This render with a transparent background is the closest we’ll ever come to touching one of these things. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell.All three devices are aimed squarely at the audiophile market, if the price tag didn't make that clear. All three feature Sony's DSD (Direct Stream Digital) Remastering Engine, which upsamples standard PCM audio to an 11.2MHz DSD stream, which it claims delivers a more analog-like sound. They also all feature gold-plating on …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, 2026, and onwards will require a Withings Plus subscription to use the "automatic sync to third-party apps" feature. The subscription costs $9.95 per month or $99.50 per year but Withings' devices come with a free one month trial that includes the option to sync their data to third-party apps. When the trial …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Atom couldn’t have launched at a worse time for Ledger. | Image: Ledger Ledger has announced its latest crypto-centric hardware effort, the Android-based Atom, a device that resembles a phone but is instead designed to be used alongside one. It arrives at a tricky time for Ledger, which has been forced to cease sales of some of its hardware across southeast Asia following hardware tampering in its supply chain, which has reportedly seen over $86 million worth of crypto stolen from across some users' accounts.While Ledger's previous hardware wallet signers have been compact devices, running custom software and often with E Ink displays, the Atom is the spitting image of a regular Android smartphone. In fact it …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I first started using Fedora, I wanted to grab all the third-party software for my OS from RPM Fusion. When I visited the website, I was greeted not with the RPM Fusion main page, but with what looked like an anime girl in a detective getup looking pensively at me. Before I could comprehend what I was looking at, the anime girl pointed me forward, and the website loaded.

As an OG Kindle fan, I've built up quite a collection over the years. Most of these devices work just fine, except for the artificial gatekeeping by Amazon to limit the user experience. While reading books works as expected, accessing the store is basically not possible and, well, customization was never the Kindle's strong suit. So, I did the obvious.

The new Muse Spark Open AI model can work on M5 Ultra Mac Studios. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework."Meta and Apple, typically rivals, worked together on the launch and are publicly supporting each other."Muse Spark Open - weights releasing today - runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on X."Congrats to the team!" new Apple CEO John Ternus said in a reply. "Amazing to run a model of Muse …Read the full story at The Verge.

Last year, Amazon bought Bee, a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee devices - and a new subscription to go with them. First is the $74.99 Bee Frontier, an updated version of the original Bee device. And coming soon is the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-shaped gadget that snaps magnetically onto the back of a smartphone. Both devices are framed as gadgets to help you stay present in the moment. They listen to your daily conversations and then provide summaries, transcripts, insights, and to-dos based on what ha …Read the full story at The Verge.

Looking at prices for brand-new PC components, it's difficult to see how someone on a budget could put together a new rig capable of high framerates at 1080p, let alone 1440p gaming. Everything is significantly more expensive than it was a year ago, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to put together a decent machine. The pre-owned market was the best way for budget builders to make an entry into PC gaming before the memory crisis, and it still is today. It'll take some patience and a little bit of trust, but it's more doable than you might expect.

I like to keep my charging accessories as compact as possible. So I look for wireless charging stands with a small footprint that can still charge multiple devices. Aukey's 2-in-1 MagSafe Qi2 Wireless Charging Stand gets a lot right, offering fast charging and an extra charging pad for your wireless earbuds. And while the $50 price tag is steep, the new 60% discount at Best Buy makes it easier to consider. Get it now for just $20 while you still can.

You'd expect a year of upgrades to Claude Code, Cursor, and every other vibe coding tool to show up as faster releases. According to a fresh survey of 300 engineering leaders, it mostly hasn't. 79% of them say they can produce code much faster, yet their release cycles are no faster than before.

Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia's autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can handle complex urban environments, including traffic lights, stop signs, and unprotected left turns without explicit driver control. In addition to Tesla's FSD, it will also resemble the Nvidia-powered system that Mercedes-Benz recently rolled out for the …Read the full story at The Verge.

Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community."You can make your own Attie app by typing in a prompt. A simple poll I made about Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue took a few minutes to generate. If you want to check out something more full-featured, the Attie website currently highlights a few examples l …Read the full story at The Verge.