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Why this midrange Lenovo tablet is the model I recommend to most people - and it's on sale

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Idea Tab Pro is a midrange entertainment tablet starting at $290 for the 128GB model and $400 for the 256GB option. This is one of the few midrange Android tablets that can truly work for entertainment and productivity, carefully straddling both lines. This 12.7-inch tablet comes with a stylus, but you'll likely need to get a case to make carrying it easier; it's also equipped to support only two major OS upgrades. $419.99 at Lenovo Lenovo recently launched th

Every dad should stock their toolkit with theses 10 DIY gadgets

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The 5 weirdest wellness gadgets I can't live without (and why they make such a big difference)

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How to install iPadOS 26 beta on your iPad (and which models support it)

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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling

“You want to know the ironic thing? I wrote my son’s obituary using ChatGPT,” Mr. Taylor said. “I had talked to it for a while about what had happened, trying to find more details about exactly what he was going through. And it was beautiful and touching. It was like it read my heart and it scared the shit out of me.” ‘Approach These Interactions With Care’ I reached out to OpenAI, asking to discuss cases in which ChatGPT was reinforcing delusional thinking and aggravating users’ mental health

It's About Darn Time: Apple Will Finally Screen Your Calls and Messages

There's one big feature I'm looking forward to in iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe 26, and it's one that Apple should have added ages ago: call and text screening. It could do more than keep me from talking to strangers -- it could keep me safe from scammers looking to steal my information or my identity. Similar to features from Google and Samsung, Apple's Call Screening vets unknown callers by checking what they want before sending them your way. The company announced the capability at its W

How Long Can I Leave Fresh Chicken in the Fridge?

I often use the best meat delivery services to get high-quality chicken delivered straight to my home. But sometimes I don't use it all and need to store the leftovers. If you're wondering how long your chicken will last in the fridge, here's some intel that may keep you from eating spoiled meat. This is especially important because summer is almost here and poultry is a higher-risk meat than beef due to its propensity to develop E. coli and other foodborne illnesses. That's why you never want

This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons

The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo’oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid. The image was captured by a camera onboard the probe, which is currently more than 3 million kilometers from Earth, and shows one of its wings with its solar panels deployed. It is also the first glimpse the CNSA has offered of its space probe, which launched on May 29 on a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Zeyuan To

Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?

If you spend much time on the internet, you will see the same things pop up again and again. For me, it's these “cooling blankets” that people talk about on social media. I mean, it sounds great for summer—just like a blanket that warms you up but in reverse. Sadly, these products don’t do what they claim. They might be breathable so they don’t make you as hot as an ordinary blanket would, but you’d still be cooler with no blanket at all. However, there is hope. Someone has created a real cooli

First PS3 emulator hits the Play Store, goes open-source

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR PS3 emulator aPS3e is now available on the Google Play Store. From the mysterious Chinese developer aenu, it’s based on the RPCS3 source code. The project now claims to be open-source, but may not meet all requirements. Update, June 13, 2025 (3:45 AM ET): A reader has informed Android Authority that while aPS3e doesn’t follow best practice by including a license file in its main GitHub directory, it does include its full source code. It also includes

Reddit adds analytics and drafts for comments

Reddit is making it easier to gauge the impact your comments are having. The company is introducing detailed analytics for comments that measure views and other engagement metrics. Reddit shared the change as part of a larger batch of updates around how it handles comments on its platform. Comment insights will provide details around upvotes (including the ratio of upvotes to downvotes), replies, views, shares and awards. Additionally, Redditors will now be able to share comments as a standalon

Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Findings suggest that erythritol increases oxidative stress, disrupts nitric oxide signaling, raises vasoconstrictive peptide

Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch

A BitTorrent client implementation in Go that supports downloading files using the BitTorrent protocol. This project implements the core functionality of a BitTorrent client, including torrent file parsing, peer discovery, and file downloading. Features Bencode Encoding/Decoding Support for all Bencode types (strings, integers, lists, dictionaries) Robust error handling and validation Torrent File Processing Parse .torrent files (both single-file and multi-file torrents) Info hash calculation

Top KitchenAid Promo Codes and Coupons

KitchenAid’s strategy is one that maybe we should all live by—if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Remaining nearly unchanged since its introduction in 1914, KitchenAid’s stand mixer has become such a legendary kitchen staple that we called the KitchenAid Artisan 7-Quart Lift Stand Mixer an “everlasting” kitchen must-have and put it on our Buy It For Life guide. KitchenAid’s heralded and beloved kitchen appliances luckily run regular sales so that you can get these great, but pricey, essentials for

