Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help lower your energy bills, and it’s down to $62
Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is down to its best price of the year. | Image: Amazon With temperatures on the rise and Earth Day right around the corner, now’s a good time to invest in a smart thermostat if you haven’t already. A good one like Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help reduce energy use and lower your bills without sacrificing comfort, and right now it’s just $61.99 ($18 off) at Amazon. Aside from a brief drop during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, it’s spent most of 2026 at full price, making this the best deal we’ve seen since it dropped to $51.99 on Black Friday. Amazon Smart Thermostat Where to Buy: $79.99 $61.99 at Amazon $79.99 $63.99 at Best Buy $79.99 $63.99 at B&H Photo My colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy was impressed by how much the smart thermostat delivers for the price. It can learn your habits over time so you can set it and forget it, which is...
Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is down to its best price of the year. | Image: Amazon With temperatures on the rise and Earth Day right around the corner, now’s a good time to invest in a smart thermostat if you haven’t already. A good one like Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help reduce energy use and lower your bills without sacrificing comfort, and right now it’s just $61.99 ($18 off) at Amazon. Aside from a brief drop during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, it’s spent most of 2026 at full price, making this the best deal we’ve seen since it dropped to $51.99 on Black Friday.
Amazon Smart Thermostat
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$79.99 $61.99 at Amazon
$79.99 $63.99 at Best Buy
$79.99 $63.99 at B&H Photo
My colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy was impressed by how much the smart thermostat delivers for the price. It can learn your habits over time so you can set it and forget it, which is a feature typically found in more expensive options, and it can automatically adjust based on whether you’re home, away, or asleep. You can also create schedules, tweak settings remotely from your phone, and track your HVAC energy usage in the app, which makes it easier to spot patterns and cut down on your monthly bill.The thermostat also integrates with Amazon Alexa, letting you adjust your home’s temperature using voice commands, and works with most 24-volt HVAC systems. Despite its low price, it doesn’t look cheap either, offering a sleek, minimalist design with a simple, intuitive interface that’s easy to use at a glance.Of course, to keep costs down, there are some features you’ll have to do without. It doesn’t include native temperature sensors, for example, and it doesn’t support voice a**istants beyond Alexa. But it still covers the essentials and can help you save on energy costs over time, making it a smart buy for the price.
Read our Amazon Smart Thermostat review.
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You can pick up the Anker 45W USB-C Fast Charger for $19.99 ($15 off) at Amazon and directly from Anker with code WS7DV28JGN0M; that price is just $2 shy of its all-time low. The GaN charger is small enough to slip into a pocket yet capable of delivering up to 45W of power, which is enough to charge an iPhone 17 Pro Max to around 50 percent in about 20 minutes. It can also power tablets, earbuds, and other USB-C devices, and it comes with a six-foot USB-C cable for added convenience.
Woot’s selling the international version of the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro for a new low price of $199.99 ($50 off), though note it comes with a 90-day Woot warranty instead of Samsung’s one year warranty. The buds improve on the previous model with much better noise cancellation and upgraded woofers for better sound. They’re a particularly great option for anyone with a Galaxy phone, who get access to extra features like live translation, easy switching between devices, and hi-res audio support. Read our review.
The Echo Show 5 Kids smart display is on sale for $64.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, which is its best price since December and $15 shy of its all-time low. It’s identical to the standard Echo Show 5 and offers the same 5.5-inch display that works well as a bedside alarm clock, but adds parental controls and a two-year warranty. Kids can also ask Alexa to play music, read bedtime stories, help with homework, or even create interactive stories, while a free year Amazon Kids Plus grants kids access to thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and games.
Pets, like children, come with the responsibility to keep them happy, healthy, and mentally stimulated - obligations I readily committed to before getting my cat, Trevor. I work from home, so he's never lonely, and play with him using a mountain of toys at every opportunity outside of my working...
