Photo by Sheena Vasani / The Verge Skip Crossrope unless you really love skipping rope ..read more

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Photo by Go Takayama for The Verge Hundreds of cables. Hundreds of thousands of miles. The internet runs, in vastly more ways than we realize or think about, through a series of garden-hose size tubes on the ocean floor. Without those tubes, the modern world sort of collapses. And the folks responsible for keeping them functioning have bigger, harder, stranger jobs than you might think. On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk to The Verge’s Josh Dzieza, who has been reporting on the undersea cable world and just published a feature about some of the folks who keep it running. It’s a story wo ..read more

The Soundcore Sleep A20 are decent passive earbuds that are great for side sleepers, even if Anker overpromises ..read more

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For $699 and $24 a month, this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone. There’s only one problem: it just doesn’t work ..read more

The new 2024 VanMoof S5 in Amsterdam where the majority of this UK-owned company still works.Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Big question: can you trust the new company to build a better S5 and A5 electric bike ..read more

The Aqara Motion and Light Sensor P2 is the company’s first motion sensor that doesn’t require a Zigbee hub. Aqara’s Thread-based Motion and Light Sensor P2 ($33.99) has been on my smart home wish list since it was announced way back in 2022 — and now, it’s finally here. My home runs on motion sensors, and I’ve been using Aqara’s Zigbee-based ones for years. They’re among my favorites due to their low price, small size, simplicity, and rock-solid reliability. But they require a hub, which adds complexity and makes them harder to recommend. What makes the new P2 different is that it uses Matter ..read more

The ad campaigns for the Medicube Age-R Booster-H eventually wore me down.Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge It’s got nothing to do with whether it works. It’s how I’m trapped in TikTok’s neverending product-recommending algorithm ..read more

These buds are a more comfy replacement for a chest strap. For once, I didn’t have to worry about a fiddly fit getting in the way of heart rate tracking ..read more