This year's CES was an odd one. This is a conference usually dominated by futuristic, expensive TVs and futuristic, expensive cars, but those things weren't what dominated CES 2026. Instead, Las Vegas...
Every January, the world of consumer electronics heads to Las Vegas to spend the first full week of the year in the desert presenting, prodding, and gawking at all the new gadgets and gear debuting at...
Last year, Tesla defied its critics by boldly launching a robotaxi service that, by the end of the year, required no human supervision and was available to over 50 percent of the US population. At lea...
📋 Key Facts ✓ ByteDance plans 50% more global spending on incentives like bonuses and raises in 2026 for top performers. ✓ Bonuses incr...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping lauded his country's AI advancements in 2025. Yan Yan/Xinhua via Getty Images China's Xi Jinping lauded his country's AI wins in 2025 in his New Year's address from Beijing. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ US consulates are rescheduling H-1B and H-4 visa appointments up to June or November 2026. ✓ New online presence reviews,...
CES 2026 is in the books, and boy was there a lot to see – new gaming handheld chips , AR glasses for portable big-screen gaming , AI-powered headphones , and a gaming laptop with a rollable expanding...
January 7 marks one year since the most destructive wildfires in the Los Angeles area in California. It killed 31 people and destroyed about 13,000 homes and other residential properties. To improve i...
Netflix began hosting NFL games on Christmas in 2024. Brooke Sutton/Getty Images NFL Christmas games have moved to Netflix and Amazon as sports start to shift to streaming. Amazon and YouTube TV lead ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ OpenAI launched 'Your Year with ChatGPT' on December 22, 2025. ✓ The feature is available in the US, UK, Canada, ...
I wouldn’t be doing what I’m lucky enough to do for a living without Mario games. Heck, I’m not sure I’d even be playing video games if not for Mario. And so, when I reviewed Super Mario Odyssey for I...
China’s robotics industry may need at least five years before humanoid models reach a similar level of acceptance to electric vehicles, according to private equity firm Hermitage Capital, the latest v...
Ro Khanna, a California progressive who opposed the US congressional effort to force the Chinese divestment of TikTok, will replace Illinois Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi as the top Democrat on t...
Huawei Technologies in late November sold more than 10,000 units of its artificial intelligence toy, Smart Hanhan, in the first week of its release, as similar smart playthings seize a growing share o...
A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout. CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Verge’s on-the-ground team of super nerds...
Kim Farrell, global head of creators at TikTok. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TikTok Kim Farrell, TikTok's global head of creators, is leaving her role. The move comes as TikTok announced a reorg of it...
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Shanghai, China’s financial and tech hub, is aiming to foster over 200 open-source projects over the next two years as part of the city’s ambitious road map to build a world-class ecosystem amid the h...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Federal Communications Commission banned new foreign-made drones from import into the US unless recommended by the Department of Defense or D...
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