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Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show
Amazon has slowly been teasing out casting details for its live-action adaptation of God of War, and now we have our first look at the show. It's a single image but a notable one showing protagonist...
The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare
In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool...
Pokémon Winds and Waves launch on the Switch 2 in 2027
It's time to say goodbye to the Paldea region because a new generation of mainline Pokémon games are on the way. During today's big Pokémon Presents stream, Nintendo announced that...
The Morning After: The Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display is pretty cool
Samsung’s Unpacked event midweek revealed three new phones and two sets of earbuds, but the real standout, as usual, is the Galaxy S26 Ultra. This year, the Ultra actually features a bit of genuine...
Huel tries to solve the ‘burden’ of eating
It’s Slim Fast for chads. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear...
Engadget Podcast: Xbox’s leadership shakeup and Samsung’s Galaxy S26
This week, we're diving into the big changes at Xbox and what it all means for Microsoft's gaming future. Phil Spencer, the longtime face of Xbox, announced he's retiring last week....
OpenAI snags $110 billion in investments from Amazon, Nvidia, and Softbank
OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which it says has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million...
TCL’s $7,000+ flagship TV is ready to fight
The TCL X11L is the most impressive TV of the year, but the year is still young and RGB LED is on the horizon. Since I saw the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at a pre-CES event in December, I've been...
Pokémon Presents 2026: all the news and trailers
It’s that time of year: a whole bunch of Pokémon news is incoming. February 27th is the date the franchise first debuted, and The Pokémon Company uses it as a chance to outline its plans in a...
Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters
The tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails and files released on January 30th tie the infamous pedophile, sex trafficker, and influence peddler to elite figures across the tech industry. The world of...