Tech

Reviews

Science

Creators

Entertainment

Video

Features

Podcasts

Newsletters

Merch Store

A very smart Vergecast Thanksgiving

Important Vergecast correction.

Today on the Vergecast we talked Taylor Swift, Twitter, and the disaster of Meta’s latest headset.

AI Photoshop, robot art, and a big fight about the future of colors.

Phil Spencer really wants you to know that native Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation

Hands on with Honor’s new Magic VS foldable, its first releasing outside China

Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook

The Arc browser is the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta is now available to everyone in North America

The best Black Friday deals on gaming laptops

Meta Quest Pro review: get me out of here

Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (Intel) review: this is the one to buy

Microsoft Surface Pro 9 (SQ3) review: Windows on Arm is not ready

The best phone to buy right now

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is finally headed toward the Moon

New York pauses permits for the most polluting crypto mining

California’s last operating nuclear plant just got a $1.1 billion lifeline

NASA’s Orion spacecraft makes close flyby of the Moon and heads on to orbit

Three big takeaways from this year’s United Nations climate conference

The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed

The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next

Twitch says it’s getting better at detecting and blocking young users

Even PowerPoint succumbs to portrait mode

Facebook is making teens’ accounts more private by default

Sonic Frontiers buries its great ideas under soul-crushing design flaws

Netflix’s 1899 is mysteries all the way down

Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries

HBO Max is working on a fix for playback errors on Apple TV 4K

Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is best known for making some of the world's most ubiquitous consumer devices, software, and services: the iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook computers, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and many more. Led by CEO Tim Cook since 2011, Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world alongside Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

Apple

The smart home was once a far-flung pipe dream, but it is now a reality. Wherever you live, your home is ground zero for some of the most interesting tech available right now, and tech that’s yet to come. Best of all, it doesn’t have to cost a fortune to get your home up and running with smart hardware and services.

Home security and monitoring solutions can alert you to a burglary, smoke, fire, or just simple motion activity. There are plenty of options with a range of capabilities, from smart doorbells and smart locks to indoor and outdoor cameras that can see in the dark.

Smart speakers, like the Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Apple HomePod each play a big role in helping you out, too. In the kitchen, they can read out recipes, or if you’re cleaning, you can call out to them to change the song on the fly. If you buy smart light bulbs, for instance, you can turn them on and off by using your voice.

Smart Home

Hands-on

The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is held every year in Las Vegas. It’s typically the largest event of its kind and the trends seen there are a harbinger of what’s to come in the months ahead in areas such as televisions, laptops, streaming content, health and fitness, smart homes, and transportation. Due to COVID-19, The Verge will be covering the event remotely. As some companies drop out and others forge ahead, it promises to be a memorable event.

Hands-on photos of iHome's iD99 dual-docking iPhone and iPad clock radio. The radio has two 30-pin docking connectors plus a USB port so you can charge a total of three devices at the same time.