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What's Free on the Epic Games Store This Week?

cnet.com Aimee Hart 2025-06-27 04:29:00

Let's be honest: There will always be more games to play than you have time for. No matter how much time you invest in the world of gaming, more games come out daily, and every publisher and developer is hungry for the money in your wallet. Being concerned about your gaming budget is a wise thing to be, with gaming costs rising and 2025 looking as unpredictable as ever. With that in mind, consider the Epic Games Store and its offerings: a free game every week for you to download and keep. Heard

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Best Mesh Systems for Whole-Home Wi-Fi

cnet.com Ry Crist 2025-06-27 04:43:00

Editor's note: We think you should be aware that TP-Link routers are under investigation by the US government over security concerns and could be banned in the US this year, according to multiple news reports. The TP-Link Deco W7200 was previously named our best overall choice. While our evaluation of the hardware hasn't changed, out of extreme caution for our readers, we decided to pause it as our top recommendation until we learn more. Read CNET's reporting for more information. What is the b

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Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds for 2025

cnet.com David Carnoy 2025-06-27 05:05:00

Bowers & Wilkins PI7 S2: In 2023, Bowers & Wilkins upgraded its fantastic-sounding PI7 noise-canceling earbuds. The new S2 model has better battery life and Bluetooth range, now up to 25 meters (double the previous range). Additionally, the buds now integrate into the new Bowers & Wilkins Music app for iOS and Android and have a much-improved setup experience. Learn more in our full Bowers & Wilkins PI7 review. JBL Live Pro 2: Over the years, JBL has put out some decent true-wireless earbuds, b

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Call of Duty Just Launched Its Thinnest Multiplayer Map in Season 2 Reloaded

cnet.com Tyler Graham 2025-06-27 05:36:00

If you fancy playing Black Ops 6 as a walking bullet hose, you'll fit right in on the newest multiplayer map. As Season 2 Reloaded adds new maps, modes, events and guns to the latest Call of Duty game, the standout addition is the new strike map Bullet. Two teams of six will fight across (and on top of) a moving bullet train in various core multiplayer game modes. Developer Treyarch is well-known for its three-lane map design, but Bullet is adopting a new, experimental one-lane design, maximiz

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Microsoft Says It's Made a Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Chip

cnet.com Samantha Kelly 2025-06-27 05:43:00

The race to shape the future of computing is heating up among tech companies, with Microsoft saying on Wednesday it has made a major breakthrough in quantum computing, potentially paving the way for the technology to address complex scientific and societal challenges. Scientists at the tech giant have spent 17 years developing a new material and framework for quantum computing to help power its new Majorana 1 processor. Microsoft is calling the advancement the world's first quantum processor po

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12 Best Foods for Optimal Eye Health

cnet.com Kacie Goff 2025-06-27 06:00:00

Taking care of your eyesight is essential. You can help strengthen your eyes in simple ways, like taking screen breaks, wearing sunglasses and even eating nourishing foods, vitamins and minerals. The best part is that most of these foods are probably already in your home. Read more: Best Places to Buy Glasses Online Best foods for healthy eyes Anjelika Gretskaia/Getty Images Whether you've got a family history of vision problems or you're trying to fight eye strain in your day-to-day life, h

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Can Music Really Help You Sleep? Here's How to Build a Playlist for Deeper Slumber

cnet.com Caroline Igo 2025-06-27 06:00:07

Music fuels my life. Whether I'm writing, reading, working, running, driving or sitting around the house, music is usually flooding my ears or playing softly in the background. Choosing a song or playlist is the first thing I do in the morning, and if I have my AirPods in, you can count on Spotify playing my favorite podcasts. To me, music is a form of love. It boosts moods, soothes heartache and reaches audiences across language barriers. Music can also help you sleep at night, easing anxiety

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10 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream Now

cnet.com Meara Isenberg 2025-06-27 06:20:50

Peacock's supply of original series continues to grow, offering more choices when TV time rolls around. From the buzzy Eddie Redmayne assassin series The Day of the Jackal to season 3 of the twist-filled reality competition show The Traitors, you probably haven't explored all the highly-rated options on the streamer. If you're poking around Peacock for something to watch, here are 10 standout shows to try. Each of them scores around 70 or higher on Metacritic. Peacock costs $8 per month or $80

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Most People Still Aren't Happy With Their Internet, But It's Not All Bad

cnet.com Trey Paul 2025-06-27 06:58:00

The American Customer Satisfaction Index released its annual survey, based on over 25,000 customer interviews, revealing how we really feel about our internet service providers. The good news for ISPs -- things are trending up. Overall, ISPs scored 71 on the ACSI's 100-point scale -- an increase of three points over 2023 and the highest score since the ACSI started measuring ISPs in 2013. The not-so-good news? Internet service providers still rank at the bottom of the index, just ahead of subscr

