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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 laptops are on sale for Black Friday! Check out the biggest and best Black Friday deals we've covered so far. Buying the right laptop can be stressful. It's likely one of the bigger tech purchases you'll make, and there are a ludicrous number of models, sizes, form factors, and [...]

If you were wanting some AI-generated fun this holiday weekend, you'll need to be efficient. Google and OpenAI have cut generation request limits for Nano Banana Pro and Sora, citing overwhelming demand. Bill Peebles, who heads Sora at OpenAI, said free users will have six video generations a day. Our gpus are melting," he explained. [...]

An Atlantic hurricane season defined by political and climate disasters comes to a close on November 30th. It kicked off after DOGE's flurry of slashes to federal agencies. Employees who stayed on endured a tumultuous year, to say the least, at the National Weather Service (NWS). A series of strong storms brewed in the Atlantic [...]

When Rivian-spinoff Also announced its first electric bike recently, I was stoked - a Rivian in bike form? Yes please! - but also had some doubts. The design was, shall we say, polarizing, and the whole thing was powered by software, which raises the specter of outages, glitches, and other assorted crashes. I could already [...]

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Steam and other game stores should drop Made with AI" tags, arguing that they'll soon be irrelevant as generative AI becomes ubiquitous in production. The AI tag is relevant to art exhibits for authorship disclosure, and to digital content licensing marketplaces where buyers need to understand the rights situation," [...]

Thanksgiving might be behind us, but the cleanup - and Christmas prep - are just getting started. Thankfully, Black Friday is here with some of the steepest robot vacuum deals we've seen all year to help make things easier. Like in previous years, the discounts span just about everything. Right now, for instance, you can [...]

Black Friday is the day that a handful of us at The Verge have been preparing months for, in part because it's happening earlier and earlier. We've already lifted the curtain on deals - hundreds of them - including some that we couldn't tell you about before today, and we have a one-stop shop for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]