My therapist thinks I should chuck the Amazon Bee Frontier out a window
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that sw...
ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot. The update, which is rolling out alongside OpenAI's new Images 2.6 m...
Nintendo’s designers strove for ‘elegance’ when remaking Ocarina of Time
The Ocarina of Time remake on the Switch 2 smashes together the past and present. The game retains much of the original N64 experience while updating ...
God of War Laufey's release date is being delayed to May 20th, 2027, developer Santa Monica Studio announced today. It was previously set to launch on...
Nintendo is about to lose a major memory supplier for its Switch cartridges. The supplier, Macronix, announced during a recent quarterly earnings call...
Anker’s new window-mounted camera monitors the outside of your home from within it
Anker announced a new indoor security camera that's designed to watch your yard, driveway, or front porch through a window, instead of monitoring what...
Electronic Arts is launching 25 classic games on Steam, including "Anniversary Editions" of the motorcycle racer Road Rash and six Wing Commander titl...
Rian Johnson explains why he had to build his own iPhone camera app
Rian Johnson is an analog photography devotee. The director of Knives Out and The Last Jedi can often be spotted on set with a Leica M6 at his side, d...
Data center developers are poised to face a more restrictive building environment after voters across the country voted in candidates who favor morato...
Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter
AI agents won't be stealing Uber's lunch any time soon. Only four rides were arranged by third-party AI agents during the third quarter of 2026, Uber ...
You can save a heck of lot of money on Google’s Pixel 11 phones through November 8th, whether you want the best-for-the-least Pixel 11, or the slightl...
Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter
AI agents won't be stealing Uber's lunch any time soon. Only four rides were arranged by third-party AI agents during the third quarter of 2026, Uber ...
My favorite 25W wireless power bank is down to $35
If you’re someone who owns an iPhone, you might have considered getting a MagSafe power bank that can quickly recharge it. I tested a handful of optio...
Not even $200 million could help Elon Musk buy Texas
James Talarico, the Democratic Texas senator-elect, not only managed to flip the state in yesterday's midterms but prevailed in the most expensive Sen...
Bluetooth is getting a big boost to data transfer speeds
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) that oversees the wireless standard has formally adopted Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT) as an optiona...
When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectiv...
Sam Altman addresses RAM comments: people should ‘put as much as they want in their computers’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent election night defending his position on PC RAM purchases. He changed his name on X to "Ram Altman" in response to another...
SpaceX is working with Qualcomm to build its Starlink Mobile 5G network
SpaceX is teaming up with Qualcomm to build out its nationwide mobile network. Under the multi-year deal, SpaceX will bring Qualcomm's Dragonwing tech...
The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn't new, but what and how they're tracking - and if we can stop it - is hard to figure out. Researche...
AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history
AMD CEO Lisa Su said in the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that Q3 2026 was "was the largest and most profitable in our history." AMD re...
All the news about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
Ahead of the release of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI, Nintendo is launching its own fall juggernaut: a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: ...
The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI
The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to decla...
People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I'll tell you what I ...
Canva is announcing changes and layoffs affecting 22 percent of its staff
Canva is making significant changes affecting 1,271 people, which is 22 percent of its staff, co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins announced today. "For...
Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine
Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However, Google's Search...
Sonos adds new Presets and prepares for the 27voice AI beta
Sonos is rolling out a big app update that includes new Presets and early access to its AI voice assistant. You can create a preset to play music at a...
Valve is making changes to deal with a ‘significant increase’ in Steam game submissions
In a new post today, Valve acknowledged that it's seen "a significant increase in submissions for store and page review in recent months" and says it'...
Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist
The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance....
Here’s what it’s like to use Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch
It's impossible to paint a full picture of what Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 will be right now. The watchOS 27.3 develo...
Don’t be fooled by the fake hair on these famous baldies
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both famously bald, and that definitely hasn't changed...
