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Archives for October 2026

Birdbuddy’s budget feeder foiled my squirrels

The Nook and Home are cheaper, faster, and sleeker smart bird feeders — but the new camera might be a deal-breaker for diehard birders.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
I tried a $99 plug that promises to track your car and send help when needed — without selling your data

The Miles Plug adds crash detection, roadside help, location tracking, and a warning-light decoder to your car for as low as $11 a month.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

Nvidia’s new Arm-based laptop chip is an exciting new challenger, but exclusively for the high-end.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, Sean Hollister and 1 more
Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?

Instinct AI is an impressive assistant, but the pressure from OpenAI and Meta is officially on.

Allison Johnson
Hands-on with Amazon’s Alexa Tablet 12 Pro and its wild new matte display 

The Alexa line is also Amazon’s first tablet to run full-fledged Android with access to the Play Store.

Terrence O'Brien
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Oppo’s Find X10 phones launch outside China on October 21st.

That’s almost exactly a month after the China launch. Highlights include the first ever triple 200-megapixel camera on the Find X10 Pro Max, and big 8,000mAh batteries on both, though Oppo warns “selected markets” get 7,150mAh instead. I’m working on a review of the Pro Max — what do you want to know?

The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max resting sideways on a blue tablecloth
The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max standing on a blue tablecloth
1/6Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Our first five impressions of Googlebooks — exciting but underbaked

Google’s new laptop OS shows lots of promise for Android phone owners, but there’s a long road ahead.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner

Think of Dots as Codex, but for regular people.

Allison Johnson