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Creating a DIY home theater is easier than you think. You can now do it for a fraction of the cost with Amazon's Big Spring Sale.
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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for March 28.
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This water bottle is the real deal, and you can save some money on it during Amazon's Big Spring Sale.
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This year's Amazon Spring Sale is in full swing, and as promised, a ton of household, fashion and outdoor gear has dropped to record-low prices. Tech isn't a huge focus for this sale, but there are a decent number of devices on sale right now for some of the best prices we've seen all year. The selection may not be as good as that of Amazon Prime Day in July, but it still provides a good opportunity to save on things like headphones, robot vacuums, air purifiers and more.
We've collected the best Amazon Spring Sale deals on tech gear here so you don't have to go searching for them. The Spring Sale runs through March 31, so check back here for all of the latest deals as they drop.
Best Amazon Spring Sale deals
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I use Apple AirTags to track pretty much everything I own. Right now, you can get a four-pack for nearly 30% off.
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Make the cutest breakfast at some of the tiniest prices so far this year, thanks to Amazon Big Spring Sale deals on Peeps x Dash kitchen accessories.
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 In the mid-to-late 2000s, Facebook was all about staying connected with friends and family. However, as the social media platform added new features and grew over time, that core experience began to get drowned out.
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Get ready for an exciting week at the Epic Games Store, because the free games section has just been updated. Here's what you can look forward to and how to grab your free games.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that there will be temporary rate limits while the company works on improving efficiency.
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Whether you're after budget-friendly plans, lightning-fast speeds or a perfect balance of both, Wisconsin has plenty of internet options. CNET's experts break down the best choices to match your needs.
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Protect your iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro with these affordable, stylish and strong phone cases.
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As the world turns, so do the console generations. The Nintendo Switch 2 will arrive in 2025, over eight years after its predecessor. Nintendo officially revealed the successor to its best-selling home console in a brief trailer on January 16.
The Switch 2 looks functionally very similar to the original system, albeit with a larger display, magnetic Joy-Cons and a sleeker design. The company also reaffirmed that the upcoming console will be backwards compatible with Switch games.
While the reveal did confirm some rumors and have a few interesting details for those who were paying close attention, Nintendo is still largely keeping its cards close to its chest. We'll have to wait until a special Nintendo Direct at 9AM ET on April 2 for all the juicy information. Before that, we'll just have to gaze at the sleeves on the Seattle Mariners' jerseys this year — Nintendo and the MLB team announced they'll have a Nintendo logo on the sleeve of the home jersey and a Switch 2 logo on the away jersey. If you can't trust a sports partnership to forecast a new console arriving soon, what can you trust?
The Nintendo Switch 2 was announced on January 16
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"In a world where any of us can be removed for any reason at any time, it doesn't matter what commissioners think," FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya told Gizmodo.
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Is it still Girl Scout cookie time? That's a hint to the answer for Connections for March 28, #656.
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Rhythm Heaven and Tomodachi Life are coming back.
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Open AI's latest update to ChatGPT ignores any prior restraint and jumps headfirst into aping the actual talents of Studio Ghibli.
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I travel a lot, and the Insta360 Go 3S is my favorite 4K camera to bring with me. It just received a big discount for Amazon's Spring Sale.
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It's bullshit.
"Bringing the Magic of Friends Back to Facebook" is how Facebook calls it, in a saccharine "Live Laugh Love" motif that people who are not all right plaster their kitchen with in an effort to try and convince the world and themselves that everything's OK.
"Bringing the Magic of Friends Back to Facebook" is a way to bring back the "OG" Facebook experiences, Facebook says. "OG" stands for "Original Gangster," which seems particularly telling given that Facebook acted too late to prevent disinformation from swaying the 2020 election and how Facebook's algorithm already divides the country into liberal and conservative bubbles.
If you don't believe that Facebook is already a hive of algorithmically, AI-generated content designed to rile you up, misinform you, and ultimately cause you and whoever you interact with to disintegrate into a seething hate cauldron of steaming id, I don't know what to tell you.
