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June 1, 2026

22 articles

The Google Pixel Watch 5 may have been spoiled by… the creator of Borderlands

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We may just have gotten an early look at the Google Pixel Watch 5 - and from an unusual source. Randy Pitchford, the creator of the Borderlands game franchise, posted a p...

by Emma Roth

Pebblebee’s Halo can help track lost items and keep you safe, and it’s on sale for $50

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If you’re planning to travel this summer, both a Bluetooth tracker and a personal safety device can come in handy, especially if you’ll be exploring on your o...

by Sheena Vasani

This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton

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Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly...

by Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo

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Google's new "24/7" AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tr...

by Jay Peters

Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

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Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take ov...

by Emma Roth

Casey Neistat’s guide to posting every day

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Some news: The Vergecast is now a daily podcast! Starting today, we'll be posting every weekday, with even more gadgets and rankings and conversations and feelings and po...

by David Pierce

Anthropic has officially filed to go public

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After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the pro...

by Hayden Field

Sony’s new fight stick and gaming monitor launch in August

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Sony is sharing new details about some of its upcoming gaming-focused hardware, including pricing and August launch dates for its FlexStrike fight stick and its 27-inch m...

by Jay Peters

Summer Game Fest 2026: All the news from gaming’s busiest week

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Get ready for some gaming news. It’s officially June, which means splashy new events from PlayStation, Xbox, gaming hype man Geoff Keighley, and more. PlayStation...

by Verge Staff

An affordable, long-lasting AirTag alternative is $15 right now

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Gaze into the orb. | Image: The Verge There are many solid Bluetooth trackers for iPhones that tap into Apple’s expansive Find My network. Some are thin, some are a bit ch...

by Cameron Faulkner

The next big career move for young Hollywood? Reading audio smut

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Though Gen Z has developed a reputation for being so disinterested in sex that they don't even want to see it on TV, the popularity of series like Heated Rivalry and The...

by Charles Pulliam-Moore

Your guide to June’s biggest gaming events

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It's early June, which means it's video game event season once again. Now that E3 has been gone for a few years, a bunch of showcases and presentations have started to fi...

by Jay Peters

Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build

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Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it...

by Tom Warren

Computex 2026: All the news and announcements

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Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more...

by Stevie Bonifield

AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?

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Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it...

by Nilay Patel

Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access

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The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Develo...

by Emma Roth

Xbox and PlayStation have a lot to prove

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Things are bad out there. Despite 2026 shaping up to be a great year when it comes to actual games, it couldn't really be worse for the people that make them or the indus...

by Andrew Webster

Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target

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Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a probe by the Federa...

by Lauren Feiner

These are the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops

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A lot of details are still under wraps, but at least we know what the new Nvidia Spark laptops look like. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia has officially entered the world of consum...

by Jess Weatherbed

Asus just announced the OLED Xbox Ally X of my dreams

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The Xbox Ally X20, and the glasses you’ll have to buy with it. | Image: Asus If you asked me what I'd change about the Xbox Ally X handheld - aside from fixing Windows, I...

by Sean Hollister

This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark

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This shadowy render is the best glimpse Microsoft is giving us so far. | Image: Microsoft Once upon a time, Microsoft had to write off $900 million betting an Arm-based N...

by Sean Hollister

Nvidia announces RTX Spark as ‘the most efficient PC chip ever built’

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This fall, Nvidia will officially become a consumer PC chipmaker like Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm, putting a complete computing chip - not just graphics - into the ve...

by Sean Hollister