Category: Tech
A second US Sphere could come to Maryland
Sphere Entertainment, the company behind the eye-catching interactive venue in Las Vegas, has announced its "intent to develop" an...
How much can a city take?
I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled he...
OpenAI’s 2026 ‘focus’ is ‘practical adoption’
OpenAI plans to focus on "practical adoption" of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends ...
Bungie’s Marathon shooter launches on March 5th
Bungie is putting an official date on Marathon today, its delayed extraction shooter. The slick-looking shooter from the makers of...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons added just enough to suck...
Animal Crossing has always been anti-instant gratification. By design, you have to take your time, wait for days to pass in real t...
Asus may have made its last phone
Asus chairman Jonney Shih told Taiwan's Inside that the company is done making phones for now, marking the end of its Zenfone and ...
This 5-foot lamp is a supersized tribute to the world’s...
Seletti, an Italian design brand known for everything from furniture to tableware, has debuted an unusual tribute to an icon of de...
Gamers love AI in game dev — they just don’t know it ye...
We’re back to start the year off with a very special live interview with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, which we taped in front of a ter...
Threads overtakes X on mobile, but still lags far behin...
After launching almost three years ago, Meta's Threads is now reportedly attracting more daily mobile users than rival platform X....
You need to listen to the cosmic horror-comedy podcast ...
It's relatively rare for a podcast to last 14 years, especially a fiction one. In fact, as far as I can tell, Welcome to Night Val...
Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on dystopian development...
Why Coinbase derailed the crypto industry’s political f...
January was going to be a landmark month for the crypto industry. The Senate would start negotiating the finer details of the CLAR...
Kaoss Pad V is the first major upgrade to Korg’s touch-...
The Kaoss Pad has seen many different iterations, but the mainline effect unit and sampler hasn't received an update since the lau...
Here are the 10 deals worth grabbing from Best Buy’s wi...
Good deals are often hard to come by at the beginning of the year — which is precisely what makes Best Buy’s Winter Sale worth che...
Microsoft’s first Windows 11 update of 2026 stopped som...
Microsoft released its first security update of 2026 for Windows 11 on January 13th. Just four days later, it was forced to releas...
The best deals on MacBooks right now
Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which r...
TCL’s PlayCube projector is more fun than a Rubik’s Cub...
The best all-in-one portable projector is the one that makes all the right compromises. It needs to balance image and sound qualit...
Fear and blogging (and prerelease laptop testing) in La...
At CES, I did what you're not supposed to do: I brought a pre-production laptop to use as my primary workhorse during a hectic eve...
Our favorite cozy game is back
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 112, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome,...
A cute frog game that remixes Nintendo’s best
While playing Big Hops, a new 3D platformer starring an adorable frog, I kept feeling like I was breaking the game - and, like wit...
Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition
As masked and armed men in combat armor swarmed throughout the Twin Cities, Gov. Tim Walz took to primetime television to ask Minn...
All You Need Is Kill is a dazzling movie with the soul ...
While Hollywood has repeatedly tried adapting stories from Japanese manga, vanishingly few of them have been as good as Edge of To...
The LG C5 and Apple’s M4 Mac Mini are both steeply disc...
Happy Saturday, folks! This week, Best Buy kicked off its so-called “Winter Sale,” introducing a whole host of price cuts that ran...
The Setapp Mobile iOS store is shutting down on Februar...
Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU's Digital Marke...
Disney deleted a Thread because people kept putting ant...
"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people i...
