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Black Friday might have passed, but that doesn't mean the holiday deals are gone. You can still find low prices on excellent TVs, streaming devices, and soundbars through Cyber Monday. I've found the best of these deals to level up your home theater setup, and make sure that your holiday season (and every day after) [...]

The holidays are a great time to see family, exchange gifts, and enjoy a good meal. It's also the perfect time to gather around a TV and catch up on must-see shows and movies. Vince Gilligan's Pluribus is a fantastic new series on Apple TV, while Hulu is the only place you can catch the [...]

The last thing I need is a new Amazon Echo smart speaker. As The Verge's smart home reviewer, I currently have a dozen scattered around my home for testing. But when Amazon's Echo Frames smart glasses went on sale for $115 for Cyber Monday, down from $300, it was an offer my husband couldn't refuse. [...]

Anker's seriously small Soundcore Sleep A20 sleepbuds can be nabbed for $108 right now at Amazon, their best price since they launched on Kickstarter at $90 last year. They normally sell for $179.99, making this a standout deal for a pair of ultra-tiny sleep buds that I barely notice as I drift off to the [...]

I have a tendency to space out. A lot. Whether it's staring out the window on Amtrak or pausing at work to fixate on a blank spot on the wall instead of my screen, I often let my mind wander. When I was younger, I would often be derisively called a daydreamer, a space cadet, [...]

Tis the season to score some serious bargains on smart home gear. While Black Friday is behind us, Cyber Monday is coming up fast, so there is still time to grab a bargain on that smart lock you've been eyeing or take the plunge on a robot vacuum. Here I've rounded up the best deals [...]

If you've been waiting to upgrade your headphones or earbuds, your patience has been rewarded. Right now, models from Apple, Sony, Bose, Sonos, and other brands are down to their lowest prices to date, allowing you to save more than ever on both new and older releases. The AirPods Pro 3, for instance, have received [...]

If you're planning to gift an Apple device this holiday season - or treat yourself - now's the time to start shopping.Black Friday is bleeding into Cyber Monday - and these Apple deals are some of the best we've seen all year. Despite having recently launched, for instance, the new AirPods Pro, Apple Watch Series [...]

If all you want is a way to talk to ChatGPT, you're practically spoiled for choice - there are countless ways to chat with the bots, and seemingly countless new ones every single day. But that's not the whole story of how we'll interact with large language models. It better not be. Thomas Paul Mann, [...]

Brad Smith said his decision to hook up a webcam to the computer he controls with his mind did not make sense to people at Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company. "Neuralink was really confused with the idea," Smith told The Verge. The decision came just six months after Smith's brain was implanted with a [...]

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 107, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're having a lovely and long weekend, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Faker and Chinese EVs and [...]

Earlier this year, I decided to level up my travel game and invest in a charger to bring on trips, rather than raiding my desk outlets every time I packed. I needed a multitasker, something that could power my MacBook Air, charge my phone, and accommodate the random USB-A cord I always seem to need [...]

Earlier this year, I reviewed the Fractal Scape, a wireless gaming headset made for PC (also compatible with Switch 2) that really wowed me. Frankly, I wasn't expecting much in this debut headset from a company known mostly for making PC cases, but it's one of the most thoughtfully-designed models that I've tried recently. If [...]

Editor's note:Black Friday deals are still happening, so check out the latest and greatest discounts that today has to offer. You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a protective case. To me, it's freeing. Using a case relieves me of the worry that it will accumulate tons of [...]

Fujifilm's unusual X Half elicited a lot of feelings from photographers when it came out earlier this year - from That looks like so much fun," to Wait, it costs how much? Its $849.95 list price felt way too high for what is, by all accounts, a fun, unserious little point-and-shoot. But its $649 sale [...]

Editor's note:Black Friday deals are still happening, so check out the latest and greatest discounts that today has to offer. If you choose to get an extra controller for your Nintendo Switch 2, you can spend a lot - and get a lot in return. Buying Nintendo's own $89.99 Switch 2 Pro Controller, for instance, [...]

