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Looking for an affordable laptop for class? Here's one I recommend for $299

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6 cheap deals under $25 I'd buy before Prime Day (and why you need them)

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Lego Game Boy Review: The Designers Share All the Secrets to the Fun, Nostalgic Set

I owe the original Game Boy everything. Had it not been for Nintendo’s gray brick of a handheld, and a copy of Super Mario Land, I doubt I would be writing these words on Gizmodo. It was the gadget that started my lifelong obsession with cutting-edge technology and my passion for sharing it with others. So excuse me for being overwhelmed with emotion and nostalgia when Lego announced it was making a 421-piece brick set version of the iconic Nintendo handheld. Released on Oct. 1 for $60, the Leg

Gear News of the Week: Adobe Premiere Lands on iPhone, and Nothing Lets You Design Your Own Widgets

Adobe has had a busy year designing and redesigning a number of its most popular apps for mobile, and Premiere for iPhone is the latest—a mobile-first video editing workflow that adapts most of the tools from the desktop version of Premiere to a mobile user interface. You can trim, layer, edit, and even auto-generate captions, alongside all the basic editing features you'd expect, like color and exposure adjustments. The automatic resizing feature is particularly nice, adapting videos to both h

Bezos predicts that millions will live in space kind of soon

In Brief Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the opportunity to predict that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades,” the Financial Times reports. Speaking with John Elkann, a scion of Italy’s Agnelli dynasty, Bezos, who also founded rocket company Blue Origin, insisted people will be living in space “mostly because they want to,” and that robots will handle the grunt work, while vast AI dat

Discrete Fourier Transform

Motivation Let’s take a look at how we multiply two polynomials of degree \(N\): \[\begin{align*} f(x) &= 4x^{4}-2x^{3}-6x^{2}\ +4x\ +\ 3\\ g(x) &= -x^{4}+11x^{3}-9x^{2}+-1x\ +\ 6\\ \end{align*}\] We can use the distributive property to multiply two polynomials and then sum up coefficients for identical terms. \[\begin{align*} f(x) &\cdot g(x) = \\ (4x^{4}-2x^{3}-6x^{2}\ +4x\ +\ 3) &\cdot (-x^{4}+11x^{3}-9x^{2}+-1x\ +\ 6) = \\ -4x^{8}+46x^{7}-52x^{6}-56x^{5} &+ 121x^{4}-9x^{3}-67x^{2}+21x+18 \

Best early Amazon Prime Day Kindle deals 2025: My favorites sales

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One of the Best Teen Comedies of the '90s Is Rising Through Netflix's Top 10

William Shakespeare could never have imagined that some of his most famous works would be adapted into nearly unrecognizable films -- yet his plays inspired some of our greatest teen romance movies. There's 1996's Romeo and Juliet, O (based on Othello), She's The Man (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night) and my personal favorite, 10 Things I Hate About You, the 1999 rom-com that introduced Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles to the world, and is based on The Taming of the Shrew. 10 Things I Hate About You dr

Your Samsung phone has a secret Wi-Fi menu that's super useful - how to access it

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White House Investigates Whether to Chop Space Shuttle Discovery Into Pieces

On October 11, 2012, NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery embarked on its arduous, 12-mile journey from an airplane hangar to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The iconic spacecraft had just survived its final “flight” while strapped to the roof of a Boeing 747. Officials went to extreme efforts to prevent the Shuttle from being dismantled during transport. The streets of LA were too narrow, for instance, forcing officials to temporarily remove traffic lights. Around 400 trees lining the

The best Prime Day SSD deals include discounts on gear from Crucial, Samsung and more

October Prime Day is here again, and as always, we've put together a list of the best, most-discounted extra storage options for consoles and gaming PCs. Our guide to the top storage deals is split into three categories — tiny microSD cards, portable external SSDs and generally faster (but more labor-intensive) internal SSDs. Whether you're building a gaming rig or just want to stop your PS5 from lagging, there's almost certainly a deal for you on our curated list. Take a look now to see what ki

Best early October Prime Day Anker deals 2025: Save on power banks, chargers, and more

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Best October Prime Day deals under $100: My 20+ favorite early sales

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Indonesia suspends TikTok’s operating licence for allegedly withholding data

