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Woot’s ‘Video Games for All’ sale features some of our favorite games
- Technology
- Cameron Faulkner
- Feb 27, 2026
There’s a sale happening at Woot that’s delivering Black Friday-esque deals on video games through March 5th. The “Video Games for All” sale includes discounts on physical games for most modern consol...
We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots
- Technology
- Hayden Field
- Feb 27, 2026
It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potent...
The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Feb 27, 2026
The US military mistakenly shot down a drone belonging to Customs and Border Protection near the Mexican border in Fort Hancock, Texas, according to reports from Reuters and The New York Times. The Th...
Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show
- Technology
- Andrew Webster
- Feb 27, 2026
Amazon has slowly been teasing out casting details for its live-action adaptation of God of War, and now we have our first look at the show. It's a single image but a notable one showing protagonist K...
The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Feb 27, 2026
In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bi...
Pokémon Winds and Waves launch on the Switch 2 in 2027
- Technology
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
- Feb 27, 2026
It's time to say goodbye to the Paldea region because a new generation of mainline Pokémon games are on the way. During today's big Pokémon Presents stream, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Wind and Wa...
Huel tries to solve the ‘burden’ of eating
- Technology
- Victoria Song
- Feb 27, 2026
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life...
OpenAI snags $110 billion in investments from Amazon, Nvidia, and Softbank
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Feb 27, 2026
OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which it says has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million consum...
Netflix isn’t buying Warner Bros: All of the latest updates
- Technology
- Verge Staff
- Feb 27, 2026
Just months after Netflix struck a deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Games, the streaming giant has backed out of the arrangement, declining to raise its offer beyond P...
TCL’s $7,000+ flagship TV is ready to fight
- Technology
- John.Higgins
- Feb 27, 2026
Since I saw the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at a pre-CES event in December, I've been eager to get a close look at it in my living room. At first glance, the TV impressed me enough that I named it the be...
Pokémon Presents 2026: all the news and trailers
- Technology
- Andrew Webster
- Feb 27, 2026
It’s that time of year: a whole bunch of Pokémon news is incoming. February 27th is the date the franchise first debuted, and The Pokémon Company uses it as a chance to outline its plans in a Pokémon...
Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters
- Technology
- David Morris
- Feb 27, 2026
The tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails and files released on January 30th tie the infamous pedophile, sex trafficker, and influence peddler to elite figures across the tech industry. The world of crypt...