
If you want a great soundbar at a low price, these five options are sure to fit the bill.

Is your Google Maps Timeline location history missing? You’re not alone.

Thin margins make AI server sales a challenging business for the likes of Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.

Netflix has unveiled a new trailer to promote Joe's bloody final chapter in You season 5.

Dyson needs to fix this basic usability issue across its full range, not just the most expensive model.
https://www.techradar.com/home/vacuums/dyson-vacuums-have-one-big-problem-and-i-dont-understand-why

Nvidia has not officially confirmed the existence of the lower-end RTX 50-series cards, but based on previous graphics card launches, we expect an RTX 5050, 5060, and possibly a 5060 TI to follow.
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/gaming-laptops-pcs/nvidia-5050-5060-5060ti-specs-leak

Save big with today's best MacBook deals at several retailers



Microsoft's first full foray into PC gaming handhelds begins with a partner device set to launch later this year, with its own Xbox Series X|S successors now fully in production.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-hardware-report-project-keenan-next-gen-xbox-2027

A recent post from Microsoft features a gigantic Surface Laptop, but is it the largest Surface ever?

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In 2024, Microsoft’s gaming chief Phil Spencer said that he wanted handheld gaming PCs to feel more like an Xbox. But as the saying goes, if you want something done right, do it yourself. Thus, Microsoft is reportedly working on its own handheld Xbox PC console.
The console, code-named “Keenan,” is apparently so far along in development that it may debut in

Google plans to launch ChromeOS 134 in March 2025. The latest version of the operating system for Chromebooks will birng some new features, one of which will help extend the battery life of your Chromebook.

Blink twice to control the robot arm
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DeepComputing's newest product, a mini AI PC that can be put in the Framework Laptop 13, is now taking preorders.



TCL just unveiled a new TV in its Precise Dimming Series. The QM7K is a Mini LED TV and a follow-up to the recently-released QM6K. It uses the company’s Halo Control Technology Suite, which is kind of a catch-all name for a bunch of tweaks the company has

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The van makes its way slowly but surely through the city streets, braking gently when a car swerves into its lane. But its steering wheel is turning on its own, and there’s no one in the driver’s seat.
The driverless technology from Nissan Motor Corp., which u

When artificial intelligence-backed tractors became available to vineyards, Tom Gamble wanted to be an early adopter. He knew there would be a learning curve, but Gamble decided the technology was worth figuring out.
The third-generation farmer bought one autonomous tractor. He plans on deploying its self-driving feature this spring and is currently using the tractor’s AI sensor to map his Napa Valley vine

The videos from Smashing Magazine's recent event on accessibility were just posted the other day. I was invited to host the panel discussion with the speakers, including a couple of personal heroes of mine, Stéphanie Walter and Sarah Fossheim. But I was just as stoked to meet Kardo Ayoub who shared his deeply personal story as a designer with a major visual impairment.

A personal trainer recommends these recovery strategies to keep your body and mind in peak condition. https://www.cnet.com/health/fitness/the-ultimate-guide-to-post-workout-recovery-for-mind-and-body-according-to-a-personal-trainer/#ftag=CADf328eec

I've perfected the art of keeping my kitchen clean while cooking. Here's how I do it. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/want-a-clean-kitchen-after-cooking-follow-these-10-rules/#ftag=CADf328eec

Plus, a record-low price on one of the best mattresses to buy in 2025 and a handy robot vacuum for under $200. https://www.cnet.com/news/walmart-deals-of-the-day-airpods-4-march-10/#ftag=CADf328eec

Losing an hour of sleep is nothing trivial. Here's how to bounce back from the spring time change. https://www.cnet.com/health/sleep/feeling-tired-today-try-these-3-sleep-hacks-to-recover-from-daylight-savings-time/#ftag=CADf328eec

Most of the US will have a great chance to see the first lunar eclipse since 2022. https://www.cnet.com/science/space/blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-arrives-this-week-how-and-when-to-watch-it/#ftag=CADf328eec

Medefer may have had a security flaw for 6 years - but it denies any wrongdoing.

Edimax IC-7100 camera was found vulnerable to a command injection flaw currently being used in remote code execution attacks.