Sure, now is the time to get rid of all the programmatically generated content, and just see content from your friends. Hurray! Now that the cow's out of the barn, we can clean up all the manure and go back to the way things were.
The obvious, clear answer would be to hire more content moderat
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The scale of the damage depends on the circumstances of each company's supply chain.
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The White House wants to end the federal education agency, but you should still fill out FAFSA now if you want financial aid for next year.
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Actor Olivier Richters, aka The Dutch Giant, gives me the lowdown on the show's high-adrenaline fight scene. Making the scene happen wasn't exactly a walk in the park.
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Anker power banks and other charging gear have been discounted thanks to the Amazon Spring Sale. Noteworthy among the deals is this Anker 321 MagGo power bank that's going for only $20 for Prime members. The discount applies to all colorways, too, including white, black, pink, green and purple.
Anker devices are some of our favorites and a few of them have made it onto our list of the best power banks and portable chargers. This particular model on sale is MagSafe-compatible, so it will magnetically attach to the back of your iPhone wh
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Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle No. 1,378 for March 28.
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The Amazon Spring Sale has made me jealous — I'm envious of those who can now pick up Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones at a record-low price, as someone who paid full price for them long ago. Our top picks for the best wireless headphones you can buy are on sale for $318, which represents a 20 percent discount. The sale is available on the Silver and Smoky Pink models.
There are few tech products I would recommend to anyone, but Sony's XM5 headphones are one of them. I've raved so much about them that my parents and brother all bought a pair (while my partner uses mine about as often as I do). One of the biggest things for me, as someone who gets headaches easily, is that they're so comfortable. I've worn them on quite a few overnight flights now and can easily keep them on the whole time.
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NEW RESOURCES Santa Fe Reporter: Darkness visible. "The Archdiocese of Santa Fe Institutional Abuse Collection is an important new archive for documents that were generated, in large part, by victim lawsuits brought […]
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 Apple today updated Final Cut Pro, its professional video editing software that runs on the Mac. Version 11.1 of Final Cut Pro includes several new features that improve video editing on the Mac.
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Amazon's Big Spring Sale is well underway. Use my secret trick to grab the best deals.
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It might be around that time of year when you're starting to figure out your summer vacation plans. Google has revealed some new features that can help with that, including a handy AI-powered one for Maps.
If you turn on the new screenshot list, Gemini can automatically recognize locations that are mentioned in screenshots you take in the app. You can then save the places you're interested in to a list. These saved spots will appear on the map, and you can share the list with your travel companions. This feature will be available on iOS in English in the US starting this week. It's coming to Android soon.
Google Maps turns your screenshots into a list of saved places so you can easily find them for later ??
rolling out this week in the U.S. in English on iOS and coming soon to… pic.twitter.com/z8RafkIWcS
— Google Maps (@googlemaps) March 27, 2025
Google has long offered flight price tracking features, and now the company is expanding that to hotel pricing via its dedicated search tool. If you have your eyes on a destination for particular dates, you can track prices for hotels and get alerts when they drop. Just tap or click the price tracker toggle underneath the search filters. If prices for
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A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user's friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
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A multibillion-dollar project is set to be constructed in China, the country's latest move in a push for nuclear energy.
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Actor Olivier Richters gives me the lowdown on the show's high-adrenaline fight scene.
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Even if you're running the most recent updates, you may not see Siri's newest look.
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 The design of Apple's Vision Pro has been overtly replicated by a new headset from Chinese smartphone maker Vivo.
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That's the subtext, if not the direct message, in the latest official Xbox Wire blog post. The Game Bar app—an overlay meant to enhance your game experience and deliver some on-the-fly statistical data—has a new look now. It's a little more muted and easier on the eyes, with faster access to tools like the Capture and Performance widgets. You can also navigate the Widget Store to download new tools much more easily with a controller, whether it's separate or part of your device.
The goal here is "ensuring a smoother experience when using Compact Mode on PCs and Windows Handhelds." (Note the direct shout-out and brand-approved capitalization.) When I tried out Compact Mode on my desktop, it gave me definite Steam Big Picture mode vibes, complete with a much bigger font and interface. It looks goofy on a 32-inch monitor, but it's easy to see how it would work better on a little 7-inch screen.
In other Xbox-slash-PC gaming news, Microsoft has announced new support for more games you can stream via Game Pass if you own a copy, notably highlighted by the new Assassin's Creed Shadows. The latest blockbuster in Ubisoft's long-running serie
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NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: New Primary Source Set on the Eugenics Movement in North Carolina. "We have another new primary source set on DigitalNC. This new set focuses on the eugenics movement and […]
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Sink your teeth into the vampire ballerina flick, Abigail.
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Nvidia NIM microservices are designed to help you run AI on your local device, allowing you to do more with AI models.
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Apple Watch owners, you may be eligible for part of the large cash settlement -- check this list of affected models.
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It's not working for everyone yet, but a company spokesperson says all subscribers should have access Thursday.
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My love of this portable cooktop burner is real. And now you can get a massive discount on it during Amazon's Spring Sale.
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In the final days of our pre-Switch 2 world, Nintendo is trying to rethink how sharing games works. The biggest announcement from the company's latest Direct was its upcoming Virtual Game Cards feature, a new approach to sharing digital games that improves on the company's current system, but still carries limitations that keep it from feeling truly modern.
Virtual Game Cards attempt to make digital games as easy to share as physical ones. That starts with the company visually representing games as "cards" and using the language of loading and ejecting them, and extends to how simple they are to share. Two Switch consoles logged into your Nintendo Account can share any digital game just by "ejecting" it from one and "loading" it on another. The only catch is that the consoles need to be connected over local wireless (as in, be physically near each other) when the trade happens, and be able to access the internet to download the game and run it for the first time.
You can similarly share a Virtual Game Card with anyone in the same Nintendo Account family group for two weeks, after which the game automatically returns. In both cases, saves for each game stay on the console where the game was played, making it s
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Are you thinking of cutting the cord? Here's why my go-to streaming stick is a steal during Amazon's Big Spring Sale.
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Virtual Game Cards are coming, and they'll work across systems and family accounts, and on both the Switch and Switch 2. Here's what we know so far.
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Light, the company behind a pair of minimalist handsets, just released the Light Phone III. This is the perfect device for those who are tired of modern smartphones, with their easy access to doomscrolling and their abundance of wonky AI tools.
The Light Phone III features a sleek black-and-white OLED display, which is a new design element. The previous models included e-paper screens. The big draw, however, is not what this phone has but what it doesn't have. There are no third-party apps. There's no access to social media, the internet or even email. It's intended to be, first and foremost, a phone.
It's not completely bare. This model includes an embedded NFC chip for making payments, a bare-bones music player, a podcast player, a messaging app, a flashlight, voice notes, a calendar, a timer and an alarm. It also includes a simple camera system that was inspired by point-and-shoot models. There's a two-step shutter button with center focus and a fixed focal length. The company calls it "genuinely fun."
The Light Phone III has a navigation app, which is likely the most useful part of modern smartphones, but with a twist. The company paid for private access to navigational information, so Here (th
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This dangerous software is bad enough to have earned an alert from the FBI's Denver field office earlier this month. As reported by BleepingComputer, the government agency issued a warning about online document converters, which can be found as downloadable programs or browser add-ons that you have to install. They work as advertised, like transforming a Word document (.doc) into a PDF, or combining JPG image files into a PDF. Or they might let you download media as .MP4 or .MP3 files.
But they also place malware on your system that opens remote access to your PC. They may also skim sensitive data from the documents you process, like social security numbers, addresses, banking details, email addresses, cryptocurrency info, and passwords. The outcome of these attacks can be identity theft or a ransomware attack.
Fortunately, safe alternatives exist to these converters—and one of them is baked right into Windows. If you need to convert a Word document to a PDF, for example, you can simply open the doc in Word, then use the Print feature and choose Microsoft Print to PDF.
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I travel a lot, and the Insta360 Go 3S is my favorite 4K camera to bring with me. It just received a big discount for Amazon's Spring Sale.
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The path for current student loans is uncertain, but forgiveness options look even less likely for future borrowers.
