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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 11:51 EDT

Anker’s fastest airline-friendly power bank is now available

Anker announced its new capacious Prime Power Bank (26k, 300W) at IFA 2025 as part of a larger collection of updated Prime series charging devices. At the time, pricing wasn’t known, but the power bank is now available through Anker’s online store and Amazon for $229.99 with a temporary discount to $184 for the next […] Read more

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 11:45 EDT

Alexa Plus is smarter — but it’s not yet smart enough

This week, Amazon will launch new Echo hardware designed to supercharge Alexa Plus, the AI-powered upgrade to its voice assistant. I've been using Alexa Plus for the last few months as part of its Early Access program, and while the new assistant is off to a promising start, it's still clearly a work in progress. […] Read more

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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 11:30 EDT

Amazon’s kid-friendly Kindles are cheaper than ever ahead of October Prime Day

Amazon’s October Prime Day (officially called Prime Big Deal Days) starts on October 7th, but waiting a week won’t be necessary to score a great deal. Amazon has already discounted the Kindle Kids, Kindle Paperwhite Kids, and Kindle Colorsoft Kids e-readers to their lowest prices ever. All of the kid-friendly Kindles have 16GB of storage […] Read more

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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 11:08 EDT

Keychron mechanical keyboards are up to 62 percent off

Keychron is one of the biggest names in mechanical keyboards (but certainly far from the only maker worthy of your attention). If you’re interested in an upgrade for your desk, or just an additional keyboard to use during gaming or intensive typing, Woot has great deals running on a fleet of wired and wireless models, […] Read more

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Hayden Field @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 10:26 EDT

OpenAI’s parental controls are out — here’s what you should know

OpenAI has rolled out some long-awaited parental controls for ChatGPT to all web users, with mobile coming “soon,” according to the company.  The controls, announced last month, allow for reducing or removing certain content — like sexual roleplay and the ability to generate images — and reducing the level of personalization on ChatGPT conversations by […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 10:05 EDT

GameSir’s clip-on controller turns smartphones into Game Boys

Over the past weekend at the Tokyo Game Show, GameSir demonstrated a new controller that turns your smartphone into a Game Boy. Unlike the company’s GameSir G8 Plus that offers similar functionality by clamping on to the top and bottom of a phone turned sideways recreating the ergonomics of the Nintendo Switch, this new controller […] Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 10:00 EDT

Ford’s CEO isn’t impressed with Apple CarPlay Ultra

The list of car companies looking askance at Apple’s newly release, all-encompassing version of CarPlay is growing longer. In an interview on Decoder, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he is taking a wait-and-see approach about whether to authorize Apple CarPlay Ultra in Ford’s vehicles. After years of teasing, Apple launched the CarPlay Ultra earlier this […] Read more

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Joanna Stern @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 10:00 EDT

Ford CEO Jim Farley on China, tariffs, and the quest for a $30,000 EV

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Nilay Patel’s show about big ideas and other problems. I am not Nilay Patel, though I have long wanted to be him.  I am Joanna Stern, the senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, author of the upcoming book I AM NOT A ROBOT (releasing spring […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 09:53 EDT

Google’s gradient ‘G’ logo is rolling out everywhere

Google is making the gradient “G” its new company-wide logo, according to an announcement on Monday. The new logo first began to surface across the Google app on Android and iOS in May, but soon, the design will begin to appear across all of the company’s platforms, marking Google’s first big logo change in 10 […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 09:30 EDT

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

You’ve probably heard of vibe coding — novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt — but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A […] Read more

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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 09:00 EDT

Get a look at the OnePlus 15 from every angle

Just a few days after first teasing the upcoming launch of the OnePlus 15, the company is already showing off the phone in plenty of detail. Today OnePlus confirmed that the new flagship is getting a global launch, and over the weekend it dropped multiple photo sets on Chinese social media giving us a better […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge 3 place · 09/29/2025 08:51 EDT

$55 billion EA buyout hands Madden over to investors including Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner

Electronic Arts has announced it is being acquired and taken private in a $55 billion deal involving Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, which is founded and led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027 and is still subject to […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 09/29/2025 07:30 EDT

CMF’s first over-ear headphones have an energy slider for boosting bass and treble

CMF, the budget-focused sub-brand that Nothing plans to spin off into a standalone subsidiary, has launched its first pair of over-ear wireless headphones. The CMF Headphone Pro borrows features like a multi-function roller control from Nothing’s Headphone 1 that debuted in July, but while Nothing’s over-ears feature a polarizing boxy design, CMF’s go hard on […] Read more

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 09/28/2025 17:01 EDT

Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri’s upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company’s struggles as it tries to keep pace in the AI race are no secret. The next-gen Siri has been delayed multiple times and the debut of Apple Intelligence was met with a tepid response. Veritas gives […] Read more

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · 09/28/2025 15:32 EDT

Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world

For most of his career Larry Ellison has been content to quietly let Oracle be the company, behind the company, behind the technology that makes headlines. Its biggest products being cloud computing and database products that it sells to enterprise customers like DHL, Northwell Health, and Fanatics. But, now in his 80s, Ellison has begun […] Read more

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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge 3 place · 09/28/2025 11:44 EDT

Trump posts, then pulls bizarre AI video promoting MedBed conspiracy

Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White House’s announcement of the world’s first MedBed hospital […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 09/28/2025 09:00 EDT

I spent three months with Telly, the free TV that’s always showing ads

The last few months, I've felt like I'm living in a cyberpunk movie. Each night, when I get ready to wind down, I reach for the remote to turn on a TV I got for free. When I hit the power button, a 55-inch screen lights up, but so does a smaller display beneath it. […] Read more

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge 3 place · 09/28/2025 09:00 EDT

Good news: TechWoven is fine

As the nation's foremost FineWoven hater, I have some great news about Apple's follow-up: it doesn't suck. I've been using a TechWoven case on an iPhone 17 Pro for the past week and I have no complaints. I took it up a mountain; I stored it in the sweaty back pocket of my yoga pants […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 09/28/2025 08:30 EDT

How the voice of Silksong’s Hornet brought her to life through gibberish

Silksong resembles the original Hollow Knight in many ways, though right from the start, you can hear one key difference: Hornet. Hollow Knight's protagonist was silent, but just as Hornet was voiced in that game, as the protagonist of Silksong, she has a voice, too, and actor Makoto Koji brings a lot of personality to […] Read more

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David Pierce @ The Verge · 09/28/2025 08:00 EDT

I need a life cool enough for the new GoPro

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Lizzo and Uniqlo and book thieves and Max Verstappen, […] Read more

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