Last year, I wrote that you do not need a black Apple Watch Ultra 2. It was simply a color refresh, I said. The original Apple Watch Ultra on your wrist was still perfectly fine. The landfills of the world were better off without Apple's first-gen ruggedized smartwatch filling it. Also, suggesting that you spend [...]

Before I went to Italy on vacation, I was fine with instant coffee and my electric kettle. I'm no coffee snob - just get that sweet caffeine into my veins as fast as humanly possible. But during that vacation, where every hotel room had a lil Nespresso machine, I suddenly became an espresso convert. I'm [...]

Not to generalize, but the Google Pixel 9A is a classic dad phone. It's not fussy. It's durable and scheduled to get software updates for the better part of a decade. It's a solid deal at its full $499 MSRP, but the Black Friday price of $349 is even sweeter. It's the lowest we've seen [...]

Apple's Studio Display has its shortcomings, especially when you consider its lofty $1,599 price tag. But what if I told you that a more affordable 5K monitor that nearly matches its specs is less than a third of its price for Black Friday? The 27-inch KTC H27P3 5K monitor is selling for $534.99 ($135 off) [...]

If you were planning to gift someone an Apple product, we have a big roundup containing the biggest Apple Black Friday deals. However, if you aren't exactly sure what kind of tech they want, getting them a gift card is a solid idea - save them the runaround of having to return something if it [...]

Nintendo launched its $69.99 Super Mario Galaxy double pack for the Switch (complete with a free Switch 2 update) in October, but you can get the cartridge containing both games for $54.99 ($15 off) - the lowest price yet - at Woot. To see the discount, you have to select New - USA Version" from [...]

Every deals holiday, I break my brain and eyeballs scrolling through endless lists of smartwatch models so you don't have to. Garmin has a ton of deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but there are only a few that I'd be putting in my cart if I were buying for the outdoorsy person in [...]

As senior editorial coordinator, Sarah Smithers wears a lot of hats here at The Verge. The simplest way to put it," she says, is that I handle our operations and administrative tasks. Every day is a little bit different. I onboard new employees, send contracts to freelancers (and make sure they get paid), approve expenses, [...]

Keeping track of multiple people's schedules is tough, especially if the folks you live with have different calendars for work, school, personal appointments, and extracurriculars. Skylight's Calendar is a practical tool that makes easy work of a hectic life, and the most affordable version, a 10-inch model, is down to just $129.99 ($40 off) for [...]

Black Friday is no longer happening. It's Saturday, after all. However, many of the best deals we saw yesterday at the peak of the shopping event are still available, and likely will continue to be through Cyber Monday on December 1st. In other words, you still have time to save on laptops, OLED TVs, noise-crushing [...]

Have you ever looked at The Washington Post and thought, "Why is a billionaire allowed to use his massive wealth to influence and punish editorial decisions at one of the nation's premier newspapers?" and / or "I wonder if I could do that?" Well, News Tower can help you answer at least one of those [...]

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, we're testing the service on Trump Mobile's MVNO. Here's how that went. As I sat down at the bookstore [...]

If you want your house to be the one everyone slows down to look at this holiday season, Philips Hue's Festavia lights can make that happen. They aren't cheap, but thanks to an ongoing Black Friday sale at Amazon, you can still grab a 65-foot string for $145.19 (about $97 off) or a lengthier 130-foot [...]

Black Friday is packed with plenty of great Apple deals, but one of the most notable is the current discount on the latest MacBook Air. Right now, you can buy the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 with 256GB of storage at Amazon, Best Buy, and Costco starting around $749 ($250 off), which remains the laptop's lowest [...]

Black Friday is a great time to save on big-ticket items like 4K TVs, laptops, and headphones. But if you're on a tight budget this holiday season, there are plenty of worthwhile deals on practical upgrades for $50 or less - think power banks, smart speakers, location trackers, and entry-level earbuds that punch above their [...]

