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Anker’s fastest power bank launches alongside new Prime family

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Just one week after EcoFlow launched the fastest 99Wh power bank yet, Anker is firing back at IFA 2025 with a souped-up portable battery of its own. Anker’s Prime Power Bank (26k, 300W) supports 250W of input, or up to 300W of output to charge multi

Anker stuffed its awesome Nebula X1 projector into a party speaker

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anker took its portable and incredibly bright Nebula X1 projector and jammed it into a 30 x 17 x 13.5-inch box with a 160W subwoofer to create the Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro. The resulting Google TV party projector — announced at IFA 2025 — weighs 72.4

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This guy made his own slider phone out of a broken Z Flip 5 and BlackBerry keyboard

TL;DR A YouTuber attached a BlackBerry Q10 keyboard to a folded Galaxy Z Flip 5 with a broken folding screen. The YouTuber also added a magnetic slider mechanism akin to phones like the Nokia N97. A video shows that the keyboard works in apps like YouTube and in games. What happens if your Galaxy Z Flip‘s folding screen breaks? Well, you could get it repaired, or you could do what one enterprising person did and attach a BlackBerry keyboard to it. YouTuber and inventor Marcin Plaza decided t

My 5 simple tricks to extend iPhone battery life when traveling (including older models)

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My wife and I like to travel, both in the US and abroad. Naturally, we always take our iPhones with us to snap photos and videos, search for directions, and stay in touch with other people. But when you use your phone all day with no available AC outlets, keeping your battery charge alive can be difficult. As I've trekked to various spots, I've tried different tricks and techniques to prevent the battery from c

New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to understanding mathematical knots, which one can obtain from any traditional knot by gluing the loose ends together. Mathematicians long believed that if you attach cut ends of two different knots to each other, the new knot will be just as complex as the sum of the individual knots’ complexity. But

William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The law of copyright This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Titl

LegalZoom Promo Codes and Deals: 20% Off Services

LegalZoom is one of those online legal services that in most cases can handle basic legal tasks for you. I recently tried it out to make an LLC for my cosmic country band, Steel Fringe (shameless plug), and it appears to have worked just fine (we’re still waiting on a full evaluation from legal experts for a future guide to these services). If you use a LegalZoom promo code right now, you will get a discount on the service. I found it super easy to set up my LLC, and after about $500 and 30 min

Hue launches its first video doorbell

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After a Philips Hue app update leaked a new Hue video doorbell in March, parent company Signify is making it official this week. The $169 Hue Secure video doorbell is arriving in October to complement Hue’s other Secure indoor and outdoor camera offerings. The Hue Secure video doorbell loo

Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit

Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit "This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it. Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalisation, we honour that choice," a Google spokesperson told the BBC. They had been seeking more than $31bn in damages. The verdict comes after a group of users brought the case claiming Google accessed users' mobile devices to collect, save and use their data, in violation of privacy assura

Trump to host tech CEOs over dinner for inaugural event in renovated Rose Garden

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk to the Rose Garden of the White House to hold a signing ceremony for the Take it Down Act, in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 19, 2025. U.S. President Trump will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for an inaugural event in the White House's renovated Rose Garden on Thursday. Invitees include Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to a lis

From Battery Health to fingerprint unlock, Google just fixed a lot on your Pixel

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started rolling out the September 2025 security patch for Pixel phones. The update is arriving for the Pixel 6 and newer devices, including the Pixel Tablet. As usual, the security update is rolling out alongside the latest Pixel Drop. Google is now rolling out the September security update to Pixel phones. Over the next few weeks, all supported Pixel devices, i.e., Pixel 6 and above, running Android 16, will get the latest patches. The Sep

This handy Apple Intelligence feature saves me over $200 a year

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple Intelligence can transcribe your voice memos for free. The transcriptions are easy to access and fairly accurate. The Otter.ai alternative is $17 per month. When you hear of AI features on smartphones, you often think of the flashiest, agentic AI features that could carry out tasks for you without you having to lift a finger. However, I am a firm believer that the litmus test as to whethe

Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people

In a moment with many important economic questions and fears, I continue to find this among the more interesting mysteries about the US economy in the long run: Is artificial intelligence already taking jobs from young people? If you’ve been casually following the debate over AI and its effect on young graduates’ employment, you could be excused for thinking that the answer to that question is “possibly,” or “definitely yes,” or “almost certainly no.” Confusing! Let’s review: Possibly! In Apri

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move

Not just any cover Think of Book Folio as your sidekick. Wherever you go, it goes. And it comes with a magnetic strap to hold your Marker in place, all day long. It’s that secure. We have folios to match every personality, from textured, recycled weaves to premium leather.

