When the deals are flying fast and furious, it can be easy to overspend, especially when OLED TVs, laptops, and other great pieces of tech are cheaper than they’ve ever been. You don’t have to spend a lot to find gift-worthy deals, though. If you’re working with a tighter budget, we’ve found plenty of gadgets […]

If you’re planning to head out of town for the holidays, now is a good time to stock up on chargers so that your devices don’t die in transit. Lucky for you, we’ve already rounded up some of the best charging accessory deals available for Cyber Monday, with Anker’s Laptop Power Bank being one of […]

Morrow County, Oregon is home to mega farms and food processing plants. But it’s also home to several Amazon data centers. And now, some experts believe, that combination is leading to an alarmingly high concentration of nitrates in the drinking water that is driving up cancer and miscarriage rates in the area. Rolling Stone’s exposé […]

The last thing I need is a new Amazon Echo smart speaker. As The Verge’s smart home reviewer, I currently have a dozen scattered around my home for testing. But when Amazon’s Echo Frames smart glasses went on sale for $115 for Cyber Monday, down from $300, it was an offer my husband couldn’t refuse. […]

Anker’s seriously small Soundcore Sleep A20 sleepbuds can be nabbed for $108 right now at Amazon, their best price since they launched on Kickstarter at $90 last year. They normally sell for $179.99, making this a standout deal for a pair of ultra-tiny sleep buds that I barely notice as I drift off to the […]

I have a tendency to space out. A lot. Whether it's staring out the window on Amtrak or pausing at work to fixate on a blank spot on the wall instead of my screen, I often let my mind wander. When I was younger, I would often be derisively called a daydreamer, a space cadet, […]

If all you want is a way to talk to ChatGPT, you're practically spoiled for choice - there are countless ways to chat with the bots, and seemingly countless new ones every single day. But that's not the whole story of how we'll interact with large language models. It better not be. Thomas Paul Mann, […]

Brad Smith said his decision to hook up a webcam to the computer he controls with his mind did not make sense to people at Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company. "Neuralink was really confused with the idea," Smith told The Verge. The decision came just six months after Smith's brain was implanted with a […]

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 107, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're having a lovely and long weekend, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Faker and Chinese EVs and […]