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The Switch 2 is off to a speedy start for big third-party games

Today’s Nintendo Direct showed a release date gap that appears to be shrinking.

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Ways to carry along our tech, clothing, wallets, and gaming handhelds.

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Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout

I helped score the annual Value Electronics TV Shootout. Here’s what goes on behind the scenes.

The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

Thousands of games and media have been delisted from two major platforms. Here’s how that happened.

The dangerously blurry line between wellness and medical tech

Whoop’s FDA notice is a reminder that it’s harder to tell what’s a medical feature and what’s “just for fun.”

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Trump’s AI plan is a massive handout to gas and chemical companies

The Trump administration wants to build data center projects on Superfund sites, and with as little oversight as possible.

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Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

After last week’s hack, the app has been breached again.

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How dupes turned online shopping upside down

Getting copied is devastating — but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?

This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times’ Mamdani scoop

They say Columbia is just one of five universities they’ve penetrated.

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How Knox Morris went from TikToker to rock star

A musician’s dream begins on social media. So what happens next?

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The wild plots of Iranian dissident hunters

The regime attempts to track down defectors using a vast surveillance dragnet and local muscle — the results are a mess.

Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture

The Trump administration’s war on DEI is spurring scientists and researchers from Indigenous communities to seek new protections for their data. 

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The fantasy of playing Final Fantasy

A portrait of the parent as an NPC.

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My parents were extras in Apocalypse Now — is this their story?

Confronting Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War film five decades later.

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How the Napalm Girl continues to define free speech

How the Vietnam War’s most horrific photograph became a benchmark for content moderation on social media platforms.

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Imagining the scale of the Vietnam War

Can the impact of a conflict be measured? Can we reckon with what’s quantifiable?

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Wandering Souls

A US military psy-op tried to scare Viet Cong soldiers with tape recordings of Vietnamese “ghosts.”

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American War

A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.

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The rescued Vietnamese infants of Operation Babylift have grown up

Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.

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The rise of the infinite fringe

It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet has made them immortal — and politically powerful.

The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it

The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But the first generation of factory workers never got answers about their kids born with birth defects.

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What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2

It might be time for a more unified platform.

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Maybe giant gaming handhelds are where it’s at

I added controllers to a 13-inch gaming tablet and I don’t regret it.

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The quickly disappearing web

The internet is forever. Well, it was supposed to be. What happens when websites start to vanish at random?

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How one creator visualized AI by using very little AI

The artist behind The Verge’s ‘Friend or Faux?’ feature explains the practical effects behind its design.

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The influencer lawsuit that could change the industry

Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator? And what if that vibe is basic?

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