The 2023 Subaru Solterra. | Image: Subaru Subaru is hopping on the Tesla charging port bandwagon. The automaker has announced that it will adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) for “certain” electric vehicles starting in 2025.Subaru says it will also supply NACS charging adapters to customers who own or lease an EV with the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in 2025. The company has been relatively slow to adopt EVs. It currently only offers the Solterra, and even that’s only as part of its partnership with Toyota; everything else is gas-powered. Subaru plans to add to its EV lineup, though, and it has three vehicles in the works that it’s supposed to reveal by 2026.The adoption of the NACS charging port has ramped up significantly after Tesla opened up the... Continue reading…

Illustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge It’s official: Halloween is over, and the 2023 holiday season has arrived. And if you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping, retailers like Target and Best Buy have already launched their early Black Friday promos, dropping prices on tablets, wireless earbuds, laptops, and even OLED TVs. What’s more, Amazon and other retailers are matching prices in some cases, letting you save no matter where you shop.We may see better deals arrive as we get closer to November 24th, but what’s discounted so far is still worth a look. For example, Apple’s updated AirPods Pro with USB-C have already returned to the all-time low they first set during Amazon’s recent Prime Day event. A range of other gadgets and gizmos are also on sale, from... Continue reading…

The Phantom V Fold, from Transsion brand Tecno. | Image: Tecno / Transsion Transsion, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer whose brands include Tecno, Itel, and Infinix, has quietly grown to become the world’s fifth largest smartphone manufacturer, according to recent market reports from Canalys (via Android Central), IDC, and Omdia. Despite being one of the few smartphone brands to grow in the third quarter of this year, many in Europe and North America won’t have heard of Transsion given its focus on markets in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. Transsion has a particularly strong base in Africa, according to IDC, where it sells more phones than Samsung and Xiaomi. Although this suggests Transsion is focused on affordable smartphones, its Tecno brand recently released its first foldable... Continue reading…

Illustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge Let’s face it — Black Friday is no longer reserved for the day following Thanksgiving. What was often considered the single busiest shopping day of the year has evolved into something more expansive post-pandemic, with numerous retailers kicking off their holiday promos as early as October. Despite the recency of Amazon’s fall Prime Day event, Best Buy and Target have already started doling out the early Black Friday deals, slashing prices on noise-canceling headphones, OLED TVs, laptops, smart displays, and a host of other tech. We expect the savings to ramp up as we get closer to November 24th, too, especially as retailers begin instituting their respective price-matching policies and we enter the holiday return window.Thankfully, we... Continue reading…

The MacBook Pro is Apple's mightiest notebook, offering power and portability for those working on the go. Though, while the MacBook Pro is highly capable, you may not be able to make the most out of it on its own. So, for example, you could smoothly have multiple app windows open at once, but its built-in screen may not offer enough space to view them all simultaneously. That's why we advise you to pick up a MacBook Pro monitor, and we've listed some of the best options below.

Headphones have been around forever. You can trace them back all the way to 1891. But headphones that are waterproof, well, that is a much more recent invention. Waterproof headphones arrived in our lives around 2015. Since then, only a handful of manufacturers have ventured into creating the best waterproof headphones for swimming. These differ from the best over-the-ear headphones, or noise canceling headphones, which may have some water resistance, but not enough to be deemed “waterproof.” For that, you want headphones that have at least an IP rating of IPX8 or higher. This means the headphones can withstand being submerged in at least one meters of water for up to a half hour.

Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Jerod Harris, Chesnot, Getty Images During an employee all-hands, Musk said that Twitter became X to replace YouTube, LinkedIn, FaceTime, dating apps, and even your bank. Continue reading…

Chromebooks and even ChromeOS tablets are a lot like Windows laptops in terms of what powers them. When shopping for a new Chromebook, you'll still need to consider the CPU and RAM. Both of these factors go into how fast your Chromebook might be, and what tasks you can do on it, be it gaming with Steam, running Linux apps, or even using Android apps.

Image: Apple Apple’s new entry-level Apple Pencil with a USB-C port for charging is now available to order, the company announced on Wednesday.At $79, the new Apple Pencil is the company’s most affordable, and it comes with features like tilt sensitivity and the ability to attach magnetically to the side of an iPad. To charge the new Apple Pencil, you can slide the cap on the end to reveal the USB-C port.However, the lower price means this third-generation Apple Pencil doesn’t have some nice features available on the company’s other Apple Pencils, such as pressure sensitivity (found on both the first- and second-generation models) or the ability to pair and charge wirelessly when magnetically attached to an iPad (which you can do with the... Continue reading…

Buying a network-attached storage (NAS) device can prove a costly endeavor, which is where sales events such as Black Friday come into play. It's possible to save hundreds on new enclosures and storage drives, allowing you to cancel various cloud-based service subscriptions and manage your very own platform from the comfort of your home. We'll be covering the very best deals right here for 2023's Black Friday, starting with some early bird discounts!

Apple has just announced anew generation of MacBook Pro laptops powered by its latest M3 processor line. In other words, Apple’s Scary Fast event met all of our expectations. But while the new model promises a boost in performance, it appears to have plateaued in terms of display quality. This generation sticks to a 3456x2234 resolution display on the 16.2-inch mini-LED panel and a 3024x1964 resolution on the 14.2-inch mini-LED panel. So, no, Apple hasn’t yet made a 4K resolution display part of the standard MacBook Pro feature set. And it probably won’t until battery technology is vastly improved. Otherwise, it would mean an unappealing tradeoff in battery life.

Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s 365 Copilot AI assistant is now available for certain enterprise customers. Microsoft is quietly launching its Microsoft 365 Copilot system for a $30-per-month premium per user, but enterprise customers will need to commit to at least 300 users and pick up the phone to Microsoft to get on the list to access this new AI-powered assistant that Microsoft promises will change the way Office documents are created and edited.Businesses willing to pay the premium will be able to use Microsoft 365 Copilot to summarize documents, generate emails, create plans from notes, and even improve Excel analysis. More than 600 enterprise customers have been testing Microsoft 365 Copilot during a paid early access program in recent months. M... Continue reading…