Category: Hardware
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Check out CNET Money’s weekly mortgage rate forecast for a more in-depth look at what’s next for Fed rate cuts, labor data and inflation. The average interest rate for a standard 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.78% today, up 0.03% over the last week. The average rate for a 15-year fixed mortgage is 6.05%, which is…
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TL;DR: Get a PDF Converter and Editor lifetime license while it’s on sale for $24 (reg. $99.99). Editing PDFs doesn’t need to be a headache. It also doesn’t need to cost you more every month. Instead of paying for an Acrobat subscription, check out this all-in-one PDF Converter and Editor. It lets you transform documents, extract images, and customize…
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Written by Oscar Gonzalez Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement <!–> –> Oscar Gonzalez Contributing writer Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and…
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Splitgate 2, the follow-up to the hugely successful 2021 Quake–Portal hybrid concept, is returning to beta. The game launched last month, but developer 1047 Games is pulling it after deciding the release had been rushed. The company doesn’t plan to release the project again until 2026. “We’ll be heads down until early next year, rebuilding…
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OpenAI recently told Axios that their AI tool ChatGPT handles over 2.5 billion user instructions every single day. That’s the equivalent of about 1.7 million instructions per minute or 29,000 per second. This is a stark increase from December 2024, when ChatGPT was handling about 1 billion messages per day. Having launched in November 2022,…
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We live in the era of the electric car—lightning that can’t be put back in its bottle. This is important to keep in mind when we talk about new cars like the Aston Martin Vanquish Volante, because on paper, it seems hard to justify its half-million-dollar price tag and 800-plus horsepower twin-turbo V12 when things…
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They were Samsung phones with gold stickers on them. The former CEO of the company that marketed the sketchy-looking Escobar Fold 1 and Escobar Fold 2 phones — which you may remember from a 2020 video from Marques Brownlee — has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering, according to the US Department of Justice.…
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Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the…
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A popular account on TikTok and Instagram stopped posting suddenly at the end of last year, hit by a lawsuit after garnering millions of views on funny videos using adorable Calico Critter dolls made for preschoolers to act out dark, cringe-y adult storylines. While millions of followers mourn the so-called “Sylvanian Drama” account’s demise, experts…
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Keeping an outdoor camera powered up can be a vexing issue, involving solar panels, swappable batteries, outdoor wiring, or a combination of the three. Add smart lights to the mix, and your setup will become even more complicated. Want to simplify matters? If you have one or more outdoor light sockets, you can mount and…