I know a vocal group of people who swear by the number pad on their keyboard. And yet, for years I haven’t cared about using one — until I put my hands on the Epomaker RT98. It’s a mechanical keyboard with a charming retro aesthetic, a fun CRT-like screen, VIA compatibility, a nice typing feel, […]

A robotic spacecraft called LINK will soon tug the telescope to a higher orbit. NASA The NASA Swift Boost mission has launched from Marshall Islands on July 3 at 4:36AM Eastern time after a couple of delays, and the agency has started preparing it for its ultimate goal: To rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory,

Despite my initial skepticism, I’m now sold on wireless Qi chargers that add integrated fans to keep your phone cool while charging. I figured they’d be too loud, or too weak, or too gimmicky, but I’m a convert after spending a week with the new $59.99 Kuxiu D5 Qi2.2 charging dock. Its active cooling system

Google is one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, so it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that Pixel handsets are sold in a number of regions outside the US. However, like all good device makers, Google tweaks its products based on where they are sold in order to conform to local regulations

NASA’s shuttle has been in LA since 2012, but now it’ll have a permanent exhibit at the California Science Center. The California Science Center has announced that Endeavour, NASA’s final space shuttle, will go on permanent display at the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on November 13, 2026. The new 200,000 square-foot addition to

12 months, 16 days, 21 hours, and 54 minutes after I first heard about Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), I’m finally holding one in my own hands. That’s right, The Verge’s Trump phones have arrived. And yes, I do mean phones – we have three of them: We ordered two, paid for two,

A new compliance report shows the disconnect between where it makes its money, and where it pays its taxes. Frantic00/Getty Images A new mandatory compliance report released by Microsoft shows how it declares profits in different European nations to reduce its tax bill, The New York Times reports. The document reveals that the

The hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content. Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock Cloudflare has announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index websites for search engines and act as AI agents and trainers at the same time. The company previously offered its customers the optional

Vibe-coding right in your Pocket. Meta Meta appears to have soft-launched a new app called Pocket that’s aimed at getting people to vibe-code their own minigames. Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted Pocket and posted about it to X today, but reporting platform AppFigures told TechCrunch that the app has been

The game will now arrive three weeks earlier on September 4. Capcom If you’re a video game publisher with a game arriving in the second half of 2026, you’re tossing it into a veritable bloodbath. Nearly every publisher (other than perhaps Nintendo) has been doing everything in its power to keep out of