Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 will be even sadder and bloodier
In May, we learned that the development of a sequel to the Cyberpunk 2077 game is moving forward at CD Projekt Red, and today, at the Anime Expo 2025 event,…
The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025
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Laid-off workers should use AI to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec
The sweeping layoffs announced by Microsoft this week have been especially hard on its gaming studios, but one Xbox executive has a solution to “help reduce the emotional and cognitive…
The Ploopy Knob is an open-source control dial for your PC
The Ploopy Knob controller can double as a desktop fidget toy. | Image: Ploopy Ploopy has announced another desktop accessory called the Ploopy Knob that can function like a control…
Fairphone 6 gets a 10/10 on repairability
The new Fairphone 6 is smaller and more modular than older models in the series, but it’s just as repairable. The phone picked up a perfect score in iFixit’s teardown…
The Loop Micro is my new favorite bicycle phone mount
Tiny, but still holds the biggest phones. Bicycle phone mounts have been a regular part of my life in bike-obsessed Amsterdam ever since 2008, when I got my first phone…
Slate Auto’s electric pickup is no longer ‘under $20,000’ — thanks, Donald
The old “Under $20,000” banner has been replaced with “Mid Twenties.” | Image: Slate Auto Slate Auto’s American-made electric pickup — the one with no paint, no stereo, and no…
The White House’s favorite source of pro-Trump news is … the White House’s YouTube channel
The most frequently curated content on the White House Wire, the Trump administration’s attempt to aggregate pro-Trump “real news” from across the right-wing media, doesn’t come from Truth Social, Breitbart,…
The best robot vacuum and mop to buy right now
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Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail
Both custom and pre-made Gems will now be available to use via the side panel in Workspace apps. Google is giving Workspace users a way to access “Gems” — customizable…
Racist videos made with AI are going viral on TikTok
Racist videos that appear to be created with Google’s AI video generation tool Veo 3 have raked in millions of views across TikTok, according to findings from the nonprofit media…
Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game
Microsoft’s layoff of roughly 9,000 employees is continuing to have downstream effects at the company’s subsidiaries. Aftermath reports that as many as 100 developers at Blizzard have been impacted, and…
Google’s fix for Pixel 6A battery overheating issues arrives next week
A mandatory update for Google’s mid-range Pixel 6A phones is coming next week that is meant to reduce the risk of the battery overheating on some devices. According to a…
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against its subsidiary CBS, clearing a path for the administration to approve the media giant’s multibillion-dollar merger…
The best robot vacuums we’ve tested for 2025
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Figma is going public
Figma, the platform that specializes in collaborative interface design, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FIG” as it prepares to…
X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots
X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be…
Google makes it easier to let friends and kids control your smart home
Google’s 4th-gen Nest Learning Thermostat. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google Home’s latest update will make it easier to decide who in your household can control your…
Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from “accessing content without permission or compensation,” according to an announcement on…
Tinder’s mandatory facial recognition check comes to the US
Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to…
Steam can now show you how much frame generation changes your games
Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out…
AT&T says ‘our network’ wasn’t to blame for Trump’s troubled conference call
AT&T believes its network wasn’t at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being “totally unable to make their equipment work properly.” Instead, AT&T…
The best iPad to buy
There are no bad iPads. That’s the best news about Apple’s tablet lineup: 15 years after Steve Jobs first debuted the device, the iPad is the best tablet on the…
Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw
Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access devices that are still using default passwords. Eight new vulnerabilities, one…
Spotify will let users personalize the genre of Discover Weekly playlists
Spotify is adding new personalization features to Discover Weekly, the popular and influential playlist streamed by millions of users. The regularly updated playlist will now have buttons for genres like…
Hollywood’s pivot to AI video has a prompting problem
It has become almost impossible to browse the internet without having an AI-generated video thrust upon you. Open basically any social media platform, and it won’t be long until an…
The unbearable obviousness of AI fitness summaries
The insights are more repackaging data you already know with common sense advice than deductive analysis. After nearly a decade of wearables testing, I’ve amassed a truly terrifying amount of…
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo would feel right at home on your GBA
A screenshot from Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo. | Image: Pocket Trap / PM Studios, Inc When I was a kid, there was a moment when it felt like everyone…
Tesla says it delivered its first car autonomously from factory to customer
This might be a bigger deal than the robotaxis. Tesla said it completed its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery from factory to customer. A video posted on X shows the…
The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions
Age verification is perhaps the hottest battleground for online speech, and the Supreme Court just settled a pivotal question: does using it to gate adult content violate the First Amendment…