Astell & Kern SP3000T review: a tube amp in your pocket

Do you want to hear the best-sounding portable music player in creation? Something that plays your favorite songs better than you’ve ever heard them? Do you have an extra $3,000,…

Mario & Luigi: Brothership review: Mario’s excellent run continues

Brothership, once again, starts with the brothers getting whisked away to a fantasy realm in need of help. This time it’s the oceanic world of Concordia, which has been broken…

Perplexity debuts an AI-powered election information hub

AI search company Perplexity is putting to the test whether it’s a good idea to use AI to serve crucial voting information with a new Election Information Hub it announced…

Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can

That’s exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently figured out how to run custom firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In…

How Track Star became your favorite musician’s favorite TikTok show

Guess the artist, win five bucks. Whether you’re a random person on the streets of New York, an A-list celebrity, or the sitting Vice President of the United States, that’s…

Search in ChatGPT is here — and AI search engines are improving

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 59, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also…

US immigration policy has a huge blind spot: climate change

Joe Biden will leave office having taken more action on climate change, arguably, than any US president before him — but one pillar of his climate plan has fallen apart.…

Rolls-Royce Spectre review: the ultimate electric experience

My favorite feature of the new $420,000, all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre isn’t the cosseting ride quality or the illuminated stars embedded in the headliner of the insanely ornate interior. It isn’t…

Trailers of the week: Squid Game, Presence, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

With all the noise from the lead-up to the 2024 US Presidential election next week, you’d be forgiven for having missed some of the trailers that came out over the…

Kindle Colorsoft owners complain of a yellow bar on the e-reader’s screen

People have started receiving their orders of Amazon’s first color e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, and many say they’re disappointed to find a yellow, discolored strip at the bottom…