The Best Prime Day Deals You Can Already Get The Best Prime Day Deals You Can Already Get Some of these products are already better than they were during Black Friday, and we’re just getting started. Amazon’s Prime Day 2024 is now right around the corner, taking place on Tuesday, July 16th, and Wednesday, July 17th. Fortunately, if you’re looking to get a leg up on deals ahead of the upcoming sales event, Amazon has already begun rolling out steep discounts on several of its own devices, including TVs, ebook readers, streaming devices, smart displays, and even Alexa-powered shades. The list of Prime-only deals is still relatively short for now, but it’ll explode to include thousands of products in short order. However, keep in mind that you must be an…

Early Apple Tech Bloggers Shocked to Find Their Name and Work AI-Zombified Early Apple Tech Bloggers Shocked to Find Their Name and Work AI-Zombified Christina Warren hasn’t worked at this website since 2009, and that’s not her face. | Screenshot by Christina Warren. An old Apple blog and the blog’s former authors have become the latest victims of AI-written sludge. TUAW (“The Unofficial Apple Weblog”) was shut down by AOL in 2015, but this past year, a new owner scooped up the domain and began posting articles under the bylines of former writers who haven’t worked there for over a decade. And that new owner, which also appears to run other AI sludge websites, seems to be trying to hide. Christina Warren, who left a long career in tech journalism…

Best Price Yet on the Animal Crossing-Inspired Nintendo Switch Lite The Animal Crossing-Inspired Nintendo Switch Lite is Down to its Best Price Yet Walmart’s exclusive Switch Lite deal includes a digital copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. From terrific deals on MacBooks to the Super Mario Party Joy-Con bundle, Walmart’s rival Prime Day sale has surprised us with some pretty good deals. Today, we’re highlighting another one that’s perfect if you’re looking for something to keep the kids (or yourself) entertained this summer. Right now, you can buy an Animal Crossing-themed Nintendo Switch Lite at Walmart for just $159 ($41 off), which is the best price we’ve seen on Timmy & Tommy’s Aloha Edition bundle, which includes a digital copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The Nintendo Switch Lite plays…

Delta’s Latest Update Lets iPad Users Emulate Multiple Games at Once The Delta emulator app now provides native iPadOS support. Image: Riley Testut The Delta iOS app has released a new update that introduces the retro gaming emulator’s redesigned logo, alongside native iPad support that allows users to play multiple games simultaneously. Users in the EU can download the update immediately via AltStore PAL, but everyone else will have to wait for Apple to approve Delta 1.6 for the App Store, which could take a few days, according to Delta developer Riley Testut. The app was technically available on iPad before today, but the lack of full support forced it to run as a letterboxed iPhone app, which impacted the emulator’s touch controls and prevented games from using the full…

Amazon’s Carbon Emissions Fell Last Year Amazon’s Carbon Emissions Fell Last Year Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s carbon emissions decreased slightly in 2023 after the company ramped up renewable energy purchases and cut down on pollution from construction, hardware, and equipment, according to its latest sustainability report. Back in 2019, Amazon pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040. Despite that goal, its carbon emissions actually ballooned soon after — climbing from around 51 million metric tons of CO2 in 2019 to more than 71 million metric tons in 2021. Now it seems that the company’s carbon footprint has shrunk a bit over the past couple years, decreasing 3 percent in 2023 to just under 69 million metric tons of CO2. To put it in context,…

Switching from Google Photos to iCloud is About to be a Lot Less Painful Google’s service lets you order your photos to go. | Illustration: The Verge Apple and Google are offering a new, nearly painless way to copy files from Google Photos to iCloud. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Google is adding iCloud support to its data transfer tool over the next week, making it possible to move your photo library directly to Apple’s service — no download necessary. It’s part of a bigger data portability initiative supported by a handful of big tech companies and complements the iCloud-to-Google-Photos service Apple rolled out in 2021. The service is pretty straightforward: photos and videos are sent directly to iCloud, so there’s no need to download anything. You can send your whole…

Microsoft Has Nine Months to Stop Another Antitrust Battle from Escalating Microsoft Has Nine Months to Stop Another Antitrust Battle from Escalating Illustration: The Verge Microsoft has reached a settlement with an industry group backed by European cloud infrastructure providers, quelling an antitrust battle that could have embroiled it for years and resulted in fines. But if Microsoft doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain in the next nine months, the group has promised to revive its antitrust complaint with the European Commission. The group, Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE), agreed to withdraw its 2022 complaint to the European Commission, where it accused Microsoft of “irreparably damaging the European cloud ecosystem and depriving European customers of choice in their cloud deployments.” It argued at the time that…

Ford’s Capri Slaps Another Old Name on a New EV Image: Ford Ford’s classic Capri coupe is returning as a four-door electric vehicle with a profile resembling other chunky-looking electric crossovers like the Polestar 2. Ford Europe design director Amko Leenarts says the look follows an imagined evolution of the Capri since production ended in 1986, as inspired by the rising popularity of SUVs. This beefier Capri follows Ford’s other modern takes on classic nameplates, including the Mustang, which became an electric SUV, and the Maverick, which ended up as a pickup truck. It will come in rear-wheel and all-wheel-drive extended-range configurations and a “premium” trim option for each. Ford is promising a maximum range of 627km (about 390 miles) on a single charge for the extended-range RWD... Continue reading……

CNN Announces More Layoffs as It Preps for a Future Beyond Cable TV CNN is cutting jobs and restructuring its news operations as part of ongoing efforts by the company to boost its digital offerings and be less dependent on its cable news channel. The changes, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter from a memo sent to staff on Wednesday by CNN CEO Mark Thompson, include layoffs of "around a hundred" staffers, representing less than 3 percent of the company’s workforce of more than 3,500 employees. The cuts follow layoffs in 2022, including jobs lost when the network’s streaming service, CNN Plus, was shut down less than a month after launching. Today’s memo also outlined Thompson’s plans to merge CNN’s TV news and digital news teams into a single "Global…

Bose Adds Multipoint Pairing to Latest Earbuds Bose Adds Multipoint Pairing to Latest Earbuds Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Bose is updating its two most recent pairs of earbuds, the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds and the Ultra Open Earbuds, to add support for multipoint Bluetooth. A new software update rolling out to both products will enable them to pair with two devices at the same time for easier multitasking. The update, which will take a couple weeks to reach all customers, also includes a few bug fixes that are specific to Bose’s rather unique Ultra Open Earbuds. Among them are optimizations to voice pickup, overall connectivity, and a few other improvements. Multipoint has become a fairly common feature for premium wireless earbuds (AirPods notwithstanding), so I noted its absence…