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Amazon is running a limited-time Lightning deal on the Anker Prime Power Bank, cutting its price from $329.99 to $259.99, a $70 discount. The 26,250mAh, 300W power bank can charge multiple devices simultaneously, including laptops, tablets and phones, and includes a smart display showing detailed charging status. It carries a 4.6-star rating and is noted as airline-friendly for travel use.
Belkin's SoundForm Mini 2 wireless on-ear headphones, designed for children ages 3 and up, are currently discounted 25 percent using the code VERGE25OFF. The base model drops from $29.99 to $22.49, while the version with a zip-up carrying case falls from $39.99 to $29.99 after the code is applied.
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Book6, a 14-inch Windows laptop starting at $799, built around Intel's new Wildcat Lake chips and aimed at everyday computing rather than premium workloads. The base model ships with 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage, with configurations available up to 16GB and 1TB, and Samsung claims up to 25 hours of battery life from its 61.2Wh battery.
T-Mobile is offering an unadvertised 'Super Essentials Saver' plan priced at $25 per month with AutoPay (or $30 without) for up to two lines. The plan is only available in person at Walmart locations and limited to customers opening new T-Mobile accounts, with no listing on the carrier's website or app.
Anker has released the Prime Qi2 25W Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charger, a travel-friendly station that charges an iPhone via MagSafe, an Apple Watch through an MFi-certified puck, and AirPods on a base pad. The device folds flat to roughly the size and weight of an iPhone 17 Pro Max and supports Qi2.2's 25-watt charging standard, a jump from the older 7.5W cap most MagSafe accessories were limited to.
Amazon is selling SanDisk's 256GB microSD Express Card for $58.99, down 16% from its $69.99 list price. The card uses a PCIe/NVMe interface rather than standard UHS-I, enabling faster load times and support for high-bitrate video capture, while still remaining backward-compatible with older UHS-I devices.
Clipto, a San Francisco-based startup with teams in Singapore and Hong Kong, closed a $15 million all-equity funding round that values the company at $250 million. The startup's software indexes videos, audio, images, and meeting recordings stored on a user's computer, letting people find files by describing them in natural language or through AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude. Founder Henry Kang, whose prior startup ZenVideo was acquired by Tencent in 2020, built Clipto around the idea that AI has created a glut of unused content rather than a shortage of it.
An Amazon human resources leader detailed in a company blog post how she returned to coding after a 25-year break by using Amazon's AI-powered tool Kiro, eventually writing over 100,000 lines of code. She first built a family calendar app, then created a submission app for an internal contest called 'Everyone Can Build,' which drew more than 1,500 employee participants who built tools ranging from automation scripts to a virtual desktop pet.
A hobbyist bought two ASRock BC-250 mining cards from AliExpress for £126 and £103 respectively, and successfully unlocked all 40 compute units on both despite AMD's binning meant to disable some cores. One card also unlocked all 8 CPU cores, while the other had one faulty core, but both performed well running the gpt-oss-20b language model via llama.cpp, hitting up to 100 tokens per second at 8K context.
The person behind nine days of leaked Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay clips cashed out of the Solana-based $CYBERLEEK token just hours before Rockstar's official Extended Look premiered on Netflix. On-chain data shows the wallet withdrew about $146,000 in wrapped SOL plus millions of accumulated tokens, then sold everything for roughly $125,000, with total proceeds across four wallets estimated near $250,000. The token has since collapsed from a peak of about $0.0344 to roughly $0.002725.
Tello Mobile, a low-cost wireless carrier operating on the country's largest 5G network, offers plans starting at $5 monthly and topping out at $25 for unlimited data, talk and text. Customers can build custom plans, switch anytime without contracts, and keep their existing phone number via eSIM activation.
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service recalled nearly 25,000 pounds of frozen Buffalo chicken rangoon and Benedetto's Buffalo chicken mozzarella sticks made by Boston-based Shanghai Ravioli Corporation. The products were flagged for carrying false inspection marks and were distributed to foodservice businesses in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.