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Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge We've now endured two whole days of Amazon Prime Day, which had us poring over thousands of deals and covering hundreds of the best the tech world had to offer - and yet, we're not quite done here.As usual, there are still a bunch of lingering discounts to sift through. So if you didn't yet blow your entire budget on gadgets like wireless earbuds, tablets, e-readers, video games, or fancy smart home accessories, well, there's still time to make that happen.Below are the best remaining Prime Day deals for 2023, the stubborn ones that just won't go quietly into the night, still vying for your hard-earned money. It's your final chance to consider that big or small purchase and decide whether you're pulling the trigger or holding out for... Continue reading...

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Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge As they say, it's the final countdown. There are now just a couple of hours left of Prime Day 2023, everybody's favorite midsummer shopping event hosted by Amazon. That means that, if you've been on the fence about a certain deal, it might be a good time to take the plunge before it (most likely) disappears tomorrow.Luckily, many of the best deals we saw yesterday and earlier today are still around, despite the fact we're now at the tail end of the event. Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and other retailers are even matching Amazon's prices in many cases, which means there are still deals available even if you don't have an Amazon Prime membership.To save you both time and money in these final hours, we've combed through thousands of... Continue reading...

Apple's M1 MacBook Air certainly isn't new, but for $749.99, it still has plenty to offer. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Amazon Prime Day may be almost done, but you can still save on a bunch of gadgets spanning a range of categories. If you're in the market for a good laptop deal, though, this is where you'll find them all.Despite it being the waning hours of Prime Day, a bunch of different laptops of all shapes and sizes are still on sale at Amazon, from Apple devices and Windows PCs to even gaming laptops. But not all deals are created equal (and there are some truly bad ones out there), so we've picked out the best bargains right here.Take a look, and if you need some extra help, be sure to also check out our guide to the best laptops.Best Prime Day deals on Windows laptops

The Google Nest Wifi Pro is on sale, if you want a pretty good mesh system that looks like it has a candy shell. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Good evening. It's still Prime Day. Maybe we'll be stuck in Prime Day forever (jkjk, there are only a few hours left). Since we're here, please enjoy these deals on smart home devices. They are for sale. Please. Amazon Prime Day 2023, day two.There are some pretty good deals on robot vacuums and smart bulbs and so forth. Got a couple of cameras in here, a video doorbell or two. Smart locks. The Google Nest Wifi Pro mesh router thing that looks like it has a candy coating, which I regret to inform you is just plastic. The new Nanoleaf Matter bulbs are on sale! They're pretty. Other deals occur as well. But they'll end, as all things eventually do.Before you buy any smart home device, make sure it works with the smart home platforms and... Continue reading...

Motorola's latest flip smartphone is brand new, but already on sale. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Because time is a flat circle, back-to-school season is creeping up on us just as we were getting settled into summer. Fall flagship phone launches are on the horizon, too. But before you trade in your SPF 30 for a pumpkin spice latte, there's at least one more summer soiree on the calendar: Prime Day.The annual summer shopping holiday that was foisted upon us by our online retailer overlords is here once again - well, at least for the next few hours. And if you've managed to hold off on a new phone purchase until now, I have good news for you: there are still some darn good savings to be had on an unlocked Android phone. If you managed to put off a new phone purchase until this week, then give yourself a little pat on the back; your... Continue reading...

Apple's latest iPad Mini is just one of many Apple products on sale this year for Prime Day. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Obviously, Amazon Prime Day offers an excellent opportunity to save a lot of money on Amazon's devices - it's kind of in the name. Luckily, it's also a good time to save on gadgets from other popular brands. We've included some of the best deals on sales going on outside of the Amazon ecosystem in our main Prime Day roundup, but if you're specifically interested in Apple products, here is where you'll find the cream of the crop.Below, you'll find deals on a wide range of Apple products, from the latest and greatest to the classics. They include everything from the Apple Watch Series 8 and the entry-level iPad to even the new Apple-owned Beats Studio Buds Plus. Like in previous years, we expect the bulk of the deals to expire at... Continue reading...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I'm currently looking at my Venmo feed. In an ideal world, I would see only a log of private payments I've made and received. Instead, I see a list of my friends' business: someone paid a friend for drinkies," another for rich bitch things." Because we don't live in an ideal world - we live in a society where a popular payment app will expose a Supreme Court justice's potential conflicts of interest because someone else forgot to lock down their privacy settings.The most recent example of poor Venmo security comes from Rajan Vasisht, a former aide to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The Guardian tracked down Vasisht's Venmo account and found several payments in 2019 from lawyers who had been Thomas' legal clerks. The amount of... Continue reading...

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you're looking for an Apple Watch, an Android smartwatch, or maybe even a plain old fitness tracker, you're in luck. Amazon Prime Day 2023 is a great time to snag discounts on smartwatches and fitness trackers alike. This is especially true if you're a budget-savvy shopper looking to upgrade to nicer materials, like titanium cases and sapphire crystal displays.Sifting through Prime Day deals for wearables can be a bit of a headache. There are so many sizes, colors, and feature sets to choose from! But we've rounded up the best here so you don't have to. Just keep in mind you'll need an Amazon Prime subscription to partake. And when you're done here, you can always head back to our main guide to the best Prime Day deals for... Continue reading...

Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge From earbuds and smart displays to robot vacuums and phones, here's the best of what Prime Day has to offer on tech and gadgets. Continue reading...

