Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerb...
Meta announced a slate of new wearables during its annual Meta Connect showcase on Wednesday. The star of the event was the new Meta VR Glasses, which...
Meta’s next VR idea isn’t a headset — it’s glasses
Meta is launching new VR hardware: a pair of glasses. The new Meta VR Glasses sit on your ears like a typical pair of glasses instead of being strappe...
Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses ...
Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses
Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech b...
Meta is making Muse more powerful and will let you video chat with it, too
Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in mo...
Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements
It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart...
Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch
It's time once again for Meta's annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says ...
Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus
Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surfac...
Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button
Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also has a customi...
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business...
Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers im...
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's...
Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligen...
Logitech’s new Blue Yeti 2 mic adjusts itself to where you are
The original Blue Yeti has been one of the most recognizable go-to USB microphones for content creators since it launched in 2009, and now it finally ...
Xbox’s Mythic achievements sound like PlayStation’s Platinum trophy
Xbox appears to be ready to launch its own version of PlayStation's platinum trophies. A new update to the Xbox PC app has revealed Mythic achievement...
One of the best Metroid games for the Switch is 30 percent off
Nintendo’s “Customer Appreciation” sale continues through September 26th. It includes discounts on Switch games and accessories, and I thought I’d cal...
This $199 GPS sports watch is repairable, modular, and open-source
The Una Watch costs less than most Garmin watches now that its price has been lowered from the Kickstarter offer of $350 to $199, but its modular, rep...
Discord is rolling out a new global age assurance system, seven months after pausing its previous verification measures following backlash from users....
McDonald's is putting ads on its drive-thru menu as part of a "limited" pilot at company-owned restaurants, according to a report from Bloomberg. Driv...
YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them
Part of the job of a content creator is to figure out how to get their work in front of the most people. Cracking - or fighting - the algorithm has hi...
Video games have given us plenty of ways to traverse huge open worlds, but none have felt quite as oddly exhilarating as manipulating gravity in Contr...
Xiaomi’s new 18 Pro phones improve on Samsung’s privacy display
Xiaomi's new 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max launched in China today, and feature a more flexible take on the privacy display tech introduced this year on Samsu...
OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement
OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago...
OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out...
Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work
Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the...
Eight Sleep’s new cooling hub is small enough to hide under your bed
Eight Sleep announced the next version of its "intelligent sleep system" designed to regulate the temperature of your bed in response to tracked healt...
Logitech’s new haptics-based gaming mouse is a little better and $20 more
The G Pro Superstrike mouse is one of Logitech's most interesting products. Unlike other gaming mice, it has haptic actuators beneath its two main but...
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earl...
Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and auto manufa...
