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AT&T's New Lock Option Thwarts Thieves Who Try to Access Your Account

AT&T is rolling out a new feature in its MyAT&T app intended to prevent nefarious individuals from accessing customers' online accounts. Wireless Account Lock, which has been rolling out in waves but will reach wide availability on Tuesday, disables some key actions that are frequently used to circumvent a legitimate owner's access to their account. This type of access is different from large data breaches, such as the two incidents that AT&T has recently agreed to settle for $177 million. Wire

The Best Hot Dog Cookers for All-American Hot Dogging (2025)

Other Good Backyard Hot Dog Options Look, if you're trying to feed a football team, no little hot dog cooker will do. What you'll want is one of our favorite griddles or grills. No wee steamer can beat a 33-inch Traeger griddle, my favorite griddle of all backyard griddles. There are a couple griddles, however, that seem custom made for hot dogs and buns. This Blackstone Iron Forged Air Fryer Combo comes with two air frying baskets and a third warming basket underneath the griddle. Well, guess

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Ford EV sales fall 31% while hybrids rise

Ford saw a 31% drop in U.S. sales of electric vehicles in the second quarter of 2025, led by a collapse of E-Transit vans and declining popularity of the F-150 Lightning. At the same time, hybrid sales jumped more than 23% compared to last year. Halfway through the year, and the company has sold just 38,988 electric vehicles — down nearly 12% from where Ford’s EV sales stood at the same point in 2024. That’s despite overall sales being up, thanks in part to the company’s aggressive employee pri

Trump’s prospective TikTok buyer reportedly includes Oracle, Blackstone, a16z

In Brief After pushing the TikTok sale date back yet again, President Donald Trump said in an interview on Sunday that he had found a potential buyer for the ByteDance-owned platform. Though the president said he will not reveal the identities of the buyers for another couple of weeks, Bloomberg is reporting that the buyer is a group of investors from Oracle, Blackstone, and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). According to the report, these investors had made a bid, but it lost momentum amid t

Threads launches its own DM inbox, as app moves further away from Instagram

Instagram Threads is rolling out users’ most-requested feature to date: the ability to message people directly, without having to switch to another app, like Instagram. The company said direct messages (DMs) will begin rolling out to users globally beginning on Tuesday, alongside a new visual element called highlighter. The latter will emphasize interesting perspectives and conversations, Meta says, starting with Trending Topics. At launch, Threads DMs offer a basic set of features. They’ll su

watchOS 26 adds ‘hints’ to your watch face, and they look pretty great

watchOS 26 is coming this fall as the next major Apple Watch update. It will bring a new Apple Notes app, Apple Intelligence features, Control Center upgrades, and more. One new feature is especially unique: ‘hints’ are being added to watch faces in watchOS 26 as a companion of the Smart Stack. Hints in watchOS 26 solve the Smart Stack’s discoverability problem In the last two years, Apple launched the Smart Stack in watchOS and has been progressively upgrading it each year. The Smart Stack i

Mark Zuckerberg’s war chest is Apple’s newest hurdle in the AI race

Meta’s renewed push into AI is throwing the entire market off-balance, and Apple is particularly exposed. With morale arguably at an all-time low inside Cupertino’s AI teams, Zuckerberg’s multimillion-dollar check-cutting spree may have already pulled at least one top researcher out of Apple Park. And there may be more to come. What multimillion-dollar check-cutting spree? According to recent reports, Meta has offered massive pay packages to lure top AI researchers from rivals. And while Open

New ‘MacBook’ rumor sounds like Apple’s taking the iPad approach

Apple is rumored to be making a new ‘MacBook’ device for launch later this year or in early 2026. And based on the early details, it sounds a lot like Apple’s taking the iPad approach with its new MacBook and the Mac line as a whole. Rumored ’MacBook’ will be cheaper, use iPhone chip, more Apple tends to develop products with years-long timelines, and thanks to leaks, it’s rare for a product to entirely surprise. But yesterday a new rumor of a cheaper ‘MacBook’ suggests the device will launch

Prime Day deals include the Apple Watch Series 10 for $100 off

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Prime Day 2025 will be here in a few days, but you can already shop great tech deals on Amazon before the July 8-11 event. Case in point: the Apple Watch Series 10, which is $100 off at the moment and down to $299. That's the lowest price it's been so far since it came out last Septemb

Apple TV's MLS Season Pass is half off for the rest of the season.

