Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are designed to "build a better network - and a better internet," according to CEO ...
Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "...
My cats hate each other, but this automatic feeder is helping
Over the course of nearly a decade, my husband and I have dutifully carried out a four-times-daily ritual of feeding a pair of lovely cat siblings who...
Riot is ending development on its League of Legends fighting game
Riot Games is already winding down work on 2XKO, the free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, less than a year after its initial launch. Riot say...
The Genesis GV90 blows the bloody doors off what’s possible in EV design
Genesis, Hyundai's luxury brand, just revealed its first full-size, three-row electric SUV for the US market, the GV90. And arguably it has some of th...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and its 440-acre estate in Ireland...
My cat Pablo is a voluptuous boy. His primordial pouch, originally thought to protect cats' squishy insides, hangs low and wobbles to and fro. Once, w...
Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem
Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia's online safety regulator, eSafety. eSafety has been lo...
FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you
Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 20...
Framework says it’s addressing a BIOS update that bricked some of its older laptops
Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. T...
OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profil...
This app makes the Pixel 11’s HiLight feature actually useful
Google's new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is...
LG’s 65-inch B6 OLED is $300 lower than its previous best price
Best Buy has a whole host of LG products discounted for today’s Deal of the Day festivities, including laptops, home theater gear, and more. One that ...
Amazon’s drone deliveries are landing in pools and ponds
Amazon's speedy drone delivery service will soon reach 500 cities across the US - but that might just mean there are more pools to drop packages into....
Genki’s new customizable controller has a big screen and adjustable buttons
After collaborating with 8BitDo on a gamepad two years ago, Genki launched the first controller the company designed from the ground up today. With an...
Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch
Seven months after Elon Musk announced that Tesla Robotaxis in Austin were operating without human safety monitors onboard, the city's service appears...
We played The Duskbloods, the Switch 2’s wildest new exclusive
The Duskbloods is a world away from the approachable games Nintendo is known for. But for its next Switch 2 exclusive, the company has partnered with ...
There's something just a little bit different about FromSoftware's office in Tokyo. Like with any other successful video game studio, there's extensiv...
Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect
Comcast announced a new platform this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the option to let customers turn their routers into motion sensors. Man...
Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis
What's in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadri...
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the exist...
NASA gives up on trying to rescue the Swift telescope
Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Space...
This tiny guitar amp is the most unhinged distortion pedal I’ve ever used
Is Amp Crash a guitar amp or a guitar pedal? Yes. Death By Audio's latest is, in fact, both. While it's in a guitar pedal enclosure, Amp Crash is actu...
Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations...
I bought DJI’s banned camera — it was cheap and easy
As a kid, I always imagined the "black market" would be like the movies: Shady vendors hawking illicit goods along dusty streets. But if you want a ba...
LG’s new OLED breakthrough can boost display lifespans
LG Display has unveiled a new OLED manufacturing method that reportedly results in panels that are brighter, longer-lasting, more efficient, and theor...
In August, Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at their job at Target when they noticed two customers and asked if they needed any help. The men requeste...
The Audi S6 Sportback E-tron proves that sedans still matter
Last year, Audi announced that it gave its all-EV-by-2033 plan the boot, and instead will offer a mix of gasoline, hybrid, and electrified propulsion....
DJI Osmo fans are breaking the shackles of its closed-source camera app
Even if you love DJI's drones and cameras, you might not love the company's bloated closed-source apps that phone home to its cloud servers. But they'...
Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?
HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its ...
