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Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that agents can be useful for people who don't write code. It's been an interesting couple [...]

When Apple CEO John Ternus announced the first touchscreen Mac last month, the biggest reaction in the room wasn't for the PROLED MacBook Pro's OLED touchscreen or the thinner and lighter chassis; it was for the illuminated lid logo. It's a throwback to the light-up logos on the old MacBooks, which Apple started phasing out [...]

Service is gradually starting to recover for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world. While some apps and features are still running in a degradated state, some people (including Verge staffers) are reporting that access to their emails has been restored, though the flow of Outlook [...]

Jensen Huang resigned this morning as Nvidia's CEO following reports of affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy. Right now, the company is being led by its CFO on an interim basis. But President Donald Trump is already throwing around one person he thinks should take over the chipmaking giant: former Apple CEO Tim [...]

It's been nearly a decade since Bethesda's MachineGames released Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017, and now Xbox is ready to announce a sequel from the studio. Wolfenstein 3 was officially announced today, just days after Bethesda also confirmed that the next Elder Scrolls game will be called The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. In [...]

Starting Thursday, Whoop members can share their data from its wearables on the app's new Whoop Humans social network. Users can make their metrics, activities, and achievements visible to other Whoop wearers, post Story-like "Moments" with photos and captions, and add comments and reactions on other members' posts. Whoop claims its platform is "entirely human," [...]

The Humble Bundle storefront for buying games and other software recently got a new look, but on the settings page, it no longer offers a way to add or update two-factor verification methods, as reported by Kotaku. PC Gamer also points out that there are Humble Bundle support pages discussing two-factor verification, and the writer [...]

Microsoft Outlook continues to be unavailable for people, businesses, and public services across the globe, leaving people unable to access their email, either through the web or apps. Reports around the issue starting rolling in at around 1PM ET on Thursday, with Microsoft since confirming that the outage is impacting Microsoft 365 features that interact [...]

Microsoft is starting to test new customization options for Xbox consoles today. Xbox Insiders will be able to start testing new rotating backgrounds, new library options for digital games, and the ability to move the Xbox Guide menu to the right-hand side. "Xbox Insiders can now save favorite dynamic backgrounds and shuffle through them automatically," [...]

Nvidia announced this morning that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO following reports of two affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with a direct report. The situation surrounding Huang has unfolded quickly, with The New York Times only reporting on Friday that Huang and the suspected spy were "close" before other [...]

The previous-generation Oura Ring 4 is on sale for as low as $249 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, $100 off the retail price, and the first big discount on the device since July. The price varies a bit by size and color, with most silver and black models in stock at the lowest price [...]

For the 25th anniversary of Xbox, Microsoft is beginning to make good on its paid "next-gen game preservation" promise. Starting today, you can play 25 different original Xbox games on your Windows PC, as long as you have (or are willing to pay) for digital copies. In July, Microsoft originally launched the idea with just [...]

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. We'll be taking a break next week and will be back on November 25th. Opt in for Optimizer here. The SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a [...]

Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. There was just one problem: The site had already been discovered and was published in an academic journal last year. The incident, which sparked criticism among archeologists online, underscores a [...]

I had other things to do today, but Alex Karp's pathetic attempt to pivot back to the left gave me no choice but to put them on hold. Last week's elections were a bloodbath for the right, a problem for all the wannabe fash founders who had tied their political fortunes to a "vibe shift" [...]

I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang's second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn't he be? He's placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI industry and famously had no succession plan at Nvidia. In fact, he's the only CEO Nvidia has ever had. L'etat c'est moi. Then [...]

The Cybertruck is heading to that shiny cyber-dumpster in the sky, leaving the folks who built online identities around Elon Musk's polarizing pickup feeling bereft. Usually, Musk's fanbase treads lightly around their idol's mercurial decisions. This time, however, the truck's demise has sparked rare backlash within the Tesla community - aimed squarely at the guy [...]

Microsoft has spent the past 25 years trying to shake up the game console market. The original Xbox, which launched on November 15th in 2001, took on an industry dominated by Sony and Nintendo. Twenty-five years later, Xbox finds itself in a similar position. It's not starting from scratch this time around, but to reach [...]

Shoppers using AI chatbots to research products or find places to buy items could be directed to imposters and other risky websites, a new study found. The study conducted by IP protection firm Podqi and shared exclusively with The Verge prompted ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity with a handful of shopping-related questions involving a selection of [...]

More video game developers are using generative AI tools in their jobs compared to last year, according to the GDC Festival of Gaming's latest annual industry survey. Forty percent of developers surveyed say they use it "as part of their job," an increase from 36 percent in 2025. Usage was higher with game developers that [...]

Google has added digital home key support to Google Wallet, allowing Android users to open smart locks by tapping their phone against them or simply approaching. The feature is currently available in public preview for the Google Home app, and will roll out to everyone "over the coming weeks," according to Google's announcement. This was [...]

Today, we're talking about the Jensen Huang scandal at Nvidia, which is developing so quickly that we had to do an emergency update of this intro minutes before publishing this episode. Huang just resigned from his position as CEO of Nvidia as news of his affairs, including with an alleged Chinese spy, threatened to engulf [...]

Jensen Huang resigned as CEO of Nvidia this morning, a company he co-founded in 1993. The decision came following the company's board opening an investigation into multiple extramarital affairs Huang had with a direct report and an alleged Chinese spy. The new, and first, Chair of the Board, Harvey Jones, shared news of Huang's resignation [...]

Amazon Prime subscribers can jump on a pretty nice deal happening on Ecoflow's laptop power bank that can deliver up to 140W of power through either of its two USB-C ports. You can snag the limited-time deal happening on the black or silver-colored models for $48.99 (originally $85.79) at Amazon. The 25,000mAh / 90Wh battery [...]

