AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.

When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them.

On June 10th - one week after the hearing, and one day after the City Council passed a milestone moratorium on data centers - Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani, and Liesl Wigand were each called into an impromptu meeting with Amazon's "Employee Relations." HR representatives told the employees that the company was investigating them …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet. As usual, expect to see price drops on a range of product categories, including smart home, headphones, smartwatches, monitors, 4K TVs, outdoorsy gear, and more. The sale will conclude at 3:01AM ET on June 27th.

We’ve put together this package so you can see all of our sprawling coverage in one convenient place. It contains not just our favorite one-off deals and category roundups to come, but also some shopping tips that might help you price-match purchases, and be the first to find amazing deals.

• The Echo Dot Max is cheaper than ever in an early Prime Day sale
• The best Apple deals you can already get ahead of Prime Day
• The best early Amazon Prime Day deals so far
• How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale
• Everything you need to know about Prime Day 2026
• Nothing’s Ear (a), our favorite budget earbuds, are cheaper than ever ahead of Prime Day
• Amazon’s capable sound system is over $100 off ahead of Prime Day
• Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is on sale for just $58
• My favorite Qi2 power bank is cheaper than ever for Verge readers
• Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra are $70 off, marking a new low price 
• Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, GameStop, and others
• The AirPods Pro 3 are $179, their best-ever price

• A year of Walmart Plus is half off ahead of Prime Day

Category Deals

• The best Apple deals you can already get ahead of Prime Day
• The best robot vacuum deals available ahead of Prime Day
• The best Prime Day deals under $50
• Laptop prices suck these days, so here are some Prime Day deals that at least help a little
• Best Prime Day Charging Accessory Deals
• The best early Amazon Prime Day deals so far
• The best Prime Day deals we found on our favorite gear

Breakout Tech Deals

• The Echo Dot Max is cheaper than ever in an early Prime Day sale
• The Nex Playground is down to its pre-RAMageddon price during Prime Day
• The Pixel 10A finally costs what it should
• Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft bundle is almost half off for Prime Day
• Paramount Plus is two dollars for two months of ad-free viewing
• Nothing’s Ear (a), our favorite budget earbuds, are cheaper than ever ahead of Prime Day
• Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is on sale for just $58
• My favorite Qi2 power bank is cheaper than ever for Verge readers
• Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra are $70 off, marking a new low price 
• Amazon’s capable sound system is over $100 off ahead of Prime Day
• The AirPods Pro 3 are $179, their best-ever price

News and Tips

• Amazon’s four-day Prime Day begins on June 23rd
• We’re giving away a Prime Day grab bag loaded with over $800 of free tech
• Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, GameStop, and others
• Everything you need to know about Prime Day 2026
• How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Les frites croustillantes n'ont pas dit leur dernier mot. Avant le Prime Day, Amazon fait chuter le prix de la Ninja Air Fryer Max Pro sous les 100 euros. Avec sa capacité de 6,2 litres, ses 6 fonctions de cuisson et ses 2 000 W de puissance, cet air fryer populaire s'invite dans les cuisines...

Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting benchmarks on time. However, there have been interesting announcements as the summer starts this year, from incremental progress to attention-grabbing promises. As we did earlier this month, Ars has a rundown of some of the most significant announcements.

These include a promise of useful, error-corrected quantum computing as soon as 2028, details on an updated trapped ion processor, and a case in which claims of quantum supremacy have been cut back a bit thanks to advances in more traditional algorithms.

2028 is remarkably soon

Many people in the field expect that useful quantum computers are still about five to 10 years away. While there may be a few useful algorithms that can be run on existing error-prone hardware, almost all of the interesting problems that quantum computing can be applied to will require some form of error correction enabled by linking a small collection of hardware qubits together into what's called a logical qubit. Logical qubits include the redundant storage of information along with neighboring qubits that can be measured to determine when errors occur and how to fix them.

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Quantum computing news usually picks up near the end of the year, as companies try to provide evidence that they are hitting benchmarks on time. However, there have been interesting announcements as the summer starts this year, from incremental progress to attention-grabbing promises. As we did earlier this month, Ars has a rundown of some of the most significant announcements.

These include a promise of useful, error-corrected quantum computing as soon as 2028, details on an updated trapped ion processor, and a case in which claims of quantum supremacy have been cut back a bit thanks to advances in more traditional algorithms.

2028 is remarkably soon

Many people in the field expect that useful quantum computers are still about five to 10 years away. While there may be a few useful algorithms that can be run on existing error-prone hardware, almost all of the interesting problems that quantum computing can be applied to will require some form of error correction enabled by linking a small collection of hardware qubits together into what's called a logical qubit. Logical qubits include the redundant storage of information along with neighboring qubits that can be measured to determine when errors occur and how to fix them.

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