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My Apple Watch band gave out before year two - and it could've been bad

The weak link! Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET My Apple Watch Ultra 2 is, as of today, 626 days old, and apart from charging, it has been on my wrist pretty much continuously. It's accompanied me on many an adventure, been in several countries, found itself deep inside loads of car engine bays, been covered in dirt and mud, and it still looks like new. Regular readers will have seen it in countless photos here on ZDNET. But the other day, something broke, and while it wasn't serious, it could ha

Bandwidth vs. Latency: We Chatted With an Internet Connectivity Expert to Understand the Difference

Having fast, reliable home internet is essential these days for work, school, streaming and browsing. But understanding how much speed you need, or even what "internet speed" even means, can be a daunting task. Bandwidth and latency are two key factors that affect how we perceive the speed of our internet connection. But while you may hear them used together quite often, these two terms have distinct meanings. Understanding what they are and the difference between them can help you troubleshoot

Best Internet Providers in Florida

What's the best internet provider in Florida? Looking for the best internet provider in the Sunshine State? Our broadband experts have compiled the best broadband providers in Florida to help you choose the right one for your needs. From DSL to fixed wireless to fiber, Florida's range of broadband providers can vary dramatically in affordability and speed. The best overall internet service provider in Florida is AT&T Fiber, thanks to its affordable plans and fast speeds. The plans start at $55

Telecom giant Viasat breached by China's Salt Typhoon hackers

Satellite communications company Viasat is the latest victim of China's Salt Typhoon cyber-espionage group, which has previously hacked into the networks of multiple other telecom providers in the United States and worldwide. Viasat provides satellite broadband services to governments worldwide and aviation, military, energy, maritime, and enterprise customers. Last month, the telecom giant told shareholders that it had approximately 189,000 broadband subscribers in the United States. The comp

Van Gogh, AMD's Steam Deck APU (2023)

Zen 2’s launch was a defining moment for AMD. For the first time in many, many years, AMD’s single thread performance could go head to head with Intel’s best. Zen 2 also started a trend where AMD brought up to 16 cores to desktop CPUs, giving consumers very strong multithreaded performance without having to buy HEDT platforms. But Zen 2 was also flexible and did a very good job of scaling down to lower power targets. That was especially true when Zen 2 cores were implemented in more power effic

Garmin Announces Its First-Ever Sleep-Only Tracker, a Lightweight Band Around Your Bicep

Garmin released today its new Index Sleep Monitor, a smart sleep band that gives users a closer look at their overnight vitals and recovery. In addition to tracking sleep duration and stages, the Index Sleep Monitor provides users with their overall sleep score, HRV status, Pulse Ox reading (a pulse oximeter that measures how much oxygen is in your bloodstream), breathing variation, respiration rate, skin temperature, women's health data, stress levels and Body Battery which is Garmin's branded

Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware

I'm used to thinking of encryption as a slow thing that can't deliver anywhere near to network saturation, even on basic gigabit Ethernet connections. This is broadly the experience we see with our current VPN servers, which struggle to turn in more than relatively anemic bandwidth with OpenVPN and L2TP, and so for a long time I assumed it would also be our experience with WireGuard if we tried to put anything serious behind it. I'd seen the 2023 Tailscale blog post about this but discounted it

Best Gaming Routers for 2025

“Gaming router” is more of a marketing term than a legitimate designation. Sometimes it tells you the router comes with gaming features like device prioritization, but often it just means flashy lights and futuristic designs. Don't fall for it. The main metric you should pay attention to is jitter, which tells you how often your gaming experience will be interrupted by lag. We tested 31 of the top Wi-Fi routers to find the ones that remove lag from the equation as much as possible. What’s the b

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Trump administration throws wrench into $42 billion broadband rollout

The big picture: In a sudden policy shift, the Trump administration has thrown a wrench into the nation's largest broadband expansion effort, forcing states to overhaul plans to distribute $42 billion in federal funding aimed at closing the digital divide. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has put the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program on pause, unveiling sweeping new rules last week that require states to rethink how they allocate grants to Internet service providers. T

PCIe 7.0 is coming, but not soon, and not for you

The PCIe 7.0 specification has now been released, while many of us are still waiting for PCIe 6.0 to materialize in consumer products. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) announced on Wednesday that PCIe 7.0 is now available to members of its organization, delivering a theoretical maximum bandwidth speed of 512GB per second in both directions, across a x16 connection. “PCIe technology has served as the high-bandwidth, low-latency IO interconnect of choice for over two decades and we are pl

Best Wi-Fi 6 Routers for 2025

Psst. I'll let you in on a not-so-secret, secret: It’s a great time to buy a Wi-Fi 6 router. A few years ago, Wi-Fi 6 was the latest and greatest wireless technology. It’s since been dethroned by Wi-Fi 7, which gives you access to the newly opened 6GHz band, but Wi-Fi 6 routers still offer more than enough speed for most homes. They’ve also come down significantly in price, with many standalone routers available for less than $100, as well as mesh systems, gaming routers, range extenders and mor

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