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iPhone 17 Pro’s ‘scratchgate’ is a lesson in design for Android

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are facing a “scratchgate” controversy due to widespread scratches on demo units. The issue is not the return to aluminum as a build material, but a design flaw in the sharp-edged camera plateau. This “spalling” damage should serve as a warning to Android brands who might try to copy the design. Apple recently launched the iPhone 17 series and the iPhone Air. While the Air is grabbing a lot of headlines for its slim ph

5 reasons why a Pixel is my phone of choice

Joe Maring / Android Authority I’ve been using Pixel phones for years now, and I don’t plan on switching to another brand anytime soon. While I did own a bunch of OnePlus phones in the past and have hands-on experience with just about every major brand out there, Pixel remains my phone of choice. Pixels aren’t perfect — no device ever is — but they have all the ingredients that make up a great phone, at least for my personal wants and needs. Here are the five key reasons why the brand is so cl

I turned Gemini into a smarter Daily Hub alternative, and you can too

Joe Maring / Android Authority Of all the features that the Google Pixel 10 series brought, Daily Hub was the one that intrigued me the most. I love the idea of my phone greeting me with immediately relevant information before I start my day. And, as it’s made by Google, I could expect all the relevant content from my many Google apps and services to be included, right? Not quite. The early version of Daily Hub was as useful as a wet piece of toast. As a result, the company quickly yanked it to

Slow Horses returns today for season 5 on Apple TV+

The hit spy drama Slow Horses premieres its fifth season today on Apple TV+. The first episode of the new season, entitled ‘Bad Dates’, is available to watch now with the rest of the episodes rolling out weekly each Wednesday. If you haven’t seen the show before, Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, in charge of a department of spies that have been kicked out of the main MI5 operations. This season, a new character joins the cast whose face Ted Lasso fans are familiar with … Nick Mohammed joins

Do you need third-party anti-virus software on a Mac?

For many years, it was accepted wisdom that Mac malware wasn’t really an issue. One of the reasons for that was that the market share was simply too low to make it a worthwhile target for attackers. Today, of course, is a very different world. Macs are the fourth most popular brand of personal computers, and as owners of a premium brand, Mac owners make a juicy target. Does that mean you need third-party antivirus software on a Mac, or are the built-in security protections good enough? A very t

Spotify now (again) supports Mac DJ software like djay

Spotify has announced support for popular Mac DJ software like djay, rekordbox, and Serato. Simply logging into Spotify from within the DJ app gives you access to the entire music catalog, including your own playlists and those put together by Spotify … The company made the announcement today. For DJs, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of mixing tracks and building the perfect set. Now, Spotify Premium users will be able to access their entire libraries and playlists directly within deskto

Logitech launches a new Solar-powered slim wireless keyboard for Mac users

Today, Logitech is announcing its new Signature Slim Solar+ K980 keyboard, a slim wireless keyboard for Mac. Despite its normal looking design, it actually charges entirely via solar, so there’s no need to recharge it. It’ll be available for purchase today for $99. You might wonder, does it being solar mean it needs to be next to a window with direct sunlight? Well, actually: no! The Signature Slim Solar+ K980 keyboard recharges using desk lamps and any sort of artificial light you have availab

Spotify now directly integrates with DJ software

Spotify just announced integration with popular DJ software platforms like rekordbox, Serato and djay. This will make it much easier to build out sets from playlists and to do cool stuff like blend tracks. The company says that users "will be able to access their entire library and playlists directly within desktop DJ software," with just one caveat. This is only for Premium subscribers. The integration is available in 51 global markets. It looks pretty easy to get started. Just log into a Pre

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and an alleged co-conspirator appeared in a London court to face accusations of hacking into and extorting several large U.K. retailers, the London transit system, and healthcare providers in the United Stat

