Technology

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is underway, so naturally, a lot of the deals are geared toward the season, including plenty of gadgets to help with spring cleaning. We’ve already rounded up a selection of great robot vacuum deals, but they’re just one part of a much broader swath of Verge-approved …

Rec Room, a Roblox-like social gaming platform that lets users create games and experiences for others to play, is shutting down on June 1st. Despite reaching more than 150 million players and creators and, at one point, being valued at $3.5 billion, the company says in a blog post that …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you are building a home, renovating a property or applying for a zoning permit, there is a new scam you need to watch for. The Federal Bureau of Investigation says criminals are impersonating city and county planning officials in a phishing …

Robot vacuums are great for keeping floors clean on a regular basis, but they don’t catch everything. If you’re looking for a tool to handle the finer details your robovac might miss — room corners, edges, hard stairs, entryways, etc. — Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones is one of the lightest, most …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you’ve ever gotten a suspicious text, a fake delivery alert or a message that felt just a little too convincing, you’ve already seen how fast scams are evolving. Now, some of the biggest names in tech and retail are scrambling to …

The latest app from the team behind Bluesky is Attie, an AI assistant that lets you build your own algorithm. At the Atmosphere conference, Bluesky’s former CEO, Jay Graber, and CTO Paul Frazee, unveiled Attie, which is powered by Anthropic’s Claude and built on top of Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol …

People don’t like that they can’t identify AI music. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists. There are technical and legal challenges, fierce ethical debates, and …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Walk into a McDonald’s, and you expect a familiar routine. You order, wait and grab your food. At one location in Shanghai, that routine briefly looked very different. McDonald’s deployed robots from Chinese robotics firm Keenon Robotics in one of its fast-food …

It’s rare for a movie to get technology right. And it’s even rarer for that movie to be a thriller or horror, where realism takes a backseat to scares and tension. But Red Rooms mostly gets it. Nothing takes me out of a film quicker than a tech MacGuffin that …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Here’s the uncomfortable truth. If someone can break into the personal email of the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, your inbox is not off limits. Malicious actors targeted the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel, according to the …