After the leather-jacketed CEO, president, and co-founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, his company initially announced an investigation. However, The New York Times reported on Wednesday that there was evidence of another affair, this time with an Nvidia executive who reported directly to him. A board meeting that [...]

Bricklink, a popular online marketplace that Lego bought in 2019 where fans can buy and sell parts and sets, has been down for a week and the company doesn't know when it will return. The team who runs the site has been sharing updates over the past week including estimates of when it will be [...]

Hi! I'm Jen Tuohy, The Verge's senior smart home reviewer. I've tested every smart display Amazon and Google have ever made, and for the past week I've been testing Apple's first: The $299 HomeView. I put the tabletop and wall-mounted versions through their paces, on my kitchen counter, bedside table, in my office, and on [...]

I'm sitting in front of my TV, puppy nuzzled up next to me, with four HomePods spread around my living room - two flanking my TV and one at either end of my couch - connected to the brand new Apple TV 4K. Young Anakin Skywalker hits the throttle and flies through the room. There [...]

It's a weird time to launch a new pair of smart glasses. These last few years, Meta has been the dominant player in pushing a fragile smart glasses resurgence. Unfortunately, its privacy reputation led to the "pervert glasses" moniker. Smart glasses have never been more unpopular. But in the past week, I've been demoing some [...]

The HomeView nails everything I want from a smart display. It's superb at controlling my smart home; it's an excellent hands-free kitchen companion, a good speaker, and a gorgeous digital photo frame. It's also the first Apple smart speaker with Siri AI, which is an improvement, if still slow at times. But Apple has fallen [...]

Nvidia's board announced that Jensen Huang - its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO - has resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang. Following a late Wednesday night meeting, the board accepted Huang's letter of resignation as CEO, president, and [...]

When (or if) Ring's security camera drone flies into our homes in January, you won't get the option to pilot it yourself. The Ring Drone Cam relies entirely on an "AI Pilot" system to follow pre-programmed routes and navigate autonomously around obstacles, with no manual control option available - and an embarrassing demonstration with CBS [...]

Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from The New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair, just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, The Wall Street Journal reports. The second alleged affair was with an executive who [...]

Nabu Casa - the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation, which runs Home Assistant - just launched the Home Assistant Connect Aux-2, a multi-function box designed to help you bring more non-smart devices into your smart home. It's part of Home Assistant's ongoing efforts to become more user-friendly. And it's working. I've been testing [...]

United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports, in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash. But United is concerned [...]

Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make "your online experience fairer." The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA) published by the EU Commission on Wednesday is designed to tackle practices that exploit consumers into spending more of their time and money online, [...]

Toyota is dusting off the Scion badge for a radically different mission. Rather than targeting youth-market hatchbacks, "Scion by Toyota" is being positioned as an experimental mobility incubator - and its first vehicle is an authentic Japanese-style kei truck built in Indiana. Kei vehicles, which are built to satisfy Japan's light vehicle regulations, are enjoying [...]

Google has cooked up a new experimental AI tool called Tabletop that generates customized collaborative hubs to help you coordinate with family, and friends. The Tabletop platform shares some visual similarities with workplace management apps like Asana and Monday, but with a built-in AI feature that allows you to vibecode personalized interactive tools by describing [...]

The countdown to Black Friday is on, and the first discounts are starting to appear. Although the shopping holiday isn't officially until November 27th, retailers are already dropping early deals on some of our favorite tech. Of course, with prices rising across the board, a good discount doesn't necessarily mean you're getting a historically low [...]

Looking for a MacBook and device charger that's as stylish as it is capable? Both Amazon and Sharge are selling the Pixel 140W GaN charger for $69.88 and $69.90, respectively, a $24 discount on its usual price. If you're not in need of that much wattage but like the style, Sharge is also selling the [...]

I never liked hunting for Golden Skulltulas in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The game has 100 of them tucked all over Hyrule, and even over my many hours with the N64 classic growing up, I can't remember ever actually finding all of them, or even wanting to. Jumping into the Ocarina of [...]

Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled a new AI model designed to unravel how changes in our DNA affect different cells, giving scientists a more detailed view of a notoriously difficult problem that could hold important clues to the causes of disease - and point the way to new treatments. AlphaGenome 2 is the successor [...]

It's tempting to seek out the do-everything wireless gaming headset with noise cancellation, phenomenal sound quality, multiplatform connectivity, swappable batteries - you name it. But if you just want the basics done well, Sony's new $99.99 PlayStation Pulse headset is worth considering. It has very good sound and just enough extras, even if you use [...]

Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it's developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today: they can transform images into explorable 3D scenes, design AI characters by talking to them, and turn photo editing into a copy/paste process. [...]

At Skydance's first employee town hall after it acquired Warner Bros. Discovery in October, CEO David Ellison told staff that the company behind Paramount Plus and HBO Max was competing for people's attention with some of the world's biggest tech companies. Months earlier, he'd singled out a way to get viewers to spend more time [...]

Every TV company is spying on you, not just LG. Like other tech companies, they collect lots of information, and while some is necessary for products to work, not all of it is - and could include details you'd prefer to keep private. Many customers are concerned about how TVs and streaming devices might be [...]

For most new relationships, two weeks probably isn't enough time to decide if you're ready for long-term commitment. But two weeks with a new phone? You probably know. The iPhone Duo launched just over two weeks ago, and that's been enough time for a subset of day-one buyers who aren't loving the phone to make [...]

Serve Robotics is opening up its platform to make its autonomous last-mile delivery robots available to anyone who wants to use them. The company is launching a new AV Delivery Developer Portal, enabling third-party software engineers, independent businesses, and even autonomous AI agents to access its fleet of 2,000 sidewalk robots. With this new capability, [...]