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We've seen Sony's DualSense Edge discounted on a few occasions this year, and now it's back on sale ahead of Black Friday as part of Sony's ongoing holiday promo. Right now, you can snag the pro-style gamepad in either black or white at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for around $169 ($30 off), which is [...]

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 now that they're on sale for an all-time [...]

Robot vacuums show up in our gift guides almost every year, and it's easy to understand why: they clean, they save time, and they're cheaper than hiring a professional. But not all robovacs are created equal, and some save more time than others. The Dreame X40 Ultra is one of those, offering a more genuinely [...]

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 early Black Friday sale at Amazon, you can pick up a 65-foot string for $145.19 (about $97 off) or a 130-foot strand [...]

Microsoft is pitching a future where AI controls everything on your PC and agents go and do work for you in the background. But before the company gets there, it has to build the tools to make these systems work and convince its own developers that AI is actually capable of achieving these big promises. [...]

While companies like Coca-Cola turned to generative AI to create visually jarring" holiday ads this year, Apple continues to embrace practical effects with its new festive short film called A Critter Carol featuring a forest full of tech-savvy woodland creatures. In the ad a hiker drops their iPhone 17 Pro, which is found by a [...]

A humanoid robot bubble could be brewing, warned China's leading economic planning agency on Thursday. The alert comes amid growing fears that a bubble in a related industry - AI - is about to burst. Speaking at a press briefing, National Development and Reform Commission spokesperson Li Chao said China's humanoid robotics industry needs to [...]

Seven months after launching its first semi-solid state battery that used a safer and longer-lasting solid-liquid mixed electrolyte, Kuxiu is introducing a new version with some welcome upgrades. The S3 has twice the capacity of the S2 at 10,000mAh - 5,000mAh at 7.7V (38.5Wh) - that the company says is enough to nearly double an [...]

Going home for the holidays isn't all turkey, holiday decorations, and political arguments discussions. It also comes with requests for tech support and questions like "Why does my computer do this?" and "I read about this AI - what is that?" Think of it as an opportunity rather than a burden. If you're like many [...]

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 sci-fi series, while Hulu is the only place you can catch the buzzy Alien: [...]

ChatGPT, like many chatbots, is pitched as a hyper-competent personal assistant. But among the many things that confuse it, one is particularly confounding: It cannot tell time. When I ask ChatGPT what time it is, I'm never quite sure what I'll get. Sometimes, it tells me it can't do it. "I don't have access to [...]

Windows users are transitioning to Windows 11 at a slower rate than the upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft's 10-year-old operating system, which just hit the end of support phase, is still proving popular among consumers and businesses. Dell revealed this week that around 500 million machines are capable of upgrading to Windows 11, but are [...]

It might surprise you to hear that one of this year's awards season contenders is a Norwegian film. But it's not the first time. In 2022, Joachim Trier's sly, POV-shifting relationship drama The Worst Person in the World snuck into the Academy Awards with nods for Best International Film and Best Original Screenplay. His family-anchored [...]

Chinese tech giant Alibaba entered the AI-powered smart glasses race on Thursday with the release of its Quark headsets in China. Notably, the batteries can be swapped out for all day usage unlike competitors. Alibaba said the Quark AI glasses come in two variants, the S1 flagship and the lifestyle-focused" G1, in multiple colors and [...]

Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition might be heavily discounted for Black Friday, but we'd argue that the Kobo Libra Colour is actually the better option for those not already embedded in the Amazon ecosystem. It offers more features for slightly less - and right now, the color e-reader has returned to its all-time low of [...]

After the last two episodes of Pluribus - in which Carol (Rhea Seehorn) was involved with an exploding hand grenade and an ill-advised truth serum - I couldn't help but wonder just how long the hive mind would tolerate her destructive ways. Well, here we are in episode 5, and I have an answer. "We [...]

All I wanted was a new smartwatch. I had a couple in mind, like the Google Pixel Watch 4 or the Garmin Vivoactive 6, but my AI shopping buddies seemed really convinced watches from a couple years ago were the way to go. Over the past month, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and Microsoft have all introduced [...]

Intel has defended itself against accusations that its latest executive hire stole trade secrets, as TSMC sues the exec and Taiwanese prosecutors say they've begun a probe into the incident. Wei-Jen Lo, a Taiwanese engineer, joined Intel this fall, hired to help the company improve its mass production processes. He'd previously worked at the American [...]

