TECH NEWS
Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. It’s not a great time to shop for a gaming laptop. The unprecedented rise in cost for RAM (and storage to
TECH NEWS
The Pixel 11 could drop the 128GB storage configuration, while the Pixel Watch 5 may cost $50 more than last year’s model. by Emma Roth Jul 8, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and
TECH NEWS
Much of the discussion around agentic AI in commerce has focused on one assumption: that consumers will eventually delegate purchasing decisions entirely to AI systems. The vision is straightforward enough. A consumer tells an AI assistant they need a new winter coat, a family holiday or a replacement laptop and
TECH NEWS
Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products. As part of the deal, Apple will put $1.5 billion in capital expenditure investment to help expand Broadcom’s manufacturing facility
TECH NEWS
The company doesn't plan to release an offline version. Mario Kart Tour is going off the rails, and Lakitu won't be there to save it as Nintendo is taking the seven-year-old mobile game offline on September 30 at 2AM ET. Unlike with Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
TECH NEWS
OpenAI is getting ready to release its next generation of AI models. The GPT-5.6 series, which includes a trio of new models, will be released on Thursday, CEO Sam Altman confirmed in a post on X Wednesday. The flagship model is called GPT-5.6 Sol. It's meant
TECH NEWS
The first thing that hit me after unboxing Valve's Steam Machine at home was: wow, this is small. I'd already seen this thing in person last November, but its size still impressed me. Steam Machine is smaller than a PlayStation 5. It's smaller than
TECH NEWS
See at Fox Carries every 2026 World Cup match Fox One: $20 per month See more details See more details See more details See more details See at Peacock Carries Spanish-language coverage of the World Cup See more details After a thrilling third round, we're now down to
TECH NEWS
Apple has announced its largest domestic manufacturing investment to date, a massive multiyear partnership with chipmaker Broadcom that is valued at more than $30 billion. The agreement will see the production of over 15 billion U.S.-made chips, locking in a critical American supply chain for Apple's
TECH NEWS
Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky have named a previously undocumented threat actor behind an ongoing spear-phishing operation targeting government agencies and electric power organizations in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. The group, which they call Armored Likho, is running an extensive malware toolkit built to steal credentials, sensitive documents, and other high-value
TECH NEWS
* 75% have deployed 4+ AI tools in the past six months, 35% have deployed 10+ tools * This is despite four in five experiencing AI security incidents or vulnerabilities * Governance and dedicated security budgets could be part of the answer New DigiCert data has claimed four in five (78%) organizations have
TECH NEWS
Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
