Category: Hardware
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In September, Apple launched its latest smartwatch, introducing the Apple Watch Series 10 alongside a black rendition of the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Each wearable has its own pros and cons, as does the second-gen Apple Watch SE, but the introduction of Apple’s newest wearables also means there are now more Apple Watch models on…
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Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, they have gone from being utilitarian devices that sweep your floor to full-fledged home robots that can vacuum and mop your…
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Ziff Davis-owned IGN Entertainment has laid off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. Those cuts represent 12 percent of the bargaining unit. The layoffs are the latest shift in the turbulent gaming media landscape. Earlier this year, Verge parent company Vox Media sold Polygon to GameRant owner Valnet, Giant Bomb went independent,…
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After seeing the changes coming with iOS 26, we’re ready to finally see Apple’s newest collection of smartphones: the iPhone 17 lineup. While that’s still more than a month away — assuming Apple sticks to its usual release schedule — we haven’t been left completely in the dark about what the new phones will look…
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Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company’s bots appear to be “stealth crawling” sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers…
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When will Sierra Space’s winged vehicle, Dream Chaser, finally take flight? Unfortunately, it’s still not clear. Almost certainly, however, it won’t be this year. The Dream Chaser space plane has been under development for more than two decades, and it has a huge cult following because its winged shape mimics the iconic Space Shuttle. However,…
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AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers…
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Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Microsoft encourages you not to visit its competition. The latest category? AI. You may have noticed that if you visit Bing.com and then search for Google, Microsoft might remind you that it too has a search engine. More recently, Microsoft is now encouraging you to remain within its…
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In a press release obtained by Tom’s Hardware today, AMD announced the Radeon RX 9060, a new entry-level GPU that is said to be optimized for 1080p gaming. Notably, the new graphics card will not be available for purchase through retail channels, but will only be available with PCs offered by “select system integrators.” AMD…