Author: Zach_Wilson
The Verge’s favorite mobile phone gadgets
Every year, major phone manufacturers such as Apple, Google, and Samsung hold elaborate events meant to introduce and publicize their upcoming phones. Well, buying a new phone is all well and good, but things don’t stop there. Once you’ve got the phone, you have to buy yourself a case (so…
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Popular file transfer software has a seriously dangerous security bug that gives anyone free administrator rights — so patch it now to avoid another Moveit-like debacle
GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT), the program at the center of a major data reach scandal around a year ago, may have a new high-severity vulnerability which users should patch immediately to avoid more trouble. Cybersecurity researchers Mohammed Eldeeb and Islam Elrfai from Spark Engineering Consultants discovered the flaw in…
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Amazon’s massive winter sale is still live: shop the 21 best deals available today
Amazon launched a massive winter sale at the beginning of this month with deals on tech gadgets, vacuums, kitchen appliances, smart home devices, TVs, and more. The sale is still live, and surprisingly, there are still some really good deals available. I’ve listed the 21 best offers below. • Shop…
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Klarna will now let you pay them so you can pay them less money
Great news for those of you already experiencing subscription fatigue: you can subscribe to buy now, pay later (BNPL) service Klarna for $7.99 a month. At first glance, this seemed pretty fucking weird to me. I mean, the entire point of Klarna is that you can essentially do layaway without…
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ChatGPT steps up its plan to become your default voice assistant on Android
A recent ChatGPT beta is giving a select group of users the ability to turn the AI into their device’s new default voice assistant on Android. This information comes from industry insider Mishaal Rahman on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) who posted a video of himself trying out…
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Lenovo joins consumer SSD market with the help of HP’s storage partner — don’t expect superfast PCIe 5.0 or USB4 SSDs just yet though
Chinese tech giant Lenovo is set to debut a range of consumer solid state drives following a new partnership with BIWIN, a memory and storage manufacturer best known for producing products for brands such as HP and Acer. As a result of this new collaboration, BIWIN will produce Lenovo-branded SSDs,…
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