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Terrence O'Brien

Terrence O'Brien

Weekend Editor

Weekend Editor

Terrence O’Brien is a journalist, editor, and producer from New York City with over 18 years of experience and is The Verge’s weekend editor. In addition to spending 10 years as managing editor at Engadget, his work has appeared on Wired, MusicTech, Guitar.com, Refinery 29, and more. He has also composed music for podcasts and feature films. In his spare time, Terrence collects hobbies at an alarming rate.

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Terrence O'Brien
These 30th-anniversary Pokémon guitars are gorgeous and gorgeous-sounding.

Sadly, they’re so limited that they’re only available through a lottery. But these red and green Fenders feature sprites and pixel art from the original games under a transparent, tinted finish, plus a built-in bit crusher for authentic 8-bit tones.

Get in the spooky spirit with these horrors from YouTube

Close out the Halloween season with these creepy, weird, and unsettling videos from YouTube.

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Terrence O'Brien
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It: Welcome to Derry has a Halloween surprise.

Overnight, a new surprise episode of the It prequel series dropped. No Pennywise in this one, though. “A Story of Derry” takes place hundreds of years ago and focuses on building out the lore, including introducing Maturin, the giant cosmic turtle that hasn’t made the cut in the feature films yet.

Vic Mensa can’t live without the Voice Memos app

Between his music, acting, podcast, activism, and businesses, Vic Mensa wears a lot of hats.

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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Google made a robot planter.

No, you can’t buy it. It’s a “just for fun” project to show off Google AI Studio. But it’s also undeniably cute. Sprout wanders autonomously to find the best sunlight and sends an alert when the plant needs watering.