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February 20, 2026
Microsoft says today’s Xbox shake-up doesn’t mean game studio layoffs
Xbox has new leaders today, now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out - and you'd be forgiven for assuming that means yet another round of layoffs and shuttered studios, especially one day after...
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February 20, 2026
Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox
Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has just announced he's leaving the company after 12 years leading Xbox and nearly 40 at Microsoft in total. His replacement: Asha Sharma, formerly head of develo...
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February 19, 2026
The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
Maybe you've heard: Memory is expensive now. The price of RAM has tripled, quadrupled, even sextupled depending on the type of chip, all because AI companies are gobbling it up. But maybe you've th...
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February 19, 2026
The RAM crunch could kill products and even entire companies, memory exec admits
Phison is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices - and CEO Pua Khein-Seng has now become a leading voice for just how bad the RAM shortage might get. ...
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February 14, 2026
The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them
Sammy Azdoufal claims he wasn't trying to hack every robot vacuum in the world. He just wanted to remote control his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, he tells The Verge, because it sou...
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February 11, 2026
Why I wish I hadn’t bought my Samsung OLED TV
In June 2024, in a dusty TV shop empty of customers save myself, my wife, and my kids, I stared deep into the LG C3 and Samsung S90C. I went back and forth between the two OLED screens for easily 2...
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February 9, 2026
This whistle fights fascists
Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause. The bestselling romance novelists helped raise half a million dollars for Georgia voting rights in 2020. Now, their cause...
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January 28, 2026
This fanny pack robot helped me walk miles
Oops, I did it again: I wore an exoskeleton to the world's biggest tech show, walking the streets and casinos of Las Vegas with a robot powering my legs. I don't mean I briefly tried a new gadget t...
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January 24, 2026
Leak: Nvidia is about to challenge ‘Intel Inside’ with as many as eight Arm laptops
Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It's not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. Th...
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January 23, 2026
Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its content feed. Google appeared to be backin...
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January 23, 2026
Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survived the purge at Ubisoft
In what world does Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake get canceled amid corporate restructuring and yet BG&E2 does not? "Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains a priority for us in the contex...
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January 22, 2026
Is this the end of Epic and Google’s feud?
Today, I am sitting in the courtroom that may decide the fate of Android. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is here. Google Android boss Sameer Samat is here. Together, they'll try to convince Judge James Donat...
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January 20, 2026
Google has finally killed the Stadia Bluetooth tool — but this person rescued it
Did you save your Google Stadia controller like I told you last month? It's still not too late. This week, Google has finally removed the tool that converts the now-useless controller into a decent...
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January 16, 2026
The two things AMD subtly revealed at CES that actually excite me
As we predicted, the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs ...
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January 16, 2026
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Two months before it changed its name to "Meta," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work: Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to col...
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January 13, 2026
Lego Smart Brick: watch an immersive 15-minute demo like you’re right there with us at CES
The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons' expert demo there. So I thought: why not let you virtually attend the ...
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January 9, 2026
This semi-secret Lego Smart Brick feature gives it even more potential
We just gave the Lego Smart Brick our Best In Show award at CES 2026, and I wanted to stop by The Lego Group's suite to get a last glimpse before I left Las Vegas. To my surprise, the company showe...
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January 7, 2026
I played with the Lego Smart Brick
When The Lego Group announced that its biggest innovation since 1978 would be a tiny proprietary computer brick, the reactions were divided. I heard from people concerned this was the death of imag...
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January 7, 2026
Lenovo’s second SteamOS handheld is the Legion Go 2
One year ago, Lenovo became the first company besides Valve to announce a handheld with SteamOS instead of Windows. The result was the Legion Go S with SteamOS; no Steam Deck killer due to price an...
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January 6, 2026
Ugreen is now selling an AI NAS with more RAM than my desktop
A decade ago, Google Photos changed photo storage for me forever - because I could search for those photos just by typing a few words. But that meant trusting Google cloud servers with my precious ...
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January 6, 2026
AMD Ryzen AI 400 official: Will these laptop chips maintain AMD’s lead?
We were rightly skeptical of AMD's Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" laptop chips in 2024. Now they're in some of the very best laptops you can buy, arguably hitting the sweet spot of price, performance, ...
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January 6, 2026
AMD heard you like powerful gaming portables — so here are new Strix Halo chips
AMD's Strix Halo, aka "Ryzen AI Max," is a hugely expensive chip that includes some of the most powerful integrated graphics ever made. Though AMD initially marketed it more to AI workloads with it...
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January 5, 2026
Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
On March 1st, 2026, The Lego Group will begin selling the most ambitious brick it's ever made: a tiny computer that fits entirely inside a classic 2×4 Lego brick. When it detects NFC-equipped smart...
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January 5, 2026
Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon X2 laptops are here — and they brought a new friend
In September, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, the laptop chips that, it claimed, would be "the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs." They might fi...
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December 20, 2025
You can buy your Xbox Ally an official pair of anti-drift joysticks
Even at $1,000, the Xbox Ally X handheld didn't ship with magnetic drift-resistant joysticks, and neither did the $600 model. But for an extra $20 at Amazon, you can change that today - with offici...
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December 20, 2025
The sold-out Nex Playground made my kids laugh and cry
If you told me last year the Nex Playground would outsell Microsoft's Xbox, even for two weeks, I would have laughed my way out of the room. It's a three-inch cube of a game console that's likely l...
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December 20, 2025
Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Today was the deadline for Google to reveal how it's complying with Judge James Donato's order to crack open Android for third-party app stores, stop illegally tying its Google Play Billing system ...
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December 18, 2025
Oh snap, I have a new favorite phone grip
In 2022, we called a simple magnetic ring from Anker the best MagSafe phone grip, but things have evolved dramatically since then! You can buy two or even three magnetic rings joined at the hip the...
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December 16, 2025
Microsoft’s free update brings better Bluetooth to your Xbox Wireless Headset
My favorite kind of update is the one that gives my gadgets entirely new features and specs for free - and Microsoft is unleashing one of those today by bringing Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio to ...
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December 14, 2025
I’m finally beginning to trust Microsoft’s handheld Xbox
I still wouldn't buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don't think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with it is ready for primetime. The Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) needs work. But two mont...
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