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Archives for September 2025

Anker’s latest sleep buds can silence snoring

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Verge Score

Good for side sleepers but ANC kills battery life.

Thomas Ricker
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Checkmate.

Duolingo’s chess course is now available on Android, and the iOS version will soon get a player-versus-player mode, the company says.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Steve Ballmer’s Kawhi Leonhard controversy intersects with another scandal.

ESPN NBA writer Brian Windhorst points out that when Aspiration signed up to be the Clippers’ jersey patch sponsor (and, allegedly, help circumvent the NBA’s salary cap) it replaced another company.

That was Honey, the shopping tool exposed for swapping referral codes, which actually got ads featuring Kawhi.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Snapchat now lets you permanently save messages.

The app has introduced a new “infinite retention” feature, allowing you to save chats in individual conversations. Snap will notify everyone in the group when you enable the feature.

Previously, Snapchat only saved messages for 24 hours after everyone in the group viewed them, or 31 days after the message was sent, whichever is sooner.

The iPhone to get this yearThe iPhone to get this year
David Pierce
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
If you can’t clear your Slack unread count, try refreshing.

The app had an outage this morning, leaving many users staring at an unread count, even after reading all their messages. Slack reports it’s fixed, but if your app is still stuck, hitting CMD + Shift + R (Mac) or CTRL + Shift + R (Windows) to force refresh should clear things up.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
The Nintendo Today app has added special features unlocked by inaudible sounds.

Nintendo Today was updated to version 2.0 today with a new Kirby theme and exclusive content for the Nintendo Live 2025 event in Tokyo. But it will only be accessible at the event using an inaudible sound broadcasted at the venue the app will listen for to verify attendance.