It looks uncannily like my Lock Screen. The general trend of macOS releases over the past few years is that it has been moving closer and closer to the look and feel of iOS. The icons have become iOS icons, and their shape has become the iOS shape, and you can now use your iPhone as the Mac's webcam, etc. etc. This occasionally comes at the expense of other functionality (ask me how I feel about the new Settings menu), but it is the direction that Apple has clearly been heading in since (arguably) Big Sur. Every so often, other splashy features are announced (Stage Manager, Universal Control, Quick Notes) that I write a lot about and then never end up using ever again.So, good news for Continuity fans: that's basically what's going on with Sonoma. Ventura looked a heck of a... Continue reading...

Image: Canoo When Canoo first unveiled its cool, futuristic-looking electric van back in 2021, a non-zero number of friends reached out to me to ask when they could buy one.The answer is probably never. Not unless they work for the federal government.The struggling EV startup has been on the verge of running out of money since last year. Its cash burn remains high, and analysts say it's at risk for insolvency. Indeed, Canoo's stock has been trading for less than a dollar, putting it at risk of being delisted from the stock exchange. But despite its financial woes, the federal government is more than happy to continue to do business with the company.Today, Canoo announced it had successfully delivered three crew transportation vehicles to NASA... Continue reading...

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images xAI, Elon Musk's newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/.The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe," according to the website. The team is headed up by Elon Musk and includes team members that have worked at other big names in AI, including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and DeepMind (which was recently folded into Google).In addition to Musk, the website lists Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Kyle Kosic, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang, and Zihang Dai. xAI's team is currently advised by Dan Hendrycks, a researcher who currently leads the Center for AI Safety,... Continue reading...

Image: Blaze Entertainment The team behind the Evercade line of retro hardware is back with a cute new handheld. It's called the Super Pocket, and it is downright tiny - it measures in at 78mm x 125mm x 25mm - and relatively cheap. It'll cost you 49, $59, or 59 depending on region.At launch, the Super Pocket comes in two varieties. There's a Capcom version with 12 built-in games (including Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Final Fight, 1942, and Mega Man) and a Taito version with 17 games included (like Space Invaders, Elevator Action, and Bubble Bobble). Equally as important, each version has its own color scheme.Outside of the built-in games, each handheld also has a cartridge slot that supports the same game carts from the Evercade handheld and h... Continue reading...

Around 25 organizations and government agencies are believed to be affected by the breach. | Illustration: Beatrice Sala In two blog posts published on Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed that a China-based hacking group - which the company refers to as Storm-0558" - is intent on gaining access to email systems for intelligence collection." It said the espionage-focused group breached an unidentified number of email accounts linked to around 25 organizations, including some related individual consumer accounts and government agencies in Western Europe and the US.According to The Washington Post, it was the US government that notified Microsoft of the exploit. Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service," National Security Council spokesperson Adam Hodges said to the publication. We continue to hold... Continue reading...

The Honor Magic V2, folded. If there's one thing Honor wants you to know about its new Magic V2, it's how thin and light it is. The thinnest vegan leather version of the new foldable, which is launching in China today, is just 9.9mm thick when folded and weighs 231 grams. That's thinner and lighter than Honor's major competitors like Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 4 (14.2mm and 263g), Google's Pixel Fold (12.1mm and 283g), and Huawei's Mate X3 (11.8mm and 239g) when folded.In fact, hold the folded Honor Magic V2 in your hand, and it almost feels like a non-folding smartphone. The Magic V2's weight (like its 6.43-inch exterior screen size) sits somewhere between an iPhone 14 Pro (206g) and iPhone 14 Pro Max (240g). It's not as thin in its smartphone-style folded form... Continue reading...

Domino's pizzas listed in Uber Eats. | Image: Domino's Domino's, the world's largest pizza company in terms of sales and stores, has signed a deal with Uber to list its menus on its Eats and Postmates delivery apps in the US, the company has announced. Although orders will continue to be delivered by uniformed Domino's drivers, the company hopes that listing its menus on the apps will expose it to more potential customers.The pizza chain has been a notable holdout in the shift towards third-party delivery apps in the US, which The Wall Street Journal previously reported can increase sales but harm profit margins and interrupt the direct relationship between restaurant and customer. Fellow pizza brands Papa John's and Pizza Hut already work with third-party delivery apps in the US. One... Continue reading...

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals. | Image: Netflix When the original Oxenfree debuted in 2016, it was hard not to make Stranger Things comparisons: from the synth-heavy soundtrack to its story of kids grappling with the supernatural, the vibes were very similar. So it made a lot of sense when, in 2021, Netflix acquired Oxenfree developer Night School Studio as part of its burgeoning games effort. Now we have Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, which is an ideal sequel: it's another creepy adventure game that stands on its own but also builds on the original in smart ways. It might also be the best video game released under the Netflix label so far.As a game, not much has changed in Lost Signals. It's a 2D adventure where you wander around a beautiful small town, doing lots of talking and... Continue reading...

A worthwhileZeldadeal has dropped. | Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been dominating the gaming zeitgeist since its release in May, but it's finally time for a wave of patient deal hunters to descend on Hyrule. Amazon and Walmart are now discounting the Nintendo title that normally runs $69.99, selling it for $51.99. Full disclosure: both deals are through a third-party seller, but that doesn't give me too much cause for concern given they carry mostly positive ratings and are fulfilled by the retailers.There has been a way to get the digital version of the game for cheaper this whole time, but if you prefer a physical cartridge for your Nintendo Switch games, this deal is the way to go. Though, if prior Zelda discounts are anything to go by (as few as... Continue reading...