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Smart earrings and necklaces? Samsung is looking into new types of wearables

Jonathan Feist / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is actively looking into new types of wearable devices. This includes earrings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants, and so on. Whatever the company lands on is expected to be a companion device to your phone, rather than a standalone product. Samsung already offers a long list of products in its mobile portfolio, including smartphones, tablets, and more. Still, the company is looking for ways to expand its mobile offerings. To that end, the compan

Amazon Fire HD 10 sees massive 50% price drop for Prime Day

Eric Zeman / Android Authority Prime Day may be finally winding down, but Amazon is offering its Fire HD 10 tablet at the lowest price ever. Right now, you can grab the latest model for just $69.99, a massive 50% off its usual $139.99 price. If you’ve been thinking about picking one up for your smart home, there’s never been a better time. Amazon Fire HD 10 for $69.99 (50% off) The Amazon Fire HD 10 comes packed with a 10.1-inch Full HD display boasting 224 ppi for clear and vibrant visuals. I

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Capcom shares first footage of Resident Evil mobile spinoff

Capcom just shared a lengthy trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil Survival Unit . This is a mobile game, but not a remake of a pre-existing title . The original game includes a heavy emphasis on strategy and stars franchise heavy-hitters like Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield and Jill Valentine. If you're wondering how these protagonists can exist together in the same game, it's all due to the magic of the multiverse. It's set in a parallel universe "that builds upon the Resident Evil world wh

The Skylight Calendar is perfect for a busy family - especially with this deal

ZDNET's key takeaways The 15-inch Skylight Calendar is a smart display for $320, with a 10-inch version available for $160. It's a touchscreen calendar designed with busy lifestyles in mind that allows for shared use within a household or team. Though it's proven indispensable for my family, I wish the chores, not just the events, were visible in the calendar view, and the 15-inch version is expensive at $320. $319.99 at Amazon The Skylight Calendar is a wall-mounted or tabletop digital calen

The best Prime Day deals 2025: Our favorite 141+ sales live at the end of the sale

Tharon Green/ZDNET When does Prime Day end? This year, Amazon Prime Day ends on Friday, July 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT. When is Amazon Prime Day? Amazon Prime Day runs from Tuesday, July 8, to Friday, July 11, 2025. The annual two-day sale was extended to four days in 2025. How long will Prime Day last? Amazon Prime Day will last four days, running from July 8-11, 2025. That's two days longer than the years prior. Where will Prime Day take place? Amazon announced that its July Prime Day event

I replaced my Samsung S25 Ultra with the Edge model for a month - and didn't regret it

ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge currently sells for $999 for the 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage configuration. It's an ultra-slim and lightweight flagship phone that makes any other device feel outdated. You'll have to settle with subpar battery life and the absence of a telephoto lens due to the limited size. View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy View now at Samsung more buying choices During Amazon Prime, you can pick up the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge in the 512GB variant

jank Is C++

jank is C++ If you've wondered how much a solo dev can build for seamless C++ interop on a quarter, you're about to find out. In April, jank was unable to reach into C++ at all. Toward the end of this post, I'll show some real world examples of what works today. Before that, though, I want to say thank you for the sponsorship this quarter, not only by all of my individual Github sponsors, but also by Clojurists Together. I also want to say thank you to Vassil Vassilev and Lang Hames for buildin

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Your Weekend Streaming Watch List: 'Dexter: Resurrection,' 'Foundation,' 'Mad Max: Fury Road' and more

This weekend on streaming, we see the return of some of our favorite anti-heroes (cue the Taylor Swift). On Paramount Plus, Michael C. Hall returns as the titular vigilante serial killer in Dexter: Resurrection -- turns out, he wasn't dead after all. And on Hulu, some of the worst-behaved people on TV are back when the gang from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia returns for the show's 17th season. On Netflix, you can tune in to tons of great movies: This week marks the arrival of originals like

Galaxy Z Flip 7 Hands-On: I'm Excited About the Bigger Screens, Battery and FE Variant

Are two Samsung Galaxy Z Flip phones better than one? That's the question I kept pondering as I held the new Galaxy Z Flip 7 in one hand and the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE in the other at a Samsung press preview. It's a strategy that's worked well for one of the company's foldable phone competitors, Motorola, which has Razr models starting as low as $700 and as much as $1,300. The new Galaxy Z Flip 7, which starts at $1,100, has been completely redesigned with a 4.1-inch cover screen, a 6.9-inch main