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Sept. 4

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 4, #346

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The

The best VPN deals: Get up to 77 percent off ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Surfshark and others

A virtual private network (VPN) can save you a lot of money if you use it right. By changing your virtual location, you can use one streaming service to see shows that might be scattered between three or four in your home country. You can also trawl the world for discounts that only show up in a few select regions. And of course, you can't put a price on the joy of taking back your online business from intrusive ads and trackers. VPN providers are all competing to boost their subscriber counts,

The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs for Young People Just Got Stronger

In a moment with many important economic questions and fears, I continue to find this among the more interesting mysteries about the US economy in the long run: Is artificial intelligence already taking jobs from young people? If you’ve been casually following the debate over AI and its effect on young graduates’ employment, you could be excused for thinking that the answer to that question is “possibly,” or “definitely yes,” or “almost certainly no.” Confusing! Let’s review: Possibly! In Apri

WSJ explores the niche markets benefiting from the Apple Vision Pro

By now, you probably know it by heart: the steep price tag and lack of apps have irreparably doomed the first Apple Vision Pro. But that doesn’t mean it’s not doing well in niche markets and uses, per a new WSJ report. If you’ve been following the immersive market at all, you’re probably familiar with the fact that even though the Google Glass was far from a hit, it lived on for years as a hands-free industrial and healthcare assistant. In fact, the same goes for Microsoft’s HoloLens, which sa

New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to understanding mathematical knots, which one can obtain from any traditional knot by gluing the loose ends together. Mathematicians long believed that if you attach cut ends of two different knots to each other, the new knot will be just as complex as the sum of the individual knots’ complexity. But

What is it like to be a bat?

1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consci

Apple Planning AI-Powered Web Search for Siri Next Year: Report

Apple is planning to launch a new AI-powered web search tool for Siri next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg, as it seeks to compete with competitors who’ve invested heavily in AI. Details are still scarce and could change before launch, but it sounds like the whole thing could be powered by a custom version of Google’s Gemini. The new system is being called World Knowledge Answers internally, according to Bloomberg, and may even be added to Safari and Spotlight. An AI-powered vers

10 Horror Sequels to Watch on Peacock

Horror is a staple on nearly every streaming service, but what if you’ve seen all the important classics and are looking to venture a little further afield? One way to keep mainlining your favorite villains and settings is to dive into sequel territory. Not all horror sequels are created equal, but for every misguided cash grab, there’s a cult classic waiting to be rediscovered. Head to Peacock, home of next year’s Crystal Lake prequel series, to check out these 10 horror sequels. Halloween II

NotebookLM's New Audio Overviews Can Have AI Voices Debate Based on Your Notes

NotebookLM, a Gemini-powered AI research assistant, will soon generate a debate or critique your research and notes in its Audio Overviews feature. Three new audio summary formats announced on Tuesday -- called Brief, Critique and Debate -- will give users more options and add more flavor to what is already one of Google's best AI tools. The Audio Overviews feature was a catalyst for NotebookLM's popularity as a note-taking tool that uses only the sources you provide and makes the information m

Anker’s power bank with built-in USB-C cables is a great deal at $25 off

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anker’s Laptop Power Bank came to the rescue of my laptop and smartphone during a recent power outage. They were on the verge of dying, but its pair of built-in USB-C cables powered up my devices so I could keep working remotely. Since then, I carry it with me wherever I go, and it’s bailed me out time and again. If you need a powerful, portable charger, you can buy it for $94.49 ($25 off) at Amazon, Best Bu

The Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station falls to its record-low price

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I don’t like to post deals of the same product two deals in a row, but this one is kind of too good to ignore. Just yesterday, I posted an Ampace Andes 1500 sale, but today it got even better. The power station is at a record-low price of $499, saving you an impressive $900! Buy the Ampace Andes 1500 Power Station for just $499 ($900 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” We’re not sure how long the deal will last. Also, it is an

Opera One for iOS has a new version, and it’s all about tab management (and a dash of AI)

Today, Opera announced an update to Opera One, its iOS browser, with multiple improvements to tab viewing, searching, managing, and more. Here are the details. Tab groups, search, swipes, and more Most iOS users fall into two main categories: those who close a tab immediately after they’re done with it (even if they’re bound to open that same website again in a few minutes), and those who never, ever close their tabs. Opera is out today with an update to its Opera One browser on iOS, which wi

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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Projects to free users

OpenAI has announced that it's making its Projects feature available to free users of ChatGPT. Projects let you organize chats with the company's AI assistant around a specific subject, and were previously one of several privileges only enjoyed by paid subscribers. While on some level Projects are glorified folders for ChatGPT conversations, the ability to set custom instructions for how the AI responds or limit what information and files it can reference, makes the feature a useful option for

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada)

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for our first dedicated Solutions Engineer to bridge the gap between our innovative technology and the developers who need it most. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced developer who wants to help peers make dramatic gains in their day-to-day jobs, and ultimately for their organizations. An ideal candidate would be someone who is already a Depot user and fan who wants to find a new role in a fast

Eero Wants to Sell Customers a Cellular Internet Backup Dongle for Its Routers

Amazon’s Eero is getting into the cellular hotspot router business… sort of. At IFA 2025, the company announced the Eero Signal, a device that can back up your Eero network with cellular data, kicking in when it detects an internet outage. The Eero Signal is an upright little device with a USB-C splitter that plugs into your existing Eero router’s USB-C port, powering both devices. If you’re paying for a $99.99 annual subscription to Eero Plus, you’ll get 10GB of cellular backup data per year.