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Best Labor Day Mattress Sales (2025)

Labor Day is here and along with it comes a bunch of bedding sales. If you've been looking for a sign from the universe to upgrade your bed, consider these Labor Day mattress deals—we don't expect to see sleep sales this good until Black Friday. I've been a professional mattress tester for five years, so I'm plugged in to what's going on in the mattress world (we're constantly scoping out new additions to our best mattresses list) and can keep track of the sales that really are the ones to watch

How to Clean Your Dog's Ears and Clip Your Cat's Nails—Experts Weigh In (2025)

The internet is filled with questions like “How to clean your dog's ears?” to “Do you really need to brush your pet's teeth?” Thanks to the crowdsourcing nature of the web, there's a bevy of instructional TikToks and fellow pet parents engaging in heated debates on everything from what your dog's poop means to how to best clip your cat's nails. With so much information to sift through, I decided to test some pet hygiene products on my cats, chat with experts like vets and groomers, and do a lit

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Why are online puzzle games having a moment?

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You can charge your Apple Watch, phone, and laptop all at once with this 240W USB-C cable

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s not an entirely new idea given Nomad’s Universal Cable from earlier this year can charge an Apple Watch and an additional device at the same time, but Zens’ new Pro 2 and Pro 3 USB-C cables offer additional functionality and some welcome future-proofing

Instagram tests Picture-In-Picture viewing for reels

Instagram is testing a new Picture-in-Picture feature for watching reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. The feature allows users to watch reels in a small, floating window on their screen while browsing other apps to allow for multitasking. The feature was first spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu. Users who are part of the test will see a pop-up notifying them about the new feature and how to turn it on. While Picture-in-Picture is great for multitasking, it also has the

MrBeast reportedly plans to launch a phone company

MrBeast, the 27-year-old popular YouTuber known for his elaborate challenges and giveaways, is venturing into a new realm: He’s reportedly launching his own phone company. According to Business Insider, which viewed a leaked investor deck, MrBeast is planning to launch a mobile phone service next year. Business Insider also reported that MrBeast and executives at Beast Industries are considering fintech and mobile gaming. The YouTuber’s new plan includes establishing a mobile virtual network o

Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus

A mockup of Tesla Inc.'s planned humanoid robot Optimus on display during the Seoul Mobility Show in Goyang, South Korea, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The motor show will continue through April 9. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that Optimus robots, which have yet to hit the market, will eventually make up more than three-quarters of his automaker's value. In a post on X on Monday, Musk wrote, "~80% of Tesla's value will be Optimus." In mid-

Gboard’s new AI Writing Tools are already rolling out to non-Pixel phones

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard’s AI-powered Writing Tools feature, which debuted on the Pixel 10, is now rolling out to some non-Pixel devices. Powered by the on-device Gemini Nano model, the feature helps users proofread and rephrase text directly within the keyboard. Availability is likely tied to devices supporting the multimodal Gemini Nano, such as those with the latest high-end chipsets. When Google unveiled the Pixel 10 series last month, the company highlighted new A

Apple might have good news on iPhone 17 pricing, per report

We’re just one week away from Apple unveiling its flagship iPhone 17 lineup, and while market analysts have generally been expecting price increases on most new models, the latest report indicates we might be in for good news. JPMorgan projects slim-to-no price increases on iPhone 17 lineup JPMorgan has released its latest expectations ahead of Apple’s big iPhone 17 unveiling next week. In a research note seen by 9to5Mac, the firm forecasts surprisingly good news for iPhone 17 pricing. Until

Marshall adds a subwoofer and compact soundbar to its Heston TV audio lineup

Marshall's family of TV audio gear is growing. The company has announced the Heston Sub 200 subwoofer and Heston 60 compact soundbar, both of which are now available for pre-order. The $700 Heston 60 is a smaller take on the first soundbar Marshall introduced earlier this year, the Heston 120, offering Dolby Atmos and DTS-X for more intimate spaces. With the Heston Sub 200, a $600 subwoofer that pairs with both soundbars, Marshall touts "a sound that can be truly felt." Both products come in Cre

OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT

OpenAI has promised to release parental controls for ChatGPT within the next month, the company said Tuesday. Once the controls are available, they'll allow parents to link their personal ChatGPT account with the accounts of their teenage children. From there, parents will be able to decide how ChatGPT responds to their kids, and disable select features, including memory and chat history. Additionally, ChatGPT will generate automated alerts when it detects a teen is in a "moment of acute distres

The first Game Pass additions for September include Hollow Knight: Silksong and I Am Your Beast

Microsoft has revealed the first batch of Game Pass additions for September 2025 and there's one hornet-shaped title that looms large over the others. After a seven-year wait, Hollow Knight: Silksong arrives on September 4. We've known for a few years that the sequel to Team Cherry's indie blockbuster would be on Game Pass on day one, and it'll be available on the Ultimate and PC versions of the service. Xbox announced the Metroidvania's future debut on Game Pass all the way back at its June 20

Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support cases

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance. The company states that it was one of hundreds of companies affected by a supply-chain attack disclosed last week, in which threat actors abused the stolen authentication tokens to exfiltrate data. BleepingComputer learned of the breach this weekend from Palo Alto Networks' customers, who expres

Pennsylvania AG Office says ransomware attack behind recent outage

The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General announced that a ransomware attack is behind the ongoing two-week service outage. In an official statement, Attorney General David W. Sunday Jr. said that the office refused to pay the attackers. “The interruption was caused by an outsider encrypting files in an effort to force the office to make a payment to restore operations. No payment has been made,” explained AG Sunday. “An active investigation is ongoing with other agencies, which limits

Jaguar Land Rover says cyberattack ‘severely disrupted’ production

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that a cyberattack forced the company to shut down certain systems as part of the mitigation effort. Although the incident appears to have a significant impact on the automakers’ production and retail operations, the short statement published on the official website noted that customer data is most likely unaffected. “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems,” reads the

Marshall sizes up Sonos, debuting more modular home theater products

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I tried Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds' AI noise cancelling, and can't go back to regular ANC

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Bose's second-generation QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds 2 debut with one major AI-powered upgrade. Adaptive ANC powered by AI may not sound the most exciting, but it's incredibly useful. Bose's improved noise-canceling algorithm points it absorbing most of the company's AI budget. In the fast-paced race to load AI into every smartphone, laptop, tablet, and earbud, the flashiest AI-powered features usua

The best web hosting services of 2025: Expert tested and recommended

GoDaddy has offered as wide an array of services as possible for individuals and small businesses needing an internet presence. Why we like it: It's widely known as a brand and many customers enjoy the service. GoDaddy is a great option if you prefer to stick with a well-known web hosting provider, or you're looking to open an e-commerce store. It's also recently introduced AI-based services to help you find the right domain name and to assist you with branding. The comprehensive domain name s

The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees

Over the last half-billion years, squid, octopuses and their kin have evolved much like a fireworks display, with long, anticipatory pauses interspersed with intense, explosive changes. The many-armed diversity of cephalopods is the result of the evolutionary rubber hitting the road right after lineages split into new species, and precious little of their evolution has been the slow accumulation of gradual change. They aren’t alone. Sudden accelerations spring from the crooks of branches in evo

Next.js is infuriating

Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find the motivation to start. But you know what they say: anger is the best motivator. They do say that, right? Some context that's in the background We're going on a journey, you and I. But first, we need to set the scene. Imagine we're working for $COMPANY and one of our Next.js services did an oopsie. This being Next.js,

RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

Iryna Pisklyarova Read this post in other languages: 日本語 Hold on to your helper methods – RubyMine is now FREE for non-commercial use! Whether you’re learning Ruby and Rails, pushing open-source forward, creating dev content, or building your passion project, we want to make sure you have the tools to enjoy what you do even more… for free. Another chapter in the story We recently introduced a new licensing model for WebStorm, RustRover, Rider, and CLion – making them free for non-commercial u

Keyboards from my collection (2023)

