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The latest tech news about the world’s best (and sometimes worst) hardware, apps, and much more. From top companies like Google and Apple to tiny startups vying for your attention, Verge Tech has the latest in what matters in technology daily.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Lego’s largest set ever is a 12,060-piece recreation of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família.

Do you prefer your hobbies to feel more like a part-time job? Lego’s new 12,060-piece Sagrada Família finally dethrones the company’s previous record holder, the 11,695-piece World Map that launched in 2021. This set is now available for preorder for a hefty $799.99, but won’t ship until November 1st.

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Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire
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Elon destroyed Twitter, but somehow still won as he prepares to take SpaceX public in what could be the biggest IPO ever.

Nilay Patel
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Honor’s IP69 foldable is beginning to launch internationally.

The Magic V6 was first announced at MWC this year, and is already on sale in China. Today it launches in Singapore and Malaysia, where it costs RM 7,699 (about $1,930), with Europe to follow later this month. Alongside an IP69 rating it’s super slim, and has a huge 6,660mAh battery.

Photo of the Honor Magic V6, open, on a wooden table, showing the front screen and camera
Photo of the Honor Magic V6, open, on a wooden table
Photo of the Honor Magic V6, closed, showing the Honor logo
Photo of the Honor Magic V6, closed, from the bottom.
1/4Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Let us filter AI slop, you cowards

Online platforms could prove whether AI labels work by giving us a filter option, but then they’d have to face reality.

Jess Weatherbed
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Two of our favorite things.

You all know how much we here at The Verge love market consolidation. SwitchBot’s acquisition of Nanoleaf offers all that, plus a sprinkling of something extra.

ScootyScoot:

Excellent - more market consolidation and more AI. That’s definitely two things consumers need more of these days!

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google is bringing ID passes to five EU countries.

Starting this summer, users in Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, and Estonia will be able to scan their passports to create a digital pass within the Google Wallet app. Unlike in the US, people can’t use Google’s ID passes for travel in the EU, but they can be used for online age verification as requirements sweep across the globe.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Google might pay to peek at your code.

The company is lagging behind Anthropic, OpenAI, and even Microsoft when it comes to AI coding tools, but 404 Media reports it’s found a novel way to expand its training base of code: offering to pay Android developers for access to the innards of their apps.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Afraid the Steam Machine will be too expensive? Imagine the price of this NUC with a mobile RTX 5090.

At Computex, Asus announced the ROG NUC 16 Edition 20 — a mini-PC with Intel’s highest-end mobile chip and a flagship RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. It’s even decked out in gold accents for the Republic of Gamers’ 20th anniversary.

Like other Asus Computex announcements, there’s no pricing. But as Liliputing points out, the standard model with an RTX 5080 costs $3,799.

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1/4Image: Asus
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta’s metaverse team is now headed up by a former Fortnite exec.

The previous boss, Gabriel Aul, announced his retirement in February with Saxs Persson, once the EVP of the Fortnite ecosystem at Epic, taking over, Business Insider reports.

Persson, who joined Meta in October, had a big role in making Fortnite the giant that it is today — we interviewed him a few times during his tenure at Epic.

TC Sottek
TC Sottek
New RAM fan cans temps for RAM fans.

Cooler Master’s just introduced new DDR5 sticks with built-in fans, which promise significant improvements in heat management. If you can’t afford new fancy new RAM, like most of us, consider making friends with the Snow Miser.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
This mouse is a Stream Deck.

Corsair owns Elgato, so here’s synergy: the $130 Nightsword V2 Wireless. Hold the Stream Deck button to summon virtual Stream Deck buttons, no LCD keys necessary. (Or map to other buttons on the 89-gram mouse.) 170 hours of 2.4GHz battery life or 164 hours on Bluetooth; far less with RGB or 8K polling.

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The Stream Deck mouse.
The Stream Deck mouse.
Image: Corsair
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Samsung Display was holding out on us: the 4K 360 QD-OLED has a third mode.

We told you the new 31.5-inch OLED could do 4K at 360Hz or 1080p680, but MSI made it do 2K520 as well — in “the world’s first triple-mode QD-OLED gaming monitor” the MPG OLED 322URDX36. Also, the RGB-stripe monitor has customizable HDR, with 1500-nit peaks. 98W USB-C PD, too. Flatpanels says it won’t ship till 2027.

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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Would you buy a power supply that splits in two?

Spotted at Computex 2026 by OC3D among others, the Thermaltake Dockpower makes power supplies even more modular — so you can theoretically upgrade to more power without unplugging and plugging all your cables, hopefully without introducing another common point of failure. $120 and up in Q3, in 750W, 850W, 1000W and 1200W flavors.

<em>Gallery: Thermaltake Dockpower.</em>
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Gallery: Thermaltake Dockpower.
Image: Thermaltake
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
People are paying to get rid of the recording light on their Meta Ray-Bans.

Former Verge editor Joanna Stern found listings in 30 states offering to remove the recording indicator LED on Meta smart glasses. She met one of the people offering this service, who drilled the light out of her glasses and filled it in, allowing her to stealthily record with the glasses.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
ChatGPT reportedly hit 1 billion monthly active users faster than any other app.

