Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge You just left your house. As you peel out of the driveway and tear down the street in the coolest way possible, your garage door… well, what does it do? The answer’s probably nothing, and that feels like the wrong answer. The smart home was supposed to have fixed…
Illustration: The Verge Google is adding a Google Home extension to the Gemini app, allowing you to control your smart home while chatting with the AI assistant. The update, which is available to Android users as part of Google Home’s Public Preview program, will let you use natural language prompts, like “Set the dining room…
Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images I regret to inform you that former President Donald Trump has once again filed what is almost inarguably a SLAPP complaint, this time against CBS for editing its own interview of Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump’s lawsuit, first reported by Fox News yesterday, escalates a weeks-long crusade…
The Wyze Scale Ultra includes a 4.3-inch color screen that shares more health data. | Image: Wyze The addition of a 4.3-inch color TFT screen makes the new Wyze Scale Ultra one of the brand’s most expensive smart scales to date, but at $43.99, it’s still considerably cheaper than offerings from companies like Withings. It’s…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Once upon a time, Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving and the traditional apex of sales events — meant lining up in front of your favorite store along with thousands of other would-be customers, waiting for the stampede to begin. How old-fashioned! These days, many of us…
Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp is adding yet another way to organize all your chats. If you’re tired of struggling to find certain conversations, now you can slot them into custom categories, called Lists. You can create and label lists dedicated to specific chats, such as those with your family or work colleagues. The messaging app…
Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Apple is taking a 20 percent stake in its iPhone satellite connectivity partner GlobalStar — a stake worth $400 million — as part of an expansion of its deal with the company. GlobalStar will also receive a prepayment of $1.1 billion from Apple that is intended to improve…
Image: Pixelmator Apple has agreed to acquire Pixelmator, a popular image editing app available on Mac and iOS. Pixelmator announced the news in a post on its blog, saying it will now “have the ability to reach an even wider audience and make an even bigger impact on the lives of creative people around the…
Turns out, taking things apart is still just as much fun as when you were a kid. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge My first DIY smartphone repair project was off to an inauspicious start. I’d successfully removed the back of the HMD Skyline, but the next instruction called for a T3 screwdriver bit….
Image: Epic games Epic Games is about to host big in-game event ahead of its next throwback season — and it could be pretty musical. The event’s title suggests the music theme — “Remix: The Prelude” — and a post from Epic suggests to be at the event with “the volume UP”. Fortnite is already…