Marcin Wichary 12 February 2023 / 50 posts / 60 photos 50 keyboards from my collection This is an archive of a Mastodon thread from 2023. You can still read the thread (and all the replies) at its original location, however the photo quality is much better on this page. To celebrate the Kickstarter for Shift Happens going well, I thought I would show you 50 keyboards from my collection of really strange/esoteric/meaningful keyboards that I gathered over the years. (It might be the world’s str

Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner

The front page of Imgur, a popular image hosting and social media site, is full of pictures of John Oliver raising his middle finger and telling MediaLab AI, the site’s parent company, “fuck you.” Imgurians, as the site’s users call themselves, telling their business daddy to go to hell is the end result of a years-long degradation of the website. The Imgur story is one a classic case of enshitification , Imgur began life in 2009 when Ohio University student Alan Schaaf got tired of how hard it

Show HN: Moribito – A TUI for LDAP Viewing/Queries

森人 - Mori-bito (forest-person) A terminal-based LDAP server explorer built with Go and BubbleTea, providing an interactive interface for browsing LDAP directory trees, viewing records, and executing custom queries. Features 🌲 Interactive Tree Navigation : Browse LDAP directory structure with keyboard/mouse : Browse LDAP directory structure with keyboard/mouse 📄 Record Viewer : View detailed LDAP entry attributes : View detailed LDAP entry attributes 📋 Clipboard Integration : Copy attribute

Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1

TL;DR Hardware got wider, not faster. More cores, more bandwidth, huge vector units — but clocks, IPC, and latency flatlined. Old rules like “memory is faster than disk” are breaking. To go fast today, you have to play the new game. “CPUs keep getting faster every generation” Over the past 20 years or so computer hardware has evolved such that some facts we “know” about computers are wrong. Even among computer scientists, or perhaps especially among computer scientists, intuitions are off tar

Drew Barrymore Wants To Remake Cult Horror Comedy ‘Death Becomes Her’ With Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston

Hollywood remakes—be they sequels or reboots—are so extremely in vogue that they verge on being among the only movies that seem to get made these days. So it makes sense that Drew Barrymore is soft-pitching a remake of the 1992 cult classic dark horror comedy film, Death Becomes Her. Speaking on her eponymous talk show, Barrymore said she wants to work with friends Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler to revive a bunch of older films. And chief among them is Back to the Future director Robert Zeme

Stephen King Insisted ‘The Long Walk’ Audiences Watch Teenage Characters Die

Following decades of false starts from previously-attached directors including George Romero, Frank Darabont, and André Øvredal, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk finally hits theaters later this month. It’s been a long road gettin’ from there to here, and King recently told the Times of London he had one condition before he allowed his story about a peculiarly vicious walkathon be made into a movie: Its doomed teenage cast must be shown getting shot—none of that Old

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Best Expert-Approved Glucose Monitors for 2025

Editor's note, June 25, 2024: Since this article was first published, Dexcom has launched the G7. This sensor is smaller than the G6 and has an improved alert system, along with a few other differences. "I find continuous glucose monitoring to be a valuable tool in the management of both type 1 and 2 diabetes," said Dr. Josh Emdur, medical director of SteadyMD. "CGM data provides actionable insight to help patients track their glycemic response to dietary choices and activity levels." The Dexc

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Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year—here’s the factory

Slate Auto provided flights from San Francisco to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and accommodation so Ars could visit the Slate factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. WARSAW, INDIANA—The Blank Slate pickup scratches a particular itch for some, fulfilling the desire for an EV powertrain without all the bells and whistles associated with a modern vehicle. Gone is the infotainment screen, the lane-keeping assistance, and, for those concerned about surveillance, a modem. Instead, it's an unpain

Do You Need a Satellite Messenger?

When the smartphone in your pocket is loaded with a growing arsenal of safety tools—including location tracking, fall detection, and SOS alerts—it’s very tempting to adventure off the grid without back up. But if your hikes, runs, and rides regularly take you beyond the reach of cell towers, into more extreme conditions and terrain, sticking a dedicated satellite messenger in your pack might just save your life. Unlike smartphones, satellite communicators don’t rely on Wi-Fi or network coverage