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Mercedes-AMG’s first ground-up SUV is a 1,150hp electric beast
Earlier this year, Mercedes' AMG performance brand grabbed our attention with the GT four-door coupe, a souped-up sports sedan with three axial flux motors delivering over 1,150 horsepower. Well, now ...
2 hours ago
Elon Musk settles lawsuits over $1 million voter giveaway
In 2024, Elon Musk promised to give away $1 million a day to a randomly selected registered voter in a swing state. That prompted legal challenges, raised questions about its legality, and drew lawsui...
3 hours ago
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no lo...
4 hours ago
Pikmin 4 is $20 off ahead of its $10 Nintendo Switch 2 update
If you’re wondering what video game to play this weekend, my colleague Sheena Vasani spotted a discounted Nintendo Switch title with instant digital delivery. Walmart has the digital version of Pikmin...
4 hours ago
SpaceX’s ambitious, expensive gamble to replace AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
Today, I’m talking with Walter Piecyk, a partner and analyst at LightShed Partners who covers tech, media, and telecom, about SpaceX’s recently announced plan to become a major wireless carrier. Last ...
5 hours ago
Bose’s new wired earbuds are simple in the best way
After Apple courageously removed the headphone jack from the iPhone in 2016, most people switched to Bluetooth earbuds and never looked back. But their wired counterparts have stuck around, and their ...
6 hours ago
It’s a dream week for tech docs
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 148, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're enjoying all your pumpkin-flavored everything, and also y...
7 hours ago
Apple’s HomeView is just the latest threat to online recipe writers
When Apple revealed the HomeView to the world, it did so with an unusual ad for the company: Instead of pristine, polished tech in immaculate rooms, it's a three-minute look at the messy, frantic morn...
7 hours ago
All the news about the iPhone Duo
Apple has finally announced its long-rumored foldable: the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer display and a 7.6-inch inner display, a “nano‑texture” finish on the inner screen, and barely ...
20 hours ago
Apple’s updated App Store rules go after ‘nudify’ AI apps
Apple's App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called "nudify" apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools. The rule changes follow significant criticism towa...
21 hours ago
We can finally hear some of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album
Wu-Tang's Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album has, for the most part, been extremely difficult to listen to, but you can now hear two snippets of the album thanks to the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, w...
23 hours ago
Tesla driver says he was asleep and using FSD when he crashed into highway patrol cars
After this horrific crash involving a Tesla driver who said he was asleep and using the driver assist mode, the California Highway Patrol warns that "Despite its name, full self-driving is not fully a...
23 hours ago
Why Apple is finally making its own smart home devices
For more than a decade, Apple has told other companies to build smart home devices for its platform. This week, Apple launched its own. The Apple Home Collection is a lineup of cameras, thermostats, s...
1 day ago
The new Apple TV 4K just got its first (very small) discount
Earlier this week, Apple announced its new Apple TV 4K, which costs nearly twice as much as the 2022 model did at launch. Amazon is now offering the first discount on the forthcoming streaming box (co...
1 day ago
Apple’s HomeView has an app problem
It's been a couple of days since Apple's big smart home announcement, and we have some more information - and a bunch of new questions - about the Apple HomeView. The device has plenty of computing oo...
1 day ago
Analogue is re-releasing its SNES and Genesis consoles with some nice upgrades
Analogue announced new versions of its Super Nt and Mega Sg retro consoles today with a "reworked industrial design" and built-in wireless connectivity for controllers and accessories. Like the origin...
1 day ago
A fake WhatsApp clone is showing up before the real version on the Play Store
After a Chrome clone was spotted on the Play Store earlier this week, a user on Reddit says they're seeing a fake version of WhatsApp in a "sponsored" slot above the real version. As reported earlier ...
1 day ago
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-perf...
1 day ago
The incredible flying Tesla Roadster is just for show
Last night, Elon Musk gave the people what they want: a car driving vertically up a multi-story ramp, launching off the edge, executing a mid-air "kickflip" over a lineup of Teslas, and landing via co...
1 day ago
Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab....
1 day ago
iPhone Duo orders are already delayed into 2027
Delivery estimates for the iPhone Duo slipped into next year in less than an hour after Apple opened preorders for it at 8AM ET on Friday. At the time of writing we are seeing late January delivery da...
