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Everyone basically agrees: if you want people to transition from polluting gas guzzlers to electric cars, you have to make them more affordable. The luxury EVs, with their big battery packs and fine leather interiors, are all well and good, but if you really want to move the needle on EV adoption, we need more [âŠ] Read more âș
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Microsoft was forced to reroute Azure traffic on Saturday, September 6, after two major submarine cable systems were severed in the Red Sea, triggering latency spikes and degraded performance for cloud users across South Asia and the Gulf. Read more âș
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After my dad died it became evident that my mom couldn't live on her own. Multigenerational living has been beneficial for all of us. Read more âș
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Tokyoâs renowned electronics shopping district was plunged into darkness on Friday due to a very rare power outage. Read more âș
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AMD's ROCm 6.4.2 software stack lists a non-existent Radeon RX 9060 XL GPU, likely a typo confusing internal 'Navi 44 XL' die naming with official product branding. But who knows? Read more âș
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Amazon this weekend is discounting a collection of Beats headphones and speakers, including a solid second-best price on the Powerbeats Pro 2. You can get this new 2025 model for $199.95 in four colors, down from $249.99. This deal on the Powerbeats Pro 2 is being matched at Best Buy, along with a few other Beats deals. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link... Read more âș
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Epic Games has sped up repercussions for Fortnite players who used V-Bucks and refunded them through an exploit on Xbox, essentially getting the in-game currency for free. Read more Read more âș
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While scientists are still working to understand the effects an extended trip to space can have on the human body, research in recent years has suggested that astronauts may experience some pretty dramatic changes on both the physiological and psychological levels. In the latest study led by a team at University of California San Diego, researchers found signs of accelerated aging in human stem cells that spent roughly a month... Read more âș
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After attending so many weddings, I've realized guests only care about having enough good food, a great dancing playlist, and short speeches. Read more âș
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Nvidiaâs new RTX 5090 and PRO 6000 GPUs are reportedly being plagued by a reproducible virtualization reset bug that can leave the cards completely unresponsive until the host system is physically rebooted. Read more âș
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When director Rian Johnson introduced the new Knives Out film on the third day of TIFF 2025, he exclaimed: "we're going back to church." By that he meant that Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Benoit Blanc mystery, would harken back to the origins of the whodunit, and in particular the gothic vibes of Edgar [âŠ] Read more âș
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The curious case of failing SSDs, following Microsoftâs August security patch for Windows, has once again taken an unexpected turn. Read more âș
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President Donald Trump has vowed to deport 1 million undocumented immigrants out of the United States every year. So far, heâs falling well short of that goal, with estimates in the neighborhood of 200,000 as of August. Still, the Trump administration carries on with its deportation campaign. Driven by publicly anti-immigrant officials like Stephen Miller, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Could Reynolds see the cinematic potential in Deadpool, or did he just get extremely lucky that everything's worked out in his favor? Read more âș
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A new report from VirusTotal shows that more than 44 compromised SVG files went completely undetected by antivirus systems. Read more âș
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Squeaky hinges on your car doors, hatchback, hood, or trunk lid are annoying and signal ongoing damage. This is the safest way to quiet noisy car hinges. Read more âș
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The old Enermax gaming PC still has a few years left in it. Read more âș
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With premium performance at a mid-range price point, the Deco BE68 is a superstar mesh router. Read more âș
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Niche ranked the best suburbs considering factors like cost of living, crime rates, access to bars and restaurants, and ethnic diversity. Read more âș
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Ethical hackers have detailed how they uncovered 'catastrophic' vulnerabilities in various Burger King systems. Read more âș
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After years of unofficial copies of Microsoftâs 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoftâs first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee Ric Weiland to run on the 6502 CPU that [âŠ] Read more âș
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In whatâs potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay âat leastâ a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers [âŠ] Read more âș
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If you wanted a sense of the current relationship between the tech right and the populists, you had to be sitting in Breakout Room C on the first day of NatCon 5, the annual gathering of the MAGA right's powerhouses. At the end of the afternoon panel on the culture wars ("The Need for Heroism"), [âŠ] Read more âș
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Itâs the first handheld outside of Asus thatâs confirmed to get the the new Xbox full-screen experience. Lenovo spokesperson Jeff Witt tells me buyers will be able to manually switch the handheld to Xbox FSE after itâs ready in the spring 2026 time frame. Asus will get it far sooner on October 16th when it [âŠ] Read more âș
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Eight years after breaking every record with an $800, 7,541-piece Star Wars Millennium Falcon, the Lego Group is introducing its first $1,000 set. Itâs an intricately detailed Death Star nearly two feet tall (52.3cm), a foot and a half wide (48cm) and over a foot (38.3cm) deep, with enough compartments to re-enact nearly every iconic [âŠ] Read more âș
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Several of the most powerful business leaders in the country gathered around a table last night to fawn over President Donald Trump for his AI policies. âYou and your policies are really helping a lot,â Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the president. AMD CEO Lisa Su praised âthe amount of acceleration that weâve seen just [âŠ] Read more âș
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It only took three years, but Bluetti is following EcoFlowâs lead with a fully integrated power system of its own to make vanlifers, off-grid cabins, and boats energy independent. The RVSolar Systemâs main advantage over bespoke systems is a relatively quick and easy installation, requiring just â30 minutes,â according to Bluettiâs announcement at IFA 2025. While [âŠ] Read more âș
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Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude and one of OpenAIâs chief competitors, emerged from the holiday weekend with big news: A completed funding round of $13 billion, awarding the company a $183 billion post-money valuation. The company said in a press release that between the start of 2025 and August â less than nine months â [âŠ] Read more âș
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Baseus has announced a new accessory that can wirelessly charge a Qi2-compatible smartphone directly on an outlet, making it useful as a hands-free wall mount. Itâs reminiscent of a similar wireless charger that Zens released last year, but Baseusâ new EnerGeek GT01 has additional functionality, including a 10,000mAh battery that can be separated from the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Bluettiâs at IFA 2025 with the worldâs first portable power station built around a sodium-ion battery, and a second, slim unit designed to mount next to the fridge to keep it running during a blackout. The Pioneer Na (get it? Na = sodium) is covered in AC and USB jacks and delivers up to 1,500W [âŠ] Read more âș
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