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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 21:00 EDT

iPhone 16E review: Eh, it’s alright

The iPhone 16E is everything I love and hate about iOS. FaceTime at your fingertips. A reliable camera. Simplicity. Familiarity. They’re the pillars of the iPhone experience, and Apple’s newest phone has ‘em. My husband picked up the 16E, concerned that he would have to “learn something new” to use it. He swiped around for […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 19:52 EDT

Longer-lasting laptops: the modular hardware you can upgrade and repair yourself

When it comes to improving the sustainability of consumer electronics, there’s a growing movement to design devices with a focus on upgradability and repairability that can extend their longevity, instead of just making them easier to recycle after a few years of use. At one time, nearly every laptop maker was caught up in a […] Read more

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 19:52 EDT

Mint and pink: a closer look at the backflipping Framework Laptop 12

The moment Vjeran and I got to the demo room at Framework’s San Francisco event, we knew right away — the mint and pink version of the Framework Laptop 12 was the one I wanted to touch, the one he wanted to photograph and film. One of the women standing next to the demo stations […] Read more

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 18:04 EDT

The best robot vacuums

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well without complaining (much). As prices have dropped, these busy little bots have become less of a luxury and more of a necessity. They can reach places most standup vacs never see (under beds and sofas) and, thanks to better batteries and robot brains, they […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 17:58 EDT

Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy

The rise of generative AI has been powered by Nvidia and its advanced GPUs. As demand far outstrips supply, the H100 has become highly sought after and extremely expensive, making Nvidia a trillion-dollar company for the first time. It’s also prompting customers, like Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Google to start working on their own […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 17:36 EDT

The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source

In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine of not contributing enough to the WordPress ecosystem and profiting off of trademark confusion. As a result, WP Engine was blocked from accessing WordPress.org’s […] Read more

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 17:04 EDT

The Xbox Wireless Controller is just $39 right now

Of the three major gaming consoles, the Xbox Series X / S may have the most diverse controller selection, but Microsoft’s basic Xbox Wireless Controller is still the best Xbox controller for most people. That’s mostly because it’s the cheapest one you can buy with native support for Xbox’s built-in wireless protocol (you can also […] Read more

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Justine Calma @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 16:43 EDT

Living with extreme heat might make you age faster

Exposure to extreme heat could lead to faster aging, a new study published today in the journal Science Advances suggests. Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas. The study looked at measures of a person’s biological, or epigenetic, age, which […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 16:00 EDT

Kick off Pokémon Day 2025 with this gorgeous short film

It’s technically already Pokémon Day in Japan, and while we’re still a few hours away from this year’s big Pokémon Presents showcase, there’s a new animated short film out that right now feels like the perfect way to get pumped up for whatever surprises Nintendo has in store. Many of the Pokémon Company’s animated projects […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 15:50 EDT

It’s clearly time: all the news about the transparent tech renaissance

Gadgets, much like fashion, can make style comebacks. For tech: we’ve lived through the ’80s beige keyboards, transitioned to the ’90s with gray and black plastic video game systems plus bright colors for Sony’s Walkman and Nintendo’s Game Boy handhelds, and then, at the turn of the millennium, welcomed the amazing see-through iMacs, N64 controllers, […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 15:25 EDT

Alexa Plus leaves behind Amazon’s earliest Echo devices

Amazon is bringing the new AI-powered Alexa Plus to a wide range of its existing Echo devices — but the upgrade will skip many of the earliest models. The majority of the company’s first-generation Echos won’t get support, according to the Alexa Plus FAQ page, though Amazon says they will continue to work with the standard […] Read more

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 12:54 EDT

Max’s ad-supported tier is losing CNN and the Bleacher Report

Though Max has always said that it planned to charge more for access to its CNN and Bleacher Report Sports add-ons, the price hikes are coming in a roundabout way targeted at subscribers to the streamer’s cheapest tier. Max announced today that it no longer intends to charge subscribers to its Standard ($16.99/month or $169.99/year) […] Read more

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Verge Staff @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 12:50 EDT

Streaming services keep getting more expensive: all the latest price increases

Death. Taxes. All your streaming services getting a little more expensive all the time. These are the new certainties in life, it seems. In recent years, as the streaming TV and movie business has gotten more competitive and companies around Hollywood have thrown billions into building their own platforms and libraries in order to compete […] Read more

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Adi Robertson @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 12:40 EDT

Jeff Bezos bans Washington Post opinion writers from opposing ‘free speech and free markets’

In a move promoted as supporting freedom of speech, The Washington Post will no longer publish opinion columns that oppose the core views of Post owner and Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos, Bezos has reportedly told staff. New York Times reporter Benjamin Mullin and Semafor reporter Max Tani published details about the move on Wednesday, […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 12:21 EDT

Alexa Plus’ AI upgrades cost $19.99, but it’s all free with Prime

Amazon announced a new version of its smart assistant today. Alexa Plus comes with expanded capabilities, the company appeared to demonstrate, like finding concert tickets on your behalf or ordering an Uber to pick up someone at the airport. The upgraded smart assistant will also make it easier to have more natural conversations with it, […] Read more

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 12:04 EDT

Victrola’s cheapest Sonos-compatible turntable is over half off today

It’s shaping up to be a good week to be a Sonos fan. First, Sonos launched a sale for existing customers that includes steep discounts on soundbars, speakers, and headphones, and now the Sonos-ready Victrola Stream Onyx is more than 50 percent off. Now through February 28th, you can buy the two-speed, belt-driven turntable at Woot […] Read more

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 11:58 EDT

Pixel Watch 3 gets FDA clearance for Loss of Pulse alerts

Google just announced it’s received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3’s Loss of Pulse Detection feature. It will start rolling out to US devices sometime at the end of March. The Loss of Pulse Detection feature is exactly what it sounds like: if the Pixel Watch 3 senses that you’ve lost your pulse through […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 11:36 EDT

Amazon is launching Alexa.com and new app for Alexa Plus

Amazon is launching an alexa.com website and a new mobile app where Alexa Plus subscribers will be able to use the AI-powered voice assistant. We don’t have many details beyond that, but the website and the app could be handy new ways to interact with the revamped Alexa, which was announced at an event this […] Read more

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William Joel @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 10:49 EDT

How to hide faces and scrub metadata when you photograph a protest

While showing up at a protest can demonstrate your opinion to the world, you may not want your face — or the faces of other protesters — to be included, especially when there is the possibility that authorities will collect and use that information (as they did for tracking movements during COVID-19 social distancing). As […] Read more

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Wes Davis @ The Verge · 02/26/2025 10:25 EDT

Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus

Amazon is finally launching Alexa Plus, the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly. Amazon first announced it was going to “supercharge” Alexa with AI in […] Read more

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