The Trump phone was a no-show at the world’s biggest mobile show

This week Barcelona was taken over by the tech industry as Mobile World Congress descended on the Spanish city. The world’s biggest mobile show, MWC featured product launches from Xiaomi…

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change…

Indie games are turning the act of looking into an art

Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg did not necessarily set out to create a new genre. But, in some ways, that’s exactly what the duo did when they released Hidden…

The best and strangest phones of Mobile World Congress 2026

Until now, most mobile phone companies have worked to ensure their phones won’t start fires. (Occasional Samsung devices excepted, of course.) But this week at Mobile World Congress, we found…

Marathon is in a sprint

Marathon is weird as hell — and I mean that in the best possible way. The latest game from Destiny studio Bungie mixes the slick gunplay the developer is known…

Meet your new phone away from phone

Unihertz’s booth at MWC was a little out of the way, but those who did find it all seemed to want to pick up the Titan Elite 2. Sure, the…

Microsoft teases its next Xbox, says ‘Project Helix’ will play PC games too

The next-generation Xbox console will play both Xbox and PC games, and its codename is “Project Helix,” according to Asha Sharma, who took over as Microsoft’s gaming CEO last month.…

What if your real computer was a super-sized Lego computer brick?

The M2x2 in action. | Image: Paul Staal In 1979 – nearly 50 years ago – Lego jazzed up its very first spaceships with an iconic sloped computer brick that…

The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

The decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, citing one source familiar, will bar defense contractors from working with the government if they use Claude, Anthropic’s AI…

Lawmakers just advanced online safety laws that require age verification at the app store

A package of child safety bills is headed to the House floor following an hours-long session that left Democrats and Republicans divided. On Thursday, lawmakers on the House Committee on…