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Nothing teases the first headphones from its budget CMF brand

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nothing is teasing a second set of headphones that it will release through its CMF affordability-focused subbrand. The launch comes after Nothing released its Headphone 1 wireless over-ear cans earlier this year. The CMF Headphone Pro will launch on Septembe

Nest is dead, long live Google Home

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 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

Scientists Intrigued by Mysterious Object Floating Near Earth

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery of a mysterious object that appears to be a "quasi-moon," or a small asteroid that orbits the Sun, but in an arc that puts it near our planet for an extended period of time. Think of it as a cosmic situationship; though it's been following us for around 60 years, the object isn't gravitation

The Download: the CDC’s vaccine chaos

This week has been an eventful one for America’s public health agency. Two former leaders of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained why they suddenly departed in a Senate hearing. They also described how CDC employees are being instructed to turn their backs on scientific evidence. They painted a picture of a health agency in turmoil—and at risk of harming the people it is meant to serve. And, just hours afterwards, a panel of CDC advisers voted to stop recommending the M

The powerful Sharge Pixel 140 Laptop Charger is at a new record-low price right now!

Life is too short to spend it tethered to a wall outlet! The thing is, good, fast chargers can be a bit pricey. It’s crucial to hunt for the best deals, and today we’re seeing a really nice sale on the Sharge Pixel 140 Laptop Charger. It is fast, beautiful, and currently, at a new record-low price we haven’t seen in the past. Buy the Sharge Pixel 140 Laptop Charger for just $79.90 ($14.10 off) This offer is available directly from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” We’re specifically referring to

How do you top the best Pixel ever? With an even better Pixel 10 Pro XL

Google Pixel 10 Pro XL The Pixel 10 Pro XL is, hands down, Google's best flagship to date. It makes the most of its maxed-out body, picking up a bigger battery, brighter display, louder speakers, and shiny new camera features. Sprinkle in a suite of new AI features, magnetic accessories, and the same great software support, and it's easy to recommend the Pixel 10 Pro XL to just about anyone. Barely a year ago, I wrote that the Pixel 9 Pro XL was everything I hoped for out of a Google flagship a

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Why the iPhone is my favorite video camera for B-roll footage

While I am almost certainly the least-prolific videographer on the planet, I am finally starting a long-planned series of interviews on my fledgling YouTube channel. The first of these went live this week, and I’m aiming for roughly one a month from now on. I use a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K rig as my primary video camera, but my iPhones have long been my camera of choice for B-roll footage … Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K For most of my life, I’ve been a Nikon guy when it comes t

Exclusive: Nomad iPhone 17/Air case deals now live with this code for launch day (24 hours only)

We have a Nomad promo code that will deliver deals on all of its new iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air cases. You can now use code 9to517 at checkout to knock the prices down across the brand’s entire collection of new cases – this is the only way to score a deal on these cases and the best prices they have been offered for anywhere. Nomad promo code for all iPhone 17 and iPhone Air cases Nomad’s new iPhone 17 case collection has already been a popular one around here for both read

Trading in your iPhone this launch weekend? Don’t make this rookie mistake

If you’re among the thousands planning to trade in a current phone for a new iPhone 17, iPhone Air, or iPhone 17 Pro, remembering to turn off this setting will save you an entire hour at the Apple Store. Turn off Stolen Device Protection, but be careful In late 2023, Apple announced the Stolen Device Protection feature, partly in response to a Wall Street Journal article in which Joanna Stern brought attention to an increasingly common iPhone theft strategy. The strategy involved attackers wh

One of our favorite Samsung microSD cards is on sale for only $20

If there's one thing devices don't have, it's enough memory. No matter how much your phone or console comes with, it's never too long before you need to start deleting stuff. With that in mind, we're always happy to see one of our favorite memory cards go on sale. Right now, you can buy the Samsung Evo Select MicroSD card for $20, down from $27. The 26 percent discount brings it to only $2 more than its all-time low price. This model is a new generation with 256GB and read and write speeds up t

Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures

When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's latest smart glasses at the company's Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices' features. Now, Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, said in an AMA on Instagram that they were demo failures and not actual product failures. The first glitch took place in the middle of a live demo with a cooking content creator, who asked Live AI for instructions on how to make a Korean-ins

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ChatGPT Search is now smarter as OpenAI takes on Google Search

OpenAI has rolled out a big update to ChatGPT Search, which is an AI-powered search feature, similar to Google AI Mode. After a recent update, ChatGPT Search is more accurate and reliable. You'll also notice that it's more useful than before because it accurately summarises the links, and allows you to follow back. OpenAI says GPT Search now makes fewer hallucinations, improving answer quality. In addition, search is better at detecting shopping intent, showing products when you want them and

OpenAI's $4 GPT Go plan may expand to more regions

OpenAI released $4 GPT Go in August, but it was limited to just India. Now, OpenAI is expanding GPT Go to include new regions. OpenAI could bring GPT Go to regions like Indonesia in the coming weeks. If you live in Indonesia or India, you'll see a nudge to try GPT Go when you're using a free account. Source: BleepingComputer OpenAI might bring GPT Go to the United States in future because the product price pages already includes references to USD. GPT Go includes pricing in EUR (€4), USD ($

Steam will stop running on Windows 32-bit in January 2026

Valve has announced that its Steam digital distribution service will drop support for 32-bit versions of Windows starting January 2026. Two years earlier, in January 2024, Steam also dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, recommending users to upgrade to a newer operating system. Although Steam will soon stop running on Windows 10 32-bit (the only 32-bit Windows version still supported), it will continue to be supported on Windows 10 64-bit, and 32-bit games will remain pla

These consumer-facing industries are the fastest adopters of AI agents

imaginima/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leading companies increased AI agent adoption by 119% in the first half of 2025. Employee interactions with AI agents grew at an average monthly rate of 65%. Retail saw AI and agent actions grow at a monthly average rate of 128%. AI agent creation among first-mover companies surged 119% between January and June of 2025, with service organizations leading the adoption of agents, wi

I compared both generations of Meta Ray-Ban glasses, and here's my buying advice for 2025

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The Meta Ray-Bans are arguably the most successful AI hardware product in the past three years, with enough momentum to encourage Mark Zuckerberg to spend 80% of this week's Meta Connect keynote discussing the past, present, and future of smart glasses. Also: I used the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and they offer 2 breakthroughs to take us beyond smartphones While much of the fanfare was reserved for the new Ray-Ban Dis

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I tested the iPhone 17 for 24 hours, and I'm already questioning if I need a Pro

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The iPhone 17 got major upgrades under the hood. At the $799 price point, users are getting Pro-level features. The iPhone 17 is available for purchase in-store starting Friday. Typically, base model iPhones are often overlooked. Apple's launch of the iPhone 17 lineup made that even more the case, with the ultra-thin iPhone Air and the Cosmic Orange iPhone 17 Pro stealing all the attention. Howe

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Dynamo AI (YC W22) Is Hiring a Senior Kubernetes Engineer

Dynamo AI is building the future of secure, scalable AI systems. Our platform helps enterprises safely deploy powerful AI models in production, with reliability, control, and trust at the core. We’re a team of builders working at the intersection of machine learning, infrastructure, and security. As a Senior Kubernetes Engineer, you’ll lead the full onboarding journey for our enterprise customers — from first engagement to successful production rollout. You will own the deployment of Dynamo AI

Frying Eggs and Air Quality Tests

Disclaimer: this is not an endorsement of any product, just a record of my thinking. Also, none of this is medical advice. Also, be reasonable with what to expect from public spaces and your home behaviour. I want to start doing more physical experiments. And instrumentation is a big part of that. So I bought a Temtop m2000 air quality monitor that measures CO2 concentration, PM2.5 and PM10 particle concentration, temperature and humidity. I chose this one mainly because it also had data export

The Fisherman and His Wife (1857)

