During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta’s abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta’s CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Podcast Meta has always had a bone to pick with Apple, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is never afraid
Read MoreRoborock’s Saros Z70 looks set to be the first robot vacuum with an articulating arm to come to market. It’s designed to pick up light items like socks and tissues. (Not actual size) | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge CES saw wild innovations from Roborock and Dreame and helpful upgrades from the
Read MoreHome screen widgets have been a part of Android from the very beginning and the first T-Mobile G1 in 2008. And for a long time, widgets were one of the first answers when you asked an avid Android user why they wouldn’t use an iPhone. They ranked high on my personal list of reasons to
Read MoreImage: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple may have settled on iPhone 17 Air as the name for the rumored skinny iPhone that’s expected this fall, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. He writes that the phone will be “a testing ground for future technologies,” including the tech that leads to the
Read MoreThe Cell BioPrint is designed to be used in retail spaces and dermatology offices. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Las Vegas is punishingly dry. The arid winter air means I woke up on Day 3 of CES 2025 with a nosebleed, chapped lips, and ashy legs. This in spite of the fact
Read MoreHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 66, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy 2025, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about loneliness and Web3 scams and the future of procedural TV, watching
Read MoreWindows 10 and 11 have a feature called Activity History that keeps track of the things you do on your device. With the help of this feature, you get to see the things you did in the past, like which apps, documents, and websites you opened and at what time and day. If you value
Read MoreWindows 10 and 11 have a feature called Activity History that keeps track of the things you do on your device. With the help of this feature, you get to see the things you did in the past, like which apps, documents, and websites you opened and at what time and day. If you value
Read MoreGoogle is reintroducing “digital fingerprinting” in five weeks, reports Mashable, describing it as “a data collection process that ingests all of your online signals (from IP address to complex browser information) and pinpoints unique users or devices.” Or, to put it another way, Google “is tracking your online behavior in the name of advertising.” The
Read MoreMacworld You never realize how much you need a pen until you don’t have one. Whether it’s jotting down a million-dollar idea or catching someone’s phone number before they lose interest, not having one is a real buzzkill. This keychain pen fixes that problem forever. And get this: it writes with titanium, meaning it writes
Read MoreThree exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
Read MoreUnanimous AI’s founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a “wave” of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly “as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives”… “[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with context-aware AI agents bringing digital superpowers into our daily experiences.” They will be
Read MoreUnanimous AI’s founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a “wave” of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly “as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives”… “[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with context-aware AI agents bringing digital superpowers into our daily experiences.” They will be
Read More“JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank’s return-to-office policy,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, according to people familiar with the matter.” The bank’s senior executives announced in an internal memo Friday that JPMorgan
Read More“JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank’s return-to-office policy,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, according to people familiar with the matter.” The bank’s senior executives announced in an internal memo Friday that JPMorgan
Read More“Nuclear you can trust,” reads the web page promoting “The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.” Yes, Enron.com is now announcing “a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.” (A quick reminder from CNN in December. “A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark and appears to be trying to sell some merch on
Read More“Nuclear you can trust,” reads the web page promoting “The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.” Yes, Enron.com is now announcing “a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.” (A quick reminder from CNN in December. “A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark and appears to be trying to sell some merch on
Read More“Nuclear you can trust,” reads the web page promoting “The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.” Yes, Enron.com is now announcing “a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.” (A quick reminder from CNN in December. “A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark and appears to be trying to sell some merch on
Read MoreWhen we reviewed the iFixit FixHub back in September, one of the most interesting features of the portable soldering station was the command line interface that both the iron and the base station offered up once you connected to them via USB. While this feature wasn’t documented anywhere, it made a degree of a sense,
Read MoreRichard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a nonprofit in 1985 with four other directors (including MIT computer science professor Gerald Jay Sussman). Sussman remains on the Board of directors, along with EFF co-founder John Gilmore and five others. Friday the eight directors published a new article explaining how their goal and principles are
Read MoreWordPress co-creator (and Automattic CEO) Matt Mullenweg “has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members,” reports TechCrunch, “some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project.” Joost de Valk — creator of WordPress-focused SEO tool Yoast (and former marketing and communications’ lead for the
Read MoreFriday America’s consumer watchdog agency “proposed a rule to give virtual video game currencies protections similar to those of real-world bank accounts…” reports the Washington Post, “so players can receive refunds or compensation for unauthorized transactions, similar to how banks are required to respond to claims of fraudulent activity.” The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is
Read MoreWhile CES wraps up this week, “Not all innovation is good innovation,” warns Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit’s Director of Sustainability (heading their Right to Repair advocacy team). So this year the group held its fourth annual “anti-awards ceremony” to call out CES’s “least repairable, least private, and least sustainable products…” (iFixit co-founder Kyle Wiens mocked a
Read MoreWhile CES wraps up this week, “Not all innovation is good innovation,” warns Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit’s Director of Sustainability (heading their Right to Repair advocacy team). So this year the group held its fourth annual “anti-awards ceremony” to call out CES’s “least repairable, least private, and least sustainable products…” (iFixit co-founder Kyle Wiens mocked a
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will be winding down its Prime Try Before You Buy program, which let Prime members try on clothes before paying for them, reports The Information. It will shutter on January 31st, according to a banner at the top of the service’s landing page. Amazon spokesperson Maxine Tagay
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