SAG-AFTRA board approves agreement with game companies on AI and new contract

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) National Board approved the tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group. The contract on terms for the Interactive Media Agreement will now be submitted to the membership for ratification. The new contract accomplishes important guardrails and gains around AI, including the requirement of informed consent across various AI uses and the ability for performers to suspend informed consent for Digi

The best electric screwdrivers of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

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Jemalloc Postmortem

Home Published Jun 12, 2025 The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and has been in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing, jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to an end. This post briefly describes jemalloc’s development phases, each with some success/failure highlights, followed by some retrospective commentary. Phase 0: Lyken In 2004 I began work on the Ly

Konami's Original Silent Hill Getting Official Remake Treatment by Blooper Team

An official remake of the original 1999 Silent Hill video game is currently being developed by the same team behind the successful Silent Hill 2 remake last year. The title was announced as being in development at the very end of Thursday's Press Start game showcase, which showed off several upcoming games from Konami, including Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and more. Though the original Silent Hill has seen adaptations in the form of 2009's Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and the 2006 fi

Carl Pei finally explains why Nothing bought Essential

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing’s CEO, Carl Pei, took part in a video interview where he explained why he bought Essential in 2021. He said he bought the defunct company for its name, not its tech. Essential only produced one phone before closing down. Nothing is back in the news with the Nothing Phone 3 and a new set of headphones coming this summer. But Carl Pei wants to talk about something different. Nothing’s CEO recently opened up about why the company acquired Essenti

Google won’t be showing the Pixel 10 to Superfans this month, after all

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google invited Pixel Superfans to apply for a chance to experience “pre-release Pixel devices” at a June 27 event. The company is now telling them that due to “unforeseen circumstances” it’s planning a September 4 event. It’s unclear if release plans have been affected any, but the last leak we’ve seen points to a mid-August launch. Google’s Pixel 10 smartphones are on their way, and other than feeling a wee bit nervous about Pixel batteries in genera

Meta is helping to fund geothermal energy projects in New Mexico

Meta has entered into an agreement with XGS Energy to develop "next-generation geothermal energy" projects in New Mexico. The plan is for these projects to connect directly into the electrical grid that Meta's data centers draw from, feeding the growing energy needs of the company's AI development. Both companies claim the new deal will add 150-megawatts of carbon-free energy to the grid "with zero operating water use." New Mexico is apparently uniquely suited for geothermal energy production b

iOS 26 beta is available to download on your iPhone now. Here's how to get it

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Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (Part 2)

What's the plan? At the end of our previous blog post, we got PreBoard to show its UI. But we had no idea if getting SpringBoard to work would even be possible, since we didn’t have SEP emulation. Still, we wanted to see how far we could get without it. Before SpringBoard could show anything, we had plenty of issues to fix. Although the backboardd and SpringBoard processes were starting and stable, they were stuck in different places. Our strategy was to go through system logs, find suspiciou

Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"

The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message. Before we start, an important correction from last week’s The Pulse: this publication was among those to incorrectly report that defunct AI startup, Builder.ai, faked its product by hiring 700 human engineers to pretend to be an AI product called Natasha. I’ve since talked with former engineers at Builder.ai to get the real story, which is the firs

After a series of tumors, woman’s odd-looking tongue explains everything

Breast cancer. Colon cancer. An enlarged thyroid gland. A family history of tumors and cancers as well. It wasn't until the woman developed an annoying case of dry mouth that doctors put it all together. By then, she was in her 60s. According to a new case study in JAMA Dermatology, the woman presented to a dermatology clinic in Spain after three months of oral unpleasantness. They noted the cancers in her medical history. When she opened wide, doctors immediately saw the problem: Her tongue wa

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform Kalshi decided to take this trend outside the social sphere by putting a nonsensical AI-generated ad in front of the millions of viewers wa

Trend Micro fixes critical vulnerabilities in multiple products

Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple critical-severity remote code execution and authentication bypass vulnerabilities that impact its Apex Central and Endpoint Encryption (TMEE) PolicyServer products. The security vendor underlines that it has seen no evidence of active exploitation in the wild for any of them. However, immediate application of the security updates is recommended to address the risks. Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption PolicyServer is a central managemen

Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys

Apple this week provided a glimpse into a feature that solves one of the biggest drawbacks of passkeys, the industry-wide standard for website and app authentication that isn't susceptible to credential phishing and other attacks targeting passwords. The import/export feature, which Apple demonstrated at this week’s WWDC 25, will be available in the next major releases of iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. It aims to solve one of the biggest shortcomings of passkeys as they have existed to date.