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Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
Amidst ongoing legal trouble with several states and more than 100 pending lawsuits, this week Roblox announced a $12 million settlement with Nevada, allowing the company to avoid going to trial in...
Donut Lab’s battery claims reportedly subject of whistleblower complaint
Startup Donut Lab made a splash at the start of the year with some astonishing — and suspicious — claims about its solid state batteries. Now Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports an...
The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy
"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body...
Peloton, stay in your lane
People keep trying to make Peloton more than what it is, when the product itself is enough. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that...
Ghost orchid in the machine
Perfect Lovers II | Photo: Nik Massey Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic...
The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap
In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of...
TCL’s RGB-Mini LED TVs will start at $8,000
TCL introduced its new flagship X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at CES 2026, and now a few months later, the company is ready to expand its lineup with more SQD-Mini LED models and its first RGB-Mini LED TV....
The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
Fire intensifies: “This is fine.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe's time has...
Engadget Podcast: Allbirds goes from shoes to AI
So a shoe company turned into an AI company…. That’s it, that’s the joke. In this episode, Devindra chats with Engadget’s Daniel Cooper about Allbirds’ sudden transformation and what it says about...
A giant cell tower is going to space this weekend
This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX's monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that...