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Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos speaker setup, or adding to an existing group, the Sonos Era 100 is worth picking up. The compact, capable smart speaker is currently marked down to $189 ($30 off) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon , Best Buy , and directly from Sonos . If you want an even lower price, Sonos is selling refurbished Era 100 speakers for just $134. They come with fresh accessories and packaging, and sport the same one-year warranty as its new speakers. Sonos Era 100 The Era 100 is Sonos’s most affordable in-home smart speaker. Offering pleasant sound at a relatively compact size, it improves upon the prior Sonos One with stereo audio, line-in support, and Bluetooth support. Read our review . Where to Buy: $219 $189 at Amazon $219 $189 at Sonos $219 $189 at Best Buy The wireless speaker has a rich, detailed sound profile, with room-filling audio despite its small size. You might be able to improve the so...

We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia's Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops - and a completely new kind of laptop made to support it. It's all very interesting, but it raises the same question we have around so many AI products: Does anyone actually want this? On this episode of The Vergecast , Nilay and David run through a lot of the products coming out of Microsoft Build and Google I/O, from Gemini S … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/podcast/944058/ai-laptop-nvidia-build-gemini-spark-vergecast

Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops . But international travelers at American airports often have no choice - even if they're US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained and questioned by customs agents at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Before they let her go, the agents searched her luggage twice, confiscated political literature she had purchased abroad, and seized her phone - which has yet to be returned, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Minnesota. Is i … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/report/944076/cbp-airport-phone-searches-seizure-minneapolis-activists

Amazon's gaming strategy has never really been clear. It's been very active in the space: acquiring Twitch , launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago , investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having access to a huge slate of franchises through Prime Video and the MGM Studios library . Late last year, the company announced a major pivot, relaunching Luna with a focus on party games you can play with just your phone as a controller - including an AI-powered game starring Snoop Dogg as a judge - and basically jumping ship on MMOs . At the time, it looked like a retreat, but Amazon says that isn't the … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/games/943147/amazon-gaming-strategy-james-bond-snoop-dogg-luna

Most of Belkin's Switch 2 accessories are designed to either protect or power up Nintendo's latest handheld, like its Charging Case Pro that actually does both at the same time. Its new multitasking Charging Grip can also add three or four more hours of playtime through an included 10,000mAh battery pack, while improving the Switch 2's ergonomics with beefier nonslip grips for the Joy-Con controllers. Belkin's Charging Grip is now available through the company's online store in black, lilac, and olive green color options for $99.99. The magnetic 10,000mAh battery sticks to the back of the Switch 2, but since the handheld doesn't support mag … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/942617/belkin-gaming-charging-grip-nintendo-switch-2-joy-con-controller

I can't remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that's exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nadella didn't address the issues Microsoft is trying to fix in Windows 11 but chose to woo the audience with Microsoft's slick Surface RTX Spark Dev Kit instead, calling it a "dream machine." Nadella unveiled the new Surface hardware just days after Nvidia officially returned to Windows on Arm with its new RTX Spark chips . Both companies are talking up these chips as some kind of new beginning for PCs, and it's clear that RTX Spark will drive local AI workloads in a way that Microsoft's … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/943108/microsoft-build-2026-windows-love-notepad