Americas News
Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Jun 20, 2026
Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments....
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
- Technology
- Adi Robertson
- Jun 20, 2026
From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this...
Toy Story has the right take on tech
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Jun 20, 2026
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions...
SwitchBot’s Standing Circulator Fan is worth fighting for
- Technology
- Thomas Ricker
- Jun 20, 2026
I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circula...
Nothing cancels this year’s CMF phone due to RAM prices
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Jun 19, 2026
Nothing's next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won't be com...
NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Jun 19, 2026
Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA's Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-priv...
Hue’s wired wall modules bring non-smart lights into its ecosystem
- Technology
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- Jun 19, 2026
Smart lighting company Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules. Installed behind existing wall switches, the new devices bring non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem for the first time....
The NTS Radio Player brings the best of internet radio to your hi-fi
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Jun 19, 2026
NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS's genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup. And, like Atonemo's...
The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM
- Technology
- Hayden Field
- Jun 19, 2026
Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning...
Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over
- Technology
- Victoria Song
- Jun 19, 2026
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for...
T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’
- Technology
- Dominic Preston
- Jun 19, 2026
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile's media relations mana...
Kaleidescape’s movie player blows streaming, and your wallet, away
- Technology
- John.Higgins
- Jun 19, 2026
We've lost something in the past 15 years. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple; they've all convinced us that streaming is the best way to watch movies and shows at home. With everything at our fingertips,...