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The Netherlands is the first European country to approve Tesla’s supervised Full Self-Driving

  • Technology
  • Terrence O’Brien
  • Apr 11, 2026

Dutch regulators, the RDW, announced that after over a year and a half of testing, it has officially approved Tesla's Full-Self Driving (FSD) Supervised. This makes the Netherlands the first European...

Google says Polymarket bets showing up in News was an ‘error’

  • Technology
  • Terrence O’Brien
  • Apr 11, 2026

Polymarket bets started popping up in Google News alongside legitimate news articles. But now those results aren't showing, and Google says they were never supposed to. Spokesperson Ned Adriance told...

Google’s latest Nest Doorbells just hit their lowest prices of the year

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • Apr 11, 2026

If you’ve ever worried about porch pirates stealing packages while you’re away, a video doorbell can offer some peace of mind, letting you keep tabs on deliveries no matter where you are. Google offer...

Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art

  • Technology
  • Cath Virginia
  • Apr 11, 2026

The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces -...

Pokémon Champions is off to a rough start

  • Technology
  • Kallie Plagge
  • Apr 11, 2026

Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions' launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year),...

My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative

  • Technology
  • Victoria Song
  • Apr 11, 2026

Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. "Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?" Normally, that kind of ou...

You don’t have to spend more than $50 on a great USB-C dock for your Switch 2

  • Technology
  • Cameron Faulkner
  • Apr 11, 2026

Nintendo seemingly designed its latest console to be a mystery for third-party accessory makers. With the Switch 2, the company changed the wireless protocol for connecting controllers to the new syst...

How Iran out-shitposted the White House

  • Technology
  • Sarah Jeong
  • Apr 11, 2026

In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime's state media was flooding the zone with video a...

Demons and pinball are a perfect match

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • Apr 11, 2026

There's one very specific reason I keep a Wii U handy, and that's so that I have an easy way to play the classic pinball game Devil's Crush. Over the years, it has become a comfort game for me. I'm no...

The new show making fun of tech bros

  • Technology
  • David Pierce
  • Apr 11, 2026

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 123, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, which Artemis photo did you make your wallpaper, and also you can rea...

Is the ‘Holy Grail of batteries’ finally ready to bless us with its presence?

  • Technology
  • Andrew J. Hawkins
  • Apr 11, 2026

Earlier this year, a relatively unknown startup from Finland made a startling announcement: It had finally solved solid-state batteries. Not only that, but Donut Lab, a spinoff of Verge Motorcycles, s...

How AI is getting better at finding security holes

  • Business
  • Huo Jingnan
  • Apr 11, 2026
  • US

Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in "every major operating system and web browser." Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs.