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Minnesota officials want to find out the truth about Renee Good’s death. The federal government won’t let them.

Editor’s note, January 24, 12 pm ET: Federal agents shot a person in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, according to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The shooting appeared to be captured on video, which shows federal agents wrestling someone to the ground and shooting them multiple times. This story was originally published on January 24 at 8 am. Today, […]

Dragon Ball Daima's Vegeta shares how his childhood dream came true

Paul Castro Jr. took the torch from Christopher Sabat in voicing Vegeta in Dragon Ball Daima, achieving a childhood dream.

Get stuff done by yelling at your phone

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please send hot cocoa to my freezing-cold house, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about private garbage collectors and vintage […]

Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar

By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even won Apple's business. So last week's news that it was enabling something called Personal Intelligence felt like a victory lap. Personal Intelligence allows Gemini to reference past conversations and access your data in […]

These Ain’t Your Grandma’s MuuMuus

As the Mrs. Roper trend takes over TikTok, we’re here to make sure your muumuu game is tight.

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