After the Online Safety Act's onerous internet age restrictions took effect this summer, it didn't take long for Brits to get around them. Some methods went viral, like using video game Death Stranding's photo mode to bypass face scans. But in the end, the simplest solution won out: VPNs. Virtual private networks have proven remarkably [...]

Editor's note:Black Fridaydoesn't officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we've rounded up thebest early Black Friday dealsyou can already get. If you have an iPhone, the Apple Watch is the best smartwatch for you. But there was only one Apple Watch when the smartwatch launched [...]

What if Valve's Steam Machine were a 3.8-liter tower instead of a 3.8-liter cube, with a desktop-grade Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU instead of an AMD RX 7600 - plus a more powerful CPU and many faster ports? Well, it'd cost you nearly $1,500 and be called the Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro. Minisforum is one of [...]

Counterpoint Research is predicting Apple's iPhone 17 lineup will help it nudge Samsung out as the number one phone manufacturer in the world this year, as reported by CNBC and Bloomberg. The report estimates Apple will ship 243 million phones this year, while Samsung will ship 235 million, landing Apple a 19.4 percent share of [...]

The skyrocketing price of RAM is trickling down to custom PC makers, including CyberPowerPC and Maingear. On Wednesday, CyberPowerPC announced that it plans to adjust the pricing across all of its systems on December 7th, as reported earlier by PCMag. Recently, global memory (RAM) prices have surged by 500% and SSD prices have risen by [...]

Campbell's says it fired its vice president of information technology after leaked audio allegedly captured him saying the company uses meat that came from a 3D printer." The comments led Campbell's to issue an explanation on its website, insisting its soups aren't made with 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or bioengineered meat. A recent video contained [...]

Military contractors are trying to thwart a widely-supported right-to-repair provision in the annual defense policy bill - and their efforts may pay off. A source familiar with the negotiations tells The Verge that there are significant concerns that the bill's right-to-repair language will be replaced by a data-as-a-service" model, potentially requiring the Department of Defense [...]

Electronic Arts' Battlefield 6 is still relatively hot off the presses, having just launched in October. But thanks to Black Friday, you can pick up a copy on the PlayStation 5 for just $52.99 ($17 off) at Amazon. The price has also dropped at Best Buy to $59.99 ($10 off) for PS5 and Xbox Series [...]

A decade after it first premiered, Netflix's most impactful show is coming to an end. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is being split apart into a three-part event that spans multiple holidays: it premieres on November 26th, with a second batch of episodes on Christmas, followed by the final episode on December [...]

If you're a Windows user looking for something that comes close to Apple's latest MacBook Air, Microsoft's newest 13-inch Surface Laptop - officially called the Surface Laptop 13-inch 1st Edition with Snapdragon - is a great option. Right now, you can pick up the model with an 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, 16GB of [...]

We're on the cusp of Black Friday, and while TVs and laptop deals get all the glory, practical gadgets are already on sale too. Fanttik's X8 portable tire inflator is down to $69.99 ($40 off), an all-time low price at Amazon. Fanttik's deal is only available for Amazon Prime subscribers. The X8 is a battery-powered [...]

The holidays have a way of sneaking up on us. One minute you're trick-or-treating with your kids, and the next you're panic shopping in a Buc-ee's gift aisle. But it doesn't have to be that way. With the right cheat sheet, you can keep the holiday spirit high and stress levels low. Fortunately, we did [...]

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Super Nintendo's launch in Japan (where it was called the Super Famicom) designer Gustavo Bonzanini created an homage that blends 90s fashion and technology. The AIR SNES are a heavily customized version of the Nike Air Max 90 inspired by other gaming-themed sneakers like Bull Airs' ShoeBoys, but [...]

Hello and welcome back to Regulator. It's been a very long two weeks away from your inboxes, but luckily for us, Big Tech and Big Government did not stop fighting. In fact, it's gotten even spicier. Let's get into it. Last week, I was following up on several rumors that Donald Trump would sign an [...]

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 [...]

Character.AI, under threat from several lawsuits over its alleged negative impact on teen mental health, is banning underage users from open-ended chats on its site. Instead, teens will be allowed to use a new Stories" format that, unlike regular chats, offers structured" choose-your-own-adventure-style experiences with the AI characters on its platform. The feature is available [...]

