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UN report says policymakers are struggling to keep up with pace of AI development
UN panel says 'AI is neither inherently good nor bad,' but better safeguards around it are needed.
Rhythm Heaven never misses a beat
Rhythm Heaven isn't Nintendo's best-known series, nor its most prolific. Prior to the launch of Rhythm Heaven Groove on the Switch this week - it's out on July 2nd - there were only four previous...
Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it
The Google Home Speaker is Google’s first smart speaker in years. And it’s pretty! | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The Verge Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling...
Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it
The Google Home Speaker is Google’s first smart speaker in years. And it’s pretty! | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The Verge Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling...
The unlikely cause bringing liberals and conservatives together
Millions of pigs in the US are locked in crates at any given time, and they’re in them for virtually their entire lives. | Wendy Love via Getty Images/iStockphoto “This is demonic stuff.” “It’s...
Getty Images is canceling its $3.7 billion Shutterstock merger due to UK restrictions
Getty Images has moved to terminate a $3.7 billion merger with rival Shutterstock due to restrictions imposed by UK regulators.
Range anxiety
The storm developed quickly over west central Illinois on April 17th, first as a single high-intensity system called a supercell, and then later that evening transforming into a long squall line of...
The cube was a lie: up close with our Dbrand Companion Cube before it gets destroyed
Dbrand is the company that shipped a product that told Nintendo's legal team to "go fuck yourself," and the company that had a second set of lawyer-dodging PS5 plates ready when Sony threatened to...
Air conditioning is not a moral failure
A worker attends to an air conditioning unit for a restaurant during high temperatures in Toulouse, France, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. | Matthieu Rondel/Bloomberg via Getty Images As temperatures...
Who is actually ruling Iran right now?
A man walks past a huge mourning banner depicting Iran's current supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and his late father Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a strike on the first day of the US-Israeli war...