According to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, ChatGPT reached the milestone last month, roughly three years after launching, Reuters reports. It apparently passed 1 billion MAUs faster than the other apps that have hit the benchmark, including Google Maps, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

David Pierce
David Pierce
Today’s Vergecast: The grift and glory of the Enhanced Games.

How far can we push the limits of the human body? At the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, a few dozen athletes tried to find out, and The Verge’s Victoria Song was there to watch. She tells us the story of the swimmers, weightlifters, and other athletes who competed, the intense training and drug regimens they underwent, and the complicated mix of pseudo-science and actual science behind the event. Then, she tells us where this project goes from here — because the Enhanced Games experiment is just beginning.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Ultrahuman data breach exposed users’ wellness data.

The smart ring company says on March 27th hackers used an internal analytics tool to access users’ contact and account details, transaction history, and “some fitness related data.” According to TechCrunch, the breach impacted 0.1 percent of Ultrahuman users, or an estimated 700 people.

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David Pierce
David Pierce
Google’s new Dreambeans AI app is… different.

Gozde Oznur, the product manager behind the new app, told me the idea is to use Dreambeans as a place to experiment with using AI to combine all the data Google has about you into proactive, helpful “stories.” I’ve had the app for a couple of days, and outside of a lot of shopping recommendations, some of the stuff is cool! It told me to get my devices ready for WWDC, and had some helpful info for a train trip. But I cannot get used to these AI-generated pictures of me. Just can’t do it.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
It sure seems like the Vision Pro isn’t getting upgraded for a while — if ever.

Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, in a post today: “The Apple XR headset and smart glasses roadmap I put together about a year ago is no longer a useful reference. For now, only two smart glasses products remain visible in the roadmap.”

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, this weekend: Apple is developing “a slimmer and lighter headset to succeed to the $3,499 Vision Pro.”

Whatever actually pans out, it seems like 2025’s M5 upgrade might be the last for the Vision Pro.

The best Qi2 batteries for iPhone and Pixel

We tested seven Qi2 and Qi2.2 batteries to find the best ones to snap on the back of your MagSafe or Pixelsnap phones.

Cameron Faulkner
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Toying with MSI’s new Intel Arc G3 handheld.

This one’s going to cost some serious cash, but it seems to finally be moving handheld chips forward! Intel handhelds went from an embarrassment to pretty good in a little over a year; at this rate, they might be the leader once RAMageddon is over.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Survey shows two-thirds of Americans are gamers now.

The ESA / YouGov data unsurprisingly shows that an estimated 212 million Americans play games, with gaming at least one hour a week most prevalent among young people, including over 80 percent of Gen Alpha and Gen Z.

Older Americans are playing games, too, though, including 50 percent of Boomers, the only generation where more women play games than men.

A chart showing the percentage of Americans in each generation who report playing video games
A chart showing the percentage of men and women of each generation who report playing video games
1/2Image: Entertainment Software Assocation
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Google shared specs and guidelines for making your own Fitbit Air accessories.

Companies regularly share product specs with official accessory makers, but Google is encouraging DIYers to make their own straps, cases, and mounts for the Fitbit Air by releasing its technical specifications, 2D CAD drawings, and guidelines for the best materials to use.

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A technical illustration of the Google Fitbit Air’s dimensions.
Image: Google
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Console Pedals turns N64 carts into swappable guitar effects.

The idea of a pedal with swappable, console-style effects cards isn’t new. But they don’t normally use actual video game console carts. There’s even a synth cart that you control with an N64 controller. Sadly, the base unit is currently sold out on the Console Pedals Etsy shop.

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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight

‘We have to prove that we can do everything that we need to from the ground up,’ said AI chief Mustafa Suleyman.

Hayden Field and Tom Warren
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
SwitchBot’s E Ink weather display is now available following its CES debut.

Pricing details weren’t specified when the Weather Station was announced in January, but you can now buy one through SwitchBot’s online store and Amazon for $109.99. Battery life is estimated to be up to a full year thanks to its low-power 7.5-inch E Ink screen that displays indoor and outdoor conditions or synced calendar data.

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Two SwitchBot Weather Stations on a table displaying weather and calendar information.
The Weather Station can double as a smart home controller when paired with the SwitchBot Hub.
Image: SwitchBot
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Shark is bringing some style to robot vacuums.

Its PowerDetect UV Reveal now comes in four colors — brown, green, blue, and ivory. The earthy neutral palettes feature metallic accents and look surprisingly good — for a robot. I’ve been testing the blue one, and I like how it blends in with my kitchen cabinets.

As robot vacuums become more capable, they are also getting bigger, so it’s encouraging to see manufacturers putting more thought into how they fit in with your decor.

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<em>The Shark PowerDetect in “Deep Harbor” (aka navy blue).</em>
<em>The new colorful robot vacs are part of the <a rel="sponsored" href="https://sharkclean.sjv.io/c/482924/476540/8359?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharkninja.com%2Fdiscover%2Fexplore-sharkninja%2Fthe-luxe-collection" target="_blank">Shark Home Luxe Collection</a> and come in deep harbor, evergreen, espresso, and ivory. Shark also announced complementary colors for its auto-emptying cordless vac. The PowerDetect Speed now comes in walnut, oatstone, sagewood, and harbor slate.</em>
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The Shark PowerDetect in “Deep Harbor” (aka navy blue).
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge