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Deals: Most affordable 24GB M4 Mac mini $100 off, exclusive M2 iPad Air offer at $350 off, metal/glass Find My wallet card $26, more

Amazon’s Labor Day sale is now in full swing and we have already collected a growing lineup of big-time deals on Apple’s latest gear and more right here, but today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break has some fresh offers to scope out as well. Firstly we are highlighting one of the more intriguing M4 Mac mini deals – the most affordable 24GB model you can buy at $100 off (or $300 under the price of the least pricey 24GB model on Amazon). But we also have an exclusive discount for 9to5 readers on Apple’s 11-i

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First absolute superconducting switch developed in a magnetic device

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: Researchers recently realized the first de Gennes' superconducting switch where superconductivity is completely suppressed. Credit: University of Jyväskylä The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been involved as part of an international collaboration that has identified a way to completely suppress superconductiv

Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' Is Now Streaming. Here's How to Watch

See at Disney Plus Carries Thunderbolts Disney Plus See at Disney Plus See more details Days before the Lilo & Stitch live-action movie starts streaming on Sept. 3, Marvel's Thunderbolts has dropped on Disney Plus. The action-packed anti-hero flick premiered in theaters on May 2 and stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, Wyatt Russell and Hannah John-Kamen, among others. The movie follows castoffs who team up for a dangerous mission after naviga

Better Than Ray-Bans? Meta's 'Hypernova' Glasses Could Be Cheaper Than Expected

September is gearing up to be one of the most exciting months of the year for new technology launches -- and we're not just talking about the iPhone 17. Meta is reportedly set to unveil its next-generation smart glasses codenamed Hypernova. According to Bloomberg, the smart glasses are set to start around $800 for the basic model, at least $200 less than previously thought. This pair of glasses will reportedly differ from the current Meta Ray-Bans due to the addition of a small augmented-realit

Malaysia’s SkyeChip unveils the country’s first edge AI processor

In Brief Malaysia has developed its first domestic edge AI processor. Malaysian chip design company SkyeChip announced its MARS1000 processor at an industry event on Monday, Bloomberg reported. While an edge processor isn’t as powerful as an advanced Nvidia chip, it still represents a technological milestone for Malaysia, which is looking to play a bigger role in the global AI race. Malaysia already has a foothold in the chip manufacturing sector and has recently increased its efforts and inv

IEEE 3152: A Standard for Transparent Human and Machine Agency Identification

Introduction The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), deepfakes, and automated decision-making systems has made it increasingly difficult for people to tell whether they are communicating with another human being, an AI, or a blend of both. This poses serious questions about trust, security, and social cohesion, especially in high-impact domains like healthcare, finance, and media. IEEE 3152—officially titled Standard for Transparent Human and Machine Agency Identification — addresses t

Computing’s Top 30: Theofanis Raptis

Transitioning between two different cultures and professional roles—from working at a university in Greece to joining the National Research Council of Italy—presented Theofanis Raptis with several valuable lessons, including an understanding of what he calls an intellectual “fermentation” process. Triggered by internationalization, bilateral cooperation, and cross-discipline collaborations, this fermentation included the dynamic exchange and blending of ideas across disciplines and cultures, le

New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering

For years, the concept of AI consciousness has remained on the fringes, with all but the most powerful proponents of the theory being laughed out of public life. In reality, opponents point out, the current generation of AI is nothing more than extremely complex statistics — detecting patterns in training data like written materials or imagery so subtle that it can reproduce similar patterns going forward. That can produce a compelling imitation of consciousness, but there's no reason to believ

MasterClass memberships are 50 percent off for Labor Day

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades I want to see on September 17

Jason Hiner/ZDNET The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Some have even started calling these the next version of the current Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. However, both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Boswor

Malleable Software

In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you. Let's take Linear. It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI thrives in messy, open-ended spaces where it can design, assemble, and adapt — but in Linear, the major design choices have already been made. At best, AI might shave a few seconds off repetitive tasks or auto-fill a few fields, but it can’t reinvent the core process, because