Apple Music on Android gets 3 new iOS 26 features - but not the best one

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Apple Music on Android now allows you to pin your favorite albums, artists, and playlists for quick and easy access. The Android app is also getting the Lyrics Translation & Pronunciation feature. The new AutoMix feature remains exclusive to Apple devices. Apple announced a slew of new features for Apple Music on iOS 26 at its WWDC 2025 event in June. They are not only available on the

The best WordPress hosting services of 2025: Expert tested

Many websites now use a content management system (CMS) for backend management. You don't need to know any coding -- such as HTML or CSS -- to build or operate a website these days. WordPress is one of the most popular options around, according to W3Techs, around 61% of all websites with a known CMS using the service. The CMS is free and popular due to its ease of use, allowing for quick launch without requiring any technical knowledge. WordPress is also often offered as a one-click installatio

The best payment gateways of 2025: Expert tested

'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

This is why your company is transforming into an autonomous machine

SweetBunFactory/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Industries are undergoing a profound transformation as products, factories, and companies adopt autonomous machine models. Autonomous companies use AI agents to sense, understand, decide, and act with minimal human intervention. They adopt software-driven hardware, extended connections, wide contextual awareness, and continuous learning. Industries are undergoing a profound

Your Disney+ subscription price is going up again - here's how much

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Streaming service Disney+ has announced a price increase. Almost all plans are affected, including bundle options. The company has raised its prices every October for three years. If you're a Disney+ subscriber, you'll be paying more soon, as another price increase is on the way. Almost every tier for the streaming service is set to have a higher price next month, inclu

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You didn't see it coming

You Didn't See It Coming 24 Sep, 2025 It started with the hiring posts. A friend, call him Dev, began writing on LinkedIn and Twitter/X about his intentionally small team. How they moved faster, knew each other deeply, avoided the bureaucracy that kills startups. His posts got traction. The story felt authentic because, at the time, it was. What I knew, and his followers didn't, was simpler. Dev couldn't hire. His runway was tight, his equity offers weren't competitive, and the candidates he

Huntington's disease treated for first time

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time 55 minutes ago Share Save James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Share Save BBC/Fergus Walsh Professors Ed Wild and Sarah Tabrizi led the UK part of the trial One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington's – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson's and motor neurone dis

S3 scales to petabytes a second on top of slow HDDs

Everyone knows what AWS S3 is, but few comprehend the massive scale it operates at, nor what it took to get there. In essence - it’s a scalable multi-tenant storage service with APIs to store and retrieve objects, offering extremely high availability and durability at a relatively low cost. Scale 400+ trillion objects 150 million requests a second (150,000,000/s) > 1 PB/s of peak traffic tens of millions of disks Behind It All? Hard drives. How S3 achieves this scale is an engineering m

Deep researcher with test-time diffusion

The recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have fueled the emergence of deep research (DR) agents. These agents demonstrate remarkable capabilities, including the generation of novel ideas, efficient information retrieval, experimental execution, and the subsequent drafting of comprehensive reports and academic papers. Currently, most public DR agents use a variety of clever techniques to improve their results, like performing reasoning via chain-of-thought or generating multiple answe

My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

Hello, I am a guy that makes a funny rhythm game called Project Heartbeat. I'm based in Spain. Recently, I got a home server, and decided to throw in a status report software on it that would notify me through a telegram channel whenever my game's server is unreachable. Ever since then I've noticed my game's server is seemingly unplayable at times, which was strange because as far as I could tell the server was fine, and I could even see it accepting requests in the log. Then it hit me: I use

Dive Into the Most Breathtaking Ocean Photos of the Year

While floating in the crystal-clear waters of the northern Great Barrier Reef, a sleek, dark shape glided toward Marcia Riederer. The Brazilian-born wildlife and underwater photographer watched as the dwarf minke whale approached, snapping a photo at the exact moment it turned and fixed one eye on her. “These curious giants approach swimmers with an almost playful curiosity,” Riederer told Oceanographic Magazine. “The whales seem to acknowledge your presence, circling and interacting with you.