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Canon's New Camera Is in a Category Once Thought Practically Dead

cnet.com Geoffrey Morrison 2025-06-27 06:59:00

A new point-and-shoot camera? In 2025? That might seem surprising if you aren't up on the latest trends. The reality is the prices of used and older compact cameras have gone through the roof. There's a real interest, especially among younger people, for capable cameras separate from their phones. Canon follows recent announcements by Nikon, Panasonic and others with its new camera in a category once thought dead. The PowerShot V1 records 4K video at 60fps, takes 22.3-megapixel photos and has a

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Best Bluetooth Speaker for 2025

cnet.com David Carnoy 2025-06-27 08:00:00

Sonos Roam: Available in white or black for $179, the Roam is currently the smallest and most affordable Sonos speaker (if you don't count those $99 Sonos-compatible Symfonisk Ikea Wi-Fi bookshelf speakers), although it's fairly expensive for a mini wireless speaker. This Sonos Roam model, like the bigger Sonos Move 2 portable speaker, is equipped with both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and can tap into an existing Sonos multiroom audio system and link with other Series 2-compatible Sonos speakers. Learn

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Best Headsets for Working From Home in 2025

cnet.com David Carnoy 2025-06-27 08:45:00

A few years ago Shokz turned its OpenRun (formerly Aeropex) bone-conduction headphones into a more communications-friendly headset with an integrated boom microphone called the OpenComm ($140), which remains available. The second-generation OpenComm 2 UC costs more than the original, but it has an upgraded Bluetooth 5.1 chipset that improves performance a bit and now allows for the firmware upgrades that are required for Zoom certification. Additionally, the microphone has moved from the left ea

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Lamborghini catapults into the electrified supercar age with the Revuelto

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 04:39:22

We are effectively living in a post-horsepower world. As the roster of production cars offering quadruple-digit output figures continues to expand and a growing number of garden-variety vehicles now offer straight-line acceleration that would have been exclusively supercar territory a decade ago, serious thrust is quickly becoming an expectation rather than a rarefied experience. This trend might seem like an existential dilemma for an automaker with a legacy built on face-melting performance,

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Mere weeks after Starship’s breakup, the vehicle may soon fly again

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 04:52:47

A little over a month after SpaceX's large Starship launch ended in an explosion over several Caribbean islands, the company is preparing its next rocket for a test flight. According to a notice posted by the Federal Aviation Administration, the eighth test flight of the Starship vehicle could take place as early as February 26 from the Starbase launch site in South Texas. The launch window extends from 5:30 pm local time (23:30 UTC) to 7:09 pm (01:09 UTC). Company sources confirmed that this

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Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 05:35:47

After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon's store will be able to access it for now, but all bets are off beginning on August 20, 2025. As part of the pull-back, the company is also discontinuing the Amazon Coins digital currency. The Amazon Appstore made waves when it launched in 2011, offering an alternative to what at the time was known as the Android Market. Amazon even scored

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Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 06:00:16

Popular Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch announced Wednesday that it will be imposing a 100-hour limit on the archived video highlights users can preserve permanently on the site. And while Twitch says that only 0.5 percent of users will be affected by these new limits, gamers are warning that the move threatens to eradicate large swaths of recent gaming history from the Internet. Highlights, in Twitch's own words, are a way for Twitch streamers to "show off your best moments to new

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Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 07:10:29

In a remarkable statement Thursday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the International Space Station should be deorbited "as soon as possible." This comment from Musk will surely set off a landmine in the global space community, with broad implications. And it appears to be no idle comment from Musk who, at times, indulges in deliberately provocative posts on the social media network X that he owns. However, that does not seem to be the case here. "It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting

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Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 07:20:21

Apple and Lenovo had the lowest laptop repairability scores in an analysis of recently released devices from consumer advocacy group US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. While Apple's low marks are partially due the difficulty involved in disassembling MacBooks, Lenovo appears to be withholding information from shoppers deemed critical to right-to-repair legislation and accessibility. The report, US PIRG's fourth annual “Failing the Fix” [PDF], calculated repairability score

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Small study suggests dark mode doesn’t save much power for very human reasons

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 07:34:31

If you know how OLED displays work, you know about one of their greatest strengths: Individual pixels can be shut off, offering deeper blacks and power savings. Dark modes, now available on most operating systems, aim to save power by making most backgrounds very dark or black, while also gratifying those who just prefer the look. But what about on the older but still dominant screen technology, LCDs? The BBC is out with a small, interesting study comparing the light and dark modes of one of it

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SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 08:12:56

Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers to the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), sources tell WIRED. On Sunday, Sean Duffy, secretary of the Department of Transportation, which oversees the FAA, announced in a post on X that SpaceX engineers would be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia to take what he positioned as a tour. “The safety of air travel is a nonpartisan matter,” Musk replied. “S

