San Diego Comic-Con 2024: all the biggest trailers and news
Check out all of The Verge’s coverage of San Diego Comic-Con 2024.
The best fitness trackers to buy right now
From simple fitness bands and rugged sports watches to rings, these are the best trackers you can get.
How the Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could doom net neutrality
The court struck down Chevron deference last month. That’s a big deal for the future of net neutrality.
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The Galaxy Ring keeps you in Samsung’s orbit
It’s not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch.
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Asus ROG Ally X review: the best Windows gaming handheld by a mile
In some ways, it’s even better than Deck.
CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage
A global IT outage grounded flights and resulted in outages at the London Stock Exchange and other systems early Friday morning.
Kamala Harris hasn’t said a lot about tech policy, but here’s what we know
This is what we’ve pieced together about her views on AI, privacy, antitrust and more.
We experimented with macOS on the iPad, and it was surprisingly good
So why won’t Apple merge macOS with its iPads?
Apple’s Sunny imagines a cozy future where screens fade into the background
The murder mystery was a chance for showrunner Katie Robbins to imagine a different kind of sci-fi vision.
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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 is a great phone that’s out of ideas
Samsung’s flagship foldable is as good as ever, but it feels anything but fresh.
The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Two of Silicon Valley’s famous venture capitalists make the case for backing Trump: that their ability to make money is the only value that matters.
The 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
CrowdStrike’s faulty update has kicked off questions about how to avoid a similar tech disaster.
America’s long Street Fighter drought ends with a win at Evo 2024
Victor ‘Punk’ Woodley became the first American to win a mainline Street Fighter tournament at Evo in over 20 years.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe: too many carmakers are copying Tesla
Rivian’s founder on the R2 / R3 roadmap and the company’s $5 billion VW deal.
AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet
If you can’t tell the difference between AGI and RAG, don’t worry! We’re here for you.
By endorsing Trump, Elon Musk is gambling with Tesla’s future
The CEO of an EV company goes all in on the candidate who has made anti-EV sentiment a cornerstone of his campaign.
Two new must-have Android apps
Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new space-biz doc on HBO, EA Sports College Football is back, and the silliest Apple Watch accessory ever.
High hopes and security fears for next-gen nuclear reactors
Fuel for advanced reactors is raising nuclear proliferation concerns.
A few weeks with the Daylight DC-1 tablet: rethinking screen time
So far, this thing doesn’t seem like a very impressive tablet. But Daylight is more a display company than a tablet company — and the display is pretty great.
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DJI Power 1000 review: with great power comes many dongles
A new approach to power stations that does more than fast-charge (select) DJI drones.
Google is trying to steal the Ray-Ban partnership from Meta
The smart glasses market is heating up. Also: layoffs and a strategy shift hit Magic Leap.
CrowdStrike outage Blue Screen of Death photos from around the world
Photos of a world seeing blue due to the massive outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems on Friday.
Gadgets are getting weird — and so are iPhone homescreens
On The Vergecast: Trump, Apple betas, and a round of ‘is this anything?’
What happened to the metaverse?
‘The Metaverse’ author Matthew Ball discusses the new update to his 2022 book and how the Apple Vision Pro and AI fit into the spatial internet.
Dyson unmasks its super customizable OnTrac headphones
With replaceable ear cushions and outer caps, there are over 2,000 ways to customize these $500 noise-canceling headphones — without the Bane mask this time.
Samsung’s new image-generating AI tool is a little too good
The Galaxy Z Fold 6’s ‘sketch to image’ tool is ridiculous, fun, and slightly worrying.
J.D. Vance is anti-Big Tech, pro-crypto
The former tech investor likes the FTC’s Lina Khan and wants to break up Google, citing its liberal bias.
Five futures for Apple’s HomeScreenPod
The rumors are heating up around a possible Apple Home smart display. Here’s everything we think we know so far.
The best robot vacuums
Floor-sweeping robots are only getting better, with new mopping skills, better navigation chops, and more automation, meaning less work for you. We picked the best bots you can buy right now.
RCS on the iPhone is almost the solution to our green-bubble nightmare
Texting an Android user from an iPhone still isn’t as good as the blue-bubble life. But at least it’s not awful anymore.
It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone
The FBI said it ‘gained access’ to the Trump rally shooter’s phone just two days after the attempted assassination.
The watchOS 11 beta slowed me down, in a good way
Fitness tracking on the Apple Watch is finally moving away from the blanket approach of ‘always do more.’
Biden’s top tech adviser says AI is a ‘today problem’
Arati Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief and now director of the White House’s OSTP, says the time to regulate AI is now.
A supercheap Android phone with looks to spare
Plus, in this week’s Installer: Samsung’s first smart ring, Diggnation’s reunion show, a new Apple TV sci-fi show, and much more.
Fantasmas’ vision of the future is a dystopian dreamland
In Julio Torres’ series Fantasmas, survival in the future is an intricate, corporate-owned game of feeding your identity to the machine.
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Engwe P20 folding e-bike review: $1000 buys a lot of forgiveness
Fully equipped direct-to-consumer e-bikes still require compromises at this price range.
How one small company’s SEO garbage made it to Sports Illustrated and USA Today
The man behind the AI gaffes has a yearslong history of filling the internet with garbage.
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified
The new TUAW is ripping off its former writers.