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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 10:51 EDT

The best budget smartphone you can buy

Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 10:31 EDT

Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage — here’s how to get it

Verizon is offering customers a $20 account credit following a massive outage that brought down service across the US on Wednesday. In an update on X, Verizon says you'll receive a text message when the credit is available, which you can redeem by logging into the myVerizon app and accepting it. "Yesterday, we did not […] Read more

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 10:03 EDT

Ricoh’s black-and-white-only camera launches in February for $2,200

The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome now has a price and is already up for preorder. The dedicated black-and-white camera, based on the standard GR IV with a fixed 28mmm-equivalent lens, will cost $2,199.95 - a $700 premium over the GR IV. Ricoh first announced the GR IV Monochrome was being made back in October, and […] Read more

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John.Higgins @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 10:00 EDT

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a TV enthusiast’s dream

Sony has a history of making excellent TVs, from the Trinitron CRTs of last century to the world's first OLED nearly 20 years ago to 2016's ZD9 mini-LED that delivered exceptional brightness and dimming control for the time. And while Samsung beat Sony to the market with the S95B, in 2022 Sony was the first […] Read more

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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 09:10 EDT

Get all four Matrix movies on 4K Blu-ray for $45

The best deal that I’ve seen on The Matrix: 4 Film Deja Vú Collection containing the four main films on 4K Blu-ray discs is $34.99. After missing out on that price around Cyber Monday, I’ve been waiting patiently for it to return. I can wait no longer to rewatch the 1999 classic, so Walmart’s $44.99 […] Read more

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Stevie Bonifield @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 09:00 EDT

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the entire Windows 10 installation I'd been running for years at that point. I hesitated for a second - maybe I should […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 08:35 EDT

RAM price hikes: the latest on the global memory shortage

Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers in their massive data centers. Now, the world’s biggest memory makers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — are taking […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 08:00 EDT

Game of Thrones shows its playful side in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Though House of the Dragon tells a different story than Game of Thrones, there are enough tonal similarities to make the spinoff feel more like a remix of its predecessor than a show with its own distinct voice. That's part of what made it a little hard to get excited when HBO first announced that […] Read more

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Robert Hart @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 07:51 EDT

‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple's and Google's policies, yet it and xAI's Grok remain on both companies' app stores. In open letters published Wednesday, a coalition of 28 advocacy groups, including women's organizations and tech watchdogs, are demanding CEOs Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai grow spines and evict them. […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 07:41 EDT

Spotify is hiking prices again

The price of Spotify Premium is about to jump again in the US, marking its third price hike since 2023. Spotify announced that subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia will be contacted about the updated pricing over the coming month. Individual Premium plans in the US will increase from $11.99 to $12.99 by the […] Read more

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 07:00 EDT

All the news that’s fit to WhatsApp

The WeChat channel 纽约移民记事网Documented (or the New York Immigrant Chronicle) is part newsfeed and part public service. The channel, run by the nonprofit newsroom Documented NYC, is filled with local news for Chinese speakers in New York: stories about healthcare and immigration arrests, but also information on local events like toy giveaways, places where families […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 06:13 EDT

OpenAI’s ChatGPT translator challenges Google Translate

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Translate, a standalone web translation tool that supports over 50 languages and is positioned as a direct competitor to Google Translate. The two services look visually similar: both feature two text boxes - one for typing or pasting the source text, and another that displays the translated results - alongside dropdown […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 03:30 EDT

Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors

It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articles that get almost 15 billion views each month. To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation - the nonprofit that backs […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 01/15/2026 03:30 EDT

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia's vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia Foundation announced the news as part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary on Thursday. The partnerships are part of Wikimedia Enterprise, an initiative launched in 2021 that gives large […] Read more

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 01/14/2026 19:54 EDT

The best e-reader to buy right now

Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer distractions and less eye strain, and many include extra features, like adjustable frontlighting. Some really are pocketable. Others are waterproof […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 01/14/2026 19:46 EDT

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported on Tuesday by The Telegraph, as Grok's responses to prompts like "put her in a bikini" became censored. But in tests of the feature […] Read more

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 01/14/2026 18:04 EDT

The Stream Deck Plus is back to its lowest price

If you’re looking for a simple way to streamline your workflow, the Elgato Stream Deck Plus is a handy productivity tool for automating everyday tasks. Right now, it’s on sale for $159.99 ($40 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, which is its best price to date. Like the standard Stream Deck, the Stream […] Read more

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 01/14/2026 16:38 EDT

Naya Connect is a modular mechanical keyboard system for the indecisive

Naya has already shipped one successful Kickstarter for a weird keyboard. The Naya Create was an ergonomic split deck with four swappable controller addons: a touchpad, a trackball, a rotary encoder, or a 6DoF spatial mouse. The Connect takes that modular concept, applies it to a more traditional flat keyboard form factor, and expands the […] Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 01/14/2026 15:47 EDT

Amazon didn’t have to go far to find its live-action Kratos

Amazon has announced the first cast member of its God of War live-action adaptation on Prime Video. Ryan Hurst, known for his work as Opie in Sons of Anarchy and Beta in The Walking Dead, will play the titular God of War, Kratos. Though the casting might come as a bit of a disappointment to […] Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 01/14/2026 14:30 EDT

BMW says electric M3 will be a ‘new level’ of performance

BMW teased its forthcoming all-electric M-series performance sedan today, promising that the quad-motor M3 sports car would feature specs that are truly next level when it arrives in 2027. The M3 will have four electric motors and simulated gear shifting, a feature that is quickly becoming a must-have for electrified sports cars. BMW says the […] Read more

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