The best Prime Day smart home deals we found

Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to stock up on smart home gear. With big price drops on all of Amazon’s many smart home brands, from Blink and Ring to Echo speakers and Eero Wi-Fi routers, plus a ton of other manufacturers getting in on ... more - theverge

The 198 Prime Day 2025 deals you can still get

It’s the second day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day sale, and if you’ve held out on making impulse buys so you can make informed purchases, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve collected the best deals we could find on everything from noise-canceling ... more - theverge

Apple’s design team will report to Tim Cook

Apple CEO Tim Cook is about to take over one of the most significant parts of Apple’s business: its design team. The team currently reports to COO Jeff Williams, but once Williams begins his just-announced retirement “late in the year,” the design team ... more - theverge

The best Prime Day deals on games, hardware, and accessories

8BitDo’s excellent Ultimate 2 wireless controller for the Nintendo Switch / Switch 2 is on sale for the first time for Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day is the perfect time to score incredible deals on games to fill your backlog, as well as essential accessories ... more - theverge

Zoom’s new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR

Zoom has rolled out a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets. With the app, you can join or host meetings in virtual reality while appearing as your Meta Avatar. Zoom launched an app for the Quest in 2023, but it was only available through Meta’s Horizon ... more - theverge

The Meta Quest 3S is down to its lowest price ever for Prime Day

Prime Day is in full swing, and we’ve already found close to 200 amazing deals. The Meta Quest 3S with 128GB of storage is one of them, thanks to a deal that knocks $50 off its usual $299 price. You can grab the latest VR headset for $249 ($50 off), ... more - theverge

The 177 best Prime Day 2025 deals that we found

Prime Day, Amazon’s four-day thunderdome of exclusive deals, is here. Outside of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we anticipate this to be the best moment of the year to score discounts on headphones, laptops, TVs, gaming gear, and really anything else ... more - theverge

Apple accuses former Vision Pro engineer of stealing trade secrets

Apple is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential Vision Pro headset research before leaving to join Snap’s product design team. In the complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on June 24th, Apple accuses Di Liu of downloading ... more - theverge

Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?

Nice generative AI platform you have there. Would be a real shame if the RIAA… happened to it. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sure, everyone hates record labels - but the AI industry has figured out how to make them look like heroes. ... more - theverge

Apple is reportedly working on a bunch of new XR devices

Apple is rumored to launch a lighter — and cheaper — version of the Vision Pro. Apple seems to have big plans to expand its lineup of extended-reality (XR) devices by launching new Vision series headsets and smart glasses, according to a report from ... more - theverge

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ could mean slower Wi-Fi for you

The Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill, backed by President Donald Trump, removes protections for unlicensed spectrum that broadens the capacity of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band. This could result in slower Wi-Fi speeds. Under the bill, which may ... more - theverge

The best deals on 4K TVs

We’ve rounded up deals on all sorts of TVs, from affordable yet feature-packed models to high-end OLED panels that will really wow you. | Image: Sony Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2025 at a substantial discount. There’s ... more - theverge

What is an Xbox?

Microsoft's "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign in November always felt a little too early. If you ask a friend or family member what an Xbox is, the response is likely going to be "it's a game console." Xbox is ingrained in popular ... more - theverge

Here are 14 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s early Prime Day sale

Amazon’s next Prime Day event hasn’t officially kicked off yet, but in classic Amazon fashion, the retailer has already dropped a selection of early deals ahead of its four-day sale. While steeper discounts are not likely to arrive until next month, ... more - theverge

A week in Xbox VR with Microsoft and Meta’s new $399 headset

Microsoft and Meta announced an Xbox-branded Quest VR headset last year, and it's going on sale today for $399.99. The Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition is a custom colorway VR headset that comes bundled with an Xbox wireless controller, matching Touch Plus ... more - theverge

Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’

Today, I’m talking with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod. Hinge is one of the biggest dating apps in the United States — it’s rivaled only by Tinder, and both are owned by the massive conglomerate Match Group, which has consolidated a huge chunk of ... more - theverge

