2020 was a trip — nobody, after all, was planning for a pandemic. And nobody expected the disastrous response to it in the US, either. So we looked back on the most bizarre year in living memory, from the endless March to the summer of protests to all the other weird stuff that we’ve just about forgotten because this year just felt so dang long. But hey, at least the gadgets were good, right? Here’s a selection of the best, worst, and weirdest parts of 2020, as determined by Verge staffers.
Game hardware and laptops both started promising new generations
Turnovers at that ChatGPT maker continue. The company’s chief futurist, Joshua Achiam, and AGI head, Fidji Simo, announced their departures earlier this week. Now Johannes Heidecke, who has overseen OpenAI’s safety efforts, is out, as ChatGPT 5.6 rolls out and raises some alarms.
After spending the fall in their bedrooms, students say their mental health has suffered
Here’s what happens when a product designer becomes a creator
Checking in on everyone who went remote this year
We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them
When we couldn’t go out, we watched anything and everything
TikTok on the clock but the party don’t stop
