This is Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Building humanoid robots is Meta’s next “AR size bet,” a top executive told me recently. That suggests the company plans to spend billions of dollars on the effort. During a recent conversation...
Obtaining a visa to enter mainland China often requires filling out pages of paperwork, paying more than US$100, and waiting days for the documents to be processed. But for a growing number of visitors, some hurdles have been lowered or removed entirely as Beijing continues to relax visa-free entry rules to attract more foreign visitors...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping held “in-depth” talks in Beijing on Thursday, marking their first face-to-face meeting in over six years a day after watching China’s V-Day military parade together. The Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency reported at 7:06 p.m. KST that Xi had met with Kim at the...
Published September 26, 2025 A double surprise at Sunnei. First, a show that wasn’t a show. Then, an unexpected announcement two hours later. In a statement issued on Friday evening, Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo explained that they are leaving their mens- and womenswear ready-to-wear label. “After ten years, we feel an urgent need to...
“SmackDown” set up a major match for the Crown Jewel event Oct. 11 in Perth, Australia. Tiffany Stratton retained her WWE Women’s Championship on Friday, keeping her undefeated year intact. “SmackDown” ended with the two women’s world champs, Stratton and Stephanie Vaquer, eyeing each other’s titles as they will meet for the WWE Women’s Crown...
The Ring Battery Doorbell Plus is top pick for battery-powered doorbells, offering sharp 1536p video with a head-to-toe view that makes it easy to spot packages on the porch floor other doorbells might miss. It’s also the most responsive video doorbell our reviewer has tested, pulling up live feeds in about half the time of...
Todd ArcherSep 26, 2025, 03:48 PM ET Close Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010. FRISCO, Texas — About six minutes into Brian Schottenheimer’s Friday news conference, there was a knock on the...
A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. Alongside the crime of genocide, another great horror unfolds:...
The US State Department said on Friday it would revoke the visa of Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro for his “incendiary actions” during a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York. “Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,” the State Department said in...
China’s large-scale military parade on Wednesday provided an opportunity for Kim Jong Un to rub elbows with over 25 foreign heads of state, with photos and videos showing that the North Korean leader didn’t just stand side by side with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin but also met counterparts from throughout Southeast Asia. But arguably...