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My 5 favorite gadgets for students are all under $40 (and why they're so useful)

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The best VPNs with antivirus of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

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5 back-to-school gadgets under $50 I recommend to every student (and how they come in handy)

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Best VPNs for YouTube in 2025: 5 providers for unblocking content

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The best 85-inch TVs you can buy in 2025: Big-screens for big entertainment

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Why I stopped recommending pre-built SSDs for Windows PCs - and what to buy instead

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I changed 17 iPhone settings to instantly extend my battery life - it takes seconds

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Windows has a secret recovery tool - here's how to find it and use it

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The Day MOOCs Died: Coursera's Preview Mode Kills Free Learning

Last week, Coursera’s new CEO, Greg Hart, delivered something the company’s investors had been eagerly awaiting: growth. In his first full quarter as CEO, Greg’s leadership helped drive Coursera’s stock price up 36% following the earnings call, pushing the company’s valuation past the $2 billion mark. However, this pursuit of prioritizing Wall Street could come at a cost to learners worldwide. The company is rolling out a “Preview Mode,” a feature that would lock almost all course content, inc

This multi-card reader is one of the best investments I've made for my creative workflow

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This new Wi-Fi 7 router is small enough to fit in your pocket - and priced well

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12 settings you should change on your Apple TV to instantly improve the performance

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Claude Code makes it easy to trigger a code check now with this simple command

Anthropic / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Automated security reviews in Claude Code help ensure code safety. Spot and fix vulnerabilities before your code reaches production. Run the /security-review command in the terminal or via GitHub Action. Claude Code became generally available in May, and since then, it has become popular among developers for its coding assistance, available right in the terminal or integrated development environments (IDEs). Now, new features ar

Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after its public preview debut in May. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks. Google initially announced Jules as a Google Labs project in December and made it available to beta testers through a public preview at

The M4 MacBook Air is selling for its lowest price of all time on Amazon - and I'm seriously tempted

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Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers

Julia Vidal, co-founder of Badge, began with a simple problem: remote workers often roam the city searching for a workplace that won’t shoo them away. As coffee shops and cafés are increasingly adopting no-laptop policies, she envisioned a startup. What if partnered cafés allowed the reservation of a laptop spot, but just with a minimum spend, so everybody is happy? Basically, AirBnB, for café-based workspaces with proper WiFi. Quick prototype validates demand on the consumer side To test wh

The Download: OpenAI’s open-weight models, and the future of internet search

The news: OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. Unlike the models available through OpenAI’s web interface, these new open models can be freely downloaded, run, and even modified on laptops and other local devices. Why it matters: These releases re-establish OpenAI as a presence for users of open models. That’s particularly notable at a time when Meta, which had previously dominated the American open-model landscape with its Llama models, ma

Why this universal travel charger earned a place in my backpack - especially at its price

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Super Micro shares plunge 15% on weak results, disappointing guidance

Charles Liang, CEO of Super Micro, speaks at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 1, 2023. Super Micro Computer shares slid 15% in extended trading on Tuesday after the server maker reported disappointing fiscal fourth-quarter results and issued weak quarterly earnings guidance. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: 41 cents adjusted vs. 44 cents expected 41 cents adjusted vs. 44 cents expected Revenue: $5.76 billion vs. $5.89 billion

Palantir stock pops 6% after blowout quarter driven by AI, efficiency demand

Palantir's U.S. government revenues rose 53% from the year-ago period to $426 million as the company continues to benefit from President Donald Trump 's focus on efficiency. U.S. revenues grew 68% year over year $733 million, while U.S. commercial revenues nearly doubled to $306 million. "We're very proud and we're sorry that our haters are disappointed, but there are many more quarters to be disappointed, and we're working on that too," he added. CEO Alex Karp called the earnings results a "

Amazon lets you buy used cars now in just a few clicks - here's how

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Samsung makes new $120 offer to Galaxy Z Fold and Flip 7 users - how to redeem for free

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it's the easiest way to speed it up)

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The best 50-inch TVs of 2025: Expert tested from Samsung, LG, and more

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I pack light, but this universal travel charger earned a place in my bag - here's why

'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

Palantir stock pops 8% after blowout quarter driven by AI, efficiency demand

Palantir's U.S. government revenues rose 53% from the year-ago period to $426 million as the company continues to benefit from President Donald Trump 's focus on efficiency. U.S. revenues grew 68% year over year $733 million, while U.S. commercial revenues nearly doubled to $306 million. "We're very proud and we're sorry that our haters are disappointed, but there are many more quarters to be disappointed, and we're working on that too," he added. CEO Alex Karp called the earnings results a "

The Download: AI agent infrastructure, and OpenAI’s ambitions

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI is adding mental health guardrails to ChatGPT It’s set to give less direct advice, and encourage users to take breaks from lengthy chats. (NBC) + What happens when doctors fail to spot AI’s mistakes? (The Verge) + OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being. (MIT Technology Review) 2 The US wants to bui

The best earbuds of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

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Got a new PC? 5 apps to install first (and how they'll improve your workflow)

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The Download: fixing ‘evil’ AI, and the White House’s war on science

+ We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy. But are they really ready for it? + What even is AI? Everyone thinks they know, but no one can agree. Here’s why that’s a problem. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The US is losing its scientific supremacy Money and talent are starting to leave as a hostile White House ramps up its attacks. (The Atlantic $) + The foundations of America’s prosperity a