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Amazon's early Prime Day sale started off slow, but as the event draws closer to its official kickoff on July 8th, it's beginning to pick up steam. Right now, for example, Prime members can grab an Amazon Echo Hub at Amazon for just $119.99 ($60 off), marking a new low price. As you might expect, [...]

Microsoft confirmed that it's laying off as many as 9,100 employees, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in yet another round of cuts this year, reports The Seattle Times. Employees in Microsoft's Xbox division, known as Microsoft Gaming, are being hit hard by these layoffs, although exact numbers and divisions are not yet known. [...]

ICEBlock, an app that lets users anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, has soared up App Store charts after receiving criticism from Donald Trump's administration. On Monday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded to CNN's coverage of ICEBlock in a post on X, calling it an obstruction of justice." Following [...]

The new Nuki Smart Lock ($159), the company's first designed for US deadbolts, is the most advanced retrofit smart lock I've tested. It features a sleek, compact design that looks and works like a regular doorknob, but it's much more than a doorknob. It can automatically unlock as you approach, lock behind you, unlock using [...]

The alien invasion continues, as Apple just confirmed the next season of Invasion will be streaming this summer. The new season will premiere on Apple TV Plus on August 22nd, with weekly episodes running on Fridays through to October 24th. Alongside the announcement, Apple also released a very brief teaser, which, if nothing else, suggests [...]

Tesla sales hit a new low, with the company reporting a 14 percent drop in second-quarter vehicle deliveries compared to a year ago. The company said that it produced a total of 410,244 vehicles between April-June of this year, including 396,835 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, as well as 13,409 other vehicles" like the [...]

After launching its first portable power stations last year, DJI just launched the Power 2000 with double the capacity, more output power, and big scalability. Unlike a fixed Tesla Powerwall solution, DJI's followup to the Power 1000 I reviewed last year is designed to scale in support of your day-to-day energy needs no matter where [...]

Honor has announced the Magic V5, which it says is the thinnest foldable phone in the world right now - though only if you ignore the raised camera module, and only for its white version. The phone launches today in China, but Honor says an international release is coming soon." At 8.8mm thick when folded [...]

The Google Photos app has been updated to make it easier to navigate your gallery and view image information. Google says the photo view - the screen that appears when you open an image in Google Photos - has been redesigned to provide a simpler, more modern, and more intuitive UI" while adding a new [...]

Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve President Donald Trump's lawsuit against its subsidiary CBS, clearing a path for the administration to approve the media giant's multibillion-dollar merger with Skydance Media. In a statement seen by CNN on Tuesday night, Paramount said the settlement payment is inclusive of Trump's legal fees and costs, [...]

Figma, the platform that specializes in collaborative interface design, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The company will trade under the ticker symbol FIG" as it prepares to double down" on its investments in AI. Figma was nearly acquired by Adobe for $20 billion in 2022, but the two companies scrapped the deal [...]

X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the AI Note Writers" will be able to submit a Community Note, but they will only actually be shown on a post if found helpful by people from different perspectives," X [...]

Google Home's latest update will make it easier to decide who in your household can control your smart home. It comes with a new feature, which Google first started testing last year, that will let you assign people Admin" and Member" roles. People with Admin status have full control of all the devices, services, and [...]

T-Mobile is bringing some of its Uncarrier energy to Ultra Mobile, the carrier's international-focused MVNO that operates on its network. It announced that its plans now have slightly higher data caps and more international perks, but with the same prices as before for new and existing subscribers - a rare thing to see these days. [...]

Senate Republicans today passed a sweeping spending bill that narrowly avoided punitive tax measures on renewable energy but still threatens to stall its growth in the US. After wrangling over hundreds of amendments for more than 24 hours in a so-called vote-a-rama" on Monday and Tuesday, Senate Republicans advanced the bill with provisions that make [...]

Grammarly plans to acquire the buzzy email app Superhuman, according to a press release. Email is already the number-one use case" of Grammarly for professional users, the company says, with the AI assistant helping to revise over 50 million emails per week across more than 20 email providers." Buying Superhuman makes some sense, then: it [...]

