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Best Home Security Systems for Renters in 2025: Compact and Movable

Is it easy to add more sensors to the security system? Does it support add-ons like cameras or smart locks if you ever want to expand? Does the system integrate with your preferred smart home platform, such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple HomeKit? Can it work with third-party smart home devices? Is the app easy to use and intuitive for first-timers? Does it make setup easy? Can you quickly arm or disarm the system from the app? Does the security kit come with basic sensors for fro

Netflix: The 23 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows To Watch Right Now

So you're looking for a solid sci-fi TV show to add to your Netflix binge list? Well, friend, you've come to the right place. The streamer has long-established itself as the gold standard for genre entertainment. If you're anything like me, you've already tackled the platform's big hit series like Stranger Things and Black Mirror. You want something else -- and I put together a list that will surely scratch that genre itch. Sci-fi fans are passionate and can also be a fickle bunch. It makes sen

US Adults Worry AI Will Make Us Worse at Being Human, New Survey Says

There are widespread fears that artificial intelligence will harm our social and emotional intelligence, empathy and sense of individual agency by 2035, according to a new survey published Wednesday by Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center. The national survey asked 1,005 US adults to rate how they think AI will impact human capacities and behaviors, including moral judgment, self-identity and confidence. In every area, respondents believed the effect of AI tools and systems ove

Give Yourself a Few More Minutes of Sleep With This iOS 26 Trick

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, a few months after the company announced it at the June Worldwide Developers Conference. The update brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more to your iPhone. It also updates the alarm feature in the clock app so you can change your snooze length, affording you a few more z's before you get up and tackle the day. Before this change, if you hit your iPhone alarm's snooze feature, you would always get an extra 9 minutes of shut-eye. With iOS 26, y

OpenAI's Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are un

Meta Is Debuting New Smart Glasses Today. Here’s How to Watch

Meta Connect, the annual event that serves as both the company’s developer conference and a platform for its new hardware announcements, is happening this week. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to take the stage at 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern, and 1 am British Summer Time on Wednesday, September 17, to announce a fleet of new smart glasses. We also expect to hear some updates on Meta’s machine intelligence efforts, and maybe a hint or two about how things are going at the company’s fledgling

This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

Located 700 meters underground near the city of Jiangmen in southern China, a giant sphere—35 meters in diameter and filled with more than 20,000 tons of liquid—has just started a mission that will last for decades. This is Juno, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, a new, large-scale experiment studying some of the most mysterious and elusive particles known to science. Neutrinos are the most abundant particles in the universe with mass. They are fundamental particles, meaning they d

Apple’s future MacBook Pro might have a touchscreen

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The next generation of Apple’s MacBook Pro laptops could be the first to feature a touchscreen display, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The change could apply to OLED MacBook Pro models that are expected to enter production by late 2026, Kuo reported on X, and will incorporate a “touch panel using on-cell touch technology.” This builds on previous reports from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman regardi

Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind

As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies will need to think about safety differently than they did when robots were largely siloed from their human counterparts. Sonair thinks its sensors can help robotics companies reach their safety goals — with a solution that is both better and cheaper than popular LIDAR technology. The Oslo, Norway-based company built an ADAR (acoustic detection and ranging) sensor for robots that uses high frequency sound. These sensors send out ultr

Microsoft, Nvidia, other tech giants plan over $40 billion of new AI investments in UK

LONDON — Microsoft said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in the U.K. by 2028, as the company builds out its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The investment includes an additional $15.5 billion in capital expansion and $15.1 billion in its U.K. operations, Microsoft said. The company said the investment would enable it to build the U.K.'s "largest supercomputer," with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units (GPUs), in partnership with Nscale, a British cloud comp

This next-gen flagship has a rear screen that’s basically the Z Flip 7’s cover display

TL;DR A Xiaomi 17 Pro series teaser video shows off several uses for the rear display. The rear screen can show various clock styles, lock screen text, avatars, and more, much like a Flip phone’s cover display. A previous leak also notes that this screen can display exercise info, app notifications, and ‘travel card’ swiping. The Xiaomi 17 series will be the first phones with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor. Xiaomi confirmed that the Pro phones have a rear screen, and a new teaser has

ChatGPT will verify your age soon, in attempt to protect teen users

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI will add age verification to ChatGPT. Teens will have more safety measures, compromising some freedom. Adults will retain the ability to use the chatbot as they want. Chatbot users are increasingly confiding in tools like ChatGPT for sensitive or personal matters, including mental health issues. The consequences can be devastating: A teen boy took his own life after spending hour

