You can hot swap the battery on Samsung’s new rugged tablet
https://www.theverge.com/news/648022/samsung-rugged-military-grade-galaxy-xcover7-pro-tab-active
HBO’s Harry Potter TV series has cast its regulars (not those ones)
https://www.theverge.com/news/648099/harry-potter-tv-series-hbo-warner-bros-casting-announcement
Eddington doomscrolls back to the pandemic’s darkest days in new trailer
https://www.theverge.com/trailers/648004/eddington-trailer-a24-ari-aster
The Meta Quest 3S just got its first discount
https://www.theverge.com/tech/647954/meta-quest-3s-ps5-sale-deals
In The Last of Us season 2, Joel finally goes to therapy
https://www.theverge.com/tv/647211/last-of-us-season-2-therapist-catherine-ohara
Are prediction markets gambling? Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is betting not
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/645822/robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev
Meta antitrust trial: updates from the monopoly battle with the FTC
https://www.theverge.com/news/646809/ftc-v-meta-antitrust-monopoly-trial-instagram-whatsapp
HBO’s The Last of Us had to speed up Abby’s reveal
https://www.theverge.com/tv/647170/the-last-of-us-season-2-hbo-abby
Katy Perry is going to space with Blue Origin
https://www.theverge.com/news/647935/katy-perry-is-going-to-space-with-blue-origin
Chipolo’s colorful new trackers now work with Apple’s and Google’s networks
https://www.theverge.com/news/647246/chipolo-pop-bluetooth-tracker-apple-find-my-device-google
Lime will recycle bike and scooter batteries with Redwood Materials
https://www.theverge.com/news/646207/lime-redwood-material-battery-recycle-ebike-scooter
Apple’s picked a very fitnessy way to mark a decade of smartwatches
https://www.theverge.com/news/647417/apple-watch-10th-anniversary-global-close-your-rings-day
Samsung pauses One UI 7 rollout worldwide
https://www.theverge.com/news/647888/samsung-one-ui-7-update-android-15-pause-s24-z-fold-6-flip-6
PS5 price rises substantially in UK and Europe
https://www.theverge.com/news/647869/sony-ps5-price-rise-uk-europe-australia-new-zealand
People are turning on Elon Musk
https://www.theverge.com/news/647850/elon-musk-americans-unfavorable-views-polls
Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons
https://www.theverge.com/news/647830/crosswalk-hack-musk-zuckerberg-voices-california
Smartphone tariffs are coming back in ‘a month or two,’ says Trump admin
How the Switch 2 compares to the ROG Ally
Wool, water, Wi-Fi: Modernizing an ancient business at the final frontiers of e-commerce
https://www.theverge.com/tech/647720/kyrgyzstan-viral-slippers-machines
iPads could get more Mac-like features soon
https://www.theverge.com/ipad/647793/ipad-ipados-macos-features-windowing-multitasking-stage-manager