Hardware & Devices
Nintendo wins $4.5 million from lawsuit over pirated Switch games
It's easy to win when the defendant is a no-show.
Nicolas Cage is anything but subtle in the Madden trailer
The biopic arrives on Prime Video in November.
Bungie shares more detail about Marathon's Symbiosis update and 2027 plans
Another big overhaul to the game is now due in March.
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face
Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and sh…
New York Times Cooking is coming to Meta's AI and display glasses
The app is getting a "hands-free" mode that can narrate recipe steps.
We finally have a trailer for that four-hour Elon Musk documentary
It was directed by Alex Gibney, who has made films about Enron, Scientology and Elizabeth Holmes.
Sadly, this $1,549 RTX 5070-equipped gaming PC is a very good deal
While PC component prices remain high, you can save a good bit of money on a system by purchasing a prebuilt desktop. Walmart has a well-equipped CyberPowerPC gaming PC on sale fo…
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy…
New York continues to fight prediction markets with a lawsuit against Polymarket
The state now has illegal gambling charges underway against four of these businesses.
Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone
Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI promp…
Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space
It's an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.
Turtle Beach Rematch review: The cutest Switch 2 controller of the bunch
Official Nintendo designs and RGB lighting give the Rematch an adorable edge.
Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem
A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta's Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independentl…
Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active use…
It took MapQuest until 2026 to add public transit directions
The 30-year-old map service is quickly getting with the times.
The Pixel Watch 5's blood pressure and insulin resistance trends are rolling out this week
The first trend reports for the health data will be available in early October.
Google Photos' new Redact tool will make it easy to hide sensitive information
Google Photos' new AI-powered features include the Redact tool, which can quickly blur parts of an image.
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change y…
Now Google Chrome shares tabs to new devices that save where you were
Google is rolling out some new Chrome browser features that are designed to make it easier to research and study complicated topics. The cross-device tab switching feature is gett…
Copper's latest high-end induction stove brings the heat better than ever
The new Charlie range now supports both 120 and 240-volt outlets, so it's easier to install too.
These smart glasses have been recalled for overheating temples causing burns
A company called Inmo that makes several different variations of smart glasses has issued a recall for its Air3 because the left temple "can overheat during extended use, posing a…
Gemini can now call businesses for you so you don’t have to wait on hold
Google's launching an "early experiment" feature on Pixel 11 that lets users delegate local business calls to Gemini, like making a reservation, checking if a product is in stock,…
The Xbox reset gets ugly
It feels like Xbox has been in a permanent state of turmoil for at least two years now, and this week is no different. Microsoft cut 268 jobs across its gaming division this week,…
Pixel 11's Call For Me feature begins preliminary rollout
Select Gemini subscribers with a Pixel 11 can soon try out phone calls via AI chatbot.