TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war
TiVo could have been a contender. In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to “TiVo” the…
Pokémon Legends: Z-A makes a big, welcome change for shiny hunters
Pokémon Legends: Z-A hadn’t been out even a few hours before the tweets started rolling in: Shiny pokémon don’t despawn. You can walk away from a shiny, and it’ll still…
Kelly Reichardt’s anti-heist movie
Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America’s greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the…
How Verge readers, and writers, are managing our kids’ screen time
This week the Pew Research Center published a study about how parents managed screen time for their kids 12 and under. The results were not particularly surprising (or enlightening, if…
Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show
Full-screen ads have started to appear regularly on Echo Show smart displays. Last week, Amazon launched a major update of its line of Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and displays. The…
Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the thin-enough foldable
This isn’t the thinnest foldable phone around, but it is thin enough. Google’s third foldable features plenty of improvements from its second, from a world-first IP68 rating to magnetic Qi2…
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
When OpenAI released its new AI-generated video app Sora last week, it launched with an opt-out policy for copyright holders – media companies would need to expressly indicate they didn’t…
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
To: Bari Weiss RE: Good luck, babe! I honestly cannot believe you’ve willingly decided to go into the worst kind of job that exists: management at a dying company. This…
Roland is finally honoring its legacy instead of just cashing in on it
The Roland TR-1000 rhythm generator. If the only thing Roland ever released was the TR-808, the company would still deserve a place in the music gear hall of fame. The…
The developers behind a hit sausage-dueling game hope Steam launch will take it furter
Life is a series of battles, and I just lost my last one against four gyoza on a skewer. It was an unexpected blow, because honestly, who could have expected…