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The Playdate gets its Monument Valley
Diora might be the most ambitious game I've played on the Playdate. It's all about perspective: You turn the handheld's crank to rotate your viewpoint of the bi...
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What’s on your desk, Stevie Bonifield?
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer here at The Verge and, they say, “I cover a little bit of just about everything, from the FCC to AI shopping tools to Linux.”...
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A charity speedrunning event has turned into a perfect showcase for smaller games
Games Done Quick, the biannual charity speedrunning event currently going on right now, not only helps organizations like the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Doct...
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AI is coming for collectibles next
Buddyo is a smart base designed to add AI to figurines like Funko Pops using NFC tags. AI toys, companions, and robots have been everywhere at CES this year, bu...
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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
The tech moguls in happier times at Trump’s inauguration. Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been wa...
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Scenes from the anti-ICE march in New York City
On Thursday evening in Manhattan's Financial District, hundreds of protesters braved the cold to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE, after an ag...
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The latest on Grok’s problem with gross AI deepfakes
The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes. As H...
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Black Mirror has been renewed for another season
In an interview with Netflix's Tudum, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker announced today that the sci-fi anthology series will be returning for an eighth seas...
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I can’t find the Trump phone at America’s largest tech show
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As usual, we'...
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Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing
Shadowheart contemplates a powerful artifact in Baldur’s Gate 3 Following some controversy, the developers at Baldur's Gate 3 creator Larian Studios have furthe...
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Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores
Apple and Google are being dragged into the uproar around X's AI chatbot that has continued to virtually undress women in images without their consent this week...
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CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids
Mira is a hormone testing kit that I tried out ahead of CES 2026. I had to pee in that cup. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge...