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Prime Day deals include the Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam for only $40

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 . Ring security gear is among the smart home tech on sale for Prime Day this year. One of the highlights from the sale is the Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam — it normally goes for $80, but it's half off right now and down to only $40. That's even lower than the previous all-time low price of $50 th

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Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones are $115 off 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 . Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones are $115 off as part of the Prime Day festivities, which brings the price down to $285. This discount applies to multiple colorways. These headphones once topped our list of the best wireless headphones before being usurped by the XM6. They are still fanta

The Amazon Smart Plug falls to only $13 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 . If you're looking for an ultra-affordable away to make a part of your home a little smarter, look no further than the Amazon Smart Plug. Prime Day deals have brought the IoT device down to just $13, which is 48 percent off its regular price. Amazon's accessory made it onto our list of

The latest Kindle Scribe drops to a record-low price 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 . The latest Amazon Kindle Scribe ereader is on sale for just $260 as part of the upcoming Prime Day festivities. This is a record-low price and a discount of $140. The sale applies to the 16GB model, which is enough storage for thousands of books and notes. The Kindle Scribe is Amazon'

Prime Day deals include $100 off the Apple Watch Series 10

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 will be here in a few days, but you can already shop great tech deals on Amazon before the July 8-11 event. Case in point: the Apple Watch Series 10, which is $100 off at the moment and down to $299. That's the lowest price it's been so far since it came out last Septemb

Best Black Friday in July 2025 deals at Best Buy

When is Best Buy's Black Friday in July 2025? Best Buy's Black Friday in July will run from July 7 to July 13, 2025. However, some sales may still linger after the closing date. What are Best Buy Doorbuster deals? Doorbuster deals are limited-stock, extremely low-priced offers made to attract customers to sales. Best Buy typically employs these deals during its annual Black Friday sale, but has confirmed they will be present for its summer sale. Where do I find Best Buy's Black Friday in Jul

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Edible Microlasers Could Revolutionize Food Tracking and Safety

In a delicious turn of events, scientists succeeded in taking the optics of olive oil to create the first-ever microlaser made entirely from edible materials. If commercialized, they could offer an easy and safe way to monitor food or medications from inside your body. The technology, introduced earlier this month in the journal Advanced Optical Materials, exploits an interesting tendency for droplets of common cooking oils, which emit a photon of light when subjected to a certain amount of ene

How Brex is keeping up with AI by embracing the ‘messiness’

Companies have struggled to adopt the right AI tools as the technology evolves at a far faster pace than their slow sales cycles. Corporate credit card company Brex is no different. The startup found itself facing the same issue as its enterprise counterparts. The upshot: Brex completely changed its approach to software procurement to ensure they wouldn’t get left behind. Brex CTO James Reggio told TechCrunch, at the HumanX AI conference in March, the company initially tried to assess these

Hidden interface controls that affect usability

Philip Kortum In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart [1] first introduced the notion of "knowledge in the world" versus "knowledge in the head" for computer interfaces—an idea that was later formalized and popularized by Donald Norman in his seminal book The Psychology of Everyday Things. From an interface design standpoint, knowledge in the world simply means that the controls you need are visible, and the identification and operation of these controls can be done through recognition rather tha

Pick up this Dyson cordless vacuum while it's $180 off 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 . Amazon Prime Day has returned for the summer, making it a good time to check to see if any big-ticket gadgets on your wishlist are on sale. A lot of our favorite tech is on sale at the moment, and that includes a number of Prime Day vacuum deals. One of the best is on the Dyson V15 Det

Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability

Philip Kortum In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart [1] first introduced the notion of "knowledge in the world" versus "knowledge in the head" for computer interfaces—an idea that was later formalized and popularized by Donald Norman in his seminal book The Psychology of Everyday Things. From an interface design standpoint, knowledge in the world simply means that the controls you need are visible, and the identification and operation of these controls can be done through recognition rather tha

The best Prime Day laptop deals: Save on MacBooks, Windows 11 machines, Chromebooks and more

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 . So you need a new laptop — you’ve waited for the right time. Amazon Prime Day 2025, as has been in years past, offers a ton of laptop deals to consider and that's true even now in the days leading up to the event. All kinds of devices are on sale this year, from refreshed MacBooks to h

Three months of Audible is only $3 in this 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 bumper 2025 edition of Amazon's Prime Day is fast approaching and the deals are starting to emerge. While we've seen this offer pop up several times in the past, it's one that's always worth highlighting. New Audible subscribers can get three months of access to the Premium Plus pl

The iPad I recommend to most users is under $300 in every color at Amazon

Maria Diaz/ZDNET An iPad can help with success in many areas like school, professional work, content creation, and way more. Plus, with Prime Day just days away, there's no better time to scoop up savings on one of Apple's most popular devices. Also: Your iPad is getting 4 big upgrades for free. Here are the top features in iPadOS 26 Now, you can get the 11th Gen iPad for $299 (save $50). The tablet normally retails for $350, so a great sale this soon in the launch schedule is good news for e

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

One of the greatest questions of the modern age is: Is it cake? As in: Is it an espresso machine, or cake? Paint can, or cake? Air fryer, or …? Millions of viewers have watched rapt as TikTok bakers slice or bite into inedible-looking objects with fluffy, frosting-filled innards … or have tuned into Is It Cake?, the aptly named Netflix show. Why? As a form of entertainment, this kind of visual trick is hardly new. For centuries, artists have delighted in fooling us into thinking one material is

Drive Capital’s second act –  how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split