The first two Netflix Houses will finally open in late 2025

We don’t know an exact date, but the first Netflix House venues open later this year. | Image: Netflix Netflix has announced that its first two Netflix House venues will open in late 2025. There’s still no specific opening date yet. The venues were first ... more - theverge

Snapchat’s latest subscription tier will get you ‘hundreds’ of lenses

Snapchat has launched a new subscription tier that offers access to a wider selection of lenses and augmented-reality experiences. The Lens Plus subscription costs $8.99 per month and will include lenses made by Snapchat and “select” creators to start, ... more - theverge

Save $100 on Apple’s latest iPad Air with the M3 chip

Discounts have been tough to find on the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model), but there’s a good one happening on every color available at Amazon and Best Buy. Normally $599, the 128GB tablet is available for $499 — a price that it has ... more - theverge

Praise be, my visionOS 26 persona is significantly less cursed!

I look much more like myself in the visionOS 26 persona. For several months, my Slack avatar was a screenshot of my incredibly cursed Vision Pro persona. My virtual avatar's head was cocked back, cackling into the pixelated void, her hair one solid unmoving ... more - theverge

Snap will start selling AR glasses next year

Snap’s 2024 version of Spectacles for developers. | (Photo by Nalani Hernandez-Melo for The Verge) Snap plans to start selling its first pair of augmented reality glasses to the public in 2026. The coming release is part of CEO Evan Spiegel's decade-plus ... more - theverge

Apple WWDC 2025: the 13 biggest announcements

Apple packed a bunch of major updates into its annual Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. During the event, the company showed off the sleek design refresh coming to its operating systems, as well as a mix of new features for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, ... more - theverge

Apple’s visionOS 26 adds PSVR2 controller support and spatial widgets to the Vision Pro

With visionOS 26 the Apple Vision Pro will gain support for the PlayStation’s VR2 Sense spatial controllers. | Image: Apple Apple announced the latest major update for its Vision Pro headset during the company’s WWDC 2025 keynote presentation on Monday. ... more - theverge

Apple announces macOS 26 Tahoe with new design and revamped search features

Apple announced a new version of macOS during its WWDC 2025 keynote presentation, featuring a new design, improved search functions, a new Phone app, and an entirely new game launcher with overlay. The new update, expected later this year, is called ... more - theverge

WWDC 2025 live blog: a fresh new look at iOS, macOS, and more

Conference season is underway, and today we're live at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, for this year's WWDC. While we got a glimpse of the Vision Pro in 2023 and a preview of Apple Intelligence in 2024, this year is a bit of a wild card. Rumor has ... more - theverge

Apple’s latest AirPods Pro with USB-C just received a $70 discount

This year’s WWDC kicks off in less than a week, which means Apple is likely to announce a string of software changes in short order, some of which are designed to improve Apple’s latest pair of premium earbuds. Thankfully, if you haven’t yet pulled the ... more - theverge

Meta’s reportedly shopping for exclusive content on its upcoming VR headset

“Loma” could be an AR headset akin to the Meta Ray-Bans (pictured) The Wall Street Journal reports Meta is in talks with Disney and A24 to try and secure exclusive streaming content for a new headset it’s developing. WSJ says Meta’s new device is a glasses-like ... more - theverge

Here’s what’s inside Meta’s experimental new smart glasses

Meta has revealed more information about Aria Gen 2, its experimental smart glasses designed to serve as a test platform for research about augmented reality, AI, and robotics. The glasses pack several improvements into their lightweight frame that could ... more - theverge

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app

Today, I’m talking with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. This is Brian’s fourth time on the show, and he’s one of my favorite guests because he’s so clearly obsessed with things like company structure, design, and decision-making. You know, Decoder stuff. We ... more - theverge

Blink’s budget buzzer gets some worthwhile upgrades

Blink launched the second generation of its video doorbell this week. Amazon’s budget security camera company, Blink, has launched the second generation of its popular video doorbell. The new Blink Video Doorbell adds a head-to-toe view and improved ... more - theverge