Americas News
Now California’s cops can give tickets to driverless cars
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Apr 30, 2026
Autonomous vehicles roving California's roads will no longer be immune to traffic tickets starting on July 1st. New regulations announced by the California DMV this week allow law enforcement to give...
After working on the Vision Pro, this AR veteran is going back to phones
- Technology
- Janko Roettgers
- Apr 30, 2026
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When Mark Drummond was working on t...
$100 Nintendo gift cards are $20 off at Newegg today
- Technology
- Cameron Faulkner
- Apr 30, 2026
Nintendo eShop gift cards can be used to buy games, apparel, and even hardware or accessories from its online storefront. No matter what you want to get, you can save a fairly substantial amount by pu...
Subnautica 2 launches soon after lengthy legal dispute
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Apr 30, 2026
After some protracted legal drama, Subnautica 2 is finally about to launch. The game, which is currently Steam's most-wishlisted title and was caught up in a dispute between top executives at develope...
Anbernic’s new rotating screen handheld will start at less than $100
- Technology
- Andrew Liszewski
- Apr 30, 2026
Following its sliding screen handheld that debuted last June with a design that some reviewers found to be too chunky and thick, Anbernic has shared more details about its new rotating screen handheld...
All these smart glasses and nothing to do
- Technology
- Victoria Song
- Apr 30, 2026
I'm currently wearing a pair of smart glasses called the Even Realities G2. Another two pairs, from Rokid, sit on my desk. A few feet away, I've got the Meta Ray-Ban Display charging alongside their N...
How Adam Scott became an accidental horror movie star
- Technology
- Andrew Webster
- Apr 30, 2026
Adam Scott grew up watching horror movies at, as he describes it, "probably too young" an age. But he never set out to work specifically in the genre. Even still, horror seemed to follow him around fr...
How to win — and lose — Decoder
- Technology
- Nick Statt
- Apr 30, 2026
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer, and I’m joined by ho...
Samsung says the RAM shortage could get even worse next year
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Apr 30, 2026
There may be a long wait before the end of the RAM shortage that's driving up prices on everything from phones to gaming handhelds. During an earnings call on Thursday, Samsung predicted that the seve...
The Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum have been turned into retrofuturistic handhelds
- Technology
- Andrew Liszewski
- Apr 30, 2026
Blaze Entertainment, the company behind the cartridge-based Evercade consoles, has announced two new handhelds that reimagine iconic '80s personal computers as portable gaming machines. The Spectrum H...
OpenAI talks about not talking about goblins
- Technology
- Emma Roth
- Apr 30, 2026
OpenAI is opening up about its goblin problem. After a report from Wired revealed instructions to OpenAI's coding model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or oth...
Verified by Spotify badge lets you know this artist isn’t AI
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Apr 30, 2026
Spotify is launching a new verification program to combat spam, fakes, and AI. Some artists will now have a "Verified by Spotify" badge and a green checkmark on their profile, indicating that the comp...