A gadget to make your dumb house smarter

November 14, 2026 David Pierce

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 152, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, thank you for taking time away from Zelda to be here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

This week, I've been reading about school apps and AI benches and sports gambling and Megaspeed, watching the surprisingly emotional Dane Cook documentary, learning way more than I ever expected about dial-up sounds, digging out my old Xbox One since it's apparently my best shot at playing GTA VI, seeing what I can get done with Claude Duet, and trying a bunch of third-party iPhone keyboar …

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