This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. You can trace the state of health tech today to a single gadget: the Apple Watch Series 4. […]
All week, we’ve been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company’s 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in – we ended up with more than 1.6 million votes! We also have lots of other coverage of Apple’s first half century, and you should […]
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ChatGPT is now available on Apple CarPlay via iOS 26.4, offering voice-only AI interactions for safer, hands-free use while driving.
Apple’s archive reveals oversized iPhone and Apple Watch prototypes, showing how its biggest products started rough before evolving into the polished devices people use every day.
A custom liquid-cooling mod helped the MacBook Neo run significantly cooler and boosted performance enough to beat the M1 MacBook Air in benchmarks.
Apple Sports adds World Cup support, letting you track teams, scores, and matches in real time with lock screen updates. Here’s how the new feature changes the way you follow the 2026 tournament.
Samsung’s S26 Ultra impresses with innovation, but real-world trade-offs in display, cameras, and AI made me miss the consistency and simplicity of the iPhone 17 Pro.
From the failed Pippin to AAA games on iPhones, Apple’s 50-year journey shows its gaming dreams weren’t wrong, just early. Now, the ecosystem might finally be ready.
WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance te…