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Your Oura Ring can’t measure what’s going on in your skull
Sleep trackers detect sleep via a combination of motion, heart rate, and temperature sensors. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and...
You can now buy music on SoundCloud
SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly from their profiles, instead of diverting fans to purchase from third-party...
Elden Ring on the Switch 2 isn’t tarnished
FromSoftware is hoping to make a splash on the Switch 2 later this year when it launches The Duskbloods, a gothic competitive multiplayer game that's unlike anything the studio has made before. But...
SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists
SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists.
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a...
Is the food at the farmers market safer?
What we eat and where it comes from is a critical part of human health. According to a 2025 survey, 59 percent of Americans think it’s important to know where their food comes from, and 54...
Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police
All Ring cameras will soon use TAKE encryption by default. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE,...
Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks
Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period "heartbreaking for our team." "It would be an...
How to transfer data from your old iPhone to a new one
Quick Start makes things a lot easier.
The second-generation Bose QuietComfort Headphones are good, but don’t stand out
The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Gen 2 look a lot like all other Bose headphones from the past few years. Bose QuietComfort headphones used to be innovative. Bose's noise-canceling research is the...