De-Googled GrapheneOS is coming to Motorola’s foldables next year
GrapheneOS, an open source version of Android that prioritizes security and privacy, has detailed its plans for supporting Motorola smartphones. Official support is set to arrive next year, starting with traditional flagships, before rolling out to Motorola's foldable phones and perhaps cheaper models, eventually.
In a Mastodon thread, the GrapheneOS Foundation announced that it will initially support a Motorola slab flagship phone, but will later support both Razr Fold and Razr Ultra foldables - the latter of which would be the first flip phone to officially run GrapheneOS.
Graphene has always had stringent security standards when it com …
Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt’s 100-meter record
The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. In a preliminary heat on Saturday, Tiangong Ultra, made by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, ran the distance in 9.39 seconds, followed by the Honor-developed Lightning at 9.47 seconds.
It's one of several notable achievements to take place at the event, which can best be described as a sort of annual robot olympics that's designed to showcase advancements in bipedal bot technology. After launching in 2025, 2,056 robots from 16 countries are participating in this year's …
GTA VI: all the news on Rockstar’s next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series
It’s been over a decade and two console generations since GTA V came out, and its sequel is still a work in progress. GTA VI has faced multiple delays, with developer Rockstar Games bumping back its predicted release date twice, first to May 26th, 2026, then again to November 19th, 2026, a full year after its originally planned release window of fall 2025, and facing accusations of union busting after firing more than 30 employees.
Now, preorders have opened for the digital code-only game, offering the $79.99 standard edition and $99.99 Ultimate Edition on both PS5 and Xbox Series X / S.
Early official glimpses offered a look at the game’s protagonists, Jason and Lucia, as the game will follow the pair around Vice City as they attempt to navigate a criminal conspiracy after a job goes south. After leaks of early builds a few years ago, a new “CyberLeek” series of posts have popped up, showing sequences of the game just days ahead of Rockstar’s planned Netflix-exclusive (for six hours) event on August 27th.
Read on below for all of the news and updates about Grand Theft Auto VI.
- Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
- Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks
- A GTA VI leaker seemingly has a playable build.
- GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premiere
- GTA VI preorders have gotten off to an “exceptional start.”
- GTA VI is getting an ‘extended look’ at the end of August
- Where to preorder Grand Theft Auto VI
- Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch
- With GTA looming, consoles are getting expensive at the worst possible time
- GTA VI is a worrying sign for the future of physical games
- GTA VI is download-only.
- GTA VI finally gets a price tag
- GTA VI preorders open June 25th.
- Grand Theft Auto VI is warping the video game release calendar
- Rockstar Games developers have unionized.
- Take-Two still isn’t sharing GTA VI’s price.
- You might be able to pre-order GTA VI soon.
- Grand Theft Auto VI launch delayed until November 2026
- Rockstar claims fired employees were leaking company information.
- GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings
- Am I the only person that didn’t watch the GTA VI trailer?
- Rockstar says new GTA VI trailer was ‘equal parts gameplay and cutscenes’
- Grand Theft Auto VI’s second trailer sets up its Bonnie and Clyde story
- Let’s rewatch the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer
- Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026
- GTA V is Twitch’s most watched game of 2024
- GTA V is coming back to Game Pass, again.
- Rockstar’s working on bringing Roblox creators to GTA VI
- GTA VI is still coming this fall.
- Grand Theft Auto VI is launching in fall 2025
- It’s RTO for the GTA VI devs.
- GTA Online will no longer support Rockstar Editor on old-gen consoles.
- Y’all really liked that trailer, huh?
- Digital Foundry posted a nearly 37-minute analysis of the GTA VI trailer.
- The GTA VI trailer is already breaking viewership records on YouTube.
- GTA VI isn’t launching on PC.
- The first GTA VI trailer is here
- This is where you can watch the first GTA VI trailer tomorrow.
- Speak softly, then drop a hype-ass trailer.
- Grand Theft Auto VI’s first trailer will debut in December
- Rockstar confirms hack, says work on GTA VI will ‘continue as planned’
- GTA 6 gameplay leaks online in 90 videos
- GTA VI could finally let you blow up Miami as a woman in 2024
- Rockstar finally confirms it’s working on the next Grand Theft Auto
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film
Jane Schoenbrun's latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is making a splash in theaters right now. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit their first film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. I fell in love with this film when I first saw it at Sundance in 2021.
We are immediately introduced to our protagonist, Casey, as she engages in the World's Fair Challenge, a sort of ARG creepypasta meets ice bucket challenge. There's a creepy mantra, some bloodletting, and a mysterious video - basically a speedrun of horror movie tropes. But having them all delivered by this young girl alone in her room who just stares directly in …
Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
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How it started
Four years ago, fans got a long-awaited look at Grand Theft Auto VI with a huge cache of videos that showed off Rockstar's latest open-world epic. There were 90 videos in total, providing a glimpse at the next-generation take on Vice City, introducing the game's new dual protagonists, and generally showing off the crime-fueled mayhem the series is known for. …
Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph
I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generative music composition. So bringing those two things together in a browser tab, I'm hooked. Musical Spirograph is a relatively simple concept. A set of points dash around the screen according to mathematical equations, generating hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. Those points pass through a series of concentric rings which trigger specific notes.
Honestly, that alone is fun enough, but you can customize it quite a bit. There are six different virtual rotors to pick from, you can have up to three arms drawing …
W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’
W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades of America, and We Need to Talk About Cosby, his blend of comedy, social commentary, and political activism has helped him stand out. He's won a Peabody and four Emmys, been a Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, received honors from the ACLU, and been crowned the Ambassador of Fishbone by founding member Chris Dowd. Bell is, if nothing else, a busy man.
So we're very grateful that he took time between episodes of his podcast Who's With Me, his comedy tour, and Substack of the same name, promoting his upcoming …
Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percent
Citing "significant increases in memory and storage component costs," Amazon has raised prices on Echos, Kindles, Fire TVs, and Eeros by up to 60 percent, as first reported by Fortune.
The cheapest products in Amazon's lineup were hit hardest, with the Echo Dot smart speaker jumping from $49.99 to $79.99. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max also rose by over 40 percent to $84.99, and the base level Kindle now costs $149.99, a nearly 37 percent increase.
In a statement to The Verge, Kristy Schmidt, senior communications manager of Amazon's Devices & Services divison, said, "The consumer electronics industry is facing significant increases in memory an …
An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it
Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU, RAM, and storage options because that stuff was comparatively cheap; the difference was often in build quality and screen rather than power. But RAMageddon has thrown everything off. Even laptops like the $950 Surface Laptop now start with 8GB of RAM, which isn't enough. And on the lower end, where manufacturers are struggling to compete with the $700 MacBook Neo, they're cutting corners on storage, CPU, and build quality too.
However, one low-cost laptop has bucked this and genuinely surprised me. HP's 16 …
Two great new repairable gadgets
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 141, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm newish here too, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
This week, I've been getting back into the Installer groove, trying out some ergonomic Switch 2 grips I bought on Etsy, researching bike stuff because I'm about to get a Velotric e-bike, inching my way through the fourth book in The Dark Tower series, trying to figure out what feels off about Sonic in the new Fortnite season, wondering why Mark Zuckerberg needs a castle, and swatting at a few too many flies that have snu …