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PSA: YouTube will be streaming Coachella for free next week
Coachella officially kicks off next Friday, April 10. But for anyone who doesn’t want to fly out to the desert or fork over upwards of $650 for a ticket, YouTube is going to livestream the concert...
Five questions for the guys who made a compass that points to the Times Square Olive Garden
Here's a question almost nobody is asking: how do you get to the Times Square Olive Garden? Well, these beautiful weirdos are answering it - the team that made the Times Square Olive Garden compass....
Elon Musk is about to be a very busy boy!
To be honest, I thought Elon Musk would confidentially file for SpaceX's IPO on the 20th of this month, rather than the 1st. But maybe that just means he's moved on to other numbers, and we should...
OpenAI just bought TBPN
OpenAI has purchased TBPN, the viral online talk show that often interviews AI executives and other tech leaders. The show - which goes live every weekday, often for a three-hour duration -...
Verge subscribers: Join us for a movie night in New York City, hosted by The Vergecast
The Vergecast is hosting a special in-person screening of Sneakers in partnership with IFC in New York City, and we're opening presale tickets exclusively to Verge subscribers. Who: You! What: A...
Indie Pass is a forthcoming subscription service exclusively for indie games
Publisher and game management platform indie.io just announced the pending launch of something called Indie Pass. This is a subscription service, so it's sort of like Game Pass but for indie...
Russia closes loophole to fully block payments for Apple services
Russia has closed a loophole that allowed its citizens to pay for Apple digital services. "As of April 1, 2026, payment processing is no longer available for purchases made on the App Store or other...
Hisense’s art-inspired CanvasTV has hit a new low price
Hisense’s CanvasTV offers a surprisingly good experience for the price. | Image: Hisense Samsung’s releasing a new version of The Frame sometime this year, though the exact date is still unknown...
Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader
Surf’s main idea is about feeds. Everything is feeds. | Image: Flipboard Surf is a slightly hard app to explain. It's sort of three things: a client for fediverse apps like Bluesky and Mastodon; a...
Google releases Gemma 4, a family of open models built off of Gemini 3
When Google released Gemini 3 Pro at the end of last year, it was a significant step forward for the company's proprietary large language models. Now, the company is bringing some of the same...