Meta expands nuclear power ambitions to include Bill Gates’ startup

These AI projects include Prometheus, the first of several supercluster computing systems, which is expected to come online in New Albany, Ohio, sometime this year. Meta is funding the construction…

Black Mirror has been renewed for another season

“Well, luckily it does have a future, so I can confirm that Black Mirror will return, just in time for reality to catch up with it,” Brooker said. “That chunk…

Lego’s first Smart Brick sets are now available for preorder

The most expensive option is the $159.99 Smart Play: Throne Room Duel & A-Wing. It comes with 962 pieces including two Lego Smart Bricks, five Smart Tags, and Luke, Darth…

You can break apart and share this 10K power bank like a KitKat bar

Accessory maker Nimble announced a new power bank at CES 2026 that will appeal to anyone who’s had to reluctantly share or loan their portable charger to someone else. The…

Anker’s new AeroFit Pro 2 earbuds are already $30 off

We saw a ton of cool new products at CES 2026, but not all of them made the cut when it came to deciding what was best of show. One…

CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re…

The Vergecast Live at CES 2026: the biggest stories and trends in tech

This year’s CES was an odd one. This is a conference usually dominated by futuristic, expensive TVs and futuristic, expensive cars, but those things weren’t what dominated CES 2026. Instead,…

Highlighting the tech trends of CES 2026

CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Verge’s on-the-ground team of super nerds covered so many new products and technologies…

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature

Elon Musk’s X has partially restricted access to Grok’s image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platform.…

The Verge Awards at CES 2026

Every January, the world of consumer electronics heads to Las Vegas to spend the first full week of the year in the desert presenting, prodding, and gawking at all the…