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Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable

  • Technology
  • Andrew Liszewski
  • May 7, 2026

Ploopy has announced another open source mouse alternative that skips touchpads and trackballs. While the new Ploopy Bean looks like a tiny travel-friendly mouse, you don't need to move it around. Ins...

Inside Dreame’s wild launch event — packed with products no one can buy

  • Technology
  • Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
  • May 7, 2026

Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a few C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts last week. They were assembled for Dreame's launch event,...

Gas prices keep rising, but do big oil companies plan to drill more? Not so far

  • Business
  • Camila Domonoske
  • May 7, 2026
  • US

The war in Iran has pushed global oil prices higher, which boosts oil company revenues. But major U.S. oil companies aren't signaling plans to increase production to bring down prices at the pump.

Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability

  • Technology
  • Elizabeth Lopatto
  • May 6, 2026

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testif...

Nintendo announces a new Star Fox for the Switch 2

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • May 6, 2026

It turns out Fox McCloud's appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just surprise announced the first new Star Fox game two decades. The game is called, simpl...

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

  • Technology
  • Fernanda González
  • May 6, 2026

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.

Google shuts down Project Mariner

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • May 6, 2026

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page n...

How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

  • Technology
  • Tina Nguyen
  • May 6, 2026

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You...

The latest Tile Pro is down to $25 — its best price of the year

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • May 6, 2026

If you’re struggling to find a Mother’s Day gift under $30, location trackers are a good investment, helping mom keep tabs on keys, bags, luggage, and other valuables. The latest Tile Pro is one of th...

What we’re hearing about the new homepage

  • Technology
  • Danielle Steussy
  • May 6, 2026

We’ve been reading your feedback on the new homepage. All of it. The kind and encouraging comments, the brutal ones, the “actually this rules,” the “please undo this immediately,” the bug reports, the...

Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words

  • Technology
  • Jay Peters
  • May 6, 2026

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman...

Here’s what Microsoft is offering long-serving employees to voluntarily retire

  • Technology
  • Tom Warren
  • May 6, 2026

Microsoft revealed last month that it's planning to offer long-serving employees in the US the ability to voluntarily retire. While the terms of the buyout were supposed to be announced to employees t...