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A couple months back, Troye Sivan released the poppers anthem “Rush” as the lead single to his new album Something To Give Each Other, and our lovely readers voted it onto your list of the 2023 Song Of The Summer. Since then, its gotten a remix featuring PinkPantheress and Stray Kids’ Hyunjin.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a member of America’s most famous political family, spent years as an environmental crusader before taking a sharp turn against vaccines, most notably the COVID-19 vaccine. Right now, Kennedy is running against Joe Biden as a fringe candidate in the Democratic primary. At a private fundraising event in Brentwood earlier this week, veteran rockers Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills helped Kennedy raise millions for his campaign.
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Wings Of Desire, the UK duo made up of James Taylor and Chloe Little, have been around for a couple years now, and they’re collecting all of the songs they’ve released so far into an anthology collection called Life Is Infinite, out in December. It’ll include the pair of singles they put out a few weeks back, and today they have shared another pair: “A Gun In Every Home” & “001 [Tame The War, Feed The Fire].”
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Enlarge / HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 - Photo taken on September 14, 2023 shows the Mate 60 Pro phone at the Hangzhou store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. (credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Huawei is emulating Apple in developing the processors that power its latest smartphone, a breakthrough that will help the Chinese company to reduce its reliance on foreign technology as it confronts US sanctions.
Analysis of the main chip inside the Mate 60 Pro smartphone, which launched at the end of last month and immediately sold out, reveals that Huawei has joined the elite group of Big Tech companies capable of designing their own semiconductors.
Four of the eight central processing units in the Mate 60 Pro’s “system on a chip” (SoC) rely purely on a design by Arm, the British company whose chip architecture powers 99 percent of smartphones.
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Google DeepMind researchers recently developed a technique to improve math ability in AI language models like ChatGPT by using other AI models to improve prompting—the written instructions that tell the AI model what to do. It found that using human-style encouragement improved math skills dramatically, in line with earlier results.
In a paper called "Large Language Models as Optimizers" listed this month on arXiv, DeepMind scientists introduced Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a method to improve the performance of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s PaLM 2. This new approach sidesteps the limitations of traditional math-based optimizers by using natural language to guide LLMs in problem-solving. "Natural language" is a fancy way of saying everyday human speech.
"Instead of formally defining the optimization problem and deriving the update step with a programmed solver," the researchers write, "we describe the optimization problem in natural language, then instruct the LLM to iteratively generate new solutions based on the problem description and the previously found solutions."
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Enlarge / David Limp at Amazon's hardware event in Seattle, Washington, on September 27, 2017. (credit: Daniel Berman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
As Amazon prepares for its annual hardware event tomorrow, Reuters is reporting feelings of trepidation and weakened morale among the company's flailing hardware team. The beleaguered department is said to be worried about the potential of upcoming products, while being pressured by a push for cheaper hardware and the impending departure of long-time department head David Limp.
Reuters' report today cited "more than 15 current and former employees" of Amazon's Lab126 for developing hardware. The publication said it was able to uncover five devices Amazon was developing:
- Carbon monoxide detector with Alexa
- Household energy consumption monitor with Alexa
- Digital measuring device with Alexa
- Virus-testing device that was originally "intended to detect COVID," Reuters said
- Home projector
Some of Reuters' sources pointed to additional projects, but the publication couldn't verify full details. Amazon says it doesn't comment on products in development.
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On Tuesday, Google announced updates to its Google Bard AI assistant—its version of ChatGPT—including integration with Google apps (such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights) and a feature to double-check Bard's answers against web content. It also added language support for over 40 languages.
Notably, Bard's new "double-check button" has been designed to provide a counter against confabulations where Bard produces inaccurate information or makes things up (a concept often called "hallucinations" in the AI field). It's a public admission that Bard often lacks accuracy and isn't a dependable factual reference. Here's how Google describes it:
Starting today with responses in English, you can use Bard’s “Google it” button to more easily double-check its answers. When you click on the “G” icon, Bard will read the response and evaluate whether there is content across the web to substantiate it. When a statement can be evaluated, you can click the highlighted phrases and learn more about supporting or contradicting information found by Search.
To use the double-check feature, users can click a small "G" logo below Bard's results. Bard will search the web and highlight sentences in its output that match affirmatively with a green highlight. Bard statements that contradict Google Search results get a peach-colored highlight. From our experiments, the double-check button reinforced some statements but did not always catch logical flaws in its output.
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Google Slides, Google's PowerPoint competitor, is getting a fun new collaborative feature: live mouse pointers. When multiple people are editing a presentation, they'll be able to see everyone else's mouse cursor, as if they've suddenly booted up a remote desktop instance.
Google Docs and Sheets have long had multiple typing indicators for each person, representing what sentence or cell they're working on. That sort of thing doesn't work well for presentations, though, which often involve images and rearranging things on a free-form layout. Slides will now offer live remote mouse pointers from other people participating in an edit, which will smoothly move around the screen just like a real mouse. This doesn't seem particularly useful without some other form of communication, but if you're on a voice or video call, the live cursor could let you easily point to things while you explain them.
Google Slides with multiple multicolored mouse pointers. (credit: Google)
Unlike Docs and Sheets collaborative indicators, each person must individually opt-in to sharing their pointer location. There's now a pointer button in the top-right corner that will turn on sharing, or it can be turned on via the menu at "View > Live pointers > show my pointer." If the idea of brightly colored mouse pointers dancing across the screen sounds too distracting, the option to hide other people's mouse cursors altogether can be found at "View > Live pointers > show collaborator pointers."
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Enlarge / A leaked internal slide deck shows an unusually detailed preview of the Xbox Series X's proposed mid-generation refresh. (credit: Microsoft)
The US Federal Trade Commission's case against Microsoft didn't ultimately block the company's proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, but leaked documents from the case are giving us an unusually detailed look at Microsoft's near-future plans for the Xbox. Court documents published by the Verge include a slide deck, complete with renders, that detail a mid-generation refresh of both Xbox Series consoles, plus a revamped controller with an updated design and new features.
The biggest changes are coming to the Xbox Series X. Codenamed "Brooklin," the updated console looks like a marriage of the original boxy monolith that is the Series X and the cylindrical design of Apple's old "trash can" Mac Pro. The console would be all-digital, ditching its optical drive but stepping up from 1TB to 2TB of internal storage. The port on the front changes from USB-A to USB-C, and the console would include Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 upgrades.
On the inside, the console's CPU and GPU would use a 6 nm manufacturing process instead of the current 7 nm process. Because the specs are changing, this means power consumption will go down, and the deck indicates that the console's power supply will be 15 percent smaller than the current Series X (that measures out to around 270 W, based on the 315 W capacity of the current power supply). An "all-new southbridge" will "modernize IO," and a "new low-power standby mode" would use just 20 percent as much power as the current console's standby mode.
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Cindy Blackman Santana provides the signature drum fill in this updated take on Phil Collins' moody 1981 hit
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Natalie Merring wanders through a haunted castle, stumbles across skeletons, and confronts a spiritual foe in the new clip
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Enlarge / Layers in MS Paint! Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria! (credit: Microsoft)
The venerable, equally derided and beloved MS Paint app has been on a roll lately, picking up a major redesign, dark-mode support, better zoom controls, and other fit-and-finish updates all within the last couple of years. But today Microsoft announced that it is finally adding two features that could make the app a bit more useful for power users: support for Photoshop-esque image layers and the ability to open and save transparent PNGs.
If you've never worked in an image editor other than Paint, layers give you the opportunity to decide which elements in an image appear above and below other elements. Say you're working on an image with a blue sky background, an airplane on top of it, and a cloud on top of the sky and the airplane. In an image program without support for layers, adding new elements to an image like this is always destructive—you lose the ability to see and edit the part of the sky that is covered by the plane and the cloud, and the part of the plane that is covered by the cloud. Layers also make it easier to reposition elements in an image, since all the elements you used to make the image are still fully intact.
Support for creating, editing, and saving transparent PNG images goes hand in hand with support for layers, since it's useful to be able to pull a single object out of an existing image so you can put it in a new one. Transparent PNG support goes well with the automated background removal button that Microsoft added to Paint builds earlier this month.
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Enlarge / The 2022 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M2 chip. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Now that Amazon has announced that its second big Prime Day shopping event of the year, called Prime Big Day, will take place next month on October 10 and 11, we're seeing deals start to trickle out.
Amazon has some early Prime Big Day deals listed for the event, and to take advantage of these savings and more during the main days, you'll need a Prime membership. In addition to Amazon, we also found some great savings at competing retailers. So whether you need a new laptop or a new fitness tracker, or you're getting ready for the iPhone 15 to be delivered with a case or screen protector, there are plenty of discounts on tech gear in this early Prime Big Day edition of Dealmaster.
Lenovo laptops
The 14-inch and 13-inch models will have FHD displays with touch and non-touch options, as well as FreeSync technology. (credit: Valentina Palladino)
- Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook Laptop (15-inch, Intel Pentium Silver N6000) for $329 (was $479) at Best Buy
- Lenovo 300e Gen 2 (11-inch, Intel Celeron N4120) for $229 (was $599) at Lenovo
- Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5i (16-inch, Intel Core i5-13500H and RTX 3050) for $950 (was $1,500) at Lenovo
- Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 8 (16-inch, Intel Core i9-13900HX and RTX 4070) for $1,950 (was $2,300) at Lenovo
- Lenovo Yoga 7i (15-inch, Intel Core i7-1165G7) for $700 (was $1,395) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 Intel (14-inch, Intel Core i7-1270P) for $1,624 (was $3,609) at Lenovo
- Lenovo Legion Slim 7 Gen 8 (16-inch, AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS and RTX 4060) for $1,400 (was $1,680) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad T16 (16-inch, Intel Core i5-1240P) for $1,188 (was $2,829) at Lenovo
- Lenovo Yoga 6 (13-inch, AMD Ryzen 5 7530U) for $645 (was $860) at Lenovo
- Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Gen 8 (16-inch, Intel Core i5-13500HX and RTX 4050) for $1,100 (was $1,480) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 (14-inch, Intel Core i5-1250P) for $1,219 (was $3,049) at Lenovo
- Legion Slim 5i Gen 8 (16-inch, Intel Core i5-13500H and RTX 4050) for $1,050 (was $1,350) at Lenovo
- Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i Chromebook (14-inch, Intel Core i3-N305) for $415 (was $550) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 8 (14-inch, Intel Core i5-1345U) for $1,449 (was $2,959) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 (16-inch, Intel Core i5-1335U) for $869 (was $1,449) at Lenovo
- Lenovo Legion Slim 5 Gen 8 (16-inch, AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS and RTX 4050) for $1,020 (was $1,300) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 (16-inch, Intel Core i7-1355U) for $1,145 (was $1,909) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 4 (14-inch, Intel Core i5-1335U) for $1,200 (was $2,399) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1 (16-inch, AMD Ryzen 7 7730U) for $1,031 (was $1,719) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 (14-inch, Intel Core i5-1335U) for $845 (was $1,409) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 3 (13-inch, Intel Core i5-1235U) for $1,005 (was $2,009) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen 3 (13-inch, Intel Core i5-1245U) for $1,035 (was $2,069) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen 3 (13-inch, AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U) for $1,160 (was $2,319) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 3 (13-inch, Intel Core i7-1255U) for $1,175 (was $2,349) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 3 (13-inch, Intel Core i7-1265U) for $1,485 (was $2,969) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Gen 3 (13-inch, AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U) for $1,130 (was $2,259) at Lenovo
- Lenovo ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 3 (13-inch, Intel Core i5-1245U) for $1,100 (was $2,199) at Lenovo
Apple MacBook, iPad, and AirPods
Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
- Apple MacBook Air 13.3-inch Laptop M1 for $849 (was $999) at Amazon
- Apple MacBook Air 15.3-inch Laptop with M2 for $1,099 (was $1,299) at Amazon
- Apple MacBook Pro 16.2-inch Laptop M2 Pro for $2,299 (was $2,499) at Amazon
- Apple iPad Air (5th Generation) for $559 (was $599) at Amazon
- Apple iPad (9th Generation) for $270 (was $329) at Amazon
- Apple iPad Mini (6th Generation) for $469 (was $499) at Amazon
- Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th Generation) for $999 (was $1,099) at Amazon
- Apple AirTag 4 Pack for $89 (was $99) at Amazon
- Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation, Lightning) Wireless Earbuds for $199 (was $249) at Amazon
