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The Alexa app is so bad I’m using Siri again
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- Feb 6, 2026
I've used Alexa to manage my shopping list for years. There are plenty of great list apps out there, but the convenience of adding items by voice anyw...
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What happens when Waymo runs into a tornado? Or an elephant?
- Andrew J. Hawkins
- Feb 6, 2026
An autonomous vehicle drives down a lonely stretch of highway. Suddenly, a massive tornado appears in the distance. What does the driverless vehicle d...
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Analogue’s 4K N64 is getting five new transparent color options
- Andrew Liszewski
- Feb 6, 2026
Analogue has announced another collection of limited-edition colors for its modern remake of the Nintendo 64. Last December it introduced several tran...
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Presidents' Day sales 2026: The best early tech deals from Apple, Sony, Roku and others
- Engadget
- Feb 6, 2026
You can find a lot of good deals for Presidents’ Day, but to say it’s a tech-deal boon would be an overstatement. The best Presidents’ Day deals are u...
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Super Bowl 2026 TV deals: The best sales we found this week on OLEDs and other smart TVs ahead of kickoff
- Engadget
- Feb 6, 2026
The big game is one of the few instances now in the US where most people gather around the TV to watch the live event together. While the teams playin...
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NASA will now allow astronauts to take their smartphones to space
- Andre Revilla
- Feb 6, 2026
Most people wouldn't leave their phones behind when they so much as go for a drive, but NASA astronauts have had to leave their phones on Earth while...
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AG1 is a lot less science-y than it sounds
- Victoria Song
- Feb 6, 2026
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and po...
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Apple's iPhone Air MagSafe battery drops to an all-time-low price
- Matt Tate
- Feb 6, 2026
We found the iPhone Air to have a pretty decent battery life for such a thin-and-light phone, somewhere in the region of 27 hours if you’re continuous...
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Olympics 2026: How to watch, schedule of events, and everything else you need to know about the Winter Games
- Danica Creahan,Liz Kocan
- Feb 6, 2026
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are coming up. (Mattia Ozbot/Getty Images) Mattia Ozbot via Getty Images The 2026 Winter Olympics ar...
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How Epstein became a tech influencer
- David Pierce
- Feb 6, 2026
There are bold-faced tech names all over the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsk...
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Uber ordered to pay $8.5 million to passenger who accused a driver of rape
- Mariella Moon
- Feb 6, 2026
Uber must pay a passenger who accused one of its drivers of rape $8.5 million, a federal jury in Phoenix has ordered. The jury found Uber liable for i...
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Google will soon offer AirDrop support on more Android devices
- Matt Tate
- Feb 6, 2026
One of the more surprising tech developments in 2025 was Google bringing two-way support for Apple’s AirDrop functionality to its Pixel 10 series of p...