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Happy iPhone Day! If you’re picking up the new iPhone 17 or iPhone Air and want to avoid scratches or cracks on its front glass, we spotted a great deal on a two-pack of amFilm’s OneTouch screen protectors over at Slickdeals. Designed specifically to fit the front of the new 6.3-inch iPhone 17, you can buy a pack on sale starting at a new low price of just $4.49 ($7.50 off) when you apply the promo code EUZWG92J at checkout at Amazon. The promo code also extends to discounts to tempered glass protectors made for other models, including the 6.3-inch…
Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.99 price. The Xbox Series S will move to $399.99, up from $379.99.Microsoft blames the price hikes on “changes in the macroeconomic environment,” which is a lot of words to say: tariffs. Xbox console pricing outside the US will remain the same. Thankfully, pricing for controllers and headsets will remain in the same in the US.The price rises mean Xbox Series S consoles…
On Wednesday evening, I had a profound sense of déjà vu. When I watched Mark Zuckerberg open his Meta Connect keynote by giving the world a live backstage tour from his new glasses, I was transported back to 2012.I was in the live audience at Google I/O when Sergey Brin introduced the world to some friends about to jump out of an airship, high above the event. I watched, agape, as athletes dove through the sky, launched bikes across the roof, rappelled down the side of the Moscone Center in San Francisco, then strode onto the stage right in front…
China and the US have “made progress” on granting permission for ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American consortium, fulfilling a nine-months-overdue legal requirement. After saying a tentative deal had been reached Monday and that approval would come Friday, President Donald Trump’s administration has issued an update that leaves the current status ambiguous and the details bare-bones.“I just completed a very productive call with President Xi of China. We made progress on many very important issues including Trade, Fentanyl, the need to bring the War between Russia and Ukraine to an end, and the approval of the TikTok Deal,” Trump…
The only true surprise about this latest MAGA influencer civil war is how quickly it happened, given the circumstances: Charlie Kirk, an ubiquitous presence, influential political force, and seemingly everyone’s best friend, had been dead for barely a week before everyone began fighting each other for a piece of him.The indictment of Tyler Robinson, released Tuesday, cited, among other things, the Discord chats that he sent to his roommate wherein he appeared to confess to the shooting. Its contents were strong enough for the power brokers of MAGA world — all the way up to President Donald Trump himself and…
Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED TV, or a laptop just to find out that you could have gotten it for a lot cheaper somewhere else. That’s why, in order to keep customers happy and prevent them from shopping elsewhere, many retailers offer price-matching policies in which they promise to match a lower price found elsewhere. That kind of information comes in handy no matter the time of year, but it’s especially helpful during shopping events like Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, a two-day event that formally kicks off October 7th.What follows are…
Meta obviously believes in smart glasses. It’s not alone: Google, Apple, Samsung, and others all appear to be heavily invested in the idea that the next big gadget will be on your face. But at least for now, it appears Meta is the company building the best, most interesting, and most successful version of that gadget.After that, Nilay goes back to parental leave, and we turn to Meta. The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes and Richard Lawler discuss the Meta Ray-Ban Display (the one with the screen), the Oakley Meta Vanguard (the one with the sick wraparounds) and the Ray-Ban Meta Gen…
I couldn’t sleep last night, so I did what most of us do: reached for my phone, shoved in my wireless earbuds, and opened YouTube Music. The plan was simple – listen to something calming and drift off. Instead, I fell down a rabbit hole of endless scrolling, half-baked recommendations, and far, far too many choices. I didn’t fancy hearing Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend or Haim’s I Quit for the millionth time. I wanted to feel nostalgic. But nostalgia and streaming don’t really mix. Sure, the fact that I can instantly access almost every song ever recorded is incredible.…
This week, Google announced that it has finally completed moving “the best” of its Nest-branded smart home devices from the Nest app to the Google Home app. This means users of Google Nest hardware shouldn’t have to bounce between two apps anymore and can finally delete the Nest app. (The “best” qualifier is doing some heavy lifting, and some features are still in Google’s Public Preview beta program.)The fact that one of the world’s largest tech companies took over three years to move a handful of devices into a new app is, frankly, astonishing. Combined with the slow, painful death…
A wise person once observed that cycling in my neighborhood in Seattle is like going uphill both ways. It’s the absolute truth. My house? On a hill. The business district I want to get to? On a different hill. The route to the coffee shop? Hills galore. And inevitably, as I’d grind through another steep climb, swearing under my breath, I’d hear an electric motor whir behind me.Someone on an e-bike — usually one of the few Lime bikes in the city not thrown onto the middle of a sidewalk — would tear past me. Not sweating and red-faced. Not…
Introduction Frequent recharging is an unwelcome reality for most wearable tech – but not for the Watch GT 6 Pro. Huawei’s latest smartwatch lasts twelve times longer than Apple’s newly released Watch Ultra 3, yet doesn’t skimp on the heath and fitness tracking to achieve it. It even has one feature that could persuade dedicated cyclists to ditch their Garmin sports watches. The Watch GT 6 Pro is the first wearable I’ve seen that can calculate functional threshold power – or FTP – right on your wrist, without needing expensive power meter pedals. It also keeps the sporty-yet-serious styling the…
Autumn is a time for renewal. Summer, a time for vacations and relaxation, is over. And now, we must look to the start of a new school year and a renewed attention to work. It can sometimes be difficult to make the transition — many of us would rather spend a little more time in that hammock than planning the next project — and so we’ve put together a group of articles to try and help make it easier.There’s a wide range of articles here to encourage you to upgrade to a more stimulated, constructive year. We polled our staff…