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Amazon The holiday season is quickly approaching and — if Amazon’s October Prime Day sale is any indicator — the deals will be wide-ranging and abundant.  This abundance of deals — while it’s almost any shopper’s dream — can get overwhelming. Also: Prime Day is over: These are the 100+ best deals still live Now, … Read more

Robot vacuums across the country were hacked in the space of several days, according to reporting by ABC News. This allowed the attackers to not only control the robovacs, but use their speakers to hurl racial slurs and abusive comments at anyone nearby. All of the affected robots were of the same make and model, … Read more

I’ve been writing about home battery systems for more than a year, but these big devices are hard to test hands-on. For one, they’re far bigger and more expensive than, say, a phone. And you have to install them into your home’s electrical system — not easy when you live in an apartment. Fortunately, CNET … Read more

If you’re kicking yourself for missing out on the giant sales even earlier this week that is Amazon Prime Day, don’t fret. Just because the named and promoted deals event is over, doesn’t mean there aren’t still a ton of great savings opportunities across the website. Pet lovers, we may have found the best deal … Read more

Even after I got the fit right, I noticed a darker, fuzzier sound signature than what I experienced in the original pair. This seems to be by design, as one of the main complaints before was a lack of bass, something with which nearly all open earbuds struggle. The new buds add some more punch … Read more

Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova and Ali Abbasi go into detail on the reason they made the ‘The Apprentice’ and how Donald Trump tried to stop it from being seen. Source link

According to slides from an MSI presentation published by HardwareLuxx today (via VideoCardz), the new chips may have respectable multicore performance gen-over-gen, with an eight-core 9000X3D outperforming a Ryzen 7 7900X3D by up to 28 percent in Cinebench R23. But they can offer as little as 2 percent gains in Black Myth: Wukong and Shadow … Read more

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants you to know he’s not an AI “doomer.” At least, that’s my read of the “mic drop” of a ~15,000 word essay Amodei published to his blog late Friday. (I tried asking Anthropic’s Claude chatbot whether it concurred, but alas, the post exceeded the free plan’s length limit.) In broad … Read more

What you need to know A far-reaching U.S. court ruling, among other things, will force Google to stop requiring app developers to use Google Play Billing for Android mobile payments. Microsoft is one of the first developers to bring new offerings to Android and the Google Play Store now that they’re opened up.  You’ll be … Read more

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Panels is introducing a new $2/mo subscription tier. Annoying ads are being removed from the wallpaper feed, but you can choose to watch short ads to unlock HD content. Permissions issues have also been sorted, and the app has reined in its access to that which is necessary. … Read more