič has called for a new “diversification instrument“ to reduce Eur...

Reid Hoffman leaves Microsoft’s board to go ‘found...

Reid Hoffman is stepping down from Microsoft‘s board of directors after nearly a decade. The company...

Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of c...

A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of concealing multiple data breaches by...

Trump wants the American public to own a piece of ...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will likely meet with AI companies at the White Hous...

Every VC-backed e-bike company went bust. Bootstra...

The e-bike industry spent the past two years burying its darlings. VanMoof, the Dutch startup that r...

GM’s $900 million bet on a battery chemistry no on...

Hidden among the landmarks of General Motors’ Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a pair of nondes...

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI...

SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a month, this time with Google. Under the terms...

The 10 best press release distribution services fo...

Picking a press release distribution service feels a lot like shopping for phone plans. Every provid...

Gemini could soon offer a troubleshooting mode and...

A new Gemini Troubleshooting mode has been spotted in the wild, offering step-by-step guidance and i...

An app that lets anyone control a robot from their...

Georgia Tech researchers have developed COBALT, a smartphone-based platform that allows anyone to re...

Samsung could skip a charging upgrade on the upcom...

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8 could reportedly stick with 25W charging and a 4,300mAh battery, ...

This animated film with 99% RT score is one of the...

If you've been sleeping on Apple TV's movie catalog, these three wildly different but equally reward...

Apple could offer MacBook Ultra in two sizes with ...

Apple's MacBook Ultra could arrive in Q3 2026 with a new hybrid OLED display, two size options, and ...

3 underrated TV series on Hulu you should watch th...

This weekend we have three underrated Hulu shows spanning across dark comedy, mind-bending sci-fi, a...

More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is b...

Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a d...

Grand Theft Auto VI is warping the video game rele...

Who's afraid of the next GTA? Based on the last few days of Summer Game Fest, just about everyone. G...

Final Fantasy VII’s remake trilogy will conclude w...

Square Enix has officially announced the third and final game in its Final Fantasy VII remake trilog...

Google Meet’s AI note-taker now lets you customize...

Google Meet's "Take notes for me" feature now lets you toggle specific note sections and track meeti...

You can now send emails directly from ChatGPT on t...

You can now draft, edit, and send emails entirely inside ChatGPT on the web, thanks to a new update ...

Control Resonant is a sequel — and also a starting...

Chronologically, Control Resonant is a sequel to 2019's Control. But in most other ways, the games a...

Congress still can’t decide what to do about warra...

The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a ...

Summer Game Fest Live 2026: The biggest news, trai...

Geoff Keighley’s annual June celebration of games is here. Summer Game Fest Live, the big live show ...

Gone in 60 minutes

It should have been the final straw. The new power couple of editorial failure - Bari Weiss and Nick...

The Sonos Era 100 speaker is down to its lowest pr...

Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos speaker setup, or adding to an existing group, the Sonos...

Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 dead...

Russia intends to switch on a commercial version of its homegrown answer to Starlink next year, acco...

This is your laptop… on AI

We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conv...

What happens when your phone is confiscated at the...

Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But intern...

Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in powe...

Brian Chesky has spent years as an AI kingmaker. He met Sam Altman through Y Combinator in 2006, adv...

Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled...

Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claud...

iOS 27 could change how your muscle memory swipes ...

One of the smallest rumored changes in iOS 27 could end up being one of the most noticeable. If true...

Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of...

The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as...

New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data c...

The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first sta...

Smartphone screens are about to enter ridiculous r...

120Hz once felt excessive on a phone. Now, a new leak suggests OnePlus could be chasing refresh rate...

The next-gen Siri in iOS 27 might still ship as a ...

Apple’s next-generation Siri could finally arrive with iOS 27, but a new report suggests users may b...

FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, an...

The most oversubscribed sporting event in history is also the most phished. With more than 150 milli...

MAHA wants to make cotton the new beef tallow

In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figurehead...

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data ...

Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Black...

What do you mean my new smart scale is ‘built for ...

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects a...

Can AI tell if your script will make a hit film?

When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could a...