Using information theory to solve Mastermind

How you've just played optimal Mastermind Mastermind is a game all about information. The Code Master selects one of \( 6^4 = 1\,296 \) secret codes. Each incorrect guess gives us information by eliminating some of these; the more codes that are ruled out, the more information that guess has provided. Let's quantify this insight! Suppose a guess gets some response that reduces the number of possible keys from some number \(n\) to a smaller \(n'<n\). The convention in information theory, a branc

Charlie Kaufman Returns to Genre Filmmaking With Ghostly New Short

Charlie Kaufman, the director behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Human Nature (2001) and Being John Malkovich (1999), is finally returning to genre filmmaking with a new short, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled How to Shoot a Ghost, the movie is set to premier September 1st in Venice, Italy. As THR notes, “rather than one of his delightfully wry, pretzel-logic-tangled ruminations on life and mortality,” (ie, Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), I’m Thinking

Marshall Now Has a Big Party Speaker That’s Perfect for Pretending You’re in a Band

Being in a band is hard. You’ve got to learn an instrument (time-consuming), organize your friends (a nightmare), and then harass everyone on Instagram to come out to your show on a Tuesday at 9:30 pm at least twice a month? Forget about it. That being said, looking like you’re in a band is still hella cool, and what better way to do that than carry around a huge party speaker that looks akin to a Marshall Stack? If that sounds more like your speed, then you’ll be happy to know that Marshall is

EVs are getting a temporary Trump bump thanks to expiring incentives

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for electric vehicles. On the first day of his presidency, he signed an executive order to eliminate EV incentives that he has often falsely portrayed as an “electric vehicle mand

This slim concept phone has a 15,000mAh battery, but one giant drawback

TL;DR Realme has revealed a concept phone with a 15,000mAh battery. The phone is less than 9mm thick and can last for up to five days. The device uses a battery with 100% silicon content, effectively ruling out mass production for now. The advent of silicon-carbon batteries has resulted in many smartphone brands offering bigger batteries than ever before. We’ve already seen HONOR and vivo launch phones with ~8,000mAh batteries in relatively slim designs. Now, realme has revealed a rather impr

Healthcare Services Group data breach impacts 624,000 people

The Healthcare Services Group (HSGI) is alerting more than 600,000 individuals that their personal information was exposed in a security breach last year. The healthcare services provider stated that it detected unauthorized access to its network on October 7, 2024, and subsequently discovered that the intrusion had begun on September 27. The investigation that followed revealed that the intruders had exfiltrated data from the systems they had accessed. “The investigation determined that an u

The Oura Ring is the Department of Defense's not-so-secret weapon

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura is opening a facility in Texas to serve the Department of Defense. This facility will open next year. Oura Rings will continue to be used in several research studies that enhance soldier performance. Wearables were once confined to fitness trackers that counted steps. Today, the devices are crucial research tools for the Department of Defense. Smart ring maker Oura is opening a manufacturin

Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World

In the AI era, the winners won’t be the tools you adapt to — they’ll be the tools that adapt to you. Let's take Linear. It is a beautiful, well-designed, simple but inflexible tool with little room for AI to add value. AI thrives in messy, open-ended spaces where it can design, assemble, and adapt — but in Linear, the major design choices have already been made. At best, AI might shave a few seconds off repetitive tasks or auto-fill a few fields, but it can’t reinvent the core process, because

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

Shiffman, the author of Why Sharks Matter, described early Twitter recently on the blog Southern Fried Science as "the world's most interesting cocktail party." "Then it stopped being useful," Shiffman told Ars. "I was worried for a while that this incredibly powerful way of changing the world using expertise was gone. It's not gone. It just moved. It's a little different now, and it's not as powerful as it was, but it's not gone. It was for me personally, immensely reassuring that so many othe

