Apple is Now Selling a Refurbished Mac Mini for Just $319 (!)

Apple is Now Selling a Refurbished Mac Mini for Just 9 (!)

A few days ago, we reported that Apple’s refurbished Mac mini pricing had a problem, and it appears that Apple has taken note. Apple was offering a refurbished Mac mini with the M2 chip, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage for $559, which was $50 more than a refurbished Mac mini with the M4 … Read more

Google Pixel phone’s Emergency SOS sent a person’s nudes to friends

Google Pixel phone’s Emergency SOS sent a person’s nudes to friends

Google Pixel phones come with an emergency SOS feature that calls for emergency response services, and also shares the alert with friends or family members. The whole system also has an optional video feature that records your surroundings and shares the clip with all your emergency contacts. If you have enabled this feature — hopefully … Read more

I’ve Been Playing Diablo II for 25 Years, and I Will Never Stop

I’ve Been Playing Diablo II for 25 Years, and I Will Never Stop

Summary I rarely replay games, but Diablo II keeps me coming back for its engaging gameplay and atmosphere. The sequel evolved from the original: Diablo II improved on Diablo’s mechanics and played with more expansiveness. Diablo II has infinite replayability due to procedural generation and variable challenges, making every run unique. I rarely play a … Read more

“Mr. Transistor’s” Most Challenging Career Moment

“Mr. Transistor’s” Most Challenging Career Moment

It says something about your career at a company that makes hundreds of trillions of transistors every day when your nickname is “Mr. Transistor.” That’s what colleagues sometimes call Tahir Ghani, a senior fellow and director of process pathfinding in Intel’s technology development group. Ghani’s career spans three decades at the company and has resulted … Read more

See through smoke and around corners

See through smoke and around corners

Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Sylvia Zhang Prof Mingmin Zhao (right) has been working on a radio vision system for robots If you want to find out whether your robot can see through smoke, well, you’re going to need some smoke. But a University of Pennsylvania student got a shock when they began setting up a … Read more

A look under the hood of transfomers, the engine driving AI model evolution

A look under the hood of transfomers, the engine driving AI model evolution

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image … Read more

Perplexity has its own ‘Deep Research’ tool now too

Perplexity has its own ‘Deep Research’ tool now too

In a on Friday, Perplexity introduced a new tool called Deep Research that it says can conduct “in-depth research and analysis” to deliver detailed reports in response to your questions, and it’s free for limited use. It comes just a couple of weeks after OpenAI announced its own users… which itself followed Google’s December announcement … Read more

Best Air Purifier of 2025

Best Air Purifier of 2025

To help inform our air purifier picks, we gathered 14 of the most popular models at the CNET Labs product testing facility in Louisville, Kentucky, where we put them through a rigorous set of tests. Our goal was to determine which air purifiers offered the best performance in terms of particle removal efficiency, energy consumption … Read more

NetEase Wants Marvel Rivals Players to Chill About Leaked Heroes

NetEase Wants Marvel Rivals Players to Chill About Leaked Heroes

As Marvel Rivals has launched its first batch of post-launch heroes with the Fantastic Four, the community remains eager to know who’s waiting in the wings. Dataminers have seemingly revealed much of the future additions not long after the game’s launch, and the obsession over that list has grown to the point developers at NetEase … Read more