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Anything that you can't find anywhere else, let's say. Microsoft said Monday that it's rolling out a beta of the Photos app with a Copilot button that will appear at the top of the screen. Here's what it does, according to Microsoft:
"Photo Editing Tips: Get expert advice on enhancing your images.
Image Insights: Discover interesting details about your photos.
Framing Suggestions: Improve your photography skills with personalized recommendations."
If you'd like tips on how to take better photos, there are numerous tutorials around the web, both in video and in text form. It's also not clear what Photos will have to offer in terms of "framing suggestions" as well as insights about your image. Hopefully you already understand these insights already?
What Microsoft appears to be hinting at is that it wants to bring more visual AI to Windows. The Microsoft Edge browser already has Copilot Vision, which can "see" what you are looking at. Presumably, some of these capabilities will eventually be arriving on the Photos app.
But with many people cheering after Windows accidentally removed Copilot from their PCs, it's not clear whether adding a (for now) rather
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Apple plans to start using images it collects for Maps to train its AI models. In a disclosure spotted by 9to5Mac, the company said starting this month it would use images it captures to provide its Look Around feature for the additional purpose of training some of its generative AI models.
Look Around is Apple's answer to Google Street View. The company originally released the feature alongside its 2019 revamp of Apple Maps. The tool allows users to see locations from ground level. Apple blurs faces and license plates photographed in Look Around images to protect the privacy of any individuals caught in its survey efforts.
"In addition to improving Apple Maps and the algorithms that blur faces and license plates in images published in Look Around feature, Apple also will use blurred imagery collected during surveys conducted beginning in March 2025 to develop and improve other Apple products and services," the company writes in the disclosure. "This includes using data to train models powering Apple products and services, including models related to image recognition, creation, and enhancement."
Apple did not immediately respond to Engadget's request for more information.
The company's Apple Maps image collection policy page provides a list of regions and dates when it plans to collect new images for Look Around. People can find when Apple's survey crews and vehicles plan to visit their area by sorting by country and then clicking on a specific region.
Apple currently offers a few different features that rely on image gener
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This was a statement from Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang at HP's Amplify Conference in Nashville, last week. And in reflecting on it, it struck me as poignant for the following reason: Up until now I've viewed AI on a single timeline starting at the point where I first saw simple AI tools pop up, to now, where they are a lot more complex and capable than they used to be.
In doing so, I've failed to see the true potential of AI — the fact that we're about to enter a whole new age of AI that will make even those smart generative AI tools we have today pale in comparison to what we'll soon have on our PCs and other connected devices.
Bunny-hop advancements have masked the bigger picture
It's not that I haven't been impressed with the advancements I've seen in AI tools so far. It's just that I've been mostly fixated on those small advancements in lieu of the broader picture.
I've seen new AI art generators like DALL-E and Photoshop AI spring up and I've seen bunny-hop updates to AI chatbots like ChatGPT drop, each iteration getting a little smarter and a little more capable.
HP's own AI Companion on its consumer and commercial PCs, too, gets several of these updates later this year and these are all important steps forward for generative AI. It's just that I've been too focused on these small advancements.
Sometimes it takes a visionary to show you where you're headed, to reveal the unimaginable bigger picture that you're bounding towards. Big tech companies are quite good at doing that.
Yep, you can mostly always count on the likes of Intel, AMD -
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 This week's Microsoft Ignite 2024 event in Chicago showcased Microsoft's vision and strategies for corporate and enterprise customers, highlighting AI's potential to transform operations. The post Microsoft Ignite 2024: Enterprise Productivity Is the Easiest AI Sell appeared first on TechNewsWorld.
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Microsoft is working on a new update for Windows 11 that will make the new operating system (OS) run better on dated and inexpensive hardware.
Windows 11 Build 22526 has currently been made available to members of the Insider early access programme with multiple enhancements and fixes, Techradar reported. It is yet not clear when the update will be rolled out to the public.
Though most of the new features are minor, the software giant is using this update to try out a new file location indexing system, hoping that the build will enable users to find out important files even faster using File Explorer.
The File Explorer of the recently released Windows 11 works very slow and is still prone to frequent crashes. Users often have to suffer due t
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