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Anker’s last-gen earbuds are tiny and lightweight, making them comfy to wear while sleeping. | Image: Anker Bad news: most Americans are about to lose an hour of sleep next week. Good news: if you have trouble falling (or staying asleep), Newegg is currently selling Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A20 earbuds for $113.99 ($66 off) when you use coupon code MMSF88 at checkout, which drops them to just $6 shy of their lowest price to date. Anker Soundcore Sleep A20 Where to Buy: $179.99 $113.99 at New

In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. After amassing dominance over ticketing and artists' use of large amphitheaters, lead DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed a "flywheel" of power that forced venue customers to stay within its ecosystem. It threatened or retaliated against them when

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House as joint US-Israeli military strikes on Iran continue. Washington, DC, on March 1st, 2026. | Photo: Getty Images Fuel prices surged after the Trump administration launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, immediately raising questions about whether the war would increase energy costs for Americans, put more pressure on power grids, and push companies to pump out more oil and gas in the US. If conflict drags on, that could potentially play into

The AirPods Pro 3 are currently on sale for $219 ($30 off), which is about $10 more than their typical sale price. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the newer AirPods Pro 3. And while more recent shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday delivered some of the steepest discounts we’

The US version of TikTok is once again experiencing issues due to an Oracle outage, just a month after coming back online from a similar outage in February. The service disruption, impacting Oracle's Ashburn, Virginia data center, began early Tuesday afternoon, with Downdetector reports spiking around 1PM Eastern. TikTok USDS confirmed in a post on X that US users "may temporarily experience lags in posting content while Oracle works to resolve the issue." An issue with an Oracle data center

Another high-profile live-service game is shutting down soon after launch: this time it's the free-to-play squad shooter Highguard. Developer Wildlight Entertainment says that, even though Highguard reached 2 million players, the game will be shut down permanently on March 12th. That's less than two months after the game debuted on January 26th. "Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term," the studio expl

The Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal is SharkNinja's latest robot vacuum and mop. A flagship model with a multifunctional dock that empties the dustbin and refills and washes its mop, the Reveal's signature feature is a UV light designed to "find" stains on your floors. It costs $1,299.99 and is available now. Combined with an RGB camera to detect visible messes and obstacles, the UV light lets the vacuum spot stains that aren't visible under normal lighting, such as pet urine. When it encounters dir

A Chipolo Pop tracker. | Photo by Dominic Preston / The Verge Google is rolling out an Android update that includes the ability to share the location of your missing luggage with an airline. It's similar to the luggage-tracking feature Apple brought to the iPhone, allowing you to view the location of your Find Hub tag or accessory on a map, and provide your airline with a link to the information they need to track it down. So far, several airlines support the new Find Hub feature, including AJ

Google is adding several new features to Pixel phones with its latest March update, including the ability for its Gemini AI assistant to do things for you, like order groceries or book a ride. This feature, which was first shown off during Samsung's Unpacked event last week, is rolling out now to the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL. With Gemini's new agentic feature, you can ask the assistant to complete work on your behalf inside "select" apps, including Uber and Grubhub. It will wo

Google is bringing a new desktop mode to its Pixel phones and tablets. The feature comes as part of Google's March Pixel drop, allowing users with a Pixel 8 and newer to connect their device to an external monitor via USB-C for a "desktop-like multi-window experience." You can use a mouse and keyboard with the new desktop mode, which also works with the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The Pixel Tablet is also getting a desktop windowing feature that Google says will offer a "familiar