The Cyber Monday deals for the smart home are rolling in. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
The Cyber Monday deals are rolling in. Whether you are looking to expand your own setup or searching for a good gift for a smart home newbie, this is a great time to stock up on smart home gear. There are still deep discounts to be had on smart speakers, locks, and lights, even smart trashcans and a robot that can push your button for you.
Here, I’ve rounded up some of my top picks for gadgets I love that are currently on sale. We will keep this post updated throughout the holiday shopping weekend, so check back often.
The best smart displays and smart speaker deals
As always, Amazon is heavily discounting its Echo line of speakers and displays. These are great for popping around the house, so you can ask Alexa to add things to your…
Intel is expected to release a pair of entry-level Battlemage GPUs this week, and now marketing materials posted by reliable leaker Roland Quandt show what we might see from the lower-specced Arc B570. The leaked materials, which have details for a dual-fan ASRock Arc B570 Challenger OC GPU, suggest that the new chip may feature 18 Xe2 cores and 10GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 160-bit memory bus.
The leak also indicates that Intel’s Arc B570 chip could come with the 8-pin PCIe power connector and a 2.6GHz GPU clock, along with support for HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1.
If you’re looking to catch up on recent shows and movies — including Shogun, The Penguin, and Dune: Part Two — the ongoing holiday weekend is the perfect time to do so. Thankfully, multiple streaming services are slashing subscription prices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, including Max, Hulu, and others. Right now, for example, you can sign up for a year of Hulu for less than $12. What’s more, you don’t have to be a new subscriber to take advantage of the ongoing promo, which is a rarity in the world of streaming.
Hulu is just one of many platforms currently offering a holiday discount. We’ve rounded up a selection of other streaming deals below, many of which will run through December 2nd.
The excellent AirPods Pro 2 are on sale for $154 at various retailers this holiday shopping weekend. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
There’s no better time than the holidays to treat yourself (or someone you care about) to an overdue upgrade and pick up a fresh pair of earbuds or headphones. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are a great opportunity to save big on the latest products from Apple, Bose, Google, Samsung, Sony, Sennheiser, and countless other brands. Plus, the extended return period at many retailers gives you ample time to test out whatever you buy and make sure it’s the ideal choice.
While you browse through the 2024 Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, be sure to reference our buying guides for the best wireless earbuds and best noise-canceling headphones, which break down the strengths and weaknesses of many of the products featured below.
The search for Amelia Earhart‘s missing airplane continues nearly a century after her death.
Back in January, South Carolina-based imaging company Deep Sea Vision shared an exciting update that its technology might have found the wreckage of Earhart’s Lockheed Model 10 Electra plane. But after more investigation, it turns out it was nothing more than a rock formation coincidentally shaped like a plane.
“Talk about the cruelest formation ever created by nature,” Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo lamented to CNN. “It’s almost like somebody did set those rocks out in this nice little pattern of her plane just to mess with somebody out there looking for her.”
Earhart’s plane is believed to have gone down near Howland Island, a remote spit of land in the Pacific Ocean roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia, in July 1937. A monument on the uninhabited island commemorates the area as the final resting place of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan.
Deep Sea Vision expressed their disappointment in an Instagram post showing what the team believed was the plane wreck. “After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia’s Electra 10E (just a natural rock formation),” the company wrote. “As we speak DSV continues to search, now clearing almost 7,700 square miles. The plot thickens with still no evidence of her disappearance ever found.”
It was a sad setback, to be sure, but the company isn’t giving up yet. In fact, they’ve already started searching some new areas for any evidence of Earhart’s presence.
“I hope this inspires other people to maybe go look for her or at least learn about her and her story,” Romeo said. “I want to see the plane found. She’s out there. She didn’t just disappear into thin air.”
Thankfully, Deep Sea Vision is able to laugh about their discovery that ended up being nothing. Shortly after declaring the latest find to be a dud, the company shared that it was heading to American Samoa for a sea floor mineral project; while unrelated to the Earhart search, they began selling T-shirts poking fun at the failure with an image of the plane-shaped rock formation and the promise “We find rocks.”
The Cyber Monday deals on Apple gear are here. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
The Cyber Monday deals on Apple devices have been some of the best in the run-up to the sale, and they’re just as good now — or better, in some cases — than they were a week ago. It feels like there are more Apple deals than ever on products across every category.
To make sorting through the various discounts easier, we’ve organized the deals below based on category. It’s always possible that some of these items will drop further in price throughout Cyber…
Whether it’s streaming NFL action or NBA games, this small change could boost your game-watching to get you closer to real-time action over Thanksgiving weekend and well beyond.
