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Trump’s Reflecting Pool debacle deepens
A National Park Service employee uses a vacuum pump to clean algae off the bottom of the newly repainted Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty...
Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026
Valve's Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more. The...
The race splitting Zohran Mamdani’s coalition
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso at a rally for 32BJ SEIU residential building service workers in New York City on April 15, 2026. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images The gradations...
iOS 27 beta 2 is out now, here’s what’s new
Spoiler: It's more Siri stuff.
AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes
Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she...
The Steam Machine is the start of an even more expensive future for game consoles
It's no secret that just about every aspect of video games is getting more expensive. Game consoles are getting regular price hikes, PC components are spiking in cost, and the golden age of...
The Apple Watch SE 3 is just $199 for Prime Day
The Apple Watch SE 3 is at an all-time low of $199, making the sleeper hit of last year’s Apple Watches an even better value. While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 were iterative updates, the SE 3 was a...
Google invests in A24 to build AI movie tools
The deal is reportedly non-exclusive, and will span “multiple projects over time.” | Image by The Verge Google's DeepMind AI lab is teaming up with A24 to develop new movie production technologies...
Valve is working with AMD to bring FSR 4 to the Steam Machine
The Steam Machine is a cool little console that's about as powerful as a PlayStation 5, according to my colleague Sean Hollister's in-depth review. But one area where it lags behind is with its...
Here’s how you can reserve a Steam Machine
The Steam Machine is here, but getting one is a little complicated. Valve is taking preorders using a reservation system, which is intended to make the process more fair and harder for bots to...