Ricoh’s GR IV launches in September for a much steeper price than its predecessor
The stealthy and no-frills camera is back. Ricoh is launching its GR IV compact camera in mid-September for $1,499.95, accompanied by a tiny new GF-2 add-on flash for $119.95. As…
Google’s Gemini Live AI assistant will show you what it’s talking about
Google is bringing a bundle of new features to Gemini Live, its AI assistant that you can have real-time conversations with. Next week, Gemini Live will be able to highlight…
Made by Google: How to watch the Pixel 10 launch
Google is set to reveal its new flagship Pixel hardware at a Made by Google event today at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, when we’ll find out exactly what the…
Prices leak for the rest of Google’s new Pixel products
At this rate, nothing announced at Google’s Pixel event will be a suprise. More prices have leaked for Google’s new lineup of Pixel phones and watches, this time joined by…
Ikea’s most Ikea product ever
You can certainly use this for other things besides meatballs too, but it does present them beautifully. Ikea is teaming up with a Swedish designer for its latest collection, and…
Hyperkin’s DualSense-inspired Xbox controller is finally launching this fall
You don’t have to worry about battery life with the Hyperkin Competitor since it’s a wired-only Xbox controller. | Image: Hyperkin There’s good news if you’re an Xbox gamer who’s…
The White House just joined TikTok
While it was President Joe Biden who signed the law that would force ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok or face a ban, it’s his successor, Donald Trump, who…
UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption
Apple secures a victory in its fight against the UK’s encryption access demands. The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected…
‘Play Instantly on Discord’: Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord’s first instant game demo
Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it’s also part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games have teamed up for an…
Nvidia’s app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features
The Nvidia app is getting improvements to DLSS override, more control panel features, and Project G-Assist changes this week. Nvidia has been gradually improving its new app over the past…
Nvidia gives fake Harrison Ford better hair using spheres
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be the first game to get Nvidia’s new RTX Hair features next month. Instead of using triangles to model hair, Nvidia will use…
Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games
It’s been two and a half years since Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service got a big boost in graphics, latency, and refresh rates — this September, Nvidia’s GFN will…
Microsoft is finally improving Windows 11’s dark mode
Microsoft first introduced a dark mode option in Windows 10 in 2016, but there were still plenty of areas of the operating system that looked like a mish-mash of light…
Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers
In a recent episode of Post Games, host Chris Plante explores how video games can help players understand death. He’s interviewing Kaitlin Tremblay, who is working on Ambrosia Sky, a…
Teenage Engineering did it again
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 94, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, did you hydrate today, and also you…
The one feature that keeps me from recommending flip phones
How it started I carry a lot of different phones around, and I rarely get questions about them because most people stopped talking about which phone they own around 2017.…
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is $600 off ahead of the new model’s debut
Some people like to stay on the cutting edge of technology. If that’s you, you already know that Google is going to officially unveil its Pixel 10 phones (including a…
Dead Take’s best scares come from real-life performances
Dead Take, the second game from Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios, is a quiet horror game where the monster is ambition and the lengths a person will go…
A brazen attack on air safety is underway — here’s what’s at stake
At the end of July, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convened a three-day public hearing to investigate January’s mid-air collision over Washington, DC that killed 67 people. After the…
Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 10, 2024: Laura Loomer arrives at Philadelphia International Airport on The Trump Organization’s Boeing 757. | Photo: Getty Images For all the power she wields with…
Louisiana sues Roblox for creating an environment where ‘child predators thrive’
The state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, alleging that the company has “permitted and perpetuated an online environment in which child predators thrive, directly contributing to the…
Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now
Apple’s latest AirPods Pro are receiving the biggest discount at 32 percent off. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score…
What my first five Steam purchases say about me
There’s a meme currently going around Bluesky where people are posting their first purchases on Steam. Taking a look presents a neat time capsule, offering a glimpse of who we…
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s full specs may have just leaked
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is set to launch on Augst 20th. Google gave us the first official look at its upcoming Pixel 10 Pro Fold on Tuesday, but now…
Fortnite login is back after an outage
Fortnite players are able to hop into matches following a login issue that Epic Games described as preventing users from “getting in reliably.” “This log-in outage is resolved; all players…
Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US
The Supreme Court will let Mississippi’s social media age verification law take effect while the case is being argued in court. In an unsigned ruling on Thursday, the court declined…
The best Xbox controller to buy right now
We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation…
China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
MicroSD cards are tiny but slow; the M.2 storage sticks in your PC are blazing fast but bigger and fully enclosed. Now, a new type of SSD out of China…
Everything we think we know about the Google Pixel 10 phones
This is an official Pixel 10 image released by Google, though it’s probably the Pro. Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the…
Cowboy’s e-bikes granted a second life
The step-through Cruiser ST model at the heart of the recall. | Image: Cowboy After months of speculation over the e-bike maker’s imminent demise, Cowboy says it now has the…