The best deals on games and accessories you can find on Prime Day | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon Prime Day is finally upon us, and with it comes a variety of excellent deals on gaming hardware and accessories, not to mention games. This year, you can even grab some cool odds…
Image: Nintendo Kirby’s getting yet another Switch game; this time, it’s a four-player competition to see who can gobble up the most strawberries. The trailer for Kirby’s Dream Buffet has Kirby and friends rolling across food-themed obstacle courses while shapeshifting into desserts, like a cupcake or chocolate bar, that grant him different powers. Kirby’s Dream…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s a big ol’ Spotify day here at Hot Pod. The company is making moves, acquiring Wordle-inspired music trivia game Heardle, expanding its video podcast reach to new countries, and taking another hit podcast exclusive. Plus, a roundup of the best Prime Day audio deals. Let’s get into…
Researchers gave pig hearts to brain-dead patients. | Image: NYU Langone Health Researchers successfully transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two recently deceased people connected to ventilators, the New York University team announced today. The surgeries are the latest step forward in the field of animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation, which has seen a flurry of…
Enlarge (credit: Scharon Harding) On Tuesday, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the industry group that makes the Bluetooth wireless standard, announced the completion of its latest specification: Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio. Like Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth LE Audio focuses more on power efficiency than the classic version of Bluetooth. It also seeks to provide…
Enlarge (credit: NASA) After months of anticipation, and a day after President Biden himself was involved in the release of an image of the early Universe, NASA has now released four other images from the Webb Space Telescope. The agency had already told us that targets would include a couple of nebulas, a galaxy cluster,…
Enlarge / Mass Effect Legendary Edition. (credit: BioWare / EA) Amazon’s Prime Day sale isn’t known for hosting tons of gaming deals, but this year’s sale includes a few notable discounts. After digging through Amazon’s detritus and cross-checking price histories, we’ve picked out the best Prime Day gaming deals below. Among the highlights are a…
Xbox / SteelSeries The Xbox Series S and X are easier to find today than they were a year ago but they can still be tricky to track down. Even if you could walk into a store and just buy one, though, this early Prime Day 2022 Lightning Deal would be a very tempting opportunity…
Amanda Reed Love reading but hate lugging a stack of books around? If you flip for flipping pages, eReaders are a convenient way to work through a righteous reading list on the go, combining portability with almost instant access to your favorite titles or new pageturners. Additionally, some eReaders are waterproof for reading in the…
So you want to know how to reheat pizza, huh? Look no further. Jordon Kaplan / Unsplash PopSci is spending September relearning how to eat. As intuitive as our love of chowing down is, a lot stands between us and optimal eating. This month, we’ll break down diet myths, unlock delicious kitchen hacks, and explore our most common misconceptions about…