During a recent expo in Shanghai that focuses on elderly care, assistive devices, and rehabilitation medicine, a Chinese company called Yueban debuted a smart toilet that does something we haven’t seen before; it comes to you. The autonomous self-driving Xiaoban toilet was designed to improve accessibility for those dealing with mobility issues due to age, … Read more
Plaintiffs in the class action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.
Doomscrolling on social media is a very common problem and can feel like an endless loop of constantly losing track of time. Instead of tackling this issue with strict limits, a new mindful screen time app called Mivo Scrolling is trying to shake things up. Launched last month, Mivo doesn’t look super different from other … Read more
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
Do you often find yourself shopping at the big blue, or perhaps you’re just looking for an alternative to Amazon? Either way, Walmart is currently offering a year of its Walmart Plus subscription for $49, which typically costs $98. The membership includes perks like free delivery on orders over $35, free next-day and two-day shipping … Read more
I launched Firefox this morning to find some new blocks on my home page. The widgets that are currently rolling out add sports scores, time zones, a focus timer, and a checklist, which are already some of my favorite new Firefox features in years. I usually have Focus Friend open on my phone when I … Read more
A data breach involving government-issued ID documents affects over three million people in Texas.
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InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial on September 21, 2022. | Getty Images The Onion‘s InfoWars officially has a launch date: On July 2nd, the conspiracy network previously run by Alex Jones will return as a comedy and media platform. The reboot comes more than a … Read more
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same. Kē offers … Read more
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When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they’re accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th – one week after the hearing, and … Read more
Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
MapTap is a phone game that will make you feel smarter after you play it.
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When Fox announced its acquisition of Roku earlier this week, executives of both companies were quick to promise that not much would change in the near future. Sure, getting its … Read more
General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
:::tip The third and final article in a three-part series. Part 1 – where an LLM loses cross-service context and why local specs are not enough. Part 2 – how I built archspec to keep service context explicit. Part 3 – archspec: feature investigation, contract updates, and implementation. ::: 1. A recap: where spec-driven broke, … Read more
A Question That Stopped Being Hypothetical What happens to liability, jurisdiction, and dispute resolution when the party signing your contract is an incorporated software process running on a server in Kent, Ohio? That question stopped being abstract on June 18, when ClawBank and Shodai announced what they call the first Ricardian contract signed between AI … Read more
When an employee leaves your remote startup, the conversation usually centers on knowledge transfer, final pay, and exit interviews. What rarely gets enough attention is every active login, shared credential, and cloud permission that walks out the door with them. That oversight is one of the most preventable security risks in tech, and remote-first teams … Read more
Introduction It was a Tuesday evening when the on-call rotation hit its wall. Latency in the checkout service had climbed for twenty minutes before anyone noticed, not because alerts failed to fire but because the alerts that fired pointed in three different directions simultaneously. One dashboard showed pod memory pressure. Another flagged elevated error rates … Read more
There are now 24 default color options instead of 11, and you can select more via an RGB color picker. | Image: Google Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn’t be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11 predefined colors has now been expanded to give users access to … Read more
One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even more at risk of intimidation or data breaches, in the name of solving a problem that barely exists. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, election and privacy experts are sounding alarms about the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic … Read more
Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet. As usual, expect to see price … Read more