Fitbit’s Charge 6 and Ace LTE are now as cheap as the new $100 Air
Fitbit’s Charge 6 offers more features than the Air and is currently the same price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’re shopping for Father’s Day or trying to keep your kids entertained over summer break, you don’t need to spend a fortune to get a great Fitbit right now. You can currently pick up the Fitbit Charge 6 for $50 off at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, the Fitbit Ace LTE for $80 off (Amazon, Best Buy, Target), and the new Fitbit Air (Amazon, Best Buy, Target), and all come in around $100. Fitbit Air Where to Buy: $99.99 at Amazon $99.99 at Best Buy $99.99 at Target While all three cost about the same, they’re designed for very different users. The Fitbit Air is geared toward anybody who wants a simple wearable focused mainly on health and fitness tracking, without the distractions of a screen or smartwatch features. It’s lightweight with...
Fitbit’s Charge 6 offers more features than the Air and is currently the same price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether you’re shopping for Father’s Day or trying to keep your kids entertained over summer break, you don’t need to spend a fortune to get a great Fitbit right now. You can currently pick up the Fitbit Charge 6 for $50 off at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, the Fitbit Ace LTE for $80 off (Amazon, Best Buy, Target), and the new Fitbit Air (Amazon, Best Buy, Target), and all come in around $100.
Fitbit Air
Where to Buy:
$99.99 at Amazon
$99.99 at Best Buy
$99.99 at Target
While all three cost about the same, they’re designed for very different users. The Fitbit Air is geared toward anybody who wants a simple wearable focused mainly on health and fitness tracking, without the distractions of a screen or smartwatch features. It’s lightweight with no b***ons, and tracks activity, steps, sleep, as well as core health metrics like heart rate and nightly blood oxygen levels. It also supports Bluetooth connectivity with certain gym equipment, allowing you to broadcast your heart rate to compatible machines during workouts. If you pay for a $9.99 monthly (or $99.99 annual) subscription, you’ll also gain access to Google’s surprisingly useful AI-powered Health Coach, which can create personalized fitness plans and offer recommendations based on your activity, sleep, and overall health data.
Fitbit Charge 6
Where to Buy:
$159.95 $99.95 at Amazon
$159.95 $99.95 at Best Buy
$159.95 $99.95 at Target
The Charge 6, in contrast, looks more like a traditional Fitbit fitness tracker and offers a few extra perks. In addition to a bright OLED touchscreen, it boasts an FDA-cleared EKG reader and notably offers smartwatch-like functionality such as built-in GPS, turn-by-turn navigation via Google Maps, support for Google Wallet, and the ability to display call, text, and app notifications. As a result, it’s a better fit for people who want a wearable that can do more than simply track their health and workouts.
Fitbit Ace LTE
Where to Buy:
$179.99 $99.95 at Amazon
$179.99 $99.99 at Google
$179.99 $99.99 at Best Buy
The Fitbit Ace LTE, meanwhile, is geared toward kids, offering fun movement-based games and rewards while tracking activity, sleep, and other basic health metrics. With the $9.99 monthly Ace Pass subscription, kids can call or text preapproved contacts, share their location through Google Maps, and even make purchases using Google Pay, making it a handy smartphone replacement with parental controls.
Read our review of the Fitbit Charge 6 and our hands-on impressions of the Fitbit Ace LTE and Fitbit Air.
If a decade-old Nintendo Switch can run PC games, your next handheld doesn’t need to be x86
For years, Arm gaming handhelds have come with an asterisk attached. They're brilliant at Android games and emulation, but if you want to play your actual PC library, the answer has typically been an x86 machine. In other words, something like a Steam Deck, a ROG Ally, or any machine...
For years, Arm gaming handhelds have come with an asterisk attached. They're brilliant at Android games and emulation, but if you want to play your actual PC library, the answer has typically been an x86 machine. In other words, something like a Steam Deck, a ROG Ally, or any machine with an AMD or Intel chip inside. Arm was for the phone-shaped stuff, and x86 was for "real" PC gaming, and that split has felt permanent for a long time.
Tina Blažić Serbia
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GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy s*** with vehicle-to-grid tech
At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home...
At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home energy customers. It's releasing a new commercial energy storage system strategy, anchored by newly developed sodium-ion batteries for industrial-scale grid applications. And it's launching a new feature for EV owners that it says will help simplify public charging. Right now, millions of EVs are sitting idly in driveways across …Read the full story at The Verge.
Feride De Paauw Netherlands
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I got a Crush on this new Terminal-based AI coding tool
Everyone who's been following my work for a while knows I love two things, the terminal, and making it prettier. I also love terminal-based coding tools like OpenCode, Claude Code, and Pi. The terminal window is a perfect place for agentic coding sessions, with a back-and-forth of conversation with the...
Everyone who's been following my work for a while knows I love two things, the terminal, and making it prettier. I also love terminal-based coding tools like OpenCode, Claude Code, and Pi. The terminal window is a perfect place for agentic coding sessions, with a back-and-forth of conversation with the LLMs that doesn't work that well inside a traditional IDE.
Olivia Miller Seattle
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Home a**istant slows down over time, but there’s a nuclear option most people don’t realize
The symptoms of a mature but messy smart home might include the dashboard taking three seconds to load, simple automation, like turning on a hallway light when a door opens, suddenly experiencing noticeable lag, and, overall, everything just feeling sluggish. You check your logs, and they are flooded with endless...
The symptoms of a mature but messy smart home might include the dashboard taking three seconds to load, simple automation, like turning on a hallway light when a door opens, suddenly experiencing noticeable lag, and, overall, everything just feeling sluggish. You check your logs, and they are flooded with endless red warning text about unhandled integration areas and missing variables. To fix this problem, you could probably stay up until the middle of the night trying to patch individual YAML lines or tracking down orphan entities in your registry files. You treat your configuration like a delicate house of cards, terrified that updating Home Assistant Core will permanently shatter your automations.
