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Tuesday, May 30, 2017 It’s essential

AI, the humanity!

by Sam Byford

The first Essential Phones will begin shipping in June

by Nick Statt

Mummy DNA shows that the ancients don’t have much in common with modern Egyptians

by Angela Chen

Uber fires executive accused of stealing Google’s self-driving car secrets

by Sean O'Kane

Computex 2017: all the news from Taipei, where computers still matter

by Ashley Carman, Paul Miller, and 5 others

US successfully destroys an incoming missile in test of defense system

by Rachel Becker

Intel’s Compute Card, a credit card-sized PC, will ship in August

by Ashley Carman

We’ve got mugs, summer tanks, totes, and more now in the Verge store!

by Michael Moore

No fidget spinners here

The Essential Phone: a first look at the hardware

by Dieter Bohn
10 comments / new

Andy Rubin says Essential’s Ambient OS will be open source, just like Android

by Nick Statt and Rich McCormick
2 comments / new

The Essential phone will have its own smart assistant

by Nilay Patel
2 comments / new

Live with Essential's Andy Rubin at Code 2017!

by Dieter Bohn

Steve Ballmer says he won’t inject politics into his government data project

by Lauren Goode
3 comments / new

Supreme Court says companies can’t use patent law to sue resellers

by Adi Robertson
3 comments / new

Asus is still feeding the Android tablet market with its new ZenPad 3S 8.0

by Ashley Carman
13 comments / new

Apple’s Carpool Karaoke series will debut August 8th

by Jacob Kastrenakes
3 comments / new

A fidget spinner holder for your desk is the Newton’s cradle of 2017

by Ashley Carman
6 comments / new

Today the US will test whether it can stop a nuclear missile attack

by Rachel Becker
13 comments / new

Pokémon fans are not thrilled poor little Magikarp can die

by Megan Farokhmanesh

US carriers confirm they’ll support the Essential Phone

by Chris Welch
17 comments / new

Audible’s new $5 million fund will pay emerging playwrights to write audio dramas

by Kaitlyn Tiffany
1 comment / new

Sonic Mania gets an August release date and an adorably animated trailer

by Chaim Gartenberg
6 comments / new

Twitter now filters DMs from people you don’t know

by Natt Garun
6 comments / new

Windows XP computers were mostly immune to WannaCry

by Russell Brandom
9 comments / new

HBO’s Silicon Valley underlines the importance of the tech industry bullshit artist

by Nick Statt
7 comments / new

Asus cranked its new 35-inch curved gaming monitor up to 200Hz

by Paul Miller

Is your video card ready for the pain?

Space industry CEO is ‘absolutely convinced’ that aliens have visited Earth

by Loren Grush
35 comments / new

Russia and Ukraine got in a Twitter fight. There’s a Simpsons GIF.

by Zack Beauchamp

Twin Peaks Top 3: Can someone teach Agent Cooper how to Dougie?

by Dami Lee
5 comments / new

Samsung’s new Notebook 9 Pro includes a built-in S Pen

by Tom Warren
14 comments / new

Japan’s Pikachu train is like a tiny speeding amusement park

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Pogo’s latest remix makes a sticky-sweet summer jam out of Despicable Me

by Kaitlyn Tiffany
7 comments / new

Corsair releases a snack-proof gaming keyboard

by Chaim Gartenberg
14 comments / new

Spotify made jogging playlists for House of Cards’ Frank and Claire Underwood

by Kaitlyn Tiffany
4 comments / new

CrowdJustice, a Kickstarter for court cases, expands from the UK to the US

by Ben Popper
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Luminoodle Basecamp: because sometimes you need a 20-foot light rope

by Thomas Ricker
2 comments / new

ARM's idea of 'China speed' helps explain why it's so hard to compete with Chinese phone makers

by Vlad Savov
21 comments / new

The Essential Phone doesn’t consider a headphone jack essential

by Vlad Savov

Hope you like dongles

Huawei Watch 2 review: a fitness focus that falls flat

by Brent Rose
17 comments / new

All the Essential Phone news

by Nick Statt, Rich McCormick, and 6 others

Nvidia’s Max-Q tech is for powerful gaming laptops that don’t look like gaming laptops

by Sam Byford
13 comments / new

Essential's miniature 360 camera attaches to its new phone

by Tom Warren
6 comments / new

The father of Android says it has ‘forced us to fight’ with technology

by Dieter Bohn
32 comments / new

The Essential Phone has its own version of the magnetic Moto Mods system

by Vlad Savov
12 comments / new

Essential Home is an Amazon Echo competitor that puts privacy first

by Thomas Ricker
10 comments / new

Exclusive: this is the Essential Phone

by Dieter Bohn
280 comments / new
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