31 Best REI Labor Day Deals (2023): Tents, Sleeping Bags, and Outdoor Gear
The warm days may be fading, but you can still grab these end-of-summer deals and get outside without going broke.
Read MoreThe warm days may be fading, but you can still grab these end-of-summer deals and get outside without going broke.
Read MoreYou’ll find no upward-firing full-range drivers on the Soundbar Mini. | Image: Sennheiser Sennheiser’s new Ambeo Soundbar Mini is the German audio brand’s third and most affordable soundbar. At $799 (€799 / £699), it’s still an expensive AV accessory, but in the context of the company’s original $2,499.95 Ambeo Soundbar Max and $1,499.95 Ambeo Soundbar
Read MoreReuters: Filing: Nvidia says the US expanded export restrictions of “a subset of A100 and H100” chips to regions beyond China, including some Middle Eastern countries — The U.S. government has imposed restrictions on some Nvidia (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence chip exports to certain countries …
Read MoreImage: Google Google has rolled out a new SafeSearch feature that automatically blurs explicit (meaning violent, sexual, etc.) images in its results. This will occur for all users by default — including those who don’t have SafeSearch enabled. This setting was first announced back in February but was scheduled to roll out globally this month.
Read MoreWallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.6B, vs. $8.53B est., $1.27B net income, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations; CRM jumps 5%+ — Salesforce sees third-quarter earnings of $2.05 to $2.06 a share, compared with Street’s $1.84
Read MoreStarz often picks up canceled shows like HBO Max’s Minx. | Image: HBO Max Starz has lowered its annual subscription price from $74.99 a year to $69.99, Cord Cutters first reported and TechCrunch later confirmed. Starz emailed its subscribers the news on August 29th, explaining existing members will see the change in price on their
Read MoreEmily Bary / MarketWatch: CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 37% YoY to $731.6M, vs. $724.2M est., ARR up 37% YoY to $2.93B, and forecasts Q3 and FY 2024 earnings above expectations — Cybersecurity stock dips in aftermarket action — CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. topped expectations with its results and outlook …
Read MoreZac Hall / 9to5Mac: Microsoft retires Visual Studio for Mac, saying the IDE will get “servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple” until August 31, 2024 — Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue Visual Studio for Mac. The latest version of the company’s IDE …
Read MoreAshley Belanger / Ars Technica: OpenAI files a motion to dismiss two similar lawsuits from book authors alleging copyright infringement, saying the authors “misconceive the scope of copyright” — Authors claim generative AI is just a “grift” that repackages original works. — This week, OpenAI finally responded …
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority An approval application for the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro was spotted at the FCC. The listing contains five model numbers. The model number GKWS6 appeared earlier this year Qi certification listing. It’s only been a little over two weeks since the Google Pixel Watch 2 stopped by
Read MoreThere’s a bit of a high-speed arms race in the RC world on YouTube these days. [Michael Rectin] is in on the action, and he’s been exploring how to 3D print a decent set of tires to help his RC car reach higher speeds mph. His first efforts involved experiments with TPU. The tires looked
Read MoreImage: Activision First-person shooters like Call of Duty are somewhat infamous for the toxicity of their lobbies and voice chats. Surveys have dubbed the franchise’s fan base the most negative in all of gaming; a feud between two players once resulted in the summoning of a SWAT team. Activision has been trying to crack down
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York’s OMNY subway pass system is supposed to make the lives of its riders easier, but as a 404 Media investigation highlights, it makes tracking your movement a little bit too easy — posing dangers for anyone at risk of stalking or harassment. If you tap
Read MoreLithium Americas Corp. is in the process of building a lithium mine in the remote Thacker Pass area of northern Nevada that has drawn impassioned protest from nearby tribes, ranchers, and environmentalists. | Image: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The company constructing a controversial new lithium mine to supply GM’s electric
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge New York’s OMNY subway pass system is supposed to make the lives of its riders easier, but as a 404 Media investigation highlights, it makes tracking your movement a little bit too easy — posing dangers for anyone at risk of stalking or harassment. If you tap
Read MoreA new Petey update adds iPad support, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: JBL announces the $330 Authentics 200, $700 Authentics 500, and portable $430 Authentics 300 speakers, the first smart speakers to have both Alexa and Assistant — Three new JBL smart speakers from Harman will be the first to offer simultaneous voice assistants, so you can ask Alexa to start
Read MoreCredit: Sonny Dickson New dummy units of the iPhone 15 series have popped up online. The images show the different color options that could come to the iPhone 15 and Pro models. There are a few rumored colors missing from the images. Another day, another iPhone 15 series leak. Not too surprising, given we’re only
Read MoreBlassy Boben / Reuters: India says 32+ international electronics firms, including HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, and Lenovo, applied to the country’s $2B incentive program under “Make in India” — At least 32 international electronics companies have applied to India’s incentive programme to make laptops …
Read More3D printed materials have come a long way in the last decade or so as printers have become more and more mainstream. Printers can use all kinds of different plastics with varying physical characteristics, and there are even printers now for other materials like concrete and metal. But even staying within the realm of the
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to address an “unintended behavior” causing malware-like notification pop-ups in Windows 11 for months that promote Bing search in Chrome — I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome …
Read MoreA Pixel 8 Pro, leaked by Google. | Image: Google We’ll meet Google’s newest Pixel devices in just over a month now that the company is sending out invitations for an in-person launch event on Wednesday, October 4th, at 10AM ET in New York City. The invites are going out just one day after Apple
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces a hardware event on October 4 at 10am ET in New York City, where the company is expected to unveil the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Watch 2 — Google this morning announced that it will be hosting its annual Pixel hardware event on Wednesday, October 4.
Read MoreA July picture of a car dealership in Chicago, Illinois. | Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images Americans are now paying an average of $12,182 to own and operate a brand-new vehicle, or $1,015 per month, according to AAA. That’s a big jump over 2022, when the average cost of owning a car was
Read MoreThe AirPods Max on one of Head Acoustics’ dummy head microphones. | Image: Head Acoustics Active noise cancellation, or ANC, has come a long way since Bose launched the first consumer noise-canceling headphones — the QC1 — back in the year 2000. With ANC now firmly mainstream and available in headphones, from the ultra-budget to
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