Detachment has a chilly reputation. In ordinary conversation, it can sound like emotional distance, cynicism or a slow retreat from the people and tasks that once mattered. At work, the word can sound even worse, as if an employee...
Lorde performing at the 2026 Governors Ball. | Photo: Siegfried Anthony/Billboard via Getty Images
Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While...
Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production classic Bjork records like Vespertine. But Drew Daniel, one half of Matmos, is fiendishly...
It is easy to read response time as character. Someone replies instantly to a meme, a logistics question, a restaurant link or a work aside. Then an emotional message arrives, and the same person goes quiet for two days....
Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would...
The SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro gaming headset. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales
SteelSeries has the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset on sale for $239.99 (currently between $300 and $350 at other retailers). The Xbox version that supports a...
A photo of a lightbulb glowing purple. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to...
There is a particular embarrassment that can arrive after success. A person gets the job, the promotion, the funding, the house, the public proof, the number they used to think would settle something. For a while it does. Then...
On the night of 22 October 1707, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell was leading twenty-one ships of the Royal Navy home from Gibraltar when his flagship HMS Association struck the Western Rocks of the Scilly Isles and went down in...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi did not find the deepest form of human aliveness where modern culture often tells us to look for it. Not in total comfort. Not in passive ease. Not in the blank relief of finally doing nothing.
He found...
