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This 3D-scanned insole is another example of placebo tech

The wellness wild west strikes again. This time, it’s a direct attack on my shoes and feet.

Victoria Song
Inside the White House shitposting machine

A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy.

Tina Nguyen
Will you have to show your ID at the app store?

App stores are gateways. Lawmakers want them to have checkpoints.

Lauren Feiner
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

Elizabeth Lopatto
CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids

It all boils down to metabolism and longevity.

Victoria Song
People are fighting for the truth in Minneapolis

Ordinary civilians thought it was worth risking their lives to record ICE.

Sarah Jeong
Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle

Real people died while Trump treated war like a meme stock.

Elizabeth Lopatto and Sarah Jeong
Did America just lose the AI race to China?

Biden’s national security adviser tells The Verge why the Trump-Nvidia chip deal could be catastrophic.

Tina Nguyen
Humanoid robots are coming. Eventually?

China sees humanoids as an economic engine and Musk wants a ‘robot army.’

Robert Hart
The wellness wild west is back on its bullshit with unapproved weight loss drugs

It’s far too easy to buy so-called GLP-3s through gray-market websites.

Victoria Song
How Silicon Valley turned Trump into a fellow broligarch

2025 was supposed to be the year Trump and the populist right humbled Big Tech. It didn’t work out like that.

Tina Nguyen
AI image generators are getting better by getting worse

There’s been a surprising development.

Allison Johnson
I quit all my AI fitness plans, and I feel free

An AI coach is a terrible accountability buddy. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to ignore everything it says.

Victoria Song
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Janko Roettgers
No one knows what to call these things

Apparently, ‘smart glasses’ is insufficient. Enter AI glasses, AR glasses, wired XR glasses, and everything in between.

Victoria Song
Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium

It’s the one of the few things Republicans and Democrats can agree on right now.

Tina Nguyen
Starlink made ‘work from home’ possible from anywhere — now, I’m ready for a change

Competition is coming, but it might never catch up.

Thomas Ricker
Welcome to the wellness surveillance state

We’ll take your blood and urine, please.

Victoria Song
Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks

The coordinated support of David Sacks after a New York Times report is only drawing more attention to the story.

Tina Nguyen
The indie web is here to make the internet weird again

Welcome to the new old internet.

Stevie Bonifield
The dark side of optimizing your metabolism

There are known benefits to tracking your glucose levels, but it can also be a slippery slope into disordered eating.

Victoria Song