If you were hoping for a huge deal on RAM during Black Friday, well, stop being silly. Depending on the RAM kit you want, buying it right now might be too costly to justify, an unfortunate trend that my colleague Sean Hollister recently pointed out. You can either wait out this period of surge pricing, [...]

Meta may have just released the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) at the end of October, but they're not significantly different from the last-gen model introduced in 2021. The overall experience is very similar, which is why the original Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses remain a great buy, especially since you can still pick them up for [...]

One of the pitfalls of Black Friday is getting overwhelmed by deep discounts on premium gadgets. After all, who wouldn't want to save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on a high-end gaming laptop or a spiffy OLED TV? But these luxury items, while great, can still easily set you back three or four figures. [...]

Will Apple turn to Intel for production of its M-series chips in 2027? That's what supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted on X Friday. Citing his latest industry surveys, Kuo says that Intel's chances of becoming Apple's latest advanced-node supplier... has improved significantly" in recent weeks. Any deal with Intel would be significant considering the [...]

The newest Oura Ring 4 is still available from Amazon, Best Buy, and Oura for $249 - its lowest price to date - for Black Friday, which is about $100 off the standard retail price. Or you can save up to $150 if you're going for the gold or rose gold models, since those are [...]

My tree is usually full of old ornaments passed down through my family, but they kind of look like they're made of lead. Maybe yours are also lead! Perhaps we should replace the lead with Nintendo ornaments. Amazon is offering a Black Friday deal on Hallmark's Toad ornament - Mario is just on a regular [...]

For Black Friday, we're seeing some of the best prices all year on AirPods, AirTags, and other Apple gear. And if you've been eyeing a tablet for streaming, browsing the web, and taking video calls, there's no better time to save on an iPad. Right now, Apple's latest entry-level iPad is down to a new [...]

Editor's note:Black Friday has begun, and we're covering the biggest and best deals you can get. It's hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you've been eyeing. The market [...]

For a platform that everybody claims to have quit, Facebook is astonishingly resilient. A whopping 71 percent of American adults still use the site - and more than half check it daily - according to a recent Pew study, cementing it as one of the few constants in an otherwise shifting social media landscape. And [...]

Editor's note: Lots of our favorite robovacs in this piece are on sale for Black Friday! Check out the biggest and best Black Friday deals we've covered so far. Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and - thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains - rarely get tired of [...]

We all know Black Friday is one of - if not the - best time to save hundreds on a laptop or big screen TV, but you shouldn't forget about taking advantage of deals on lower-priced essentials like chargers and battery packs. These gadgets are easy to overlook, but if you're still using the USB-A [...]

Do the ornaments you adorn your Christmas tree with reflect you or your family's interests? If not, maybe you should rectify that. We recently went hands on with Hallmark's realistic Xbox 360 replica ornament, which plays a snippet of audio from Halo 3. As it turns out, there are many other ornaments available that are [...]

The $449 Nintendo Switch 2 is one of the hottest holiday gifts, so it's no surprise that you won't find any discounts on the console, which was released in June and has already amassed a library of must-play games. However, the next best thing - discounts on accessories that we recommend - is in full [...]

Editor's note: Lots of our favorite fitness trackers are on sale for Black Friday! Check out the biggest and best Black Friday deals we've covered so far. Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how [...]

Keeping gadgets charged is tough enough when you're home, but it can feel impossible while you're traveling -especially internationally. Tessan's 140W Universal Travel Adapter can help change that, and it's hit an all-time low of $53.99 ($16 off) at Amazon thanks to a Black Friday deal. Travel adapters have become pretty common. Tessan's stands out [...]

Editor's note: Lots of our favorite e-readers are on sale for Black Friday! Check out the biggest and best Black Friday deals we've covered so far. Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library's worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a [...]

Editor's note: Lots of our favorite noise-canceling headphones are on sale for Black Friday! Check out the biggest and best Black Friday deals we've covered so far. Whether you're wearing them for the morning commute, while traveling, or if you're simply trying to find some peace and quiet while working at home, noise-canceling headphones are [...]