Category: Tech
The lonely promise of cute robots
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the ...
Tesla throws in the towel on car sales
Is Tesla still a car company? It's a question we've been asking ourselves more frequently over the past year, especially as the co...
Cold weather in Florida is pushing back the Artemis II ...
As a result of cold weather and windy conditions moving through Florida, NASA is now targeting Monday, February 2nd for a wet dres...
Don Lemon has been arrested for covering an anti-ICE pr...
Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor turned independent journalist, was arrested on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, who...
Half of developers think gen AI is bad for the gaming i...
While generative AI is being adopted at various levels of game development, a new survey suggests that developers increasingly thi...
Spotify’s new group chats share music with everyone in ...
Spotify is expanding its in-app messaging feature with group chats. Now you can add up to 10 friends and family members to your di...
Everything is gambling now: the latest news on predicti...
Prediction markets will let you bet on just about anything, from how many tweets Elon Musk will post this week to the next preside...
Obsbot’s new gimbal webcam doesn’t justify its $350 pri...
Webcam company Obsbot recently launched two new gimbal-equipped webcams, the $349 Tiny 3 and the $199 Tiny 3 Lite. It claims that ...
Apple’s second biggest acquisition ever is an AI compan...
Apple's biggest acquisition ever is still its $3 billion Beats buy in 2014, but now the second biggest deal is bringing in Q.ai, a...
Elon Musk might merge SpaceX with Tesla or xAI
Elon Musk-led SpaceX may merge with another company helmed by Elon Musk. Reuters initially reported Thursday that SpaceX and xAI a...
The best foldable phone you can buy
A foldable phone isn’t for the faint of heart. They’re generally heavier, pricier, and have less capable cameras than a standard s...
The weirdest headphones at CES will launch on Kickstart...
There's never a shortage of weird tech debuting at CES every year. A new company called Tomorrow Doesn't Matter, or TDM, announced...
Apple just had a record-breaking iPhone quarter
Apple says the iPhone had its "best-ever" quarter, with revenue hitting more than $85.3 billion over the past few months. The comp...
It’s a new heyday for gas thanks to data centers
The US is now leading a global surge in new gas power plants being built in large part to satisfy growing energy demand for data c...
Grok is the most antisemitic chatbot according to the A...
Across six top large language models, xAI's Grok performed the worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, according ...
Bluesky is testing ‘live’ features to take on X
Bluesky says it's planning to make the app feel more "live" this year as part of ongoing efforts to build a competent rival to Elo...
Ted Lasso season 4 hits Apple TV in the summer
One of Apple TV's biggest hits is returning later this year: the streamer confirmed that season 4 of Ted Lasso will premiere this ...
Send Help is an ode to every worker who has had a bad b...
When it comes to director Sam Raimi's films, you have to go into the theater understanding that you're about to experience a piece...
Snap is turning its smart glasses team into its own com...
Snap is launching a separate business for its upcoming Specs augmented reality glasses in a bid to lure new investors to the proje...
Apple aims to keep iPhone 18 price flat in face of RAM ...
Apple will try to avoid raising iPhone 18 prices "as much as possible" in the face of a global memory shortage, according to a rep...
This fanny pack robot helped me walk miles
Oops, I did it again: I wore an exoskeleton to the world's biggest tech show, walking the streets and casinos of Las Vegas with a ...
My favorite folding phone is the one that doesn’t exist...
A book-style folding phone is a gadget that poses one radical idea: What if you always had a computer in your pocket? When you'd l...
This soft humanoid robot is designed to be ‘physically ...
A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a new humanoid robot called Sprout it's been developing over the past two years. Stan...
Beyond Meat’s protein soda might be its last chance and...
Beyond Meat just launched a new product that's even further from meat than ever before: a protein soda. Beyond Immerse is the comp...
A former Netflix game studio went indie to reach more p...
When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense. The studio had been around for over a de...