- Apple AirPods Max Wireless Over-Ear Headphones for $479 (was $549) at Amazon
Home, office, and personal care
- Emergency Survival Kit and First Aid Kit for $25 after coupon (was $50) at Amazon
- Tempur-Lumbar Support Office Chair for $299 with CHAIR15 code (was $352) at Tempurpedic
- Rubbermaid 28-piece Food Storage Containers with Snap Bases for $37 (was $50) at Amazon
- Beurer Bluetooth Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor for $39 (was $60) at Best Buy
- Beurer Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor for $25 (was $35) at Best Buy
- Beurer Abdominal Muscle EMS Belt for $46 (was $60) at Best Buy
- Beurer Pulse Oximeter for $31 (was $40) at Best Buy
- Beurer Bluetooth Body Fat Scale for Full Body Analysis for $44 (was $50) at Best Buy
- SodaStream Art Sparkling Water Maker Bundle (Black) for $110 with Prime Big Day reservation (was $200) at Amazon
- BOTTLE BOTTLE 40oz Insulated Water Bottle with Straw Sport for $25 (was $30) at Amazon
- TP-Link Deco Powerline Mesh WiFi 6 System (Deco PX50) 3 pack for $270 (was $300) at Amazon
- TP-Link Deco AX3000 WiFi 6 Mesh System (Deco X55) 3 pack for $200 (was $230) at Amazon
- Tempur-Adapt topper starting at $191 with TOPPERS40 code (was $319) at Tempurpedic
- Theragun PRO 4th Generation for $499 (was $599) at Therabody
- Therabody mini (1st Gen) for $180 (was $200) at Best Buy
- Therabody RecoveryAir JetBoots Medium for $799 (was $899) at Best Buy
Garmin wearables
Garmin's Venu Sq is packed with sensors like GPS and blood oxygen monitoring. It can also guide you through workouts from a free library. (credit: Corey Gaskin)
- Garmin Instinct Crossover Solar, Tactical Edition 45 mm for $479 (was $900) at Best Buy
- Garmin Venu Sq GPS Smartwatch 33 mm for $118 (was $150) at Best Buy
- Garmin Venu Sq Music Edition GPS Smartwatch 33 mm for $213 (was $250) at Best Buy
- Garmin Swim 2 Smartwatch 42 mm for $245 (was $250) at Best Buy
Electric scooters
- GoTrax G6 Commute Electric Scooter with 48 mile max operating range & 20 max speed for $600 (was $800) at Best Buy
- GoTrax Xr PRO Commuting Electric Scooter with 19 mile max operating range & 15.5 max speed for $350 (was $500) at Best Buy
- GoTrax Z4 Pro Foldable Ebike for $1,000 (was $1,100) at Best Buy
Headphones
- Jabra Elite 7 Active True Wireless for $80 with Prime Big Day reservation (was $180) at Amazon
- Bose Headphones 700 Wireless Noise Cancelling Over-the-Ear Headphones for $329 (was $379) at Best Buy
AirTag, iPhone, and laptop chargers, cables, and accessories
- Apple MagSafe Charger for $33 (was $39) at Amazon
- Belkin BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Pad with Official MagSafe Charging 15 W for $127 (was $150) at Belkin
- Belkin BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Stand with Official MagSafe Charging 15 W for $128 after APPLE2023 code (was $150) at Belkin
- Belkin BoostCharge Pro 2-in-1 Wireless Charger Stand with Official MagSafe Charging 15 W for $85 after APPLE2023 code (was $100) at Belkin
- MOZOTER Magnetic Case for iPhone 15 [Compatible with Magsafe] [2*Glass Screen Protectors] for $11 after coupon (was $20) at Amazon
- ESR for iPhone 15 Plus Case, Compatible with MagSafe for $18 after coupon (was $25) at Amazon
- TOCOL 3 in 1 Magnetic case for iPhone 15 Pro, Upgraded [Full Camera Protection] with 2 Screen Protectors for $17 after coupon (was $29) at Amazon
- Temdan Magnetic case for iPhone 15 Pro Max, [Compatible with Magsafe][2 Pcs Glass Screen Protector+Camera Lens Protector] for $14 after coupon (was $24) at Amazon
- Spigen Ultra Hybrid MagFit Designed for iPhone 15 Pro Max Case for $20 after coupon (was $21) at Amazon
- Spigen Ultra Hybrid MagFit Designed for iPhone 15 Pro Case for $19 after coupon (was $20) at Amazon
- Spigen Ultra Hybrid Designed for iPhone 15 for $14 (was $15) at Amazon
- Spigen Tempered Glass Screen Protector [GlasTR EZ FIT] designed for iPhone 15 Pro Max for $16 after coupon (was $17) at Amazon
- Spigen Tempered Glass Screen Protector [GlasTR EZ FIT] designed for iPhone 15 Pro for $17 (was $18) at Amazon
- Spigen Tempered Glass Screen Protector [GlasTR EZ FIT] Designed for iPhone 15 for $16 after coupon (was $18) at Amazon
- Spigen Tempered Glass Screen Protector [GlasTR EZ FIT] designed for iPhone 15 Plus for $17 (was $18) at Amazon
- ESR Armorite Screen Protector for Apple Watch Ultra 2/1 Tempered Glass Protector with Stainless-Steel Frame for $16 after coupon (was $18) at Amazon
- Spigen Tempered Glass Screen Protector [GlasTR EZ FIT] designed for Apple Watch Ultra 2 (49 mm) for $16 (was $25) at Amazon
- Pebblebee Clip 4-pack for $100 (was $120) at Pebblebee
- Pebblebee Card & Clip Multi-pack for $100 (was $120) at Pebblebee
- Apple AirTag 4 Pack for $89 (was $99) at Amazon
- 2 Pack Waterproof Air Tag Keychain Case for $7 (was $11) at Amazon
- AirTag Keychain Silicone 4-pack for $9 (was $19) at Amazon
- Belkin Apple AirTag Secure Holder with Key Ring for $12 (was $13) at Amazon
- Case-Mate AirTag Holder 4 Pack for $33 (was $40) at Amazon
- Pelican Rugged AirTag Luggage Tag for $32 (was $40) at Amazon
- GRIIID AirTag Wallet for $35 (was $40) at Amazon
- Waterproof AirTag Holder 4 Pack for $14 after coupon (was $17) at Amazon
- 5 Pack Airtag Holder AirTag Silicone Case with Keychain $5 after coupon (was $7) at Amazon
- Card Case for AirTag Tag Card 2 Pack for $10 (was $20) at Amazon
- TagVault AirTag Surface Adhesive Mount for $10 after coupon (was $13) at Amazon
- Woyinger AirTag Keychain for Apple Airtags Holder for $4 (was $5) at Amazon
- 4 Pack Silicone Case for AirTags with Keychain for $12 (was $13) at Amazon
- AirTag Passport Holder Cover Wallet Travel Essentials for $16 (was $17) at Amazon
- 5 Pack AirTag Bracelet Holder for Kids for $9 (was $12) at Amazon
- Anker 622 Magnetic Battery for $38 (was $70) at Amazon
- Anker 6-foot USB-C to Lightning Cable for $12 (was $22) at Amazon
- Anker Nano II 30W Fast GaN II Compact Charger for $19 (was $34) at Amazon
- Anker Portable Charger, 511 Power Bank (PowerCore Fusion 5K) for $20 (was $40) at Amazon
- Anker USB C Cable (240 W,6 ft,2 pack), Bio-Braided USB C Charger Cable for $18 (was $25) at Amazon
- Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe for $120 (was $150) at Amazon
- Anker Power Strip with USB C, 30 W for $22 (was $40) at Amazon
- UGREEN 100 W USB C Charger, Nexode 4-Port GaN Foldable Compact Wall Charger for $48 (was $75) at Amazon
- UGREEN 200 W USB C Charger, Nexode 6 Ports GaN Desktop Charging Station for $140 (was $200) at Amazon
- UGREEN 145 W Power Bank 25000 mAh Portable Charger USB C 3-Port PD3.0 Battery Pack Digital Display for $93 (was $150) at Amazon
- INIU braided USB-C to USB-C Cable, 100 W [2-Pack 6.6ft] PD 5A Fast Charging Cable for $13 (was $16) at Amazon
- 100 PCS Reusable Cable Ties for $7 (was $14) at Amazon
- OHill 16 Pack Black Adhesive Cord Holders for $9 (was $12) at Amazon
Games and consoles
The only way we can ensure Sony doesn't capture that planet is if we buy it ourselves! (credit: Bethesda)
- Starfield Standard Edition Xbox Series X|S, Windows [Digital Code] for $64 after LDZCW595 promo code (was $70) at Newegg
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - Cross-Gen Bundle Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One [Digital Code] for $32 with LDZCW598 promo code (was $70) at Newegg
- Xbox Series S – 1TB and Starfield Standard Edition Xbox Series X|S Windows [Digital Code] for $412 (was $420) at Newegg
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (International Version) for $58 (was $70) at Amazon
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for $47 (was $60) at Amazon
- Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening for $50 (was $60) at Amazon
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for $48 (was $60) at Amazon
- Luigi's Mansion 3 for $49 (was $60) at Amazon
- Nintendo Switch Sports for $44 (was $50) at Amazon
- Mario Party Superstars for $48 (was $60) at Amazon
- Sonic Frontiers for $32 (was $60) at Amazon
- Super Mario Odyssey for $53 (was $60) at Amazon
Coffee gear
- Bodum Bistro Coffee Mug, 10-Ounce (2-Pack) for $33 (was $39) at Amazon
- Bodum Pavina Glass, Double-Wall Insulate Glass, Clear, 12 Ounces Each, 2 Count for $19 (was $28) at Amazon
