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The DJI Neo drone drops to only $159 for Prime Day

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . DJI drones rarely go sale but there's an exception for Prime Day. The company's popular Neo drone is now available for $159, making an already affordable product even more manageable with a $40 (20 percent) discount. That sum will get you a drone that's very friendly for beginners than

This HP 14-Inch Chromebook Is $199, Amazon Clears Out Stock with a Flash Sale and Only 20% Left

Laptops have not been Amazon’s Prime Day priority this year, so it’s some searching to uncover a true gem. If you’re on a tight budget, Chromebooks remain your best value for quality and as it turns out, there is one model that you should not miss. The HP Chromebook 14-inch (Intel Processor N100, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB UFS) is at a record low price thanks to a flash sale with only 20% of the stock left. Once it’s gone, it’s gone for good. At $199, you’re getting a massive 50% discount off the usual $

Prime Day Makes the HP 14″ Chromebook the Cheapest Laptop at 50% Off, Even Though It’s the Latest Model

A good laptop is a must for a lot of us. The ability to work or study on the move, or just zone out and watch some TV or a good film, is something that can’t be overrated. There are loads of great laptop and Chromebook options out there, but they can be pretty pricey a lot of the time. That’s where today’s amazing Prime Day deal comes in. Right now, you can get your hands on a HP 14-inch Chromebook for just $200. For reference, this model would normally cost you $390, so this is a 49% prime dis

The Nintendo Switch OLED is $100 off during Prime Day

Amazon Prime Day is the best time to save money on a Nintendo Switch OLED during a time when there aren’t any deals on the last-gen console (however, there are some other great gaming deals). Right now, you can get one with neon red and blue Joy-Con for the all-time low price of $249 ($100 off) at Woot. Alternatively, you get the console bundled with a digital copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for $275 ($75 off) at Woot. These are both international models; they’ll work totally fine in the US (Switch

Teachers urge parents not to buy children smartphones

Teachers urge parents not to buy children smartphones 28 minutes ago Share Save Will Fyfe BBC News Share Save 'One of my friends had a smartphone when they were three or four' Parents of thousands of children have been asked not to give them a smartphone until they're at least 14 amid fears some were using devices for eight hours a day. Many schools have already banned smartphones on site but one part of the UK thinks it will be the first to have a countywide policy advising parents against g

The Amazon Echo Spot has been discounted to $45 for Prime Day

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Prime Day 2025 is basically here, and the sales are abundant. There's deals on some of our favorite products, like the TP-Link Deco AXE5400 WI-Fi mesh router system and the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max. Now, another Amazon device is on sale: the Echo Spot. Currently, you can get the Am

The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra just hit an all-time low price for Prime Day

ZDNET's key takeaways The 47mm Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra normally retails for $650 on Amazon, although it occasionally goes on sale. It's a stylish-looking smartwatch with a slew of safety features and a long-lasting battery. However, it's only available in a single size (47mm, to be exact), meaning it may not be a good fit for folks with smaller wrists. $398.75 at Amazon At Amazon, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra received a 50% discount for Prime Day -- the lowest price we've seen -- bringin

Microsoft's 12-inch Surface Pro improves on its best traits - and it's already on sale

ZDNET's key takeaways The 12-inch Microsoft Surface Pro is on sale now at Amazon for $699 for the 256GB option, and $799 for the 512GB. The 12-inch version is exceedingly thin and light with a fast-charging battery, and the refreshed form factor looks more premium. The 256GB of storage is not enough for a device at this price point, and the cost adds up quickly, as the keyboard, mouse, and even the power adapter are sold separately. View now at Amazon The Microsoft Surface 12-inch Surface Pro

Comparing the Climate and Productivity Impacts of a Shrinking Population

All authors are affiliates of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin. This paper subsumes the working paper “Population Decline: Too Small and Too Slow to Influence Climate Change” by the same authors. We thank Jared Bernstein, Maya Eden, Frank Errickson, Jim Feyrer, Chad Jones, Peter Kruse-Andersen, Kyle Meng, Marta Prato, John Podesta, Noah Scovronick, Robert Socolow, Phil Trammell, Sam Trejo, David Weil, Anson Zhou, Stéphane Zuber, Valeria Zurla and participants at the NBER’s confer

Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots

Hugging Face is ready for developers to start tinkering and testing its latest robotics release. The AI development platform announced Wednesday that it’s now accepting orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots. The company initially unveiled the prototypes of these devices back in May, alongside a larger humanoid robot named HopeJR. Hugging Face said it plans to release two versions of the Reachy Mini. The first, called the Reachy Mini Wireless, is wireless and costs $449 and runs on a Raspbe

