How to use your phone as a hotspot
If you’re taking your laptop away from the safe environs of your home or office desk and still want to stay online, you’ve got a couple of choices (assuming it doesn’t have cellular connecti...
‘Millions’ may have protested Trump and Musk yesterday
Hundreds of thousands of people signed up to attend over 1,300 “Hands Off!” protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk yesterday. Today, estimates from groups involved in planning t...
Wi-Fi is one of the great backward compatibility success stories
My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data across 60-plus devices that span five generations of Wi-Fi. Everything on it, from my iPhone 15 Pro all the way down to ...
Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift
The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift.
Drifting is the most common term...
Your House is like a choose-your-own adventure mystery book
Your House is a visual novel that is the closest game I’ve played to reading an actual book.
In Your House, you play as Debbie, a girl who receives a mysterious postcard on her birth...
One streaming app to (almost) rule them all
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 78, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry everything’s about to get so expen...
Color is a mathematical nightmare
Breaking down the confusing world of color spaces.
The best method that we have for defining color is by using math. Specifically, mind-boggling mathematical models called color spaces that use geo...
Meta releases two Llama 4 AI models
Meta has announced Llama 4, its newest collection of AI models that now power the Meta AI assistant on the web and in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. The two new models, also available to down...
