Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos speaker setup, or adding to an existing group, the Sonos Era 100 is worth picking up. The compact, capable smart speaker is currently marked down to $189 ($30 off) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Sonos. If you want an even lower price, Sonos is selling refurbished Era 100 speakers for just $134. They come with fresh accessories and packaging, and sport the same one-year warranty as its new speakers.Sonos Era 100The Era 100 is Sonos’s most affordable in-home smart speaker. Offering pleasant sound at a relatively compact size, it improves upon the prior Sonos One with stereo audio, line-in support, and Bluetooth support. Read our review.Where to Buy: $219 $189 at Amazon $219 $189 at Sonos $219 $189 at Best BuyThe wireless speaker has a rich, detailed sound profile, with room-filling audio despite its small size. You might be able to improve the sound further with the Sonos Trueplay feature, which uses either your phone or the speaker’s built-in microphone to automatically tune it to your space. The Era 100 can easily connect with other speakers in the Sonos ecosystem for multi-room play, even with different Sonos models.The Era 100 has expanded functionality from previous entry-level Sonos speakers, adding in Bluetooth and USB-C wired audio, as well as improved onboard controls. While the speaker features built-in voice assistant support for both Sonos and Alexa, you can flip a switch on its back to cut power to the microphone.Read our full Sonos Era 100 review.Other deals to considerThe Google Nest Doorbell is one of our favorite video doorbells, and the wired version is currently marked down at Amazon to just $140 ($40 off). This doorbell has fairly sharp 960 x 1280 video quality, notifications for people and packages (a Google Home Premium subscription can provide more detailed notifications, including familiar face recognition), and full integration with many other Google products. The wired model has sharper video and faster response times than the battery-powered version. Read our review.Humble has a 2K Sports bundle full of games redeemable on Steam.. If you spend at least $10, you’ll get NBA 2K26 plus a heap of the game’s virtual currency. Pledging $25 or more will also get you PGA Tour 2K25, TopSpin 2K25, and Olli Olli World Rad Edition. Proceeds go to Covenant House.The Technics EAH-AZ80 wireless earbuds have a natural warmth and expansive soundstage that rivals some of our other favorite picks. They also sport excellent active noise-canceling and three-way multipoint pairing, but their high launch price didn’t do them any favors. However, at the discounted price of $147.99 ($52 off) at Amazon, they’re a much more appealing pick. Read our review.

This is the watch to get if you're looking for one that can really go the distance. Not only are you getting excellent fitness and health tracking, but there are also top-tier features like mapping, fitness coaching, and more.

We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia's Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops - and a completely new kind of laptop made to support it. It's all very interesting, but it raises the same question we have around so many AI products: Does anyone actually want this?On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David run through a lot of the products coming out of Microsoft Build and Google I/O, from Gemini S …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google TV is famed for being clunky and packed with ads, but you know what's worse? Roku. I'll admit that Roku is still faster and easier to navigate than most Google TV devices. However, the sheer number of ads it now pushes has become a major turnoff. I recently ditched Roku altogether and shook hands with the Big G, and let me tell you, the experience isn't the greatest if you've used Apple TV, but it's quite decent.

Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice - even if they're US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained and questioned by customs agents at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Before they let her go, the agents searched her luggage twice, confiscated political literature she had purchased abroad, and seized her phone - which has yet to be returned, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Minnesota.Is i …Read the full story at The Verge.

Figma has been my main design tool for years now and I genuinely don't have many complaints about it. But the open-source design space has been getting more interesting lately, and you'd kind of be missing out not to at least poke around in it. Penpot is the one I keep coming back to and have already written about more times than is probably reasonable - it's by far the most evolved Figma alternative out there. But it's not the only one, and a few newer ones have caught me off guard recently.

When I first got a smart plug, I used it to remotely turn devices on and off. Soon enough, I had access to detailed energy consumption reports for appliances that were connected to it. It was all I needed at that point: an automation tool for dumb appliances around the house, say portable fans, lights, and more. But then it hit me, if a smart plug could remotely control power, track energy usage, and show the active power draw, it would be more useful as a troubleshooting tool.

