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Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo took to X on Wednesday to claim that a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen was expected to enter mass production by late 2026. Today Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is following up to remind us that he was reporting on a touchscreen MacBook Pro way back in 2023. He confirmed Kuo's timeline was [...]

If you're the kind of person who owns leather driving gloves in multiple colors to match your different Jaguars, then there hasn't been a digital paper option that could live up to your lofty luxury standards until now. But Montblanc is finally delivering a truly bougie take on the e-ink writing tablet. The $905 Montblanc [...]

Amazon is about to face a roughly month-long trial against the US Federal Trade Commission in Seattle to defend its Prime program from claims it tricked tens of millions of customers into signing up for the membership and made it hard to quit. It's one of several Big Tech trials the US government has initiated [...]

Donald Trump has never made his distaste for immigrants a secret. It's been a cornerstone of his political movement since he descended that escalator on June 16th, 2015 and started hurling racist vitriol in the general direction of Mexico and Mexican Americans. On the surface, his assault on the H-1B visa program seems like part [...]

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of gaming and technology, follow Sean Hollister. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started They used to be called the "console wars," [...]

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 98, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please tell me if you bought an orange iPhone, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about competitive massage and space [...]

With new restrictions and fees on work visas in the US set to take effect at midnight tonight, it's no surprise that many employers are advising workers abroad to return to the US. Leaked memos from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been circulating on social media that instruct instruct any H-1B visa holders currently traveling [...]

All the fawning by tech CEOs wasn't enough to convince Donald Trump to back off his crusade against immigrants. Yesterday the president announced that the government would be adding a $100,000-a-year fee on all H-1B visas in an effort to discourage their use. While many industries make significant use of the H-1B program to attract [...]

A cool new perk recently became available for Prime members: for a limited time, you can get a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited. If your ebookshelf is looking bare, Amazon is currently offering a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited for free. The service typically costs $11.99 per month, so the deal saves you $35.97 over [...]

You'd be forgiven for assuming the iPhone Air would snap like a twig under pressure. It's almost impossibly thin at just 5.6mm. But, its titanium frame is not only stronger than aluminum, it's also more elastic. YouTuber JerryRigEverything demonstrates this with his usual bend test. While he's able to get some slight bowing by pressing [...]

Barely over a week after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's public killing at a Utah campus, speech attacks in the name of the self-proclaimed free speech advocate are piling up. Law enforcement officials have custody of suspected shooter Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah who prosecutors allege was in a relationship with a transgender woman and [...]

Starting Monday, the US government will get another crack at convincing a federal judge to break up Google, after a different judge decided to keep it intact despite finding it to be a monopolist. Lawyers for Google and the Justice Department will return to a federal courthouse in Alexandria, VA for a roughly two-week trial [...]

In Henry Halfhead, you play through the life of a person named Henry. But there are a couple twists. Henry is only half of a head - just eyes, ears, nose, and the top of their head - meaning they move around by sliding on the floor and jumping up and down. Also, Henry can [...]

For years, foreign automakers have been sending their employees to the US to open advanced manufacturing and battery plants in states like South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. These plants eventually employ thousands of American workers who build vehicles for both the US market and overseas. And they pump billions of dollars into the state [...]

Anker's latest Soundcore Sleep A30 sleep buds do what its A20 buds promised but couldn't deliver: mask snoring. It accomplishes this with the inclusion of Active Noise Cancellation in the buds and a microphone inside the charging case that actively adjusts masking audio to cancel out the sound of sawing logs. Of course I want [...]

A 10 percent stake in Intel, 15 percent of Nvidia's China sales, a golden share" of Nippon Steel - what price will Trump extract next in exchange for favorable treatment? Well, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Administration is expected to collect a multibillion-dollar fee" in exchange for negotiating a US takeover [...]

Have enough Copilot buttons in your life? No you don't - have another one! This one pops up in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview when mousing over an open app in your taskbar; it lets you share the contents with Copilot Vision. Want to know who is celebrating in that dogpile on the mound, [...]