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you've put off buying an MLS Season Pass this year then you're in luck. Today, Apple TV is cutting the price in half, dropping to $49 from $99, for the rest of the 2025 season. If you have an Apple TV+ subscription then you can get a seasonal subscription to the pass for just $39.

Apple claims former engineer shared Vision Pro secrets in new lawsuit

Apple is suing one of its former design engineers for allegedly stealing a trove of trade secrets that he then provided to his new employer, Snap. As reported by SiliconValley.com , Di Liu left his role as senior product-design engineer after a seven-year stint with Apple, citing personal and family reasons in his resignation to the company. Before leaving Apple, Liu had worked on the Vision Pro headset, where according to the lawsuit seen by SiliconValley.com he was given "access to various Ap

Why I recommend this LG OLED model over competing TVs - especially at $900 off

ZDNET's key takeaways The LG C5 OLED boosts dazzling brightness and color. It features an ultra-slim body, with material choices that evoke premium. It's priced relatively high for the nominal upgrades over last year's model. $1,779 at Walmart $2,296.99 at B&H Photo-Video $1,796.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices Major retailers have discounted LG's latest C5 OLED TV as much as $900 off. I would argue that the most crucial aspect of any television set is its picture quality. Never mind it

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This Year the Squirtle Squad Is the Coolest SDCC Merch Around

July is upon us, and in nerd circles that means only one thing: San Diego Comic-Con is nearly here. And if SDCC is nearly here, then so are oodles of exclusive toys, plushies, and other sweet merchandise you can get your mitts on. We’ve already seen a few of the hottest toys at the convention this year, but today it’s Jazwares’ turn to show you something cool. Real cool. io9 has got your exclusive first look at the whole haul of exclusive items Jazwares will have at SDCC this year, bringing tog

Samsung Slashes T9 Portable SSD 2TB by Nearly 50% to Clear Out Limited Stock Before Prime Day

There are a few very modern inconveniences that we just can’t escape. Never being 100% sure what the cables in that bag are for. Wanting more days off, but also wanting more money. Always needing a bit more coffee to get you through the day. One of the most frustrating ones is about running out of storage digitally, which is only becoming more common as file sizes increase. There’s a fix for this though, and that’s a really good portable SSD. See at Amazon While there are a lot of options out

This Animatronic Toothless From 'How to Train Your Dragon' Is One Hangry Toy

How to Train Your Dragon's Toothless is a hungry dragon, and the new Tame and Train Interactive Toothless announced by toy maker Spin Master on Tuesday is no different. You'll earn its trust partly by letting him have his munchies. The $50 animatronic is based on how Toothless looks in the live action film that came out this year. Once you've unboxed and powered him on, the dragon will constantly growl while showing red eyes. As you play with Toothless -- petting the toy's head, holding his sto

The FCC won’t enforce a ban on ‘exorbitant’ prison phone call prices

The Federal Communications Commission will suspend the enforcement of a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. On Monday, the Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced that prisons won’t have to comply with the pricing rules until April 1st, 2027, reversing plans to apply the caps this year. Family members and friends of incarcerated people have long been charged fees the FCC described in 2024 as “exorbitant” to keep in touch with phone or video calls. Though so

MLS Season Pass is now 50% off

The MLS Season Pass price is now $49 for the remainder of the season, which lets subscribers stream all MLS regular season and playoff games, live and on-demand. The price drop reflects the fact that the 2025 season is about halfway finished. As always, Apple TV+ members get an additional discount: MLS Season Pass is now just $39 if you are a TV+ subscriber. The monthly plan price is unchanged. As usual, this does not reflect a permanent change in pricing strategy for MLS Season Pass. It is me

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Senior Vision Pro engineer allegedly took a ‘massive volume’ of secret plans to Snap

