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Some of the most popular wireless earbuds have exceptional battery life these days. Audio Technica’s latest buds have some of the best I’ve seen, clocking in at 65 hours in total. But that’s not the best thing about them. I’m seriously impressed by the ability for the earbuds to magnetically snap to each other and switch off to save juice. Even better, you don’t need to fiddle around with an app or any fiddly buttons. It means the earbuds don’t just become paperweights if you forget to pack the charging case. In fact, it’s the first time I’ve ever seen a…
OpenAI is officially on the Pentagon’s payroll. The Department of Defence announced a $200 million contract with OpenAI to provide the US government with new artificial intelligence tools, including those used for proactive cyber defense.In a post outlining its latest contracts, the DoD said that OpenAI “will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.” The work will primarily be completed in the Washington, DC region with an estimated completion date of July 2026.OpenAI said in a new blog post that the DoD contract is its first partnership under a new…
Philips Hue’s new Wall Washer smart has me seriously reconsidering every boring white wall at home. This isn’t just another smart light you chuck behind the telly and forget about – it’s aiming to be the centrepiece. Hue’s calling it “immersive entertainment lighting,” which might actually check out. The Wall Washer throws out rich colour gradients using something Philips dubbed ColorCast projection. This shines beams of light up on to your wall to perfectly coat it however you’d like. It plays nice with the Hue Sync box, the app, your computer, even Alexa, but you can also just switch it…
Amazon has announced the dates when its annual Prime Day deal extravaganza will kick off, and it’s happening for much longer than usual. It starts Tuesday, July 8th, at 3AM Eastern and lasts through Friday, July 11th, at the same time. And, instead of being a two-day event that’s exclusive to Prime subscribers, it’s happening for four days in 2025. We will, of course, be reporting for deal duty for the duration, supplying only on the discounts that matter to Verge readers.Four days is a very long time, and we currently don’t know if Amazon plans to blast out the…
Tinder is no longer just a platform for solo dates. The company has announced a new “Double Date” feature rolling out in the US that will let you invite a friend to find — and match with – another pair.The feature lives within a new “Double Date” icon in the top-right corner of the app, where you can invite up to three friends to create pairs with. You can both scroll through a feed of paired profiles, which appear side by side with photos and descriptions. A match is created when one person from both pairs swipes right. Tinder will…
Here is a roughly complete list of all the things we know for sure about the first phone made for the new Trump Mobile wireless provider: it’s called the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version). It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment. It is, according to the website, coming in September.That’s about all I feel confident saying. Beyond that, all we have is a website that was clearly put together quickly and somewhat sloppily, a promise that the phone is “designed and built in the USA” that I absolutely do not believe, a picture…
If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the newer 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 the original AirPods Max, which are nearly indistinguishable from the last-gen model aside from the switch to a USB-C connector and a few new color options.Below, we’ve rounded up the best deals currently available on each model, including both iterations of the AirPods 4, the latest AirPods Pro, and the AirPods Max.At its September event, Apple…
Last year, Justin Sun was facing a federal investigation into his crypto empire, to the point that he avoided entering the US. Now, his company is going to be publicly listed on the American stock markets – and reportedly with the assistance of Eric Trump.Tron, Sun’s digital assets platform, announced on Monday that it plans to go public in the U.S. via a reverse merger with SRM Entertainment, a Nasdaq-listed company that previously designed merchandise for theme parks before pivoting to crypto. At the same time, Trump’s sons announced the launch of Trump Mobile, an MVNO that will also sell…
Microsoft’s Windows Hello face unlock feature no longer works in dark rooms, and it’s not a bug. Microsoft quietly made the change to Windows Hello in April, in order to fix a vulnerability with Windows Hello spoofing. Fixing the security flaw has now removed key functionality from Windows Hello in Windows 11.Windows Central spotted April’s change after some Surface Laptop users have noticed they can no longer use their face to sign into their laptop in a dark room. “After installing this update or a later Windows update, for enhanced security, Windows Hello facial recognition requires color cameras to see…
For that price, you get unlimited talk and texting, international calling, plus 20GB of “high-speed” cell and hotspot data, which a customer support representative told me is 5G.But while the plan’s price might have been selected to appeal to Trump fans (he is the 47th president and was also 45th president), it was certainly not selected to compete aggressively on price.For a prepaid phone service, Trump Mobile is a bad deal.There are cheaper plans than this if you look, basically, anywherePrepaid plans are usually designed to offer a mix of affordability and flexibility — most of them let you pay…
Previous additions to Spigen’s Classic C1 series of Apple accessories include iPhone and AirPods cases inspired by the iMac G3’s bright colors. Its new Apple Watch stand goes one step further and recreates the entire design of the iconic computer in miniature so it can fit on your bedside table and charge your smartwatch overnight.That’s cheap enough to be an impulse purchase, but it’s important to note that the stand doesn’t come with its own magnetic Apple Watch charger. You’ll need to use your own by inserting the charging puck into a slot on the front of the stand and…
Threads is rolling out a test that will let you hide images or text that contain spoilers, according to a post from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. With the test, you’ll be able to blur content by tapping an image or highlighting text and selecting the “mark spoiler” option.Other users can view the hidden content by tapping or clicking the spoiler. Reddit similarly lets you hide posts or comments using its “spoiler” tag, but it’s nice to see another platform adopting the feature, since it’s never fun to scroll past unexpected spoilers.Meta spokesperson Alec Booker told The Verge that this is…