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Best early Prime Day PlayStation 5 deals: My 33 favorite sales live now

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Best early Prime Day phone deals: My 15 favorite sales live now

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The 13+ best anti-Prime Day deals 2025 from Best Buy, Walmart, & more: Top sales from Amazon's competition

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BBC Apologizes for Accidentally Spoiling ‘Doctor Who’ Finale in News Report

The BBC’s apology for posting about that shocking Doctor Who finale reveal before the whole world got a chance to watch comes a little too late. For many, the spoiler was prominently featured online as soon as Ncuti Gatwa took his bow and regenerated into the franchise’s favorite companion, Rose Tyler, played by Billie Piper. Was she some sort of Rose variant, the role she originated in the series, meant to wrap things up with the David Tennant 14th Doctor running around? We don’t yet know. How

Every iPhone model that can be updated to iOS 26 (and which ones don't support it)

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The best Sam's Club deals to compete with Prime Day: TVs, speakers, laptops, and appliances

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Best early Prime Day PC gaming deals: My 32 favorite sales live now

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Best early Prime Day robot vacuum deals: My 20 favorite discounts available now

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How to add your driver's license to Apple Wallet - and which states support the feature for now

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It’s a family affair in final Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer

The Fantastic Four: First Steps opens next month. Marvel Studios has been ramping up its marketing efforts for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in recent weeks, culminating with the release of one last trailer before the film premieres next month. While prior efforts have focused on the (very cool) 1950s/Tomorrowland kitschy vibe of the film, this newest trailer emphasizes the family angle is chock-full of lots of good old-fashioned superhero action, as the quartet takes on a world-devouring cos

The new AI infrastructure reality: Bring compute to data, not data to compute

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more As AI transforms enterprise operations across diverse industries, critical challenges continue to surface around data storage—no matter how advanced the model, its performance hinges on the ability to access vast amounts of data quickly, securely, and reliably. Without the right data storage infrastructure, even the most powerful AI system

Best Prime Day tablet deals: My 17 favorite sales live now

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This air purifier is a must for pet parents, and you can get it for up to $50 off

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I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

I noticed so many iPhone users are dealing with the same storage nightmare. Here's a common scenario that sounds familiar to a lot of people: The widespread problem: iPhone storage fills up crazy fast, not everyone has a Mac, many don't want to pay monthly for iCloud storage, and home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users. The manual approach of creating folders and selecting photos one by one is tedious, and keeping up with new photos becomes overwhelming So I built an app called BackiGo

Ranking Pixar's Best Movies: Everything From 'Elio' to 'Toy Story'

Pixar is known for making heartwarming, imaginative movies that are enjoyable for both kids and adults. Since the first Toy Story movie came out in 1995, the studio has leveraged animated storytelling to tap into the human experience in beautiful, unexpected and humbling ways. Its filmmakers have explored our struggles with tragedy, loss and grief (including questions about the meaning of life), as well as our experiences with love, family and friendship. At its D23 fan event last summer, Disne

The photographer using AI to reconstruct stories lost to censorship

Video screens glow softly from the floor, looping footage of salt lakes, steppe villages, and decaying nuclear test sites. Suspended above them is a large handwoven textile map, crafted by artisans in Kazakhstan. The tapestry maps 12 significant sites across Kazakhstan and the surrounding region, each corresponding to one of the flickering videos below. This is Posthuman Matter: The Map of Nomadizing Reimaginings #3, the latest large-scale installation by photographer and multimedia artist Almag

YouTube will increase the minimum age for live streaming to 16

YouTube is increasing the minimum age required for its users to live stream to 16. In a message uploaded to the YouTube Help support page , it was confirmed that as of July 22, creators will need to be 16 or older to stream unaccompanied on the platform. Previously, YouTube stipulated that children under the age of 13 had to be visibly accompanied by an adult if they wanted to post live content, but going forward this rule will extend to anyone between anyone aged 13-15. YouTube warns that anyo

This 5-in-1 charging station has something most others overlook - and it's 50% off now