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/quordle-today-answers-clues-11-march-2025

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hints-11-march-2025

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-11-march-2025

Why cyber crisis management can be the difference between a well-managed response or disastrous incident.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/being-ready-when-the-cyber-crisis-happens

Researchers are saying a PHP-CGI bug is a global problem.

As humans we need our down time and deserve it, but that doesn’t mean your security can have some too.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-true-threat-of-business-downtime

The post-quantum feature has already been rolled out on desktop, with support for mobile apps coming soon. Here's why that's crucial for your security.

Manus is either agentic AI coming good or completely useless - depending on who you ask
https://www.techradar.com/pro/manus-ai-may-be-the-new-deepseek-but-initial-users-report-problems

X is down for the third time today –here's everything we know about the latest Twitter outage.
https://www.techradar.com/news/live/x-is-down-latest-news-on-twitters-third-outage

Synseer's health tracking earbuds claim they'll make your smartwatch obsolete, but the pricing structure has me looking in the opposite direction.

Save $300 on the 15-inch M3 MacBook Air at Amazon, it's the cheaper alternative to the new 15-inch M4 MacBook Air.

Age of Mythology: Retold's new Immortal Pillars expansion is well worth grabbing, as it expands an already-impressive remake with new powers and units.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/age-of-mythology-retold-immortal-pillars-review

Richard Socher, CEO and founder of You.com claims Google's reign in search might soon end as users adopt and embrace AI-powered alternatives.


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Microsoft recently announced important new features relating to Windows 11. As usual, these will be first introduced to Windows 11 Insiders, then eventually to everyone else. One important change is a new laptop battery indicator that visualizes the charge level with new symbols.
This change was actually supposed to be implemented last month, but the releas


Scammers might be criminal scum, but you can’t deny that they’re always trying to innovate. With automation and generative text now much easier, we seem to be experiencing a new flood of phishing attempts. The latest one is particularly effective for car owners: fake parking tickets.

The tiny designs, the affordable prices, the sheer power under the hood — these are all reasons to love mini PCs. And they’re even better when they’re on sale, like this Acemagician S3A mini PC that’s down to $299 on Amazon for Prime members. (Don’t have Prime? No worries

Finding high-quality music and sounds for your videos can be a challenge. It’s not only the need to scour the web for the right tones or melodies to fit the mood of your current masterpiece, there’s also the security of knowing there won’t be any problems with copyright claims afterwards. Now, in a new partnership that’s sure to delight content creators around the wo


Google Chromecast users are apparently struggling with serious connection problems, as reported by 9to5Google. Google announced last year that Chromecast devices would no longer be manufactured or supported, in favor of the

They say there’s a great laptop out there for every wallet, and I certainly think that’s true — especially if you can wait for deals like this one. Right now, B&H is selling Lenovo’s 15.6-inch LOQ gaming laptop for just $750. That’s a sizeable $370 discount off

AI is in everything! It’s in your phone, it’s in your car, it’s in your pico-projecting broach — wait, not that one. But now it’s also in your monitor, or at least Lenovo thinks it might be soon. The company stuck an NPU chip into a display to give it AI abilit

Google’s AI assistant Gemini has now started appearing as a dedicated sidebar in Google Calendar. The feature is still being tested in Workspace Labs and hasn’t yet been made available to all standard users.
The new Gemini sidebar button appears in the horizontal menu above the calendar itsel

According to CSIS, Huawei has millions of AI chips from SMIC despite yield problems.

Asus debuts air purifying IPS monitors.

Every new gadget you buy comes at a cost to your wallet, but there’s a hefty environmental price to pay as well. Every phone and laptop out there is a non-compostable mass of metal and plastic, and every new generation of them means more rare earth metals pulled out of the ground. Then there’s the human labor required to put them together, and the water and fuel used in manufacturing and shipping. It all adds up, but you can help bring that cost down a bit by recycling your old devices.
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We show the potential of modern, embedded graph databases in the browser by demonstrating a fully in-browser chatbot that can perform Graph RAG using Kuzu (the graph database we're building) and WebLLM, a popular in-browser inference engine for LLMs. The post retrieves from the graph via a Text-to-Cypher pipeline that translates a user question into a Cypher query, and the LLM uses the retrieved results to synthesize a response. As LLMs get better, and WebGPU and Wasm64 become more widely ad
I made an animation programming language that you can type into a textarea. I make little games with it. Now other people can customize the games I make with it.
I've been working on canvas language for 15 years now. Not very successful, but editable gifs turned out okay. Since it's my passion, I keep trying, and my latest is editable games - I'm not officially calling it that though.
I've had some interest in advergames and this would allow designers to easily customize games for their

