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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

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

The MacBook is a powerful machine. Whether you’re using a MacBook Air for web browsing and sending emails or a MacBook Pro for graphics-intensive projects like video editing and 3D design, Apple’s laptops can do the job. But I suggest throwing some accessories into the mix. A slew of peripherals can vastly improve your experience, … Read more

With President Donald Trump back in the White House, all kinds of media and art will feel like it’s commenting on him and his supporters. Some of it will be subtle; Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17 is not.  The celebrated director of the scathing satire Parasite returns with a parable set in a future where … Read more

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at OpenAI canceling the release of o3; TikTok returning to U.S. app stores nearly a month after it was removed; more complications in Elon Musk’s bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion; and more! Let’s do it. OpenAI effectively canceled the release of o3, which … Read more

Pick AMOLED or Solar The Garmin Instinct 3 offers a significant step up over the Instinct 2, but less so for Instinct 2X owners who already have a flashlight, improved solar recharge, and multi-band GPS. The Solar version has absurdly good battery life but the same visual downsides the Instinct series has had for years; … Read more

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra is a brilliant flagship from top to bottom, just as long as you can handle its size. It oozes power and prestige from the four cameras to the S Pen to the titanium frame, and it’s set up to receive software updates through the beginning of the next decade, making it … Read more

According to The Intercept, the IRS is set to purchase an Nvidia SuperPod AI supercomputer to enhance its machine learning capabilities for tasks like fraud detection and taxpayer behavior analysis. From the report: With Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency installing itself at the IRS amid a broader push to replace federal bureaucracy with … Read more

Researchers have uncovered a sustained and ongoing campaign by Russian spies that uses a clever phishing technique to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts belonging to a wide range of targets, researchers warned. The technique is known as device code phishing. It exploits “device code flow,” a form of authentication formalized in the industry-wide OAuth standard. Authentication … Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook teased an Apple announcement that’s coming on Wednesday, February 19, and it’s looking like that mystery announcement will be the next-generation iPhone SE. We’ve been hearing about the ‌iPhone SE‌ 4 for quite some time now, and we essentially know everything to expect. If you want a sneak peek at what’s … Read more