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How to take better photos of your pets

Dominic Preston • August 17, 2026 Meet Noodle and Loaf, aka Carb Cats. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images Like the pets of any self-respecting millennial, my cats have their own Instagram account. Noodle and Loaf – aka Carb Cats – aren’t exactly celebrities. But they are used to having their photos taken a lot.

Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

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Liza Gross • August 16, 2026 In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a report warning that pervasive chemical and carbon pollution was harming environmental health and changing the climate. Five years later, President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act. Since that 1970 law and its amendments were passed, combined emissions of a half-dozen

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event

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Jennifer Ouellette • August 15, 2026 It was a busy first day at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in Anaheim, California, with Marvel Studios releasing the first trailer for VisionQuest. We also got the first teaser for Ahsoka S2; the public release of the Avengers: Doomsday special footage featured last month for attendees only

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

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Eric Berger • August 15, 2026 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles. “In Russia’s Samara region, one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos—the Progress Center, which was involved, among other things, in electronics production–was hit,” Zelenskyy said on

I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove

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Sean Hollister • August 15, 2026 The OhSnap Snap Grip Stand, in black and silver. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge I told myself I wouldn’t buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I’d tested was nice, but felt overpriced and slightly flawed. After I weighed in on the $40 Snap

Marvel reveals the new X-Men cast, including Inde Navarrette and Adam Driver

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Terrence O’Brien • August 15, 2026 The new X-Men MCU cast on stage at D-23. | Image: Marvel Entertainment With Spider-Man: Brand New Day behind us, and its reveal of Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Marvel is finally ready to officially welcome the X-Men into the MCU. At the D23 event in Anaheim yesterday, the

Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

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Andrew Liszewski • August 15, 2026 New plugin support for CrossPoint Reader lets Xteink’s devices access DRM-protected ebooks. One of the big tradeoffs with Xteink’s pocket-friendly e-readers is a lack of easy access to ebooks. On a Kindle or Kobo you can download tens of thousands of titles through each device’s respective online bookstores, but

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

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Terrence O’Brien • August 15, 2026 If you squint you can just about make out the hat. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you

Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments

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Terrence O’Brien • August 15, 2026 They’re far more powerful and fun than their bargain price suggests. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge When I’m asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron’s budget-minded Model:Samples and Model:Cycles grooveboxes. They don’t grab headlines the way Teenage

Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals

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Terrence O’Brien • August 15, 2026 They’re the Lennon–McCartney of overanalyzing pop music. | Image: Daniel Randall As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Switched on Pop, one of the best music podcasts out there.

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

How to take better photos of your pets

Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove

Marvel reveals the new X-Men cast, including Inde Navarrette and Adam Driver

Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments

Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals