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April 7, 2026
Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them
Google's Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode, which does what it already does in most other browsers: ...
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April 7, 2026
The case for banning cookie banners
You almost certainly encounter cookie banners all the time. They're the kind of low-level annoyance that just seems to come with being a person on the internet: a pop-up asking you to agree to shar...
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April 5, 2026
How the Amazon Echo learned to talk — and listen
Jeff Bezos badly wanted a voice computer. He had been saying so publicly since the very early days of Amazon, telling anyone who would listen about why voice might make it easier and more natural t...
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April 4, 2026
The app for tracking TV, movies, podcasts, and everything
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April 3, 2026
Apple’s best product ever
All week, we've been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company's 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in - we ended up with more than 1.6 m...
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April 2, 2026
Verge subscribers: Join us for a movie night in New York City, hosted by The Vergecast
The Vergecast is hosting a special in-person screening of Sneakers in partnership with IFC in New York City, and we're opening presale tickets exclusively to Verge subscribers. Sneakers is a movie ...
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April 2, 2026
Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader
Surf is a slightly hard app to explain. It's sort of three things: a client for fediverse apps like Bluesky and Mastodon; a feed reader that lets you subscribe to almost any website, podcast, or Yo...
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March 31, 2026
Apple at 50: the good and the bad
We're spending the week documenting and analyzing the first half-century of Apple's existence, from the oft-overlooked creation of QuickTime to the iconic MacBook Air to Apple's veering into antitr...
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March 30, 2026
Steve Jobs and the greatest run of products in tech history
"I'm pleased to report to you that Apple's back on track." It was May of 1998, and Steve Jobs was about 10 months into his second stint leading the company he'd cofounded more than two decades earl...
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March 29, 2026
The Macintosh changed computers forever
Apple's most legendary computer has two legacies: there's the computer itself, and there's the commercial. That commercial. Only a couple of days before Steve Jobs debuted the computer that would b...
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March 28, 2026
The must-have app for frequent flyers
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March 27, 2026
Meta’s court losses could be just the beginning
Social media companies have long seemed impervious to legal threats. Meta, YouTube, Snap, and the rest have long waved off criticism of their platforms on free speech and Section 230 grounds. But t...
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March 27, 2026
Here’s how to rank the 50 best Apple products ever
Apple turns 50 next week, and we're going to spend the week covering the company, its products, its legacy, and its future. But mostly, we're going to spend the week debating which Apple products a...
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March 24, 2026
Welp, I bought an iPhone again
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 tw...
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March 22, 2026
The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever
The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn't supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a ...
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March 21, 2026
An early contender for movie of the year
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March 20, 2026
Why people really hate AI
There's a big, and increasing, disconnect in culture right now when it comes to artificial intelligence. Companies of all shapes and sizes are hunting for places to deploy AI and can't stop talking...
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March 17, 2026
The future of code is exciting and terrifying
Suddenly it seems like everyone's a coder. Or, at the very least, like they play one in the Claude Code app. But even for the seasoned pros, the act of software development is changing fast - many ...
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March 15, 2026
The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse
In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And a...
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March 14, 2026
Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game
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March 13, 2026
The MacBook Neo is a winner
It was a little surprising to see Apple decide to leap fully into the affordable laptop market, to try and compete with devices the company typically prefers to just look down its nose at. It was a...
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March 10, 2026
The twist in the Ticketmaster antitrust fight
A lot of people are mad at Ticketmaster, and have been for a long time. (Did Swifties directly create an antitrust trial? Discuss.) The US government's case against Live Nation-Ticketmaster appeare...
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March 9, 2026
Apple iPad Air M4 review: a little bit faster now
The newest iPad Air is a chip bump iPad - maybe the chip-bump-iest iPad Air yet. Inside this new machine are, in fact, three upgraded chips compared to last year's model: an M4 processor, a C1X cel...
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March 8, 2026
The cute and cursed story of Furby
The hottest toy of 1998 was sort of adorable, and sort of annoying. It couldn't do much - couldn't do anything, really - but it could look at you, it could say some nonsense phrases, and it seemed ...
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March 7, 2026
Apple’s cheap laptop looks like a winner
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March 4, 2026
Raycast’s Glaze is an all-in-one vibe coding app platform
AI tools like Claude Code have made it possible for users to build software with no coding knowledge whatsoever. That's not to say the process is easy, though: You may not need to write code direct...
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March 3, 2026
Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media
Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later this March. (Te...
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March 3, 2026
The 6G, modular, robot phones of the future
Year after year, we mostly know what to expect from our smartphone upgrades. Galaxy, iPhone, Pixel, or whatever else, everything seems to get slightly better (and occasionally more expensive) witho...
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February 28, 2026
A legendary weather app makes a comeback
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February 27, 2026
The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare
In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool...
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