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Two words: headphone jack. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Although Apple’s tablet lineup has undergone several shakeups over the last several years, we long considered the ninth-gen iPad to be the best budget iPad you could get. That changed when Apple dropped the price of the 10th-gen iPad to a more sensible $349 and discontinued its entry-level model. But the 2021 iPad remains a perfectly good slate, especially now that the base model with 64GB of storage is down to a new low of arou

Disney's biennial D23 expo has followed hot on the heels of some surprises at San Diego Comic-Con in July — an event that saw the return of Robert Downey Jr. to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. How do you one up that announcement? With lots and lots of new ones.SEE ALSO:Disney+ will actually crack down on password sharing next month
Day one of the weekend event saw the return of several Disney classics like The Incredibles, Toy Story, and Frozen. And between Disney Animation Studios, Pixar,

The next iPhone SE is expected to look like this iPhone 14. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge So far, the only way to try out Apple Intelligence features on an iPhone is through the iPhone 15 Pro. The entire iPhone 16 line is expected to get the features this fall, but “you can also bet” the iPhone SE, coming “as early as the beginning of 2025,” will have it too, says Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. If that’s true, it

Never has the county, perhaps, felt more united than while watching Golden State Warriors player Stephen Curry absolutely dog on the French men's basketball team during the gold medal final of the Paris Olympics. In the annals of historic moments in US history, Curry's four straight three-point shots against France should be hung on a wall next to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Moon Landing.As Team USA basketball edged out France 98-87 on Saturday, users on X (formerly Tw

Fitbit’s latest LTE-enabled wearable gamifies exercise, only without ads and unwanted microtransactions.| Image: Fitbit As you might expect, not every parent wants to outfit their kid with a phone, especially given the rise in cyberbullying and the sheer amount of distractions they pose while in school. Thankfully, the Fitbit Ace LTE is a more pared-down alternative, one that’s matching its all-time low of $199.95 ($30 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store through August 25t

The 2024 Olympics may end, but Paris still has one more show: the closing ceremony.On top of featuring French bands like Air and Phoenix, the closing ceremony will also see Paris hand its Olympic hosting duties off to Los Angeles, where the 2028 summer games will take place. Expect to see an aerial stunt from Tom Cruise in the LA-themed portion of the ceremony, as well as musical performances by Billie Eilish, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Snoop Dogg (who's been the ultimate Olympic hype man).H

Illustration: The Verge Longtime Google rivals like Yelp and DuckDuckGo received a huge victory on Monday when a federal judge ruled that Google is an illegal monopoly. But their statements on the ruling expressed restraint. That’s because the work of restoring competition has just begun, and the judge has yet to decide what that work will include. With a lot of options on the table, Google’s competitors are pushing for changes they believe will help their businesses, which might be

Illustration: The Verge Longtime Google rivals like Yelp and DuckDuckGo received a huge victory Monday when a federal judge ruled that Google is an illegal monopoly. But their statements on the ruling expressed restraint. That’s because the work of restoring competition has just begun, and the judge has yet to decide what that work will include. With a lot of options on the table, Google’s competitors are pushing for changes they believe will help their businesses, which might be har

Ever since Overwatch took over in the gaming mainstream, it seems every company wants its piece of the pie within the hero-shooter genre. That's how we've arrived at NetEase Games' Marvel Rivals, the latest live-service hero shooter from the Diabolo Immortal developers.I was recently invited to the game's closed beta that ran from July 23 to August 5. Featuring a who's who cast of Marvel Comics characters, Rivals is the physical embodiment of a Disney executive going around asking why the compan

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UPDATE: Aug. 11, 2024, 5:00 a.m. EDT This story has been updated to include two new picks: The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, and the Lenovo Legion 9i (Gen 9).There's no such thing as a universal best laptop. Whether a laptop works well for you — and there could be several that fit the bill — is a largely subjective decision that comes down to your primary use cases, your preferred operating system, and your budget.This is an annoying fact of life for both laptop shoppers and those of

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Here's what people who weren't there don't know about the moment the dot-com bubble burst: there was no single moment. The date was different for everyone, and the range varies a lot more than you think. So far as I was concerned, the dot-com economy crashed on the morning of January 11, 2000. That's when I entered the Time-Life building, seething because the Time Warner CEO had just sold our company to AOL, of all internet hellholes, for $183 billion. Just keep your head down, I thought in the

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TL;DR: This user-friendly Function101 button remote for Apple TV (including Apple TV 4K) is available for just $23.97 (reg. $29.95) through September 3.Apple TV is a great way to access amazing entertainment. But (you knew a but was coming), the remote is not the best part of the experience. It may be the worst part of the experience. It's too sleek and slippery in the hand, and the buttons are flat and not very intuitive. That's why this traditional button remote from Function101 is a definite

There's supposedly nothing special about a blue moon. A full moon is just a moon phase, and a blue moon is just a designation for certain full moons — the ones timed to fall before the end of a month that already had one full moon.True, unless it's like the bizarro blue moon we're getting in August of 2024, which deserves a fuller explanation.SEE ALSO:Why landing a spaceship on the moon is still so challenging
Why is August's full moon considered a blue moon?August's single full moon gets

Despite the enthusiasm of actors in Swiffer commercials, few people are smiling at the workout that is manually mopping their floors. If you experience similar dread when faced with vacuuming, the best robot vacuum and mop combos will cross those two chores off of your list (three, if you count digging your old mop out of the closet as a chore in itself).SEE ALSO:As a Dyson stan, I wouldn't tell anyone to buy the Dyson 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum
Since 2020-ish, most robot vacuum companies have add

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for August 11's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, k

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.SEE ALSO:NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for August 11 SEE ALSO:Wordle today: Here's the answer hints for August 11
If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to fig

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The Vision Pro got its first Virtual Boy emulator in an app called VirtualFriend, finally giving me, a person with an irrational love for Nintendo’s most short-lived console, a chance to play it in immersive 3D once more. The app is also available for iOS and iPadOS, where it’s a virtually identical experience, minus the 3D effect.
The first games I played after downloading VirtualFriend were those I owned as a kid: Red Alarm, Wario Land, and Mario’s Tennis. I’m pleased