The Walmart Holiday Deals event will last longer than Amazon’s two-day Prime Big Deal Days sale, kicking off on October 8th and running through October 13th. It’ll also be open to all, though paid Walmart Plus members will get early access.

Walmart says the deals will include tablets, consoles, and other gadgets from brands like Apple, Samsung, and PlayStation.

I’ve been going to this extremely wonky and jargon-y trial almost every day, and I joined Decoder to translate the highlights so far. The trial — which is only accessible in-person from an Alexandria, VA courtroom — is in its second week. Google is expected to start calling witnesses any day now, once the Justice Department wraps its chief case.

Google will let you make birthday events directly in Google Calendar, starting on Android and coming to web and iOS “in the future.”

South Korea’s Electronic Times reports that the two companies met three times at Waymo’s headquarters in California to discuss “contract manufacturing of robotaxis.” Waymo is said to be looking for a “replacement” for its Zeekr vehicles, which could become more costly to procure thanks to Biden’s tariffs. Waymo spokesperson Ethan Teicher declined to comment on the report.

As promised, the first entry in the gorgeous puzzle game series is available for subscribers today on both iOS and Android. And there’s more coming: Monument Valley 2 hits the service on October 29th, while the recently announced third game will be a Netflix exclusive when it launches on December 10th.

If you don’t have a Steam account but want to buy a Steam Deck for someone, Valve now lets you complete a Steam Deck purchase as a guest. Could be useful for the holidays.

“Unfortunately sick as hell” describes the whole package, but I’d even buy this cable solo.

About as much water as a single-use bottle holds, the The Washington Post reports. The electricity it takes is about as much as 14 LED light bulbs might burn through in an hour.

These are rough estimates, but they come with helpful illustrations to show the environmental costs of operating data centers for new AI tools.

The Federal Aviation Administration can’t “keep pace with the commercial spaceflight industry” and “lacks the resources” to respond to mission changes, SpaceX said in a letter sent in response to $633,000 in federal fines for launching two missions with unapproved changes. SpaceX owner Elon Musk has promised to sue the agency, but it seems as if we’re still in the “strongly worded letter” phase of this particular feud.

If the announcement of the 30th anniversary edition PS5 has you feeling nostalgic, we have just the thing. Five years ago, when PlayStation turned 25, we put together a special issue looking at everything from the environmental impact of a PS4 to the influence of the original DualShock controller. There’s even a science story.

A quick hands-on comparison by The Verge’s action camera expert. It’s going to be hard to justify paying $50 more for the new GoPro flagship now that DJI’s rival is here.

After a live-streaming debut on Sunday, September 5th, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s follow-up to Drive My Car will hit the arthouse platform exclusively on October 1st. That will make it easier for viewers to watch the film twice, which is what the director suggested when we spoke to him.

I cannot imagine a sicker burn on the new iPhones than this Jimmy Kimmel Live bit (which the show has done before, and always seems to work). The moral of the story, as always: don’t buy a new phone, just take the case off. Instant new phone.