John Doe New York
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I replaced Copilot with PowerToys as my Windows 11 command center, and the difference is night and day
When Microsoft introduced Copilot in 2023, around the same time OpenAI's ChatGPT was exploding in popularity, I genuinely wanted to give it a chance, even though I wasn't fully on board with the idea. If AI was supposed to be the future, having it built directly into Windows 11 seemed...
When Microsoft introduced Copilot in 2023, around the same time OpenAI's ChatGPT was exploding in popularity, I genuinely wanted to give it a chance, even though I wasn't fully on board with the idea. If AI was supposed to be the future, having it built directly into Windows 11 seemed like the right move at first. In fact, in its early implementations, I could use Copilot to change some basic settings, open apps, and organize Edge tabs. Fast-forward to today, and it feels less like a Windows feature and more like a standalone chatbot app.
Olimpiya Mirovich Ukraine
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I finally found an open-source Plex client that feels better than the official app
There is no denying that the official Plex app has been heading in the wrong direction for a while. It's bloated with streaming recommendations that I don't want, loading content has become slow. Moreover, somewhere along the way, it dropped a bunch of features that I actually enjoy.
There is no denying that the official Plex app has been heading in the wrong direction for a while. It's bloated with streaming recommendations that I don't want, loading content has become slow. Moreover, somewhere along the way, it dropped a bunch of features that I actually enjoy.
Tamara Trajković Serbia
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Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion
Congress narrowly voted to fund President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, giving the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over the next three years. The house voted 214 to 212 in favor of the reconciliation bill Tuesday, following the Senate's 52-47 vote last Friday morning. The vote fell largely along...
Congress narrowly voted to fund President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, giving the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over the next three years.The house voted 214 to 212 in favor of the reconciliation bill Tuesday, following the Senate's 52-47 vote last Friday morning. The vote fell largely along party lines. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was the only Senate Republican to vote against it. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), initially voted against the bill - meaning it would have failed - but changed his vote after huddling with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-OK), according to The Hill …Read the full story at The Verge.
Daniel Martinez Dallas
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The App Store is going to add subscription bundles soon
Later this year, you will be able to get bundled subscriptions for iPhone apps, as Apple announced it's expanding App Store bundles so they can include offers from different companies. It's similar to streaming video bundles that have combined offers for Apple TV and Peacock, but it also could put...
Later this year, you will be able to get bundled subscriptions for iPhone apps, as Apple announced it's expanding App Store bundles so they can include offers from different companies. It's similar to streaming video bundles that have combined offers for Apple TV and Peacock, but it also could put together subscriptions for completely different services, like Instagram Plus and Tinder Platinum. Another option on the way is Suites, "a set of subscriptions that aren't available standalone, which people can purchase as a single subscription." TechCrunch and 9to5Mac report the new additions were announced during WWDC, along with other App S …Read the full story at The Verge.
Judith Walker Ireland
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I replaced Pi-hole with Unbound for a week, and the privacy upgrade wasn’t the only win
My DNS setup was working perfectly. Pi-hole handled ad blocking, dnscrypt-proxy encrypted DNS traffic, and Quad9 resolved every query my network generated. I had been running this setup for a long time, and I rarely thought about it. Then I started thinking, if DNS filtering and encryption were already in...
My DNS setup was working perfectly. Pi-hole handled ad blocking, dnscrypt-proxy encrypted DNS traffic, and Quad9 resolved every query my network generated. I had been running this setup for a long time, and I rarely thought about it. Then I started thinking, if DNS filtering and encryption were already in my local stack, why was I letting a third-party resolver see every query my network made? Every lookup was outsourced to someone else’s infrastructure. That simple thought was enough to make me replace the public resolver with a self-hosted one — Unbound. I ran it for a week, expecting better privacy. And at the end of the week, I got a much clearer understanding of what my DNS was actually doing.
Camille Wong Canada
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I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works
Siri, are you there? Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or "spirit week" theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in one shot. And I have good news for parents with iPhones...
Siri, are you there? Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or "spirit week" theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in one shot. And I have good news for parents with iPhones - the new Siri can finally do this.After stumbling through its first launch of an AI-imbued Siri, Apple is trying again. The newly upgraded Siri AI can chat with you about what might be killing the roses in your yard, put together a shopping list for the hardware store, and set a reminder to lay down some compost in that flower bed. It can reference information in your email and calendar to make its recommenda …Read the full story at The Verge.
Sophie Green New Zealand
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Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's "really, really dangerous" for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness inside its "constitution," or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder, Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set up the chatbot to act...
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's "really, really dangerous" for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness inside its "constitution," or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder, Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set up the chatbot to act as though it's conscious:I think that it's almost as though some of the folks at Anthropic have anthropomorphized the design of Claude so much that it has then gone and wireheaded them and kind of tricked them into believing that it has these glimmers of consciousness that they put into it in the first place. View …Read the full story at The Verge.
Tilde Nielsen Denmark
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I ditched iTerm2, Windows Terminal, and Konsole for Wave, and I’m not looking back
I absolutely love my terminal emulator, whether it's the built-in Windows Terminal, Tabby, or any other emulator that can keep me in the command line. I use it to manage my container stack, and even to browse and watch YouTube. And who can forget agentic vibe-coding while we're on the...
I absolutely love my terminal emulator, whether it's the built-in Windows Terminal, Tabby, or any other emulator that can keep me in the command line. I use it to manage my container stack, and even to browse and watch YouTube. And who can forget agentic vibe-coding while we're on the subject?
