Apple's efforts to rebuild its Apple Intelligence AI platform will make its debut at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8th. A new version of Siri that transforms the voice assistant into a "systemwide AI agent with deep integration across applications" will be announced at WWDC 2026, according to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark […]

Neal Stephenson didn't invent the virtual reality headset. But Meta certainly knows his name - in 1992, his seminal cyberpunk novel Snow Crash coined the phrase "Metaverse" to describe a virtual reality world experienced through VR goggles. It inspired many key VR developers - and in 2021, Facebook decided to rename its entire company to […]

iOS 26.4 is here, and it comes with a bunch of small but notable updates. That includes a new Playlist Playground launching in beta in Apple Music, which uses AI to generate a song playlist - complete with a title, description, and tracklist - based on a text prompt. Apple Music is also adding a […]

Deals on the Lego Game Boy are virtually nonexistent, save for the $10 discount that Costco and Sam’s Club offered their members when the set launched late last year. The deal is back — this time, at Kohl’s — and no membership is required to get $10 off. You can purchase the Lego Game Boy and have […]

When Apple released the latest Apple Watch SE, it surprised us, outshining Apple’s more expensive models while improving on the basics. Now that it’s on sale, it’s even easier to recommend. The LTE-enabled model has dropped back to its all-time low of $249 ($50 off) at Amazon for the first time since December, while the […]

The AI-powered shopping rivalry is heating up as Google and OpenAI launch new features to help you buy things while interacting with their chatbots. Now, Google is teaming up with Gap Inc to allow its Gemini AI assistant to purchase clothes on your behalf from any of its stores, which include Gap, Old Navy, Banana […]

It takes a week to switch phones. First, there's the technical process of moving eSIMs across devices, which takes either a few minutes (if you're switching from one Android phone to another) or two days, a half-dozen calls to Verizon, a verification text message sent to your mom, and approximately 11,000 restarts of your phone […]

When The Verge's Allison Johnson went hands-on with the company's Titan 2 Elite phone at MWC 2026, Unihertz didn't divulge pricing info. But the compact Android phone with a BlackBerry-inspired keyboard is now available for preorder through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and starts at $489, with a discount for early backers bringing it down to […]

Fans thought they were done with the original Life is Strange duo of Max and Chloe. Following the first game and its 2017 prequel, players said their tearful goodbyes to these beloved characters - or so they thought. Following Max Caulfield's abrupt return in 2024's Double Exposure, this week sees the unlikely return of Chloe […]

Google announced a new version of its Android Automotive open-source operating system for software-defined vehicles. Whereas previously Android Automotive operated exclusively in the car's infotainment system, Google is now expanding its "open infrastructure" to the non-safety parts of the car's internal computer system. As cars have swiftly become "computers on wheels," there is still a […]