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You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfol…
I recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows…
Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It does…
Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no lo…
When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more…
The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't p…
Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations a…
Netflix has shows and movies. And video games. And live sports. And podcasts. And also, apparently, YouTube videos? For a company that used to seem…
For decades, to be a gamer was to accumulate a lot of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that never worked properly, but mos…
Meta is, by and large, a company built on other companies' ideas. It has almost perfected the strategy: wait for a new platform or social mechanic t…
Snap's new smart glasses are probably the most impressive bit of face-computer technology we've seen. They're not VR-headset huge; they don't have a…
You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "u…
We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going…
Some news: The Vergecast is now a daily podcast! Starting today, we'll be posting every weekday, with even more gadgets and rankings and conversatio…
Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There's still no question that Ferrari's first…
Once upon a time, you could probably guess why most things appeared on your feed. Maybe you followed the creator who posted it; maybe you'd liked th…
Google is many things, but most of the time it's a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it's an AI agent doing…
What better way to unwind from a two-hour-long keynote presentation than to pour over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can con…
Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times…
The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years…