How to track Santa Claus this Christmas Eve using AI

If you’re a parent with young children, then you’ll probably hear this a lot on Christmas Eve: “Where’s Santa right now?” With tracking tools like the NORAD Santa Tracker and Google’s Santa Tracker, everyone can know when Father Christmas will ar…

Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp

The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.

Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot
ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot

ChatGPT is joining the flood of apps offering yearly recaps for users. It’s rolling out a “Year in Review” feature that will show you a bunch of stats – like how many messages you sent to the chatbot in 2025 – as well as give you an AI-generated pixel art-style image that encompasses some of […]

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped

The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.

Splat’s app uses AI to turn your photos into coloring pages for kids

The app turns your own photos into pages for your kids to color, via AI.

Instacart scraps AI pricing tests that made some products more expensive
Instacart scraps AI pricing tests that made some products more expensive

Instacart is ending its AI-powered pricing tests, which led some users to see higher prices on certain products than others. “Now, if two families are shopping for the same items, at the same time, from the same store location on Instacart, they see the same prices – period,” Instacart writes in a blog post on […]

TikTok Shop launches digital gift cards to challenge Amazon and eBay

TikTok Shop has rolled out a new feature that allows users to purchase digital gift cards, making it easier to help friends and family buy from the millions of products on the app.

How AIM taught the internet to chat
How AIM taught the internet to chat

If you were an internet user around the turn of the century, there’s a good chance I could play a one-second long sound of a door opening and memories would immediately come flooding back. Memories of running home from school and logging onto AOL Instant Messenger to chat with your friends or your crush. Maybe […]

Our favorite stuff of 2025
Our favorite stuff of 2025

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 110, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy holidays, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about mall Santas and malleable software and phone bans, wondering how I […]