The smartphone-sized Boox Palma 2 is cheaper than ever for Prime Day

The Boox Palma 2 looks like a smartphone, and it even runs Android 13. But it’s meant to be used primarily as a pocket-friendly e-reader with an ePaper screen, one that’s much easier to hold in one hand than a Kindle or Kobo. Some of us at The Verge have a Palma, and you can see what all the fuss is about, too, for an all-time low of $269.99 ($30 off) at Amazon and Boox during Prime Day. Be mindful that Prime Day ends today, so time is running out to grab this deal. Verge editor-at-large David

Bitcoin surpasses $118K, its second all-time high in less than 24 hours

Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high of $118,900 on Friday after exceeding its previous record, $113,822, on Thursday. At the time of this writing, Bitcoin’s price stands at around $117,400. This is a significant milestone for Bitcoin, as it highlights its resurgence, now higher than its low of around $76,000 in early April. It dropped to nearly $49,000 last August. Some analysts think that if it reaches $150,000, it’ll set off a buying frenzy. It’s important to note that Bitcoin, just like m

CISA warns hackers are actively exploiting critical ‘Citrix Bleed 2’ security flaw

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says hackers are actively exploiting a critical-rated security flaw in a widely used Citrix product, and has given other federal government departments just one day to patch their systems. Security researchers have dubbed the bug “Citrix Bleed 2” for its similarity to a 2023 security flaw in Citrix NetScaler, a networking product that large companies and governments rely on for allowing their staff to remotely access apps and other resources on their internal netw

Medium’s CEO explains what it took to stop losing $2.6M monthly

Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine announced on Friday that the publishing platform has remained profitable since August of last year, when it first achieved this milestone. In a post, Stubblebine detailed what it took to achieve this goal, which involved a combination of product changes, an investor restructuring, renegotiated loans, unloading office space, layoffs, and other difficult cost-cutting measures. His post offers a deep dive into what it takes for a startup to achieve a turnaround and the

Gallery: Tim Cook and Eddy Cue attend Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’

As is tradition, Apple CEO Tim Cook is in attendance at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho this week. The event, commonly referred to as a “summer camp for billionaires,” attracts executives across media, tech politics, and many other sectors. The conference has taken place in Sun Valley, Idaho for one week each July since 1983 This year, Cook is in attendance alongside Apple’s services boss Eddy Cue. Cook is a regular at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, attending many times over the

The Jackery Explorer 1000 V2 portable power station is 50% off for Prime Day - a new low price

Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 Jackery Jackery is one of the best portable power station brands on the market, and I've tested -- and relied on for several weeks -- many of the company's units, ranging from tiny ones you can hold in your hand to huge ones on wheels. Here's one that falls into that Goldilocks zone of both price and portability -- the Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 Portable Power Station. On the final day of Amazon's Prime Day sale, Amazon is offering 50% off the Jackery Explorer 1000 v2, br

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Meta's new Oakley smart glasses beat its Ray-Bans - and you can preorder them starting today

Mark Zuckerberg Several months ago, reports emerged that Meta was looking to expand beyond its current smart glasses lineup into sportier versions. Now the glasses are officially here -- and the preorder starts today. In June, Meta launched limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model glasses. Staying true to the brand, the Meta version of the glasses keeps the form factor Oakley is known for, with a more flexible and rugged design that still allows athletes to take advantage of the smart glasses' c

Get the Oura Ring 4 on sale before the deal ends tonight

ZDNET's key takeaways The Oura Ring 4, the newest generation of the popular smart ring is now available at a discount for the first time ever. The Oura Ring 4 emphasizes a comfortable build with flatter and smarter sensors, more sizes, upgraded software, and an alleged eight-day battery life. The eight-day battery life is actually more like five and a half days. $339.15 at Amazon $399 at Best Buy more buying choices The Oura Ring 4 is discounted by up to $75 right now, on the last day of Amaz

Turmeric is the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery (2024)

You'll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery toggle caption Jenna Forsyth "It's the crime of the century," says Bruce Lanphear . He's not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that an estimated 800 million children around the world are poisoned by lead – lead in their family's pots and pan, lead in their food, lead in the air. That's just about half of a

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson with the first Apple Macintosh – 1984 The Double Life of Bill Atkinson Bill Atkinson, the visionary Apple engineer behind much of the original Macintosh, passed away on June 5, 2025, at age 74, from pancreatic cancer—the same illness that claimed his friend Steve Jobs. Obituaries across the tech world honoured his pioneering role in personal computing. At Apple, he developed QuickDraw, the graphics engine behind the Mac’s interface; invented MacPaint, the first wid

