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Tech surrenders to the daily chaos of Washington politicking.

Tina Nguyen
The telephoto is the only phone camera that really matters

Phone manufacturers are throwing everything they have at long-distance lenses in order to stand out.

Dominic Preston
The lonely promise of cute robots

Mirumi is adorable. But living with it reminded me of the limits to the companionship a social robot can provide.

Victoria Song
The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress

A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy.

Tina Nguyen
The great e-bike crackdown has begun

New Jersey just approved a wildly out-of-step new law that restricts all e-bikes, regardless of speed or power capabilities. Will other states follow?

Andrew J. Hawkins
Influencers are pushing suspicious peptides. How much are you willing to risk?

The search for the contents of my mystery “GLP-3” vial leads further into the wellness wild west.

Victoria Song
Under Musk, the Grok disaster was inevitable

The problems were baked in.

Hayden Field
This 3D-scanned insole is another example of placebo tech

The wellness wild west strikes again. This time, it’s a direct attack on my shoes and feet.

Victoria Song
Inside the White House shitposting machine

A political comms professional breaks down Trump’s meme media strategy.

Tina Nguyen
Will you have to show your ID at the app store?

App stores are gateways. Lawmakers want them to have checkpoints.

Lauren Feiner
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

Elizabeth Lopatto
CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids

It all boils down to metabolism and longevity.

Victoria Song
People are fighting for the truth in Minneapolis

Ordinary civilians thought it was worth risking their lives to record ICE.

Sarah Jeong
Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle

Real people died while Trump treated war like a meme stock.

Elizabeth Lopatto and Sarah Jeong
Did America just lose the AI race to China?

Biden’s national security adviser tells The Verge why the Trump-Nvidia chip deal could be catastrophic.

Tina Nguyen
Humanoid robots are coming. Eventually?

China sees humanoids as an economic engine and Musk wants a ‘robot army.’

Robert Hart
The wellness wild west is back on its bullshit with unapproved weight loss drugs

It’s far too easy to buy so-called GLP-3s through gray-market websites.

Victoria Song
How Silicon Valley turned Trump into a fellow broligarch

2025 was supposed to be the year Trump and the populist right humbled Big Tech. It didn’t work out like that.

Tina Nguyen
AI image generators are getting better by getting worse

There’s been a surprising development.

Allison Johnson
I quit all my AI fitness plans, and I feel free

An AI coach is a terrible accountability buddy. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to ignore everything it says.

Victoria Song