Hardware & Devices
Meta VR Glasses hands-on: Hand and eye tracking is so much better than a controller
Instead of a new Quest headset, the company showed off a more portable but less immersive device today.
Meta's new holographic avatars are here and they're surprisingly real
They're a notable improvement over the company's earlier attempts at digital likeness.
Meta Ray-Ban Display getting feature updates including holographic avatar support
The smart glasses are also arriving in five new markets this fall.
Meta's $1,300 VR Glasses look like the Vision Pro sequel Apple should be making
Sorry Apple, it looks like Meta's VR Glasses are the real Vision Pro successor.
Meta’s next VR device isn’t a headset — it’s glasses
Meta is launching new VR hardware: a pair of glasses. The new Meta VR Glasses sit on your ears like a typical pair of glasses instead of being strapped over your head, but they st…
Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses
Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. …
Meta's next smart glasses collab is with Blackpink's Lisa
Blackpink in your upper-facial area.
Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses
Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses"…
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 hands-on: Better battery life and a price hike
The latest lineup comes in two new frame styles: Aviator and Zena.
Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first smart glasses without a camera
That's one way to avoid the whole surreptitious recording issues.
Meta brings FDA-cleared hearing enhancement to its smart glasses
After a free trial it'll cost $150 to add on, or require a Meta One subscription.
Meta's Muse AI agent is coming to its AI glasses
Have your virtual assistant book a flight while you're jogging.
Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too
Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways. Muse agents are gett…
The purpose of the triangle symbol on your Samsung Galaxy phone
Samsung phones have a few different triangle symbols that can display in the status bar in different scenarios. This is how to tell what they mean.
Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements
It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely tha…
Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch
It's time once again for Meta's annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says that today's keynote by Mark …
ShinyHunters hackers claim to have 2-3TB of sensitive information about FBI employees
Financial extortion doesn't seem to be the group's goal this time.
Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button
Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also has a customizable action button for the f…
Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus
Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same des…
Microsoft's new Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 feature Snapdragon X2 Plus chips
Microsoft's smaller Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 are getting a much-needed chip upgrade.
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something need…
Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills …
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthro…
Disney+ and Hulu are getting even more expensive (again)
So I guess we're just doing this every year now.