Kara Verlaney

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Managing Editor at The Verge

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Weekend plans, locked.

Jan 11, 2025 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

CES 2025: all the news, gadgets, and surprisesSee all 322 storiesPosted Jan 11, 2025 At 3:15 PM UTCKKara VerlaneyWeekend plans, locked. CES 2025 officially wrapped up yesterday, but there was so much stuffthat our team saw and wrote about and...smelled while on the ground in Las Vegas.
The Verge’s 2024 AI year in review

Dec 4, 2024 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

Artificial IntelligenceIn 2024, AI was everywhere. Let’s look back at some of the biggest moments from this year. In 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation. The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new tools, endless hype and frequent misfires, and implications for the future that range from truly exciting to unpredictable.
The Verge’s guide to moving

Jul 8, 2024 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

TechMoving from one home to another can be extraordinarily nerve-racking. We offer some tips to help keep your stress levels down. Moving is one of the most stressful events that can happen in your life. It takes a lot of time and effort, it’s expensive, it’s complicated, and there’s just a ton to do. It’s not just a matter of finding a place you can afford, signing the lease or arranging for a mortgage, and figuring out how to get your stuff from one place to another.
Today’s smart homes: the hopes and the realities

Mar 4, 2024 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

Smart HomeThe Verge team and others share their experiences of how smart technologies affect their lives — how it can often help and sometimes frustrate. At The Verge, we work hard to bring you the most recent news and expert hands-on reviews. But another way, and sometimes the best way, to judge smart home technology is to learn about it from those who have used the tech on a day-to-day basis in real-life situations.
Building for tomorrow

Dec 4, 2023 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

Skip to main contentThis series is all about infrastructure: the invisible layer of wires and guts and light that makes everything run. It’s not in the best shape, but what would it take to make it better? How do you build a better future? What systems need to be in place to ensure we have the best, most sustainable outcome for the planet? Why is so much stuff broken? These were the questions we asked ourselves as we outlined this special issue on infrastructure.
The present - and future - of sustainability - The Verge

Nov 13, 2023 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

Sustainability often gets glossed over in the tech world. But true environmental stewardship demands we think deeper about the lifecycle of our devices — and the energy that powers them. Sustainability is one of those words that has lost most of its meaning thanks to a steady drumbeat of corporate marketing and greenwashing. “Going green” often means buying some useless carbon credits or slapping a few choice buzzwords on a label. Rarely does it seem to hold any value anymore.
Smart homes for smart people

Jun 12, 2023 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

If you haven’t started your smart home yet, here’s how to start — or if you have, here’s how to make it better. Everybody is talking about smart homes these days — but what exactly does that mean? If you have one or two Amazon Echo smart speakers in your apartment or a Google Nest router along with a speaker, do you have a smart home?
Wired: 50 years of ethernet

May 17, 2023 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

On ethernet’s 50th anniversary, we’re taking a look at how wiring the entire planet has changed the future forever. Even though so much of our world is now wireless, most of those wavelengths are still made possible by a worldwide network of hardwired cables — from the huge backbones of internet service providers to the ethernet lines in people’s homes. The cables that connect continents under the ocean alone span a length of more than 700,000 miles.
UI Design Week

Apr 4, 2023 | theverge.com | Kara Verlaney

How designers run the world. There’s a funny conflict to the idea of user interfaces: a good one tends to go unnoticed, the thoughtful design decisions too subtle to notice; a bad UX or UI is one that makes you want to scream. It’s a tension that designers have to think about every time they conceive a new website, app, or device. In this special series from , we explore the small design decisions that have had an outsize impact on our lives.