The best Prime Day deals on charging devices We’re rounding up all the best deals on charging tech for your home, car, and travels. | Photo: AnkerIf you’re still charging your phone with whatever random wall wart came in the box three phones ago, or your laptop with the bulky brick it came with, now’s a great time to upgrade. Advances like GaN chargers have led to smaller, faster USB-C cha…

Five futures for Apple’s HomeScreenPod An iPad version of the iPhone’s StandBy mode would be a start for Apple’s smart display efforts. But I’d rather see a dedicated Apple Home iPad. | Image: David Pierce / The VergeApple’s smart home efforts need a smart display. If I have to hear Siri say, “I found some web results; I can show them if you ask again from your iPhone,” one more time…

The Pixel 9 Pro could get a 50MP selfie cam The Pixel 8 (left) and Pixel 8 Pro (right). | Photo by Allison Johnson / The VergeThe Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL could help you capture clearer selfies thanks to a major upgrade to the front-facing camera. Leaked marketing materials shared with Android Authority depict the 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL with 50-megapixel autofocusing selfie cameras. The selfi…

Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance can’t pray away the demons in new trailer Courtesy of Netflix © 2024Though director Lee Daniels isn’t exactly new to horror, the first trailer for Netflix’s The Deliverance makes it seem like he’s hitting his stride with the genre. Inspired by the 2011 reports of a haunting in Gary, Indiana, The Deliverance tells the story of Ebony Jackson (Andra Day), a woman from Pennsylvania whose li…

The best Prime Day tech deals you can grab for $100 or less The Fitbit Charge 6 is a great $100 tracker with a solid set of fitness and health tracking features. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeWhat do the latest AirPods Pro, the Meta Quest 3, and the iRobot Roomba j7 Plus all have in common? They’re all on sale for Prime Day… for upwards of $200. Thankfully, you can still score deals on t…

Elon Musk and tech elite back a pro-Trump super PAC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesSeveral close friends of Elon Musk, including Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, venture capitalist Doug Leone, and investor and podcast host David Sacks, have donated lavishly to a super PAC backing former President Donald Trump — and The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk plans on donating as much…

The best Prime Day tech deals under $25 Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeEveryone loves cheap stuff that’s actually good to use or invaluably helpful in your day-to-day. While Amazon Prime Day offers a deluge of deals on no-name tchotchkes and sketchy knockoffs (many of which have inflated, bot-fueled review scores) it does have its fair share of inexpensive hidden gems tha…

The best Amazon Prime Day tech deals you can get Image: Shira Inbar for The VergeDay one of Prime Day is underway, and we’ve got the skinny on which tech deals are worth your attention (and maybe your money). Continue reading…

The best Apple deals available for Amazon Prime Day 2024 The third-gen AirPods have dropped to a new all-time low price. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeThanks to Amazon Prime Day, you don’t need to wait until Black Friday this year to save big on Apple gadgets. Despite being an Amazon event, some of the best deals surprisingly include popular Apple products, ranging from the high-end latest AirPods…

Sling TV adds 4K streaming for free The game is taking place at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. | Photo: Maddie Malhotra / Boston Red Sox / Getty ImagesSling TV is adding 4K streaming at no extra charge. The service is kicking off its higher-resolution streams with the Fox Sports MLB All-Star Game broadcast in 4K tonight at 5PM PT / 8PM ET. But you’ll need the right Roku or…

All Verge shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and stickers are 30 percent off today Image: The Verge / FourthwallCelebrate this special day of internet sales with the latest apparel from your friends at The Verge. Continue reading…

Here are a handful of Prime Day tech deals you can nab for $50 or less Amazon’s latest Fire TV Stick 4K Max, which can showcase artwork and widgets when idle, is down to just $34.99 for Prime Day. | Image: AmazonAmazon Prime Day has officially arrived, bringing with it an abundance of deals spanning all price points and categories. And while many of the steepest discounts in the world of tech are reserved for premi…

Apple, Anthropic, and other companies used YouTube videos to train AI Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMore than 170,000 YouTube videos are part of a massive dataset that was used to train AI systems for some of the biggest technology companies, according to an investigation by Proof News and copublished with Wired. Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, and Salesforce are among the tech firms that used the “YouTube Subt…

The best smart home Prime Day deals you can get right now The best Echo smart display — the Echo Show 8 —is at its lowest price ever. | Photo by Alex Cranz / The VergeAmazon’s Prime Day 2024 runs Tuesday, July 16th, through Wednesday, July 17th, and is an excellent way to stock up on smart home gear. I spent hours sifting through the best deals to bring you my picks for the best buys. Grab some serious…

The best Prime Day deals for some of The Verge staff’s favorite gadgets Photo: Space CowboysAmazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway! For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup. Every month or so, we like to ask our staff about their favorite stuff — whether it’s board games, smart tech, or kitchen gadgets. And the results are usually very different, very interesting, and a lot o…

Bird Buddy’s new AI update lets you name your backyard’s frequent flyers The Bird Buddy smart bird feeder is getting an AI-powered update allowing users to name specific birds who frequently visit. | Image: Bird BuddyThe Bird Buddy smart bird feeder is getting a collection of new features as part of a recently announced Nature Intelligence update. The feeder’s ability to identify the species of a visiting bird is bei…

The best Prime Day phone and accessory deals you can get right now Take a couple hundred bucks off the price of a Pixel 8. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The VergeIt’s the most Prime-iest day of the year, which is to say, Prime Day is back. Also back: some of the best prices of the year on phones and accessories. It’s an especially good time to stock up on things like chargers, cables, and stands, but if you’ve b…

The OnePlus Pad 2’s vibrating stylus feels almost like writing on paper The OnePlus Pad 2’s optional Stylo 2 stylus vibrates to simulate the feeling of pen on paper. | Image: OnePlusWith a larger 12.1-inch screen now powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform, the new OnePlus Pad 2 brings several performance upgrades to the company’s original tablet. But the most interesting is an optional new stylus accessor…

The best TV and streaming device deals for Prime Day Yes folks, I am happy to report that the briefcase TV is on sale. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeConventional wisdom says that if you want the very lowest prices on a 4K TV you wait until Black Friday / Cyber Monday in November, but Amazon’s Prime Day can offer some solid discounts during the dog days of summer. And what you plug into your …

The best Prime Day gaming deals You can step into new worlds with the Meta Quest 3 and other gaming gear at record low prices. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The VergeIf you’ve worked hard this year, you deserve to play even harder, and you can do that on a modest budget with some of the Prime Day gaming deals available right now. Amazon’s Prime Day 2024 sale is currently live and…