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Shopping for back-to-school? These are the budget ...
I dug through the specs, ratings, and price tags on six of Amazon's most-bought budget laptops so yo...
I picked four wireless chargers so you can stop ma...
These wireless chargers can power everything from a single iPhone to an entire Apple setup while cle...
From lecture notes to design projects, I picked th...
Whether you need a digital notebook or a portable creative workstation, Apple’s current iPad lineup ...
Asus’ latest Zenbook puts a seriously bright OLED ...
Asus’ latest thin-and-light laptop pairs a premium OLED panel with a Ryzen AI processor, 16GB of RAM...
AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited thi...
A Pew Research Center survey published last month found that one in five Americans aged 18 to 29 hav...
DeepSeek pauses its second fundraising round after...
DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments made by founder Liang Wenfeng dur...
Before you blow your student budget, here’s the Ma...
Apple now offers a MacBook for almost every student budget, and these three models provide the stron...
EV owners are more satisfied with their cars than ...
Electric vehicle owners are happier with their cars than drivers of combustion vehicles in nearly ev...
Your backpack needs one of these power banks befor...
From powerful laptop chargers to compact magnetic battery packs, these four Anker power banks can ke...
Stop joining group projects with a blurry laptop w...
From affordable 2K cameras to AI-powered 4K models, these five webcams can sharpen online classes, g...
From freshman year to graduation, these are the th...
Heading back to school but your backpack's a tattered mess? Pick one of these three options and you ...
Motorola may have built the iPad alternative Andro...
Motorola has revealed a slim 5G tablet with an included Moto Pen, a large battery, and specification...
The Minimal Phone 2 looks dramatically better than...
A metal frame replacing plastic, a refined keyboard, cleaner proportions, and a look that borrows fr...
The EU says TikTok still isn’t doing enough to pro...
The European Commission says TikTok may be violating the Digital Services Act by failing to adequate...
Qualcomm is set to ratchet up chip prices in Septe...
Qualcomm notified customers on July 24, 2026 of double-digit chip price increases taking effect Sept...
Tesla’s hidden door problem might end up fixing ev...
NHTSA is pursuing new federal safety standards that would require all automakers to make emergency d...
The hottest indie game on Steam just had a malware...
A malicious Meccha Chameleon Steam Workshop map was found attempting to download malware onto player...
Enter the wrong PIN 13 times and your Galaxy phone...
Galaxy devices launching with One UI 9.0 will permanently lock after 13 failed PIN attempts, leaving...
I desperately want a new classic Walkman, but Sony...
Old-school gadgets are finding a new audience, but bringing back Sony’s classic Walkman would requir...
Google basically confirms the Pixel 11 is getting ...
Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview wi...
Stop fighting with your roomie over outlets and ge...
Your room has one outlet and too many devices fighting over it. I've picked out five multi-port char...
Canon registered three new cameras. One may be a d...
Canon has registered three new cameras with wireless certification agencies, a step that typically s...
Slacked off all summer? Here are 3 fitness tracker...
Summer break did a number on your fitness goals? These three fitness trackers take very different ap...
Back-to-school phone shopping on a tight budget? H...
Back to school shopping usually means picking from a handful of solid budget options. This year, how...
People are quietly recording every conversation th...
A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have...
New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer...
Modern electric vehicles retain an average of 97 percent of their original range after three years a...
Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good...
Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and...
5 mid-range phones I’d recommend you spend your Ba...
Shopping for a new phone before the school year starts? Here are five mid-range picks that deliver t...
Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30...
With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie some...
Stop losing your notes and start the school year w...
Your notes are scattered across notebooks, your PDFs are buried in folders you'll never find again, ...
Google Flow Music Spaces is becoming an all-in-one...
Google has rolled out a major update for Flow Music Spaces, adding AI-powered song editing, stem spl...
Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employee...
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, i...
Is this e-reader case a gun?
Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke ...
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI...
Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data cent...
OpenAI’s rogue AI hack was just the beginning, Hug...
OpenAI calls its autonomous Hugging Face breach unprecedented, while security and AI experts say the...
Folding and flipping phones are getting seriously ...
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What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about ...
What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle -...
China fines Trip.com $765 million for forcing hote...
China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the cou...
Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlant...
Waymo has notified Uber that it plans to launch its own app in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028, e...
OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, an...
OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, ...
Modi breaks Instagram’s Reel record with 300 milli...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept ...
Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadc...
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom have signed a memorandum of understanding worth more than $200 bill...
Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instea...
Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life's little problems. Sleepbuds s...
After four generations of camera stagnation, the G...
Samsung is reportedly testing a 50MP Sony main sensor for the Galaxy S27 and S27+, although the 12MP...
3 underrated Apple TV shows you should watch this ...
Three acclaimed but overlooked Apple TV series headline this weekend's watchlist, spanning a multive...
Google confirms Pixel 11 prices are going up as RA...
Google has confirmed price increases across the Pixel family as RAM costs surge, while working to ma...
3 underrated movies on Apple TV you should watch t...
This weekend we have three hidden gems on Apple TV prove some of the platform's best work still flie...
Galaxy Watch 9 vs. Watch Series 11: Has Apple fina...
Samsung's Galaxy Watch 9 undercuts Apple's Watch Series 11 on price while packing a brighter display...
After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ i...
Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses featu...
