What is an Xbox? Microsoft has spent 25 years trying to answer the question, but for fans, the answer is easy: “Xbox” evokes one-eared headsets wired into the memory card slots of massive controllers ...
Universal basic income provides recurring cash payments, no strings attached. Wong Yu Liang AI advances could widen wealth gaps, which has prompted calls for a universal basic income . UBI offers recu...
Gaming earbuds have plenty of advantages over full-sized headsets . They're more portable, more versatile – many can connect to your phone for commuting and moseying around – and ditching the headband...
Fable, the upcoming open-world fantasy RPG from Playground Games, has 1,000 fully voiced NPCs, and, if you do the right things, you can marry every single one of them. The long-awaited fairytale follo...
Pokémon Go looks set to add another battle currency to the ever-popular mobile game, this time focused around raids for Mega Pokémon. As Pokémon Go prepares to roll-out the first of Pokémon Legends Z-...
If you're an anime fan, Crunchyroll is the best streaming platform out there. With just one subscription, you can instantly gain access to over 1,000 different anime series. In a time when anime has n...
These laptops can help you get work done. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Buying the right laptop can be stressful. It’s likely one of the pricier tech purchases you’ll make, and there are ...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI "There's two things that I care about the most: the gym and my work," says Mahir Laul. The 18-year-old took a leave of absence from New York University this past...
Geoffrey Lauprete is the head of Cubist Systematic Strategies. Jeff Yass founded proprietary trading firm Susquehanna International Group. Cubist; Susquehanna Competition for top quant talent has neve...
British Airways announced a deal with Starlink in November. Courtesy of British Airways Lufthansa is the latest airline to sign up for Elon Musk's Starlink WiFi. 31 carriers have announced deals for t...
There are all kinds of immensely powerful gaming PC setups out there, carefully crafted and assembled with components hand-picked for the most optimal performance to drive your experience. Even the mo...
Prebuilt gaming PC prices are on the rise for 2026, but iBuyPower - one of the more popular and well known system builders on the market - is softening the blow by offering a month end Clearance Sale ...
After watching Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade’s gorgeous opening cutscene on Switch 2, I instinctively reached for the PlayStation 5 controller sitting on my coffee table instead of my Switch 2 P...
You can get a great budget device these days if you know how to pick your priorities. | Image: The Verge Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. T...
Terraria 1.4.5 will release on January 27. In an excitable post , Re-Logic's Loki confirmed that while the team "did have to resubmit a few things, which pushed us back a bit further than expected," t...
Envisioning an alternate-universe, retro futuristic apocalypse teeming with mutated monsters, soldiers in hulking power armor and sinister human experiments disguised as bomb shelters, the Fallout fra...
Ever since I first got my silver Game Boy Advance SP for my birthday back in 2003, I have adored the clamshell design for my portable gaming devices. What the GBA SP started, the DS Lite later solidif...
Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast -sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer...
Way back in April of last year, Blizzard began making gestures at something that would eventually be called "add-on disarmament, " effectively an effort to make competitive play in World of Warcraft s...
A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and ...