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Engadget Podcast: Would you trust a terrifying home robot?
Home robots are moving way beyond Roombas. 1X unveiled its NEO helper bot this week, a terrifying $20,000 machine that can perform basic tasks after you've trained it, and more complex tasks...
The job market is getting worse. So why are stocks booming?
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 24, 2025, in New York City. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images It’s getting harder to find a job and easier to lose...
Sora now lets you pay extra to make more AI videos
Keep burning through your video generation allowance on Sora? No problem, OpenAI now lets you buy extra credits to make even more AI videos. That’s good, because the company says it expects to...
The Morning After: Xbox console revenue fell off a cliff this year
Microsoft’s latest earnings report for the quarter ending on September 30 revealed that revenue from the Xbox hardware fell 30 percent year over year. Worse, in a way, this revenue decline doesn’t...
A bizarre Windows 11 bug duplicates Task Manager instead of closing it
The Task Manager isn’t managing its tasks. | Image: u/Hary06 If you’re a Windows 11 user who frequently uses the Task Manager tool, you should probably avoid Microsoft’s latest OS update. Reddit...
The myth of the carnivore caveman
Across the far right, a paranoid prophecy has been taking hold: the belief that globalist elites want to take meat off the menu and replace it with insects. The charge has been spouted in one...
Dodgers vs. Blue Jays, Game 6 tonight: How to watch the 2025 MLB World Series without cable
The Toronto Blue Jays have taken the lead in the 2025 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Fall Classic returns to Toronto's home turf for Game 6 tonight — Friday, Oct. 31 — at 8PM...
Are Latino voters really Republicans now?
Supporters cheer as New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate, Jack Ciattarelli, speaks at a restaurant popular with the Latino community on October 23, 2025, in Paterson, New Jersey....
Microsoft’s agent platform play
Jay Parikh in 2018. | Photo: Andrej Sokolow / Getty Images This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a...
Why does Trump want the National Guard doing crowd control?
Members of the Ohio National Guard stand outside the Jefferson Memorial on September 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Craig Hudson for the Washington Post via Getty Images This story appeared...