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Our reporters investigate every significant event in the tech world. We speak to companies, witness events from the ground, and test products so you can get essential first-hand insights on the latest news.

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Panic’s gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical

The publisher is set to follow Untitled Goose Game with Big Walk, an offbeat multiplayer game.

Jay Peters
The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster

The open source tool poses plenty of risks, but for devotees, it’s an antidote to Big AI.

Hayden Field
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Andrew Webster
How a prize-winning cartoonist brings hand-drawn comics to the web

Amy Kurzweil, the illustrator behind The Verge’s ‘Notes from a Burmese Prison,’ talks about how her ambitious collaboration with Danny Fenster came together.

Kristen Radtke
How the experts figure out what’s real in the age of deepfakes

Our trust in online images and videos is being eroded by AI, misinformation, and video game clips.

Jess Weatherbed
Why is SpaceX going public?

“I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Xiaomi’s EV hypercar sure is shiny.

You may never be able to drive the Vision GT concept — except when it arrives in Gran Turismo 7 — and there’s nothing to prove the model at Xiaomi’s MWC booth is even a functioning EV. But hey, you can’t say it doesn’t look the part.

Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the front
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the rear left
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the side
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, showing the Halo tail light
Photo of Xiaomi Vision GT on the booth at MWC 2026, from the rear
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Investigating the 61-pound machine that eats plastic and spits out bricks

A review of the Clear Drop Soft Plastic Compactor — and what happens afterward.

Sean Hollister and Justine Calma
How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

Hayden Field
Oh great, here comes 6G

We could be in for some wild stuff come 2030. But is this the 5G hype industrial complex all over again?

Allison Johnson
We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

AI companies could stand together to draw red lines on military AI — why aren’t they?

Hayden Field
Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters

Epstein may not have fully understood crypto, but he helped shape its culture anyway.

David Morris