Drone delivery is a reality but, as is so often the case, the future is not yet widely distributed. I made a run down to suburban Dallas to get an inside look at what Zipline is serving. Spoiler alert: it was the hottest, freshest burrito I've ever had delivered. www.theverge.com/tech/864601/...

What a Sony and TCL partnership means for the future of TVs www.theverge.com/tech/864745/...

Not Ms. Frizzle!

It's very nice

Fuck Twitter, but also look at all this stupid shit I collected from looking at Twitter all day.

At the midway point, the Pistons are 30-10 overall and off to their second-best start in franchise history. I broke down three key stats that explain their dominance. www.freep.com/story/sports...

*checks nba schedule* I'm not saying people should gamble, but historically speaking, cooper, duncan, and lauri are in line for big games tomorrow. Whatever you do with that info is your choice

"i don't know what passkeys are and no one can explain them" I am pretty sure that's not true, and I also think that one company told a weird lie that made everything about them more confusing.

Not that anyone asked, but onlyfans has the best passkey implementation. Best buy close second.

There are still people who don’t know what the problem with substack is. There are also far too many people who think them publishing there doesn’t help substack get away with it more easily

Ding

ash ticks every box: great reporter and writer, great colleague, great person, great ff8 appreciator

You should hire Ash. Please capitalize on our mistake letting her go. She's an absolute force, she's funny, she's right, and she knows what makes games tick.

Hire. Ash. Now. Our huge loss of her voice at The Verge can be to your massive benefit. She’s the best at what she does and she always welcomed my non-stop prattling about nerdy Gunpla shit.

People keep bringing up the accents for how you know people are not outside agitators. They don't even have to open their mouth. I saw how you boldly walked on that sidewalk thinking it was just damp. You ain't with us.

Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide

Whatever is going on around that Jaguars press conference thing is more evidence that social media platforms are pushing anything that a very small amount of people are willing to argue about And that you don't have to have an opinion on every single thing just because you see other people talking

Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content www.theverge.com/news/861794/...

Renee Good won a national prize six years ago for her poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which muses on science and faith. Good was shot to death by an ICE agent this week in Minneapolis.

I'll take it one further: stop making games unless you can fund them through development's end. If you can't, don't make games - make *prototypes* that you can get to vertical slice *very quick*, test the waters by pitching (if no response, post loudly about it), then drop them if they're not it.

another cobyline with @lopatto.bsky.social: we think polymarket is somewhat problematic. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

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The person who spread the TOS bs is now citing Grok as a source, so

One of the few times something ever lived up to the hype

Before you react to a "new" TOS, two things: Words don't always mean what you think Check to see if the words you're looking at were in the previous TOS, most services have at least the most recent one available, if not further back.

Grok began 2026 as it began 2025: under fire for its AI-generated images. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The Pistons were better than the Knicks in last year’s playoff series — and their 31 pt victory shows that now they know how to close teams like that out. My favorites to go to the finals this year.

I will continue to say this. If you see something bad you don't have to tell me, i trust your judgement

Next year is 20th anniversary of Mike Gundy yelling his age and gender to denote that he is prepared to be spoken harshly of I like to yell that I am a Bran and I am 40.

Am i supposed to pretend like i heard of the Critics choice awards before today

Lamar Jackson what in the world is this

Evergreen

First Pistons win in Cleveland in five years

Daniss Jenkins had the highest-scoring single quarter bench performance in franchise history, per Pistons PR

Because "social media has ruined your brain" is a sales pitch to anyone who is unhappy with their life, their kids, or their partner, since everyone is on social media. "ChatGPT glazes you until you lose your mind" doesn't sell anything because that's the whole entire reason people use it.

Crack: 10/10, do not recommend

No Big Ten championship. No national championship. Lost the last two games of the season, arguably against the two best teams they played this fall. And Jeremiah Smith talking about how he would've gone to Miami if everything was right. Important to keep perspective but I could understand being mad

Stranger things finale: didn't make the series feel like a big waste of time

This has been a key for them this season

It's not the inconvenience or annoyance, it's that they decided the people most at risk were people they don't care about, and at that point, any inconvenience became too much.

Did PLURIBUS stick the landing? We discussed my favorite show of 2025

The temperature debate is whatever, but this is...just not true Whether it's at, above, or below the standard freezing point has relatively little to do with whether or not ice is going to be a problem or even how cold it feels outside

Smart people lose at this game over and over and over

Ohio University bowl wins, 1892-2010: zero Ohio University bowl wins, 2012-2025: nine

Even when i can't hit a shot, there are always revives. #ApexLegends

"Unfortunately, all this also means that a lot of the openness of podcasting is slowly going away and becoming more centralized on platforms like YouTube and Netflix." Hill I'm willing to die on: podcasts becoming a video-forward medium is / was a huge mistake, and the space is worse off for it

Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55

I don't give a fuck if that person won or lost their competition, or how it happened, because i am certain any attention is a boost for them

This could've been a blowout loss, but the Pistons' second and third unit battled back from an 18-point lead and gave them life in the third. Tonight's a testament to their depth