After speaking up for regulation on data centers, Seattle activists say they were called into meetings with HR.
There are multiple versions of the Mythos omnishambles. Whose is right?
Governing AI through opaque, ad hoc interventions is unsustainable, experts warn.
The government torpedoed Anthropic’s newest, most powerful model. Sources tell The Verge that the AI lab and other AI boosters spent the weekend trying to explain that Fable 5 wasn’t too powerful.
Anthropic may bring Fable and Mythos back online, but the shutdown fired up sovereign AI efforts around the world.
Under Lachlan Murdoch’s leadership, Roku will become a doorway to all things Fox.
To take on Netflix and YouTube, Paramount has to break the Warner Bros. curse.
TikTok is just the latest prize in the Silicon Valley billionaire’s second act as a media mogul.
The schemes and shenanigans behind the Nexstar-Tegna deal.
Testing Govee’s over-the-top RGB lineup convinced me there might actually be room in my garden for a horse-race light show this summer.
Vehicle Motion Cues let me read and write in the passenger seat without wanting to die.
This summer, take advantage of everything you can do indoors with the AC on.
Is a $200 portable coffee machine what Thoreau meant by living deliberately?
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But the bigger battery is the only one that matters.
iOS 27 brings AI-powered summaries, natural-language search, and improved reliability to Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video — making it much more competitive.
A muscular electric SUV that’s off-road capable, with tech that feels leaps and bounds better than anything from legacy automakers.
Except in price. The prices suck.
Any reservations made today ‘indicate a 2027 date for shipping.’
A new mobile app for the GB Operator lets you snap terrible 2-bit, 128 x112 photos without the need for a Game Boy.
New and returning subscribers can save up to 40 percent compared to paying monthly, with plans starting at $78.99.
On The Vergecast: What to make of Snap’s glasses, Fox’s Roku, and Facebook’s AI Mode.
There are already plenty of deals to shop while we wait for Prime Day to arrive on June 23rd.
When the Google Meet UI for Apple CarPlay launched in April, Google said Android Auto would follow soon, and now it’s here, with the rollout set to finish by June 26th. If you want to take a work call while in the car, you can see your schedule, dial colleagues, or join calls (audio only, both ways) without picking up your phone.
The Xiaoban will safely navigate a home, clean up after users, and empty itself all on its own.
Earn free delivery, home pickups for returns, and up to four Whoppers with the discounted membership.
The browser’s new tabs can have a built-in checklist and customizable focus timer.
In the midst of a prolonged fight in court, the satire news site is officially relaunching under the creative direction of comedian Tim Heidecker.
The recall comes just weeks after Waymo vehicles drove past ramp closure signs in Arizona and entered closed lanes in San Francisco, according to a filing with the NHTSA. The company paused freeway service last month due to the issue, which it’s fixing with a software update.
Check out how it works in a post from Instagram. However, you’ll only be able to write individual captions to photos and videos in new carousels, not old ones, according to Meta’s Nicole Rechtszaid.
How getting acquired by Fox will change things for the streaming device maker, from its IoT business to its international expansion.
We knew this was coming thanks to a settlement Apple made with Brazil’s competition watchdog last year, but now it’s official.
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The previous 11-color limit has now been expanded to 200 custom options.
The SAVE Program supposedly catches illegal voting, but it’s a recipe for disenfranchisement and data leaks.
The first artist partner for Spotify Reserved is Role Model, who is also announcing a tour today. More tours that are part of the program will be announced this week.
Prime Day is next week, but you can already save on several robot vacuums we’ve tested from Roborock, Dreame, and more.
Rockstar Games says preorders will be available “on digital storefronts and at other select retailers,” and revealed the game’s cover art in a teaser video:
The creators of the Birdie and Birdie Pro air quality monitors are expanding their offerings to include two new products focused on “healthier indoor climates” expected to launch in November. An emission-free LED candle called the Birdie Flame, and a towering air purifier called the Birdie Podium designed to look like a decorative wooden pedestal.
It’s the lowest price we’ve seen for this bundle, which includes a leather folio cover and power adapter.
The Firefly AI assistant can also now generate a brand logo and assemble video clips into draft cuts.
Prompt-based editing capabilities are rolling out to Adobe’s most popular Creative Cloud apps.
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SanDisk has a new 8TB PS5 drive, which will cost you a mere $2,959.99 (thanks, RAM crisis!). But that might not be enough for every game.
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And the worst part is that Call of Duty still won’t fit
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Following the recent debut of its Momentum 5 headphones, Sennheiser is joining companies like Bose and Sony with a new pair of open earbuds worn on the back of the ear. The Accentum Clip offer up to nine hours of battery, and while they won’t launch in the US, they’ll be available in Canada starting July 23rd for $269.95 CAD.
Developers Oliver and Patrick Evans have made a digitized 3D version of the famous movie closet that lets you explore 1,247 films distributed by The Criterion Collection. So now you can peruse the shelves and pull out titles to learn more about them, just like your favorite celebrities (kinda).
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Noam Shazeer spent twenty years at Google before returning in 2024 after the Big G reportedly paid Character.AI — a company co-founded by Shazeer in 2021 — $2.7 billion to bring him and a team of researchers back home.
The AI image generator says this side project will be ‘in many ways superior to even MRI machines.’
Three months after Valve’s doozy of an update arrived in preview — the first with support for the Steam Machine and a whole lot more — it’s getting a full stable release. Here’s the changelog. But when will the Steam Machine arrive? Valve’s had quite a few shipments now...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gained access to the limited release cybersecurity-focused model last week, Nextgov/FCW reports. It’s just a little late, since the rest of the world has mostly moved onto the drama around the Trump administration’s block of the safeguarded public version of the model, Fable.
Price hikes could be coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that the next version of Apple’s ultra-slim device could arrive in spring 2027, echoing a previous report from The Information. Apple is reportedly working to improve the iPhone Air’s battery life and may add an ultrawide camera.
The VSCO One subscription bundle is aimed at handling a professional photographer’s entire business, from editing to delivery.
Alongside the announcement of an updated experience for scheduling tasks, OpenAI said that Pulse would be going away “in the next 14 days” and suggested using scheduled tasks for a daily briefing instead.
Pulse was short-lived: the company launched it in September.
With tickets going on sale today ahead of Spider-Man’s premiere on July 31st, Sony Pictures released a new nearly three-minute trailer to follow the March teaser that quickly racked up a billion views.
This new one still features a world that’s forgotten Peter Parker, and also highlights the movie’s villain, an invisible entity that seemingly takes over even Bruce Banner / Hulk.
AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:
Your headphones’ microphone matters. A lot. And yet we never know how we sound to others, or whether we’re clear to our AI assistants! So every once in a while, we like to grab a bunch of headphones and put their microphones through some tough real-world tests. This time, with the help of The Verge’s John Higgins, we discover the best-sounding mic we’ve ever tested. And no, it’s not on a pair of AirPods. Not even close.
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