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Once niche, health and fitness wearables have become pretty commonplace. It’s not that everyone is suddenly into running and weightlifting. Rather, Fitbit helped popularize simple, affordable wristband trackers, and Apple integrated health sensors into the Apple Watch, snaring millions of iPhone owners and inspiring copycats. The benefits of health tracking are also tangible — it’s not…

The more USB ports on a device, the better, but things can get confusing when they all have a different symbol on them. Among the markings seen next to USB ports, it’s not uncommon to see a battery icon, which typically indicates that it’s a USB Power Delivery port. Known as USB PD for short,…

Oct 5, 2026, 2:30 PM UTC Nilay Patelis editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast.

There isn’t a shortage of accelerators for startups, but one of the few that investors watch closely is PearX, a 12-week program that caps its cohorts at a mere 20 startups and is run by Pear VC, a pre-seed and seed-focused venture firm.

OpenAI just announced its plans to comply with part of the European Union’s new AI transparency rules. The company will soon begin adding an invisible watermark to text and code generated in the EU. This follows a similar move by Anthropic earlier this year.

For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one. But he got bored. Then, in 2022, ChatGPT was released, and he told TechCrunch, “I felt fundamentally excited in a way that I never had…

The foundation says it’s “deeply concerned about the impact of ‘rogue’ AI agents on platforms like ours.

Researchers at the University of Utah have begun the first at-home trial of a thought-controlled bionic arm that can also restore a sense of touch, while others have developed a markerless motion capture system that rivals traditional suit-based setups

Have mercy on retail clerks. To keep their jobs, they’re often asked to push promotions they know most customers don’t want, such as memberships and credit cards. Upselling looks good on a manager’s ledger, even if it irritates a good portion of their customers.

Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat up the race to build a Western answer to DeepSeek, Qwen, and Z.ai.