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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Spotify’s new music quizzes test your knowledge about your favorite artists.

The feature is rolling out to Spotify Premium subscribers, presenting you with questions about music trivia, album cover art, and audio track previews. You can find a music quiz by scrolling down on the “Now Playing” view of a participating artist’s song.

Spotify is launching the feature in 11 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia, with more than 2,000 supported artists.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Doom looks stark but very playable on the 44 year old Vectrex console.

Using an external mini PC called the Ultimate Vectrex Multicart 2 to actually run and render a custom version of Doom, modder Jason Kopp managed to get the shooter playable through the Vectrex’s unique vector-based display. It’s a much simpler take on Doom, but one that’s no less creepy.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A good day for game releases.

Two excellent titles are launching today, and they appeal to very different audiences. You can read our reviews of both right here: Gears of War: E-Day and Star Wars: Galactic Racer.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
I finally see the value of AI.

I now get notifications when my dog takes a dump on my lawn. This is Google’s Gemini for Home features in action, detailing everything going on in my garden. Jen Tuohy convinced me to pay the extra to try them out, and I’ve actually found them fun for spotting when birds or animals come to visit.

Damn it, Frank.
Damn it, Frank.
Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
AMD intends to ‘substantially’ increase its chip supply next year.

“We’ve been able to increase our supply as we’ve gone through 2026,” CEO Lisa Su said today, “and ​we’re going to substantially increase our supply in 2027.”

Like Nvidia, AMD has seen a boom in GPU demand driven by AI, signing big deals with Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, and suffering the same shortages as the rest of the industry.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Asos hackers hijack shopping app’s notifications.

Users of the Asos app received an unexpected notification from alleged hackers claiming to have “fully compromised” the company’s Snowflake cloud platform, linking to a Telegram channel. The alert may have only gone out to iOS users, since my partner’s Android phone never received it. Asos’ website and app still seem to be working.

Screenshot: Asos app
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to stream on Luna if you’re a Prime subscriber.

The game has an excellent single-player campaign, though if you hit any hitches due to Luna’s cloud streaming, they could be frustrating because Galactic Racer basically requires split-second reflexes. Check out my review of the game, which I played on PS5, if you want to learn more about it.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
‘I’m not a territorial person, but my name is my name.’

That’s New Yorker cartoonist Brendan Loper, who’s not thrilled that ChatGPT is generating cartoons featuring his signature. He’s one of more than 15 cartoonists whose signatures were recreated by ChatGPT, according to Nieman Lab, which says the chatbot is still generating fake signatures even after the company was notified.

This remote-controlled wagon is silly but so very useful

BougeRV’s DuneRover is so good on hills and sand that you’ll forgive the disco lights.

Thomas Ricker
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
AI backlash hits fountain pens, with delightful results.

Write Love Pens, a small pen and stationery shop, had initially used AI-generated images (including one of a pen with two clips on the cap) to advertise surprise boxes that the shop puts together. After getting yelled at on fountain pen Reddit, the shop’s owner apologized, and replaced the AI images with extremely cute amateur drawings.

Three images, all hand-drawn, showing three different sizes of surprise box: select, signature, and reserve. The drawings are obviously amateur, and appealingly quirky.
Write Love Pens