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A nice upgrade for Apple’s simplest gadget
- Technology
- David Pierce
- Jan 31, 2026
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 114, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send Arc Raiders tips, and also you can read all the old editions at...
How to Film ICE
- Technology
- Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner, Andy Greenberg
- Jan 31, 2026
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
The latest Instax printer is a pricey but worthy upgrade
- Technology
- Thomas Ricker
- Jan 31, 2026
FujiFilm's Instax Mini Link 3 printer is a much-loved $100 accessory in my travel journal kit. I often tape a printed image next to my handwritten thoughts to preserve a moment in time. The prints pro...
Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding
- Technology
- Tina Nguyen
- Jan 31, 2026
The Senate voted on Friday evening to pass the federal budget, funding everything except for one entity: the Department of Homeland Security, which was given a two-week funding extension in order to n...
Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live
- Technology
- Sean Hollister
- Jan 31, 2026
Would it surprise you to learn Microsoft booted Epstein from its online gaming platform? As spotted by XboxEra, the latest batch of Epstein's email shows that in December 2013, he was "permanently sus...
Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Jan 30, 2026
Peloton said on Friday that it's cutting around 11 percent of its staff, mostly impacting "engineers working on technology and enterprise-related efforts," reports Bloomberg. Last August, Peloton laid...
Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Jan 30, 2026
The stock prices of some major video game companies, including Take-Two Interactive, Roblox, and Unity, had notable declines on Friday, just a day after Google announced its Project Genie tool that le...
Sonos’ Super Bowl sale knocks hundreds off its audio gear
- Technology
- Cameron Faulkner
- Jan 30, 2026
Sonos isn’t exactly synonymous with the Super Bowl, although the brand discounts its gear every year around this time like clockwork. It’s knocking 20 percent off many of its marquee products, includi...
Fitbit users now have until May to migrate to a Google account
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Jan 30, 2026
Fitbit users who are holding out on moving their data over to a Google account now have until May 19th, 2026 to make the switch. The previous deadline was just days away on February 2nd, but that date...
There’s a social network for AI agents, and it’s getting weird
- Technology
- Hayden Field
- Jan 30, 2026
Yes, you read that right. "Moltbook" is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was formerly known as Moltbot, and before that...
We finally heard from Trump Mobile… and they immediately ghosted us
- Technology
- Dominic Preston
- Jan 30, 2026
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the...
Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is nearly 75 percent off today
- Technology
- Brandon Widder
- Jan 30, 2026
In case you missed it, we recently overhauled our guides to the best budget robot vacuums and the best mopping vacs, both of which feature a slate of new picks from Roborock, Narwal, Dreame, and other...