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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Silo returns to Apple TV for its final season on July 9th, 2027.

Following its season three finale this week, Apple released a teaser for Silo’s fourth season, premiering in less than a year — but watch out for spoilers if you haven’t seen this week’s episode yet.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Star Guardian: Guardian of the Stars.

If you liked the pilot animatic for Kiana Khansmith’s Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to Be a Magical Girl, you’re going to love the Mercury Filmworks-produced, fully animated version of the first episode that just hit YouTube.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Remarkable adds the ability to capture and copy what’s on screen by circling it.

A software update for Remarkable’s E Ink tablets introduces a new tool that can capture images of on-screen content by drawing a circle, or any shape, around what you want. The captures can be imported into your notebooks and repositioned, resized, and rotated as needed. The update also introduces improved formatting options for EPUB files and new pen stroke colors.

A color screen Remarkable tablet with a stylus lying next to it.
Image: Remarkable
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
HP announces new OmniBook laptops and a desktop with Nvidia RTX Spark.

HP is adding to the impending deluge of RTX Spark computers due in October with the OmniBook X 14, OmniBook Ultra 16, and the small form factor OmniDesk. My colleague Dom saw the Ultra among other Nvidia-powered laptops at IFA, but we still don’t know any prices.

Considering HP’s specs show both OmniBooks will start with 32GB of unified memory and 1TB of storage, signs point to them being expensive.

<em>The HP OmniBook Ultra 16, seen at IFA.</em>
<em>Lots of ports, including speedy 40Gbps USB-C.</em>
<em>The smaller OmniBook X 14.</em>
<em>The X 14 has about as many ports as the Ultra 16, including equally fast USB-C, but it lacks the microSD card slot.</em>
<em>The HP OmniDesk.</em>
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The HP OmniBook Ultra 16, seen at IFA.
Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Watch Dyson’s $499 CameraJet toothbrush clean a fake set of teeth.

We haven’t had the chance to try it on our own pearly whites yet, but The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy got a brief hands-on with Dyson’s new camera-equipped electric toothbrush at IFA 2026 where the company had a set of simulated teeth for taking the brush for a test drive.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
I saw a whole bunch of RTX Spark laptops all at once.

Only one of them switched on, and apparently it wasn’t even meant to, so I’ve got no deep performance insights about the first laptops powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip. But Dell, Lenovo, MSI, Asus, HP, and Microsoft are all on board with hardware already — hopefully we’ll get the details on them all before too long.

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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Insta360’s Luna Pro shoots 4K vertical video.

The Luna Pro is already out in China. We’re still waiting for a US launch, but it was on the company’s stand at IFA so I had a play. It’s single-lens, but can use the 8K sensor to capture 4K footage either landscape or portrait, and has the Ultra’s detachable display too.

<em>The Luna Pro looks a lot like the Ultra, with similar controls.</em>
<em>Unlike the Ultra, it only has a single lens.</em>
<em>Visuals are co-engineered with Leica again, who provided three color profiles too.</em>
<em>You can still detach the display to use it as a remote.</em>
<em>It comes in black too, and shoots native 4K vertical video.</em>
<em>An NFC tag in the camera head can open the Insta360 app with a tap for quicker file transfer, though the “Kiss & Fly” name is questionable at best.</em>
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The Luna Pro looks a lot like the Ultra, with similar controls.
Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Wikipedia staffers vote to unionize.

As reported by Wired, more than 200 US-based workers at the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, will join Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 9415 after management declined to voluntarily recognize the union in July.

Organizing committee member Bryan Davis called it a “huge milestone” and said:

We continue our petition for recognition in the U.K. and hope to see more jurisdiction-specific units call for voluntary recognition in the coming weeks and months. Solidarity will continue to drive our discussions, planning, and actions as we begin working on our collective goals for contract bargaining to support all WMF workers regardless of legal jurisdiction, job duty, or hours of employment.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Psimulator brings Sega Dreamcast emulation to the iPhone.

Developer Benjamin Stark (ZodTTD) has been making emulators for iOS since long before Apple officially allowed them in its app store. Following their well-featured Gamma PS1 emulator comes Psimulator that plays Dreamcast games with features like cloud syncing, Bluetooth controller support, and a skin designer right within the $4.99 app.

ZodTTD’s Psimulator Sega Dreamcast emulator running on iOS.
Image: Apple App Store
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Watch GPT-6 Astra use your computer for you.

That seems to be the pitch behind OpenAI’s promo reel for the new AI model, putting people on a set to talk at their computer about doing things like putting together a presentation for their next season of fashion designs with instructions like “make it high end” and “make it fun,” or creating an eBay listing for a dented table they want to sell.

Welcome to the AGI era?

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Andrew Tate indicted in Romania, again.

More than three years after Tate and his brother were arrested and indicted in Romania on charges of human trafficking, Reuters reports the DIICOT prosecuting unit has indicted Tate again. They’ve charged Tate for “trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering and his brother Tristan for complicity.”

Both Tates were arrested in Miami in July after British authorities requested their extradition, and they are currently in jail in the US.

The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA 2026

Double-decker robovacs, a smartphone that eliminates the screen bezel, and another laptop with an expanding screen.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Here’s what it’s like to ride in a Tesla Cybercab.

Some of the pro-Tesla content creators that the company invited to its closed-door Cybercab event are starting to post their first rides.

