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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to ...
After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successful...
Stung by OpenAI pulling GPT models from Cursor? An...
Anthropic is promising more computing capacity for Claude in Cursor as OpenAI moves to terminate its...
The robo pizza chefs aren’t doing okay
The future of fast food was supposed to look something like this: walk into a restaurant, place an o...
Apple is testing continuous heart rate tracking fo...
Apple is testing continuous heart rate monitoring for the Apple Watch, which could give it much rich...
Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Floc...
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state ...
Apple apparently tested a stylus for the foldable ...
Apple tested a shorter, magnetic Apple Pencil built for the foldable iPhone, but Bloomberg's Mark Gu...
A redesigned Apple Watch now seems further in the ...
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 are expected to be modest upgrades, while Apple prepares a larger ...
Google Maps relabels Lake Ontario as Lake America ...
Google Maps now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an upd...
Anbernic’s RG 55G1 is a $150 Switch Lite lookalike...
Nintendo’s Switch Lite has inspired plenty of handhelds, but Anbernic’s latest effort takes the rese...
Anthropic just showed an early version of self-imp...
Anthropic is exploring self-improving AI by letting Claude research, test, and refine training metho...
Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning ev...
Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyon...
Two new small, powerful Macs
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world....
China’s robots race ahead
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For...
UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobi...
VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planni...
How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody i...
Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and ne...
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over ...
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics alleged...
The HiLight Studio app reveals what Google hides a...
The third-party HiLight Studio app mostly works, but the Shizuku setup and inconsistent reliability ...
Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A...
I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of t...
You no longer need a subscription to try Google’s ...
Once exclusive to Google AI Ultra subscribers, Dreambeans is now free for any US Google Account on A...
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deporte...
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homel...
Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free A...
Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On...
3 underrated movies on HBO Max you should watch th...
I got tired of seeing the handful of buzzy new releases on my home screen. This is why I dug up thre...
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic...
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the No...
AI is taking a bigger role in short dramas, and ac...
The entertainment industry may be approaching a strange new reality: the actor you are watching migh...
Hisense made a phone with a second screen you can ...
Hisense’s A10 Ultra combines a conventional color display with a removable E Ink screen, giving user...
Chinese DRAM maker is putting its latest LPDDR6 me...
CXMT will supply its latest LPDDR6 memory for Xiaomi’s upcoming foldable, a move that could signal a...
Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding cus...
BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous....
Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off...
CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying i...
BYD doubled its 1,500kW charging network in five m...
BYD opened its 10,000th Flash Charging station on 28 August, doubling the network in under five mont...
Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learne...
Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fict...
Microsoft hints that its next Xbox could be more t...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has hinted that Project Helix will be a “family of devices,” suggesting Microso...
Proton found trackers inside most VPN apps downloa...
Proton says 85% of the VPN apps in its US analysis contain trackers, while dozens can also access us...
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 leak is making games prettier and ...
We all know Nvidia announced its latest DLSS 5 back in March 2026, which promised photorealistic lig...
The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s fr...
What do you want from a flip phone when it's closed? A simple interface, perhaps notifications and a...
Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI gri...
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has bec...
Google Health gets better workout logging and more...
Google Health is rolling out version 5.07 with more workout metrics, improved maps, and fixes for He...
OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after Sp...
OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with a...
A rethink for China’s carmakers as regulators tell...
Four Chinese ministries have begun a yearlong vehicle quality campaign that bars carmakers from chan...
This graphite-free battery could break China’s gri...
Pure Lithium says a laboratory cell with no graphite anode completed 9,315 charge and discharge cycl...
Brave’s new Email Aliases can keep websites away f...
Brave’s new Email Aliases feature can limit email-based tracking while still forwarding messages to ...
3 hidden gems on HBO Max you should watch this wee...
Three underrated HBO Max shows worth streaming this weekend, spanning a yakuza thriller, a finance d...
Smart rings focus on the heart. I saw the future, ...
Experts at the University of California San Diego have developed a smart ring that can measure multi...
Google further buries search results under AI mode...
Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for som...
The data center boom will fail its promise if safe...
The data center boom will be judged not only by how much infrastructure we build, but by whether the...
Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a ‘family of devices’...
According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Mic...
Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agent...
A 2026 IBM study points to questions about AI readiness, visibility, and control. The survey of 2,00...
Tim Draper, the SpaceX and Tesla investor, is sell...
A Polymarket post says venture capitalist Tim Draper is selling his island in Tanzania for $7.9M bec...
I’m 19, and I’ve watched more than 200 brands quie...
I’m 19, and I’ve had an odd seat for the last couple of years of the creator economy. My company run...
Bluesky now has a feature to save you from acciden...
Bluesky launched a feature letting users opt out of its algorithmic Discover feed, stopping posts fr...
The resistance against Flock surveillance cameras ...
Across the US, growing privacy concerns over Flock’s AI-powered license plate readers have triggered...