20 Kitchen Tools That Professional Chefs Say Are Totally Useless

The only thing worse than wasting precious kitchen counter or cupboard space is wasting money on top of it. Nobody knows this better than professional chefs, which is why I asked several top culinary pros about the kitchen tools to skip and what to use instead. Instead of giving in to gimmicks, it's smarter to build your kitchen around dependable, multifunctional gear. We asked chefs and kitchen pros which gadgets they consider totally unnecessary -- and which tools actually pull their weight a

A mess of its own making: Google nerfs second Pixel phone battery this year

Google's Pixel phones have grown from a curiosity to become some of the best smartphones you can buy, featuring excellent cameras and lengthy support. Unfortunately, they are also gaining a reputation for battery defects. For the second time in a year, Google has announced that it will render some of its past phones almost unusable with a software update, and users don't have any choice in the matter. After nerfing the Pixel 4a's battery capacity earlier this year, Google has now confirmed a si

Best 16 Prime Day Kitchen Deals (2025): Breville, Ooni, Oxo

Amazon Prime Day sales are timed for early summer—the time of enjoyment. The time you spoil yourself. Most of the best Prime Day kitchen deals I recommend here are the ones that WIRED staff members use in their own kitchens, and love in their own lives. The Breville Barista Express ($550), on sale for $200 off, is also the one that has served WIRED reviewer Julian Chokkattu ably for more than five years. Our favorite air fryer, the Typhur Dome 2 ($285), is the basket air fryer I've kept proudly

Prime Day is almost over, but our favorite deals are still live

Theis one versatile mobile gaming controller, and it’s down to its lowest price of $49.99 at Walmart (usually $79.99). This model can stretch to fit around phones and tablets as big as the iPad Mini. Alternatively, you can slot a Nintendo Switch into the grip, if you prefer its bulkier design to that of the Joy-Con. It can support the Switch 2 with a firmware update, but several folks on Reddit note that it touches the Joy-Con 2 pins as it squeezes to fit the console. Not sure how comfortable yo

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The great EV pullback has begun

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Electric vehicles are at a crossroads. Sales are still going up, but many automakers are canceling or delaying new models, worried by recent policy moves that will make EVs more expensive to own. Every day seems to bring fresh news of a delayed EV or a timeline that’s been pushed back, as automakers struggle to adapt to th

iFixit: the Switch 2 Pro is a ‘piss-poor excuse for a controller’

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. iFixit has shared a full teardown video of the Switch 2 Pro controller and is not impressed by how difficult it is to access the $85 accessory’s internal components, including its rechargeable battery that will inevitably lose its ability to hold a charge over time. The online repair site goes so far as to call the Pro 2 a “piss-poor excuse for

CISA confirms hackers are actively exploiting critical ‘Citrix Bleed 2’ bug

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says hackers are actively exploiting a critical-rated security flaw in a widely used Citrix product, and has given other federal government departments just one day to patch their systems. Security researchers have dubbed the bug “Citrix Bleed 2” for its similarity to a 2023 security flaw in Citrix NetScaler, a networking product that large companies and governments rely on for allowing their staff to remotely access apps and other resources on their internal netw

Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI

AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other emotive, anthropomorphic chatbots — and health experts are taking notice. In a recent CBC segment about the phenomenon, primary care physician and CBC contributor Dr. Peter Lin explained that while "ChatGPT psychosis" — as the experience has come to be colloquially known — isn't an official medical diagnosis just yet, he thinks it's on its way. "I think, eventually, it will get there," sai

The best displays to pair with your new Mac

If you’ve just purchased a new Mac, you might also be looking into some of the best display options. Here are my recommendations. Updated July 11, 2025: Added new BenQ PD2730S, updated pricing to reflect latest data, noted rumors of a new Studio Display, and noted the missing-in-action ASUS ProArt PA32QCV. The LG UltraFine 6K Display with Thunderbolt 5, announced at CES this year, is also still MIA. Apple Studio Display You can’t have a roundup of the best displays on the market without menti

Security Bite: Fake iPhone virus pop-ups have made it on YouTube

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Prime Day Deals – Last Day: M4 MacBook Air $160+ off, iPhone 15 Pro/Max $750 off, Apple Watch $279, AirPods, iPad, more

This is it folks – we are now well into the final day of the Amazon Prime Day sale with the best prices ever on the most sought-after Apple gear. If you’re going to pull the trigger on a pair of AirPods, do it now while AirPods Pro 2 are $100 off and AirPods 4 start at $89. If you’re going to buy a new iPad, the mini 7, iPad (A16), and M3 iPad Air are at the best prices ever. We even have deals on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max at up to $750 off alongside M4 MacBook Air at up to $167 off an