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Andrew Liszewski

Andrew Liszewski

Senior Reporter, News

Senior Reporter, News

Andrew Liszewski is a Senior Reporter for The Verge covering consumer technology with a focus on gadgets and electronics. He’s been covering tech since 2006 including previous roles at Gizmodo and The Messenger. When he’s not staying on top of the latest and greatest tech, Andrew’s hobbies include photography but most of his rare moments of free time are spent re-playing the classic retro games of his youth and adding to an ever-growing collection of handheld gaming systems.

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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Spending two and a half hours watching this meticulous Leica restoration is time well spent.

After 100 years this Leica I was suffering from light leaks as a result of shutter curtains that had become porous. This satisfying ASMR video shares the two and a half hour process of the camera being disassembled, cleaned, repaired, and put back together by an expert technician.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Merriam-Webster adds meme coin, vibe coding, and uncanny valley to its online dictionary.

Those are just three of 1,400 new words added to the more comprehensive online version of Merriam-Webster’s linguistic repository. Other additions include Mandela Effect, AGI, letterboxing, looksmaxxing, and what seems like a really late acknowledgement for Rickroll.

A screenshot of a definition from Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary.
Screenshot: Merriam-Webster
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Amazon says some data was permanently lost after Persian Gulf data center drone strikes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Tuesday that it was “unable to restore access to some customer data hosted in Persian Gulf data centers” following attacks by Iranian drone swarms in the spring that left facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain still “mostly offline,” according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Japanese airports now offer clothing compression machines to free up suitcase space.

Following trials earlier this year, Japan’s Haneda, Narita, Kumamoto, and Naha airports are starting a full-scale implementation of machines that can compress clothing into much smaller cubes in about a minute so tourists have more room in their suitcases. The machines don’t use vacuum bags and don’t damage clothing, according to SoraNews24.

<em>Depending on the type of fabric or material, clothing and towels can be reduced to up to one-seventh of their original volume.</em>
<em>Items like t-shirt compress more efficiently, and be uncompressed by laying them out for 15 minutes.</em>
<em>A full-scale rollout at four Japanese airports is expected in 2027 and may be available for travelers both arriving to and leaving the country.</em>
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Depending on the type of fabric or material, clothing and towels can be reduced to up to one-seventh of their original volume.
Image: Sjoy Co.
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Steve Wozniak launched an online merch shop.

While announcing that he was planning to share more of his adventures on X, Steve Wozniak also revealed a new merchandise store. WozMerch.com carries everything from wireless power banks, to $700 carry-ons, to t-shirts featuring inspirational phrases and colorful images of the Apple co-founder himself.

A black t-shirt featuring a rainbow image of Steve Wozniak.
Image: WozMerch
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Apple will use the iPhone 18 Pro to shoot some of tomorrow night’s Giants vs. Dodgers game.

After using four iPhone 17 Pros during a Tigers vs. Red Sox game in 2025, Apple will use 14 of its new iPhone 18 Pro to capture “unique perspectives that would be difficult to achieve with traditional broadcast cameras” at tomorrow night’s season final of Friday Night Baseball. The cameras will record “positions within the pitch clock, backstop, foul pole, and both bullpens.”

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An iPhone 17 Pro used to capture a MLB game at a stadium.
One of the four iPhone 17 Pro phones used to capture an MLB game in 2025.
Image: Apple TV Plus
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Xteink’s next tiny e-reader runs Android.

Following an already busy year of releases, Xteink’s new S4, which is launching in China first, is the company’s first pocketable E Ink device to run Android 11 giving it access to both the Kindle and Kobo mobile apps. The S4 also features a 4.3-inch frontlit touchscreen, 32GB of storage, a proper USB-C port, and a generous 1,400mAh battery, according to Good e-Reader.

The Xteink S4 e-reader next to its packaging.
The Xteink S4 is launching in China but the company has made no announcements about eventual international availability.
Image: Xteink