Edge Impulse, a TNW community member that produces an AI platform for developers, has been acquired by American chip giant Qualcomm for an undisclosed sum. Qualcomm said it had bought Edge Impulse to boost its machine learning software capabilities, particula

By now everyone knows that scrolling social media isn’t exactly good for you. But did you know it might be making you sweat? Researchers from the psychology department at Durham University tracked the physiological responses of scrolling on social media and found a rather strange side effect.
The researchers asked 54 young adults to browse Instagram for 15 minutes while monitoring their heart ra

Researchers find AI writing tools like ChatGPT and Claude create specific patterns. These patterns can help you spot and edit AI content.
The post AI Writing Fingerprints: How To Spot (& Fix) AI-Generated Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Britští Power Roll vyrábějí tištěný solární film, který je levný a lze ho snadno umístit prakticky kdekoliv. Nový vylepšený design solárních článků dále snižuje výrobní náklady. Power Roll míří k průmyslové výrobě, na jejíž rozvoj sehnali financování ve výši 5,4 milionů dolarů. http://www.osel.cz/13948-power-roll-vyvijeji-levny-a-prakticky-solarni-film-ktery-generuje-elektrinu-kdekoliv.html

Apps created with Flutter 3.29 use the new Gradle Kotlin DSL on Android. Some CLI tools don't support the new syntax, yet. https://codewithandrea.com/tips/gradle-kotlin-dsl/

Roaming fees on your phone bill are the worst souvenirs. These tips show you how to use apps and data stress-free while abroad. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/traveling-internationally-heres-the-best-tips-to-avoid-roaming-phone-charges/#ftag=CADf328eec

I don't have to choose between a savings account and a CD. I can do both. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/my-2025-savings-secret-i-found-the-right-spot-for-my-short-term-goals/#ftag=CADf328eec

Stream the first two episodes of the Marvel series while you wait. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/daredevil-born-again-when-the-next-episode-releases-disney-plus/#ftag=CADf328eec

The designs are the most striking feature of the Nothing Phone 3A and 3A Pro, while the processor, display and battery life are identical on both models, making them solid all-around choices if you're looking for an upgrade. https://www.cnet.com/videos/nothing-phone-3a-and-3a-pro-review-flashy-designs-and-affordable-prices-make-them-a-fun-alternative/#ftag=CADf328eec

Preserve the longevity and safety of your contact lenses by avoiding these common mistakes, according to an optometrist. https://www.cnet.com/health/personal-care/optometrist-mistakes-avoid-with-contact-lenses/#ftag=CADf328eec

A year passed and not much has changed. But the basic iPad remains appealing for its price alone. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ipad-air-m3-review-once-again-the-pro-ipad-for-most/#ftag=CADf328eec

Aggressive data collection and sharing practices – beware of the hidden privacy price tag when using AI chatbot apps. Here's all you need to know.

Nvidia's efforts to resolve its recent Game Ready Driver issues is pleasing to see, but it's not enough to get rid of the underlying issues.

Garmin pushed out an update to its watches that looked like a beta, but actually isn't.

The Russo brothers explain why you won't see any real-world animatronic robots in The Electric State.

Cybersecurity workers are getting paid well, but they’re hitting a ceiling withing their companies too soon.

Some gamers are disappointed with the rumored spec of the RTX 5050, but even if it pans out like this, I wouldn’t dismiss the GPU so readily.

ESPC32 Bluetooth chip, which has been sold in the billions, allegedly allowed remote access and backdoor deployment.

OnePlus’ CEO has confirmed that the Alert Slider found on all OnePlus phones won’t be sticking around in future generations, replaced by an Apple-style customizable button

Forget your fancy OLED display tech, just make spatial computing accessible