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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
Eufy launches new smart locks with facial recognition and palm scanning.

First announced at CES 2026, the three new Matter-compatible smart locks are now available from Home Depot first, and then eventually Amazon. The $139.99 FamiLock E32 is an entry-level model with fingerprint recognition while the $299.99 E40 and E35 feature facial recognition or palm vein identification, respectively.

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<em>The Eufy FamiLock E40.</em>
<em>The Eufy FamiLock E35.</em>
<em>The Eufy FamiLock E32.</em>
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The Eufy FamiLock E40.
Image: Eufy
TC Sottek
TC Sottek
Will Elon Musk ring the bell? New York City is already ringing his.

We’re still not sure whether Elon Musk will show up to ring the bell on Wall Street for tomorrow’s SpaceX IPO, but he’s already in the city — in the form of an effigy erected in Times Square. Like a similar protest this week outside WWDC, this one also targets Grok for enabling child abuse imagery.

I’ve found the Goldilocks of portable MIDI controllers

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The Arturia MiniLab 37 balances size, price, and playability.

Terrence O'Brien
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
This smart roller blind upgrade kit now works with Ikea’s shades.

Ikea stopped selling its smart blinds last October, so Eve is introducing a new version of its MotionBlinds Upgrade Kit with a motor that’s now compatible with roller blinds featuring small tube diameters, including Ikea’s popular Fridans blinds. The new upgrade kit is now available for $169.95 and supports Matter-over-Thread smart home setups.

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A person in a home stands looking out a window partially covered by an extended roller blind.
Image: Eve
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
GuliKit is upgrading its portable dock to work with the Switch 2.

If you want your on-the-go Nintendo Switch 2 TV dock to actually hold your console you might want to wait for GuliKit’s new accessory it recently teased on X. It appears to be a new version of its TV Docking Station for Switch that trades a plastic case for aluminum and adds cooling vents on the underside.

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Two images of the Nintendo Switch 2 connected to a portable dock from GuliKit.
Screenshot: X
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
DoorDash’s new AI chatbot can add ingredients to your cart based on a recipe link or photo.

You can also use the Ask DoorDash assistant for suggestions about where and what to eat next based on what you’re in the mood for. DoorDash plans on adding a new feature for booking reservations as well, allowing you to search for a “table for 2 downtown at 8PM” across all the restaurants in your area.

Image: DoorDash
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
The robots have come for our Muppets.

As part of giving its Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster attraction at Hollywood Studios a Muppets makeover (goodbye, Aerosmith) Walt Disney World imagineers created an audio-animatronic version of Scooter. To ensure the robot moved like a puppet they used a motion capture studio to record the actual Muppets’ movements performed by a puppeteer.

I went to the woods to drink surprisingly great espresso

Is a $200 portable coffee machine what Thoreau meant by living deliberately?

Thomas Ricker
The library rules (and so do library streaming services)

This summer, take advantage of everything you can do indoors with the AC on.

Jay Peters
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
This budget phone has a dot-matrix camera lens.

Dummy lenses are my least favorite design trend in cheap Android phones, so I have mixed feelings about the new Tecno Pova 8 5G. It has what looks like a third camera lens, but is really a Nothing-esque dot-matrix display for alerts and icons. That’s an improvement, I guess?

Image of two Tecno Pova 8 5G phones side by side, with a small dot matrix display inside a dummy third camera lens, showing a WhatsApp icon on one phone and the time on the other.
The Pova 8 5G is out today in India, with other markets to follow.
Image: Tecno
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple leaker Jon Prosser has agreed to sit for a deposition.

The deposition in Apple’s lawsuit against Prosser is scheduled for June 16th, according to a status report filed on Wednesday.

Read more about the lawsuit in my article from April.

The heist of iOS 26

Jay Peters
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Apple’s Home app will soon show you how much energy your smart plug is drawing.

The headline feature is the camera upgrades, but the smart home app is getting more new features, including energy monitoring.

As spotted by Matter Alpha, the first iOS 27 dev beta introduces a dedicated Power tab that displays the total energy consumption of compatible devices. There’s also an improved onboarding flow for new devices and support for Thread 1.4.

Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
David Pierce
David Pierce
Today’s Vergecast: Your biggest questions from WWDC.

Now that we’ve had a couple of days to digest all the Siri AI updates, the new corner radii, and everything else Apple announced at its developer conference, we spend the episode answering all your most burning questions. What non-AI stuff are we excited about? How much catching up did Siri really do this week? And wait: what about the HomePod?

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Seattle officially enacted an emergency one-year moratorium on new data centers.

Among the moratorium’s fiercest supporters were Amazon employees, who joined others to testify in support of the policy in multiple Seattle city council hearings.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The all-too-predictable Flock stalking problem.

A report from 404 Media shows how more than a dozen cases around the US have shown police using Flock to illegally stalk victims. Flock acknowledged it’s aware of 15 incidents, claiming“each surfaced because of the transparency and accountability features deliberately built into our platform.”

But that doesn’t reflect how some victims only found out by using the HaveIBeenFlocked.com website that Flock has tried to have taken down, or the many years of similar reports with other surveillance tech, a problem the NSA tagged “LOVEINT.”

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Roborock is ready to rock your lawn.

The robot vacuum company just launched its first robot lawnmower designed for US yards. The RockNeo Q110H combines RTK and VSLAM navigation and costs $1,299. It’s designed for small- to medium-sized yards and handles 45% slopes.

I’m currently testing models from Mammotion and Dreame for a robot lawnmower battle royale take-two, and I’ve been impressed by the improved mobility and navigation of these new bots.

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The RockNeo has a floating cutting deck that adapts to bumps in the yard, along with large-diameter wheels for traction and stability.
The RockNeo has a floating cutting deck that adapts to bumps in the yard, along with large-diameter wheels for traction and stability.
Image: Roborock
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
I want your skulls (in Halo).

Like previous Halo titles, unlockable skulls in Halo: Campaign Evolved will allow you crank up explosions, turn down gravity, or celebrate every grunt headshot with confetti and fanfare. You can even mimic the gameplay of the classic Halo: Combat Evolved, or enable remixes of skulls for randomized choas.