Category: Science and Technology

I’ve tested nearly every smart speaker and smart display from Amazon and Google in my home, and they are similar, yet vastly different.

Smart plugs make our home convenient and can work with many appliances, but they can be dangerous when overloaded.

Or so says a controversial Stanford researcher, who finds that the latest systems have, against all odds, mastered a high-level cognitive skill.

Achieve a radiant smile and healthy teeth with the best electric toothbrushes.

Activo’s P1 is a decent portable music player, but it looks pretty bland.

You just left your house. As you peel out of the driveway and tear down the street in the coolest way possible, your garage door… well, what does it do? The answer’s probably nothing, and that feels like the wrong answer. The smart home was supposed to have fixed this by now.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we didn’t necessarily set out to talk about smart garage doors for as long as we did, but The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern joined the show with a lot of thoughts about Apple Intelligence, notification summaries, and how we all — and in particular, how Apple’s software leader Craig Federighi — manage their own houses. Given the reporting that Apple is gearing up for a big hardware push into the smart home, what does the…

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Social networking has become more disconnected, to say the least. Two years ago, Elon Musk began transforming Twitter into what is now X, and the ensuing chaos drove a lot of former users elsewhere — elsewhere being several places, including Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and even Facebook or Instagram.

We were curious as to where our staff members were going for their social networking fix these days — or whether they had given up on it altogether. Here are some of their answers.

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I just don’t think any single platform is going to be the one-stop shop that Twitter once was

Jay Peters, news editor

I primarily use microblogging social networks, and I bounce between many of them because 1) I need to for my job and 2) because none has really…

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Smartmatic and Dominion are trying to debunk false stories and rebuild trust — but that’s a tall order in 2024.

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This is one of the most curved ultrawide displays I’ve tried, and that curvature makes all the difference.

Whether your loved one likes sweets, spices, or something a little stronger, these treat-filled Advent calendars make a great gift.