Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and gear salvaged from nuclear testing facilities, Hainbach is also incredibly prolific, releasing six albums in 2025 alone, along with a handful of singles and EPs. His latest, Gentle Hum, is a collaboration with Ah! Kosmos (Turkish composer, Başak Günak). The album is a melancholic co …

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on Song Exploder, trudging through the bugs of the iOS 27 beta in order to use the good new Siri, once again trying and failing to switch to YouTube Music, free trial-hopping my way through the World Cup, finally upgrading my camera setup with the E …

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The week's 7 biggest tech news stories, featuring Commodore, Apple, Microsoft and more, for June 20, 2026.

À l’occasion de Japan Expo 2026, où les visiteurs naviguent entre applications mobiles, QR codes, contenus exclusifs et téléchargements rapides, la question de la sécurité numérique devient plus concrète que jamais. Sur Android, les usages s’intensifient au rythme des recherches de programmes,...

I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot.

As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying that it can tilt up, down, left, and right to push a decent amount air around a room. It looks okay, despite all the plastic, is relatively quiet, runs for hours on battery, has an integrated nightlight, transforms from a desktop to standing fan in seconds, and works on its own or as part of a smart home. There's a lot to like here.

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Nothing's next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won't be coming this year:

We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can't build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a result, we've decided not to launch a new CMF phone this year.

Last week, Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei also said the RAM shortage has impacted the cost of the company's mid-range phone, stating, "For Phone 4A, memory costs doubled between …

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Apple Watch blood sugar tracking remains unconfirmed. Here's the latest on the timeline, patents, technical challenges, and what Apple Watch can do now.

Small but mighty, the Honda super-N aims to inject some serious fun into the compact EV market.

Smart lighting company Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules. Installed behind existing wall switches, the new devices bring non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem for the first time. Hue also announced new Play table and floor lamps that are more affordable versions of its Signe series, along with upgrades to its E14 candle bulbs that add a broader white light spectrum and Matter-over-Thread compatibility.

The new lights are now available globally; however, the Wired Wall Switch Modules are Europe-only. Signify CTO George Yianni told The Verge that there are currently no plans to launch them in the US, but the company woul …

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Les Prime Days d’Amazon approchent à grands pas ! Prévu cette année du 23 au 26 juin 2026, cet événement est l'un des moments les plus attendus par les amateurs de bonnes affaires. Pendant ces quatre jours exceptionnels, Amazon proposera des milliers d'offres exclusives sur une multitude de...

Sécurité alimentaire en Inde, préservation des langues en Côte d'Ivoire, agriculture au Nigeria ou exploration spatiale en Allemagne : derrière les démonstrations technologiques de VivaTech 2026, des centaines de start-up répondent à des enjeux locaux. Un tour du monde de l'innovation à travers les défis de chaque continent.

The 1:1 'Big Build' celebrates the hillclimb record set by Koenigsegg at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS's genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup. And, like Atonemo's existing Streamplayer, you can also listen to your favorite streaming services with it, using AirPlay 2, Google Cast, Spotify Connect, or Tidal Connect.

The $179 NTS Radio Player puts out 24-bit / 192kHz audio over a standard 3.5mm audio jack and comes with an adapter cable for connecting to RCA on your vintage hi-fi system, or whatever other speakers you have lying around. The top of the device has two buttons for tuning in directly to NTS 1 …

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Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile's media relations manager.

If you've been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you'll know that Trump Mobile doesn't exactly keep open lines of communication with the media. That doesn't look to be changing, with the company no longer working with its long-term media relations firm.

Poplar Group has represented Trump Mobile since at least last June, when the company's founding partner Chris Walker gave a statement to USA Today, insisting at the time that "T1 …

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Disney and Adobe are bringing Firefly Foundry into Walt Disney Imagineering R&D for design and pre-production visualization, while Disney’s AI patent activity points to safety and operations use cases behind the scenes.

La conférence APELL 2026 met en lumière les enjeux qui traversent aujourd’hui l’écosystème open source : comment construire des services ouverts tout en gardant la maîtrise de leur infrastructure. Entre collaboration internationale, dépendance aux outils cloud et exigences de conformité, les...

Barcode readers excel at quickly identifying groceries and other products. Could a similar idea work at industrial recycling facilities to make sorting different plastics quicker and more cost-effective? The answer, according to a University at Buffalo research team, is yes.

À l’occasion de l’Asteroid Day, les recherches autour de l’espace, des astéroïdes et des enjeux scientifiques attirent un public toujours plus large. Entre vidéos pédagogiques, articles spécialisés, PDF techniques et plateformes éducatives, la navigation devient dense et parfois exposée à des...

Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap shows how advanced AI agents may need enterprise-grade safeguards, including monitoring, access controls, auditability, and real-time blocking for high-risk actions.

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn't become clear until halfway through the season. "I knew that I could get the show in deep shit if I revealed certain things," he tells me. Now as Sugar heads into its next season, which starts streaming on Apple TV on June 19th, Farrell says he feels "unburdened" by the previous veil of secrecy. "There are certain things I wouldn't mention here about season 2," he says, "but nothing as big a …

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