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Our new favorite budget phones
  • Technology

Our new favorite budget phones

  • Dominic Preston
  • Apr 17, 2026

Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, with no major budget phone laun...

Exit 8 is cinema for the livestreaming era
  • Technology

Exit 8 is cinema for the livestreaming era

  • Devindra Hardawar
  • Apr 17, 2026

The rules of Exit 8, both the cult indie game and the recent film adaptation, are simple: You're stuck in a subway station that loops around endlessly...

Anthropic now has a design assistant too
  • Technology

Anthropic now has a design assistant too

  • Igor Bonifacic
  • Apr 17, 2026

In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then...

Peloton, stay in your lane
  • Technology

Peloton, stay in your lane

  • Victoria Song
  • Apr 17, 2026

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and po...

Ghost orchid in the machine
  • Technology

Ghost orchid in the machine

  • Cath Virginia
  • Apr 17, 2026

Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their...

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap
  • Technology

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

  • David Pierce
  • Apr 17, 2026

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock p...