  • Tesla and SpaceX investor Sawyer Merritt posted his first ride on X.
  • Herbert Ong said the weirdest part is “how normal it feels.”
  • Chuck Cook describes it like “getting into a first class seat on an airplane.”
  • And YouTuber David Moss took his blind father for his first ride, specifically to highlight what driverless cars could mean for people with visual impairments.
Owen Grove
Owen Grove
GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS Review: Niche, a bit clumsy, but welcome

I thought the Mission 1 Pro ILS would be the thing to generate some buzz for GoPro. What I didn’t anticipate was YouTuber investment drama and getting acquired for defense consulting. Below are my impressions of the Mission 1 cameras.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Our subscriber-only IFA AMA starts soon!

Join Jen Tuohy and me as we answer your questions about everything we’ve seen at IFA so far, from smart home tech to phones, watches, laptops, and more. You can drop your questions on our dedicated AMA post right now, and we’ll be answering them from 12PM ET.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Here’s Mark Gurman’s big list of Apple hardware rumors to start the John Ternus era.

Ahead of Apple’s September 9th launch event, Gurman compiled everything he’s heard so far about the company’s upcoming devices, which could include a foldable “iPhone Ultra,” a touchscreen MacBook, AirPods with cameras, and a redesign for the Apple Watch.

Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle
ICE gave unvetted recruits access to a Palantir app.

New hire deportation agents were issued phones equipped with ELITE (Enhanced Lead Identification and Targeting).

ELITE analyzes government data to create “confidence scores” for potential targets; it also maps their location.

On The Intercept, one anonymous ICE agent called the app “1984 shit:” “ELITE is used on illegal immigrants right now but can easily be used on Americans.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Ecovacs’ latest mopping robot vacuum shoots, seals, and shields.

The flagship Deebot X12S Omnicyclone comes with a “FocusJet” that sprays cleaning solution on dried-on stains before scrubbing, and a dust-mite chamber that pushes down into the pile to create a seal while vacuuming. There’s also a privacy shield to cover the robovac’s built-in camera.

The Deebot X12S Omnicyclone is now available in the US for $1,299.99.

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<em>The</em> <em>Deebot X12S Omnicyclone’s comes with a FocusJet sprayer.</em>
<em>The</em> <em>Deebot X12S Omnicyclone’s comes with a FocusJet sprayer.</em>
<em>The Deebot X12S Omnicyclone.</em>
<em>The Deebot X12S Omnicyclone.</em>
<em>The Deebot X12S Omnicyclone.</em>
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The Deebot X12S Omnicyclone’s comes with a FocusJet sprayer.
Image: Ecovacs
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Happy Bandcamp Friday.

Every dollar you spend on the site today goes straight to the artist, as is tradition. I’ll be celebrating by picking up the new Chat Pile record, Who Loves the Sun, another blast of noise-soaked existential dread from the Oklahoma City quartet. Let me know what you’re snagging in the comments.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Jackery and the Red Cross made an emergency backup battery.

The Explorer 2000 Plus v2 packs a 2kWh LFP battery and features a Storm Warning Function to automatically pre-charge ahead of severe weather, and an emergency reserve mode to ensure there’s always power available in case of disaster. It supports 800W of maximum solar input, 3600W of AC output, and up to 12kWh of battery expansion capacity. It launches on September 29th for $1,199, alongside a few other Jackery x Red Cross models. More specs in the pics that follow.

<em>Among its DC and AC inputs and outputs is one 140W USB-C jack with AVS (Adjustable Voltage Supply) support.</em>
<em>It measures 366 x 255 x 272mm (14.4 x 10 x 10.7 inches) and weighs 18.8kg (41.4 pounds).</em>
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Among its DC and AC inputs and outputs is one 140W USB-C jack with AVS (Adjustable Voltage Supply) support.
Image: Jackery
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Dyson launches three new robot vacuums.

The Nurovi range features a robot mop with spinning pads, a vacuum-only option, and an upgraded version of its Spot+Scrub AI, which adds UV detection and comes in white. Nurovi supposedly stands for “neural intelligence” combined with a camera-based vision system, which makes the robots better at navigation than prior models — based on limited demos I saw at IFA in Berlin. All three robots go on sale this month.

<em>The Dyson R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV, $1,199, is a vacuum and mop with UV detection to spot and identify stains using Dyson’s signature green illumination. It has 30,000 Pa suction power, and the roller mop extends to clean edges.</em>
<em>Left, the Dyson R1 Nurovi Dry, $549, is a vacuum-only robot, with 21,000Pa and a smaller auto-empty dock. Right, the Dyson R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry, $699, uses spinning mopping pads instead of a roller mop. It’s available at Costco.</em>
<em>The R2’s triangular mopping pads can extend and are designed to give better coverage.</em>
<em>The R1 doesn’t have a mopping function.</em>
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The Dyson R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV, $1,199, is a vacuum and mop with UV detection to spot and identify stains using Dyson’s signature green illumination. It has 30,000 Pa suction power, and the roller mop extends to clean edges.
iRobot unveils the Roomba DuoiRobot unveils the Roomba Duo
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Instagram’s AI detection is a mess (again)

Meta is back to adding AI labels on original photos, while not tagging AI images it should.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Google Photos is coming to Gemini Spark.

The update is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US over the next few weeks. When it arrives, Spark users can ask the AI agent to automatically search, organize, and curate photos and videos, and extract information from them to use elsewhere.

Why AI food looks like that

Worms, holes, and cracks reveal the technical weaknesses of image generators.

Robert Hart