Earlier this year, Sonos permanently dropped the price of its Era 100 speaker to $199, making it more affordable for people looking to build a multiroom wireless speaker setup. Now, the small-but-mighty speaker is even cheaper to kick off summer. Sonos is offering the refurbished Era 100 for just $119 ($40 off), the lowest price [...]

Major League Soccer (MLS) is now nearly halfway through its 2025 season, and Apple is giving fans a great reason to tune in. For a limited time, the MLS Season Pass is available for just $49, offering new and returning subscribers access to every remaining match at half the regular price. If you're an Apple [...]

Laptop Mag is shutting down after nearly 35 years of providing consumers with in-depth information about laptops and other technology. In a staff meeting seen by The Verge, Faisal Alani, the global brand director at Laptop Mag owner Future PLC, said, After careful consideration and a review of our long-term strategy, we've made the decision [...]

Nothing's first pair of over-the-ear headphones has arrived, bearing the company's signature retro-transparent design that it introduced with the Phone 1. But until now, that design has mostly been in your pocket or peeking out of your ears. With the $299 Nothing Headphone 1, you have to commit to having that aesthetic wrapped around your [...]

Nothing has launched its first pair of over-ear headphones, imaginatively named the Headphone 1. At $299, these are priced to compete with flagship fare, distinguished primarily by their distinctive Nothing design language - right down to the buttons. While the boxy outline calls to mind Apple's AirPods Max, the semi-transparent detailing on the outside of [...]

The Glyph interface is not a gimmick," Nothing founder and CEO Carl Pei told the press as he revealed the Nothing Phone 3 for the first time, shortly before announcing that its new iteration lets you play Spin the Bottle on the back of the phone. It's mixed messaging, but in Nothing's defense, you couldn't [...]

Apple is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential Vision Pro headset research before leaving to join Snap's product design team. In the complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on June 24th, Apple accuses Di Liu of downloading thousands of documents containing proprietary information from Apple's internal systems and saving them to [...]

AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that's designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number transfers, SIM card changes, and updates to billing information. SIM swapping attacks have become increasingly common in recent [...]

Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone. You can now privately message other users on the Meta-owned X rival, though Threads will only allow DMs between your followers or mutual followers on Instagram to start. You can send a DM on Threads by selecting the envelope icon in the toolbar at the bottom of [...]

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's fighting over the big, beautiful" domestic policy bill has returned to the spotlight, with the president telling reporters on Tuesday that we'll have to take a look" into deporting the billionaire. He also proposed targeting Musk via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying, We might have to put [...]

Update, July 1st: Casio has sold out of its online inventory of the Ring Watch. Casio's $120 CRW001-1 (AKA the Ring Watch) is back in stock on Casio's website for the first time since it launched - then swiftly sold out - in December. The Ring Watch was released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of [...]

As previews for Donkey Kong Bananza come in ahead of the game's July 17th release date, one tidbit has stood out on the development of this game. It's been nearly eight years since Super Mario Odyssey, and now we know what that team has been up to, as Nintendo has officially revealed that the developers [...]

The risk of a power bank causing a fire, which is the result of a chain reaction known as a thermal runaway, is low. But when it does happen, the fires are intense, occasionally explosive, and difficult to extinguish. Early in June, Anker recalled more than 1.1 million aging power banks, and while the company [...]

The Federal Communications Commission will suspend the enforcement of a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. On Monday, the Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced that prisons won't have to comply with the pricing rules until April 1st, 2027, reversing plans to apply the caps this year. Family members [...]

Allison Johnson is a reviewer for The Verge who writes about phones and mobile technology. Occasionally," she adds, I yell at your wireless carrier." I asked her if there were any items that she especially liked using, and after thinking about it, she eventually came up with... a pencil sharpener. Where did you first hear [...]

AMC Theatres is making it easier for moviegoers to know the actual start time of their film screening and avoid sitting through lengthy ads. A new notice has started appearing when people purchase tickets via the AMC website, warning that movies start 25-30 minutes after showtime." This already mirrors the estimated runtime of AMC's pre-show [...]

