Appleâs latest AirPods Pro are on sale starting at $168.99, which isnât far from their typical asking price. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Appleâs ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the new AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the latest AirPods Pro with USB-C. The same goes for... Read more âș
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A screenshot from a video of TerraPowerâs groundbreaking ceremony for its demonstration project in Wyoming. TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, struck a deal this week with one of the largest data center developers in the US to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. TerraPower and Sabey Data Centers (SDC) are working together on a plan to run existing and future facilities on nuclear energy from small reactors. Tech... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Perplexity has turned its AI âanswer engineâ into a mobile assistant on Android. The new assistant can answer general questions and perform tasks on your behalf, such as writing an email, setting a reminder, booking dinners, and more. Itâs also multimodal, meaning you can ask it questions about whatâs on your screen as well as have it open your camera and âseeâ whatâs in front of you.... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta and YouTube arenât the only platforms looking to benefit from TikTok potentially disappearing â Substack wants in on the action, too. The company announced Thursday itâs launching a $20 million âcreator accelerator fund,â promising content creators they wonât lose revenue by jumping ship to Substack. Creators in the program also get âstrategic and business supportâ from Substack, and early access to... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Though Nintendo can technically claim it had the first big gaming news event of the year, at least Xboxâs Developer Direct actually showed off some games and let us know when we can play them. The showcase was anchored by deep dives into the biggest games coming down the green pipe like Doom: The Dark Ages and Compulsion Gamesâ South of Midnight, with a... Read more âș
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Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Fitbit is paying a $12.25 million fine over its Ionic smartwatches, which the company recalled in 2022 after reports that the watchesâ lithium-ion batteries overheated and, in some cases, burned customers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has provisionally accepted the settlement. The commission worked with Fitbit to recall 1.7 million Ionic watches in 2022 after receiving 115 reports of overheating batteries. Of those... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is officially launching a new Android security feature for Pixel devices with Android 15 to prevent phone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The feature, called Identity Check, requires biometric authentication to access some account and device settings when youâre not at a trusted location (such as your home or your workplace). âA stolen device in the wrong hands can expose sensitive... Read more âș
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Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Android 16âs first public beta has arrived, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride sharing and food delivery, following yesterdayâs reveal of a similar feature in Samsungâs Galaxy S25 phones. The new beta also forces apps to be resizable, a move to make sure they run full-screen on tablets and foldables. This is expected to be the first of four public beta releases... Read more âș
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Image: id Software After revealing its next Doom game last summer, id Software is almost ready to release it: the studio announced that Doom: The Dark Ages is launching on May 15th. The news came as part of Xboxâs most recent Developer Direct livestream, which provided the best look yet at the prequel. As the name implies, The Dark Ages is set in a medieval fantasy realm and takes place... Read more âș
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Image: Microsoft Microsoft promised a new game announcement at its Xbox Developer Direct event, and that game turned out to be Ninja Gaiden 4. The new entry in the long-running franchise is being co-developed by Team Ninja along with Platinum Games, the team behind action games like Bayonetta and Nier: Automata. Though no release date was announced, the game will be coming to Xbox, and will be available via Game... Read more âș
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The Surface Laptop Go 3 could get a replacement very soon. | Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Itâs been less than a year since Microsoft launched its first Qualcomm Snapdragon X-powered Surface devices, and now a new rumor says followups could debut as soon as this spring. A report from Windows Central updates rumors that have circled since 2023, citing sources who say that new versions of the Surface... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge OpenAI is releasing a âresearch previewâ of an AI agent called Operator that can âgo to the web to perform tasks for you,â according to a blog post. âUsing its own browser, it can look at a webpage and interact with it by typing, clicking, and scrolling,â OpenAI says. Itâs launching first in the US for subscribers of OpenAIâs $200 per month ChatGPT Pro tier. Operator relies... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic Games is adding nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching its free games program on mobile beginning with Bloons TD 6 and Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee. Itâs also promising to pay some iOS fees for developers that are part of the program to overcome what Epic calls... Read more âș
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Image: Palworld Pocketpair is getting into the games publishing business. The company has announced that itâs taking the gobs of money it made after launching Palworld, the Steam-record busting, 15-million-copies-sold-in-its-first-month, monster-catching adventure game, to establish Pocketpair Publishing. âPocketpair Publishing provides comprehensive support for game development through funding, development assistance, and publishing for indie game developers and small studios,â Pocketpair wrote in. Read more âș
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Itâs no Arc Ultra, but Sonosâ last-gen soundbar still offers terrific sound if you can afford it. | Image: Chris Welch / The Verge If youâre looking for a way to beef up your sound system ahead of the Super Bowl, itâs worth investing in a good soundbar. And right now, the Sonos Arc is matching its all-time low of around $649 ($250 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H... Read more âș
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Image: Google Google is changing the way visible URLs show up on mobile search results worldwide. Search results since 2009 have shown âbreadcrumbsâ or the hierarchy of a webpageâs URL using â>â after the domain name, but starting today, it will only show the domain on your smartphone or tablet. Web developers have had some control over how results show up according to Googleâs structured data guidelines that also control... Read more âș
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The ability to remotely remove installed extensions is coming âlater this year.â | Image: The Verge Google has announced some new business features that can help IT admins better manage Chrome browser extensions, a popular attack vector for cybercriminals. A curated Chrome Web Store experience is launching today for Enterprise workspaces that allows pre-approved extensions to be displayed on the landing page, making them easier for employees to find and... Read more âș
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The Dasung Paperlike 103 connects to computers and mobile devices over USB-C. | Image: Dasung Dasung has announced a new compact E Ink monitor thatâs the companyâs first to offer a 60Hz refresh rate. The Paperlike 103 features a 10.3-inch e-paper panel making it similar in size to E Ink-based electronic notepads like the Boox Go 10.3 or the Amazon Kindle Scribe. Those devices typically have limited refresh rates, but... Read more âș
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Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images CNN is developing a new streaming service â and it sounds a lot like the one it shut down nearly three years ago. In an internal memo shared with The Verge, CNN CEO Mark Thompson says the service will give viewers the ability âto stream news programming from us on any device they chooseâ as part of a broader restructuring plan. CNN jumped on the... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The CSA, Thread Group, and Wi-Fi Alliance say theyâre working together to fix the problems that have plagued the smart home standard in its first two years. In this exclusive interview, I ask them how and when. Read the full story at The Verge. Read more âș
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