Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Review: Super Thin With a Catch
The wonders of a thin phone quickly disappear when you have to baby the battery life.
Meta’s antitrust defense wraps with one big claim: WhatsApp and Instagram couldn’t be better
For five weeks, the Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge to imagine a world where Instagram and WhatsApp flourished outside Meta’s control instead of being acquired by the tech giant. In the sixth and final week of trial, Meta asked Judge James Boasberg to consider that actually, these apps might be as good as […]
Summer blockbuster season is here
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 84, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Mubi and Around The Horn and millennial tech, […]
The Newark airport crisis is about to become everyone’s problem
There are too many planes in the sky. In 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) supervised nearly 16.8 million flights in American airspace – half a million more than the year prior. To manage all of those airplanes, however, the FAA uses an air traffic control system designed in the early 1990s – when features […]
The Quest to Prove the Existence of a New Type of Quantum Particle
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles—a new category of quantum particle—could be created in exotic materials.
3D Is Back. This Time, You Can Ditch the Glasses
A new era of 3D display technology is upon us, moving far beyond anything we’ve seen in the past.
The Nintendo Switch 2 sure seems to work just fine with a USB mouse
You’ll be able to use a USB mouse with the Nintendo Switch 2 in at least one game, as a Koei Tecmo developer commentary video for the upcoming Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition revealed this week. That’s great news if your wrists, like mine, started preemptively cramping the first time you saw video of someone […]
The oldest Fire TV devices are losing Netflix support soon
It’s finally time to upgrade for many owners of the earliest Amazon Fire TV devices, as Netflix is ending support for them next month, reports German outlet Heise. The cutoff for US users is June 3rd, according to ZDNet, which writes that the company has been emailing those who would be affected by the change. […]
X is back after an apparent widespread outage
X is back up for most users after what appeared to be a significant outage that spiked early this morning around 9AM ET. Global internet monitor NetBlocks posted this morning that X “has been experiencing international outages for some users for a second time in a week,” adding that the issue isn’t “related to country-level […]
Whoop is reportedly replacing defective MG trackers
Users of Whoop’s fitness trackers have been reporting that their Whoop MG fitness trackers are turning unresponsive, in some cases within under an hour of setting them up. Now, the company is apparently replacing the trackers, in some cases before the users even ask, TechIssuesToday reports. Launched alongside the Whoop 5.0 earlier this month, the […]