Category: Tech
Google brings buy buttons to Gemini and AI search
Google turned up the heat in the AI shopping wars this weekend, announcing plans to turn Gemini into a merchant and launching an o...
Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade
Apple will use Google's Gemini AI model to power a more personalized Siri coming this year. "After careful evaluation, Apple deter...
A Palworld trading card game is coming this summer
Palworld, the monster-hunting action / adventure game known for its originality, is getting into the trading card business. Pocket...
The first three Lego Pokémon sets launch in February an...
After teasing its first collaboration with the Pokémon franchise last March but sharing very few details, Lego's first Pokémon set...
Amazon has started automatically upgrading Prime member...
Over the past couple of weeks, users on the r/alexa subreddit have reported getting automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus as a perk...
DJI’s mobile selfie stick / tripod / stabilizer will tr...
If you’ve got a recent smartphone, chances are it’s got a really good camera — and don’t you want to take the best photos you can?...
Paramount sues after Warner Bros. Discovery rejects its...
Paramount is turning up the pressure on Warner Bros. Discovery in the wake of its merger with Netflix, as it's now suing the David...
Here are over 20 gadgets that’ll help you achieve your ...
It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year's resolutions - work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner - full of optim...
Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches
Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false inform...
You need to listen to Billy Woods’ horrorcore masterpie...
Billy Woods has one of the highest batting averages in the game. Between his solo records like Hiding Places and Maps, and his col...
Will you have to show your ID at the app store?
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the action (and inact...
I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did not di...
It's January, which means there's a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before that happens, I managed to find ...
How TiVo killed live TV
For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became a ...
Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmarts
Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones wi...
Google’s AI Inbox could be a glimpse of Gmail’s future
This week, Google announced a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that replaces the traditional list of emails with an AI-generated list o...
GameStop is kicking off 2026 by shutting down over 400 ...
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is in line to potentially earn $35 billion in stock options, so long as the company hits a $100 billion ma...
Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send...
If you're one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed...
The CES 2026 stuff I might actually buy
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 111, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome,...
What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just about everything, from the FCC to...
The Playdate gets its Monument Valley
Diora might be the most ambitious game I've played on the Playdate. It's all about perspective: You turn the handheld's crank to r...
