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“Odysseus captured this image approximately 35 seconds after pitching over during its approach to the landing site.” | Image: Intuitive Machines (X) The Odysseus lander is likely to remain operating for another 24 hours on the Moon’s surface, despite being tipped over onto its side. Intuitive Machines, the private space company behind Odysseus, tweeted a few images taken by the spacecraft and gave more updates on how long the team expects it will remain operational.Because of O

Bose’s foldable QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are an excellent pair of noise-canceling headphones, if you don’t mind the color white. | Image: The Verge Traveling can be stressful, which is why, if you’re planning on enjoying a relaxing spring break next month, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones can make for a great travel companion, especially if you’re flying. The noise-canceling headphones can help ensure you get some peace and quiet even before you land at yo

UPDATE: Feb. 26, 2024, 2:30 p.m. EST This article has been updated with the latest and greatest gaming deals from across the web.Best gaming deals of the week at a glance:Best PlayStation deal'Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Deluxe Edition'$53.99 in the PlayStation Store(save $36) Get DealBest Xbox deal'Dead Space'$39.99 at Xbox(save $40) Get DealBest Nintendo Switch dealNintendo Switch OLED + 'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe' bundle$339.95 at Walmart(save $70) Get DealBest PC dealRazer BlackShark V2 Pro$129.99 a

Image: Square Enix I have a pet conspiracy theory.The greatest minds in card game design don’t work at Wizards of the Coast on Magic: The Gathering or at Ravensburger on the Disney-themed breakout hit Lorcana. But somehow, through some eldritch pact made with the gods of the collectible card game, Square Enix managed to snag the greatest minds in card game design and has kept them in a vault for the last 30 years working on Final Fantasy card minigames. That’s the best explanation I

Image: Playstack In Casino Royale, James Bond gets a bit of poker advice: you never play your hand; you play the man sitting across from you.
Okay, but what if you just played your hand? What if no one was sitting at the other end of the table? Balatro, a new turn-based card game available on most platforms, takes the mechanics of poker and turns them into the basis of a compelling roguelike, the subgenre of games where each playthrough is a single perilous attempt.
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MWC 2024 is in full swing, showcasing the world's most technologically advanced gadgets, including smartphones, tablets, and smart glasses.But what about laptops? Don't worry. We spotted a slew of spectacular notebooks, 2-in-1s, and other clamshells at Barcelona's biggest annual tech show.SEE ALSO:Lenovo's Transparent Display Laptop: Yes, I could actually 'see through' it
4 best laptops of MWC 20244. LG Gram Pro 2-in-1LG unleashed a gaggle of new laptops as MWC 2024 kicked off, including the rec

The best headphones of 2024:Best noise-cancelling headphonesBose 700 headphones$379 at Amazon Shop nowBest sound-first headphonesSony WH-1000XM5$398 at Amazon Shop nowBest noise-cancelling earbudsApple AirPods Pro$249 at Amazon Shop nowMost comfortable optionBose QuietComfort 45$329 at Best Buy Shop nowBest budget-friendly ANC earbudsBeats Studio Buds +$169.95 at Amazon Shop nowBest workout headphonesBeats Fit Pro$199.95 at Amazon Shop now
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Seagate’s speedy storage expansion cards are reminiscent of retro memory cards but also expensive without these periodic sales. | Image: Seagate We’ve griped long enough about the ballooning install sizes of the latest AAA games, but complaining won’t slow the trend. Without some miraculous development in data compression technology, the only remedy today is to buy extra storage. Xbox Series X and S gamers have had it the roughest with the exorbitant markups on its proprietary

Apple's next annual iOS update, iOS 18, is several months away, but it's never too early to start talking about it.Yes, rumors are already flying around about iOS 18, the theoretical follow-up to last year's iOS 17 update. I say "theoretical" because Apple has yet to publicly talk about it, but you can rest easy knowing it'll almost certainly come out at some point this year. And when it does, it may or may not be a total overhaul of the iOS experience (more on this later).Here's everything we k

Looks like we're going to have to exercise more patience for the Nintendo Switch 2's release. New rumors from Nikkei claim that the Switch's successor will drop in 2025, at the earliest.As we reported in October 2023, rumors around the grapevine pegged September 2024 as a possible release date for the Switch 2. When that panned out to be false, the new launch window, according to the rumor mill, was March 2024 (March 3 is the 7th anniversary of the original Switch release).However, a new rumor s