- Bodum 11870-01US Bistro Electric Milk Frother for $27 (was $39) at Amazon
- Nespresso Vertuo Coffee and Espresso Maker for $113 (was $209) at Amazon
- Boly Electric Burr Coffee Grinder for $31 (was $45) at Amazon
- MIFEEL Manual Coffee Grinder for $48 (was $80) at Amazon
- JavaPresse Manual Coffee Grinder for $35 (was $47) at Amazon
- Bodum 1928-16US4 Chambord French Press Coffee Maker for $29 (was $55) at Amazon
- BAYKA French Press Coffee Tea Maker 34 oz for $22 (was $30) at Amazon
- Bodum - 1548-01US Bodum Brazil French Press Coffee and Tea Maker, 34 Ounce for $20 (was $28) at Amazon
- Secura French Press Coffee Maker, 304 Grade Stainless Steel Insulated Coffee Press with 2 Extra Screens, 34 oz for $28 (was $40) at Amazon
- Offacy Gooseneck Kettle with Temperature Control for $50 after coupon (was $70) at Amazon
- Mueller Electric Gooseneck Kettle for $40 after coupon (was $60) at Amazon
- Greater Goods Electric Gooseneck Kettle - 1200 Watt Precision Coffee Kettle for $60 (was $80) at Amazon
DeWalt and Greenworks tools
DeWalt drill kit with carrying bag. (credit: DEWALT)
- DeWalt 20V MAX XR Multi-Tool Kit for $149 (was $269) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V MAX Cordless Impact Wrench with Brushless Motor for $269 (was $349) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V MAX XR Drill/Driver for $123 (was $169) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V MAX XR Hammer Drill Kit for $249 (was $399) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V Max Cordless Drill / Driver Kit for $99 (was $179) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V MAX Cordless Drill and Impact Driver for $159 (was $239) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V MAX XR Impact Driver, Brushless for $95 (was $149) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V MAX Cordless Impact Wrench for $188 (was $279) at Amazon
- DeWalt 20V MAX Cordless Drill Combo Kit for $175 (was $271) at Amazon
- DeWalt Atomic 20V MAX* Cordless Drill, 1/2-Inch, Tool Only for $69 (was $110) at Amazon
- DeWalt Xtreme 12V MAX* Impact Driver Kit, 1/4-Inch for $97 (was $159) at Amazon
- Greenworks 10-inch 80 Volt Cultivator/Tiller for $340 (was $400) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 80 Volt Pro Rapid Battery Charger for $61 (was $100) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 48-Volt 14-Inch Cordless Brushless Chainsaw for $223 (was $260) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 24-Volt 22-Inch Cordless Hedge Trimmer for $130 (was $150) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 80 Volt 12-Inch Single Stage Cordless Brushless Snow Shovel for $304 (was $350) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 24-Volt 22-Inch Cordless Hedge Trimmer for $70 (was $80) at Best Buy
- Greenworks Pro Electric Pressure Washer up to 3000 PSI at 2.0 GPM for $378 (was $430) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 80 Volt 2Ah Battery for $132 (was $150) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 24 Volt 2000 Lumen LED Work Light AC/DC for $62 (was $70) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 24-Volt 110 MPH 450 CFM Cordless Handheld Blower for $80 (was $90) at Best Buy
- Greenworks TORQDRIVE 24-Volt 12-Inch Cutting Diameter Straight Shaft Grass Trimmer and Edger for $120 (was $130) at Best Buy
- Greenworks 24-Volt 110 MPH 450 CFM Cordless Handheld Blower for $140 (was $150) at Best Buy
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Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner inspired a firestorm of criticism Friday when, in an interview promoting The Masters — his new book of interviews with seven white male rockstars — he said he did not include any women or Black artists in the book because “none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.” The comments led to Wenner’s removal from the board of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, which he co-founded. Now Rolling Stone, which saw Wenner step back from daily operations in 2019, has issued a statement on the matter.
