These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026
A giant version of Lockin’s wirelessly charged V7 smart lock was a showstopper on the CES show floor.
I picked Aqara's Smart Lock U400 and Roborock's Saros Rover robot vacuum as the overall be...
The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites
The FCC approved SpaceX's plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have in orbit to around 15,000 world...
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
Is this… bliss? | Screenshot: Nathan Edwards / The Verge
Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop.
In November, I got fed up and said screw it, I'm installing Linux. Since that article ...
We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry
At CES this year, humanoid robots appeared to be closer than ever to moving into our homes. LG introduced CLOiD, a household robot it says can handle chores like preparing food and loading the ...
What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just about everything, from the FCC to AI shopping tools to Linux.” Before joining our news team,...
The Playdate gets its Monument Valley
Diora might be the most ambitious game I've played on the Playdate. It's all about perspective: You turn the handheld's crank to rotate your viewpoint of the bite-size 3D landscapes, which lets...
The CES 2026 stuff I might actually buy
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 111, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you had a wonderful holiday season, and also you can read...
