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The best Fitbits for your fitness and health

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Writer’s note: Amazon’s next two-day Prime-exclusive sales event, Prime Big Deal Days, is coming up on...
Writer’s note: Amazon’s next two-day Prime-exclusive sales event, Prime Big Deal Days, is coming up on October 8th. You can shop the best early Prime Day deals now, or circle back later to peruse a deep pool of deals on fitness-focused wearables and other fun tech.In 2024, you might wonder if Fitbit is still relevan...
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Tesla’s cheapest Model 3 is no longer available

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Tesla is no longer selling the sub-$40,000 rear-wheel drive Standard Range version of the Model 3...
Tesla is no longer selling the sub-$40,000 rear-wheel drive Standard Range version of the Model 3 that has been in the company’s lineup since 2023. The most affordable trim is now the Model 3 RWD Long Range that starts at $42,490. The change was first pointed out by Electrek and comes as Tesla announces a year-over-...
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The feds still can’t get into Eric Adams’ phone

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted last week on charges including fraud, bribery,...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted last week on charges including fraud, bribery, and soliciting donations from foreign nationals, told federal investigators he forgot his phone password before handing it over, according to charging documents. That was almost a year ago, and investigators still can’t g...
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How to follow live sports scores on your iPhone lockscreen

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When it introduced iOS 16, Apple added a feature called Live Activities as part of a...
When it introduced iOS 16, Apple added a feature called Live Activities as part of a broader update to notifications and the lockscreen. Live Activities is a little different from a standard push notification or widget — it offers a way for apps to put real-time information in a persistent notification bubble on you...
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The Garmin Lily 2 Active watch finally adds GPS and buttons

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Zelda’s new solo adventure on the Nintendo Switch is already on a small sale

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How Hurricane Helene became a monster storm

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The Southeastern United States is reeling from Hurricane Helene, a monstrous storm that made landfall in...
The Southeastern United States is reeling from Hurricane Helene, a monstrous storm that made landfall in Florida on Thursday before cutting a terrifying path all the way up to Tennessee. How did it get this bad? The storm has killed more than 100 people, and hundreds more are still missing. Power is out for millions...
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YouTube’s missing hits will come back now that it has a deal with SESAC

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YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs...
YouTube has reached a deal with the music licensing organization SESAC that will bring back songs that were removed over the weekend. Many hit songs from artists such as Adele, Nirvana, and others disappeared, which YouTube blamed on the lack of an agreement to renew its existing deal.In an email to The Verge, SESAC...
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The Echo Hub smart home controller is down to a new all-time low price

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Amazon offered some pretty good deals ahead of its Prime Big Deal Days sale last week...
Amazon offered some pretty good deals ahead of its Prime Big Deal Days sale last week and continues to do so, but admittedly, we’ve seen most of these discounted prices before. Today’s deal on the Echo Hub is the exception, though, as Amazon is now selling it at a new all-time low price of $124.99 ($55 off). That’s ...
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Leaked Google Pixel 9A renders reveal a visor-free look

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This smart front door can go from clear to opaque with a voice command

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Glass front doors are great for letting light in during the day but not so great...
Glass front doors are great for letting light in during the day but not so great when you want privacy at night. The Home Depot has a smart solution for this problem — a glass front door that can switch from clear to opaque on a schedule, with a voice command, or by pressing a button. The smart glass Feather River d...
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Cruise hit with $1.5 million fine for failing to report robotaxi crash involving pedestrian

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Cruise’s failure to disclose the fact that a pedestrian was seriously injured by one of its...
Cruise’s failure to disclose the fact that a pedestrian was seriously injured by one of its driverless vehicles in San Francisco last year has now resulted in a $1.5 million fine to the federal government. Last October, a Cruise vehicle hit a pedestrian and then dragged her 20 feet after she was initially struck by ...
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Hurricane Helene barreled through a crucial chip mining area in North Carolina

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Hurricane Helene brought historic rainfall and flooding to western North Carolina last week, leaving dozens dead...
Hurricane Helene brought historic rainfall and flooding to western North Carolina last week, leaving dozens dead and catastrophic damage stretching across the state’s mountain towns. The devastation also reached the small town of Spruce Pine, which is home to the purest quartz on Earth.Spruce Pine’s high-quality qua...
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California governor signs one driverless vehicle bill, vetoes two others

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Amid the hullabaloo around California Gavin Newsom vetoing a closely watched artificial intelligence bill, three other...
Amid the hullabaloo around California Gavin Newsom vetoing a closely watched artificial intelligence bill, three other bills that would regulate a different type of AI — autonomous vehicles — landed on his desk with less fanfare. The governor signed one and vetoed two others. For the second time in two years, Newsom...
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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting...
Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin. The policy applies to adjusting all community types, meaning moderators will hav...
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Amazon may tap Brian Williams to host an election night special

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Meta blocks links to the hacked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook

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Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing...
Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to PDFs of the dossie...
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Trailers of the week: Thunderbolts, Rumors, and Disclaimer

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This week, I’ve been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I’m about 20 hours into Paper...
This week, I’ve been slowly catching up on Dark Matter; I’m about 20 hours into Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch; and I’m still trying to work a trip to the movie theater into my schedule to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I’m behind, in other words! And this week’s trailers shoveled so much more onto ...
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Apple’s homework is due Monday no matter what, says judge

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Apple, the most valuable company in the world, will have to work this weekend to meet...
Apple, the most valuable company in the world, will have to work this weekend to meet a legal deadline on Monday. That’s after Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson on Friday denied the company’s request for more time to produce 1.3 million documents related to App Store changes it made in January to comply with a 2021 ...
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Samsung’s gorgeous Galaxy Book4 Edge has fallen to its lowest price to date

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The portability of a laptop is nice and all, but oftentimes, the tradeoff is a smaller...
The portability of a laptop is nice and all, but oftentimes, the tradeoff is a smaller screen that can feel cramped if you’ve got a lot of tabs open. Thankfully, there are laptops like Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge, which offers a 16-inch display in a thin and lightweight package. It typically starts at $1,499.99, but...
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Now that Balatro’s on mobile, here are some tips to get started

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Now that Balatro is out on mobile, I wanted to see what all the fuss was...
Now that Balatro is out on mobile, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. And while it’s a great game, its tutorial doesn’t do the best job of setting you up for the kind of success necessary to hook you. In my first few hours, though I was completing the objectives laid out, it felt like I was stumbling my wa...
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Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras

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All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras...
All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear.I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference...
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The messy WordPress drama, explained

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WordPress is essentially internet infrastructure. It’s widely used, generally stable, and doesn’t tend to generate many...
WordPress is essentially internet infrastructure. It’s widely used, generally stable, and doesn’t tend to generate many splashy headlines as a result.But over the last week, the WordPress community has swept up into a battle over the ethos of the platform. Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg came out with ...
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Arc Browser adds security bulletins and bug bounties

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