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Best Prime Day Samsung deals: My 30 favorite sales live right now

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Best early Prime Day TV deals: My 25 favorite offers right now

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Prime Day tablet deals 2025: 15+ deals on iPads, Android, and more

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Best early Prime Day phone deals: These sales make an upgrade worthwhile

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best Prime Day Amazon Echo device deals: My 20 top sales picks right now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day Amazon Echo device deals: My 20 top deal picks available

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best Prime Day tablet deals: My 21 favorite deals live now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

This 56,800mAh Power Bank Suddenly Got So Cheap, Amazon Is Taking 85% Off Just for Prime Day

On Amazon, discovering the perfect power bank is daunting: There are tens of thousands of them, ranging from very expensive to very fast, some with enormous capacity and some with broad compatibility. So, which one do you pick, and especially on Prime Day? Right now, there is one absolute favorite that fits all the boxes: the Moihosso 56,800mAh portable charger. It’s fast-charge, has a massive battery, is compatible with just about any device, and (most amazingly) is 85% off during Prime Day. T

T-Mobile starts offering an $830 trade-in discount if you don’t mind locking yourself in

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is reportedly offering a new loyalty discount of $830 on device trade-ins for select existing customers. To be eligible, customers must not have any active equipment installment plans. The discount will be credited back over a two-year installment period. Eligible customers can check for the offer in the T-Life app or with store representatives. T-Mobile counts itself among the big three carriers in the nation, but the carrier still has to b

This budget Lenovo 2-in-1 I recommend to students couldn't be more affordable

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Duet Gen 9 is on sale now for $269. It's a versatile and highly-portable device that's as useful at home as in the office. Some of the most buzzworthy features are tied to subscriptions, and the keyboard and trackpad are very small. $379 at Lenovo $269 at Best Buy more buying choices The Lenovo Chromebook Duet Gen 9 is on sale at Best Buy for $269. That's $130 off the already-low regular price. The ninth-generation Lenovo Chromebook Duet is an 11-i

Best early Prime Day Nintendo Switch deals: My 22 favorite sales live now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't need the internet

Jack Dorsey just released a decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that functions entirely over Bluetooth networks, as reported by CNBC . It's called Bitchat and doesn't need the internet to work, as there are no central servers. The Twitter co-founder calls it an experiment in "Bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models and a few other things.” It works by enabling encrypted communication between nearby gadgets. Basically, it sends messages direc

Beat the heat with this portable 3-in-1 air conditioner - now on sale during Prime Day

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Best early Prime Day PlayStation 5 deals: My 20 favorite sales live now

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This Lenovo laptop has a photo-sharing superpower - and it's $300 off

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is available now for $1,099 for the 32GB of RAM configuration. It pairs a myriad of customizable features with a nice display, surprisingly beefy speakers, and a marathon battery. A few physical design choices might be of concern for some, and I wish it had an OLED. $1,299 at Walmart $1,429.99 at Lenovo $1,299.99 at Best Buy more buying choices At Best Buy, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is on sale for $1,099, a $300 discount.

This cheap portable power station from a trusted brand is 44% off for Prime Day

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This 85-inch Toshiba TV dropped to just $600 for Prime Day

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Nintendo wants to keep ‘traditional approach’ to development as costs skyrocket

A bigger, more powerful Switch means bigger, more intensive games that take more time and money to make. But as development costs skyrocket across the industry, Nintendo seems to have a plan to keep things in control as it transitions into the Switch 2 era. In response to a question during a recent shareholders meeting about the increased costs of making games for its new console, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa admitted that “recent game software development has become larger in scale and

Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies during a remote video hearing held by subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on "Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation" in Washington, March 25, 2021. Block CEO Jack Dorsey spent the weekend building Bitchat, a new decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks, with no internet, central servers, phone numbers or emails required. The Twitter co-founder

Apple releases developer beta 3 for visionOS 26

Alongside the new macOS 26 developer beta 3, Apple has also pushed out the third developer beta of visionOS 26, and the rest of its operating systems. The build number for today’s visionOS 26 beta 3 release is 23M5290f. If you want to enroll in the developer beta program for Apple Vision Pro, here’s what you’ve got to do: Open the Settings app Choose “General” Choose “Software Update” Select “Beta Updates” Select “visionOS Developer Beta” What’s new? As announced on WWDC25, visionOS 26 brin

This power station tackles summer outages, and it's $1,000 off for Prime Day

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Need a new laptop for the office? Save $400 on the Dell 16 Plus and improve your workflow

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Snag the Samsung Odyssey Ark for over 30% off at Best Buy

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The 29+ best anti-Prime Day deals 2025 from Best Buy, Walmart, & more: Top sales from Amazon's competition

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Perplexity joins high-powered, high-priced AI race - here's everything 'Max' includes

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

The best iPad Air cases of 2025: Expert tested

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This $125 tablet actually feels premium - here's why it's in my travel kit

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tinymcp: Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol

tinymcp Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol. Warning tinymcp is an experimental project. Expect frequent breaking changes. Extreme caution should be taken when delegating physical capabilities to AI systems. Background The tinymcp project includes an MCP server, which is executed locally, but communicates with remote devices via the Golioth management API. It uses two existing device services on the Golioth platform, LightDB State and Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs

Nintendo wants to keep ‘traditional approach’ to development as costs skyrocket

A bigger, more powerful Switch means bigger, more intensive games that take more time and money to make. But as development costs skyrocket across the industry, Nintendo seems to have a plan to keep things in control as it transitions into the Switch 2 era. In response to a question during a recent shareholders meeting about the increased costs of making games for its new console, Nintendo president Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa admitted that “recent game software development has become

Our favorite EcoFlow portable power stations and air conditioners are nearly 50% off for Prime Day

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