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MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon for faster next-gen wireless devices

What just happened? A team of researchers at MIT, in collaboration with Georgia Tech and the Air Force Research Laboratory, has developed a new method for integrating gallium nitride (GaN) transistors onto standard silicon chips. As the demand for faster and more efficient electronics continues to grow, this innovation represents a significant step toward bridging the gap between cutting-edge materials and mainstream technology. Gallium nitride, a semiconductor renowned for its efficiency and h

Best early Prime Day Kindle deals: My 7 favorite sales live now

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Best early Prime Day security camera deals: My 10 favorite sales live now

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Blockchain-driven platform to mimic stock trading, allowing users to buy shares of SpaceX, other hot private companies

Republic, a New York-based investment startup, is offering users exposure to SpaceX by issuing a "tokenized" representation of its shares. The company will begin selling the digital tokens this week and eventually plans to expand the offering to other private companies like artificial intelligence darlings OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Stripe, X, Waymo, Epic Games and more. The Wall Street Journal first reported the story Wednesday. "We're talking about delivering products to retail investo

BreachForums hacking forum operators reportedly arrested in France

The French police have reportedly arrested five operators of the BreachForum cybercrime forum, a website used by cybercriminals to leak and sell stolen data that exposed the sensitive information of millions. News of the arrests come from Le Parisien, which claims the law enforcement operation was carried out by the cybercrime unit (BL2C) of the Paris police department on Monday. According to reporters, the police carried out simultaneous raids in the regions of Hauts-de-Seine (Paris), Seine-M

Best early Prime Day smartwatch and fitness tracker deals: My 12 favorite sales live now

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The 16 best Prime Day 2025 deals under $25

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4 ways the latest KDE Plasma release is better than ever - and how to try it yourself

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Ladies and gents of the Linux community, it is time to enjoy another point release of yet another desktop environment: KDE Plasma 6.4. A point release? I got you all excited about a point release? Hear me out. 1. HDR/EDR support One of the biggest additions to KDE Plasma 6.4 is support for Extended Dynamic Range and a new High Dynamic Range wizard. The new HDR Calibration wizard is found in System Settings > Display & Monitor and only appears if you'

11 Best Computer Monitors (2025): Budget, OLED, 4K

Size is often the first and most important decision to make about your monitor. These are the most common sizes you'll come across, always measured diagonally across the screen. The following range from most common to least, and include different aspect ratios and resolutions that are often used at that size. 27-inch: This size has become the standard, offering enough screen size without overtaking your desk or stretching out the pixels too much at 1080p. If you're unsure of what to get, start

The Download: Introducing the Power issue

Introducing: the Power issue Energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority in all sorts of ways. The world is increasingly powered by both tangible electricity and intangible intelligence. Plus billionaires. The latest issue of MIT Technology Review explores those intersections, in all their forms. Here’s just a taster of what you can expect from our latest issue: + Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? We’re starting to give AI agents real aut

Nothing Phone 3 battery, charging specs leak, and it beats the S25 Ultra

TL;DR The Nothing Phone 3 has surfaced via a regulatory filing. The filing reveals the phone’s battery capacity, charging speed, and a couple of other details. Nothing’s new handset will launch on July 1. The Nothing Phone 3 launches next week, and we already have a good idea of what to expect thanks to leaks and official disclosures. Now, a regulatory filing has revealed pleny of details about the new phone. The Tech Outlook spotted an FCC filing for the Nothing Phone 3, featuring the model

MIT researchers bond gallium nitride transistors to silicon chips for faster next-gen devices

What just happened? A team of researchers at MIT, in collaboration with Georgia Tech and the Air Force Research Laboratory, has developed a new method for integrating gallium nitride (GaN) transistors onto standard silicon chips. As the demand for faster and more efficient electronics continues to grow, this innovation represents a significant step toward bridging the gap between cutting-edge materials and mainstream technology. Gallium nitride, a semiconductor renowned for its efficiency and h