Starting your smart home journey using Zigbee can be pretty simple at first. You start with a single Zigbee coordinator and a few temperature sensors. It works flawlessly, and suddenly you're eager to expand. You add dozens of Zigbee smart plugs, smart bulbs, and switches, assuming you are building an indestructible, self-healing mesh network across your entire home.

Scott Pelley, correspondent, 60 Minutes. | Photo by Michele Crowe / CBS News via Getty Images It should have been the final straw. The new power couple of editorial failure - Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton - had fired legendary 60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley. Why? Because he dared to question the fact that CBS had installed sycophants in its top ranks. Instead of standing in solidarity, correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim declared in a joint memo to staff that they'd stay on to save the program. "We don't want to see 60 Minutes die," they said. The kids in Weekend at Bernie's held a similar position.The canary in the media coal mine isn't just sick, it's a charred skeleton.The remaining trio of correspond …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you're not a developer, chances are you boarded the Claude hype train late. For most of its run, Anthropic was known for having models that had stronger coding capabilities than the rest of the competition, and Claude was the the model engineers and the people you'd likely call "tech-savy" reached to serious work while everyone else thought all AI could do was improve an email you were writing to your boss to ask for a raise, or whip up a birthday message for a cousin they barely remember. However, before we knew it, it turned into the AI app everyone (and their mothers) seemed to be talking about overnight. It hit number one on the App Store, people started casually name dropping it in group chats (just as they'd tell you they "GPT-ed" it), and your timeline filled up with people discovering, apparently for the first time, that AI could do more than reword a paragraph.

Three years of 3D printing have taught me that filament choice matters most after the novelty wears off. PLA still has a place on my shelf, and I’ll happily use it for quick prototypes, decorative parts, and anything that doesn’t need to survive daily use. But when I’m printing something that has to hold weight, resist heat, clip into place, or live near electronics, I don’t reach for PLA anymore. I reach for PETG because it offers the best balance of strength, flexibility, and reliability without turning every print into a materials science project.

Geoff Keighley’s annual June celebration of games is here. Summer Game Fest Live, the big live show that will feature a whole bunch of gaming news and announcements, begins at 5PM ET and is set to run for two hours. The event itself will take place in person at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, but it will also be streaming live on YouTube.Summer Game Fest Live sits squarely in the middle of a big run of video game showcases; PlayStation hosted a State of Play on Tuesday, and the Xbox Games Showcase takes place on Sunday. That doesn’t mean there won’t be some big surprises, though. Last year, for example, Capcom used the show to announce Resident Evil Requiem. According to this year’s livestream’s description, expect a “live look at what’s next in video games, with new game announcements, surprise special guests and more,” and while that’s not very specific, Keighley probably has some flashy news in store.Read on for our coverage of the biggest updates from the show. Get your knives out for this one. Screenbound, a game that can be both a 2D and 3D platformer simultaneously, launches in September. I know Threads of Time isn’t newly announced, but it looks so cool. More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is back with a multiplayer sequel Fortnite’s next season tests the extraction waters. A bloody good announcement. Grand Theft Auto VI is warping the video game release calendar Final Fantasy VII’s remake trilogy will conclude with Revelation Tifa can kick Ryu’s ass, and now you can prove it. The Wolf Among Us 2 isn’t dead yet. For those following along at home… Palworld 1.0 launches in July. Attack on Titan in its entirety. Another look at Clutch. Gotta go a little fast. A wild expansion has appeared. There’s a surprise drop among us. 007 First Light is getting a new story mission later this year. A new hope. Assassin’s cat. Virtua Fighter Crossroads is the next Virtua Fighter game. It’s the Sebulba game! Titled Goose Game. Control Resonant is a sequel — and also a starting point Who doesn’t love a good cube? PlatinumGames is making another TMNT game. Stranger Than Heaven is coming out in January — and features Tupac? Fumito Ueda’s next game is Gen Atlas. Uh oh, the xenomorph is back. Cuphead returns. Capcom is remaking Resident Evil: Code Veronica. No Highguard-esque ending today. TGI(SG)F. Minecraft Dungeons II could launch this September. Paramount is making a unified games studio.