Some of our favorite headphones are steeply discounted for Prime Day
Amazon’s latest Prime Day sale has officially begun, and we’ve already highlighted nearly 200 of our favorite deals in our main roundup, including cheap charging accessories, robot vacuums, and some of the best prices we’ve seen to date on Apple’s M3-equipped iPad Air. Unsurprisingly, there are also steep discounts available on a wealth of wireless headphones and earbuds, including the best prices yet on the latest AirPods Pro, Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2, and Nothing’s budget-friendly Ear (a).
We’ve rounded up the best Prime Day discounts on some of our favorite headphones and earbuds from Apple, Beats, Bose, Sony, and more. While this is technically a Prime Day-focused roundup, we’ve included retailers outside of Amazon that are matching these discounts, so you don’t have to sign up for a Prime membership to save.
Best earbud deals
AirPods Pro (second-gen) with USB-C
The best Prime Day laptop deals live now: MacBooks, Windows 11 machines, Chromebooks and others
Regardless of if you need a new laptop for the upcoming semester or for general use at home, Amazon Prime Day 2025 may have just what you’re looking for at a good price. Amongst the clothing, shoes, household essentials and other tech gear are some decent laptop deals that you can snag if you’re a Prime member — and even some that you can grab without a Prime subscription.
But deciphering what constitutes a “good deal” on a laptop during Prime Day can be a bit challenging. That’s due in part to the manic nature of laptop prices on Amazon in particular: they fluctuate often depending on model, brand, configuration, seller and more. But Engadget can help by collecting all of the best Prime Day laptop deals here so you don’t have to go searching for them.
Prime Day laptop deals: MacBooks
Apple’s latest laptops are the MacBook Air M4 and the MacBook Pro M4, but the M3-powered machines are still available and great values when you can get them at steep discounts. But for the most future-proof options, we recommend going with the M4 MacBooks. Amazon actually has decent MacBook deals throughout the year, most of the …read more
Grok sure seems antisemitic after its recent update
Last Friday, Elon Musk said that X’s built-in chatbot had been “significantly” improved. “You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions,” Musk said on X. As it turns out, X users are noticing a difference. Over the last couple days, Grok seems to have taken a hard turn toward antisemitism.
In recent posts, the chatbot has praised Hitler and repeated antisemitic tropes about Jews. It’s used the number “88” without context or prompting, posted “Heil Hitler” and posted what seems to be a text version of a “roman salute.”
Many users noticed that Grok was seemingly fixated on someone named “Cindy Steinberg,” a name associated with a now-deleted X account, according to NBC News. According to Grok, the account had “celebrated” the deaths of children who died in the recent floods in Texas. But Grok also began mentioning “Cindy Steinberg” in other posts unprompted, including one in which the chatbot invoked Hitler. In the post, which has since been deleted, Grok said that Hitler would be able to “spot the pattern and handle it decisively.” Later, when another user shared a screenshot of the post and asked Grok about it, the chatbot <a class="colorbox" data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" …read more
The best Prime Day gaming deals from laptops and peripherals to the latest video games
There is nothing more sublime than having a perfectly kitted out battlestation. You know, the ones for gaming, not dropping bombs. That said, staying on top of things with the current pace of technology is always tricky. But for anyone hunting for upgrades, Amazon Prime Day is the perfect opportunity to improve your gaming setup on a discount. So regardless of whether you’re looking for some cables, extra storage or a brand new monitor and headphones, we’ve gathered all the best gaming deals in one place for easy reading.
Best Prime Day deals on video games
Star Wars Outlaws – Limited Edition (Amazon Exclusive), PlayStation 5 for $29 ($31 off)
At full price, this game was easy to skip. But now that it’s available for just $29 (half off its normal retail price), Star Wars Outlaws suddenly becomes a lot more interesting for fans of the franchise. You get to live out your dreams of being an intergalactic scoundrel while taking down bounties or battling secret crime syndicates. And because this is the limited edition, the game includes some pre-order rewards like the Kessel Run bonus pack and the Rogue …read more
Best Prime Day speaker deals on JBL, Bose, Sonos and others
If you’re ready to upgrade how you listen to music and experience TV, Prime Day is almost certain to be your best chance this year. For Prime Day, Amazon is knocking huge chunks off the prices of premium Sonos soundbars, bluetooth speakers from the likes of JBL and Soundcore, its own Echo smart speakers and more of the world’s top audio hardware. The deals below are drawn from our curated lists of the best smart speakers, best soundbars and best portable bluetooth speakers. We recommend taking a look now, as it’s not likely any of these products will be so cheap again until next year.