19 The Fisherman and His Wife Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Then the flounder said to him, "Listen, fisherman, I beg you to let me live. I am not an ordinary flounder, but an enchanted prince. How will it help you to kill me? I would not taste good to you. Put me back into the water, and let me swim." "Well," said the man, "there's no need to say more. I can certainly let a fish swim away who knows how to talk." With that he put it back into the clear water, and the flounder disappeared to the bott

Trump Says TV Networks That Criticize Him Should Lose Their Licenses

ABC suspended the show Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely on Wednesday under pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, setting off a national discussion about whether the president should be able to dictate what Americans see on TV. And Trump made his threats against free speech even more explicit Thursday, telling reporters that any TV channel that was critical of him should lose its broadcasting license. Trump was asked on Air Force One about Carr, who had made threats against ABC while speaking

The AI Takeover of YouTube Is About to Get Supercharged

Like all generative AI video models, Google's Veo 3 shines in small doses. At the company's Made On YouTube event this week in New York, journalists and creators saw just what it can do in YouTube Shorts. You could, for instance, film a video of the streets of New York and add a penguin riding a skateboard. Or you could have AI manipulate a picture of yourself to have a black belt in karate or dance like a ballerina. One demo showed how Veo 3 could insert a realistic-looking monster into a livi

Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Could Boost Your iPhone Battery Life, but It's Not on All Models

When Apple announced the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air earlier this month, it touted improved battery life across the board and "all-day" battery for the iPhone Air, which has a physically smaller battery to fit inside its thin design. Some of that is due to physically larger batteries, but a new feature called Adaptive Power in iOS 26 is also contributing. And it's available on any iPhone capable of running Apple Intelligence. Currently, the iPhone uses as much power as it needs to p

Amazon Prime Is Ending Shared Free Shipping. What to Know and When It Happens

If you've been using someone else's Amazon Prime membership for free shipping, but you don't live in the same house, you may need to pay another subscription fee soon. According to Amazon's updated customer service page, the online retail giant is ending its Prime Invitee benefit-sharing program Oct. 1. Amazon's Prime Invitee program is being replaced by Amazon Family, as reported earlier by The Verge. It includes many of the same benefits, but Amazon Family only works for up to two adults and

11 Best Hoodies for Style, Comfort, and Warmth (2025)

More Hoodies to Consider We've tested a bunch of hoodies. They're not all worthy of the top spot, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth buying. Below, we've listed a few more that we think are good but aren't as great as the ones above. Courtesy of Filson Filson Prospector Hoodie for $129: Pacific Northwest outdoors company Filson gifted me a Prospector Hoodie way back in 2017. Despite it being huge on me, I wore the beefy 13-ounce fleece for years. It washed brilliantly, it was warm, it co

Meta’s failed smart glasses demos had nothing to do with the Wi-Fi

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta ran into some spectacularly embarrassing technical issues during the live demos of its new smart glasses this week, and now we know why. Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, explained in an Instagram AMA why two notable demos — an influencer asking the AI assistant for cooking instructions, and Mark Zuckerberg attempting to pick up a WhatsApp call — failed. “When the chef said ‘hey Meta, s

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Why I ‘upgraded’ to a film camera that’s older than I am

Fall Upgrade Week feels like an odd time to celebrate my move to a 50-year-old film camera, but there’s logic to it: not because film photos are timeless, or because I want to wax lyrical about warmth and grain and analog appeal, but because I don’t think there’s any better way to teach yourself about photography. That’s how I got into film. At some point over the last decade, reviewing phones morphed more or less into reviewing cameras with touchscreens on the back. For a writer with no photog

Apple’s 2025 iPhone lineup is now available to buy in stores and online

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Beyond the Air’s shockingly slim design, Apple’s latest iPhone lineup features a number of notable updates worth upgrading for, especially if you have a phone that’s a few generations old. The standard iPhone 17 — which is a shockingly good value, by the way — now features a larger 6.3-inch display with ProMotion and an adaptive refresh rate of up to 120Hz. Meanwhile, the Pro model has returned to an aluminu

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How I went from an e-bike hater to a believer

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

The Verge’s guide to upgrading your fall

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, constru