Prime Air is launching in Georgia, Ohio, Illinois, Idaho, and New York soon. | Image: Joseph Ciembroniewicz/Omaha World-Herald via Getty Images Amazon says its drone delivery service will reach "nearly 500 cities and towns in the United States" by the end of this year, increasing its coverage b...
The latest macOS 26.7 beta appears to have revealed quite a lot about a number of upcoming Apple home products. It includes references to a new HomePod mini, a security camera, a next-generation Siri remote for a new Apple TV 4K – and the long-anticipated HomePad product. A deeper dive into the c...
An AI-themed bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with its drinks, running inference locally on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.
Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral
Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told customers in mainland China that it will cut the supply of ABF.
Newegg's combo deal pairs the gaming-centric Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus ROG Strix B650-A motherboard, and Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $609.99, plus a free 240mm AIO—an affordable way into AM5 amid the RAMpocalypse.
The Apple AirTag may be a jack-of-all-trades - people use it for keeping track of keys, suitcases, backpacks, purses - but I think the most logical use case for it, by far, is keeping track of your pet. I attach it to my corgi Jelly's collar via a matching silicone holder. Have I ever once truly ...
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One of the hidden expenses in upgrading to a new iPhone can often be the need to replace your case when the dimensions differ. That so far seemed a likely bet for anyone upgrading from one of last year’s Pro models to the iPhone 18 Pro, but two accessory makers think not – with one of them going ...
Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpected brands.
The ASRock X870E Taichi White updates the original with a cleaner all-white design and 10 GbE, and is the first ASRock board to feature all-white components. But pricing could scare away some users.
Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused Windows Defender to crash after a recent security update, resulting in 0xc0000005 access violation errors on some affected systems. [...]
I tested the top-of-the-line Ecovacs Winbot W2S Omni window-cleaning robot on my Victorian home, and it was an unmitigated disaster.
DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks
Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island's residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.
Data and finance professionals are competing in Excel obstacle courses—amassing huge followings and keeping the Microsoft program relevant.
The replica watch industry is in its “super clone” era. Following tips from murky internet forums, we bought three budget fakes that were good enough to pass as real—but ultimately disposable.
Beijing wants most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland.
id Software included locked versions of its entire game library on the $10 Quake shareware CD it released in 1996. But the system meant to allow gamers to pay for and unlock those titles over the phone proved vulnerable to crackers who discovered a way to unlock every game on the disc for free.
The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it’s why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup.