Best Buy's early Black Friday sale is now taking place, with big discounts on laptops, TVs, SSDs, Apple products, and more. While the retailer has offered impressive discounts on popular products, it's now delivering a new set of steep discounts ahead of Black Friday during a limited three-day flash sale that starts today.

As the weather gets colder, Walmart’s early Black Friday deals are only getting hotter. You can, for example, upgrade your living room with a massive new TV to make the most of the rest of NFL season. You can also save on Bluetooth headphones and tablets, which can make long flights feel shorter and bumpy car rides more enjoyable.

Finding the best mouse for your needs isn't always easy. There are mice for office work, there are mice for gaming, there are mice made for travel, and the list seemingly goes on without end. If you're focusing on a great gaming mouse for your PC, you might also want something that remains lightweight.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the two greatest times of year to find savings on the best laptops are approaching. So, while you typically see steep discounts on Windows laptops and MacBooks, you can't forget the deals you'll see floating around on the best Chromebooks, either.

Google’s mid-range Pixel 5a might be nearly three generations old at this point, but it leans heavily into the Pixel range’s best feature, the camera quality. Most of the components were also used on the flagship Pixel 5, with Google only compromising on the quality of the screen and weatherproofing.

Photo: FX Thanksgiving is coming, and after that, December and all of its various holidays. For many of us, this means lots of cooking and traveling and family gatherings, with all that entails. And this year, conversations around the dinner table may be even more fraught than usual.So we asked the staff of The Verge what tools — hardware, software, physical, or mental — they use to get through the holidays. How do they deal with the demands of the kitchen or the demands of the kids? What gadgets and games make things happier and more interesting? Here are some of their answers.Go for a walkJay Peters, news editorI generally love the holiday season; I’m very fortunate to have family that I can happily hang out with for days at a time. Every... Continue reading…

The popularity of the Steam Deck against products like the Logitech G Cloud, Lenovo Legion Go, and even the ROG Ally means that there is no shortage of accessories for it. You can buy microSD cards for extra storage, and docks and adapters to connect it to a larger screen. But, as with your phone, laptop, or tablet, good-quality skin is also worth considering.

In previous versions of Windows, Microsoft was pretty lenient on allowing you to uninstall the apps that come bundled with the operating system. However, Windows 11 saw a lot of baked-in apps that you could not remove without special tools or methods. Fortunately, the company is slowly backpedaling its original stance, and the latest Windows 11 preview build allows users to uninstall some of the default apps they may not want or use.

Image: Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery just canned Coyote vs. Acme, a live-action and animated film featuring John Cena and the classic Looney Tunes hijinks of Wile E. Coyote. Director Dave Green confirmed that the nearly completed film will not be released shortly after Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.Coyote vs. Acme is the third almost finished film that CEO David Zaslav has shelved for financial reasons. Like Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt, Coyote vs. Acme got sent to the vault so Warner Bros. Discovery could get a tax write-off as part of its efforts to cut billions in costs following last year’s megamerger. The Coyote vs. Acme film cost around $72 million to make, according to The Hollywood Reporter, making for a $30 million... Continue reading…

The Ayaneo Geek is the Ayaneo 2’s cheaper little brother, but it’s still a powerful handheld gaming machine with an AMD Ryzen 6800U and up to 32GB of RAM. Ayaneo Geek has two USB-C charging ports, so you can keep playing while you top up, or easily connect it to a dock. Whether you’re taking it on the go, or just to the living room, you’ll want plenty of power to charge your device at full speed while gaming. These chargers will be able to keep up with the Ayaneo Geek with even the most demanding games running.

One big wiper, or three wipers in a trench coat? | Image: Parker Ortolani / The Verge As Vergecast listeners know, I am deeply and forever fascinated by the Tesla Cybertruck’s wiper — it is one of the silliest design compromises in automotive history on a vehicle that is itself a rolling design compromise. I love it so much.Anyway, I’ve been asking listeners to send in detailed shots of the wiper to confirm a rumor I’ve been hearing — my thanks to the dozens of people who’ve passed along photos. I didn’t have anything worth running until today, though: our own Parker Ortolani spotted a Cybertruck in NYC and took several photos that appear to show that the “single wiper” is actually multiple wiper blades stacked in a row. The idea, I’ve been told, is apparently to make replacements easier — one assumes sourcing... Continue reading…

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine on the set of Deadpool 3. | Image: Marvel Studios Disney has pushed back the release of Deadpool 3 from May 3rd 2024 to July 26th, Deadline reports, days after a tentative deal was reached to end the actors’ strike. According to The Hollywood Reporter, production will resume on the film in the next couple of weeks in London, where Marvel and Disney have paid to keep the film’s sets intact while production was on hold due.It’s one of several Marvel Studios films to see their release dates change like falling dominos. Captain America: Brave New World, which had originally been due to release July 26th, 2024, will now instead release on February 14th, 2025, and Blade has been pushed back from that date to November 7th, 2025. Finally, Thunderbolts has been delayed from December 20th, 2024... Continue reading…