Pets, like children, come with the responsibility to keep them happy, healthy, and mentally stimulated - obligations I readily committed to before getting my cat, Trevor. I work from home, so he's never lonely, and play with him using a mountain of toys at every opportunity outside of my working hours. But younger cats can be incredibly demanding of your attention. I simply don't have the capacity to physically entertain Trevor every time he yowls at me (constantly) or distract him from chewing every cable he can get his paws on (also constantly).Unlike children, one of the perks of having a blissfully simple animal is that there are far f …Read the full story at The Verge.
Kasper Korpi Finland
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A $20 network switch solved my Wi-Fi problem better than a mesh node ever could
Wi-Fi is the most natural fit for most connections in a home, especially when you're trying to work around the restrictions of a rental unit or have great distance between devices. When these connections feel slow or interrupted in a certain area, the impulse is to buy more coverage in...
Wi-Fi is the most natural fit for most connections in a home, especially when you're trying to work around the restrictions of a rental unit or have great distance between devices. When these connections feel slow or interrupted in a certain area, the impulse is to buy more coverage in the form of a range extender or, better yet, a mesh node. More coverage, better signal, and more of the thing you already have. When I had done this in my own home, however, I found that this didn't actually solve the bandwidth problem, but it did inspire a solution that would. A cheap network switch gave me the connectivity I needed, but more importantly, it also freed up my Wi-Fi, and everything in the house got faster as a result.
Agnès Clement Switzerland
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Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US
The Fairphone 6 Plus is the first Fairphone to officially launch in the US. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge The Fairphone 6 Plus is a minor hardware refresh, but a major launch for the company: It's the first phone that Fairphone is selling directly in the US. It's...
The Fairphone 6 Plus is the first Fairphone to officially launch in the US. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge The Fairphone 6 Plus is a minor hardware refresh, but a major launch for the company: It's the first phone that Fairphone is selling directly in the US. It's on sale now for $649.99, available through Fairphone's website and Amazon, and is sold unlocked with support for both T-Mobile and AT&T. In Europe, it costs €649, a €50 increase on last year's phone. Fairphones from the 4 onwards have been available to buy in the US, but never from Fairphone itself. They were exclusively sold through a partnership with Murena, the developer of /e/OS, a "de-Googled" version of Android. That meant buyers were forced to use Murena's software - which is c …Read the full story at The Verge.
Grace Spencer Australia
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How I turned my fish tank high tech
When I was a kid, I owned two goldfish that eventually outgrew the size of their tank. At the time, I didn't realize just how much actually goes into having fish and keeping them healthy. I've learned a lot over the past couple of years while keeping nano fish -...
When I was a kid, I owned two goldfish that eventually outgrew the size of their tank. At the time, I didn't realize just how much actually goes into having fish and keeping them healthy. I've learned a lot over the past couple of years while keeping nano fish - a group of five celestial pearl danios and four corydoras habrosus - along with some live plants.After filling up a 10-gallon tank with water and adding a filter, I was eager to add my first fish, but I soon found out that the tank must run without fish for several weeks to establish beneficial bacteria and create a stable underwater environment. But the work doesn't stop there. Ca …Read the full story at The Verge.
Emily Brown Houston
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The Verge Guide to Pets
Ah, the relationship between animals and the technology they can’t quite understand. Today, it seems like there’s a high-tech solution to every element of pet ownership, with devices on the market designed to keep pets fed, cleaned, watched over, and entertained. And if you have a pet you know: nothing...
Ah, the relationship between animals and the technology they can’t quite understand. Today, it seems like there’s a high-tech solution to every element of pet ownership, with devices on the market designed to keep pets fed, cleaned, watched over, and entertained. And if you have a pet you know: nothing is too good — or too cutting-edge — for your (furry, slimy, feathery) best friend.But while some tech can help care for your pet, it can be complicated when dogs and cats meet wires and waves. You might feel complicated about offloading elements of kitten parenthood to a robot. Some pet tech innovations over-promise or are over-hyped. And of course, your puppy (or parrot) might well mistake your gadgets for a snack. To that end, we’ve put together a week of stories that explore the intersection of technology and pet ownership. Read on for how to take a decent photograph of your cat, pet scales and the chunky companions who need them, and takes on our favorite tools, both simple and complex. Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies How to take better photos of your pets How I turned my fish tank high tech My parrot ate my keyboard Oops! My cat is an iPad kid Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
William Garcia Boston
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My parrot ate my keyboard
One of the great joys in life is having pets. The unconditional love, the snuggles, the excitement they show when you get home - these things add an emotional fulfillment to daily existence that can't be achieved in another way. I think everyone's life would be better with a pet...
