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China Controls Stuff Life Runs On. Breaking Free Will Cost You

Wave Cash App’s Magic Wand to Pay for Stuff

You can tap the star-shaped, NFC-enabled wand at terminals to make contactless payments. It's the first of several tap-to-pay hardware doodads coming from Cash App.

We’re giving away a Prime Day grab bag loaded with over $800 of free tech

We’re always testing out new products here The Verge, which presents a bit of a problem for our inventory closet in New York City. It’s literally overflowing with gadgets, new and old, so we’re restoring order by giving some of it away to one lucky person. We’ve stuffed over $800 worth of tech into a […]

Cara Delevingne admits she used party drug GHB daily before terrifying seizures forced her sober

"I didn't know how addictive that stuff was."

‘Buying stuff like it’s going out of fashion’: Biotech M&A on track for best year since pre-Covid

Driven by looming patent cliffs, newly buoyant public markets, and Big Pharma's race to beef up their pipelines, dealmaking in 2026 is off to a strong start.

How to win free Amazon groceries for a year — just by ordering the stuff you already need

While inflation is increasing food prices at their fastest pace in three years, a lucky few could win free groceries for an entire year.

Trade war is back on as White House floats a new minimum 10% tariff plan—with carveouts for coffee, beef, and microchip suppliers

"The proposed tariff exemptions for key foodstuffs seem to indicate that someone in the administration is aware of the way high-frequency purchases are shaping inflation perceptions."

If I had a hammer... it might actually be a rhino tooth

Neanderthals had some wild stuff in their toolkits.

Versant Media Invests in Microdrama Distributor GammaTime

Versant Media wants to sweat the short stuff. The media company, which owns MS NOW and CNBC and was spun off from NBCUniversal earlier this year, has taken part in a Series A funding round that will establish a partnership with GammaTime, a microdrama streaming platform. Under terms of the agreement, GammaTime will work with […]

People are leaving a lot of weird stuff in their robotaxis

A unicorn Beanie Baby. A 15-pound green bowling ball. A pair of dentures. These are just some of the items left behind in robotaxis in the past year, according to Uber's annual Lost and Found Index. For the first time, the company is expanding its annual of accounting of things forgotten in Uber vehicles to […]

Tech execs are hoping you forget all that 'AI is going to kill jobs' stuff

Silicon Valley's new message: AI may not be the job apocalypse we said it'd be

Even Robots Need Style As Catwalk Shows Off Humanoid Fashions

South Korea hosted a fashion catwalk for humanoids last week as human and robotic models strutted their stuff together as part of a showcase by Galaxy Corporation.

Bikini-clad Bethenny Frankel, 55, struts her stuff while walking the runway in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Show

The "RHONY" alum pranced down the runway in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Show at W South Beach in Miami on Saturday night.

Our Best Stuff on the Texas Senate Race

Expect an ugly race in the Lone Star State.

This is the James Bond game we’ve been waiting for

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 130, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, don't forget to hydrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Victor Wembanyama and mahjong and Merlin Mann's pearls of […]

‘Hell on Wheels’ killer Mackenzie Shirilla whined to cops about her Snapchat, designer bags after deadly car crash

“I’m sorry but were people going through my Snapchats too, like opening stuff?” Shirilla asked cops, who had a search warrant.

After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.

Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops. The post After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students. appeared first on The Intercept.

Vance says US, Iran still 'going back and forth' on 'nuclear stuff'

Vice President Vance said on Thursday that the U.S. was “very close” to finalizing an agreement with Iran, but a few sticking points remained. The two sides have reached a tentative deal that would extend the already-fragile ceasefire for 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and launch further talks on the future of Tehran’s...

My friend wants me to sell her stuff at my garage sale. Should I take a cut of her profit?

“I should get some money for my labor. But it feels a little icky to me.”

Dodgers flirt with no-hitter in win over Rockies — despite Shohei Ohtani’s F-bomb

The F-bomb said it all. On a night he pitched six hitless innings against the Colorado Rockies, Shohei Ohtani still was not happy with his stuff.