Our favorite desk accessories for Prime Day
What you have on your desk and in your workspace at home can reveal a lot about you: how you work, what you like to distract yourself with, what kind of toys and other tchotchkes you like to have around you. That is why we have the What’s On Your Desk? series, where we look at how some of our coworkers organize their spaces. It gives us — and you, our readers — a glimpse into the personality of the folks who work here. Out of curiosity, we took a look at some of our past articles...
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Gemini AI can now turn photos into videos
The feature is available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. Google just launched a new Gemini AI feature that lets you transform photos into video clips. The new photo-to-video capability is powered by Google’s Veo 3 video model, and it can transform reference images into eight-second videos complete with AI-generated audio, including background noises, environmental sounds, and speech. The Gemini video update is now available to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers “in select r...
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The 35 best Prime Day deals you can get for under $25
Day one of Amazon Prime Day is in the books. The good news? You have three more days to save before the event wraps up on July 11th. We’ve already highlighted hundreds of deals, ranging from Verge-approved laptops to various smart home products we use daily. You can even see what Verge readers are buying. However, if you’re sticking to a budget, don’t worry; there are also plenty of deals under $25. For instance, if you’re going on vacation this summer, you can...
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Inside the AI startup frenzy: ‘Everyone’s pivoting, then pivoting again’
Welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, Deputy Editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. This is the first in a series of Thursday Decoder episodes that I’ll be hosting while Nilay is out on parental leave. I’ve been covering AI a lot at The Verge, and I’m excited to start sharing some of the conversations I regularly have with leaders in the space here. The plan is for each episode to focus on a specific theme, from the rise of deepfakes to how AI ...
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Samsung says its trifold phone should launch ‘this year’
A concept trifold phone from Samsung Display was shown off at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Yesterday’s Galaxy Unpacked event came and went without a single onstage tease of the rumored Samsung trifold phone, but the head of the company’s phone business says that it’s on the way, and due “this year.” “I expect we will be able to launch the trifold phone within this year,” TM Roh, acting head of Samsung’s Device Experience division, told The Korea T...
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Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown
Elon Musk’s live demo of Grok 4, the latest big-ticket model from his AI startup, began with high-intensity music, claims of a “ludicrous rate of progress,” and a lot of chatter on X about Grok’s scandal-filled week. Musk pronounced it to be “the smartest AI in the world.” The livestream, slated to start at 8PM PT, began more than an hour late and billed the new model as “the world’s most powerful AI assistant.” More than 1.5 million viewers were watching ...
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The Powerbeats Pro 2 are down to their best price yet for Prime Day
Heart rate monitoring, here we come. The Powerbeats Pro 2 are only a few months old, but they’re already on sale for an all-time low of around $179.95 ($70 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. We’ve seen the wireless earbuds drop in price here and there since launching in February, but Amazon is currently one-upping the previous low by a cool $20 for Prime Day. The earbuds aren’t quite as cheap as Apple’s second-gen AirPods Pro, which are down to $149 ($100 off) at...
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The best 4K TV deals during Prime Day 2025
It’s tough to beat a 55-inch OLED TV selling for $800. | Image: Panasonic Let me try to read your mind. You’re thinking of getting a new TV, yes, a 4K model with some sort of smart TV operating system that can provide instant access to your favorite streaming apps. Well then. With Prime Day underway, several TV models, as well as streaming devices and soundbars, are on sale. Some of them are much cheaper than we’ve seen before, while others are matching low prices that we ...
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