Anker’s lightest 45W USB-C charger is already on sale for 26 percent off
Anker’s 45W Nano charger is pocketable yet powerful. If you need a svelte USB-C charger that won’t weigh you down on your commute or your next flight, Anker’s new 45W Nano charger is on sale for the first time at Amazon, where you can pick it up in either black or white as part of a lightning deal for $25.99 ($9 off). At 1.45 inches long and weighing just 52 grams, Anker’s latest Nano charger is easy to slip into your pocket, bag, or laptop sleeve. Its single USB-C port is capable of delivering 45W to a wide range of devices, allowing you to charge everything from smartphones and tablets to laptops and handheld gaming consoles. And with Samsung Super Fast Charging support, you can juice phones like Samsung’s S25 Ultra to around 70 percent capacity in roughly 30 minutes or provide a full charge in just under an hour (according to Anker). Additionally, the lightweight charger...
Anker’s 45W Nano charger is pocketable yet powerful.If you need a svelte USB-C charger that won’t weigh you down on your commute or your next flight, Anker’s new 45W Nano charger is on sale for the first time at Amazon, where you can pick it up in either black or white as part of a lightning deal for $25.99 ($9 off).At 1.45 inches long and weighing just 52 grams, Anker’s latest Nano charger is easy to slip into your pocket, bag, or laptop sleeve. Its single USB-C port is capable of delivering 45W to a wide range of devices, allowing you to charge everything from smartphones and tablets to laptops and handheld gaming consoles. And with Samsung Super Fast Charging support, you can juice phones like Samsung’s S25 Ultra to around 70 percent capacity in roughly 30 minutes or provide a full charge in just under an hour (according to Anker).Additionally, the lightweight charger ships with a six-foot USB-C cable, allowing you to start charging directly out of the box. It also comes with Anker’s welcome 18-month warranty, so if anything goes wrong, the company will replace or repair your charger at no additional cost.
Three more deals worth a look
As a part of its ongoing Mother’s Day sale, the 10-inch version of one of our Mother’s Day gift guide picks — the Skylight Calendar — is on sale for $139.99 ($30 off) directly from Skylight. You can also pick up the 15-inch model for $269.99 (also $30 off) from Skylight, or for $10 more from Best Buy. Not only can the Wi-Fi-connected smart calendar display your family’s schedules from Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCloud at a glance, but it also doubles as a hub for showcasing grocery lists, chores, and other tasks. Read our review of the 27-inch Max model.
Now through May 30th, Woot is selling the Beats Fit Pro for $129.99 ($70 off), which matches their best price to date. The fitness-friendly earbuds don’t have ear hooks like the PowerBeats Pro 2, but their built-in wing tips still do a good job of staying secure during intense workouts. They also feature an IPX4 rating for water resistance, deliver excellent noise cancellation and sound quality, and pair well with Android and iOS. Read our review.
The Breville Barista Express is currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target for $549.99 ($150 off), which is its best price of the year. With 16 grind settings, the home espresso machine lets you brew your coffee just the way you like it; it’s also easy to use and maintain, making it a great option for enjoying cafe-style drinks from the comfort of your own home. Read our review.
4 Android Auto tweaks that transformed my car’s infotainment system
Most of us treat Android Auto as a utility to set up once and never touch again, trusting Google's default settings, hoping the experience is safe and functional for the widest audience possible. For me, though, functional isn't as good as a personalized user experience, and even in its current...
Most of us treat Android Auto as a utility to set up once and never touch again, trusting Google's default settings, hoping the experience is safe and functional for the widest audience possible. For me, though, functional isn't as good as a personalized user experience, and even in its current state, missing all the good bits Google announced at the Android Show last week, AA packs plenty of scope for customization.
Natalia Vujčić Serbia
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‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
Let’s unpack what Demis Hassabis said at the end of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's issue is a special...
Let’s unpack what Demis Hassabis said at the end of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's issue is a special early edition tied to The Verge's Google I/O coverage. You can expect our next issue at its usual time next Friday. Opt in for Optimizer here.Toward the end of this year's Google I/O keynote, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared, with a completely deadpan face, that the company hopes to "reimagine the drug discovery process with the goal of one day solving all disease." This is the sort of statement that the phras …Read the full story at The Verge.
Emily Brown Houston
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SpaceX just filed for what could be the biggest IPO ever
Elon Musk's final frontier is officially open for business now that SpaceX has formally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC. That kicks off what could be the largest initial public offering ever when it lists on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker SPCX. SpaceX generated $18.67 billion in...
Elon Musk's final frontier is officially open for business now that SpaceX has formally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC. That kicks off what could be the largest initial public offering ever when it lists on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker SPCX.SpaceX generated $18.67 billion in revenue in 2025, driven largely by its Starlink satellite internet service, which brought in more than $11 billion, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company lost over $4.9 billion last year, with capital expenditures soaring to $20.7 billion last year, a leap from $11.2 billion in 2024, as reported by The New York Times. xAI, which recent …Read the full story at The Verge.
Rusudana Glivenko Ukraine
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I ignored BIOS updates for three years until I realized they were fixing my entire platform
BIOS is something that users touch only while building a PC, enabling DOCP/XMP, or reinstalling Windows. Once that is done and the PC starts working again, the BIOS becomes invisible. I was in the same situation; I built my PC about three years ago and went back to the BIOS...
BIOS is something that users touch only while building a PC, enabling DOCP/XMP, or reinstalling Windows. Once that is done and the PC starts working again, the BIOS becomes invisible. I was in the same situation; I built my PC about three years ago and went back to the BIOS a few more times to reinstall Windows.
Emily Brown Houston
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Cron inside WSL beats Windows Task Scheduler for one reason: it actually works the way I think
You've probably already heard the standard pitch for WSL. Windows Subsystem for Linux gives users an environment to run Linux apps, commands, and graphical tools. That pitch is accurate, and the fact that you can access Linux without dual-booting or spinning up a separate VM is reason enough to install...
You've probably already heard the standard pitch for WSL. Windows Subsystem for Linux gives users an environment to run Linux apps, commands, and graphical tools. That pitch is accurate, and the fact that you can access Linux without dual-booting or spinning up a separate VM is reason enough to install WSL. But there's another handy way to use it that you may not expect. I like to take advantage of the Linux cron utility to automatically run scripts against my Windows filesystem, which is natively accessible under WSL.
Galileu da Paz Brazil
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Your Pixel comes with these 4 fantastic apps, and they deserve a spot on your home screen
Phones these days come with a wide range of apps installed out of the box, ranging from the essentials to the bloatware we all want to remove. But somewhere in the middle are genuinely useful apps that you might not immediately realize you need until you start using them. These...
Phones these days come with a wide range of apps installed out of the box, ranging from the essentials to the bloatware we all want to remove. But somewhere in the middle are genuinely useful apps that you might not immediately realize you need until you start using them. These apps have rightfully earned a place on my home screen, and you should check them out, too.
Colleen Martinez Australia
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I replaced GitHub Copilot with a self-hosted AI and I won’t go back
I'm a fairly novice coder, even though I've dabbled in one language or another over the last few decades. I'm also terrible at formatting, so I really appreciate autocomplete and formatting help from agentic coding tools. I've been using GitHub Copilot, partly because it's the default in VS Code, but...
I'm a fairly novice coder, even though I've dabbled in one language or another over the last few decades. I'm also terrible at formatting, so I really appreciate autocomplete and formatting help from agentic coding tools. I've been using GitHub Copilot, partly because it's the default in VS Code, but the recent tightening of usage limits has me looking elsewhere. It feels like a bait and switch by Microsoft, getting you hooked on high token usage, then closing the door, and I'm over it.
Dave Perkins United States
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I quit using Adobe Firefly for a free open-source alternative
The controversies around image and video generation are hard to ignore; whether training data was scraped without consent, or artists are getting compensated, or whether the outputs are doing something genuinely new or just laundering someone else's style. Adobe Firefly was the one that felt the least icky since it's...
The controversies around image and video generation are hard to ignore; whether training data was scraped without consent, or artists are getting compensated, or whether the outputs are doing something genuinely new or just laundering someone else's style. Adobe Firefly was the one that felt the least icky since it's trained on licensed Adobe Stock content and public domain stuff, but it's still paywalled past the free tier credits. On the other end of it, there's ChatGPT, which had its whole Studio Ghibli moment last year that I'd rather not get into here.
Silvane Araújo Brazil
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Your cheap USB-C cables will fail with USB4
There's sometimes a negative connotation that anything cheap must be of bad quality, but that couldn't be further from the truth. More affordable mechanical keyboards can oftentimes be just as good as more expensive typing machines. The same goes for a bottle of red sauce or even a monitor, so...
There's sometimes a negative connotation that anything cheap must be of bad quality, but that couldn't be further from the truth. More affordable mechanical keyboards can oftentimes be just as good as more expensive typing machines. The same goes for a bottle of red sauce or even a monitor, so long as you know where to look. USB-C cables, on the other hand, can be downright terrible if a bad-quality cable is purchased.
Olivia Miller Seattle
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My UGREEN DXP4800 Pro NAS quietly replaced half my home lab, and I didn’t expect that
I bought the UGREEN DXP4800 Pro NAS expecting it to behave like a better storage box. That was the sensible role for it, at least on paper. It had room for drives, enough performance to handle my files, and a more appliance-like personality than the random assortment of mini PCs...
I bought the UGREEN DXP4800 Pro NAS expecting it to behave like a better storage box. That was the sensible role for it, at least on paper. It had room for drives, enough performance to handle my files, and a more appliance-like personality than the random assortment of mini PCs and Raspberry Pis that had accumulated around my home lab. What I didn’t expect was for it to start swallowing jobs I used to reserve for dedicated machines.
William Garcia Boston
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Your Kindle doesn’t need to be hacked to escape Amazon’s walled garden
When you buy a Kindle, you only focus on reading books on it, like most folks. Only after owning one do people look for tutorials and guides to remove the niggles. Several tutorials, forum threads, and video comments are packed with people seeking guidance on jailbreaking the Kindle.
When you buy a Kindle, you only focus on reading books on it, like most folks. Only after owning one do people look for tutorials and guides to remove the niggles. Several tutorials, forum threads, and video comments are packed with people seeking guidance on jailbreaking the Kindle.
Emily Brown Houston
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I fixed my home network lag without buying a new router or a mesh system
When people think of home network upgrades, mesh Wi-Fi or a fancy router is usually what they think about. After all, the marketing around mesh networks makes it seem that they're a silver bullet to every Wi-Fi problem. However, many mesh systems cause the exact problems that they promise to...
When people think of home network upgrades, mesh Wi-Fi or a fancy router is usually what they think about. After all, the marketing around mesh networks makes it seem that they're a silver bullet to every Wi-Fi problem. However, many mesh systems cause the exact problems that they promise to solve. Even Wi-Fi 7 routers boast blazing-fast speeds and better coverage than ever, but they a Wi-Fi 7 router won't fix what's truly wrong with your home network. Before you rush to buy a fancy Wi-Fi router or invest in an expensive mesh system, consider some other upgrades that deliver way better performance per dollar. Your home network might not even need a dedicated mesh network; it might just need a few optimizations to perform dramatically better.