Indonesia has suspended TikTok’s operational registration status in the country, alleging that the social media platform did not fully co-operate with a request to share its data during nationwide protests in August. In a statement , Alexander Sabar, an official from Indonesia’s digital and communications ministry, said TikTok had violated national laws by only providing partial data while the protests were ongoing between August 23 and 30. Sabar said TikTok was given until September 23 to hand

Best Amazon Prime Day tablet deals 2025: My 19 favorite sales ahead of October

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Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators. The software titan is rather late to the custom silicon party. While Amazon and Google have been building custom CPUs and AI accelerators for years, Microsoft only revealed its Maia AI accelerators in late 2023. Driving the transition is a focus on performance per dollar, which for a hyperscale cloud provider is

Your Roku TV has hidden settings and menu screens - here's how to access them

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California Needs to Learn from Houston and Dallas about Homelessness

Walk through downtown San Francisco or Los Angeles and you’ll navigate a shifting obstacle course of tents, human waste, and unstable individuals. Business districts that once thrived now see foot traffic evaporate as customers avoid entire blocks. Parents can’t take children to public parks. Elderly residents can’t use their own sidewalks. The social contract that public spaces belong to everyone has collapsed. Between 2015 and 2022, Los Angeles County’s homeless population surged by 56% while

Best Amazon Prime Day Apple deals 2025: My 25+ favorite sales in October

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Your Nest security devices are getting a major update for free - including a big one for Google Home

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This 49-inch Samsung OLED monitor for $720 off is a crazy good deal - how to qualify

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A Newly Discovered ‘Einstein’s Cross’ Reveals the Existence of a Giant Dark Matter Halo

The gravitational lensing not only splits the light source, but magnifies it, allowing a detailed view of the light source behind the lens. Thanks to this, the team says that HerS-3 appears to be a bright starburst galaxy—a galaxy undergoing explosive star formation—and was formed at a time when star formation was at its peak throughout the universe. HerS-3 also has a tilted, rotating disk, from the center of which gas is gushing out at a furious rate, the team say. “Thanks to this natural tele

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. What the hell is RSS?# RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a sta

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Some dogs can classify their toys by function

Certain dogs can not only memorize the names of objects like their favorite toys, but they can also extend those labels to entirely new objects with a similar function, regardless of whether or not they are similar in appearance, according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. It's a cognitively advanced ability known as "label extension," and for animals to acquire it usually involves years of intensive training in captivity. But the dogs in this new study developed the abili

Stdlib: A library of frameworks, templates, and guides for technical leadership

About stdlib The stdlib collection is a community-curated library of practical, immediately useful, battle-tested resources for technical leadership. Each resource is designed to be immediately applicable to your role. New resources are added based on community feedback and emerging best practices.

Gavin Newsom Signs Law Cracking Down on AI Industry

The nascent AI industry has attracted untold hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the past few years, but it’s still operating in a near-total regulatory vacuum. That’s not to say it’s had no negative impact. The tech has been linked to a wave of mental health breakdowns, suicides and even murder — and that’s without getting into allegations about the sector’s surveillance of users, copyright violations, and other alleged negative effects on users and society. Now, lawmakers are

Do voice translation earbuds actually work in the public? I tested a pair, and here's my advice

Viaim RecDot earbuds ZDNET's key takeaways The Viaim RecDot earbuds are avilable now on Amazon for $199 These earbuds make real-time translation far easier than you can imagine The Viaim RecDot earbuds also happen to sound fantastic. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. An earbud is an earbud… right? Until it offers a feature that's seriously impressive. One such pair is the Viaim RecDot, which can serve as an AI voice recorder, earbuds, AI meeting assis

Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice

Governments around the world, especially European ones, are increasingly reacting to the threat of American-based services pulling the rug from under them. We have already seen many instances of this, like Denmark moving away from Microsoft or Germany doing the same. This is a growing pattern that shows Big Tech isn't welcome in sensitive Government installations around Europe anymore, though this does vary from region to region (lobbying is a factor here). The Austrian Armed Forces (Bundeshee

Got a Samsung smartwatch? This 30-second fix will keep it running like new

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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni share the playbook for scaling consumer AI and winning Gen Z at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Consumer AI is having its breakout moment — and few startups have captured the spotlight this year quite like Phia. The AI-powered shopping assistant has become one of 2025’s buzziest launches, not only for its vision of how Gen Z shops, but also for the powerhouse founders leading it: Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, the two will take to the Disrupt Stage to share how they’re building Phia into a durable consum