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...
Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago
Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the Chicago suburb Orland Park, I...
X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns
X is suing music publishers and their trade group, the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), accusing them of attempted coercion in their ongoing battle over licensing, as reported ear...
This company could help bring Auracast to an iPhone near you
The splitR Auracast transceiver can attach to an iPhone’s MagSafe spot.
One of the issues holding Auracast back from wider mainstream use is some companies' lack of support for the Bluetooth t...
AI is coming for collectibles next
Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags.
AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, but among the horde of waddling plus...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.)
Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would...
