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Let’s be honest, Gigabyte. Your marketing for the Aero X16 is giving Razer Blade, from the colors and font of the spec slides to the thin design of the space gray laptop itself. While we haven’t tested out this model to see how it stacks up to Razer’s gaming machine, its price is certainly a lot more attractive. At Best Buy, you can get a capable midrange model with AMD’s Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU, Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics chip, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD for $1,299.99 (normally $1,649.99).Whether you’re in need of a laptop built mainly for…
Garmin has started rolling out its latest public beta software (version 23.08) for a range of its high-end multisport and adventure watches, bringing fresh fixes, features, and performance tweaks to early adopters. The update covers the Fenix 7 and 7 Pro series (including the 7S and 7X variants), Epix and Epix Pro in all case sizes, Enduro 2, Quatix 7, and MARQ Gen 2. It’s not coming to the Tactix 7 or MARQ Aviator Gen 2, so owners of those models will have to sit this one out. Currently, the beta is at a 50-percent rollout, delivered over the air…
A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm.Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team up to complete large or complex paintings. While r/Place provided its users with a blank white pixel grid, Wplace is layered over an interactive canvas of a world map made up of four trillion pixels, according to the website’s launch trailer, making it feel like a…
Introduction They might not carry the Nord name, but seeing how OnePlus’ latest wireless earbuds launched alongside two new affordable smartphones, there are no prizes for guessing where the firm is pitching them price-wise. The OnePlus Buds 4 officially launched at $130/£119 – and are routinely found for under three figures with a coupon or discount code – yet they aren’t short on features. Adaptive noise cancelling, spatial sound and high resolution Bluetooth all make the grade, meaning these are most of what made the Buds Pro 3 a five star product, for a lot less cash. What’s not to…
For Matter, this year was never going to be about flashy new features. Other than support for security cameras, which I hear should finally arrive this fall, 2025 is all about fixing problems. And with Matter 1.4.2, announced today, the smart home standard is taking an encouraging step forward.Back in January, Tobin Richardson, president and CEO of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (the organization that runs Matter), said this year was all about “focusing on fixing these reliability and performance issues.” Now, over halfway through 2025, the CSA is finally looking to make good on that promise, and showing signs that…
A new iPhone 17 might be just around the corner (it’s one of the most anticipated upcoming phones at the moment), but if you were hoping its debut would bring a massively improved Siri, you may have to wait. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s big Siri revamp won’t arrive until next spring. The new version will tap into the company’s ‘App Intents’ feature, allowing Siri to go far beyond the usual “set a timer” or “send a text” tasks. Instead, it’ll be able to carry out more advanced actions inside apps, like commenting on an Instagram post, adding something…
As a septuagenarian, my father’s story was typical of long-time AOL dial-up subscribers. His subscription was a security blanket. He was sure he didn’t need the dial-up component, but he didn’t want to risk losing access to his stock portfolio, investor forums, and email. His setup worked, and he could afford to keep paying the subscription he had dutifully paid for over a decade.With my help, we were able to migrate everything he used on AOL to the ad-supported and open internet that was already being delivered into his house via the broadband component of his cable package. Even after…
The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine.On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s where I’d like to help; I’ve tested a whole boatload of recent Android phones, and I think there are some real winners in the current batch. It’s all a matter of what you’re looking for, what you’re comfortable spending, and what your definition of a “reasonably…
It’s the lack of noise you notice first. There’s no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, this is eerily quiet, but it makes sense in a building where robots might outnumber people.I’m at a warehouse — or customer fulfilment center (CFC) — operated by online grocery company Ocado in Luton, just outside London. You might not have heard of Ocado, but it may still have delivered your groceries. Its technology handles online orders for Kroger across 14 US states, Sobeys in Canada, and both Morrisons and…
Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passkeys, which are considered more secure. And because we should be using different ones for each device and/or app, the best way to track all of them is to use a password manager.Some apps and operating systems come with their own password managers. For example, if you’re part of the Apple ecosystem, you can use iCloud Keychain; Google users have Google Password Manager, and Microsoft devices store passwords through its Edge browser and…
Hoarding documents or rendering endless video: the best portable SSDs give your workflow some much-needed breathing space. And if you’re in the market for a storage expansion, this is the list you need. From pocket-friendly plug-ins to rugged drives that can withstand some serious fieldwork, the round-up below features our pick of the best portable SSDs for every user. They’re perfect for upgrading a laptop (which you should have chosen from our best laptops guide). Whether you need somewhere to stash gigabytes of game files or terabytes of 4K footage, we’ve picked out a cache of external drives for different…
Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI tools should be used, the answers tend to be lackluster. Sometimes AI tools feel so open-ended, it’s hard to know where to start or what the best way to use them might beWell, here at The Verge, we have to test all these AI tools to better report on the features and the companies building them. And we’ve found scenarios that were actually useful.In this bonus episode of The Vergecast,…