Apple is facing pressure from a former executive and senior manager over its decision to remove the ICE-spotting app, ICEBlock, from the App Store. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Wiley Hodges says he’s “deeply disturbed” by the move, as spotted earlier by Daring Fireball.
Hodges worked at Apple for more than 22 years and spent more than a decade serving as a director of marketing and...
We recommend them at full price, but they’re even better at $145 off. | Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge
There’s no question that Bose’s last-gen QuietComfort Ultra are some of the brand’s best noise-canceling headphones, especially if you’re a frequent traveler or someone who values peace and quiet while listening to your music. But at $429, that quality doesn’t come cheap. However, it’s...
AltStore PAL, which launched as one of the first alternative iOS app stores in the EU last year, is coming to more countries, developer Riley Testut announced today. “Specifically, we plan to launch in Japan, Brazil, and Australia before the end of the year, with the UK to follow in 2026,” Testut says. Launching in more countries is “by far our number one request,” though the AltStore team...
The Kindle Paperwhite is on sale for $124.99 ($25 off) for Prime Day, but it doesn’t include this cool folio cover with purchase.
The Kindle Paperwhite is one of the best ereaders, bar none. It’s easily worth its full $149.99 cost if you enjoy reading, but thankfully you can get $25 off for October Prime Day — its first-ever discount. The model with 16GB of storage and ads on the lockscreen...
This duck lamp is both a hilarious and an adorable toy that’s just about $14.
All of the deals we’ve recommended from Prime Big Deal Days are for products our team has tested and can personally vouch for, whether it be a streaming device, a laptop, or a pair of noise-canceling earbuds. However, there are also plenty of other gadgets that the Verge staff genuinely loves that don’t receive a...
The Wingman HD’s touchscreen includes details about the current golf course and hold you’re playing. | Image: Bushnell
Bushnell has announced a new version of its Wingman Bluetooth speaker that features a 3.5-inch color touchscreen with detailed metrics on the golf course you’re playing. It’s an upgrade to the company’s Wingman View that launched in early 2023 with a monochromatic LCD...
For as long as it's been a company, Tesla has been promising an entry-level electric vehicle that would compel more people to make the switch from gas guzzlers to zero-emission. Elon Musk himself predicted that Tesla would eventually sell a $25,000 EV and revolutionize the auto industry. The Model 3, the Model Y, and even the Cybertruck were all supposed to have more attainable variants,...
Black Friday might bring some of the deepest discounts on tech like robot vacuums, but if you’d like to tidy up before Halloween parties and Thanksgiving guests arrive, Amazon’s October Prime Day event features plenty of great robot vacuum deals, including discounts on Roborock’s S8 MaxV Ultra, the budget-friendly Tapo RV30 Max Plus, and Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav. Many of the discounts...
Microsoft is holding off on its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hikes for some existing subscribers in select countries. After announcing a 50 percent price increase to Game Pass Ultimate last week, Microsoft now says this price increase will only currently affect new purchases and not existing subscribers in markets like Austria, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Korea, Poland, and India.
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Though Tron: Legacy was not a sterling piece of cinema, its gorgeous visuals and a banging score from Daft Punk made it an enjoyable update to the original 1982 cult classic. The movie tried to strike a healthy balance between nostalgic fan service and novel riffs on the source material to make itself feel like an evolutionary step forward for the Tron franchise. Legacy did not quite meet...