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ISP sued by record labels agrees to identify 100 users accused of piracy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 08:23:38

Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers who were accused of pirating songs. The subscribers "were the subject of RIAA or third party copyright notices," said a court order that approved the agreement between Altice and the plaintiff record companies. Altice is notifying each subscriber "of Altice's intent to disclose their name and contact information to Plaintiffs pursuant to this Order," and telling the

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Study: Cuttlefish adapt camouflage displays when hunting prey

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 08:41:00

Crafty cuttlefish employ several different camouflaging displays while hunting their prey, according to a new paper published in the journal Ecology, including mimicking benign ocean objects like a leaf or coral, or flashing dark stripes down their bodies. And individual cuttlefish seem to choose different preferred hunting displays for different environments. It's well-known that cuttlefish and several other cephalopods can rapidly shift the colors in their skin thanks to that skin's unique st

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: An RTX 4080 for $749, at least in theory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 08:57:45

Nvidia's RTX 50-series makes its first foray below the $1,000 mark starting this week, with the $749 RTX 5070 Ti—at least in theory. The third-fastest card in the Blackwell GPU lineup, the 5070 Ti is still far from "reasonably priced" by historical standards (the 3070 Ti was $599 at launch). But it's also $50 cheaper and a fair bit faster than the outgoing 4070 Ti Super and the older 4070 Ti. These are steps in the right direction, if small ones. We'll talk more about its performance shortly,

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FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 08:20:25

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants "to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users' access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law." "Tech firms should not be bullying their users," said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who was chosen by President Trump to lead the commission. "This inquiry will help the FTC better understand how t

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See a garbage truck’s CNG cylinders explode after lithium-ion battery fire

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 09:21:39

Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, the fire department responded within five minutes. Firefighters saw flames shooting five feet into the air out the back of the truck, and they prepared to put the fire out using hoses and water. Four minutes after their arrival on scene, however, the garbage truck exploded in rather

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Microsoft’s new AI agent can control software and robots

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-27 09:39:12

On Wednesday, Microsoft Research introduced Magma, an integrated AI foundation model that combines visual and language processing to control software interfaces and robotic systems. If the results hold up outside of Microsoft's internal testing, it could mark a meaningful step forward for an all-purpose multimodal AI that can operate interactively in both real and digital spaces. Microsoft claims that Magma is the first AI model that not only processes multimodal data (like text, images, and vi

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Work Has Given Me Tech Neck. This Device Is Helping Undo the Damage

wired.com Hannah Singleton 2025-06-27 03:45:00

I was leaving a blissful session with my massage therapist when she pointed out something unexpected: I was developing an ever-so-slight neck “hump.” Of course, nobody wants to hear that—it sounds unsightly—but it also raised some alarm bells. Recently, an orthopedic spine surgeon told me that he’s seen increasing cases of arthritis in young, healthy individuals, likely due to posture issues caused by constant screen use. Like most desk workers, I spend at least 30 hours a week glued to my lapt

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The 3 Best Essential Oil Diffusers (and One to Avoid)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-06-27 04:09:00

I first learned about Pura from a friend whose house always smelled like a high-end boutique under every circumstance. Cooking project, water leak … no matter what was going on in her house at the time, I only ever smelled berries. I have two cats and a multi-sports-playing tween—I knew I needed this. Now, about 14 months into my Pura journey, I have some thoughts. While most of my time has been with the now discontinued Pura 3, I have also since used the Pura 4 and new large-room Pura Plus, al

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DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-06-27 04:57:48

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency put a $1 spending limit on most credit cards belonging to employees and contractors of the General Services Administration—a critical agency that manages IT and office buildings for the US government—along with at least three other federal agencies. Similar restrictions are expected to roll out to the entire government workforce soon, according to several sources familiar with the matter. “Effective immediately, all GSA SmartPay Travel a

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The Watergate-Inspired Law That’s Being Used to Fight DOGE

wired.com Katie Drummond 2025-06-27 05:01:54

Katie Drummond: And ironically, as you mentioned earlier, that's part of what makes these lawsuits so challenging to see through because a judge is assessing risk based on hypothetical harms to American citizens as opposed to actual harm or actual injury. Is that right? Andrew Couts: I mean it depends on exactly what the lawsuit is alleging or what it's attempting to achieve, what kind of legal standards they're going to apply. But typically judges, if they're looking for actual or potential im

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What's Free on the Epic Games Store This Week?

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Mere weeks after Starship’s breakup, the vehicle may soon fly again

Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it

Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

Small study suggests dark mode doesn’t save much power for very human reasons

SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired

ISP sued by record labels agrees to identify 100 users accused of piracy

Study: Cuttlefish adapt camouflage displays when hunting prey

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: An RTX 4080 for $749, at least in theory

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DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

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