The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican big, beautiful bill." Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1 to drop the controversial proposal during a protracted fight over the omnibus budget bill, which is still under debate. The vote followed failed attempts to [...]

As promised, the first trailer for director Edgar Wright's take on Stephen King's novel The Running Man is here - and it looks like a playful throwback to 80s action movies. The story centers on a struggling man named Ben Richards, played by Glen Powell, who is a contestant on a mega-popular TV game show [...]

One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a flood of interest in the metaverse, despite the movie's deeply dsytopian undertones. If you've talked to anyone working in AI, they've surely told you about [...]

Several moments of my two-hour hands-on preview of Donkey Kong Bananza felt like I was playing the gritty 2009 action game Red Faction: Guerilla - except this time I was actually playing as a gorilla. For example, I had to level a multistory building during a timed minigame. Just like in Guerilla, I targeted the [...]

The Google graveyard has claimed another victim: the company has killed the Apple Watch version of its Keep app. While the note-taking app is still available for iPhone and iPad, the 2.2025.26200 Google Keep App Store update released on Monday has removed watchOS support, bringing the total number of Google apps for Apple Watch back [...]

On June 2nd, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy traveled to Newark Liberty International Airport to celebrate the reopening of runway 4L-22R. This was unusual: few runway openings are glamorous enough to warrant a visit from the airport's CEO, let alone a cabinet secretary. But as we reported last month, few airports have come to symbolize [...]

The major internet architecture provider Cloudflare will now block known AI web crawlers by default to prevent them from accessing content without permission or compensation," according to an announcement on Tuesday. With the change, Cloudflare will start asking new domain owners whether they want to allow AI scrapers, and will even let some publishers implement [...]

Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake accounts. New users in California are now required to provide a biometric Face Check" scan to confirm their face matches their profile photos for the dating service, Axios reported on Monday. The Face Check [...]

Valve has added a new performance monitor to Steam that can help you understand why a game may or may not be running smoothly. Not only does it break out a game's overall frame rate, it can tell you how many of those frames were generated by techniques like Nvidia's DLSS or AMD's FSR, according [...]

AT&T believes its network wasn't at fault for a conference call where President Donald Trump accused the company of being totally unable to make their equipment work properly." Instead, AT&T is blaming an unnamed conference call platform." Earlier on Monday, President Donald Trump complained on Truth Social about apparent issues with AT&T's network during a [...]

Apple is considering enlisting the help of OpenAI or Anthropic to power its AI-upgraded Siri, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. As Apple continues to struggle with the development of an upgraded LLM Siri," it reportedly asked OpenAI and Anthropic to create versions of their large language models to test on the company's [...]

Finding a Nintendo Switch 2 hasn't been easy since its launch on June 5th, with sporadic availability over the past few weeks at various retailers. Luckily, if you've missed chances to pick one up, Best Buy will have more stock at its retail stores across the US starting tomorrow, July 1st. The Verge has reached [...]

The US Department of Justice notched an initial win in its antitrust case against Apple today, with a federal judge rejecting Apple's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit outright. The government's allegations are sufficient to demonstrate Apple's specific intent to monopolize the smartphone and performance smartphone market, Judge Julien Neals wrote in an opinion on Monday. [...]

Since it launched in November 2023, you could catch everything from rocket launches to documentaries about space on the NASA Plus streaming service. Starting this Summer, NASA Plus' live programming will also be available on Netflix, and continue to be ad-free. NASA Plus' live programming also includes astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage, and breathtaking live views [...]

In a memo to Meta staff, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's new Meta Superintelligence Labs" group that will head up its AI work, Bloomberg reports. Former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as part of a multibillion dollar deal earlier this month, will head up the group as the company's chief AI [...]

A summer camping trip is the perfect excuse to stop staring at screens, but it doesn't mean you need to go completely off the grid. Jackery's Explorer 1000 Power Station V2 lets you charge your gadgets and have more fun while you're camping. For instance, you can plug in a projector, speakers, or a space [...]

Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won't be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you'll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password management solution instead. Microsoft also plans on deleting your saved payment information in Authenticator this July [...]