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Garmin's midrange running watch is $100 off in both the standard configuration and the smaller 42mm sizing. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As part of its Glowtime" event on September 9th, Apple is expected to reveal the Apple Watch Series 10 and possibly a new Apple Watch Ultra. However, while both watches are expected to feature new chips and better displays, neither of them will likely rival the Garmin Forerunner 265 when it comes to dedicated running features or battery life. Luckily, Garmin's excellent running watch is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and REI for $349.99 ($100 off) - an all-time low.Of all the running watches Garmin currently sells, the platform-agnostic Forerunner 265 probably strikes the best balance between price and performance. Both the 265 and smaller 265S offer multiband GPS for more precise tracking, onboard music storage, and a... Continue reading...

A visualization of PM2.5 air pollution concentrations in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 1850 to 2021. | Image: Air Quality Stripes A new tool shows how much air quality has changed since the Industrial Revolution in cities across the world. It generates a single image made up of different colored stripes representing pollution each year in each major city.You can see stark contrasts from place to place, showing how much work is left to do to clean up pollution and also how well those efforts can pay off in the long run. Air pollution has fallen sharply in wealthy Western nations but is still a serious health risk in many places around the world.These images make the invisible visible."Air pollution is often called the invisible killer,' but these images make the invisible visible," Kirsty Pringle, a codirector of the project who is based at the University of... Continue reading...

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Let's put this sloppy, bad-faith argument to rest. Continue reading...

Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Apple has announced the date of its next big event: September 9th, 2024, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. The event, which has the tagline It's Glowtime," will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park.During the show, the company is expected to launch the iPhone 16 lineup. The big change to the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus is expected to be a switch to a vertically aligned camera system on the back. (If the final phones look like what we've seen on iPhone 16 dummy units, I'm already a big fan of this change.) The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max phones might get bigger screens but are rumored to keep Apple's familiar three-camera layout. Those phones could also come in a new bronze color. Image: Apple It's (almost)... Continue reading...

The HoverAir X1 Promax. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The HoverAir X1 wasn't your traditional drone. People who have little interest in piloting, like my colleague Thomas Ricker, use the highly crash-resistant self-flying $350 camera to easily get aerial video just by pressing two buttons. But it's not particularly high-quality video, it's not particularly fast, and you can't fly it far away even if you wanted to.That's where the new HoverAir X1 Pro and X1 Promax come in.Zero Zero Robotics has just put both drones up for sale on Indiegogo. We briefly checked them out in person, and they sound like an improvement on the X1 in practically every way. Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The new HoverAir X1 Pro and Promax, next to the original X1. While they are... Continue reading...

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Frontier is bringing its new 7-gig fiber internet option to customers across the country. The 7-gig plan costs $309.99 / month and is the fastest widely available fiber plan so far.Frontier currently offers fiber internet in most of the 25 states it serves, including California, Texas, Florida, New York, Minnesota, and others. The company only offered 2-gig and 5-gig options previously, but now customers who live in Frontier's service area will get access to the 7-gig plan. The plan comes with symmetrical 7Gbps upload and download speeds, along with unlimited monthly data and an upgraded Wi-Fi 7 router.Oddly, while Frontier is the first to roll out 7Gbps nationwide (sort of), it's definitely not the cheapest super high-speed internet.... Continue reading...

The Lenovo Legion Go from its most distinctive angle. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge It's not clear if Lenovo's Legion Go handheld gaming PC was a success after its initial rough start last fall and its middling experience by the time I reviewed it this spring - but Lenovo is pushing forward. Not only is it planning a successor, possibly a smaller seven-inch one, but it's also just revealed an array of new accessories for the console. Images: Lenovo The Legion Go's new dock, joystick caps, carry case, and charging connector" gamepad wedge. The Legion Go will get its own official $65 USB-C dock this August - and in October, a full year after launch, you'll be able to buy a $50 wedge-shaped Charging Connector" that lets you turn its two detachable controllers into a single gamepad, keep them... Continue reading...

Dexcom first announced the Stelo earlier this year at CES 2024. The Dexcom Stelo aims to help people with Type 2 diabetes access CGMs more affordably. Continue reading...

You can learn a lot about somebody just by learning about how they get things done. Are they the sort of person who might have a perfectly color-coded email inbox, a flawlessly organized to-do list, and what's that, they just sent you a calendar invite for happy hour next week? Or are they more likely to have a giant pile of sticky notes they never look at, a computer desktop with so many files you can't even see the wallpaper, and today's main tasks written on their arm? Neither is wrong, but they're very different.On this episode of The Vergecast, the second in our three-part miniseries about work and productivity and how to get more done in a digital world, we decide to get to know our colleagues in a new way: by asking them to... Continue reading...

We got game emulators in the app store, as a treat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it's not fair.They're getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, regular regulators. Third-party app stores, the ability for browsers to run their own engines, Fortnite, and now the ability to replace lots of default apps? I want it, too! Imagine if Chrome on iOS wasn't just a rinky dink little Safari emulator! Imagine downloading a new dialer app with a soundboard of fart sounds and setting it as your default! Unfortunately, Apple doesn't seem interested in sharing these possibilities with everyone.Sure, we got retro game emulators in the app store. And that rules. But that's only because... Continue reading...

Image: NASA NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS).According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, As we got more and more data over the summer and understood the uncertainty of that data, it became very clear to us that the best course of action was to return Starliner uncrewed." He said NASA found there was just just too much uncertainty in the prediction of the thrusters."

The Shokz OpenFit Air are a lightweight pair of open-ear buds that use air conduction. The bass is pretty good for open-ear fitness buds, but alas, my glasses foiled the ear hook design. Continue reading...

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The Justice Department is suing the company behind a widely used software that helps landlords set rental prices. It alleges that RealPage's rent recommendation algorithm drives up prices and deprives renters of the benefits of competition on apartment leasing terms."In the complaint, the DOJ, along with eight states, claim that RealPage obtains nonpublic rental price information from competing landlords who use the software. RealPage then allegedly feeds this information into its algorithmic pricing software, which landlords can use to get suggestions about their rent rates.

Ring's latest wired security camera is a lot like the Ring Indoor Cam, only with a motorized base and a lengthy USB-C power cable. | Image: Ring Many of today's indoor security cameras are great, but unless you have multiple cameras positioned throughout your home at different angles, it can be tough to keep an eye on your pet, porch, and other happenings while you're away. Enter Ring's new Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam, which is now available in either black or white at Amazon, Best Buy, and Ring's online storefront for a new low of $59.99 ($20 off).In most respects, Ring's first integrated pan and tilt camera is an iterative update of Ring's second-gen Indoor Cam, which remains a cheap solution for monitoring the interior of your home. The wired camera offers 1080p HD video and color night vision, as well as two-way talk, a built-in siren, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi connectivity, and a physical... Continue reading...

Image: The Verge Microsoft is hosting an important summit on Windows security at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters next month. The Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit on September 10th will bring together Microsoft engineers and vendors like CrowdStrike to discuss improvements to Windows security and third-party best practices to try and prevent another CrowdStrike incident.Microsoft, CrowdStrike and key partners who deliver endpoint security technologies will come together for discussions about improving resiliency and protecting mutual customers' critical infrastructure," says Aidan Marcuss, corporate vice president of Microsoft Windows and devices. Our objective is to discuss concrete steps we will all take to improve security and... Continue reading...