Grab the 46mm OnePlus Watch 3 for up to $80 off - buy now before the deal ends

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Worldwide AI spending could hit $1.5 trillion by the end of 2025

Getty Images/BlackJack3D Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Global AI spending has been on an upward trajectory. These expenditures will top $2 trillion in 2026. GenAI smartphones, AI-optimized servers lead spending. The AI boom has triggered widespread interest in AI adoption to optimize business processes and individual workflows. This demand has also been a catalyst for large-scale investments in AI infrastructure to support those goals, and a ne

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5 This document describes the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security releases page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible. For more information ab

I just want an 80×25 console, but that's no longer possible

Somehow along the way, a feature that I’ve had across DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD, and Linux — and has been present on PCs for more than 40 years — is gone. That feature, of course, is the 80×25 text console. Linux has, for awhile now, rendered its text console using graphic modes. You can read all about it here. This has been necessary because only PCs really had the 80×25 text mode (Raspberry Pis, for instance, never did), and even they don’t have it when booted with UEFI. I’ve lately been annoyed t

In Praise of Idleness (1932)

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs

Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 3, Hypernova smart glasses, Meta AI, more

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You can buy Hisense's 136-inch Micro LED TV for $20,000 off right now - how the deal works

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Wyze launched a new biometric smart lock, and its price might be the best part

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Apple releases iOS 15.8.5 security update for 10-year old iPhone 6s

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5 This document describes the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security releases page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible. For more information ab

Do You Really Need a New Apple Watch if You Already Have One?

Reviews for the Apple Watch SE 3, Series 11, and Ultra 3 came out today. I’m in the process of reviewing them. I only have two wrists, and there are three Apple Watches to review—so yeah. Besides, I need to collect more health data before I feel comfortable giving my definitive take. If you’re reading reviews and asking yourself whether or not you should get any of the new models when they become available this Friday, Sept. 19, maybe I can help you make a decision. As I said in my hands-on wit

Google pokes a banana-shaped hole in Musk’s claims of Apple’s bias towards OpenAI

A few weeks ago, a frustrated Elon Musk sued Apple, claiming that the company’s pro-OpenAI bias made it impossible for other AI companies to rise to the top of the App Store. This week, Google Gemini became the latest app to contradict his claims. When Musk first suggested that Apple’s ties to OpenAI were unfairly impacting App Store rankings, xAI had just made Grok 4 free for all users, and had just made a splash with the release of controversial AI companions. Despite an App Store ranking bu

Micro-LEDs boost random number generation

Miniature LEDs called micro-LEDs have been shown to generate random numbers at gigabit-per-second speeds by a team of researchers from Saudi Arabia and the United States[1]. The generation of random numbers is vital for many tasks, including data security — where it is used to create encryption keys and passwords — and computer simulations of complex systems such as the weather and financial markets. There is, therefore, a strong demand to develop cost-effective random number generators that a

Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

The UN’s top investigative body on Palestine and Israel ruled on Tuesday that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide in Gaza, in the most authoritative pronouncement to date. The 72-page report by the UN commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel finds Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and that Israeli leaders had the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group. The finding echoes reports by Palestinian, Israeli and internatio

Microsoft, Nvidia other tech giants plan over $40 billion of new AI investments in UK

LONDON — Microsoft said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in the U.K. by 2028, as the company builds out its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The investment includes an additional $15.5 billion in capital expansion and $15.1 billion in its U.K. operations, Microsoft said. The company said the investment would enable it to build the U.K.'s "largest supercomputer," with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units (GPUs), in partnership with Nscale, a British cloud comp

Trump's Biggest Fans Furious at His Embrace of AI

Partisan politics in the United States makes for a generally contentious atmosphere But these days, the mainstream rift isn't just between blue and red — even some of president Donald Trump's most diehard fanatics have become openly belligerent over the president's obsession with AI. Following the release this summer of president Trump's "AI Action Plan" — a sweeping blueprint outlining the white house's strategy to ramp up AI development while slashing regulation — a number of far-right stalwa

What to expect from Amazon's event on September 30

Amazon will host a press event at the end of the month with some new hardware developments. It's scheduled for September 30 at 10AM ET in New York City. Here's what we think will be discussed at the fall event. In February, Amazon introduced some improvements to its voice assistant, promising that Alexa+ would be more conversational and more helpful thanks to generative AI. It seems likely that the fall event will put hardware for interacting with Alexa+ front and center, so expect to hear abou