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Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure

Andrew J. Hawkins • August 10, 2026 Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you’ll need for your next road trip or whether your truck can tow that new motor boat. The app is rolling out first to the

This great retro-inspired keyboard now comes preassembled

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Nathan Edwards • August 10, 2026 “Where’s the number pad?” The number pad is holding you back. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You probably know just by looking at it if the Classic-TKL Underscore Edition is for you. Do you want a retro-looking wired keyboard without a number pad? Great. Do you

Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto • August 8, 2026 Cute name, especially if it were a wookiee. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That’s what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive:

My favorite feel-good show is back

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David Pierce • August 8, 2026 Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Johnny Knoxville and Google Zero

Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

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Terrence O’Brien • August 8, 2026 Tom, we can’t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His undeniably catchy brand of dancy indietronica landed him an appearance

Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business

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Terrence O’Brien • August 8, 2026 Buc-ee’s mega-convenience store and 120-pump gas station in Mount Crawford, Virginia. | Image: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Buc-ee’s became something of a viral sensation during the World Cup, but it has a troubling history of suing small gas stations and convenience stores. On a recent episode of Last

X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’

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Terrence O’Brien • August 8, 2026 X wants to make money on previously used handles. | Image: The Verge X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk’s reign. In its place, it’s launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8th. To be eligible,

An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country

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Terrence O’Brien • August 8, 2026 To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

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Emma Roth • August 9, 2026 This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started

The world’s biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun’s surface

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Jacek Krywko • August 7, 2026 Wherever two fluids slide past each other at different speeds, the boundary between them buckles, then curls, then rolls up into vortexes. It’s called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and the physics behind it was worked out in the late 1860s. We know this instability explains why wind causes ripples on

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure

This great retro-inspired keyboard now comes preassembled

Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

My favorite feel-good show is back

Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business

X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’

An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

The world’s biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun’s surface