SAVE $40: The Shark SpeedStyle is down to just $159.99 at Amazon as of Feb. 26 — that's a 20% price drop from its $199.99 MSRP and its lowest price on record. Opens in a new windowCredit: SharkShark SpeedStyle$159.99 at Amazon $199.99Save $40.00Get DealWatching beauty influencers dry and smooth their hair with the Dyson SuperSonic might lead you to think you need one of the fancy hair tools, but listen up: you don't. There are plenty of dupes on the market that can get the job done wi

MWC 2024 is on fire this year, showcasing some of the most out-this-world tech we've ever seen. Whether it's a bizarre foldable, an eccentric AI gizmo, or an outlandish laptop, here are the wildest tech we've spotted at MWC 2024 so far.SEE ALSO:Hands on: Motorola has a phone that's somehow also a bracelet
3 wildest tech at MWC 20241. Lenovo ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop When we mentioned that Lenovo was unveiling a proof-of-concept laptop, our co-workers thought we were talking about the

GET 25% OFF: Score an Anker Soundcore 2 portable Bluetooth speaker for just $29.99 on Amazon. That's $10 off the regular price, bringing the price down by 25%. Opens in a new windowCredit: Anker Anker Soundcore 2$29.99 at Amazon $39.99Save $10.00Get DealIf you're looking for a durable speaker that can keep up with your listening habits, the Anker Soundcore 2 is a solid choice — and it's on sale.As of Feb. 26, you can get the Anker Soundcore 2 portable Bluetooth speaker for just $29.99 at A

MEET THE SIRI 3: LELO just added the SIRI 3, a sound-activated vibrator, to its pleasure product lineup. This small yet powerful toy is equipped with SoundSense technology that synchronizes its vibrations with your favorite playlist, voice, or moans of pleasure, creating a truly immersive and personalized sensory experience.Pleasure is on a spectrum, and our mood can affect when and how we masturbate. Sometimes, getting in and out with the quick buzz of a powerful wand vibrator or bullet vibe ma

Save $200: As of Feb. 26, the 45mm Apple Watch Series 8 is just $229 at Walmart. That saves you 46% on the $429 smartwatch, and marks a record low price for this configuration. Opens in a new windowCredit: AppleApple Watch Series 8 (45mm, GPS)$229.00 at Walmart $429.00Save $200.00Get DealThe Apple Watch Series 9 may be $70 off, but if you're looking for the real savings (and rarer deal), looking one generation back is your best bet. Walmart proves it, offering the 45mm Apple Watch Series 8 with

Image: Fiat Stellantis-owned Fiat revealed five new concepts that it says will serve as inspiration for a future family of vehicles that will come in a variety of powertrains while sharing the same platform.The new lineup, inspired by the Italian automaker’s Panda city cars, will kick off in July 2024 with a new city car, followed by a new vehicle each year for the following three years. In addition, the concepts preview a pickup truck, a fastback sedan, an SUV, and a camper.Fiat is hedgin

SAVE $90: As of Feb. 26, Amazon's Fire Max 11 tablet — the brand's biggest and baddest tablet yet — is on sale for just $139.99 at Woot. That's a savings of 39% and its lowest price to date. Opens in a new windowCredit: AmazonAmazon Fire Max 11 tablet$139.99 at Woot $229.99Save $90.00Get DealIt's no secret that we love iPads, but when it comes to tablets, there are plenty of other fish in the sea. And those fish tend to come with much more affordable price tags.Amazon's Fir

How would you like to have a smartphone you can bend all you like without it breaking? Motorola's got you covered. At this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company brought a new bendy phone concept (the company showed a similar, yet far more primitive prototype back in 2016). The phone was announced in 2023, but now we got to see how it actually works in person. A Motorola rep gave me a short demo, and I was pleasantly surprised with how well the phone worked. It supports several m

