Want to create the ultimate home network you can be proud of? You'll want a combination of enthusiast equipment and software to take full advantage of the available technologies. One such brand is Ubiquiti with its UniFi range of hardware. They're excellent for upgrading the home LAN to better handle modern data requirements. If you're planning out a smart home with thousands of IoT devices, network-attached storage (NAS), and even a small home lab, it's worth investing in better infrastructure, such as the discounted UniFi AP AC PRO.

A family “eSUV” designed to be fun and practical. | Image: Amflow Amflow, the e-bike brand spun out of DJI, just announced its TL Carbon, a do-it-all "eSUV" suitable for both bikepacking adventures and dropping the kid at daycare on your cycle to work.The TL Carbon is built around Amflow's incredibly compact yet powerful Avinox M2 mid-drive motor. The all-terrain e-bike offers 125Nm of hill-flattening torque and up to 1100W of peak output. It supports up to 1280Wh of battery capacity when its 800Wh removable battery is paired with a 480Wh extender. You can even opt for a hub that charges up to four batteries sequentially.This sport-tourer comes standard with mudguards, integrated lights, and a rear rac …Read the full story at The Verge.

Amid the growing memory crisis, AMD seems to have found a rather unconventional plan to reduce reliance on DRAM. On June 15, the company acquired MEXT, a California-based startup behind the development of an AI-driven memory tiering system capable of making NAND flash storage behave like DRAM.

It's no secret that we love Home Assistant here at XDA. We've been tinkering with it (and its new AI tool) for a while now, and there's no sign of us stopping. One of our favorite uses for Home Assistant is putting it on a low-end system like a Raspberry Pi and performing smart home actions with it.

Amazon Prime Day 2026 is happening now and is delivering some of the best deals we’ve seen this summer. As expected, there were a ton of price drops at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart on a range of product categories, including smart home, headphones, smartwatches, monitors, 4K TVs, outdoorsy gear, and more. Amazon’s sale will conclude at 3:01AM ET on June 27th.We’ve put together this package so you can see all of our sprawling coverage in one convenient place. It contains not just our favorite one-off deals and category roundups to come, but also some shopping tips that might help you price-match purchases, and be the first to find amazing deals. The Echo Dot Max is cheaper than ever in an early Prime Day sale How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale Everything you need to know about Prime Day 2026 Nothing’s Ear (a), our favorite budget earbuds, are cheaper than ever ahead of Prime Day Amazon’s capable sound system is over $100 off ahead of Prime Day Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is on sale for just $58 My favorite Qi2 power bank is cheaper than ever for Verge readers Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra are $70 off, marking a new low price  Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, GameStop, and others The AirPods Pro 3 are $179, their best-ever price These are the best smart home deals this Prime Day The Apple Watch SE 3 is just $199 for Prime Day Apple’s AirPods Max 2 are $150 off for the first time Category Deals The best Apple deals you can get during Prime Day The best robot vacuum deals available during Prime Day The best Prime Day deals that cost less than $50 Laptop prices suck these days, so here are some Prime Day deals that help a little The best power bank and charger deals for Prime Day 2026 The best early Amazon Prime Day deals so far The best Prime Day deals we found on our favorite gear Some of our favorite Switch 2 accessories are cheaper during Prime Day Consoles aren’t discounted — but I’ll settle for these Prime Day deals on games Prime Day has served up several great deals on 4K TVs Breakout Tech Deals The Echo Dot Max is cheaper than ever in an early Prime Day sale The Nex Playground is down to its pre-RAMageddon price during Prime Day The Pixel 10A finally costs what it should Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft bundle is almost half off for Prime Day Paramount Plus is two dollars for two months of ad-free viewing Nothing’s Ear (a), our favorite budget earbuds, are cheaper than ever ahead of Prime Day Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is on sale for just $58 My favorite Qi2 power bank is cheaper than ever for Verge readers Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra are $70 off, marking a new low price  Amazon’s capable sound system is over $100 off ahead of Prime Day The AirPods Pro 3 are $179, their best-ever price HBO Max’s annual plans are 28 percent off right now Apple’s latest AirTags are cheaper than ever for Prime Day A year of Walmart Plus is half off ahead of Prime Day Eufy’s Omni C28 is one of the best Prime Day deals on robot vacuums News and Tips Amazon’s four-day Prime Day begins on June 23rd We’re giving away a Prime Day grab bag loaded with over $800 of free tech Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, GameStop, and others Everything you need to know about Prime Day 2026 How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Capable of backing up essential files and archiving TBs of media, Network-Attached Storage servers are worth grabbing if you’re planning to move away from pricey cloud platforms. Modern NAS rigs are also powerful enough to self-host dozens of services, making them even more useful for FOSS enthusiasts looking to run storage-hogging apps.

Prime Day is usually flooded with countless pricey network-attached storage (NAS) enclosures, but really, you don't need to spend that much at all. Remember, the cost of a NAS unit from the likes of Synology won't include storage, but the enclosure itself. That means you'll need to factor in the cost to buy a hard drive or two. That's where the Synology DiskStation DS223j comes in. This is a two-bay Synology NAS powered by DiskStation Manager. It's not the cheapest Synology NAS, but it's the best for storing data at home.

Every time I had to reboot my mini PC to update a Docker container, a VM, or just to apply patches, my entire home network went down with it. My family often noticed that before I did. My mini PC wasn’t struggling with the Pi-hole's load, but there was a simpler, yet just as problematic issue.

So, how about that Steam Machine price? If you've been out of the loop, Valve officially announced the price point for its newest console-not-console, and if you were hoping for something that wasn't in four figures of USD, then you're going to be disappointed.

VS Code has been my comfort zone for years. It is fast, flexible, familiar, and has an extension for almost everything. But after spending some time with Google Antigravity 2.0, I finally understand what a next-generation IDE is supposed to feel like.

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data centers, including during their construction, and for the power generation requirements of the massive facilities. Also, as Gizmodo points out, Nvidia's blog post doesn't mention the cost of building this style of data center vs. one using less efficient air cooling, but claims that "every cloud …Read the full story at The Verge.

A Claude subscription comes with plenty of perks, including the ability to use tools like Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Claude Design. But many people opt for the free plan, either due to affordability concerns, or because they don't use the AI enough to justify the cost.