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Sealed Super Mario Bros. sells for a record $3 million

You know this came for free bundle with the console for $150, right? | Image: Heritage Auctions A copy of Super Mario Bros., still in the box and sealed with its original sticker, just sold at Heritage Auctions for $3...

Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox

Asha Sharma. | Image: The Verge, Microsoft Microsoft is preparing to lay off a significant chunk of its Xbox division and is reevaluating the plans for its next-generation Project Helix console. It's apparently also considering dramatically restructuring its relationship with...

Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra are $70 off, marking a new low price 

Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra headphones fold down for easy storage. | Image: Bose If you’re planning on traveling anytime soon, Bose’s second-generation QuietComfort Ultra headphones are a great companion for long flights and train rides. Not only do they offer...

Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day

On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes, it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame, Valve's...

Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up

Nothing Phone 4A Pro | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC. As Android...

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Hm! | Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact...

Siri is good now??

You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even...

A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

Elon Musk is now officially the world's first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale - a thousand times more than a billion - is difficult to...

Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend

‘Listen, that's not what I'm here for, right?' | Image: Apple Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human, Craig Federighi said...

Amazon’s Echo Hub gets a customizable new look and Ring’s AI features

Amazon's rolling out a free software update for Echo Hub devices that gives the home screen a much-needed update to the interface it launched with in 2024. It had already added Alex Plus AI support, but the new interface...
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In 1886 a club of Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts paid $125,000 for Jekyll Island off Georgia and kept it as a private winter retreat...

In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine surveyed the private playgrounds of America’s rich and awarded Jekyll Island the full crown: the...
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