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Anker’s rugged Bluetooth speaker can clean itself by shaking off dirt

Anker’s audio-focused Soundcore brand is introducing a new wireless Bluetooth speaker with rugged features designed to help it survive and thrive during a trip to the beach. The Boom 3i has an IP68 water and dustproof rating plus an additional protective coating that will keep it corrosion-free for up to two years if exposed to […]

New Single-Player Action-Adventure ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Game Is In The Works

Wizards of the Coast, the owner of Dungeons & Dragons, is looking to capitalize on the success of Baldur’s Gate with a new single-player action-adventure game set in the world of the popular tabletop fantasy role-playing game. Giant Skull will handle the development duties on this yet-to-be-named title set in the D&D world, utilizing Unreal Engine 5. In […]

Nvidia’s app now has a light mode if you want to be flash banged

Nvidia has added support for a new theme in its main Windows app, allowing you to toggle between the dark mode default and a lighter option. The light mode addition is part of a number of updates to the Nvidia app this month, including optimal settings for 12 new games, bug fixes to the DLSS […]

Fi’s AI-powered dog collar lets you monitor pet behavior via Apple Watch

Smart pet tech company Fi’s new AI collar allows dog owners to monitor their pooch’s movements, health, and habits via their Apple Watch. The Fi Series 3 Plus launched on Monday with new behaviour detection features, Apple Watch app integration, and improved GPS tracking compared to its predecessor. Fi says the Series 3 Plus can […]

TikTok isn’t really working right now

Just after 11PM ET, many people started reporting problems with TikTok, which isn’t completely offline, but definitely has been dealing with some kind of outage. Downdetector listed 44,000 reports at our last check, and the issue isn’t fixed yet. Based on reports from Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky, and looking at our own devices, at the moment, […]

Microsoft will finally stop bugging Windows users about Edge — but only in Europe

Microsoft’s changes in response to the Digital Markets Act already included allowing Windows machines in the regions it covers to uninstall Edge and remove Bing results from Windows search, but now the list is growing in some meaningful ways. New features announced Monday for Microsoft Windows users in the European Economic Area (the EU plus […]

The Sonos Ace have hit their best price to date ahead of Father’s Day 

June is here, and with it comes a wave of Father’s Day sales from a range of retailers — including Sonos, which is discounting everything from the Arc Ultra soundbar to the excellent Era 100 smart speaker. The Sonos Ace deal particularly stands out, as the wireless headphones are available from Amazon, Best Buy, and […]

Gen V returns to Amazon for season 2 this September

While we’re still a ways out from The Boys returning to Amazon for its fifth season, the franchise’s spinoff series, Gen V, will be back this fall. At this year’s CCXP convention in Mexico, Amazon announced that Gen V is set to return for its second season on September 17th with a three episode premiere. […]

28 Years Later honors digital heritage with a 20-camera iPhone rig

Upcoming horror threequel 28 Years Later is far from the first Hollywood movie to be shot with the help of an iPhone, but it might just be the first shot on 20 iPhones. That’s how many phones director Danny Boyle had mounted on a special rig for select shots in the movie, which releases June […]

How college students built the fastest Rubik’s Cube-solving robot yet

A team of Purdue University students recently set a new Guinness World Record with their custom robot that solved a Rubik's Cube in just 0.103 seconds. That was about a third of the time it took the previous record-setting bot. But the new record wasn't achieved by simply building a robot that moves faster. The […]

The Verge’s 2025 Father’s Day gift guide

Father's Day rules. It's a day to celebrate all that dads have contributed to the people, homes, and communities that they're a part of. Being a dad is a lot of work - something I can vouch for, being a relatively new one myself - so for Father's Day, why not give dear old dad […]

Why do lawyers keep using ChatGPT?

Every few weeks, it seems like there's a new headline about a lawyer getting in trouble for submitting filings containing, in the words of one judge, "bogus AI-generated research." The details vary, but the throughline is the same: an attorney turns to a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT to help them with legal research […]