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OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you...
How far away can a Wi-Fi extender be from your router?
Wi-Fi extenders can help under the right conditions, but you'll need to put them in the right place to see good results.
TCL’s paperlike OLED phone made me more excited for the iPhone Duo
TCL’s P80 Ultra is its first Nxtpaper phone with an OLED screen. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge I've spent most of the last couple weeks using an otherwise unexceptional midrange Android phone...
What color is a tennis ball?
A while back, I was at physical therapy, and the topic of tennis came up. Someone said something about yellow tennis balls, and I was like… “What? They’re green.” And then someone else...
Google admits not every Android app runs great on Intel Googlebooks
This Asus Googlebook is one of the Intel models that may have issues. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Google has waited until the day its new Googlebook laptops hit the market to admit...
The messy bargain that could bring down your power bill
Congress has a new bipartisan plan to lower your power bill. | David Paul Morris/Bloombe There’s no place like Kansas, a state whose howling winds are so fierce that in the 1800s, the roaring...
Here’s what Gen Z actually means by “socialism”
Zohran Mamdani, then-New York City mayoral candidate, and Letitia James, far left, New York's attorney general, carry a banner across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on November 3, 2025. | Adam...
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by...
Google’s Fitbit Edge leaks out with a screen and Pixel 11 colors
The upcoming Fitbit Edge looks like a replacement for the Fitbit Charge last seen in 2023.
Nevada Asks Ninth Circuit to Move Ahead in Kalshi Case
Nevada has opposed Kalshi’s request to delay proceedings on its rehearing petition in the Ninth Circuit while the CFTC develops proposed event-contract rules, keeping the state’s challenge to the...