Best Prime Day Bluetooth speaker deals
Our portable bluetooth speaker picks are some of the best all-around mobile music devices to ever hit the shelves: smaller and lighter than a boombox, better audio than an iPod, and way easier in the long run than learning to play guitar. We’ve sifted through Prime Day offerings to find the best portable speakers in all shapes and sizes.
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Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 for $56 (20 percent off): This tiny portable speaker packs …read more
The best Prime Day SSD and external hard drive deals on Samsung, Crucial and more
Solid-state drives (SSDs) come in many shapes, from thumbnail-sized microSD cards to larger external SSDs. But all classes of SSDs have one thing in common: at least one of the best brands is on sale right now for Amazon’s Prime Day. If you’ve been thinking about picking up some extra storage or trying to get the load times down on your Xbox or gaming PC, now’s the time to get it done for cheap. Take a look at our curated list of the best SSD deals on Amazon this Prime Day.
Best Prime Day SSD deals
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Crucial P310 1TB for $60 (20 percent off): This deal on the Crucial P310 is one of the best we’ve seen so far for a Gen 4 SSD. At the 1TB capacity, it reads up to 7,100MB per second for noticeably faster performance. Just be warned that the deal doesn’t include a heatsink.
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Crucial BX500 for $57 (40 percent off): The Crucial BX500 SSD is compatible with any computer that uses a 2.5-inch SATA drive — which is still plenty of them. For very cheap, you can …read more
Confirmed: Nintendo’s Switch 2 can work with existing docks and webcams after replacing their firmware
Over the last two weeks, I’ve sought to uncover why the Nintendo Switch 2 didn’t work with a host of USB-C accessories that worked perfectly fine with other devices, including third-party docks and some of the best-reviewed webcams. But today, I have first-hand confirmation that existing gadgets can work – as long as their manufacturers issue the right firmware updates, and as long as Nintendo doesn’t break compatibility from here on out.
You shouldn’t necessarily need to buy a brand-new gadget to plug a TV or video glasses into your Nintendo Switch 2. Three manufacturers have already proven that firmware updates are enough for now, and hop …
The Prime Day sale on TCL’s 85-inch TV is one of the best deals out there
Prime Day 2025 is the best time this year to get a big-screen TV. Sure, there are deals in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, but those are generally on the previous year’s TV because most new models haven’t been released yet. Prime Day, however, comes after most major TV refreshes — including the 85-inch TCL QM8K, available for a limited time at Amazon and Best Buy for $2,499.99 ($1,300 off).
For its size and overall brightness, especially if you’re looking for a bright-room TV, the QM8K is one of the best buys during the next few days of sales.
TCL QM8K Series QD-Mini LED TV
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TCL has built some great midrange TVs for the past few years, but the 2025 models are a step above its previous models. The QM8K, especially, brings TCL into strong competition with Samsung, LG, and Sony. It can get incredibly bright, making it an excellent choice for a sunny room where ambient light is difficult to control. When I recently …read more
Apple’s design team will report to Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook is about to take over one of the most significant parts of Apple’s business: its design team. The team currently reports to COO Jeff Williams, but once Williams begins his just-announced retirement “late in the year,” the design team “will then transition to reporting directly to Cook,” Apple says.
The company is currently in the midst of a huge software design transition with its new “universal” Liquid Glass design language, which will roll out across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other devices later this year. It uses real-time rendering to show things like content scrolling under glassy buttons.
Liquid Glass “combines the optical qualities of glass with a fluidity only Apple can achieve, as it transforms depending on your content or context,” according to Alan Dye, Apple’s VP of Human Interface Design. “It lays the foundation for new experiences in the future and, ultimately, it makes even the simplest of interactions more fun and magical.”
Apple calls Liquid Glass its “broadest software design update ever,” taking inspiration from the Vision Pro’s AR interfaces with heavy doses of transparency and glass shine effects everywhere. But recent beta releases have slightly toned down the …read more
Supreme Court gives Trump the green light to cut down the federal workforce
In a significant albeit preliminary win for the president, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plans to drastically reshape federal agencies by laying off employees en masse.
The unsigned decision lifts a lower court ruling that briefly stopped the Trump administration from cutting down the federal workforce while a legal challenge worked through the court system. The Supreme Court is now allowing federal agencies to slash jobs even before the legality of Trump’s plan has been decided.
A February executive order directed the heads of federal agencies to “promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs).” A coalition of unions, local governments, and nonprofit organizations soon filed suit, alleging that Trump’s attempt to reorganize the federal government was unlawful.
“Today’s decision has dealt a serious blow to our democracy.”
In May, a US District Court Judge Susan Illston from San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction pausing the mass layoffs while the lawsuit proceeds. “Agencies may not conduct large-scale reorganizations and reductions in force in blatant disregard of Congress’s mandates, and a President may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without partnering with Congress,” the …read more
