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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Google’s new Fitbit Air, the $99.99 screenless fitness tracker, comes out on May 26th. It’s the company’s first
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The handheld gaming market has become incredibly crowded lately, but the ASUS ROG Ally remains a solid pick for those looking to jump into portable PC gaming without breaking the bank. While newer, flashier handhelds often command a premium, a limited-time offer from Woot pushes the entry price down to
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When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial have provided a rare look at the communications between Microsoft’s top executives
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Andrew Liszewski 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. Logitech is introducing a new feature to its rugged iPad Combo 4 keyboard case that addresses an ongoing issue with
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The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. will.i.am, born William Adams,
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TL;DR Coinbase went offline for seven hours on Friday after an AWS data centre overheated in Virginia, capping a week in which the exchange cut 700 jobs and reported a 394 million dollar quarterly loss. Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday. It reported a 394 million dollar quarterly loss
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TL;DR Hugging Face and ClawHub, the two largest repositories for AI models and agent skills, have been systematically compromised with hundreds of malicious entries that steal credentials, open backdoors, and hijack AI agents for cryptocurrency mining. The two most important software supply chains in artificial intelligence have been systematically
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TL;DR Intel’s stock has tripled under Lip-Bu Tan, who has won over Trump, partnered with Musk, and attracted Apple’s interest. The question is whether the relationships will produce the manufacturing execution that Intel has failed to deliver for a decade. Intel’s stock has tripled in twelve
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An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York, $132,000. The increases run
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If your runs are starting to push past the one-hour mark and into meatier endurance territory, you need a pair of the very best running headphones. For this level of endurance, I'd recommend these Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 on sale at Amazon for $199.95 (was $249.95)
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Blackstar has not only crammed a guitar amp into a little box the size of a Bluetooth speaker, but also packed it with high-tech features to get a vast array of tones out of it to practice any style of playing, anywhere they'll tolerate you. The British outfit
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Before I/O 2026 kicks off on May 19, Google has promised to share an update on its Android ecosystem. As with last year, the company will stream a pre-recorded presentation highlighting some of the biggest new features coming to Android and beyond. You can watch the entire thing unfold
