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Today’s The Verge Roundup
Honor claims its Robot Phone will launch later this year
1 Mar 2026, 2:22 pm by Dominic Preston
Honor has revealed more details of its so-called Robot Phone at MWC 2026, and finally showed a working unit in action alongside a dancing humanoid robot. Specs are still thin on the ground, but the company has confirmed it plans to release the phone in the second half of this year – though I’ve been told that will only be in China.
The Robot Phone doesn’t quite live up to the name – really it’s a smartphone with a gimbal-stabilized camera arm crammed into the back. Honor has now revealed that the main camera will have a 200-megapixel sensor, and is built into what it says is the smallest 4DoF gimbal system in the industry, though those are …
Honor’s Magic V6 is the first foldable with an IP69 rating
1 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm by Dominic Preston
For the third year running, Honor has announced what it says is the world’s thinnest book-style folding phone. For the second year, it’s combined that with the biggest battery in any foldable too. This year, for its third and final trick, the company went ahead and made sure it was the first foldable with an IP69 rating too.
The Honor Magic V6 was announced at MWC in Barcelona today, though Honor has played a bit fast and loose with timing to guarantee those three records: the V6 won’t go on sale in China until some time later this month, and the international release is still months away, in the second half of the year, so Honor isn’t sayi …
Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
1 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm by Sarah Jeong
There’s never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and American communities are responding to the militarization of federal law enforcement with their own increasingly intricate webs of sousveillance.
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are sleek, unobtrusive wearables with front-facing cameras and a passthrough display in the right lens that can show maps, texts, social media posts, and more. Name Tag is a new feature that uses facial recognition to identify people you see in real life through the glasses. Perhaps the glasses would have soun …
How MLB can make baseball relevant on a fast-changing internet
1 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm by Mia Sato
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“KING BASEBALL, monarch of the American sport world, is sick,” a New York Times story on the disappearance of amateur and small town sandlots begins. Hundreds of thousands of fans attended the opening games of the season, and star players are making bank in huge stadiums. “Nevertheless the critics say that his Royal Highness is indisposed.”
The story is from 1925. But it read …
Resident Evil Requiem leans too much on the series’ past
1 Mar 2026, 1:00 pm by Jay Peters
Resident Evil turns 30 this year. The series is full of history – the new Resident Evil Requiem is technically the ninth mainline game, but there are a bunch of spinoffs, remakes, movies, and even a TV show – which can make it fun to follow for fans. But it’s also intimidating for people like me who haven’t played everything. The latest release, Resident Evil Requiem, tries to appeal to both sides by starring a new character, the cowering FBI agent Grace Ashcroft, and a series favorite, action hero Leon Kennedy.
Initially, it really works: the first half of Resident Evil Requiem is one of the freshest horror games I’ve ever played. But as t …
End of today’s The Verge roundup.
