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The Surface Pro 12-inch Second Edition comes in black, silver, or violet. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips.

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Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr.

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The LED control display includes a Yeti mascot, because of course it does. | Image: Logitech G The original Blue Yeti has been one of the most recognizable go-to USB microphones for content creators since it launched in 2009, and now it finally has a succ…

The X3 also comes in black.

Xbox appears to be ready to launch its own version of PlayStation's platinum trophies.

Nintendo’s “Customer Appreciation” sale continues through September 26th.

The Una Watch costs less than most Garmin watches now that its price has been lowered from the Kickstarter offer of $350 to $199, but its modular, repairable design grabbed my attention first.

Part of the job of a content creator is to figure out how to get their work in front of the most people.

Discord is rolling out a new global age assurance system, seven months after pausing its previous verification measures following backlash from users.

McDonald's is putting ads on its drive-thru menu as part of a "limited" pilot at company-owned restaurants, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Video games have given us plenty of ways to traverse huge open worlds, but none have felt quite as oddly exhilarating as manipulating gravity in Control Resonant's twisted version of New York City.

Both 18 Pro phones feature rear displays, just like last year’s 17 Pro models. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi's new 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max launched in China today, and feature a more flexible take on the privacy display tech introduced this year on Samsung's Galaxy

Patreon cofounder Sam Yam is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product. | Image: The Verge OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators.

Eight Sleep announced the next version of its "intelligent sleep system" designed to regulate the temperature of your bed in response to tracked health and sleep metrics like breathing and heart rate.

After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward.

Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros.

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and auto manufacturing, and certainly not electric vehicle production.

You couldn’t accuse Motorola of designing a boring phone. | Image: Motorola Motorola is the first company to announce a phone running Qualcomm's top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip.

The 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 share most of their specs in common. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too.

Apple's new texture and grain controls for stylizing photos will be more limited on older phones than initially expected.

An early look at the first set of Googlebooks The Android-powered Googlebooks are coming soon, with familiar brands and specs that rival Windows Copilot machines.

A rare discount on Apple’s dark color keyboard. | Image: The Verge Until the end of the day on September 22nd, 2026, Best Buy and Amazon have the black Apple Magic Keyboard on sale for $169.99, a $30 discount from the usual price.

San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling early access to President Donald Trump's posts on the social media site.

The Whoop MG fitness band. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is working on a new fitness tracker with a screenless design, similar to the one made by Whoop, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup.

Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents.

Rivian always planned for its all-important R2 vehicle to be less expensive than its pricey R1 predecessors, but also less polluting.

In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now "officially" renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence."

Xbox has become a shell of its former self - and things are only getting worse.

Microsoft is uniting its two Forza developers into a single studio today, as part of a massive restructuring of Xbox.

Microsoft is laying off around 260 Xbox employees today, as part of an ongoing "reset" of its gaming business. 1,600 Xbox employees were impacted by layoffs in July, with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma describing the cuts as "the most significant restructure in Xbox

Microsoft is announcing a massive restructuring of its Xbox studios today, months after laying off 1,600 Xbox employees and selling off studios.

The Beats 360 are designed to last through your sweaty workouts.

The White House is now airing reruns of President Donald Trump's speeches, bill signings, and other moments on a YouTube livestream that it's calling "Trump TV," as reported earlier by Time.

EssilorLuxottica, the company that Meta partnered with for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, announced a new version of its Nuance Audio glasses that are designed to double as discreet over-the-counter hearing aids.

Waymo has made several attempts over the years at offering transit discounts to its customers in the hopes of getting them to more frequently use the company's robotaxis to connect with a train or a bus.

All three rear cameras use 200-megapixel sensors. | Image: Oppo Oppo's new Find X10 Pro Max flagship phone, launched today in China, is the first anywhere to use 200-megapixel sensors on all three of its rear cameras.

Peloton said phones aren’t the only things that can fold.

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The zero-day exploit required local access to the user’s device, but gave potential attackers access to Muse accounts. | Image: The Verge Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow s…

In 2021, as a whistleblower emerged with dramatic allegations that Facebook was harming children, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a rebuttal on Facebook.

The venue is opening below Battersea Power Station, also well recognized for featuring on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals album. | Image: Apple Apple is preparing to open a new "state-of-the-art" live music venue in the UK, a 600-capacity space for host…

A JetBlue airplane past an FAA air traffic control tower at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025.

Amazon plans to spend $20 million on water conservation projects along the Colorado River, a crucial but dwindling water supply for 40 million people in the Western US.

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Last week, GM announced a new software experience for its upcoming Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, including a new look for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the popular phone mirroring systems that the automaker made a big deal about removing from i…