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A married couple who have long enjoyed the game of Scrabble both together and separately before they even met are never at a loss for words — and attribute their wedded bliss in part to their love of the nostalgic game. They’re still playing in tournaments built around the game decades after they began doing…
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge CES is a TV show. And a car show. And a wearables show. And this year, oddly, kind of a pool-vacuum show? It is the biggest, most elaborate, most bizarre tech show of the year, during which practically the whole industry flies to Las Vegas to show off new…
Keeping your home clean is a never-ending battle, especially if you have pets and kids running around. But these cleaning products that you can get on sale right now through Amazon can help. If you missed Amazon’s Black Friday sales, Amazon’s winter sale has equally strong sales on all cleaning products (and a variety of…
Image: Samar Haddad for The Verge Fluffy robots, portable TVs, and vacuums with arms and legs. This is what we come to CES for. Read the full story at The Verge.
Illustration: The Verge Meta’s popular messaging app WhatsApp is testing a new design that gives prominent space to a suite of AI chatbots. The design, currently only accessible through the app’s Android beta, adds a dedicated tab for AIs on the app’s homescreen. WABetaInfo spotted the change, which devotes one of WhatsApp’s four tabs solely…
Lenovo’s rollable laptop stole the show, but there are a bunch of upcoming models I’m excited to test when the time comes. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The new CPUs, GPUs, and laptops announced at CES this week set the tone for Windows computers in the year to come —…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Venu, the live sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, isn’t happening. In a statement on Friday, the three companies announced the decision “not to move forward with the contemplated joint venture is effective immediately.” Since announcing Venu last year, the service hit a legal roadblock:…
A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft — a CL-415 “Super Scooper”…
California does not have a water shortage, yet firefighters battling the brutal fires across Los Angeles are facing scarce resources to keep up with the blaze that has threatened thousands of lives, homes, land and wildlife. Meanwhile, critics challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call to “not play politics,” arguing that political mismanagement is precisely to blame….
A Mexican illegal immigrant, who was previously deported from the United States five times, has been arrested after allegedly attempting to kidnap a teenage Alabama girl in a store parking lot around 5:40 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, according to officials. Yordy Centeno Melchor, 31, is charged with second-degree attempted kidnapping and he is being…