Teachers want parents to stop giving children under 14 smartphones

Teachers want parents to stop giving children under 14 smartphones 6 hours ago Share Save Will Fyfe BBC News Reporting from Monmouthshire Share Save 'One of my friends had a smartphone when they were three or four' Parents of thousands of children have been asked not to give them a smartphone until at least 14-years-old amid fears some were using devices for eight hours a day Many schools have already banned smartphones on site but one part of the UK thinks it will be the first to have a coun

Southeast Asia needn't take sides in U.S.-China tech rivalry. It can learn from both, experts say

A visitor watches an AI sign on an animated screen at the Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona. Josep Lago | Afp | Getty Images As China and the U.S. compete in artificial intelligence, Southeast Asia should draw from the best of both countries while building its own technologies, panelists said at CNBC's East Tech West 2025 conference on June 27 in Bangkok, Thailand. Julian Gorman, head of Asia-Pacific at mobile network trade organization GSMA, s

Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives

Hi, I’m Julien, co-founder of Plakar. Before we built this, I spent years as an engineer and later as a manager of infra teams. We handled backups, compliance, and recovery. In every place, startups, big companies, regulated sectors, I saw the same routine: tar -czf archive.tgz /some/folder We all love that command. But in 2025, it can cause trouble. What’s changed since .tgz was invented Back when tar came out in 1979 or even gzip came out in 1994, things were simple: Data was small, jus

This MacBook Air Is Selling at Half the Price of a MacBook Pro, Amazon Clears Out Prime Day Stock

Apple has come a significant distance in reducing the MacBook Air’s price, and Amazon is pushing the value even harder on Prime Day. As things stand now, Prime members can acquire the 2025 MacBook Air with the performance-oriented M4 chip for just $849 in the 256GB version (down from $999). To put this into perspective, the starting price for a MacBook Pro is at least $1,599, which makes this Air model less than half the cost. Despite the lower price, you’re still getting a machine that’s incre

Prime Day Deal: This All-in-One Kitchen Appliance Is 25% Off Right Now, and It Makes Nearly Everything

Amazon Prime Day sale: Amid the many great home appliance deals happening during Amazon's July Prime Day, the Chefman Everything Maker is available for $45 -- equivalent to $15 off and a 25% discount. The normal list price of $60 on the Chefman website already feels like a steal for what this thing does. Which is, well, everything. But right now during Amazon's July Prime Day sale, you can get the Everything Maker in the concrete color for 25% off, bringing the price down to just $45. (The midn

Confirmed: Nintendo’s Switch 2 can work with existing docks and webcams after replacing their firmware

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. 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 iss

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2025: Where to watch and what to expect

Samsung TL;DR Samsung’s latest Android devices are getting ready to go official. At Unpacked on Wednesday, we’re looking forward to the Flip 7, Fold 7, Watch 8 series, and more. You can stream Samsung’s presentation right here, beginning July 9 at 10am Eastern. Samsung is not about to let its legions of Galaxy fans wait too long without some exciting new hardware to flock to, and not even six months after we got to meet the Galaxy S25 series at its winter Unpacked event, the company is ready

How to Save a Dog

The first time I glimpsed the city of New Orleans, I was a small boy in the wheelhouse of a tugboat. My father pushed barges up and down the Mississippi River, and sometimes he let me tag along. The city seemed so luminous at night—so different from tiny Convent, Louisiana, where I was from—that it felt otherworldly and inaccessible. In 2020, I moved there during a painful divorce. Because of that childhood memory, my relocation felt somehow transgressive. I was going where I did not belong. Sh

Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

In Brief French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Mistral is also talking to French lenders like Bpifrance SACA to raise hundreds of millions of euros in debt, per Bloomberg. TechCrunch has reached out to Mistral for comment. Mistral, makers of the Le Chat chatbot, is one of the most significant players in the European AI landscape with a focus on open-wei

LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup providing tools to build and monitor LLM-powered applications, is raising a new round of funding at an approximate $1 billion valuation led by IVP, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. LangChain began its life in late 2022 as an open-source project founded by Harrison Chase, who was then an engineer at machine learning startup Robust Intelligence. After generating significant developer interest, Chase transformed the project into a start

Chinese researchers unveil MemOS, the first ‘memory operating system’ that gives AI human-like recall

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A team of researchers from leading institutions including Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Zhejiang University has developed what they’re calling the first “memory operating system” for artificial intelligence, addressing a fundamental limitation that has hindered AI systems from achieving human-like persistent memory and learning. The sy

