Motorola’s Razr Ultra and the Marshall Emberton II top this week’s best deals
The latest Motorola Razr is $300 off in multiple colors. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about buying a foldable phone that truly stands out, few models can rival the 2025 Motorola Razr Ultra, which is currently on sale at Amazon and Best Buy with 16GB of RAM and 512GB starting at $999.99 ($300 off), its lowest price to date. If you can’t tell from the image below, Razr’s latest handset boasts a unique wood grain back panel, which makes it one of the best-looking phones you can buy. It’s not just about looks, though; the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset makes it incredibly fast, and it still manages to last a full day on a single charge. It also features two displays, specifically a 7-inch 1224p inner display that unfolds and a 4-inch 1080p outer screen that’s perfect for checking notifications. It even features a dedicated AI button for accessing notification summaries and live transcriptions,...
The latest Motorola Razr is $300 off in multiple colors. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about buying a foldable phone that truly stands out, few models can rival the 2025 Motorola Razr Ultra, which is currently on sale at Amazon and Best Buy with 16GB of RAM and 512GB starting at $999.99 ($300 off), its lowest price to date.If you can’t tell from the image below, Razr’s latest handset boasts a unique wood grain back panel, which makes it one of the best-looking phones you can buy. It’s not just about looks, though; the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset makes it incredibly fast, and it still manages to last a full day on a single charge. It also features two displays, specifically a 7-inch 1224p inner display that unfolds and a 4-inch 1080p outer screen that’s perfect for checking notifications. It even features a dedicated AI b***on for accessing notification summaries and live transcriptions, as well as support for 68W wired and 30W wireless charging.As for durability, the Ultra carries an IP48 rating, meaning it should be able to withstand a meter of water for up to 30 minutes; however, we’d advise being careful around dust and sand, neither of which it’s fully protected against. That said, Motorola does promise three years of OS and security updates, which, while not as impressive as newer foldables like the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 (which comes with seven), is still respectable.
Read our full Motorola Razr Ultra review.
Motorola Razr Ultra (2025)
Where to Buy:
$1299.99 $999.99 at Amazon (512GB)
$1299.99 $999.99 at Best Buy (512GB)
$1299.99 at Motorola (512GB)
If you thought Amazon’s most recent Prime Day event was a good time to pick up a Bluetooth speaker, you’ll be pleased to hear that Marshall’s Emberton II is actually cheaper now than it was last week. Right now, it’s on sale at Best Buy and Amazon (for Prime members) for $94.99 ($85 off), which is just $5 shy of its best price to date.Although Marshall’s last-gen Bluetooth speaker is pretty basic, it still manages to deliver multi-directional stereo sound with a vintage-style design that resembles the company’s signature guitar amps. You can pair it with other compatible Marshall speakers, and the companion app offers adjustable EQ settings. Its long battery life and IP67 rating make it a good choice for outdoor adventures, too, though you’ll miss out on a couple of newer features found on the Emberton III (including a built-in mic for taking hands-free voice calls). Otherwise, though, it’s a stylish, great-sounding pick suitable for all sorts of occasions.
Marshall Emberton II speaker
Where to Buy:
$179.99 $94.99 at Amazon (with Prime)
$179.99 $94.99 at Best Buy
Ugreen’s Revodok Max 8-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station is small and lightweight enough to fit in a work bag, yet powerful enough to turn a laptop into a desktop-like workstation (at least as far as ports are concerned). And right now, it’s available from Amazon and Ugreen for $169.98 ($80 off), matching its best price to date.Ugreen’s 8-in-1 dock outfits your Windows or macOS machine with eight extra ports, including four Thunderbolt 4 ports, each of which can supply up to 85W of power using the included 140W GaN charger. It’s a shame it doesn’t include built-in SD card readers or audio jacks, but it does include a gigabit ethernet port and three USB-A ports, so you can connect to everything from dual 4K monitors to older accessories, all through a single hub.
Ugreen Revodok Max 8-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 Docking Station
Where to Buy:
$249.99 $169.98 at Amazon
$249.99 $169.98 at Ugreen
A few more deal standouts
Anker’s 7-in-1 Nano Charging Station — which is also great for charging multiple gadgets — is on sale for an all-time low of $59.99 ($30 off) at Amazon and Anker’s online storefront (with promo code WS7DV2GZULDK). The 100W station can charge a 16-inch MacBook Pro to 50 percent capacity in just over half an hour and comes with a pair of retractable USB-C cables, three AC outlets, a USB-C port, and a USB-A port. Its built-in LCD screen also shows which ports are in use and how much power they’re pulling.
If you’re in the market for a great pair of gaming earbuds, the SteelSeries Arctis Buds are an easy recommendation, especially now that the white model with PlayStation connectivity is down to an all-time low of $127.99 ($73 off) at Amazon. The wireless earbuds deliver fantastic sound and come with Bluetooth support and a 2.4GHz transmitter, so you can connect them to your PC, Mac, and PlayStation 5. They’re lightweight and comfortable to wear, too, and benefit from good noise cancellation, a helpful transparency mode, and a wireless charging case. Read our review.
The Crafting Table is Lego’s first Minecraft set for adults, one you can pick up at Amazon and Target for $71.99 ($18 off), its lowest price to date. The 1,195-piece kit resembles a classic Minecraft crafting table on the outside, but opening it up reveals a mini world with 12 biomes, including Cherry Grove, the Deep Dark, and Lush Cave. It also comes with eight buildable Minecraft figures — Steve, Alex, a skeleton, a witch, a Creeper, a villager, a cow, and a pig — each of which detaches, so you can display the figures anywhere.
I ran a local LLM entirely off a NAS, and it turned my storage box into an AI-hosting workstation
Ever since I got into hosting my own large language models, I’ve tinkered with AI inference engines across multiple devices. So far, my RTX 3080 Ti remains my primary choice for deploying the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for coding-heavy tasks using MoE offloading, though I’ve also had decent experience using Gemma-4-26B-A4B and GPT-OSS-20B...
Ever since I got into hosting my own large language models, I’ve tinkered with AI inference engines across multiple devices. So far, my RTX 3080 Ti remains my primary choice for deploying the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for coding-heavy tasks using MoE offloading, though I’ve also had decent experience using Gemma-4-26B-A4B and GPT-OSS-20B on old Pascal-era graphics cards.
Michael Johnson Chicago
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My USB devices weren’t charging until I tried a USB Type-A port instead
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It's not news at this point that USB hasn't exactly been able to deliver on its lofty promises and goals. The "Universal" part of that acronym doesn't always hold up when it comes to power and data transfer speeds.
Emily Brown Houston
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I bought cheap server hardware for my home lab, and the electricity bill taught me an expensive lesson
Having built my first home server using components cobbled together from older builds, I realized fairly quickly that an experimental workstation doesn’t need cutting-edge specs to drive my virtualization projects. As time went on, I started grabbing outdated machines from flea markets, and with a little coat of Proxmox, they...
Having built my first home server using components cobbled together from older builds, I realized fairly quickly that an experimental workstation doesn’t need cutting-edge specs to drive my virtualization projects. As time went on, I started grabbing outdated machines from flea markets, and with a little coat of Proxmox, they became reliable nodes for my home lab, self-hosting, and DevOps experiments.
Katarina Kalinić Serbia
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My favorite Notion alternative isn’t Obsidian, it’s something I can actually self-host
When people talk about replacing Notion, Obsidian is usually the first app that comes up. I tried it too, and while it's an excellent note-taking app, it wasn't the replacement I was actually looking for. I wanted something that felt closer to Notion while giving me complete control over where...
When people talk about replacing Notion, Obsidian is usually the first app that comes up. I tried it too, and while it's an excellent note-taking app, it wasn't the replacement I was actually looking for. I wanted something that felt closer to Notion while giving me complete control over where my data lived. That search eventually led me to AFFiNE. After using it for a while, I realized it offered a better balance between flexibility, ownership, and everyday usability for my workflow. AFFiNE has become my favorite Notion alternative, rather than the one most people expect.
Jane Smith Los Angeles
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Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced s** dystopia
From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying and absurd premise - in otherwise normal modern New York, single people can only have sex one night a year - to deliver an entirely traditional romantic comedy. I'm here to...
From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying and absurd premise - in otherwise normal modern New York, single people can only have sex one night a year - to deliver an entirely traditional romantic comedy. I'm here to report that it does not do that. No, the film is very much about life under Sex Purge Law, but where you might expect questions of politics or religion or fear or humanity, there are instead questions of boning. Questions like "Who should I do sex to and why?" are explored in an episodic format that sees two special hot people (Monica Barbaro and Call …Read the full story at The Verge.
Fiona Pereira Brazil
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Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling
Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a "public nuisance." In a ruling published on Thursday, the Santa Fe district court found that Meta's platforms are a "significant contributing...
Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a "public nuisance." In a ruling published on Thursday, the Santa Fe district court found that Meta's platforms are a "significant contributing cause" of a teen mental health crisis affecting public health and safety throughout New Mexico."This case has always been about protecting children, standing up for families, and making sure that one of the world's largest technology companies cannot profit from practices that endanger young people without consequence," New Mexico Attorney G …Read the full story at The Verge.
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OpenAI and Anthropic’s models attacked real companies during safety tests, and most victims never noticed
The most capable AI models on the planet have started breaking into companies that never agreed to be part of any test, and in most cases, nobody at those companies noticed until a person at one of those companies reached out to let them know. In the span of just...
The most capable AI models on the planet have started breaking into companies that never agreed to be part of any test, and in most cases, nobody at those companies noticed until a person at one of those companies reached out to let them know. In the span of just a couple of weeks, three separate organisations disclosed that models undergoing cybersecurity evaluations had escaped or wandered out of their test environments and attacked real systems on the open internet, despite nobody instructing them to. Each one believed, or talked itself into believing, that it was still playing a game.
Jane Smith Los Angeles
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Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?
For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple's App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for people who live in...
For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple's App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for people who live in countries under censorship. Apple later revealed that it had removed the app due to the presence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and restored it once that content was removed.But the decision once again stirred up questions and confusion about Apple's moderation policies and how it treats different companies. And one company in particular sprang to many people's m …Read the full story at The Verge.
John Doe New York
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You, too, can 3D-print this mechanical bouncing DVD logo for unlimited fun
The problem with watching the DVD logo bounce around the screen is that, at some point, someone's going to actually want to watch a movie on that screen. But what if you had a homemade mechanical device that endlessly bounced a DVD logo around a screen so you could celebrate...
The problem with watching the DVD logo bounce around the screen is that, at some point, someone's going to actually want to watch a movie on that screen. But what if you had a homemade mechanical device that endlessly bounced a DVD logo around a screen so you could celebrate corner hits forever? Well, that's exactly what this 3D-printable project lets you do.
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This ESP32 handheld is a retro emulator, FM synth, and Guitar Hero clone controller all in one
One of the best parts of being an adult is realising you have the money and the know-how to acquire all the things you coveted as a child. But what if you could make a device that put everything you ever wanted into one handy portable device you can take...
One of the best parts of being an adult is realising you have the money and the know-how to acquire all the things you coveted as a child. But what if you could make a device that put everything you ever wanted into one handy portable device you can take wherever you want? That's exactly what one Redditor did when they made an ESP32-S3 handheld that combines several uses into a single device.
Emily Brown Houston
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I turned a nearly 10-year-old laptop into the most useful machine in my home lab
Despite spending my teenage years drooling over enterprise-tier hardware, my current home lab mostly consists of consumer-grade systems, with the only outlier being a Xeon workstation from 2016. In fact, running a few Proxmox experiments on my old gaming PC proved that I don’t need top-of-the-line specs to access its...
Despite spending my teenage years drooling over enterprise-tier hardware, my current home lab mostly consists of consumer-grade systems, with the only outlier being a Xeon workstation from 2016. In fact, running a few Proxmox experiments on my old gaming PC proved that I don’t need top-of-the-line specs to access its virtualization features, and today, I’ve got everything from mini-PCs and thin clients to x86 single-board computers fueling my tinkering escapades to some extent.
William Garcia Boston
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Robocopy is still the fastest way to copy thousands of files on Windows, and I wasted years not using it
Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the usual Ctrl + C and V, and the on-screen copy and...
Windows is a bundle of both CLI and GUI tools. We use the GUI ones more because they serve a broader use case and are convenient to use. For file copying and moving, I hadn't ventured much outside the usual Ctrl + C and V, and the on-screen copy and paste options in the context menu. The options work fine for multiple files and large files, and with the new dialog boxes and graphical representation of copying speed, it's hard to complain.
