The Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro sound good, are compact, and — most importantly — purple. (Yes, they also come in white and black.) | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are once again selling for their best price of $159.99 ($70 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. The noise-canceling earbuds with 24-bit audio support are among the smaller and lighter options from the current top-flight class of wireless earbuds, making them a very comfy choice. They’re also a pretty easy choice if you use Samsung devices, since, in addition to putting out some great quality sound, the Buds 2 Pro feature head tracking and spatial audio with Galaxy phones. Plus, that bora purple color option is just so fun looking.Read our review of the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro.If you live near a Target retail store, you can take advantage of a major one-day deal on Microsoft’s flagship Xbox console. Target is... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge As if publishers and users didn’t have enough reasons to reconsider their connections to the platform formerly known as Twitter, all outgoing links from X stopped working Wednesday afternoon. A problem with the URL redirect that captures activity before sending users on their way sent people to a simple error page saying, “This page is down. I scream. You scream. We all scream... for us to fix this page. We’ll stop making jokes and get things up and running soon.” After about an hour or so of that happening, the problem was fixed, although we haven’t seen any public acknowledgment of the issue from the @Support account, CEO Linda Yaccarino, or X owner / CTO Elon Musk.If this sounds familiar, it’s because something similar happened in... Continue reading…

Image: Meta Xbox Cloud Gaming is arriving on Meta’s range of VR headsets today. A beta version of the cloud gaming app is now available for the Meta Quest 2, 3, or Pro headsets, allowing you to stream hundreds of Xbox games with an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, a controller, and a Quest headset.The beta app is available from the Meta Quest Store, and you’ll simply need to pair a supported Bluetooth controller to start playing. You can use an Xbox controller (that supports Bluetooth), a PS4 one, or even Nintendo’s Switch Pro controllers. Support for PS5 controllers is “coming in the future,” according to Meta. Image: Meta The Xbox Cloud Gaming app on a Quest headset. There are a variety of display sizes for an... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla will have to skip trash day in Sweden as the country’s labor groups continue to protest the company’s anti-union policies. Reuters reports the country’s Transport Workers’ Union will refuse to pick up waste at the automaker’s workshops in solidarity with Tesla autoworkers who’ve been on strike since October 27th.Tesla has resisted collective bargaining agreements worldwide, but Sweden’s strong labor culture is continuing to test the automaker’s policy.After 130 workers at Tesla repair shops walked out, the first show of solidarity came from union dockworkers who refused to unload Tesla vehicles from cargo ships in early November. Then, on November 20th, postal workers joined the effort by refusing to deliver mail to Tesla,... Continue reading…

The motherboard is an important part of any PC, especially a system geared towards gaming. There are various factors to consider, such as the socket, chipset, storage interfaces, headers/ports, and RAM support. The more money spent on the motherboard, the better the feature set and overclocking capabilities. The processor, be it AMD or Intel, is then able to interface with the motherboard and play all your favorite PC games. Here are our recommendations for the best gaming motherboard.

Illustration: The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Threads that the platform is beginning to test making Threads posts available on Mastodon and other ActivityPub-supporting services. Zuckerberg wrote that making Threads work with the interoperable standard “will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people.”Joining the fediverse — the decentralized world of social media that includes Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other services that all interoperate through ActivityPub — has been on the Threads team’s to-do list since the very beginning. Instagram head Adam Mosseri told The Verge in July that he believed decentralizing the platform was key to making it relevant to a new generation of creators. “I think we might... Continue reading…

Apple AirTags are highly-capable, coin-sized trackers that rely on the Find My network. This means that as long as a new iPhone model is around, your AirTag's location will continue to update on the map. So, considering the iPhone's global popularity, AirTags and Find My devices are pretty much the most powerful trackers of this kind around.

Image: Apple Apple has begun selling the USB-C charging case for its second-generation AirPods Pro as a standalone purchase. But it doesn’t come cheap. The MagSafe-compatible case, available immediately, is priced at $99. Still, if you’re dead set on switching all of your gadgets to USB-C and already own a pair of second-gen AirPods Pro with a Lightning case, this upgrade is cheaper than buying a whole new set. Delivery estimates are already showing an arrival date of after Christmas, so the case might not be a viable holiday stocking stuffer unless your local Apple store gets stock in the coming days.The USB-C AirPods Pro, which released earlier this year, still have some advantages over the original Lightning model. Namely, they’re... Continue reading…

You stare at your wallpaper every day on your great iPhone, whether it's because you aren't actively using the phone or when you turn your phone on. So what happens when you want to give your phone's aesthetic a little refresh? Fortunately, it’s easy to change the wallpaper on an iPhone, and it's just as simple to delete a wallpaper if the image is temporary or seasonal.

Anker is known for making some of the best accessories for smartphones, tablets, and laptops. When it comes to chargers, the brand has a wide array of products that cater to different buyers, but if you're looking for a charger that can do it all, the Anker 736 Nano II charger is one of the best GaN chargers on the market right now. While this charger usually comes priced at $75, Amazon Prime members can now save big with a discount that knocks 45% off.

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple will require law enforcement to obtain a court order before the company hands over details of customers’ push notifications from now on. As Reuters reports, Apple quietly updated its guidelines for law enforcement page on Monday with language specifying that search warrants and court orders are now required for it to give up “The Apple ID associated with” an Apple Push Notification Service token. The new policy follows revelations that both Apple and Google have been providing details about the notifications to governments.Apps can “push” notifications to your phone so that you receive alerts, like a text message or incoming email, even when the app itself isn’t open. But the process involves potentially sensitive information... Continue reading…

You don't need a lot of money to get a great Chromebook. ChromeOS is a great, lightweight operating system, and because you don't need powerful specs to accomplish basic tasks like web browsing, you can get a Chromebook for less than $1,000. If you're on an even more limited budget, there are Chromebooks for you, too. One of them is the new IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook for a little over $300. Even though it's not the most premium when compared to some other devices and ChromeOS tablets, it still manages to impress.