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Today’s The Verge Roundup
A very human vision for going all-in on AI
7 Dec 2025, 3:00 pm by David Pierce
It’s easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She’s the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity, and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
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What Google Glass got right — and really, really wrong
7 Dec 2025, 2:17 pm by David Pierce
Google didn’t invent the concept of smart glasses, but it did help make them mainstream. In retrospect, 13 years after their launch, this is both a good and bad thing. Glass made a lot of people dream about new ways to use computers without staring down at screens all day. Glass also made a lot of people realize just how bad it might feel to have a world full of face computers. Which is more predictive: Glass, or Glassholes? And can you even have one without the other?
For this episode of Version History, we go back in time and tell the story of Google Glass. David Pierce, Victoria Song, and tech journalist David Imel trace the product’s be …
A love letter to glory days of iPhone gaming
7 Dec 2025, 2:00 pm by Andrew Webster
It may be hard to believe now, but the App Store was once a thriving place for inventive indie games. The ubiquity of the iPhone coupled with the relative ease of development for the platform meant that smaller studios were able to get their games in front of huge audiences, leading to a great time of experimentation that unfortunately didn’t last. But if you want to relive those better days, Simogo’s new collection is just the thing.
You might recognize the name Simogo from more recent titles, like the noir mystery Lorelei and the Laser Eyes or the vibrant interactive pop album Sayonara Wild Hearts. Before that, though, the studio was a cr …
An all-time great game makes a comeback
7 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm by David Pierce
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 108, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope your holiday shopping is going well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
This week, I’ve been reading about Ariana Grande and pelvic floors and Josh Shapiro and Las Vegas, finishing and then immediately rewatching The Chair Company, working by the light of this extremely rad MoMA lamp, installing a bunch of Hue Dimmer Switches around my house, trying desperately to hide the giant box that came with my new Frame TV, wondering if my 12,983 minutes of Spotify time this year …
Starlink made ‘work from home’ possible from anywhere — now, I’m ready for a change
7 Dec 2025, 1:00 pm by Thomas Ricker
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How it started
I’ve worked from home for 20 years. In that time, I’ve seen technologies supporting remote work advance considerably. But nothing has been as transformative as the arrival of Starlink, SpaceX’s internet service that lets me “work from home” anywhere I choose, be it from the open road, forest, or desolate beach.
SpaceX began launching Starlink satellites in 2019 to provide data in the l …
End of today’s The Verge roundup.
