At WIRED, we’re big fans of Kindles. It’s an excellent solution for bookworms who always want access to tons of books on the go in a compact, lightweight form factor. But they can be expensive. If you’ve been holding off on buying one, you’re in luck, because there are Amazon Prime Day Kindle deals on … Read more
SAVE $150: Bose’s QuietComfort headphones are down to $199 from their retail price of $349 this Prime Day. If you step into my boyfriend’s and my apartment, it’d be pretty easy to guess our favorite color. We have green bedding, a green shower curtain, green plants everywhere — heck, I’m evening typing this on a … Read more
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A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it has agreed to give up ownership of the Chagos Islands, a territory in the Indian Ocean it has controlled since 1814 — relinquishing the .io domain with it. But first, let’s take … Read more
Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. In fact, the plan was to invest in just six companies … Read more
When Meta announced the Quest 3S, it also retired the original Meta Quest 3 128GB and made the Quest 3 512GB (originally $649) the default option for $499. Since it had some Quest 3 128GB stock left, it discounted it to $429 ($70 off) while supplies last. Turns out that the supplies won’t last long! … Read more
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The YouTube for Android TV app is rolling out a new account switcher that’s similar to Netflix. The app now has a built-in account switcher that doesn’t require changing accounts in Android’s settings. In addition, the app now asks you which account you want to use when you … Read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Months ago, 13-year-old Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson became the first person to “beat” NES Tetris, crashing the game after a 1,511-line, 157-level performance. Over the weekend, 16-year-old Michael “dogplayingtetris” Artiaga became the first to reach an even more impressive plateau in the game, looping past Level … Read more
Apple will soon release iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, and these updates will bring the first Apple Intelligence features for compatible iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Not all of the Apple Intelligence features that Apple has in the works are coming in the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 updates, and … Read more
Amazon has officially launched its October Prime Big Deal Days event, which means tons of discounts. Chief among them are many deals on Amazon brand products, like the Echo and Alexa-enabled devices. Of course, Amazon isn’t the only one with incredible discounts. Take the Best Buy Prime Big Deal Days sale, for instance. You might be … Read more
You can now write reviews for movies, shows, seasons, and individual episodes in Plex. However, review visibility is currently limited to friends and mutuals. Community reviews show up alongside critic reviews on movie and show landing pages. They also appear on user profiles and in the activity feed. Reviews that contain spoilers can be marked … Read more