The Top Diseases We Choose to Stay Ignorant About, According to Scientists

The old adage “ignorance is bliss” feels especially fitting when it comes to healthcare. In fact, new research reveals that one in three people avoids—or is likely to avoid—medical information. In a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine earlier this month, researchers investigated data from 92 studies involving 564,497 participants from 25 countries. Despite the fact that successful treatment often depends on early detection, their results indicate that many people are reluctant

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

Shiffman, the author of Why Sharks Matter, described early Twitter recently on the blog Southern Fried Science as "the world's most interesting cocktail party." "Then it stopped being useful," Shiffman told Ars. "I was worried for a while that this incredibly powerful way of changing the world using expertise was gone. It's not gone. It just moved. It's a little different now, and it's not as powerful as it was, but it's not gone. It was for me personally, immensely reassuring that so many othe

Your Gemini app just got a major AI image editing upgrade - for free

Getty Images/gleitfrosch Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A mystery 'nano banana' image editing model climbed the charts. DeepMind was secretly behind the model, which is now available. Users can get started for free in the Gemini app. Every now and then, the LMArena will have a mystery model with a fun name shoot up to the top of the leaderboard. Shall I remind you of OpenAI's Project Strawberry? More recently, a mystery 'nano banana' model cli

Delphi in the Age of AI

How do I start using Machine Learning in Windows? Machine Learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the design and development of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Machine Learning algorithms have been used in a variety of applications, such as spam detection, facial recognition, and disease diagnosis. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Machine Learning, due to the availability of large data sets and advances in computing p

Dietitian Tips for Fighting Food Noise -- Without Using Semaglutide

If you’ve ever found your mind consumed with constant thoughts about food, chances are you have experienced food noise. It's usually brought on by conflicting messages about nutrition, either through everyday conversation or content online. It could be feeling guilty because you ate a cupcake when you promised yourself you weren’t going to touch sweets for a while, or maybe you’re trying to meet your protein quota and are obsessively keeping track of it. These thoughts are common, and in some ca

Wahoo Kickr Run Review: a (Mostly) Screen-Free Treadmill

Ask any serious runner and they’ll tell you that treadmills are usually the bane of their existence. Alas, for folks who don’t live in Mediterranean climates, they’re a necessary winter evil that keeps us fitter in the off-season, but not necessarily happier. The no-frills design of the Wahoo Kickr Run, plus a magical mode that allows it to track your pace without touching a button, is what makes it the most real-pavement-seeming treadmill I have ever run on. I’m admittedly 20 pounds heavier th

Job titles of the future: Satellite streak astronomer

But in 2019, SpaceX began deploying its internet-beaming Starlink constellation, and the astronomical community started to sound alarm bells. The satellites were orbiting too low and reflected too much sunlight, leaving bright marks in telescope images. A year later, Rawls and a handful of her colleagues were the first to make a scientific assessment of the satellite streaks’ effect on astronomical observations, using images from the Víctor M. Blanco telescope (which, like Rubin, is in Chile). “

India is still working on sewer robots

More than 220 Bandicoot robots have been deployed in India, says Vipin Govind, head of marketing and communications at Genrobotics. The company’s reach, he says, enables “even resource-constrained municipalities” to deploy the technology effectively. Despite these technological options, a 2021 report by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment found that there are still more than 58,000 manual scavengers across India. Independent observers say the numbers are even higher. The machine that J

Nothing caught red-handed faking Phone 3 camera samples, can’t even try to deny (Updated: Explanation)

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Nothing Phone 3 retail demo has been spotted making misleading claims about photo samples. Android Authority has spoken to two of the photographers who shot the pics, who confirm they did not use the Phone 3 at all. Asked for comment, Nothing has not denied these claims, and instead says that it plans to update demo units. Update, August 27, 2025 (07:40 AM ET): Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has provided a detailed explanation for the stock photos

7 smart plug tricks that instantly made my home feel more automated

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a primitive ancestor of today's smart plug -- that is, if you can say anything from a few decades ago is primitive. Smart plugs offer greater convenience than The Clapper ever did, letting you control your devices from an app on your phone, your voice, or a schedule. Also: Unplugging these 7 common ho