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A nice upgrade for Apple’s simplest gadget

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...

Trump’s polls are tanking. What does his base think?

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...

How to turn on hypertension alerts on Apple Watch

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...

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...

The dismaying response to a new Alex Pretti video

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...