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- August 2
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- I nearly melted my laptop so you don’t have to — after testing cooling pads for chilling your laptop during a heatwave, I’ve got serious data to drop on the coolest and quietest products you can buy
- Bazzite has been an excellent OS for my second gaming PC, but I can't replace Windows 11 with it on my main rig — here's why
- ‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming
- Xreal has made the most stylish budget smart glasses I’ve seen — and they give my RayNeo Air 4 Pros a real run for their money
- I spent 6 months with this pocket Android ereader — and it got me into books again, but didn’t break my smartphone addiction
- Hackers are going after our water now — over 30 Minnesota utilities hit in coordinated cyberattack by apparent Iranian attackers
- The hardest Bob's Burgers quiz of all time is here — but can you handle the grill heat and score more than 80%?
- UK tests robot boat that can fly its own wired drone even in 14ft waves and stay at sea for weeks
- 'You can literally fix anything if you watch enough YouTube': I met with tech repair experts and campaigners to learn how to fix my broken gadgets — and why it's so important
- Google pulling Nano Banana from Google Earth after one day shows how bad our AI misinformation problem has got
- As a human D&D Dungeon Master, AI will never replace me — but I wanted to see whether ChatGPT or Gemini were getting close
- Half of adults admit they would publish work created mainly by AI and not say so — despite believing other people should do just that
- I found the Apple Watch feature every busy pro needs — and I use it every workout
- Your daily coffee is over 90% water, and tap water could be ruining your best beans — experts explain how to choose the right filter to unlock the full flavor
- I’ve driven the new Cupra Raval and it’s proof that the hot hatch can live on in the EV era
- Startup swaps costly AI GPUs for Arm cores and up to 128TB of 'cheap' LPDDR6 RAM instead of expensive HBM to smash through the memory wall
- I conducted a blindfolded Bluetooth speaker test with 4 colleagues and no, JBL didn’t win — here’s which portable speaker got the most votes based on their ears only
- August 1
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- China outs Nvidia-powered AS2-W quad-wheel 'robot wolf', just weeks after its armed version surfaced in joint military drills in Mongolia
- 'They’re closer to architecture than landscaping': inside Walt Disney World’s eight-month process to build EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival topiaries
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #882)
- Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #1651)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #1148)
- $10 billion startup gets SK Hynix backing to build a transformer that does just one thing but exceedingly well
- Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: "That's real money... That kind of money wasn't even put in the railroad business" — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
- Back to the '90s: I turned my Frankenstein’s monster of a gaming PC into a retro beige beauty in honor of a time when computers used to be fun
- Ukraine will mass-produce Stone Cloak EW tech after the UK allows Kyiv to build a tablet-sized device
- I replaced Ford BlueCruise with an open-source driver-assistance system — after 1,000 miles, I'm not going back
- A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them
- The Ultimate Guide to Apple Arcade
- Expert warns this dangerous Microsoft Word worm can burrow into Copilot and cause havoc — here's what we know
- What kind of iPhone gamer are you? Find out in our quiz and get some hand-picked Apple Arcade recommendations
- I played all 279 Apple Arcade games — here are the eight best, from genius quick puzzlers to addictive life sims
- Blank spaces could hold danger - Kaspersky report warns of the dangers of 'parked domains' and empty pages where hackers could be lurking
- Apple Arcade is a joyful reminder of when mobile gaming was about fun, not emptying your wallet
- After three weeks wearing the Meta Ray-Ban Scriber Optics I couldn't be more in love — I just wish smart glasses weren’t so controversial
- 'A disk in a planet-scale computer': Meta has so many expensive GPUs that it's buying SSDs to kill idle time
- What is Apple Arcade? Everything you need to know about the gaming service included with your One subscription
- Bad updates, broken cables and blackouts - Cloudflare reveals some of the wildest reasons behind Internet downtime across the world
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day's post-credits scene might not mean what you think it does — here's my wild theory about the new Marvel movie's final shot
- Insta360's new device solves the biggest problem with first-person video — and it’s not a camera
- Top tech of the month: the best new gadgets we've tested for August 2026
- Is bulldozing homes, seizing land, harming the climate, and replacing workers really worth everyone having an AI agent?
- 'That's our next mission — proving that games are art': meet Story Kitchen, the bold, trail-blazing studio behind the popular Sonic movies that wants to turn your favorite game into the next movie or TV hit
- I asked ChatGPT and Siri AI to build me a workout plan — and there was only one winner
- There’s a micro mobility revolution underway in the USA, spurred on by a rise in popularity of golf carts — could this be a turning point for the country that pioneered gigantic SUVs?
- A love letter to Gillian Anderson: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is everything the girls have ever wanted — and we'll thank you for the new horror movie forever
- How to watch Tour de France Femmes 2026: FREE live streams, TV channels, schedule
- I logged 250 miles testing Android Auto vs Apple CarPlay and there's one I'm going to stick with
- I've started grading iPhone 17 Pro Max footage like cinema camera footage, and ProRes RAW is why
- How to watch Clasica San Sebastian 2026: FREE live streams, TV channels, start time
- New study reveals how AI is reshaping how people shop online — but they still don't really trust it enough
- How to watch Chelsea vs Tottenham for FREE: pre-season friendly live streams from anywhere
- What does a backyard Dolby Atmos home music studio look like when you’re a sound engineer for major artists? The shed of my dreams, that’s what
- Zelensky confirms Ukraine's drones will reach 6,000 miles in 2027 — enough to cover the entirety of Russia and able to reach as far as San Francisco from Kyiv
- I electrocuted my own vagus nerve every day for a week to find out if brain health wearables are worth the hype