Technology
What we learned about Dolby Vision 2 at CES 2026
Dolby Vision 2 delivers a significant leap in picture quality, bringing more lifelike color, better ...
Google’s AI Inbox could be a glimpse of Gmail’s fu...
This week, Google announced a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that replaces the traditional list of emai...
Now that Stranger Things is over, you should watch...
Though fans have been aching for more Stranger Things, they should check out TV shows like From, Los...
Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmar...
Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company anno...
How TiVo killed live TV
For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-lis...
I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did n...
It's January, which means there's a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before th...
Will you have to show your ID at the app store?
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For...
Chinese researchers develop high-voltage sodium–su...
A team of researchers in China has just pulled the curtain back on a new sodium-sulfur battery desig...
Instagram data of 17.5 million users resurfaces on...
Previously scraped Instagram user data has resurfaced, enabling realistic phishing and account takeo...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus spotting spells bad news f...
A recent certification database spotting supposedly reveals the Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus (SM-947B) ba...
Meta’s smart glasses can now filter human voice in...
The new Conversation focus feature on Meta smart glasses amplifies voices you're facing and filters ...
Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algo...
In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided...
These smart home devices impressed me at CES 2026
I picked Aqara's Smart Lock U400 and Roborock's Saros Rover robot vacuum as the overall best smart h...
The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starli...
The FCC approved SpaceX's plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. Tha...
This is what impressed me most about Mercedes’ new...
It’s a remarkably sunny day for San Francisco. The fog that often encases the city in the morning ha...
Amazfit’s Active 2 tracker and Blu-rays are this w...
The start of the year is typically a great time to snag deals on health and fitness gear, including ...
I’ve never used a trackball, but Keychron’s Nape P...
Keychron announced new mechanical keyboards with marathon battery life at CES, but this trackball st...
We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry
At CES this year, humanoid robots appeared to be closer than ever to moving into our homes. LG intro...
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s goi...
Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop. In November, I got fed up and said screw it, I'm ins...
X restricts Grok image generation to paid users af...
After international backlash, X placed Grok’s image tools behind a paywall, drawing criticism that m...
OnePlus Pad Go 2 review: a solid Android tablet to...
The OnePlus Pad Go 2 goes up against the iPad, and some specs are comparable though it drops a few b...
The Playdate gets its Monument Valley
Diora might be the most ambitious game I've played on the Playdate. It's all about perspective: You ...
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...
Move over HEPA: NanoJet® technology revolutionizes...
Air purifiers haven’t fundamentally changed in decades. Most still rely on bulky HEPA filters, high-...
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....
AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, T...
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...
This artificial skin could give ‘human-like’ sensi...
A new artificial skin unveiled at CES 2026 could give robots human-like sensitivity, helping machine...
Microsoft just fixed one of Word’s most annoying q...
Adding hyperlinks in Microsoft Word is getting a long-overdue upgrade, and it fixes a workflow annoy...
This luxury handbag uses an OLED screen to match y...
CES 2026 introduced a luxury handbag with a built-in OLED screen that lets you change its look on de...
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 ...
New tech promises to make colorful solar cells to ...
A new generation of 3D-printed solar cells could let buildings generate power through colorful, semi...
Avengers: Doomsday could change the X-Men forever,...
The teaser for Avengers: Doomsday hints at massive changes for Marvel's X-Men, which could make thes...
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...
This tasty lollipop plays music in your head when ...
Lollipop Star is an edible candy that doubles as a speaker, using bone-conduction vibrations through...
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...
Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undre...
Apple and Google are being dragged into the uproar around X's AI chatbot that has continued to virtu...
This Corsair RM1000x PSU deal drops it to $169.99 ...
Power supplies aren’t the exciting part of a PC build, but they’re the part that can make or break e...
