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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been devouring every iPhone Duo video I can find, clicking on…
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on cars, data privacy, and autonomous vehicles, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission…
These bird feeders come with cameras and connected apps to let you see and learn about the birds in your neighborhood.
Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.
Apple’s Safari browser gets a few helpful automation and personalization features in iOS 27.
Coway’s new Airmega Halo runs quietly and clears visible smoke quickly, but its air-quality readings weren’t always reassuring.
Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it’s driving the data center buildout.
“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.”
Every Steam Deck owner eventually hits the same wall: a game launches fine on Windows but crashes, stutters, or refuses to boot on Linux. The fix usually isn’t a new graphics driver or a reinstalled game. It’s a different build of Proton. As of September 2026, Valve’s default Proton sits at version 11.0-2, the community-maintained…
Buying a PS5 Pro does not automatically retire the standard PS5 sitting under the TV. A growing number of households now run both consoles side by side, one upstairs for a kid or partner, one downstairs hooked up to the good TV, both signed into the same PlayStation Network account. The problem is that Sony…
