They’re petite, modern, and sound very good, even without dedicated noise cancellation. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re still kicking along with the last-gen Beats Solo, now is a pretty good time to upgrade. It took Apple less than two weeks to discount the 2024 refresh of its alt brand’s on-ear headphones, the Beats Solo 4, to $149.95. And now, not even a month later, the price has dropped even further at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, where you can grab them for an all-time low of around $129.95 ($70 off). We find the Beats Solo 4 to be a very solid pair of headphones that are well equipped to handle most listening needs. You’re still getting Beats’ signature bass biased sound, which hasn’t changed much over the prior model. It really didn’t need to, though, and the headphones now support head tracking spatial audio when paired with an... Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify’s personalization features are about to pop up in more areas of the app. The service will soon start showcasing banners and in-app messages tailored to your listening habits, such as telling you how many times you listened to artists like Doja Cat last month. In addition to giving you insight into your activity on the app, Spotify’s messages will prompt you to listen to Doja Cat or encourage you to use Spotify’s AI DJ to play similar music. Another example, as shown in the image embedded below, links you to your Daylist, a feature that comes up with a playlist based on what you typically listen to throughout your day. Image: Spotify Spotify doesn’t say when — or how often — these personalized messages will... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Tim Cook promised that AI features were on the way. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, we’ll finally learn what Apple’s been building. Continue reading…

I’d probably be boring and buy it in black, but more speakers should come in fun colors. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The Echo Pop is the cheapest and simplest way into Amazon’s smart home ecosystem, and the tiny Alexa-enabled smart speaker is on sale for just $19.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. The rounded wedge offers Alexa voice commands and can control connected smart bulbs and thermostats in your home, as well as streaming music from services like Spotify and Apple Music. Plus, in addition to the standard black and white models, it comes in some fun teal and lavender colors (which are on sale for the same price). Amazon’s colorful speaker doesn’t get much cheaper than this, as it’s currently just $2 shy of the all-time low we saw during last year’s holiday shopping season. While the Pop is the entry model to Amazon’s stable of... Continue reading…

Unlike the FreeStyle Libre systems (pictured above), Abbott’s new continuous glucose monitors won’t require a prescription. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Abbott announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration has cleared two new over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors (CGM). The Lingo is designed for health-conscious consumers who want to get greater insight into their metabolism. Meanwhile, the Libre Rio is designed for Type 2 diabetics who don’t rely on insulin. CGMs are small wearable sensors that you typically wear for about 14 days at a time. They don’t actually measure your blood sugar but instead measure glucose in interstitial fluid — the stuff between your cells — just under the skin. Thus far, they’ve generally been used for people with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes who rely on insulin for treatment. However, there’s been a growing push among medical device makers and... Continue reading…

The iPhone is the only product in Apple's lineup where Apple goes out of its way to avoid mentioning the amount of RAM. Apple has continued to upgrade the capacity and speed of its iPhone RAM over the years. Also, iOS is optimized to work with more limited memory availability. Often, the iPhone beats rivals with much more RAM in speed tests thanks to Apple's ability to control the hardware and software experience like that. As a longtime iPhone user, I've never felt like the iPhone had trouble handling what I throw at it, even when using iPhones that were several years old. But no matter how fast and smooth the iPhone is, Apple probably doesn't like to mention RAM capacity for marketing reasons. Android phones used to have (and need) much more RAM. However, most recently, some vendors have tempered the memory upgrades, with Samsung being one example. But now that the age of AI is here, Apple's RAM strategy for the iPhone might hurt the iPhone more than the company is willing to admit. The language models that power on-device AI — which is the kind of private AI that Apple wants to offer users in iOS 18 — might come with minimum RAM requirements. That likely means that older iPhone models won't get the latest and greatest AI features from Apple. After all, the only way to upgrade the RAM will be to have an iPhone 15 Pro or to buy an iPhone 16 this fall. Continue reading... The post There’s a problem with iPhone AI that might hurt Apple more than it’s willing to admit appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $299 Apple Watch S9, $30 Fire TV Stick 4K, $259 stationary bike, $20 Blink Mini cam, more Today’s deals: $150 Beats Solo 4, $55 HP printer, $248 Sony XM5 earbuds, 25% off eero Pro 6E, more Today’s deals: $20 Amazon credit, $79 AirPods, $20 Echo Pop, $899 M3 MacBook Air, $289 iScooter, more

A new poll by Resume Templates found 26% of Gen Z job applicants said they involve their parents in the interview process, including 31% of those having a parent joining them for an in-person interview and 29% having parents join them for a virtual interview.

The U.S. needs Japan's help to quickly replenish missile inventory as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue and Washington seeks to keep its deterrence credible in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said Monday.

The majority of U.S. Protestant pastors are still against gay marriage, according to a Lifeway Research study.

Biden administration officials are considering negotiations on a deal with Hamas to secure the release of five Americans hostages if current cease-fire talks involving Israel fail, NBC News reported.