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One thing we talk a lot about on The Vergecast is how to engage with technology without losing your mind. One version of that discussion has to do with fitness, and the so-called quantified self: what does it take to make use of the tools and trackers available to you, without letting exercise take over your life? It's a fun, complex topic, and one we come back to often.
There is, however...
If you’re going to prove to your siblings that you’re still the family’s Mario Kart champion, you’re going to need an extra controller to make sure it’s a fair race. Fortunately, 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 Bluetooth Controller — which is compatible with the Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and Windows machines — is marked down to a new low of $55.99 ($14 off) at Amazon in black and white ahead of Black...
Three movies in, Knives Out is really showing its range. After starting out with a mystery on a cozy New England estate, followed by a sequel set on a Greek island owned by an Elon Musk-style tech bro, the series gets much darker with Wake Up Dead Man. This time, director Rian Johnson crafted a locked-door mystery set inside of a small-town church, with a story that explores issues of...
The screen uses dual-layer OLED tech to achieve the effect.
Huawei has just launched its Mate 80 series in China, and the top-spec 80 Pro Max stands out for a dual-layer OLED display that Huawei says can hit an unmatched 8,000 nits of peak brightness. The Mate 80 phones are joined by a new Mate X7 foldable with IP59 dustproofing.
There are four Mate 80 phones, but the Pro Max is definitely...
"Developing superintelligence is now in sight," says Mark Zuckerberg, heralding the "creation and discovery of new things that aren't imaginable today." Powerful AI "may come as soon as 2026 [and will be] smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields," says Dario Amodei, offering the doubling of human lifespans or even "escape velocity" from death itself. "We are now...
Ikea’s introducing two new Bluetooth speaker designs next month. | Image: Ikea
Ikea is launching two new Bluetooth speakers next month as part of a larger collection announced earlier this year, following the end of the company’s partnership with Sonos. Like the Blomprakt speaker lamp that launched in the US last month, both the new Solskydd and Kulglass speakers blend technology and design...
Whether you’re wearing them for the morning commute, while traveling, or if you’re simply trying to find some peace and quiet while working at home, noise-canceling headphones are a more essential piece of kit nowadays than ever before. And you’ve got a slew of great options to pick from; it’s hard to make a bad choice.
There are longtime heavyweights like Bose and Sony to pick from....
Michael Crider’s headline at PCWorld today perfectly captures how ridiculous the PC memory shortage has become: stores like the San Francisco Bay Area’s Central Computers are beginning to sell RAM at market prices, like you’d pay for the catch-of-the-day at a seafood restaurant.
“Costs are fluctuating daily as manufacturers and distributors adjust to limited supply and high demand,”...
A fire burns in a pavilion during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Pará state, Brazil, on November 20th, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images
"It's a wrap … Don't forget to buy an 'i survived Belém' shirt," reads the opening line of an email I got Saturday, the final day of highly anticipated United Nations climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil. The email was sent from Shravya Jain-...
The Department of Justice has announced a settlement with RealPage, the widely used rent-setting software that it accused of engaging in collusion to drive up rent prices by sharing previously private information from competing landlords. The settlement puts limits on RealPage’s ability to collect and use that data, and blocks it from being used to set rents.
Last year, the DOJ and...