The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour. For Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, this cycle of attention and disinterest played out against the backdrop of its own internal upheaval several years ago — a co-founder split that could have ended the firm but may have ultimately strengthened it. At a minimum, Drive achieved something newsworthy in today’s venture lan

A bundle of two Blink Mini 2 security cameras is only $35 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 . The best value in security cameras is back. This early Prime Day deal has two Blink Mini 2 cameras for only $35. That's half off — and $5 less than you'd usually pay for only one of them. This matches a Black Friday record low for the pair. The Blink Mini 2 is a recent offering, arriv

The best Prime Day kitchen deals you can get right now on air fryers, Instant Pots and sous vide machines

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 . If you’re considering updating your kitchen setup, first check out the best Prime Day kitchen deals we could find from Amazon’s sale. Engadget editors and reporters have tested and reviewed a whole bunch of kitchen tech and Amazon’s annual July sale is a great time to save on many of t

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Amazon Prime Day 2025: The best deals live right now, plus everything else you need to know

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 is coming back (again) this year; here's what you need to know and the best deals live today. Amazon Prime Day has been a summer mainstay for years at this point and this year is no exception. Prime Day will return on July 8 to July 11 this year, marking the first time the s

Amazon's Echo Spot drops to only $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 . It's still a couple of days until Prime Day 2025 officially kicks off, but the sales are already here. 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

Prime Day deal: Get up to 50 percent off Shark robot vacuums

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 . If you've been itching to invest in a robot vacuum to help you clean up around the house, you're in luck. Prime Day deals, like clockwork, have brought discounts to a bunch of our favorite robot vacuums. One of the best deals is on this Shark AI Ultra robovac, which you can grab for 49

Joe Rogan’s Latest Episode Will Make You Question Everything About AI

Joe Rogan loves talking about artificial intelligence. Whether it’s with Elon Musk, academics, or UFC fighters, the podcast king often returns to the same question: What happens to us when machines start thinking for themselves? In the July 3 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan welcomed Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist and AI safety researcher at the University of Louisville, for a conversation that quickly turned into a chilling meditation on AI’s potential to manipulate, domi

Best Laptop Stands (2025): 25+ Models Tested and Reviewed

More Laptop Stands to Consider There’s no shortage of computer stands out there, and most of them get the job done. While these didn’t quite make my top picks, they still have some perks worth considering. Rain Design iLevel2 Photograph: Rain Design Rain Design iLevel2 for $65: I wanted to love the Rain Design iLevel2, assuming that it was a bestseller for a reason. Adjusting the height is easy—you slide the front level—but even at its lowest (5.4 inches), it still feels too high for some set

Android May Soon Warn You About Fake Cell Towers

In recent years, North Korea has deployed thousands of so-called IT workers to infiltrate Western businesses, get paid salaries, and send money back to support the regime. As the schemes have become more successful, they have grown increasingly elaborate and employed new tactics to evade detection. But this week, the United States Justice Department revealed one of its biggest operations to tackle IT workers to date. The DOJ says it has identified six Americans who allegedly helped enable the s

Prompting LLMs is not engineering

Prompting LLMs is not engineering published in: With the proliferation of AI models and tools, there's a new industry-wide fascination with snake oil remedies called "prompt engineering". As of July 2025 the term is now "context engineering" or "context prompting" or "context manipulation". To put it succinctly, prompt engineering is nothing but an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which any of the parameters below are unknown: training set weights constraints o

Pick up our favorite air purifier while it's $37 off 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 coming soon on July 8-11, but you don't have to wait to grab good tech deals — and that goes for everyone, not just Prime members. Early deals have already started popping up on Amazon, and one of the best at the moment is on an Engadget-approved air purifier. The Lev

The Novelty of the Arpanet

If you run an image search for the word “ARPANET,” you will find lots of maps showing how the government research network expanded steadily across the country throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s. I’m guessing that most people reading or hearing about the ARPANET for the first time encounter one of these maps. Obviously, the maps are interesting—it’s hard to believe that there were once so few networked computers that their locations could all be conveyed with what is really pretty lo-fi car

Preorder the new Nothing Phone 3 at Amazon and get double the storage and $100 off

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Amazon Prime Day kicks off next week on Tuesday, July 8, but one of the best early mobile offers I've seen is already here. That's right -- you don't need to be a Prime member to snag these savings, and this smartphone is already under $1,000. The new Nothing Phone 3 just launched (seriously, our expert is still in London post-launch party), and Amazon already has a tempting preorder offer. Also: The best Prime Day tech deals If you preorder the Nothing Phone 3 on Amazon

The AI Chatbots We Use Most, and How We Use Them

If you have a particular artificial intelligence tool that you tend to try first every time you're in need of an AI assist, you're not alone. According to a new survey, 91% of people who use AI have a favorite chatbot they try first, whether it's ChatGPT, Gemini, Alexa or something else. A Menlo Ventures survey of 5,000 adults found that this "default tool dynamic" means most people using AI have chosen a general AI tool they'll try first for every job, even if it's not necessarily the best too

You can still get a Walmart Plus membership for 50% off and snag exclusive access to Walmart's anti-Prime Day sale

The summer sale season is here. Plus, with Prime Day (and concurrent sales) kicking off next week, there's no better time to scour the internet for deals, discounts, and top savings at every retailer as they compete for your cash. Also: The best Prime Day deals live now Perhaps the best thing about Prime Day season is that other major retailers are looking to cash in on the shopping palooza, offering similar or better offerings on top products -- and even membership opportunities. Right now, W