The best October Prime Day deals available on Day 2 Illustration by Lucia Pham / The VergeWelcome to the second half of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days. There are still a ton of discounts on all kinds of tech products, but here are the ones that are worth your time. Continue reading…

Firefox tests a built-in checker for fake reviews Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMozilla is testing a new built-in “Review Checker” feature for its Firefox browser that rates how reliable a product’s customer reviews are. The experimental feature was initially spotted by MSPowerUser, and Firefox’s senior director of product management Byron Jourdan confirmed that the company is testing …

The best October Prime Day deals under $100 The Amazfit Band 7 is an inexpensive fitness tracker with an OLED display and a killer feature set for the price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeAmazon’s second Prime Day event of the year, Prime Big Deal Days, is well underway, offering you yet another chance to save on everything from headphones to robovacs in the run-up to Black…

The best Apple deals available for Amazon’s October Prime Day event Even the updated second-gen AirPods Pro with USB-C are on sale right now. | Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeAmazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway. For more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. Apple rarely discounts its own products, so if you want to score a great deal on a pair of AirPods or a MacBook,…

The $180 Intel Arc A580 is Team Blue’s new budget GPU Can’t wait to put a Sparkle Orc into my computer. | Image: SparkleOne YouTuber says it humiliates Nvidia’s RTX 3050! Another says it takes on AMD’s RX 6600. But while both these things are true and it sounds like a decent 1080p card, the new $180 Intel Arc A580 probably isn’t the budget GPU you’ve been waiting for. For one thing, both that Nvid…

Sam Bankman-Fried was a terrible boyfriend She didn’t even get equity! | Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Bloomberg, Getty ImagesBankman-Fried thought Alameda’s brand wasn’t as good as FTX’s — so he put his sometime-lover in charge of it. Continue reading…

One third-party Reddit app on iOS is going charge you $3.99 per month to use it Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeReddit’s new usage-based API pricing is now in effect, and while the potential costs forced many third-party apps to shut down, a handful of apps are pivoting to paid subscriptions to help pay for Reddit’s API fees. On Monday, the developer of one surviving iOS app, Narwhal, announced the monthly fee for th…

Utah sues TikTok for getting children ‘addicted’ to its algorithm Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeUtah’s Division of Consumer Protection (UDCP) is suing TikTok over allegations that the app’s “addictive nature” harms children and that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance, its parent company in China. The state’s lawsuit is the latest in a long-and-growing string of bans and legal…

Drop CTRL V2 review: the keyboard gateway drug gets a glow-up Drop’s updated keyboard features a host of important updates to help it compete against its modern counterparts. Continue reading…

iRobot’s Roomba i4 Evo and j7 Plus are down to their best price to date The budget-friendly Roomba i4 Evo is on sale for Prime Big Deal Days starting at just $199.99, which is $100 less than its typical sale price.Much like smart locks, video doorbells, and other smart home tech, budget robot vacuums have come a long way in the past few years. Case in point? iRobot’s ultra-affordable Roomba i4 Evo, an exceptional cl…

These new security cameras from TP-Link match Arlo and Nest for style but, thankfully, not price The Tapo Wire-Free MagCam is the newest indoor / outdoor smart security camera from TP-Link. | Image: TP-LinkTP-Link’s latest entry to the smart security camera market is a high-spec camera that undercuts the competition on price — even as it matches or beats them on many features. The new Tapo Wire-Free MagCam is a versatile indoor / outdoor Wi…

EU asks Elon Musk to prove X isn’t breaking Europe’s disinformation rules Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesEU commissioner Thierry Breton warned Elon Musk in a letter today that X, formerly Twitter, “is being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU” after Hamas attacks in Israel. Breton also reminded Musk that the Digital Services Act (DSA), which went into effect in August, “set…

Some of our favorite devices are on sale for Amazon Prime Day Photo: EpickaAmazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway, for more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. Every month or so, we like to ask our staff about their favorite stuff — whether it’s pet toys, travel aids, kitchen gadgets, or straightforward tech. And the results are usually very different, very intere…

The best phone deals of Prime Big Deal Days You gotta know when to fold ’em on Prime Big Deal Days. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The VergeAmazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway, for more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. It feels like we just had Prime Day, but here we are again. For whatever reason, there aren’t a ton of great smartphone deals …

Google Pixel phones are getting a bunch of funky new ringtones For a new Pixel, Google has some new ringtones. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeGoogle is adding a new section to its Pixel-only Sounds app, with a collection of new ringtones and alarm sounds that it calls “Gems.” As first spotted by 9to5Google, the Gems collection includes 26 new sounds in all, with names like “Prism,” “Ethereal Vibration,”…

Nissan’s ‘Hyper Adventure’ concept looks like an EV the Galactic Empire would use No, that’s not a turret on top, but it might as well be. | Image: NissanIf your idea of an electric vehicle for the eco-minded outdoor traveler looks like a low-poly spaceship on wheels, then Nissan’s latest concept might be for you. The automaker’s new “Hyper Adventure” is a futuristic SUV that accommodates “the outdoor person’s diverse needs,”…

The best October Prime Day deals on Amazon devices Amazon’s latest Echo Show 8 is one of many discounted Alexa smart home devices. | Photo by Alex Cranz / The VergeAmazon’s fall Prime Day event is underway, for more deals we recommend across all categories, check out our full roundup here. Aside from Black Friday, there is no better time to buy an Alexa-infused smart device than one of Amazon’s …

Priscilla is Sofia Coppola back to her old tricks Image: A24Priscilla is the work of a filmmaker playing to her strengths. While director Sofia Coppola might be called a “nepo baby” because her father is Francis Ford Coppola, the point of the insult is to call out unacknowledged privilege. Meanwhile, Coppola’s work is largely about growing up in the orbit of powerful men and what that does to o…

Belkin’s StandBy-ready charging puck is on sale for just $14 right now Belkin’s MagSafe offering is one of the few charging pucks that lets you make use of Apple’s new StandBy feature. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The VergeWireless charging is nearly ubiquitous, but obtaining true MagSafe speeds when charging your iPhone isn’t always cheap. Apple’s first-party MagSafe Charger clocks in at a hefty $39 when i…

Qualcomm’s next round of PC chips will fight Apple under the name Snapdragon X Qualcomm names its ARM PC platform Snapdragon X. | Screenshot by Wes Davis / The VergeQualcomm says it has a new name for the next generation of its ARM PC platform: Snapdragon X. The platform is based on the Oryon CPU tech from its 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, a company founded by former Apple engineers who had previously worked on Apple’s A-seri…