Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 36, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, hello, I’m thrilled you found us, the Installerverse loves you, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I missed you all last week! I was...

Carrie-Anne Moss in The Acolyte. | Screenshot: Disney Disney’s newest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, is just a month away on Disney Plus, and the newest trailer for it hints that the show will pull on a thread that Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi tugged on back in 2017: Is the Jedi order actually all that...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The latest version of ChromeOS (M124) is out with a couple of nice upgrades, including faster split screen setup and a new web traffic prioritization feature. The update brings other updates with it as well, like a settings UI refresh and updated gesture controls. Judging from...

Screenshot: Amazon Prime Video When we last left The Boys, Homelander’s (Anthony Starr) political dabbling was humming along and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) had a terminal illness. Two years and a new spin-off later, Homelander’s supercharging of a presidential campaign continues to be a dark mirror of the US political climate...

Illustration by Ard Su for The Verge Teens are opening up to AI chatbots as a way to explore friendship. But sometimes, the AI’s advice can go too far. Continue reading…

Know just how steep that hill is before you go. | Screenshot: Komoot Getting into cycling in my late thirties has been humbling. I’m responsible for my own medical costs, which really makes me consider things differently than when I was a kid tearing through the neighborhood park on a twelve-speed Huffy. I’ve also discovered...