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Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over
You need a quarter teaspoon for your face alone, a half teaspoon if you include the neck (which you should!) This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that...
T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile's media relations...
In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human
When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also...
Kaleidescape’s movie player blows streaming, and your wallet, away
The Strato E player (here with a Mini Terra Prime server on top of it) is smaller than a Blu-ray disc collection, but you can get a lot of 4K discs for $3,000. We've lost something in the past 15...
Feel like a late bloomer? You’re not alone.
Allora Dannon didn’t notice when her younger siblings started dating before she did, and she was mostly focused on her academics when her college classmates were rotating through hookups. But,...
How Iran won the war
A woman waves the Iranian flag at Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2026. | Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images The US and Iran have a new peace agreement — and lots of unresolved questions...
Why LA’s mayor doesn’t have much power
With the election of Zohran Mamdani in New York City, big-city mayors have once again become a focal point of national politics. Now, in Los Angeles, the mayoral race in November is heating up...
The college that canceled Plato
Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor at Texas A&M University, speaks as students and faculty gather to support academic freedom on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station,...
At least one UK government department is reportedly done with X
UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer.
Why ChatGPT might be suffering
A Hewlett Packard Enterprise AI robot on the show floor during the HPE Discover event on June 16, 2026, in Las Vegas. | Ian Maule/Bloomberg via Getty Images AI is rapidly gaining abilities that once...