Apple has accused a former senior Vision Pro engineer of stealing thousands of documents containing plans for unreleased features, and taking them to his new role working on glasses–based projects for Snap. A lawsuit alleges that Di Liu claimed he was quitting his job for health reasons, hiding from Apple that his true plan was to join Snapchat as a developer in a “substantially similar” role… SiliconValley reports. Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning his position as a design engin

Pbf2sqlite: Reading OpenStreetMap into a SQLite Database

pbf2sqlite A simple command line tool for reading OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf files into a SQLite database. Usage: pbf2sqlite DATABASE [OPTION ...] Options: read FILE Reads .osm or .osm.pbf FILE into the database rtree Add R*Tree indexes addr Add address tables graph Add graph table The command pbf2sqlite test.db read country.osm.pbf reads the OSM PBF file country.osm.pbf and creates in the database test.db the tables. OSM data can be obtained from a provider such as Geofabrik.

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Aesop in Words of One Syllable

In the 19th Century, British and American children’s literature evolved from puritanical moral and religious instruction to delightfully imaginative tales meant to awaken a sense of wonder. But morality and imagination could certainly thrive together. Æsop’s Fables in Words of One Syllable is an excellent example of this. The ancient Greek storyteller Aesop may or may not have existed, and he may or may not have written the hundreds of morality tales attributed to him. Yet his stories have been

Even MAGA Is Pissed Off About Tech Bros’ Dream of Bulldozing Federal Lands to Create New Cities

In recent years, a cadre of tech billionaires have become obsessed with a deeply unconventional idea: the creation of new, privately owned cities. Dubbed the “Freedom Cities” movement, backers say they’d like to create new special development zones in the U.S. that would allow such cities to be built. In these zones, private investors could write their own laws and set up their own governance structures. According to this project’s backers, such communities would be corporately controlled and wo

Best Portable Solar Panels of 2025

Summer is here, and if you have been planning to spend more time outdoors, a portable solar panel can be a great investment. These can keep your power stations charged wherever the sun shines, but not all solar panels are made equal. Some Reddit users have even been considering adding portable solar panels to their emergency backpacks, so that they don't lose power in the event of a disaster. CNET's current favorite is the Jackery SolarSaga 200, thanks to its lightweight and sizable solar-charg

Nothing's First Stab at Over-Ear Headphones Leaks. They Look Appropriately Odd

Nothing's first pair of over-ear headphones has apparently leaked, and it's nearly impossible to assume they could have been designed by any other company. The over-ear headphones look to have more personality than most popular options on the market, and, well, that's very on-brand for Nothing. The company is good at making statement pieces, and has done so with its phones since the beginning. Whether you like the retro-futuristic styling of its products or not is largely a personal preference,

GOP budget bill poised to crush renewable energy in the US

Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase United States carbon dioxide emissions, and the warming of the climate they are driving, for decades to come. In the latest political wrangle over energy and climate policy, a group of Republican senators over the weekend added provisions to the U.S. federal budget bill that, as currently written, would end clean energy tax credits at th

Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla's Model Y

Another week, another Chinese electric car poised to deliver an extinction event to Western automakers. This time it’s Xiaomi, a Beijing-based tech firm best known for smartphones and the company behind the Porsche Taycan-baiting SU7, which in late-2024 was so popular that Xiaomi increased its sales forecast three times in a matter of months. Now Xiaomi is back, and this time it has an electric SUV up its sleeve. Resembling the lovechild of a Ferrari Purosangue and an Aston Martin DBX707 descr

The movie and TV tech we actually want to use

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a flood of interest in the metaverse, despite the movie’s deeply dsytopian undertones. If you’ve talked to anyone working in AI, they’ve surely told you about the assistant in Her, despite that m

One UI’s Now Bar now plays nicer with Samsung Wallet for real-time journey alerts

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Samsung Wallet update brings real-time alerts for journeys using stored travel tickets. These updates show in One UI’s Now Bar, live notification, and Now Brief. Along with new functionality, Samsung Wallet gets a new animation showing all cards in a stacked view. Samsung Wallet is one of the company’s finest apps, especially in regions where Google Wallet doesn’t fully work just yet. It holds passes, travel tickets, cards, and even allows