Bose headphones and earbuds return to all-time lows for Black Friday

Bose headphones and earbuds return to all-time lows for Black Friday

You can save up to $160 off Bose headphones and earbuds right now. | Image: The Verge It’s almost November, and to celebrate, retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are dropping early Black Friday deals on everything from Apple devices to smartphones and video games. We’re also seeing some great deals on Bose headphones…

Hackers threaten to leak ‘woke’ University of Pennsylvania student data

Hackers threaten to leak ‘woke’ University of Pennsylvania student data

“We got hacked,” members of the University of Pennsylvania community were told in the subject line of several emails sent from addresses linked to its Graduate School of Education. The sender, apparently, was the potential hacker or hackers themselves. “The University of Pennsylvania is a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards,” said the emails,…

How to shop like a pro during Black Friday and Cyber Monday

How to shop like a pro during Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Despite Amazon and other retailers having filled the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. Thankfully, like in previous years, we’ll be working to highlight the best prices on phones, TVs, noise-canceling headphones, gaming gear, and other tech throughout…

iOS 26 leak co-defendant says Jon Prosser paid him $650

iOS 26 leak co-defendant says Jon Prosser paid him $650

Earlier this year, Apple sued leaker Jon Prosser alongside Michael Ramacciotti, alleging the two had a “coordinated scheme to break into an Apple development iPhone, steal Apple’s trade secrets, and profit from the theft.” However, in a new filing, Ramacciotti “denies that he planned or participated in any conspiracy or coordinated scheme” with Prosser” and…

Vivo X300 launch finally brings OriginOS to the rest of the world

Vivo X300 launch finally brings OriginOS to the rest of the world

These are the first Vivo phones to run OriginOS outside of China. Vivo’s flagship X300 and X300 Pro only launched in China two weeks ago, but they’re getting an international release faster than we’re used to from Vivo. Today, the company announced that both phones are going on sale outside China, including a handful of…

This magnetic controller brings Game Boy-style controls to your smartphone

This magnetic controller brings Game Boy-style controls to your smartphone

Abxylute’s M4 Snap-On phone controller trades clamps for magnets. | Image: Abxylute Abxylute, a company known for its Android-based handhelds, has announced a new compact mobile controller for smartphones. Unlike controllers from companies like Backbone and 8BitDo that use an expanding mechanism to clamp onto phones, Abxylute’s smaller and lighter M4 Snap-On controller uses a…

The Outer Worlds 2’s satire has a Microsoft-shaped problem

The Outer Worlds 2’s satire has a Microsoft-shaped problem

Almost immediately in The Outer Worlds 2, the player receives news of a corporate shake-up: Auntie Cleo and Spacer’s Choice, two of the in-game retail brands, have merged to form Auntie’s Choice. Less a chain of stores and more a feudal power, Auntie’s Choice manages its employees – serfs, really – with the cruelty of…

A massive Microsoft Azure outage is taking down Xbox and 365

A massive Microsoft Azure outage is taking down Xbox and 365

Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage just one week after issues with AWS took out swaths of the internet. The issues appear to be impacting Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and even Minecraft. On Azure’s status page, Microsoft links the outage to an “inadvertent configuration…