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Sept. 24

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

There's Only One Bad Thing About Bowers & Wilkins' PX8 S2 Headphones: Their Price Hurts

If you're looking for evidence that the Trump administration tariffs are hitting consumer electronics prices, look no further than Bowers & Wilkins' new flagship PX8 S2 noise-canceling headphones. The original version carried a list price of $699 when they launched, but this second-gen model comes out of the gate at $799 ($629). Is that too much to pay? For most folks, yes, but the PX8 S2 over-ear headphones are easily among my favorite. Not only do they sound better than the original PX8 but bo

LCD vs. LED: Which TV Technology Is Better?

LCD TVs and LED TVs have both been on the market for a long time. TV-sized LCDs gained popularity in the mid-2000s, while LED TVs followed a few years later. The marketing departments for many companies, most notably Samsung, have blurred the meaning behind these names. LCD TVs and LED TVs are based on the same technology. For the most part, all modern LCDs are LEDs and vice versa. However, the differences are interesting and worth investigating. Read more: QLED vs. LED: Which Is Better? Th

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9 Foods Experts Say Could Relieve Headaches if Pain Relievers Don't Cut It

When a headache or migraine arises, many reach into their medicine cabinets for an over-the-counter pain reliever like Tylenol or Advil, but those aren't always enough to reduce persistent head pain. There is another area of your home where you may want to look for relief: your kitchen's pantry. While they're not miracle cures, experts say that the foods you eat as part of a balanced diet may help with headaches or migraines. "The most important thing I tell patients is that migraines are highl

Kitchen Crutches: 4 Cooking Tools and Shortcuts You're Using Too Often

We love a good cooking hack, whether foolproof ways to check steak for doneness or using your air fryer for everything from grilled cheese to weeknight salmon. So, when does a potentially clever hack or safe-bet kitchen tool spill over into a crutch? When it doesn't produce results that make it worth any time or effort saved. Suppose you're automatically reaching for the same tools, equipment or resources whenever you're in the kitchen or grocery store, without considering whether there's a bet

Mini-LED vs QLED: Which TV Tech Is Better?

Other than OLED, two of the top-performing TV technologies are mini-LED and QLED. While neither offer OLED's incredible image quality, they're close and most often brighter. These two display types also typically cheaper and available in a wider range of screen sizes. They're more similar than different, which is good news for anyone trying to decide between the two. Both mini-LED and QLED use LEDs, aka light-emitting diodes, to create light. In front of that backlight is an LCD layer that crea

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Apple TV Plus: 20 of the Best Shows You're Probably Not Watching

Now that the Apple event is over, you're probably itching to keep the "awe dropping" fun going. Well, if you're looking for some new shows to watch, may I suggest Apple TV Plus? I'm going to, so buckle up. I'm sure you've heard of the streamer and are familiar with a handful of Apple's original shows, such as Severance and Ted Lasso. But there's so much more in regards to solid programming that can be found here. For instance, did you know Apple TV Plus released a limited series inspired by th

13 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream Now

If you're trying out Peacock for the first time or unsure what the streaming service offers in addition to NBC and Bravo favorites, it sounds like you could use a guide to the streamer's best original series. Peacock has generated buzz with series like The Day of the Jackal, Love Island USA, and, more recently, The Office spinoff The Paper. The streaming service hiked prices in July, but if you're keeping it in your rotation, you can't go wrong with these 13 standout shows. Ad-based Peacock run

Bring the Volume Bar Back to Your iPhone's Lock Screen in a Few Easy Steps

If you're listening to music or a podcast and want to change the volume without unlocking your iPhone, then you probably press the buttons on the side of your phone. Those buttons can increase or decrease your volume a set amount, but they could leave you choosing between a volume that is slightly too loud or a bit too quiet. Thankfully, you can bring the volume bar back to your device's Lock Screen, giving you more precise control over your iPhone's volume without unlocking your device. Apple