The Verge’s Father’s Day 2026 gift guideCameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025.With Father’s Day on the horizon, happening June 21st, it’s time to start thinking about what kind of gifts you want to buy for the fathers you care about. You know your dad best — he may be a man of...

How long will the war last? No one knows, and it's making oil prices weird Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing international oil prices at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on March 18....

Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t do NSFW content Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ is getting another new personality. On Thursday, the company announced it’s expanding its lineup of personality styles for users to choose from to include a “Sassy” option, which is for adults only. Notes Amazon, before opting to use the Sassy personality, users will be required...

In a small Lebanese town, grief and fear follow the Michigan synagogue attack Mashghara, where Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was born and raised, is located in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, seen here in 2019. Ghazali is the suspect in an attack a synagogue in Michigan last Thursday....

McDonald's CEO Burger Video: Ketchup With This Bizarre New Meme The executive tentatively took a bite of his company's new "product," and now even McDonald's own social media is relishing the mockery. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and...