Let's get this out of the way: The Samsung Frame is not a good TV. None of the displays that I'd classify as art TVs are - at least not in the ways that we usually think about TVs. They only get a fraction as bright as comparably priced TVs, picture quality is middling, black [...]

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot are both leaving WhatsApp thanks to upcoming changes to the messaging app's terms of service that will prohibit using it to distribute AI chatbots not made by Meta. OpenAI announced its planned departure a few weeks ago, with Microsoft following it this week. Both companies attributed the departures to Meta's [...]

Hoto exists because someone got bored. CEO Lidan Liu, the company's founder and a notable industrial designer, tells The Verge she was tired of advising from her consultancy Designaffairs China. I have to build something on my own, she thought. And back then, she was spending a lot of time in her workshop surrounded by [...]

Xiaomi spin-off brand Poco has partnered with Bose to help its new F8 phones stand out in an increasingly crowded market. Both the F8 Pro and F8 Ultra feature stereo speakers designed collaboratively with the audio company, and the Ultra goes one step further by including a subwoofer too. Both new F8 phones feature the [...]

Uber and WeRide are now deploying fully driverless vehicles as part of its robotaxi service in the United Arab Emarites. Customers in Abu Dhabi who request an UberX or Uber Comfort may be matched with a fully autonomous WeRide vehicle if the route is part of the company's service area. Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle [...]

When Qualcomm announced its high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset in November, it mentioned that a non-Elite version was on the way, designed to power a more affordable tier of flagship phones. Now, that chip has finally arrived, with some drops in performance but the same core feature set. Qualcomm compares the 8 Gen [...]

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a package of 19 bills aimed at protecting kids on the internet, teeing Congress up for a chance at passing some of the most substantive internet regulations in recent history, alongside a fight over online speech rights. The subcommittee on commerce will consider the bills during a hearing [...]

On Wednesday, a rumor began popping up in Washington about a momentous policy change: the White House, it was said, would issue an executive order on Friday that would finally preempt state AI laws, handing over those regulatory powers to the federal government. The minute it leaked online, lawyers and policymakers began to scour every [...]

Warner Music Group has struck a licensing deal with the AI music creation platform Suno. Under the agreement, WMG will allow users to create AI-generated music on Suno using the voices, names, likenesses, images, and compositions of artists who opt in to the program. WMG, which owns record labels that have signed musicians like Ed [...]

In case you missed it, Paramount Plus is raising prices by $1 a month starting on January 15th, 2026, taking the ad-supported Essential plan from $7.99 to $8.99 and the ad-free Premium plan from $12.99 to $13.99. Thankfully, Paramount's Black Friday promo has arrived just in time to (somewhat) soften the blow. Now through December [...]

The Switch 2 can be enjoyed right out of the box, but it's even better with the right accessories. Some of these add-ons are more crucial than others, especially if you're deciding what to buy early on. For example, a case and a screen protector can keep your console safe from scuffs, scratches, and drops, [...]

Perplexity is ramping up its AI shopping experience going into the holiday season, just like OpenAI and Google, with a free AI-powered shopping feature that is available now to US users. Its AI assistant looks similar to what we've seen from ChatGPT's shopping research, as users type in what they're looking for and refine the [...]

Wyze has announced an unorthodox approach to outdoor security cameras with its new Window Cam that monitors your yard and property from inside your home. This Rear Window approach to security means the camera doesn't need batteries, Wi-Fi range extenders, access to an exterior power outlet, or weatherproofing. The company already offers window mounts for [...]

There's no better time to save on headphones and earbuds than Black Friday. We've been covering deals on audio gear all year, and right now we're seeing some fantastic discounts on new and old releases, including models from Apple, Sony, Bose, Sonos, and more. For example, we're currently seeing the best prices to date on [...]

It was only just a couple of weeks ago that Apple's AirPods 4 dropped to a new low price; however, if you missed out on the former deal, you now have a chance to snag the excellent entry-level earbuds for even less. Right now, the AirPods 4 are on sale for around $69 ($60 off) [...]

Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere spend the holidays indoors, but you can only watch so many TikToks about cute cats and cooking hacks before the need for something a little more substantive kicks in. Choosing the right game or movie to gift is tough, though, especially if you don't have an exact read [...]