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I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014: Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app. “Why do I have to go the […]

With the rise of AI writing tools, Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and phony citations. Already, the community of Wikipedia volunteers has mobilized to fight back against AI slop, something Wikimedia Foundation product director Marshall Miller likens to a sort of "immune system" response. […]

Ikea has announced that it’s opening mini retail experiences in a handful of Best Buy stores in the southern US later this year. It’s the first time Ikea’s products and services will be available through another US retailer, saving shoppers from having to visit and navigate the chain’s warehouse-sized stores which aren’t as plentiful in […]

It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offering a default feed that only contains your friends’ posts, to high […]

OpenAI just announced its GPT-5 AI model on Thursday, but you won’t be able to use it with Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration until iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac. Apple Intelligence can rely on ChatGPT for things like helping answer certain Siri queries or alongside Apple’s Google Lens-like Visual […]

Having a solid set of Wi-Fi routers is essential, whether you’re working from home, playing online games , or streaming a movie. I’ve used this three-pack of TP-Link’s Deco BE26 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Routers for months without any issues, and I’m eager to recommend them, especially since it’s currently on sale for $188.89 ($90 off) […]

As far as I'm concerned, 8BitDo's Pro 3 is the ultimate controller. You may already know that it makes a model literally called the Ultimate controller, but it plays second fiddle to the new Pro 3 in some key ways. It's highly customizable, allowing you to change the face buttons, joystick caps, and more. Let […]

Nintendo has announced a new free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It’s called Hello, Mario! and was revealed alongside a new collection of Mario-themed products designed for kids and toddlers launching in Japan later this month. All of Nintendo’s mobile apps have been free to download so far, but while some […]

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project's leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to the automaker's efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for […]

Google’s apparent quest to bring AI features across all of its apps has just extended to one of its most mundane: Google Finance. The company announced on Friday that it’s testing a “new, AI-powered Google Finance,” chatbot included. The revamp, which will roll out in the US in the coming weeks, will let you ask […]

Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify’s new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a “silk-like textile,” according to Designboom, the headphone cover’s fabric has been finished with a pleated design […]

For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House's decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes "the ouster of at least 15 individuals from Trump's second administration" to Loomer's influence - partially, at least. For Washington veterans who grew up in quote-unquote normal […]

Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models powering Tesla’s self-driving features and its Optimus humanoid robot. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced […]

Here's the tricky part about assessing an AI system's deception rate: if the system is really good at deceiving you, you might not notice. This week on The Vergecast, Adi Robertson and Alex Heath join me to discuss the launch of GPT-5 and GPT-OSS… and the strange charts we saw along the way. GPT-5 is […]

Marina Galperina is a senior tech editor at The Verge who works with staff writers and freelancers on reports and theme weeks. She recently started a new newsletter called The Stepback, which breaks down one essential story from a writer of the week every Sunday. (From Marina: “Please subscribe!”) During a recent discussion of Labubus […]

While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It's a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more. Copilot 3D just needs a […]

CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan. You could have fooled me. Sony’s last two Xperia 1 flagships have skipped the US market entirely, and it appears to be pulling back in Europe too. It […]

We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue.  Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could change […]

The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company's Slack. "As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market," wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared […]