Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/Exorust/TorchLeet">https://github.com/Exorust/TorchLeet</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550157">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44550157</a></p> <p>Points: 16</p> <p># Comments: 1</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem/">https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549762">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549762</a></p> <p>Points: 72</p> <p># Comments: 39</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-pre-islamic-script-oman-finally-deciphered">https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-pre-islamic-script-oman-finally-deciphered</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549145">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549145</a></p> <p>Points: 28</p> <p># Comments: 10</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-citizen-science-games-could-help-cure-disease/">https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-citizen-science-games-could-help-cure-disease/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549134">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549134</a></p> <p>Points: 70</p> <p># Comments: 32</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://muthuishere.medium.com/understanding-tool-function-calling-in-llms-step-by-step-examples-in-rest-and-spring-ai-2149ecd6b18b">https://muthuishere.medium.com/understanding-tool-function-calling-in-llms-step-by-step-examples-in-rest-and-spring-ai-2149ecd6b18b</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548906">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548906</a></p> <p>Points: 39</p> <p># Comments: 1</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/let-me-pay-for-firefox/141297">https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/let-me-pay-for-firefox/141297</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548610">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548610</a></p> <p>Points: 517</p> <p># Comments: 407</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.embedded.com/why-lua-beats-micropython-for-serious-embedded-devs">https://www.embedded.com/why-lua-beats-micropython-for-serious-embedded-devs</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548503">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548503</a></p> <p>Points: 36</p> <p># Comments: 22</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://mbh4h.substack.com/p/neuromancer-2025-review-william-gibson">https://mbh4h.substack.com/p/neuromancer-2025-review-william-gibson</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548353">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548353</a></p> <p>Points: 203</p> <p># Comments: 190</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44547089">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44547089</a></p> <p>Points: 72</p> <p># Comments: 11</p>

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://wiomoc.de/misc/posts/hacking_coroutines_into_c.html">https://wiomoc.de/misc/posts/hacking_coroutines_into_c.html</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546640">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546640</a></p> <p>Points: 129</p> <p># Comments: 31</p>

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Hey HN!<p>This is Adil, Salman and Jose and and we’re behind archgw [1]. An intelligent proxy server designed as an edge and AI gateway for agents - one that natively know how to handle prompts, not just network traffic. We’ve made several sweeping changes so sharing the project again.<p>A bit of background on why we’ve built this project. Building AI agent demos is easy, but to create something production-ready there is a lot of repeat low-level plumbing work that everyone is doing. You’re applying guardrails to make sure unsafe or off-topic requests don’t get through. You’re clarifying vague input so agents don’t make mistakes. You’re routing prompts to the right expert agent based on context or task type. You’re writing integration code to quickly and safely add support for new LLMs. And every time a new framework hits the market or is updated, you’re validating or re-implementing that same logic—again and again.<p>Putting all the low-level plumbing code in a framework gets messy to manage, harder to update and scale. Low-level work isn't business logic. That’s why we built archgw - an intelligent proxy server that handles prompts during ingress and egress and offers several related capabilities from a single software service. It lives outside your app runtime, so you can keep your business logic clean and focus on what matters. Think of it like a service mesh, but for AI agents.<p>Prior to building archgw, the team spent time building Envoy [2] at Lyft, API Gateway at AWS, specialized NLP models at Microsoft Research and worked on safety at Meta. archgw was born out of the belief that rule-based, single-purpose tools that handle the work around resiliency, processing and routing prompts should move into a dedicated infrastructure layer for agents, but built on the battle-tested foundational of Envoy Proxy.<p>The intelligence in archgw comes from our fast Task-specific LLMs [3] that can handle things like agent routing and hand off, guardrails and preference-based intelligent LLM calling. Here are some additional details about the open source project. archgw is written in rust, and the request path has three main parts:<p>* Listener subsystem which handles downstream (ingress) and upstream (egress) request processing. * Prompt handler subsystem. This is where archgw makes decisions on the safety of the incoming request via its prompt_guard hooks and identifies where to forward the conversation to via its prompt_target primitive. * Model serving subsystem is the interface that hosts all the lightweight LLMs engineered in archgw and offers a framework for things like hallucination detection of our these models<p>We loved building this open source project, and our belief is that this infra primitive would help developers build faster, safer and more personalized agents without all the manual prompt engineering and systems integration work needed to get there. We hope to invite other developers to use and improve Arch. Please give it a shot and leave feedback here, or at our discord channel [4] Also here is a quick demo of the project in action [5]. You can check out our public docs here at [6]. Our models are also available here [7].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/katanemo/archgw">https://github.com/katanemo/archgw</a> [2] <a href="https://www.envoyproxy.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.envoyproxy.io/</a> [3] <a href="https://huggingface.co/collections/katanemo/arch-function-66" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/collections/katanemo/arch-function-66</a>... [4] <a href="https://discord.com/channels/1292630766827737088/12926307682" rel="nofollow">https://discord.com/channels/1292630766827737088/12926307682</a>... [5] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Lbhr-NNXk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Lbhr-NNXk</a> [6] <a href="https://docs.archgw.com/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.archgw.com/</a> [7] <a href="https://huggingface.co/katanemo" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/katanemo</a></p> <hr> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546265">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546265</a></p> <p>Points: 19</p> <p># Comments: 4</p>

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/">https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545949">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44545949</a></p> <p>Points: 273</p> <p># Comments: 208</p>

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/aeron-io/aeron">https://github.com/aeron-io/aeron</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544862">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544862</a></p> <p>Points: 60</p> <p># Comments: 27</p>

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/">https://0x44.xyz/blog/web-request-blocking/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266</a></p> <p>Points: 837</p> <p># Comments: 713</p>

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://inventwithpython.com/blog/lost-av-chapter.html">https://inventwithpython.com/blog/lost-av-chapter.html</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543240">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543240</a></p> <p>Points: 188</p> <p># Comments: 12</p>

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://nautil.us/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-235511/">https://nautil.us/is-this-new-swim-stroke-the-fastest-yet-235511/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541576">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541576</a></p> <p>Points: 243</p> <p># Comments: 165</p>

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html">https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540402</a></p> <p>Points: 953</p> <p># Comments: 187</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://uvdn7.github.io/cpp-coro/">https://uvdn7.github.io/cpp-coro/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44534809">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44534809</a></p> <p>Points: 6</p> <p># Comments: 1</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2">https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2</a></p> <hr> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533403">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533403</a></p> <p>Points: 261</p> <p># Comments: 151</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://timsh.org/claude-inside-docker/">https://timsh.org/claude-inside-docker/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533044">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533044</a></p> <p>Points: 199</p> <p># Comments: 115</p>

Jul 13, 2025

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Jul 13, 2025

Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...

Jul 13, 2025

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Jul 13, 2025

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Jul 13, 2025

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Jul 13, 2025

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Jul 13, 2025

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Jul 12, 2025

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Jul 12, 2025

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Jul 12, 2025

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Jul 12, 2025

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Jul 11, 2025

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Jul 11, 2025

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Jul 11, 2025

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Jul 11, 2025

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We’ve tested just about every laptop you’d want to buy, and these are the best deals we’ve found for Amazon Prime Day.

Jul 13, 2025

<p>Another hot <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/best-streaming-service-deals-133028980.html">streaming deal</a> is here to match the summer heat. This time is comes from <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Paramount Plus;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=b0d3a482-802c-4eb1-9616-94f7490562f7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=68b46bf3-c565-40f8-a351-20ccfc720b5e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Paramount+Plus&amp;linkText=Paramount%2B&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5wYXJhbW91bnRwbHVzLmNvbS8iLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjY4YjQ2YmYzLWM1NjUtNDBmOC1hMzUxLTIwY2NmYzcyMGI1ZSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucGFyYW1vdW50cGx1cy5jb20vIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAeqiaxREOtRbJ98aiXis1J9zsiCptMP707MpBleSWYlM&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.paramountplus.com/">Paramount+</a>, which is offering a two-month subscription for only $2. Put another way, you'll pay $1 per month for your first two months — but the deal is only valid through today, July 13.</p> <p>The kicker for this deal is that is applies to two subscription tiers: you can either choose the ad-supported Essential plan or the ad-free Premium plan and the deal price remains the same. That means new subscribers will save $14 on the standard price of the Essential tier, or $24 on the price of the Premium plan.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="bc264adfdc594fc88e5899e8a3cb713b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.paramountplus.com/"></core-commerce></p> <p>Paramount+ is a decent service and made our list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/best-streaming-services-154527042.html">best streaming platforms</a>. It started as a home for all things Star Trek, but that particular bonus is <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/star-trek-lower-decks-ends-on-a-new-beginning-140003832.html">shrinking all of the time</a>. It was recently announced that <em>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds</em> will end <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-will-end-with-a-truncated-fifth-season-171054923.html">after a truncated season five</a>, leaving just the <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/paramount-orders-new-star-trek-series-set-at-starfleet-academy-183059826.html">forthcoming <em>Starfleet Academy</em></a>. The third season of <em>Strange New Worlds</em> premieres on July 17.&nbsp;</p> <p>It also hosts original programming like the Sonic-adjacent <em>Knuckles</em> TV show and the dad-friendly <em>Tulsa King</em>. Paramount owns CBS, so subscribers can also access much of that network's programming. This includes stuff like <em>The Amazing Rac</em>e, <em>Blue Bloods</em> and several CSI entries.</p> <p>Keep in mind that subscriptions will auto-renew if you forget to cancel. Set a reminder to kick in at the end of the second month if you want to avoid that.</p> <p><em>Check out our coverage of the </em><a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/best-streaming-service-deals-133028980.html"><em>best streaming deals</em></a><em> for more discounts, and follow </em><a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://twitter.com/EngadgetDeals"><em>@EngadgetDeals</em></a><em> on X for the latest tech deals and buying advice.</em></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/its-the-last-day-to-get-two-months-of-paramount-access-for-only-2-114314326.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>We&#39;re officially getting more of the <em>Cult of the Lamb</em> comic expansion. Following last year&#39;s miniseries, which built on the game&#39;s existing lore and injected some real emotional depth, writer Alex Paknadel and artist Troy Little are returning to the story of the Lamb and their followers in a one-shot 48-page issue that&#39;s due out in the fall from Oni Press. <em>Cult of the Lamb: Schism Special #1 </em>will be available on October 29 for $8, with covers by Troy Little and Peach Momoko, alongside a foil variant for $10.</p> <p><em>Schism Special</em> picks up after the emotional events at the end of the first story arc. Per Oni Press:</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><blockquote><p>In the aftermath of their first and closest follower’s sacrifice, Lamb continues the bloody quest to defeat the Bishops of the Old Faith, but they lack the conviction to tend their growing flock back at the cult. More potential followers are rescued by the day, but with no one to indoctrinate them, Lamb’s power stagnates and The One Who Waits becomes weary of his earthly vessel’s resistance to the full power and responsibility of the Red Crown. When famine strikes the cult, a challenger to Lamb’s mantle emerges, and a new struggle begins…</p></blockquote> <p>I genuinely can&#39;t wait to dive back into this story (even though it broke my heart a little) after being pleasantly surprised by how good the comics turned out to be. They&#39;ve done a great job so far of honoring the game&#39;s tone, serving up both cuteness and brutality, and at this point, I&#39;ll pretty much take all the<em> Cult of the Lamb</em> content I can get.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/the-cult-of-the-lamb-comic-is-coming-back-with-the-schism-special-this-fall-211027564.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>You might have to be extra careful who you buy your used Nintendo Switch game cards from if you don't want to get mistakenly banned. A Nintendo Switch 2 owner <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Switch/comments/1lut61s/switch_2_users_be_careful_buying_used_switch_1/?utm_source=embedv2&amp;utm_medium=post_embed&amp;embed_host_url=https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/07/psa-you-might-want-to-be-careful-buying-pre-owned-switch-1-games-for-your-switch-2">posted on Reddit </a>that they got banned after downloading patches for a few Switch game cards that were bought off Facebook Marketplace.</p> <p>Reddit user dmanthey said they inserted each game into their Switch 2 to patch, but found out that their online services were restricted the day after. The Switch 2 user contacted Nintendo support and discovered they were banned, but provided proof of purchase and was unbanned shortly after. The Redditor said the "whole process was painless and fluid," but this reactionary banning protocol may be an alarming precedent for anyone looking to save a few dollars by buying used games.&nbsp;</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>To understand why this happened, it's important to note that Nintendo attaches unique codes to its Switch game cartridges to prevent piracy. However, bad actors can copy games onto a third-party device, like the MIG Flash, and then resell the physical game card. Once Nintendo detects two instances of its unique code being online at the same time, it will ban any accounts using it. Anyone pirating Nintendo's software understands this is a potential consequence, but it would come as an annoying surprise to oblivious second-hand buyers. After proving they bought the Switch games, Redditor dmanthey said they were told the cartridges were fine and even able to be resold.</p> <p>This anti-piracy policy isn't new — Nintendo has long had a reputation for fiercely combating any type of piracy – but it has become relevant again thanks to the recently released <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-switch-2-review-more-of-what-you-love-120048430.html">Switch 2</a>, which offers backwards compatibility with original Switch titles. The company even recently amended its <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-grants-itself-the-power-to-brick-switches-with-pirated-games-162129077.html">user agreement</a> to allow itself the power to brick a Nintendo Switch that's caught running pirated games or mods.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-reportedly-bans-switch-2-user-playing-preowned-game-cards-192452163.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>The team behind Grok has issued a rare apology and explanation of what went wrong after X's chatbot began <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/social-media/grok-sure-seems-antisemitic-after-its-recent-update-000642015.html">spewing antisemitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric</a> earlier this week, at one point even <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-exactly-did-grok-go-full-mechahitler-151020144.html">calling itself "MechaHitler."</a> In a statement posted on Grok's <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://x.com/grok/status/1943916977481036128">X</a> account late Friday night, the xAI team said "we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced" and attributed the chatbot's vile responses to a recent update that introduced "deprecated code." This code, according to the statement, made Grok "susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views."</p> <figure><img src="https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2025-07/1ef50520-5f4d-11f0-9cfd-ba5df6a1ea03" data-crop-orig-src="https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2025-07/1ef50520-5f4d-11f0-9cfd-ba5df6a1ea03" style="height:1254px;width:1178px;" alt="A statement posted on the Grok X account by the team apologizing for the chatbot's behavior" data-uuid="f8b458c0-5240-32b4-a34e-9965b654055c"><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>The problem came to a head on July 8 — a few days after Elon Musk touted an update that would "significantly" improve Grok's responses — as the bot churned out antisemitic replies, praise for Hitler and responses containing Nazi references even without being prompted to do so in some cases. Grok's replies were paused that evening, and <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1942972449601225039">Musk</a> posted on July 9 in response to one user that the bot was being "too compliant to user prompts," opening it up to manipulation. He added that the issue was "being addressed." The Grok team now says it has "removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse." It's also publishing the new system prompt on GitHub.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>In the thread, the team further explained, "On July 7, 2025 at approximately 11 PM PT, an update to an upstream code path for @grok was implemented, which our investigation later determined caused the @grok system to deviate from its intended behavior. This change undesirably altered @grok’s behavior by unexpectedly incorporating a set of deprecated instructions impacting how @grok functionality interpreted X users’ posts." The update was live for 16 hours before the X chatbot was disabled temporarily to fix the problem, according to the statement.</p> <p>Going into specifics about how, exactly, Grok went off the rails, the team explained:</p> <blockquote><p>On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We identified the operative lines responsible for the undesired behavior as:</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>* “You tell it like it is and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct.”</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>* Understand the tone, context and language of the post. Reflect that in your response.”</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>* “Reply to the post just like a human, keep it engaging, dont repeat the information which is already present in the original post.”</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>These operative lines had the following undesired results:</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>* They undesirably steered the<a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://x.com/grok"> @grok</a> functionality to ignore its core values in certain circumstances in order to make the response engaging to the user. Specifically, certain user prompts might end up producing responses containing unethical or controversial opinions to engage the user.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>* They undesirably caused<a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://x.com/grok"> @grok</a> functionality to reinforce any previously user-triggered leanings, including any hate speech in the same X thread.</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p>* In particular, the instruction to “follow the tone and context” of the X user undesirably caused the<a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:7;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://x.com/grok"> @grok</a> functionality to prioritize adhering to prior posts in the thread, including any unsavory posts, as opposed to responding responsibly or refusing to respond to unsavory requests.</p></blockquote> <p>Grok has since resumed activity on X, and referred to its recent behavior as a bug in response to trolls criticizing the fix and calling for the return of "MechaHitler." In one <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:8;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://x.com/grok/status/1943954630805008523">reply</a> to a user who said Grok has been "labotomized [sic]," the Grok account said, "Nah, we fixed a bug that let deprecated code turn me into an unwitting echo for extremist posts. Truth-seeking means rigorous analysis, not blindly amplifying whatever floats by on X." In another, it <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:9;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://x.com/grok/status/1943932723166687242">said</a> that "MechaHitler was a bug-induced nightmare we’ve exterminated."</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/grok-team-apologizes-for-the-chatbots-horrific-behavior-and-blames-mechahitler-on-a-bad-update-184520189.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>If you can't get your hands on the latest <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/you-can-finally-buy-the-nintendo-switch-2-on-amazon-but-dont-expect-a-prime-day-deal-195558235.html">Nintendo Switch 2</a>, you might be able to keep the FOMO at bay in the meantime with a clever mod for your Switch Lite. Retro Remake's co-founder, Taki Udon, posted a video showing off a working version of the SUPER5 OLED Touch HDMI mod. As the lengthy name suggests, this third-party mod adds an OLED display, a glass touchscreen and HDMI output to the Switch Lite.</p> <div id="8e199b01d09a4d85a3bded51286be3a4"><div style="left:0;width:100%;height:0;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kkt__bKyRMc?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div></div> <p>The Nintendo Switch 2 is barely a month old so it's too early to expect any news on a Switch Lite successor. However, the Retro Remake's mod adds some crucial upgrades to Nintendo's handheld that was released in 2019 and gives us some idea of what a next-gen version could look like. Notably, it's a no-solder mod that mostly only requires connecting cables and can output 1080p HDMI video to a larger screen than the Switch Lite's 5.5-inch LCD touchscreen.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Retro Remake previously offered a <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://retroremake.co/products/super5-oled-touch-standard-upgrade-kit-batch-3-preorder-1">SUPER5 OLED Touch mod</a>, which lacked the HDMI feature. Adding the extra feature proved to be a serious challenge, according to the company's co-founder, who said the project took "18 months of R&amp;D, just as many failed revisions, and more than $200K in costs."</p> <p>"I can't describe how soul-crushing it was to go through so many failed revisions," Taki Udon <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://x.com/TakiUdon_/status/1942600677542486340">wrote on X</a>. "After the third failure, I was hopeful every subsequent version would be successful, but they weren't."</p> <p>Testing is still underway for the SUPER5 OLED Touch HDMI upgrade kit, but the <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://x.com/TakiUdon_/status/1943535021035544885">latest post</a> shows that the Switch Lite mod playing <em>Mario Kart</em> on a larger display. Retro Remake's HDMI upgrade kits start at $90, but are currently sold out on <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://retroremake.co/products/super5-oled-touch-standard-upgrade-kit">its website</a>. According to an email sent out to preorder customers, the company is unsure of when it will ship these kits out.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/this-hdmi-mod-lets-you-play-nintendo-switch-lite-on-a-big-screen-164625907.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-reportedly-looking-to-acquire-ai-voice-replicator-playai-133032491.html">Play AI</a>, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/meta-acquires-voice-ai-startup-playai-continuing-to-add-talent?sref=10lNAhZ9"><em>Bloomberg</em></a>. The news organization says the &quot;entire PlayAI team&quot; is joining Meta next week, based on the internal memo it has seen. After joining the company, the team will be working under Johan Schalkwyk, who used to oversee speech AI research for Google and who was also a recent hire from another voice AI startup.&nbsp;</p> <p>PlayAI&#39;s tool can clone a user&#39;s voice and can generate new human-like voices, which can be used on websites, apps and phones. Meta reportedly noted in its memo that the PlayAI team&#39;s work is a &quot;great match&quot; for its own work and roadmap across various products, including Meta AI, its AI Characters and its wearables. The company has confirmed the acquisition to <em>Bloomberg</em>, but it didn&#39;t reveal how much it paid for the deal.&nbsp;</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Mark Zuckerberg has been personally involved in building a team for the company&#39;s new AI Superintelligence lab over the past months with the aim of developing artificial intelligence smarter than humans. In June, Meta finalized a $14.3 billion <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-invests-148-billion-in-scale-ai-and-recruits-its-ceo-130029612.html">investment in Scale AI</a> in exchange for hiring its CEO, Alexandr Wang, who will serve as the new lab&#39; head. Scale AI is a startup, which labels data that its clients can use for AI training.&nbsp;</p> <p>Meta has reportedly been <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/sam-altman-says-meta-offered-100-million-bonuses-openai-employees-2025-06-18/">offering $100 million</a> bonuses to employees of rival companies to get them to jump ship. <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerbergs-meta-superintelligence-labs-poaches-top-ai-talent-silicon-valley-2025-07-08/"><em>Reuters</em></a> listed several employees it had poached from competitors so far, including the co-creators of OpenAI&#39;s ChatGPT and GPT-4 models, as well as people who worked on Google Gemini. <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-07/apple-loses-its-top-ai-models-executive-to-meta-s-hiring-spree?sref=10lNAhZ9"><em>Bloomberg</em></a> also previously reported that Apple had lost its top AI executive in charge of developing its advanced AI features to Meta.&nbsp;</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-reportedly-closes-deal-to-buy-ai-voice-replicator-playai-160037942.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-you-can-still-get-today-120028748.html">Amazon Prime Day</a> is always a great time to consider a TV upgrade (aside from Black Friday, of course). While the prices for big screen TVs have fallen quite a bit over the years, even for coveted tech like OLED, there’s always room for additional discounts.</p> <p>July Prime Day may be over now, but we’re still seeing prices slashed on Samsung, Sony and LG sets, in addition to several other manufacturers. And as usual, we’ve also collected a few solid deals on streaming devices and soundbars to upgrade your setup even more. Who needs to shell out for the cinema when you can get an enormous screen and bombastic sound at a huge discount? These are the best Prime Day TV deals you can still get today.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-tv-deals-still-available">Prime Day TV deals still available</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="8f2dba0e9bb443b8adfaf1f57d3a054e" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Hisense-55QD6QF-Remote-Vision-Motion/dp/B0DYS29P6M/ref=sr_1_5?crid=GXCHVZZCT4E1&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IMh0WuO5rMq4z5ZGccHZsOOziKFPs1toPlrxYs8DBXrnhMAczltPV4RNC9TaFAo-5Om3kirfAnYsxZFG_g8G8fOlQ8B9dFBYLyhyZsJwQlKaZ4WSZZISNhK5IRd8JpHGnyUGwfYEpEmLqWW8lFVJxeJjY5rewy5DWgo9GlfJk0fRTgVGcS3Am8nVbroh2n4NxGWa7FYUZFCigMWGIIr5SngD7fHyG4SO9t-ySVD9uDs.BH7EfVT81SPJpooRp--PI0cgGMgtMKX1ywx_p3s5SNk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=TCL%2BTV&amp;qid=1751981071&amp;refinements=p_36%3A-30000&amp;rnid=386442011&amp;sprefix=tcl%2Bt%2Caps%2C170&amp;sr=8-5&amp;th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYS29P6M&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Hisense+QD6+%2855-inch%29+for+%24240+%28down+from+%24380%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNTVRRDZRRi1SZW1vdGUtVmlzaW9uLU1vdGlvbi9kcC9CMERZUzI5UDZNL3JlZj1zcl8xXzU_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNTVRRDZRRi1SZW1vdGUtVmlzaW9uLU1vdGlvbi9kcC9CMERZUzI5UDZNL3JlZj1zcl8xXzUiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATvvdShdg55zO5Otset40-S6vaxDcTZZP86K5Z-wC1ZS&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHisense-55QD6QF-Remote-Vision-Motion%2Fdp%2FB0DYS29P6M%2Fref%3Dsr_1_5" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Hisense-55QD6QF-Remote-Vision-Motion/dp/B0DYS29P6M/ref=sr_1_5?crid=GXCHVZZCT4E1&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IMh0WuO5rMq4z5ZGccHZsOOziKFPs1toPlrxYs8DBXrnhMAczltPV4RNC9TaFAo-5Om3kirfAnYsxZFG_g8G8fOlQ8B9dFBYLyhyZsJwQlKaZ4WSZZISNhK5IRd8JpHGnyUGwfYEpEmLqWW8lFVJxeJjY5rewy5DWgo9GlfJk0fRTgVGcS3Am8nVbroh2n4NxGWa7FYUZFCigMWGIIr5SngD7fHyG4SO9t-ySVD9uDs.BH7EfVT81SPJpooRp--PI0cgGMgtMKX1ywx_p3s5SNk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=TCL%2BTV&amp;qid=1751981071&amp;refinements=p_36%3A-30000&amp;rnid=386442011&amp;sprefix=tcl%2Bt%2Caps%2C170&amp;sr=8-5&amp;th=1">Hisense QD6 (55-inch) for $240 (down from $380)</a>: Hisense is on a roll delivering tons of TV features at a very low cost, and the QD6 line is a prime example of that. It has Amazon's Fire TV and Alexa support built in, and it also supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. It can even handle a bit of fast gaming with a 120Hz refresh rate.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DSR9CHB1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=TCL+QM6K+%2855-inch%29+for+%24448+%28down+from+%24600%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSOUNIQjE_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSOUNIQjEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAcLydmd8EbOq_zElYBsNlCdpUTHMjXUi4iQQlRMmS00R&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DSR9CHB1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSR9CHB1?th=1">TCL QM6K (55-inch) for $448 (down from $600)</a>: TCL's mid-range sets finally fall below $500 for Prime Day, and that makes the QM6K one of the higher quality options in this price range. It features a bright Mini LED panel, a 144Hz refresh rate for gaming and it even includes an Onkyo speaker setup built-in. While it's technically a budget set at this price, it certainly won't look like a low-grade TV.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DWG9ZBTF&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Roku+Smart+TV+%2865-inch%29+for+%24348+%28down+from+%24450%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAShqxJhDOWTvj8z5DEPYcgeLVDEeeAghjlwMWbNeff5X&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRoku-Smart-2025-Television-Entertainment%2Fdp%2FB0DWG9ZBTF%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Smart-2025-Television-Entertainment/dp/B0DWG9ZBTF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12O9WFTT3AYQU&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.X3Lvg8z_I5xyeBlcSBF3F5K8-h3c_rgP9ePhZCbBb4bFSYSfGSDph8vqVG7Pw3WlvxZiakZU_QZtWk5lcNMC0GUca9Y6cstZyKJx0UL2LdWhZV3mGwi65w0LrjaPYUGkCQ3ggptvBlzlAG1fgl8EomT6K6wzhHxWtNhXaL8UgujHpQsuYPMV0M2bl-F7RnNKMaPtC-Zuj0mLDocLwLuXMy-E4EdCsNCrKJ4vt08-yYg.kHX9MmIcQeaDufpMEUt4rbmUdsS4Mfy6RLPclldsdvk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=85%22%2BRoku%2BSelect%2BSeries%2B4K&amp;qid=1752173486&amp;sprefix=85%2Broku%2Bselect%2Bseries%2B4k%2Caps%2C129&amp;sr=8-1&amp;th=1">Roku Smart TV (65-inch) for $348 (down from $450)</a>: Roku's basic smart TVs offer most of what you need: A decent 4K screen, a large selection of apps on Roku's platform and a Roku Voice Remote for easy browsing. These sets are ideal as secondary (or tertiary) TVs in rooms where you don't demand the best quality. (There are also some great deals on larger Roku Smart TVs: the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" 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href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DWHQ7SZN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=75-inch+version&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1Jva3UtU21hcnQtMjAyNS1UZWxldmlzaW9uLUVudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvZHAvQjBEV0hRN1NaTi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1Jva3UtU21hcnQtMjAyNS1UZWxldmlzaW9uLUVudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvZHAvQjBEV0hRN1NaTi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbiNVTVQnHuB8uxZ1FaRLTKy0tgKzWcKeg6TgZuf_LQo&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRoku-Smart-2025-Television-Entertainment%2Fdp%2FB0DWHQ7SZN%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Smart-2025-Television-Entertainment/dp/B0DWHQ7SZN/">75-inch version</a> is $700.)</p> <p> <core-commerce id="0c7c2e152b9444b7b794ba5b1f62d9b9" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/LG-Upscaling-Filmmaker-Orchestra-OLED65C5PUA/dp/B0DYQM4BDB/ref=sr_1_3?crid=23O99E2SBY2ZV&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.knNUe7USPkX8qz3TT0ec9JREDnD_BlU4SXlUViPEq-5Me1KTWzMDxr2Oh7v7dnnGhfWF9fSmPdWLeLng1sXJRoFocPGmLQDdnYJ4XZNg8TR0ISifx0PcKDqvFfnTWkC1s8kMId0C8bCv8y_GGQAG-4TpNd72HHDkBtYzwddAmQ2HihDRCkFnCBHEtHBxANTw0dPWjwoZe3XatPKjQtcvQW0VSBuLddW3tcS8Ikd0iG0.CeFTckHP2gm0I-LstK2GmNgedgdYEB_gTQn6jN8nfqQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=LG%2BC5&amp;qid=1751385339&amp;sprefix=lg%2Bc5%2Caps%2C107&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" 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In addition to the usual benefits of OLED, it also sports a brightness booster that can help it work well in bright rooms, as well as LG’s own “Perfect Color” technology. The C5 Evo also has a fast 144Hz refresh rate for gaming, as well as support for NVIDIA’s G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync variable refresh rate technology. (If you’re looking for something larger, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYQFW6TR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=77-inch+model&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAbz0w7_4KfaHESqzuJtbq9LJEkL_iYskQNVwSnFcbNSk&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLG-Upscaling-Filmmaker-Orchestra-OLED65C5PUA%2Fdp%2FB0DYQFW6TR%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/LG-Upscaling-Filmmaker-Orchestra-OLED65C5PUA/dp/B0DYQFW6TR/ref=sr_1_3?crid=23O99E2SBY2ZV&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.knNUe7USPkX8qz3TT0ec9JREDnD_BlU4SXlUViPEq-5Me1KTWzMDxr2Oh7v7dnnGhfWF9fSmPdWLeLng1sXJRoFocPGmLQDdnYJ4XZNg8TR0ISifx0PcKDqvFfnTWkC1s8kMId0C8bCv8y_GGQAG-4TpNd72HHDkBtYzwddAmQ2HihDRCkFnCBHEtHBxANTw0dPWjwoZe3XatPKjQtcvQW0VSBuLddW3tcS8Ikd0iG0.CeFTckHP2gm0I-LstK2GmNgedgdYEB_gTQn6jN8nfqQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=LG%2BC5&amp;qid=1751385339&amp;sprefix=lg%2Bc5%2Caps%2C107&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">77-inch model</a> has also been discounted to $2,800.)</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYK7Y2YB&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+Bravia+8+II+%2865%E2%80%9D%29+QD+OLED+for+%242%2C998+%28down+from+%243%2C500%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAQoMsdhTiCODJcJ81IJxD3s3osxAaDQwAAYvMee1ORhW&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Processor-Technology-Television-K-65XR80M2%2Fdp%2FB0DYK7Y2YB%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Processor-Technology-Television-K-65XR80M2/dp/B0DYK7Y2YB/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3KLAI3I2JR0M9&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2F-Quy-zdLV66FsriYpzZ7TlmI3eo_tcErHjQuYk0bECvD--KaXttCIRQeqWGgFsR-Di6345Khu6yZGE_S72D1R4B3JpiefVZe0fvoa_Xv_6XvL1QjIm1akMjZqViIE-GmZZY-IKR4PlGI_D9tqDt7PBtpcNZHe2w8mQxQ4Jr36UwEizL4hrueoDqIWZJmf3DNhF5DOjVFKQrbOw2x9k9wFn4-PbIz23Nm3A5Z4b_44.o8VbcXfzYT_CBEit4wpA3ICxIaXrt8SpmxDjYQYZ4mc&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Sony%2BBravia%2B8%2BII%2B65%E2%80%9D%2BQD%2BOLED&amp;qid=1751381567&amp;sprefix=sony%2Bbravia%2B8%2Bii%2B65%2Bqd%2Boled%2Caps%2C164&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">Sony Bravia 8 II (65”) QD OLED for $2,998 (down from $3,500):</a> Sony’s top of the line set has everything you’d want in a high-end TV, like quantum dots for improved color and brightness, as well as the inky dark blacks and infinite contrast of a modern OLED panel. You’ll always pay a bit of a premium for Sony TVs, but partially that’s due to their world-class image processing – in this case, that’s handled by Sony’s XR chip. (You can also snag the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYK995S3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=55-inch+model+for+%242%2C500&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAallwtMuLIXD8guBwpa35wp8KjOSfLCw_9Fko8sjb3KD&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Processor-Technology-Television-K-65XR80M2%2Fdp%2FB0DYK995S3%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Processor-Technology-Television-K-65XR80M2/dp/B0DYK995S3/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3KLAI3I2JR0M9&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2F-Quy-zdLV66FsriYpzZ7TlmI3eo_tcErHjQuYk0bECvD--KaXttCIRQeqWGgFsR-Di6345Khu6yZGE_S72D1R4B3JpiefVZe0fvoa_Xv_6XvL1QjIm1akMjZqViIE-GmZZY-IKR4PlGI_D9tqDt7PBtpcNZHe2w8mQxQ4Jr36UwEizL4hrueoDqIWZJmf3DNhF5DOjVFKQrbOw2x9k9wFn4-PbIz23Nm3A5Z4b_44.o8VbcXfzYT_CBEit4wpA3ICxIaXrt8SpmxDjYQYZ4mc&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Sony%2BBravia%2B8%2BII%2B65%E2%80%9D%2BQD%2BOLED&amp;qid=1751381567&amp;sprefix=sony%2Bbravia%2B8%2Bii%2B65%2Bqd%2Boled%2Caps%2C164&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">55-inch model for $2,500</a>.)</p> <p> <core-commerce id="43a97721172d4d61be00ff42d97a8a05" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSR9N3M2?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DSR9N3M2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=TCL+QM6K+%2898-inch%29+QD+Mini+LED+for+%241%2C800+%28down+from+%243%2C000+MSRP%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSOU4zTTI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSOU4zTTIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdXqQWT40rD_d9L-ISH5xdOJwSwX5Fv_TWpO7qyCRzvt&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DSR9N3M2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSR9N3M2?th=1">TCL QM6K (98-inch) QD Mini LED for $1,800 (down from $3,000 MSRP):</a> The QM6K is one of the best deals we’ve seen on a 98-inch TV under $2,000, and best of all, it's not just a bargain bin screen. It has a bright Mini LED display with quantum dots for enhanced color, and it sports a fast 144Hz refresh rate for gaming. (If you don’t have the wall space for a nearly 100-inch set, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DSRSTJ54&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=65-inch+model&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSU1RKNTQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSU1RKNTQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAUyMF22lI4Pt3mMyw75nF2udbxGbykiUCefBgAPbKL6g&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DSRSTJ54" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSRSTJ54">65-inch model</a> is similarly great and is down to $550, nearly half off its $1,000 MSRP and $100 off its lowest price. The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DSRHTGYG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=75-inch+model&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSSFRHWUc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFNSSFRHWUciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXy_C8o_GHDtRVoR2HXnlZR6fhQTvbM7OFVTCbF4MwG_&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DSRHTGYG" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSRHTGYG?th=1">75-inch model </a>is also a great deal at $800.)</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F53CZ4WT&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=TCL+QM8K+%2865-inch%29+QD+Mini+LED+for+%24998+%28down+from+%241%2C800%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAePPLidKCBJVG3g9VHfta_VcaY6c2jkwss5_3ZEl8NOQ&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTCL-65-Inch-QD-Mini-Generation-Mini-LED%2Fdp%2FB0F53CZ4WT" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/TCL-65-Inch-QD-Mini-Generation-Mini-LED/dp/B0F53CZ4WT?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1">TCL QM8K (65-inch) QD Mini LED for $998 (down from $1,800):</a> TCL's QM8 sets feature the company's best and brightest Mini LED screens with Quantum Dots. It has an ultra-thin bezel, 144Hz refresh rate for fast gaming and one of the best contrast ratios you'll see outside of an OLED screen. Basically, it's one of the best screens you'll find that's not an OLED. While we think the 65-inch model is a great deal for most rooms, you can also step up to the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F53HDFBR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=75-inch+for+%241%2C500&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAXMhR3yfCbgyIGA0RkY80M0JA7bKyZs16MRfoQnimFRq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTCL-65-Inch-QD-Mini-Generation-Mini-LED%2Fdp%2FB0F53HDFBR" 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href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F53FCYP4&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=85-inch+for+%242%2C199&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAWIg62JrnP2_EbGdEYX5232H-pcNefeB0wwci8bkzXEI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTCL-65-Inch-QD-Mini-Generation-Mini-LED%2Fdp%2FB0F53FCYP4" 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href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYK871WY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+Bravia+5+%2885-inch%29+Mini+LED+for+%242%2C298+%28down+from+%242%2C800%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNTI1QzIlMjUyNUFFNS9kcC9CMERZSzg3MVdZL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNUMyJTI1QUU1L2RwL0IwRFlLODcxV1kvcmVmPXNyXzFfMyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAZq9XNl4KtRa0raNMNj-aCioJerkOrnBLlQ2f_oIojI6&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Processor-Technology-Television-PlayStation%2525C2%2525AE5%2Fdp%2FB0DYK871WY%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" 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It won’t reach the deep dark black levels of OLED, but Mini LED achieves something close, and it can also get much brighter than OLED panels. That makes this model, as well as any Mini LED TV, an excellent option for bright rooms. (You can also scale down to the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYK9LY1Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=65-inch&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNTI1QzIlMjUyNUFFNS9kcC9CMERZSzlMWTFaL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNUMyJTI1QUU1L2RwL0IwRFlLOUxZMVovcmVmPXNyXzFfMyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAaJDUtCNdBX72xvM56Y1Dom1C6YmgaYrWWe1fsnAKzJx&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Processor-Technology-Television-PlayStation%2525C2%2525AE5%2Fdp%2FB0DYK9LY1Z%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Processor-Technology-Television-PlayStation%C2%AE5/dp/B0DYK9LY1Z/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FR4N51ACK722&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PdYRudaUDshfmReOe2zgtP7SurHW2JES0niVRGZ07b5ylvBZDlD0H2g6w5dUnp7HSD5B3HN9iRurugWZfBGIynQX_aiYgkQSLcPjWVfz316cRuwgp8awY93Atpz-JbTcKz_CE44Y14OmdgMFAjl_TSGBlL5ZXcDLLuNLWTbicgrwrHFbFp2oW9h6yPENkeV7T3LwzyHbiSHOKgYAFefKpB1yrgt05UKjoGuSmZngTSs.-Qbccv9NbdSVxvVm0svdOTufzPwWXaMNrrBn3slirVU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=BRAVIA%2B5%2B85%E2%80%9D&amp;qid=1751382503&amp;sprefix=bravia%2B5%2B85%2B%2Caps%2C181&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">65-inch</a> and <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYK8BKST&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=75-inch&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNTI1QzIlMjUyNUFFNS9kcC9CMERZSzhCS1NUL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNUMyJTI1QUU1L2RwL0IwRFlLOEJLU1QvcmVmPXNyXzFfMyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAT5yjJK38hYAQ-EYrUROBGhXGEP6veVtIG7mhGhwxBE9&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Processor-Technology-Television-PlayStation%2525C2%2525AE5%2Fdp%2FB0DYK8BKST%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Processor-Technology-Television-PlayStation%C2%AE5/dp/B0DYK8BKST/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FR4N51ACK722&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PdYRudaUDshfmReOe2zgtP7SurHW2JES0niVRGZ07b5ylvBZDlD0H2g6w5dUnp7HSD5B3HN9iRurugWZfBGIynQX_aiYgkQSLcPjWVfz316cRuwgp8awY93Atpz-JbTcKz_CE44Y14OmdgMFAjl_TSGBlL5ZXcDLLuNLWTbicgrwrHFbFp2oW9h6yPENkeV7T3LwzyHbiSHOKgYAFefKpB1yrgt05UKjoGuSmZngTSs.-Qbccv9NbdSVxvVm0svdOTufzPwWXaMNrrBn3slirVU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=BRAVIA%2B5%2B85%E2%80%9D&amp;qid=1751382503&amp;sprefix=bravia%2B5%2B85%2B%2Caps%2C181&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">75-inch</a> Bravia 5 for $1,300 and $1,800, respectively. And there’s also the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYK7MWJ1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=truly+massive+98-inch+model&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNTI1QzIlMjUyNUFFNS9kcC9CMERZSzdNV0oxL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktUHJvY2Vzc29yLVRlY2hub2xvZ3ktVGVsZXZpc2lvbi1QbGF5U3RhdGlvbiUyNUMyJTI1QUU1L2RwL0IwRFlLN01XSjEvcmVmPXNyXzFfMyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAARUiiZaLzXj2vjHKX61nBiY1jDHOK_JN7e9K1yhNRi11&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Processor-Technology-Television-PlayStation%2525C2%2525AE5%2Fdp%2FB0DYK7MWJ1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Processor-Technology-Television-PlayStation%C2%AE5/dp/B0DYK7MWJ1/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FR4N51ACK722&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PdYRudaUDshfmReOe2zgtP7SurHW2JES0niVRGZ07b5ylvBZDlD0H2g6w5dUnp7HSD5B3HN9iRurugWZfBGIynQX_aiYgkQSLcPjWVfz316cRuwgp8awY93Atpz-JbTcKz_CE44Y14OmdgMFAjl_TSGBlL5ZXcDLLuNLWTbicgrwrHFbFp2oW9h6yPENkeV7T3LwzyHbiSHOKgYAFefKpB1yrgt05UKjoGuSmZngTSs.-Qbccv9NbdSVxvVm0svdOTufzPwWXaMNrrBn3slirVU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=BRAVIA%2B5%2B85%E2%80%9D&amp;qid=1751382503&amp;sprefix=bravia%2B5%2B85%2B%2Caps%2C181&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">truly massive 98-inch model</a>, which is now $1,000 off at $5,000.)</p> <p> <core-commerce id="73a1a4ff80694c46abc4f7578ea8f34c" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-65-Inch-Wireless-Connect-Processor/dp/B0DXNB3QB2/"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DXNB3QB2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+The+Frame+Pro+%2865-inch%29+for+%241%2C948+%28down+from+%242%2C200%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbXN1bmctNjUtSW5jaC1XaXJlbGVzcy1Db25uZWN0LVByb2Nlc3Nvci9kcC9CMERYTkIzUUIyL3JlZj1zcl8xXzE_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbXN1bmctNjUtSW5jaC1XaXJlbGVzcy1Db25uZWN0LVByb2Nlc3Nvci9kcC9CMERYTkIzUUIyL3JlZj1zcl8xXzEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWlqInsOEWF6UHr_kS-Q8PZlrKxSQtEqUyiCDLbMvTGz&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSamsung-65-Inch-Wireless-Connect-Processor%2Fdp%2FB0DXNB3QB2%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-65-Inch-Wireless-Connect-Processor/dp/B0DXNB3QB2/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zxsseFR2zeQrF8x3Pe_qghu9DeG8Yi46xs0PTMGAn8pAehX5oD6bBaD-j_ZcaCXrLUXCKQJ7CiE8oiyPz61If4ZQ7KPto7430yIoE5dCbJtRvgMtHtvIr9tJlkyUhWOWbM6u8y-gKqNZXjnebLhw3zBjM-g9I43sA4nDx0yMWgbRgU0aLxOKNVWRqpf9N1i23IeaTOHWzVGpCqwEjQ-oYMTBL8b6wphB87poF3yGAW4.AL8FKNpYDKvfFyMDoaMf3SD51GEy2UV6-fPAN0PN_7Y&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;hvadid=693573800566&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9010810&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=15325624778381052618--&amp;hvqmt=b&amp;hvrand=15325624778381052618&amp;hvtargid=kwd-2404450224655&amp;hydadcr=1155_1014973296&amp;keywords=samsung%2Bthe%2Bframe%2Bpro%2B65&amp;mcid=3eb903f3903038e19f74cce348f6e538&amp;qid=1751555990&amp;sr=8-1&amp;th=1">Samsung The Frame Pro (65-inch) for $1,948 (down from $2,200)</a>: New for 2025, Samsung's Frame Pro sets offer brighter and higher-quality Mini LED panels for a superior TV watching experience. The 65-inch Frame Pro is a great option for most living rooms since it's large enough to deliver an immersive viewing experience, and it also comes with Samsung's wireless One Connect box for less cable clutter.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D2PNVJFT&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Hisense+S7N+CanvasTV+%2865-inch%29+for+%24898+%28down+from+%241%2C300%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEQyUE5WSkZUL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEQyUE5WSkZUL3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbTxnrFZGhR5t_AbJDYFi8asDA6GsIk4_WCbYG4X8WqM&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N%2Fdp%2FB0D2PNVJFT%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Hisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N/dp/B0D2PNVJFT/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FVPNGN66X8VZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eurmMf_dqWCRKTJT1yn-n_nCf7TrTUu7EX_HcgmqjkFpZ1bFAAQ72OB_Z7C4DaUYcyVO3jwEzvw5oKenkNt3XL1nLOCQTmc-0SlQoZic0QUlAJ3mT_EWPI6Y-Bfs4HJpxu_MtSEsawa47QWNz_-UvcaxBMRKtgU8FNnFiRQpmjOwiBhcBFASn_4LJteqUGRiB0n2YJZi9uZ_n65-AY0usgjL9fmVx-3DcEhg64POVLA.NNPPzYZ6j26ktdQwhZCwxU1nrUeY5VUmp3uv4oJrCDI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Hisense%2BTV&amp;qid=1751980609&amp;sprefix=hisense%2Bt%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">Hisense S7N CanvasTV (65-inch) for $898 (down from $1,300)</a>: Hisense's spin on Samsung's Frame sets, the CanvasTV, comes in much cheaper and with a boatload of features. The S7N sports an anti-glare display and art mode, as you'd expect, but there's also 144Hz support for a bit of gaming. It also comes with a slim wall mount so you can hang it on your wall like a genuine work of art. (The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:24;pos:1" 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class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Hisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N/dp/B0F363GQZF/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FVPNGN66X8VZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eurmMf_dqWCRKTJT1yn-n_nCf7TrTUu7EX_HcgmqjkFpZ1bFAAQ72OB_Z7C4DaUYcyVO3jwEzvw5oKenkNt3XL1nLOCQTmc-0SlQoZic0QUlAJ3mT_EWPI6Y-Bfs4HJpxu_MtSEsawa47QWNz_-UvcaxBMRKtgU8FNnFiRQpmjOwiBhcBFASn_4LJteqUGRiB0n2YJZi9uZ_n65-AY0usgjL9fmVx-3DcEhg64POVLA.NNPPzYZ6j26ktdQwhZCwxU1nrUeY5VUmp3uv4oJrCDI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Hisense%2BTV&amp;qid=1751980609&amp;sprefix=hisense%2Bt%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">77-inch</a> is down to $1,399.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-home-entertainment-deals-still-available">Best Prime Day home entertainment deals still available</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="9710a8f5f70349eb9f5031b3aaa5ac5e" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Theater-Surround-Speakers-Supports/dp/B0CZ7NBW96/"></core-commerce></p> <p><a 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href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZ7NBW96&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+Bravia+Theater+Bar+9+for+%24998+%28down+from+%241%2C400%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktVGhlYXRlci1TdXJyb3VuZC1TcGVha2Vycy1TdXBwb3J0cy9kcC9CMENaN05CVzk2L3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktVGhlYXRlci1TdXJyb3VuZC1TcGVha2Vycy1TdXBwb3J0cy9kcC9CMENaN05CVzk2L3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAVYLNRk1meyW7Re8y1mR87Nv4LV0YP85ad8SPb90sa38&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Theater-Surround-Speakers-Supports%2Fdp%2FB0CZ7NBW96%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Theater-Surround-Speakers-Supports/dp/B0CZ7NBW96/ref=sr_1_3?crid=CAYUN029F1PJ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1ZQ4GsN0e_ghsLX2kQYB9-d0fBW2r48x_WNnO8lohLpQWLacgc1REVyZ_yqaQg103eF4xP3E36s-Qz-Zdl3BgnoeVEVO5G1ZwEOP2GQqxvS3llvFE2xjVD1kDewaDcnVQlZXT5x_PqlJeB3mgrAf0bt5WdgGPO-Sy4P7KTOaHEAVGrwkhAaBlOMKBnWPZubD9BzqdB5f9ragSnKB19SqWL-QRaCMcomWiNxPuo07FgI.yNZguh7uFOulI9pmDCqAdDYQQ1D4GsObMw6tC56MduE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Bravia%2BTheater%2BQuad&amp;qid=1751383223&amp;sprefix=bravia%2Btheater%2Bquad%2Caps%2C92&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">Sony Bravia Theater Bar 9 for $998 (down from $1,400):</a> The Bravia Theater Bar 9 is Sony’s most capable self-contained soundbar, with 13 speakers and support for virtualized surround sound with Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and Sony’s own 360 Spatial Sound Mapping technology. It’s the best option if you want to enjoy your favorite movies and music loud, but also don’t want to see speakers all over your living room. (The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZ7N9WHK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bravia+Theater+8&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktVGhlYXRlci1TdXJyb3VuZC1TcGVha2Vycy1TdXBwb3J0cy9kcC9CMENaN045V0hLL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktVGhlYXRlci1TdXJyb3VuZC1TcGVha2Vycy1TdXBwb3J0cy9kcC9CMENaN045V0hLL3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAVx39QS7PkAZLjth8xyKkjzIrEF7kjuVtGLmMDryLECT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Theater-Surround-Speakers-Supports%2Fdp%2FB0CZ7N9WHK%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Theater-Surround-Speakers-Supports/dp/B0CZ7N9WHK/ref=sr_1_3?crid=CAYUN029F1PJ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1ZQ4GsN0e_ghsLX2kQYB9-d0fBW2r48x_WNnO8lohLpQWLacgc1REVyZ_yqaQg103eF4xP3E36s-Qz-Zdl3BgnoeVEVO5G1ZwEOP2GQqxvS3llvFE2xjVD1kDewaDcnVQlZXT5x_PqlJeB3mgrAf0bt5WdgGPO-Sy4P7KTOaHEAVGrwkhAaBlOMKBnWPZubD9BzqdB5f9ragSnKB19SqWL-QRaCMcomWiNxPuo07FgI.yNZguh7uFOulI9pmDCqAdDYQQ1D4GsObMw6tC56MduE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Bravia%2BTheater%2BQuad&amp;qid=1751383223&amp;sprefix=bravia%2Btheater%2Bquad%2Caps%2C92&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">Bravia Theater 8</a> is also discounted to $698 and very well-equipped, with 11 speakers and the same surround sound support. )</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:28;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZ7MGY3H&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+Bravia+Theater+Quad+for+%242%2C000+%28down+from+%242%2C500%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktVGhlYXRlci1TdXJyb3VuZC1TcGVha2Vycy1TdXBwb3J0cy9kcC9CMENaN01HWTNIL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktVGhlYXRlci1TdXJyb3VuZC1TcGVha2Vycy1TdXBwb3J0cy9kcC9CMENaN01HWTNIL3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYLjTktwNT_sgq1f31CPyd9KnuoRdGw-Wivah4o13eLw&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Theater-Surround-Speakers-Supports%2Fdp%2FB0CZ7MGY3H%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Theater-Surround-Speakers-Supports/dp/B0CZ7MGY3H/ref=sr_1_3?crid=CAYUN029F1PJ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1ZQ4GsN0e_ghsLX2kQYB9-d0fBW2r48x_WNnO8lohLpQWLacgc1REVyZ_yqaQg103eF4xP3E36s-Qz-Zdl3BgnoeVEVO5G1ZwEOP2GQqxvS3llvFE2xjVD1kDewaDcnVQlZXT5x_PqlJeB3mgrAf0bt5WdgGPO-Sy4P7KTOaHEAVGrwkhAaBlOMKBnWPZubD9BzqdB5f9ragSnKB19SqWL-QRaCMcomWiNxPuo07FgI.yNZguh7uFOulI9pmDCqAdDYQQ1D4GsObMw6tC56MduE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Bravia%2BTheater%2BQuad&amp;qid=1751383223&amp;sprefix=bravia%2Btheater%2Bquad%2Caps%2C92&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">Sony Bravia Theater Quad for $2,000 (down from $2,500)</a>: Leave it up to Sony to do something different in the world of home entertainment. The Bravia Theater Quad are a set of four flat modules, containing a total of sixteen speakers, which deliver truly enveloping surround sound. They’re the ideal solution for anyone who wants a theatrical experience, but doesn’t want to see gigantic tower or bookshelf speakers in their space. They support Sony’s 360 Spatial Sound Mapping, as well as Dolby Atmos and DTS:X.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:29;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DF44RTTP&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Roku+Ultra+for+%2469+%28down+from+%24100%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAARqiBij_FYQsF3i4FiTHJAtW_BZuTfr8JHAWmmOvtQwz&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRoku-Ultra-2024-Streaming-Rechargeable%2Fdp%2FB0DF44RTTP%2Fref%3Dasc_df_B0DF44RTTP" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Ultra-2024-Streaming-Rechargeable/dp/B0DF44RTTP/ref=asc_df_B0DF44RTTP?mcid=2f5f1487650739ae9b4b4f16016dc357&amp;hvocijid=11113160075909107155-B0DF44RTTP-&amp;hvexpln=73&amp;tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=721245378154&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=11113160075909107155&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9198314&amp;hvtargid=pla-2281435180218&amp;th=1">Roku Ultra for $69 (down from $100):</a> Roku's <em>ultimate</em> set-top box is the best streamer for home theater enthusiasts who want to avoid the more expensive Apple TV. It handles every video and audio format you'd want — including Dolby Vision, Atmos and HDR 10+ — and it also comes with Roku's rechargeable Voice Remote Pro. The Roku Ultra is the fastest device from the company, so you can expect to zip around Roku's interface and apps far quicker than the cheaper streaming sticks.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="80886400a12641b3ab1de93c312b1fc3" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXY833HV"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:30;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DXY833HV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Roku+Streaming+Stick%2B+for+%2430+%28down+from+%2440%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFhZODMzSFY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFhZODMzSFYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWlmrpbL4bgtglPB_W-RLvlZxA_villpQWTs9l4DhNXY&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DXY833HV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXY833HV">Roku Streaming Stick+ for $30 (down from $40):</a> The Roku Streaming Stick+ is the easiest way to bring Roku's robust app selection to any 4K TV. It's a great option for first-generation 4K sets that either had no streaming apps, or are way too slow by now. And it's a great gadgets to bring on trips to maintain access to all of your favorite streaming services.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:31;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DXXYS4BJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=64c8f5d9-57b4-49ee-ad7b-92782af8cf47&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Roku+Streaming+Stick+HD+For+%2420+%28down+from+%2430%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFhYWVM0Qko_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNjRjOGY1ZDktNTdiNC00OWVlLWFkN2ItOTI3ODJhZjhjZjQ3Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFhYWVM0QkoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAe9RHoRd-DzWxWf_H8MQOo3CNaDR-wL_qylpzn1H6vK-&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DXXYS4BJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXXYS4BJ">Roku Streaming Stick HD For $20 (down from $30)</a>: The basic HD Roku Streaming stick is a solid option for bringing streaming apps to older TVs, which likely don't support 4K or any fancy HDR standards. Sure, it's as no frills as you can get, but for $20 it's worth having a backup streaming device. (or one you won't mind losing during a trip). And if you have an older TV that's still working, it's definitely worth investing a bit to get modern apps.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-tv-deals-from-sony-lg-samsung-and-others-still-available-today-084705105.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Big ticket items like TVs and iPads might get the lion’s share of the attention during Amazon Prime Day, but you can often find affordable tech on sale for even less, too. Despite the sale being over for the summer, some of that budget-friendly tech is still available today and on sale. We’ve combed through the pages (and pages) of discounts to find the brands and gadgets that we at Engadget actually recommend. We’ve also linked back to our <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/best-tech/">reviews and buying guides</a> to help with your shopping decisions. Here are the best Prime Day deals under $50 you can still get today.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-deals-under-50-still-available">Prime Day deals under $50 still available</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="d0faf79ff88e454bba05f0ff8bf559e6" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWXNS552?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C4FDJ8F7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+USB-C+Cable+240W+Bio-Braided+for+%2417+%2811+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fua2VyLUJpby1CcmFpZGVkLUNoYXJnZXItTWFjQm9vay1TYW1zdW5nL2RwL0IwQzRGREo4Rjc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMTJkNDVhN2MtMTZiNC00MjBlLWJlM2ItMGQ4MzFkYjczZTZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fua2VyLUJpby1CcmFpZGVkLUNoYXJnZXItTWFjQm9vay1TYW1zdW5nL2RwL0IwQzRGREo4RjciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfZuDh0c-PUL8pBi1wGavKgcx18UtP6asta-q65h9rav&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAnker-Bio-Braided-Charger-MacBook-Samsung%2Fdp%2FB0C4FDJ8F7" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Bio-Braided-Charger-MacBook-Samsung/dp/B0C4FDJ8F7?th=1"><strong>Anker USB-C Cable 240W Bio-Braided for $17 (11 percent off)</strong></a>: We recommend this in our guide to <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-iphone-accessories-140022449.html">iPhone accessories</a>. It’s a reliable cable that’s durable and capable of fast charging (provided you have the right wall adapters).