If you're looking a brand new pair of ANC headphones, you can't go wrong with something from Bose. The brand has been around for decades, and still manages to produce some of the more compelling devices on the market in 2024.

Whether youre trying to connect to your router to change settings, or youre just testing your network setup, its a quick job to find your routers IP address from most devices that are connected to it. Your routers IP address has a downstream effect on the devices that connect to it with these devices typically getting an IP address thats mostly identical to the routers. That being said, if youve got multiple switches or youve got routers plugged into routers, like plugging a mesh system into an ISP-provided router, it may not be so straightforward.

One of the best parts of using Windows is that the platform is wide open, and you can install just about any app or game you need without going through a third-party app marketplace. This inherently makes running a digital storefront on Windows 11 much more difficult than, say, the App Store on iOS or even the Google Play Store on Android. Still, the first-party Microsoft Store has been around since the Windows 8 days, but it hasn't taken off.

Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple is preparing for its big AI coming out party in this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference; that much you can count on. But apparently, the company is going to start that party a little early with the OLED iPad Pro that it’s expected to unveil on May 7th. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, there’s “a strong possibility” the tablet will launch with an M4 chip and its accompanying neural engine, making it Apple’s “first truly AI-powered device.”Writing in his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the company could use its May event to explain “its AI chip strategy without distraction,” freeing it to focus on exactly how the iPad Pro and its other M4 devices will use the company’s AI offerings in iPadOS 18. Those could include... Continue reading…

If you've been away from your news feeds in the past week, you missed out on quite a bit. Not only did we get a torrent of leaks surrounding the Snapdragon X and the Nintendo Switch 2, but we saw technology used in cool and strange ways. As such, here is a quick rundown of all the interesting things that happened this week.

Delta is about to get better on the iPad. | Image: Riley Testut The Delta emulator made a huge splash when it hit the Apple App Store earlier this month, quickly rocketing to the top spot in Apple’s free apps, where it remains today. Now, developer Riley Testut says an iPad-specific version is “near completion,” and will be released with Delta version 1.6. Testut says the app is already available for his Patreon supporters through “the regular AltStore,” which I take to mean the non-EU-specific one, rather than the Apple-approved AltStore PAL.Of course, the iOS version already works on the iPad (and the Vision Pro, where I’ve been playing Metroid Prime Hunters). But a native version would let it take advantage of the full iPad screen real estate for better skins, including one that turns your tablet... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge It was Valentine’s Day when Meta’s ad platform started going off the rails. RC Williams, the co-founder of the Philadelphia-based marketing agency 1-800-D2C, had set one of Meta’s automated ad tools to run campaigns for two separate clients. But when he checked the platform that day, he found that Meta had blown through roughly 75 percent of the daily ad budgets for both clients in under a couple of hours.Williams told The Verge that the ads’ CPMs, or cost per impressions, were roughly 10 times higher than normal. A usual CPM of under $28 had inflated to roughly $250, way above the industry average. That would have been bad enough if the revenue earned from those ads wasn’t nearly zero. If you’re not a marketer, this might feel like... Continue reading…

Image: Bethesda Game Studios A sampling of the four modern games in the series for those jumping in after the Amazon show. Continue reading…

We put the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra head-to-head against the DreameBot X30 Ultra to find out which of these Roomba competitors’ flagship robot vacuums is the best. Continue reading…

Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge The first race of the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) took place on the Yas Marina Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Formula 1 track today, and I’m pleased to report that a race both began and ended. But the event was not without strife — far from it. During qualifying time trials, the driverless Dallara Super Formula racers outfitted with cameras and software seemed to struggle mightily to complete a full lap.During the trials, cars randomly juked: Image: A2RL Or spun: Image: A2RL Or turned into walls: Image: A2RL Or just pulled off the track to take a little break: Image: A2RL You get well-acquainted with the interstitial music during these highlights.... Continue reading…

Image: Marvel Studios I’ve been making more of an effort to keep up with movies lately and even managed the rare feat of seeing one in an actual movie theater. I saw Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which stars Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Elza González, Babs Olusanmokun, and others in what I interpreted as a goofy spaghetti western / spy / heist film. I suppose it’s also a war movie, being based (very loosely) on a true story about a collection of unstoppable guys set on an unsanctioned secret mission to destroy a German U-boat resupply ship during World War II. It doesn’t try to ruminate on the weight of the mission, which was to clear the way for American ships to cross the Atlantic and join the war effort. Ministry is... Continue reading…

While a power strip will do everything you need, it isn't always the most compact or prettiest solution. That's where a charging station like the Anker 525 comes into play, with its awesome size and excellent port selection. While this charging station typically retails for $65.99, it can now be had for far less, with a fantastic discount that drops it down to its lowest price yet.