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Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. We at The Verge love a good gadget or tchotchke, especially when it’s not too expensive. But
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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. If you’re in the market for a robot vacuum, Amazon Prime Day has brought a ton of discounts that we’re tracking, but the Eufy Omni C28
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This gaming handheld has a great screen and comfortable ergonomics. Just replace Windows with Bazzite and you’re off. by Brad Bourque Jun 23, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Brad Bourque Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out
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I love cameras and Lego, so imagine by delight when I received the shiny new Lego Creator 3-in-1 Retro Camera for Christmas in 2023. The charming set, which features an SLR camera with moving parts and a film door, has lived on my desk at home ever since I completed
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Buying gift cards at a discount is the easiest way to get free money. These deals are a bit rarer to find, though. Just earlier today, I spotted an Uber gift card deal that would give me $100 in Uber cash for $85. By the time I included the deal
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Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy server, silently leaked users' plaintext HTTP requests and potentially revealed sensitive data, including credentials and session tokens, for decades
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TL;DR Seven of Europe’s largest tech companies have formed a standing lobby group called the European Tech Creators with direct access to Commission President von der Leyen. The group is pushing for faster deregulation, easier mergers, and a completed single market, but the arrangement has drawn criticism over
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TL;DR Berlin drone startup Stark Defence raised €500M led by Sequoia and Founders Fund, pushing its valuation past €3.5 billion just two years after founding. Stark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised €500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter
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TL;DR Google posted its fastest revenue growth since 2022 and still controls 90 per cent of search, but talent defections, rising competitors, antitrust remedies, and its own AI transformation are eroding the foundations of its dominance. ChatGPT has hit one billion users, Bing has reached the same milestone, and
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Oracle’s global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people. The company’s annual regulatory filing stated plainly that “the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have
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TL;DR SpaceX drew $89 billion in demand for its debut bond sale, seeking $20 to $25 billion across five tranches to refinance bridge loan debt. SpaceX has drawn roughly $89 billion in investor demand for its debut US bond sale, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, setting the stage for one
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Did you know that you can stream World Cup 2026 matches in 4K on BBC iPlayer? Well, you can — it's just not entirely obvious as to which devices actually support the feature. What is certain is that not all of them do — and your TV may not be
