In the world of handheld or mobile gaming, there's nothing worse than a scratched or smudged screen that hinders your intense play experience. Your Ayaneo Geek, an amazing Steam Deck alternative, deserves top-tier protection to keep it pristine for a longer period of time. The challenge lies in finding the perfect screen protector to guard against scratches, glare, and dreaded fingerprints.

Searching the web for a good pair of wireless earbuds when you're on a budget can quickly lead you down a rabbit hole; with so many choices, which should you choose? While the best wireless earbuds will give you all the bells and whistles, they might not be the wallet-friendly option. If you're looking for a pair of affordable buds that sounds good and want to get the best bang for your buck, it can be tough to narrow things down. Lucky for you, we've done the footwork through the endless offerings, distilling down only the best budget options.

Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 14, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, you’re my favorite, so happy you’re here, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been traveling a bunch, so I’ve watched Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and most of Rick and Morty. I’ve also been reading about life as an OnlyFans star and the insane growth of WhatsApp, doing some holiday meal planning in Mela, nodding vigorously at how bonkers tipping culture has become, and trying to make a dent in Barack Obama’s very good AI reading list.I also have for you a rundown of the best tools for managing money, new gadgets... Continue reading…

Apple unveiled the M3 MacBook Pro units at its "Scary Fast" event in October, and there were two major highlights. The first is the Space Black color option, which looks pretty slick, but more importantly, there’s a price drop for the base model; you can get your hands on the 14-inch model for just $1,599.

When buying a new laptop, the brand can be just as important as the advertised specs. Sure, you can take a look at the best laptops around and choose from those, but we all have preferences. Many of the best and most popular laptops are from companies like HP or Lenovo, but maybe you just happen to prefer Asus. If that's the case for you, then you've come to the right place.

Illustration: The Verge Many Threads users are now saying they have the ability to opt out of having their posts shown on Instagram and Facebook. To keep Threads posts from showing up Meta’s other platforms, tap the two lines in the top right of the Threads app > Privacy > Suggesting posts on other apps — two switches let users turn off suggestions on Instagram or Facebook. Meta tends to roll out Threads features slowly, so if you don’t see the new toggles yet, give it time.Instagram and Facebook each got a “For you on Threads” carousel in the last few months. Responding to user grumpiness, Threads said in October it was “listening to feedback” shortly before testing the opt-out switch that’s rolling out now. The feature was clearly intended to drive... Continue reading…

When you try to reset an iPhone through the Settings app, iOS 17 prompts you to enter its password. But what if you've forgotten it? Well, fear not — you can erase everything and set it up as a new iPhone even if you can't remember its password. Whether you have an iPhone 15 Pro Max or an older model, all you have to do is follow the steps we've detailed below.

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is the most powerful model in the flagship Galaxy S23 lineup. It has everything one could ask for in a top-of-the-line smartphone, including improved durability thanks to Gorilla Glass Victus 2, which provides much better protection against drops on rougher surfaces such as concrete.

Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple started using OLED screens in the iPhone X back in 2017, and before that, in the first Apple Watch. And the Touch Bar, of course (RIP). But it’s been slow to move away from LCD elsewhere, like its iMacs, MacBooks, standalone displays, and iPads. I want OLED on all those things, but if the iPad Pro gets it first, as rumor has it, then that’s fine by me.There’s no product where the use of an LCD panel bothers me more than my 11-inch iPad Pro. It’s got a nice-looking screen so long as I’m looking directly at it. Go a little off-axis, though, and the screen gets way dimmer. That’s true of my laptop, too, but I’m always sitting directly in front of that screen, and almost always looking at a browser window with text in it.Contrast... Continue reading…

Buying the best external GPU enclosures for your laptop can be crucial to boosting the overall performance of the machine, be it for gaming or for improving the render speeds in Premiere Pro. The external GPU (or eGPU) enclosure, as the name suggests, holds a desktop graphics card and also provides power for it. These enclosures allow you to get all the graphics capabilities of powerful desktop graphics even while using a thin and light laptop.

The year 2016 was the beginning of the dark ages for the Mac lineup. The MacBook Pro was the epitome of the company's problems, dragged down by Intel's performance stalls and Apple's own arrogance regarding design and an unflinching pursuit of thinness. It added a butterfly-style keyboard prone to failure, lost critical I/O ports in favor of USB-C, and notoriously eliminated the function key row for the Touch Bar. When Apple started to fix its mistakes with the 16-inch MacBook Pro (Intel, 2019), the butterfly keyboard was the first to go. Then, the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBooks Pro in 2021 with Apple Silicon added ports and removed the Touch Bar.

Samsung's DeX platform has been around for quite some time now, and I'd say it's the closest thing we have right now to using our phones as PCs. It's far ahead of other attempts we've seen from many manufacturers, including Microsoft, and it's only getting better. Samsung has also made it easier to use DeX now, as you no longer need one of those fancy DeX stations to establish a connection. It is, however, recommended that you pick up the right accessories to have a good overall experience while using Samsung DeX. Good-quality peripherals like a keyboard, mouse, and multiport adapter will go a long way to ensure you have a seamless experience, and that's exactly what we're here for. Below is the list of accessories I recommend picking up to have a solid Samsung DeX experience.