Less than a year since its founding, Paris-based Mistral is launching a new AI flagship model for developers, Mistral Large — just a few months after the release of its first model, Mistral 7B.  Much like its predecessor, Mistral Large is an open-source generative AI model. According to the startup, it boasts “top-tier” reasoning capabilities and is proficient in code and mathematics. It’s also multilingual and fluent in five languages (English, French, German, Span

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Apple could soon face an investigation over its decision to discontinue iPhone web apps in the European Union, according to a report from the Financial Times. The European Commission has reportedly sent Apple and app developers requests for more information to assist in its evaluation.
“We are indeed looking at the compliance packages of all gatekeepers, including Apple,” the European Commission said in a statement to the Financial Times. &l

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s computer piracy. I’m briefly startled by the drive’s low mechanical whirring — a warm, ambient background score that instantly transports me back to my childhood. Some of my first painfully preteen journals were hidden poorly on nondescript floppies just like this one. I click

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that’s valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 billion). The Financial Times reports that the partnership will include Microsoft taking a minor stake in the 10-month-old AI company, just a little over a year after Microsoft invested more than $10 billion into its OpenAI partnership.
The deal will see Mistral’s open and commercial language models available on Microsoft’s A

The Verge The president of Crunchyroll, Rahul Purini, announced that the company is working to compensate customers who will lose their digital libraries in the upcoming Funimation / Crunchyroll merger on April 2nd.“[We] are working really hard directly with each [customer] to ensure that they have an appropriate value for what they got in the digital copy initially,” Purini tells Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel during this week’s Decoder podcast. “As people reach out t

Google’s new hybrid notification interface was added specifically for the OnePlus Watch 2. | Image: OnePlus Google just announced a handful of new Wear OS updates at Mobile World Congress 2024. At the heart of it is a way of handling notifications that will purportedly improve performance and battery life. Wear OS watches are also getting public transit directions in Google Maps as well as Google Wallet passes.
Since 2018, Wear OS watches generally have had an application processor (AP) to

The OnePlus Watch 2 looks good on paper, but I’ve been burned before. | Image: OnePlus OnePlus is keenly aware that its first smartwatch was a disaster. Nearly three years later, I’m still haunted by that launch and the abysmal experience I had reviewing it. News that OnePlus is back with a second-gen smartwatch fills me with trepidation, but on paper, the updates seem promising. Not only will the $299.99 OnePlus Watch 2 run on Google’s Wear OS 4 but it’ll also use a nove

European scientists have developed a solar module that can produce electricity and heat at the same time — in a potential breakthrough for low-cost clean energy generation.  The device is made up of a concave mirror and a thin, glass tube filled with photovoltaic cells. When the sun’s rays strike the module, the mirror reflects them at the tube, generating electricity.   The heat produced in the tube then warms up a transfer fluid that flows along the back of the sola

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Getty Images Here I am at Walmart, elbow-deep in decades of movies as other shoppers wheel by without so much as a glance. The bin, about four feet tall, is overflowing with DVDs, to the point where I have to start piling them up on one side just to get anywhere near the center. I’m picking out the movies I’m going to indulge in over the weekend, shuffling through copies of Sonic the Hedgehog, an all-in-one Ben Affleck

Xiaomi's got an electric car to sell you and it probably won't be very hard, because this thing is looking really good. The company brought its new SU7 Max EV to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and though we didn't get to drive it, we saw it spinning at Xiaomi's booth. It's the first car ever by Xiaomi, but the company chose to enter the automotive industry in style, with a sporty Tesla Model 3 competitor with some really strong specs.The "Max" on the back means it's the all-wheel drive vari

In a dead spot or experiencing spotty signals? There’s a solution for that, and it’s called Wi-Fi Calling. Wi-Fi Calling is a feature on the iPhone that enables users experiencing reception problems to have a stronger call connection over broadband via Wi-Fi. The connection is generally encrypted, which is reassuring for those relying on shared Wi-Fi.Many users may not even realize they have the power to improve their call quality. Before we proceed, make sure that you’re

Image: The Verge Your phone, your rules: Android gives you a pretty comprehensive toolkit when it comes to managing app permissions on your device, enabling you to control access to parts of the system like the camera, the microphone, and your current location.
Apps will ask for these permissions one by one as they need them, so you’ll typically see a flurry of requests while an app is setting itself up as well as more sporadic requests later on (when an app needs access to your photos and