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Blue Origin is pausing its space tourist flights to work on lunar landers for NASA
Blue Origin plans to put a focus on the development of its human lunar capabilities, so it won’t be sending tourists to space for at least the next two years. That means we won’t be seeing any New...
Cassette Boy forces you to see its world in a whole new way
It's no secret that Cassette Boy is inspired by the classics. It's a top-down adventure game in the vein of a retro Legend of Zelda, while your home base is a small town like in an older...
Trump’s polls are tanking. What does his base think?
Left: Host Astead Herndon. Center: John Fredricks. Right: Sarah Longwell Every good political journalist needs a good MAGA guy in their back pocket — someone you can call when things are looking...
A nice upgrade for Apple’s simplest gadget
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 114, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send Arc Raiders tips, and also you can read all the old editions...
How to turn on hypertension alerts on Apple Watch
Apple has steadily expanded the Apple Watch’s health monitoring features over the years, moving beyond fitness tracking into areas that can offer early insight into potential medical concerns. One...
ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
ChatGPT is using Grokipedia as a source, and it's not the only AI tool to do so. Citations to Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia are starting to appear in answers from Google's AI Overviews, AI...
Why is Gen Z so obsessed with the 2010s?
Why are we romanticizing 2016??? | Wundervisuals/Getty Images At the start of this year, it seemed like everybody was reminiscing about the year 2016. In January alone, Spotify saw a 790 percent...
Highguard, a hyperpop arena shooter and other new indie games worth checking out
Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. There are tons of interesting games out this week. But first, there's been some discourse around the Nintendo Switch version...
The dismaying response to a new Alex Pretti video
Flowers and candles make up a memorial to Alex Pretti on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Scott Olson/Getty Images Last Wednesday, a video surfaced of Alex Pretti kicking out the...
The latest Instax printer is a pricey but worthy upgrade
Taping Instax Mini Link+ photos into a journal is just one use for the tiny prints. FujiFilm's Instax Mini Link 3 printer is a much-loved $100 accessory in my travel journal kit. I often tape a...