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theverge 29h ago 19°

The Verge’s guide to Amazon Prime Day 2026

Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet.
theverge 26h ago 19°

A year of Walmart Plus is half off ahead of Prime Day

Do you often find yourself shopping at the big blue, or perhaps you’re just looking for an alternative to Amazon? Either way, Walmart is currently offering a year of its Walmart Plus subscription for $49, which typically costs $98.
theverge 23h ago 18°

You can now use the Game Boy Camera with your phone

The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it's getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera.
theverge 29h ago 18°

The best robot vacuum deals available ahead of Prime Day

If you’ve been wanting to buy a robot vacuum but have been put off by how much it can cost to get a good one, now is not a bad time to start looking.
theverge 4h ago 18°

The NTS Radio Player brings the best of internet radio to your hi-fi

NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS's genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup. And, like Atonemo's existing Streamplayer, you can also listen to your favorite streaming services with it, using AirPlay 2, Google Cast, Spotify Connect, or Tidal Connect.
theverge 29h ago 18°

The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare

One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even more at risk of intimidation or data breaches, in the name of solving a problem that barely exists.
theverge 24h ago 17°

The best early Amazon Prime Day deals so far

Amazon’s earlier-than-usual Prime Day doesn’t begin until June 23rd, but there are several even earlier deals on must-have products that you can check out right now. To name some examples, Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 are selling at their cheapest-ever price at Amazon and Walmart (though, the sale keeps playing peek-a-boo).
theverge 46h ago 16°

Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices

Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage.
theverge 31h ago 14°

This Ghost in the Shell keyboard makes me want to activate the hundred spidery robot fingers inside my regular fingers

Anime collaborations are everywhere, from Gundam watches and Naruto nights at Major League ballparks to just about anything Evangelion. But these Ghost in the Shell keyboards from Iqunix are some of the coolest examples I've seen of anime-inspired everyday tech. They look sick and they type and play great.
theverge 48h ago 14°

Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games

Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality.
theverge 30h ago 13°

Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft bundle is almost half off for Prime Day

Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Essentials Bundle is on sale for $182.97 (originally $334.97) as an early Prime Day deal, the lowest price we’ve seen for the combo.
theverge 30h ago 13°

Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants

Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps.
theverge 23h ago 12°

Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won’t ship until 2027

Valve has some good news and bad news about Steam Controllers. The good news: If you make a reservation for a Steam Controller, the company will now show you one of three estimates of when you'll be able to actually order your gamepad: by September 2026, by December 2026, or sometime in 2027.
theverge 5h ago 11°

The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM

Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman's termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for about a year.
theverge 7h ago 11°

In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn't become clear until halfway through the season.
theverge 15h ago 11°

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
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