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Tech Close Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Tech Gadgets Close Gadgets Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Gadgets Streaming Close Streaming Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Streaming I have a new go-to browser Plus, in this week’s Installer: The latest big thing from Star Wars, a couple of tech reads, and some Apple Shortcuts. Plus, in this week’s Installer: The latest big thing from Star Wars, a couple of tech reads, and some Apple Shortcuts. by David Pierce Close David Pierce Editor-at-Large Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by David Pierce May 23, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC Link Share Gift If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Image: David Pierce / The Verge David Pierce Close David Pierce Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 129, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, come on you Gunners , and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve mostly been sick, which has meant nearly a full rewatch of Parks and Recreation while alternately napping and feeling bad for myself. But I’ve also been reading about Nick Fuentes and clowns , listening to old episodes of Short History Of , testing the NextSense Smartbuds while I sleep, writing in the Outerline Markdown app beta, and eagerly looking for things to do with the upcoming Flipper One . Today’s issue is a little short since I’ve been out, but I didn’t want to leave you completely hanging. Plus, it’s a good week, including my favorite new browser in years, a new Star Wars movie, two great new tech books, a surprisingly great set of earbuds, and more. Let’s do it. (As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you reading / watching / listening to / playing / streaming over a hotspot from the beach this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com . And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer , forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here .) The Drop Vivaldi 8.0 . For the first time in five years or so, I have a new default browser on all my devices. (RIP Arc.) I’ve liked Vivaldi for a long time — it is very fast, incredibly customizable, and full of clever organizational tools — but I’ve always just found it irredeemably ugly to look at. The new design is much cleaner out of the box, to the point I’m fully happy using it all the time. You should budget a long time to spend in settings getting Vivaldi tweaked to your liking, but this browser’s a winner. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu . The reviews for this are a bit all over the place, as they always seem to be for Star Wars stuff, but I am straight-up thrilled for these silly space adventures to be back on the big screen. Give me all things Grogu as big as possible, as long as possible, please and thank you. Steve Jobs in Exile . It is very hard to find new stories to tell about Steve Jobs, but from what I’ve read so far, Geoff Cain’s new book is full of them. This book is the story of NeXT, Pixar, Jobs’ deep personal changes, and how the guy who almost destroyed Apple came back to save it. Also just a very fun read. How to Rule the World . Two great tech books this week! This one is from a Stanford student, digging deep into his own world and its bizarre and problematic and outrageously successful connection to the tech industry. Stanford and Silicon Valley have always been tied together; this is an excellent look into what that really means. The Anker Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro . I cannot say I expected to be super excited about a pair of Anker earbuds that are roughly the same price as AirPods, but my colleague John Higgins says they are the best phone-call earbuds he’s ever used. How I am supposed to not buy them now! Age of Audio: The Inside Story of Podcasting . A terrific history lesson from the folks at Twenty Thousand Hertz , with some great stories from a bunch of legendary podcasters. Connected to a recent documentary of the same name that I am now very eager to find a way to see. Forza Horizon 6 . Gorgeous, ultra-realistic cars, which you can tinker with and drive endlessly over gorgeous, ultra-realistic Japanese landscapes. Yeah, it can be a super-intense racing game, but I’ve also come to see Forza as almost… cozy . Sometimes you just need a Sunday drive, you know? The MacStories Shortcuts Playground . Federico Viticci and the
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