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iRobot’s founder is working on a new kind of home robot

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Colin Angle, the co-founder of iRobot and its CEO for three decades, is getting back into...
Colin Angle, the co-founder of iRobot and its CEO for three decades, is getting back into robotics with a new startup called Familiar Machines & Magic. According to The Boston Globe, the company is developing a new kind of home robot focusing on health and wellness that might take the form of an animal or a “familia...
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This mod turns the PSP into a tiny PS2 with Bluetooth controller support

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What if you could turn a PSP with a broken screen into a miniature PS2, connect...
What if you could turn a PSP with a broken screen into a miniature PS2, connect a Bluetooth controller to it, and play PSP games on your TV? That’s the idea behind Retro Mod Works’ PS Placeable, a mod that “consolizes” the PSP and was featured yesterday in a video from the YouTube channel Macho Nacho Productions. Re...
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Apple’s foldable iPad could be like ‘two iPad Pros side-by-side’

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Apple hopes to release a foldable 18.8-inch creaseless iPad by about 2028, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes...
Apple hopes to release a foldable 18.8-inch creaseless iPad by about 2028, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in today’s Power On newsletter. The company’s industrial design group has reportedly managed to create prototypes of this device that “have a nearly invisible crease” and would essentially be like “two iPad Pros...
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2025 in tech: who’s in and who’s out

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Hello! I’m here from the future. And I have some news. 12 months from now, all...
Hello! I’m here from the future. And I have some news. 12 months from now, all the Big Tech CEOs are still in their jobs, everybody’s using folding phones, Apple made a TV, and Nvidia is the most valuable company in the history of the universe. Wild year, huh? Or maybe not? It’s hard to remember. Time travel messes ...
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For its next trick, Apple is reportedly preparing a Magic Mouse redesign

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Apple is working on a redesigned successor to the Magic Mouse, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman...
Apple is working on a redesigned successor to the Magic Mouse, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. This new mouse would address complaints some users have had, including that pesky charging port. Gurman writes that Apple’s design team has created prototypes of the mouse in recent mon...
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The musical at the end of the world

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Mother (Tilda Swinton) is having a bad dream. Sleeping beside her is the sweet and affable...
Mother (Tilda Swinton) is having a bad dream. Sleeping beside her is the sweet and affable Father (Michael Shannon). She wrestles herself out of a nightmare and is comforted by her husband. She lies to him and says she’s okay, but she’s clearly not.How could she be? She knows everything. She knows if she were to cra...
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A worthy update to my favorite mobile game ever

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 64, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 64, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for some weird documentaries, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about raw milk and $HAWK and WhatsApp, watching...
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Now ChromeOS can reset itself without erasing your laptop

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Windows warns Phone Link won’t show ‘sensitive’ Android 15 notifications

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YouTube TV is letting some subscribers hold off that price hike

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HDMI 2.2 will be announced next month — and it may require a new cable

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Sonos plans return-to-office push for its product teams

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Sonos will soon encourage employees on its various product teams who live near its US office...
Sonos will soon encourage employees on its various product teams who live near its US office locations to come in for at least two days per week, The Verge has learned. That’s a notable break from the company’s history, throughout which Sonos has enthusiastically supported fully remote and hybrid work. Job listings ...
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Android is making it easier to find unknown trackers to prevent stalking

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How to responsibly get rid of the stuff you’ve decluttered

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While we’re always being told how to simplify our cramped living spaces and get rid of...
While we’re always being told how to simplify our cramped living spaces and get rid of all the stuff we’re no longer using or wearing, it’s often hard to figure out just how to do it responsibly without adding to the world’s excess trash. Because just dumping them isn’t an option, reusing and recycling old and unnee...
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NYT tech workers win tentative union contract after election week strike

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The end of Cruise is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles

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Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand...
Eight years and $10 billion later, GM has decided to pull the plug on its grand robotaxi experiment. The automaker’s CEO, Mary Barra, made the surprise announcement late on Tuesday, arguing that a shared autonomous mobility service was never really in its “core business.” It was too expensive and had too many regula...
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Trump’s DOJ broke policy to try to learn journalist’s sources, inspector general alleges

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The Department of Justice during the Trump administration defied agency policy in an attempt to identify...
The Department of Justice during the Trump administration defied agency policy in an attempt to identify journalists’ sources, the agency’s inspector general alleges in a new report.The IG alleges the agency sought “non-content communications records” — information like email logs, rather than the content of those c...
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The iPhone 16 Pro now lets you layer recordings in Voice Memos

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Now you can visit Roku City in 1080p

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The tundra keeps burning and it’s transforming the Arctic

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For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures by storing carbon in the frozen...
For millennia, the Arctic tundra has helped stabilize global temperatures by storing carbon in the frozen ground. Wildfires have changed that, according to the latest Arctic Report Card released yesterday at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. Fires, intensified by climate change, release carbon trapped...
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Scientists advise EU to halt solar geoengineering

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Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts...
Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through solar geoengineering. That includes controversial technologies used to reflect sunlight back into space, primarily by sending reflective particles into the atmosphere or by brighten...
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Manchester City is letting fans design its new kit with AI

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Manchester City is holding a competition that asks fans to generate its future kit design with...
Manchester City is holding a competition that asks fans to generate its future kit design with AI. Players will wear the winning design during the 2026-2027 season as City’s official third kit, and it will even be sold to fans.The club partnered with Puma to launch a text-to-image uniform generator powered by the AI...
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The best Android phones

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The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new...
The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a much wider range of choices on Android. You want incredible camera zoom? A built-in stylus? A phone that runs a complete desktop environment when you plug it into a moni...
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Apple Pay’s first competitor on the iPhone has arrived in Norway

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