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Fitbit released its Charge 5 fitness tracker with a brand new design and a color screen in September, but it launched without two key software features: an electrocardiogram (ECG) app and Fitbit’s new Daily Readiness Score, which recommends how hard you should work out. More than a month after the Charge 5’s release, those features […]
Starting November 19th, 2021, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile will be adding another budget 5G phone to the lineup — the $252 Nokia X100 that is exclusive to T-Mobile. This addition is coming just as the holiday shopping season is ready for kickoff, and T-Mobile’s sales of other budget 5G phones from REVVL and certain […]
Motional, the autonomous vehicle company that is a $4 billion joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, announced the city in which it would launch its fully driverless robotaxi service in 2023, and surprise, surprise, it’s Las Vegas. Motional first began testing its autonomous vehicles in Las Vegas through a joint partnership with Lyft nearly four […]
Motorola has refreshed its budget E-smartphone series lineup with the Moto E30. The phone borrows existing specifications from the existing Moto E40 but now gets the toned-down Android Go for budget smartphones. Despite that, the Moto E30 gets loads of eye-catching features such as a 5,000mAh battery, a large 6.5 display, and a 48-megapixel primary […]
Mozilla is bringing Firefox to Microsoft’s Windows store today. Firefox is one of the first third-party alternatives available in the Microsoft Store, and it’s using its own Gecko browser engine instead of Chromium alternatives like Opera or the many other alternatives that leverage Microsoft’s Edge webview. Microsoft’s new open store policies have finally made it […]
The latest Call of Duty game, Call of Duty: Vanguard is finally available on all major platforms. The latest first-person shooting game from Sledgehammer Games comes with 200 multiplayer maps, an all new Zombies mode, and more. Call of Duty: Vanguard comes with deep integration with free-to-play battle royale game Call of Duty: Warzone, Call […]
In August, Google announced its iOS Maps app would soon be getting a dark mode. But although the feature fully launched at the beginning of September, it arrived quietly enough that several Verge staffers hadn’t even noticed its appearance until we started receiving in-app notices. If you’ve also been in the dark, rather than the […]