1 day ago
The Sony Xperia 10 VI won’t be getting a promised update to Android 17
When the midrange Sony Xperia 10 VI was announced over two years ago with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset and Android 14, Sony promised three major OS updates which would have included this year...
1 day ago
The first vibe-coded gun is here
Since gun-rights activist and alt-right-friendly agitator Cody Wilson made the first 3D-printed firearm 13 years ago, he's helped usher in a chaotic era of untraceable ghost guns. Now he's claiming an...
1 day ago
Surface Laptop Ultra review: a different kind of MacBook Pro
After setting up Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra, I spent five minutes just staring at it. I wasn't surprised by its MacBook Pro-like design or blown away by its bright display. I was trying to work ...
1 day ago
The iPhone Duo is now available to preorder at $1,999
Few phones have been more anticipated than a foldable iPhone, but it's finally here. The iPhone Duo was unveiled during Apple's "Surprise and shine" event alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and the Apple Wat...
1 day ago
Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second
An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measu...
1 day ago
The Tesla Roadster flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a second
Elon Musk promised a flying car. So the Tesla Roadster did exactly that. Tesla demonstrated its next-generation Roadster at an event in Waco, Texas, where the electric supercar drove upside down, brie...
1 day ago
Steam can now show game achievements in separate ‘sets’
Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. "In games that support se...
1 day ago
ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, Op...
1 day ago
Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch
Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI....
1 day ago
The tech backlash is now in theaters
Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron So...
1 day ago
Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White H...
1 day ago
Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can the...
2 days ago
Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps
If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going ...
2 days ago
Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "...
2 days ago
Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 player
Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched ...
2 days ago
Alienware’s latest 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is $50 off
The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon, just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming monitor, but still a de...
2 days ago
Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responses
Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give...
2 days ago
Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones are $130 off today only
If you missed out on Prime Day’s headphones deals, you’re in luck. Sony’s latest flagship headphones are selling for even less than they did during Amazon’s big fall sale. As part of B&H Photo’s D...
2 days ago
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the adve...
2 days ago
The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm
Fourteen years ago this month, Microsoft released an Nvidia-powered Windows PC that would become one of the greatest tech flops in modern history. The original Microsoft Surface, which ran a stripped-...
2 days ago
Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave Trump a combined $92 million for his ballroom
We knew that a number of big tech firms were helping to fund the construction of Trump's ballroom, but we didn't know just how much they were giving to the cause. Now the Washington Post published a l...
2 days ago
Shelly’s new presence sensor simultaneously detects up to ten people without a camera
Following the launch of its $50 subscription-free security camera last month, Shelly announced another new accessory for smart home automation today that can keep track of multiple people as they move...
2 days ago
Microsoft’s new Photos app combines your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud galleries
Microsoft has redesigned its Photos app for Windows 11, overhauling the editor and image viewer, and combining photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud into a single space. The new combine...
2 days ago
How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops
Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area...
2 days ago
An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say
An Israeli ad tech firm worked with spyware companies to infect devices, including at Al Jazeera, by simply showing users an online ad, according to a joint investigation by security researchers at Ci...
2 days ago
Microsoft says Windows 11 is now ‘more responsive’ and runs better on 8GB of RAM
Earlier this year Microsoft laid out a plan to fix Windows 11, with a focus on performance, reliability, and the overall OS experience. After months of fixes, Microsoft now says the "result is a Windo...
2 days ago
GTA VI’s new trailer gives you one more look at Vice City
The day is almost here, as Grand Theft Auto VI is just about a month away from finally coming out. But before that there's still one more look from Rockstar Games, which just put out a brief "launch" ...
2 days ago
Quick question: Who exactly is iPhone Handoff for?
Last month, Apple announced a feature called iPhone Handoff. Not to be confused with that Handoff; this is a new one. iPhone Handoff allows you to keep your number active on two iPhones at the same ti...
2 days ago
Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays
Google's intelligent AI shopping cart is finally here, and just in time to tempt users into Black Friday and seasonal holiday spending. The Universal Cart tool Google previewed at its I/O event in May...
2 days ago
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