This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers , a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Every year, TV makers flock to CES...
It's harder than ever for a new video game to crack the top of the most-played list. According to the Circana Player Engagement Tracker and video game market analyst Mat Piscatella, in 2025, the top f...
Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability to creep on your friends' listening habits - but you could mostly only uncover those guilty pleasures on the desktop app. The company experimented...
Lenovo is the latest tech company to get bit by the smart glasses bug. The company just showed off a pair of concept AI glasses at CES 2026. While these weren't a working prototype, we have some idea ...
The FlowPad will measure follicle-stimulating hormone. | Image: Vivoo Wellness tech companies are increasingly interested in bodily fluids like blood, urine, sweat, and saliva. At CES 2026, it's time ...
Eureka is adding an even cheaper dock-equipped robovac to its lineup. During CES 2026, Eureka showed off the new E10 Evo Plus, a robovac featuring a mop pad, 10,000Pa of suction, two anti-tangle brush...
It might be just my type. Clicks is expanding beyond keyboard cases and bringing its QWERTY keys for phones to another format: a magnetic power bank accessory with a slide-out keyboard. The Power Keyb...
In just the past couple years, the art TV category that's been dominated by Samsung's The Frame has seen growth, with additions from both TCL and Hisense. Now LG has announced its own entry, the LG Ga...
The Stranger Things final battle was inspired by Baldurâs Gate 3, the Duffer Brothers have revealed. Warning! Spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5, Episode 8, The Rightside Up, follow: In the finale,...
Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure game set on the continent of Pywel. But how big is the open world, exactly? Itâs âabsolutely massive,â its developer has said, bigger even than that of...
Itâs not just holiday decor discounted today. Our favorite phone controller for mobile gaming is back down to its lowest price ever, matching Black Friday savings. The Backbone Pro has $35 knocked off...
The "Lego Ruler". | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026 , and I wanted to stop by The Lego Group's suite to get a last glimpse befo...
Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now sim...
The Legion Go 2 with SteamOS. | Image: Lenovo One year ago , Lenovo became the first company besides Valve to announce a handheld with SteamOS instead of Windows. The result was the Legion Go S with S...
The DeskMate doesnât have its own display, it just uses your iPhoneâs. CES is packed with AI companions and assistant robots this year, but the DeskMate from Yoona is a clever take on the idea: it's a...
You must be able to trust the NotePin S â doctors use it! Plaud has updated its compact NotePin AI recorder. The new NotePin S is almost identical to the original, except for one major difference: a b...
Flappy Bird was almost preposterously simple. If you ever played the game, even once, you surely remember how it worked, but here's a summary just in case. You were a bird. Your job was to fly, left t...
We should get more information about the upcoming 2026 LG Gram Pro series at CES. LG is teasing the 2026 Gram Pro laptops that will be fully unveiled at CES, including what the company claims is the "...
The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a ga...
Blackstone CTO John Stecher said the software engineering landscape looks different than when he graduated in 2001. Blackstone Blackstone CTO John Stecher said there's been a shift in entry-level soft...