Matter will be better in 2025 — say the people who make it

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The CSA, Thread Group, and Wi-Fi Alliance say they’re working together to fix the problems that have plagued the smart home standard in its first two years. In this exclusive interview, I ask them how and when.

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Doom: The Dark Ages – The First Preview

Doom: The Dark Ages pivots from Eternal’s platforming and instead literally grounds its combat in strafe-heavy gameplay with an emphasis on power. Sure, the great guns are still there – this is Doom, after all! But The Dark Ages also places a huge premium on your three melee weapons in this medieval-tinged prequel.

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The Sonos Arc is matching its best price to date just in time for the Super Bowl

It’s no Arc Ultra, but Sonos’ last-gen soundbar still offers terrific sound if you can afford it. | Image: Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re looking for a way to beef up your sound system ahead of the Super Bowl, it’s worth investing in […]

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Pocketpair follows Palworld’s success with new indie publishing label

Image: Palworld Pocketpair is getting into the games publishing business. The company has announced that it’s taking the gobs of money it made after launching Palworld, the Steam-record busting, 15-million-copies-sold-in-its-first-month, monster-catching adventure game, to establish Pocketpair Publishing. “Pocketpair Publishing provides comprehensive support for game development […]

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Epic will expand its mobile game store by helping cover developer iOS fees

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games plans to add nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching its free games program on mobile beginning with Bloons TD 6 and […]

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OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage and […]

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Microsoft rumored to launch a smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop soon

The Surface Laptop Go 3 could get a replacement very soon. | Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s been less than a year since Microsoft launched its first Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered Surface devices, and now a new rumor says followups could debut as soon […]

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