Deal alert: Massive 50% price drop on Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Looking to upgrade your wearable tech this Amazon Prime Day? There’s a fantastic deal on the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra that’s hard to ignore. During this event, you can snag the Galaxy Watch Ultra for just $324.99. That’s a 50% discount off the recommended retail price, making it the lowest price ever. Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra for $324.99 (50% off) The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is a top-tier option for fitness enthusiasts and adventurers alike. This smart

This tiny 2-in-1 charger solved my biggest problem with traveling - and it's on sale

ZDNET's key takeaways The Twelve South ButterFly SE is available for $100 in Midnight Plum, Iridescent, White, Black, and Pink. This charging station is highly compact, making it ideal for travelers and habitual end-of-night nightstand charging folks. You can only charge two devices at the same time, which may not be enough power for some. View now at Amazon The Twelve South ButterFly SE 2-in-1 Wireless Qi2 Charger is on sale during Amazon Prime Day, listing for just $70 ($30 off). Also: The

My favorite Apple Watch is 32% off during Prime Day sales

The Apple Watch SE (2nd Gen) pictured with the Spigen Crystal Liquid Pro Apple Watch band. Kayla Solino/ZDNET Apple's popular watch wearables are available in several models, and the Watch SE (2nd Gen) is still the latest base model watch to hit the market. Despite Apple unveiling the new Watch Series 10 in September 2024, the SE did not get an upgrade as originally rumored. While it's not packed with all the Series 9 or 10 features, it offers great value for those looking to track basic health

Finally, a budget smartwatch that's just as durable as my Garmin (and it's on sale)

ZDNET's key takeaways The Kospet Tank M3 Ultra and T3 Ultra 2 are available for just $159.99 retail. The watches are have vibrant displays, pass durability standards, and have long battery life. Updates take a long time, and the heart rate sensor measures a bit high. View now at Amazon For Prime Day, Amazon has the Kospet Tank T3 Ultra 2 watch on sale for just $128 ($32 off), making the already affordable wearable more so. Also: The best Prime Day deals you can shop now With so many new wea

Fitbit Charge 6 Fitness Tracker Is Going for Peanuts With Prime Discount, Includes S and L Sized Bands

It’s not just bits and bobs for the house you can pick up during this month’s Prime Day deal event, it’s basically everything. If there’s anything that Amazon sells that you’d like to save money on, then this event means there’s a high chance that you’ll be able to do so. It’s a good chance to get tech that you’d normally skip over because of its price. There are big deals all over the place. One great deal we’ve found today is on the immensely useful Fitbit Charge 6 fitness tracker. This handy

Prime Day Shopping: How to Get the Deals Without Getting Scammed

Amazon's Prime Day sale is officially here, but shoppers looking for great deals need to be careful that they don't get scammed in the process. Amazon is warning consumers to be on the lookout for cybercriminals attempting to use the massive online event, which runs Tuesday through Friday, as an opportunity to con them out of their money and personal information. According to Amazon, reports of email impersonation scams, where cybercriminals tried to pass themselves off as Amazon or another re

It's Nearly Time for Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 Debut: How to Watch the Unpacked Event

Samsung's Unpacked event may just introduce the next generation of foldable Galaxy Z phones to replace the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 (if the company's multiple teases are to be believed). Samsung is also expected to unveil the successor to the Galaxy Watch 7. The event happens tomorrow. Here's what you can expect and how to tune in. CNET is also hosting a Samsung Galaxy Unpacked live blog and a live show, which will cover all the final rumors and big reveals as they happen. When is Sa

You can (finally) buy the Nintendo Switch 2 on Amazon now (but don't expect a Prime Day deal)

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The scramble to buy the first wave of Nintendo Switch 2 gaming consoles left a lot of fans in the lurch. Getting your hands on a Switch 2 of your own still takes some luck if you weren't fortunate enough to snag a pre-order. One of the points of drama has been that major seller Amazon

Mike Lindell lost defamation case, and his lawyers were fined for AI hallucinations

Lawyers representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell were fined $6,000 after using artificial intelligence in a brief that was riddled with misquotes and citations to fictional cases. Attorney Christopher Kachouroff and the law firm of McSweeney Cynkar & Kachouroff were fined $3,000, jointly and severally. Attorney Jennifer DeMaster was separately ordered to pay $3,000. This "is the least severe sanction adequate to deter and punish defense counsel in this instance," US District Judge Nina Wa