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The group will embark on a run of U.S. shows this November
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The new tvOS home screen in tvOS 17 puts six icons in a row instead of five. It was the most I had noticed about a tvOS update in years. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ]
Consider this a mini-review: Apple is releasing tvOS 17 today, and the update is probably the most useful one that Apple has released since the very early days of tvOS in 2015.
Apple TV 4K
(Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.)Why? Not because of some stunningly innovative new feature or a great app that tames the tangle of competing streaming services. It's because Apple added an extra column of app icons. There are now six icons in a row instead of five. Revolutionary.
That probably comes across as more sarcastic or cutting than poor tvOS deserves. It is genuinely nice to have that extra column of icons, particularly in the top row where apps can use the carousel that consumes the top half of the Apple TV's home screen.
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Toledo emos Equipment impressed us greatly with the first couple singles from their upcoming album Alt.Account. The next one is out today, and it might be the best of the bunch so far. “Minnow” manages to make rapid-fire twinkly guitar action feel like one more pop hook in a song full of them, and Nick Zander pushes his smooth and melodious vocal into fiery shout-along mode at just the right time. It comes with a video that features Zander in split screen re-creating footage he published to YouTube as a kid.
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Google Domains has registered its last domain. Google announced in July that the service was getting shut down and that it had struck a deal with Squarespace to sell off the existing customer base. Part of that transition process means winding down the existing Google Domains functionality. 9to5Google was the first site to notice that you can no longer buy a domain through the service while it waits for the Google Grim Reaper to arrive.
Google Domain's homepage has a notice explaining that this all apparently went down a few days ago, saying, "On September 7, 2023 Squarespace acquired all domain registrations and related customer accounts from Google Domains. Customers and domains will be transitioned over the next few months." You can still manage existing domains on Google Domains, but that's it.
The Google Domains registration shutdown notice. (credit: Google)
Google Domains has been around since 2015 and spent seven of those years in "beta." The product exited beta status in 2022, only to be killed about a year later. For a while, it was a great service, with a clean, easy-to-use interface that stood in contrast to many domain registrars, especially in the early days.
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Bands return to the Jersey Shore for photographer Danny Clinch's festival
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Chris Oropeza, guitarist for the Bay Area hardcore band Outta Pocket, has died. Oropeza’s bandmates reported his passing on Instagram this morning, and as Brooklyn Vegan points out, the band’s drummer drummer Dylan Gillespie has written a heartfelt tribute. No cause of death has been reported. Oropeza was 25.
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"I was heartbroken but, at the same time, it was really exciting to see my fans listening to the tracks and loving them," Petras says
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Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro. (credit: Apple)
Improving a device's modularity and repairability isn't just a hobby horse for right-to-repair activists—it can also significantly lower costs when something breaks. Case in point: the iPhone 15 Pro, which is said to pick up some of the same internal changes that Apple made to last year's non-Pro iPhone 14 to make repairs easier.
Replacing the back glass in older iPhone X-style designs previously involved going in through the front of the phone, a tricky and involved process that made it expensive to pay for and extremely difficult to do by yourself. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 Pro change this, making it as easy to remove the back of the phone as it is to remove the screen and giving easier access to the battery and other components to boot.
To find the upshot, compare repair estimates on Apple's iPhone Repair & Service page (via MacRumors). Fixing damaged rear glass on an iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max costs you $499 or $549, respectively, if you didn't buy AppleCare+ protection for your phone. That's half of what those models cost to buy brand new. For an iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, that charge falls dramatically, down to $169 or $199.
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Brian Fennell, who performs under the name SYML, has a clear sense of gratitude when he recalls growing up in Seattle with access to the nature, culture, and music that helped shape him as an artist. In a new episode of Visit Seattle’s Music Genesis series, Fennell discusses his now Platinum-certified single “Where’s My Love” […]
MIKE, Wiki, & The Alchemist – “Mayors A Cop”
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Last year, the New York underground rap fixtures Wiki and MIKE teamed up with the Alchemist, the extremely busy producer, to release a short collaborative EP called One More. Since then, all of those guys have released their own music. On the original NFT version of Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist’s new album Voir Dire, MIKE was the only guest. (The streaming version, coming out next month, also has Vince Staples.) Now, Wiki, MIKE, and the Alchemist are back together on a full collaborative album that’s set to come out in just two days. Today, they’ve dropped the first single.
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