As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
LG is adding a karaoke-focused party speaker to its lineup of Xboom devices, which is built in collaboration with Will.i.am. Announced this week, LG says the Stage 501 speaker comes with an "AI Karaok...
Jules Love. Courtesy of Jules Love The biggest barrier to AI adoption in creative agencies isn't tech but mindset, a consultant says. He said role-specific training and protected time to experiment wi...
This cutaway shows how the Bluetti Charger 2 can be integrated into your vehicle. | Image: Bluetti Bluetti's latest car charger can quickly charge power stations at a very fast 1200W - about 10 times ...
Customizable features, like the buttons and scrollwheel on this Logitech MX Master 4, stopped working. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge If you're among the macOS users experiencing some weird i...
The SmartVoice Air Fryer responds to over 1,000 voice commands. | Image: IAI Smart A new line of small appliances and devices from IAI Smart, billed as Emerson Smart products , are now available that ...
I’m Gopal, the guy behind QuickClip. I built this out of pure frustration. Copying items between my phone and laptop was very painful. Sending notes and links on WhatsApp. Saving random drafts I’d for...
Mira is a hormone testing kit that I tried out ahead of CES 2026. I had to pee in that cup. This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that diss...
This is the first robot vacuum that can both climb and clean your stairs. I've been reviewing robot vacuums for almost a decade, and one question I hear repeatedly is "When will it clean my stairs?" W...
This is one of the first desktop docks to support faster 25W Qi2 charging. Chinese accessory brand Baseus has launched a new desktop dock for CES 2026 with an exhaustive array of ports and power optio...
Long time lurker here. My family had a pen-and-paper game we'd play on long drives to visit my great-grandmother. After she passed, I spent the holidays recreating it: https://a26z.fun How it works: F...
Garry Tan is a top seed investor. Courtesy Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding. Founders launched companies ranging from...
I thought it would be interesting to have ID style hover docs outside the IDE. Hover is a Chrome extension that gives you IDE style hover tooltips on any webpage: documentation sites, ChatGPT, Claude,...
Paste in my prompt to Claude Code with an embedded API key for accessing my public readonly SQL+vector database, and you have a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and d...
An OpenAI engineer explains how OpenAI hired her in a week. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images An OpenAI engineer breaks down OpenAI's fast, "no-nonsense" hiring process. Jerene Yang sai...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI This past weekend, the internet was set ablaze by a post on r/Confessions claiming to be from a software engineer-turned-whistleblower working at a food delivery app . "I...
Hey, fellow Undertale and Deltarune fan. Did you know there was a Deltarune ARG going on? Did you know it's technically been going on for three years now? Yeah, neither did I! I first learned about th...
The Fortnite South Park trailer is (officially) here, revealing an all-new short as Butters, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny all drop in for five-player battle royale matches – a.k.a. Quints. Epic Game...
Anker just announced three new chargers at CES 2026 , and surprisingly, one of them is already on sale ahead of its launch on January 20th launch. Anker’s latest 45W Nano Charger , the company’s first...
NATO has identified interceptor drones as a promising new tool for air defense. Artur Widak/Anadolu via Getty Images NATO militaries are seeking air defense tools that are more affordable than expensi...