Easy Delivery Co. is a cozy, Lynchian dream
I have been a fan of David Lynch ever since a friend’s older brother interrupted a 13th birthday celebration to insist we all watch Eraserhead. In the realm of horror…
The lab where GM is cooking up new EV batteries to beat China
Battery development in the GM Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. | Image: Steve Fecht / General Motors Inside General Motors’ fast-growing battery labs in suburban Detroit, scientists and engineers are…
Facebook’s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet
Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more “shareworthy.” The only catch is that…
The US has a new roadmap for fusion energy, without the funds to back it up
Guests await the beginning of a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The officials…
Fictional gadget reviews: exploring the latest in fantasy and sci-fi tech
Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature…
Meta is adding more parental controls for teen AI use
An early look at Instagram’s parental controls for teen AI use. After enthusiastically rolling AI chatbots out everywhere, Meta has announced new options for parents to get an idea of…
Anthropic connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive
Anthropic is integrating its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft 365 services so it can surface content from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails in conversations with the chatbot. It’s…
AT&T is raising home internet prices for the second year in a row
Everything seems to be getting back-to-back price hikes right now, why not your home internet bill too? AT&T is raising prices by $5 a month on all AT&T Internet plans,…
Why world models are the next big thing in AI
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Around the middle of…
MacBook Pro rumor points to OLED, touchscreen upgrades next year
Apple just announced 14-inch MacBook Pro updates that add a new generation M5 processor, faster storage, and a promise of 24-hour battery life, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports next…
Steve Jobs will appear on commemorative $1 coin
The Mint’s design for the $1 Steve Jobs commemorative coin. The US Mint has revealed the design for a commemorative $1 coin honoring late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs.…
Microsoft is reportedly moving its Surface manufacturing out of China
As trade tensions grow between the US and China, Microsoft is reportedly preparing to move the manufacturing of its Surface laptops and tablets out of China. Nikkei reports that Microsoft…
Google’s AI video generator is getting better editing and more audio
Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow even more realistic — and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The company announced Wednesday that users…
The government shutdown is strangling aviation
An airplane takes off from Reagan National Airport on the ninth day of the federal government shutdown on October 9th, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. | Photo by Brendan Smialowski /…
These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected
The Word concepts next to the final icon on the right. Microsoft is busy rolling out new curvy and colorful new Office icons, and now it’s revealing a set of…
Apple exec on Apple TV rebranding: ‘let’s just do it’
Apple TV dropped the Plus because everyone was already doing it, according to Cue. We have some new insight into Apple’s muddled rebrand of Apple TV Plus to Apple TV,…
Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London
London’s iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo. The Alphabet-owned company said today it intends to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026…
Samsung officially teases Moohan headset launch for next week
Samsung is finally about to reveal more details about its Project Moohan mixed reality headset. The company just announced a new “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event that will take place…
TiVo has sold its last DVR
It’s the end of an era for TiVo. Cord Cutters flagged that the company has removed every digital video recorder product from its website, with TiVo confirming to the publication…
Nvidia’s ‘personal AI supercomputer’ goes on sale October 15th
Nvidia’s DGX Spark computer. Nvidia will start selling its DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer” this week. The machine is powerful enough to let users work on sophisticated AI models but…
Facebook is adding job listings, again
Meta wants you to find your next gig on Facebook. Meta, a company that is not shy about bolting new features onto its platforms, is bolting another new feature onto…
Microsoft AI announces first image generator created in-house
Microsoft AI just announced its first text-to-image generator, MAI-Image-1, designed and developed in-house. The tech giant, which recently announced its first in-house Microsoft AI models, called the new image generator…
Google will let you hide sponsored results in search — after you’ve seen them
Ads in Google search results are getting a more prominent label, and a way to hide them if you’re not interested. Handy! The thing is, you still have to look…
Marvel details upcoming slate of shows at New York Comic Con
We got our first proper look at the upcoming Wonder Man series, but Marvel has a whole slate of shows in the works. Other than Wonder Man, though, the company…
You need to watch the bonkers Japanese fantasy horror film House
Get ready to ask “WTF?” a lot. Spooky season is upon us, and traditional horror films like Bring Her Back (excellently gruesome) or The Evil Dead (stone cold classic) are…
Amazon awkwardly edited the guns out of James Bond art
Last week, for James Bond Day, Amazon revealed updated poster art for the movies. But fans immediately noticed that the super spy’s signature Walther PPK was conspicuously missing from every…
Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank
We’ve been so worried about deepfaked politicians, AI musicians, virtual actresses, and phony satellite imagery that we didn’t even consider the dangers posed by precocious teenagers. Kids are using AI…
How BlackBerry Messenger set texting free
Version History It’s important to remember that two decades ago, text messages cost 10 cents. Each. Back when we measured our cell phone plans in minutes, and when even 3G…
Apple ends support for Clips video-editing app
Apple’s Clips video editing app is no more. It debuted in 2017 as a way to stitch together videos with music, text, and filters with a clear focus on sharing…
How Verge readers, and writers, are managing our kids’ screen time
This week the Pew Research Center published a study about how parents managed screen time for their kids 12 and under. The results were not particularly surprising (or enlightening, if…