One of the great joys in life is having pets. The unconditional love, the snuggles, the excitement they show when you get home - these things add an emotional fulfillment to daily existence that can't be achieved in another way. I think everyone's life would be better with a pet (or two) in their lives. It's an incredible experience. Except for those few times when it isn't.Both my wife and I work from home, and in a two-bedroom Los Angeles apartment with a kid, two dogs, and a bird, we're constantly in close quarters. Kiyo, our Senegal parrot, has the best view of us all with his cage situated at a corner wraparound window in our living r …Read the full story at The Verge.
Teerth Shet India
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I ditched Ollama as my default runtime, and the replacement starts models in a fraction of the time
Ollama has been my default runtime for running LLMs locally. It makes the entire process almost stupidly easy. I can download a model with one command, run it immediately, and connect it to other apps through a local API without worrying about model formats or hardware configuration. I had no...
Ollama has been my default runtime for running LLMs locally. It makes the entire process almost stupidly easy. I can download a model with one command, run it immediately, and connect it to other apps through a local API without worrying about model formats or hardware configuration. I had no major complaints about Ollama, but I have this habit of messing around and keep trying new things.
Leta Henry Australia
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Your monitor’s USB-C port is more useful than you think, and here’s what you should plug into it
I use the Alienware AW3423DW and AW2725DF OLED monitors with my gaming PC, and while both have built-in USB hubs, only the newer AW2725DF has a USB-C port. It's one of those features I didn't even care about when I first bought it because it had already won me over...
I use the Alienware AW3423DW and AW2725DF OLED monitors with my gaming PC, and while both have built-in USB hubs, only the newer AW2725DF has a USB-C port. It's one of those features I didn't even care about when I first bought it because it had already won me over with its gorgeous OLED panel and 360Hz refresh rate. Now, I just wish the AW3423DW had one too, because I've realized how convenient it is to have a USB-C port sitting right beneath the display.
Jane Smith Los Angeles
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ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
ChatGPT for Teens includes safeguards and parental controls. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger users, as other platforms implement their...
ChatGPT for Teens includes safeguards and parental controls. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger users, as other platforms implement their own age checks and teen-specific protections. ChatGPT for Teens is "an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence," OpenAI said in a blog post published Tuesday. Teen mode will automatically apply to users who identify themselves as being between the ages of 13 and 17, as well as those the system estimates to be under 1 …Read the full story at The Verge.
Supritha Pujari India
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I spent an afternoon with Speakr and haven’t paid for transcription since
Between customers explaining what they need when building a PC and meeting four days out of five, I spend a frankly ridiculous amount of time turning spoken instructions into text. The conversations are rarely short, either, and missing one detail can mean going through an entire recording just to find...
Between customers explaining what they need when building a PC and meeting four days out of five, I spend a frankly ridiculous amount of time turning spoken instructions into text. The conversations are rarely short, either, and missing one detail can mean going through an entire recording just to find what mattered.
Emily Brown Houston
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Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center's 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed the White House inside his Marine...
On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center's 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed the White House inside his Marine One military helicopter. As Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) protocol requires, the pilots tried to contact Reagan National Airport to tell them to halt commercial traffic during the flight. But the air traffic controllers never heard the transmission and cleared a different airplane for takeoff - which came clo …Read the full story at The Verge.
Jane Smith Los Angeles
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Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory...
One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, I thought this could be the perfect solution.Pet Memory promises to teach your Google Home smart home who your pets are, allowing connected Nest cameras to go beyond simply telling you they saw an animal to which animal they saw. It can then use that knowledge to adapt your smart home to your pet. My plan was to use it to keep a digital …Read the full story at The Verge.