Michael Eisner, Disney's former CEO who ran the company for 21 years and oversaw its acquisition of ABC in 1995, does not think his successor, Bob Iger, made the right decision in moving to put Jimmy Kimmel Live! on indefinite pause following threats from Trump-appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr. In a post to X about [...]

Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.99 price. The Xbox Series S will move to $399.99, up from $379.99. Microsoft blames the price hikes [...]

On Wednesday evening, I had a profound sense of deja vu. When I watched Mark Zuckerberg open his Meta Connect keynote by giving the world a live backstage tour from his new glasses, I was transported back to 2012. I was in the live audience at Google I/O when Sergey Brin introduced the world to [...]

Happy iPhone Day! If you're picking up the new iPhone 17 or iPhone Air and want to avoid scratches or cracks on its front glass, we spotted a great deal on a two-pack of amFilm's OneTouch screen protectors over at Slickdeals. Designed specifically to fit the front of the new 6.3-inch iPhone 17, you can [...]

Ugreen has released a new wallet tracker that's just as thin as the FineTrack Slim Smart Finder the company debuted earlier this year, but with a massive boost in battery life from 12 months to five years. However, while the previous version was compatible with Apple's Find My network and recharable, the new FineTrack Slim [...]

China and the US have made progress" on granting permission for ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American consortium, fulfilling a nine-months-overdue legal requirement. After saying a tentative deal had been reached Monday and that approval would come Friday, President Donald Trump's administration has issued an update that leaves the current status ambiguous and the [...]

The only true surprise about this latest MAGA influencer civil war is how quickly it happened, given the circumstances: Charlie Kirk, an ubiquitous presence, influential political force, and seemingly everyone's best friend, had been dead for barely a week before everyone began fighting each other for a piece of him. The indictment of Tyler Robinson, [...]

It feels like we've reached total saturation when it comes to streaming services, but apparently people are happy to sign up for one (or two) more services if they include live sports. According to Antenna, a firm that tracks the streaming industry, the new ESPN service and Fox One signed up about a million new [...]

One of the mysterious AI devices that OpenAI is considering developing with Apple's former chief design officer, Jony Ive, resembles a smart speaker without a display," The Information reports. People with direct knowledge of the matter" told the publication that OpenAI has already secured a contract with Luxshare, and has also approached Goertek - two [...]

Meta obviously believes in smart glasses. It's not alone: Google, Apple, Samsung, and others all appear to be heavily invested in the idea that the next big gadget will be on your face. But at least for now, it appears Meta is the company building the best, most interesting, and most successful version of that [...]

Following the announcement that it is bringing Gemini to its Google Home smart home platform, it appears the company is updating its Google Home app to incorporate the new features. Android Authority dove into code for the upcoming v3.41.50.3 version of the app and found a significant redesign." While the overall UI doesn't look like [...]

There is a certain degree of body horror baked into American football that becomes readily apparent whenever players sustain gruesome, career-ending injuries on camera. For some, football's overt violence is part of its appeal, and players are seen as people who have chosen to risk their safety in pursuit of fame and glory. Over the [...]

When The Verge's senior smart home reviewer, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, offered to give us a tour of her smart backyard, I was thrilled. Firstly, I have never seen a technologically advanced backyard curated by an industry expert before, and secondly, I wasn't even sure what to expect. My vision of a smart home includes automated [...]

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. There's a hard conversation to be [...]

This week, Google announced that it has finally completed moving "the best" of its Nest-branded smart home devices from the Nest app to the Google Home app. This means users of Google Nest hardware shouldn't have to bounce between two apps anymore and can finally delete the Nest app. (The "best" qualifier is doing some [...]

Nothing is teasing a second set of headphones that it will release through its CMF affordability-focused subbrand. The launch comes after Nothing released its Headphone 1 wireless over-ear cans earlier this year. The CMF Headphone Pro will launch on September 29th, 2025, and while the company hasn't revealed any specifics on performance, the teaser videos [...]

In case it wasn't clear, The Last of Us made it obvious: at their very best, big-budget video games should be comparable to prestige television, so much so that adapting one for HBO is a relatively straightforward affair. This bar-setting exercise is further exemplified by other PlayStation franchises marching toward adaptation: Ghost of Tsushima is [...]

The iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 fleet of phones took the spotlight during Apple's Awe dropping" event. If you weren't tempted by the new phones, the fact that the entire Apple Watch lineup got refreshed might have been even bigger news to you. The Apple Watch SE 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and Apple [...]

Apple's most impressive wireless earbuds are now available fromAmazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target for $249. Our reviewer Victoria Song had a lot of good things to say about them in our review. But if it's an in-depth spec showdown that you're looking for, between the AirPods Pro 3 and the rest of Apple's AirPods [...]

Autumn is a time for renewal. Summer, a time for vacations and relaxation, is over. And now, we must look to the start of a new school year and a renewed attention to work. It can sometimes be difficult to make the transition - many of us would rather spend a little more time in [...]

A wise person once observed that cycling in my neighborhood in Seattle is like going uphill both ways. It's the absolute truth. My house? On a hill. The business district I want to get to? On a different hill. The route to the coffee shop? Hills galore. And inevitably, as I'd grind through another steep [...]

To cover American tech policy over the past few years has been to watch a series of individually dangerous waves of regulation and political operations roll toward an inevitable convergence. To cover American tech policy over the past few months is to watch those waves collide invisibly beneath the surface and head squarely in the [...]

Fall Upgrade Week feels like an odd time to celebrate my move to a 50-year-old film camera, but there's logic to it: not because film photos are timeless, or because I want to wax lyrical about warmth and grain and analog appeal, but because I don't think there's any better way to teach yourself about [...]

Apple's iPhone 17, the 17 Pro, the 17 Pro Max, and the thin iPhone Air are now available in stores and online. Beyond the Air's shockingly slim design, Apple's latest iPhone lineup features a number of notable updates worth upgrading for, especially if you have a phone that's a few generations old. The standard iPhone [...]

Security researchers employed ChatGPT as a co-conspirator to plunder sensitive data from Gmail inboxes without alerting users. The vulnerability exploited has been closed by OpenAI but it's a good example of the new risks inherent to agentic AI. The heist, called Shadow Leak and published by security firm Radware this week, relied on a quirk [...]

Meta ran into some spectacularly embarrassing technical issues during the live demos of its new smart glasses this week, and now we know why. Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, explained in an Instagram AMA why two notable demos - an influencer asking the AI assistant for cooking instructions, and Mark Zuckerberg attempting to pick [...]

In the future, Intel will make CPUs with Nvidia graphics inside - among other things, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute GPU chiplets" that Intel can place alongside its x86 CPU cores instead of the Arc integrated graphics it develops in-house today. But, at least for now, Intel says that doesn't [...]

The microphones in your earbuds probably suck. You know it, I know it, and apparently Nothing knows it too. Its fix? Better microphones - but in the charging case, not the buds. The Ear 3 buds feature what the company calls "Super Mic." What that really means is a pair of microphones built into the [...]

Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world's most valuable company (Nvidia's at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. Nvidia quickly shut down several possible explanations. Huang claimed it had nothing to do with Trump, who famously [...]

Today, the CEO of Hyundai sought to distance his company from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid earlier this month at the company's battery factory in Georgia, which resulted in the arrest of hundreds of South Korean workers. The factory is operated by LG Energy Solutions, and most of the workers that were detained were [...]

If you want a fun way to add light and color to your space, Nanoleaf's wall lights are a great option. Ahead of Prime Big Deal Days, Nanoleaf is offering 20 percent off select products exclusively for Verge readers with the promo code THEVERGE20OFF through September 20th. For instance, you can save 20 percent off [...]

Like many backpackers, I'm a sicko. I have weighed all my gear in order to maintain a spreadsheet for pack weight on every trip I'm on. I've spent more money than I care to think about in order to drop pounds, or even ounces. This is why I'm the proud new owner of a power [...]

Ubiquiti has announced a collection of new storage solutions compatible with its UniFi lineup of networking devices that already includes routers, switches, and security cameras. Compared to other desktop network attached storage (NAS) solutions from companies like Synology and Ugreen, Ubiquiti's UNAS 2 and UNAS 4 look more like sleek wireless routers than storage solutions [...]