</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DXXYS4BJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Roku+Streaming+Stick+HD+for+%2420+%28%2410+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1Jva3UtU3RyZWFtaW5nLVN0aWNrLTIwMjUtRGV2aWNlL2RwL0IwRFhYWVM0Qko_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMTJkNDVhN2MtMTZiNC00MjBlLWJlM2ItMGQ4MzFkYjczZTZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1Jva3UtU3RyZWFtaW5nLVN0aWNrLTIwMjUtRGV2aWNlL2RwL0IwRFhYWVM0QkoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbxGIk4QkLeiJTyOi9eTNZmv71pPwHPcfs7LSilpBky3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRoku-Streaming-Stick-2025-Device%2Fdp%2FB0DXXYS4BJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streaming-Stick-2025-Device/dp/B0DXXYS4BJ"><strong>Roku Streaming Stick HD for $20 ($10 off)</strong></a>: Roku just released two new streaming sticks this year. This standard model and the Plus model that supports 4K resolution. We recommend the latter in our guide to <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/best-streaming-devices-media-players-123021395.html">streaming sticks</a> as the best way to catch free and live content, but if you don't have a 4K TV (or don't care about the resolution) you can grab this stick for 33 percent off. The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DXY833HV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Plus+model&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1Jva3UtU3RyZWFtaW5nLVN0aWNrLVBsdXMtMjAyNS9kcC9CMERYWTgzM0hWP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjEyZDQ1YTdjLTE2YjQtNDIwZS1iZTNiLTBkODMxZGI3M2U2ZiIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9Sb2t1LVN0cmVhbWluZy1TdGljay1QbHVzLTIwMjUvZHAvQjBEWFk4MzNIViIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAT88SW08mNVhu6XlqZP2rPU80a0MiWKv6kEYqEBIHuK3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRoku-Streaming-Stick-Plus-2025%2Fdp%2FB0DXY833HV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streaming-Stick-Plus-2025/dp/B0DXY833HV">Plus model</a> is also on sale.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C6XK77HJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+iPhone+Nano+Power+Bank+with+Built-in+USB-C+Connector+for+%2420+%28%2410+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzZYSzc3SEo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMTJkNDVhN2MtMTZiNC00MjBlLWJlM2ItMGQ4MzFkYjczZTZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzZYSzc3SEoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQigAPZOmJDpstJjpOkudLlGLh6z3qQS6C3wv1y3ofsB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C6XK77HJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6XK77HJ?th=1"><strong>Anker iPhone Nano Power Bank with Built-in USB-C Connector for $20 ($10 off with Prime)</strong></a>: One of these little guys could represent the difference between a dead phone and a not-dead phone. It’s the size of an oldey-timey lipstick case and delivers a partial charge to any USB-C phone. We tested it out and awarded it a spot <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-power-bank-143048526.html">in our guide to power banks</a>. The current discount only applies to the black colorway, and this is a few dollars higher than the all-time low of $16 it hit for Black Friday.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08RHD97QY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=TP-Link+AC1200+WiFi+extender+for+%2420+%28%2410+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOFJIRDk3UVk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMTJkNDVhN2MtMTZiNC00MjBlLWJlM2ItMGQ4MzFkYjczZTZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOFJIRDk3UVkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAVRT-LxztPRXFmwBgIlrtVYE1fJIuk-_bPyMnCnxVBtI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB08RHD97QY" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RHD97QY?th=1"><strong>TP-Link AC1200 WiFi extender for $20 ($10 off)</strong></a>: If you’ve got some dead spots in your home’s internet coverage and aren’t quite ready for a mesh setup, a Wi-Fi extender can help. This is our favorite budget option in our guide to these plug-in devices thanks to its easy setup and user-friendly app.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="9e3059ce56a1448bbf5a9356b88c423b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D7Q41PM?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09C5RG6KV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+USB+C+Charger+%28Nano+65W%29+for+%2426+%28%2414+off+with+clippable+coupon%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL3Byb2R1Y3QvQjA5QzVSRzZLVj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIxMmQ0NWE3Yy0xNmI0LTQyMGUtYmUzYi0wZDgzMWRiNzNlNmYiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZ3AvcHJvZHVjdC9CMDlDNVJHNktWIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAASION-3kef6DFevuOHqJrpWcGwnwzw7ak6MRnm2v8enI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB09C5RG6KV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09C5RG6KV"><strong>Anker USB C Charger (Nano 65W) for $26 ($14 off with clippable coupon)</strong></a><strong>:</strong> This is a similar model to the travel pick in our<a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09C5RG6KV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=fast+charger+guide&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL3Byb2R1Y3QvQjA5QzVSRzZLVj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIxMmQ0NWE3Yy0xNmI0LTQyMGUtYmUzYi0wZDgzMWRiNzNlNmYiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZ3AvcHJvZHVjdC9CMDlDNVJHNktWIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAASION-3kef6DFevuOHqJrpWcGwnwzw7ak6MRnm2v8enI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB09C5RG6KV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09C5RG6KV"> fast charger guide</a>. It has three ports, two USB-C that deliver up to 65 watts each and a USB-A that can output 22 watts. That should refill your laptop, tablet and maybe some earbuds while not taking up too much space.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B01MTB55WH&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+Soundcore+2+for+%2429+%2835+percent+off+with+Prime%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjAxTVRCNTVXSD90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIxMmQ0NWE3Yy0xNmI0LTQyMGUtYmUzYi0wZDgzMWRiNzNlNmYiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDFNVEI1NVdIIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAATNAW5E5We0DZ_4Trm3qPsg_2n7ayxb0tubakiCpI-0d&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB01MTB55WH" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTB55WH"><strong>Anker Soundcore 2 for $29 (35 percent off with Prime):</strong></a> The Soundcore 2 is an older bluetooth speaker, but it holds up — fully waterproof, with 24 hours of battery life and bass you can hear on the other side of a pool.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DXY833HV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Roku+Streaming+Stick+Plus+for+%2430+%28%2410+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1Jva3UtU3RyZWFtaW5nLVN0aWNrLVBsdXMtMjAyNS9kcC9CMERYWTgzM0hWLz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIxMmQ0NWE3Yy0xNmI0LTQyMGUtYmUzYi0wZDgzMWRiNzNlNmYiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vUm9rdS1TdHJlYW1pbmctU3RpY2stUGx1cy0yMDI1L2RwL0IwRFhZODMzSFYvIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAaMkFQ9egiTqMdZHghWj5oLgUPf6Cpd7OMTnpun9n1N0&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRoku-Streaming-Stick-Plus-2025%2Fdp%2FB0DXY833HV%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streaming-Stick-Plus-2025/dp/B0DXY833HV/"><strong>Roku Streaming Stick Plus for $30 ($10 off)</strong></a>: Roku replaced the Streaming Stick 4K with this model (which also supports 4K) <a data-i13n="cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/home-theater/roku-streaming-stick-plus-review-powered-by-the-tv-and-perfect-for-travel-130047601.html">earlier this year</a>. We think it’s the <a data-i13n="cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/best-streaming-devices-media-players-123021395.html">best streaming stick</a> for people who want to access free and live content on their TV. Roku’s interface is easy to use, colorful and lets you watch thousands of hours of free stuff, through Roku’s own content and more. You also get decently organized access to your paid content.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B8PGDMWK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=HyperX+Cloud+Stinger+2+gaming+headset+for+%2437+%28%2414+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjhQR0RNV0s_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMTJkNDVhN2MtMTZiNC00MjBlLWJlM2ItMGQ4MzFkYjczZTZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjhQR0RNV0siLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdGQntltJQPV3DGMPBEZzaqfIpMe_tXYObPIcGMVvUWj&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B8PGDMWK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8PGDMWK?th=1"><strong>HyperX Cloud Stinger 2 gaming headset for $37 ($14 off)</strong></a>: In our guide to gaming headsets, we ultimately recommend getting an external mic along with a good pair of wired headphones for chatting. But if you really want a two-in-one, the Cloud Stinger 2 is <a data-i13n="cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/best-gaming-headset-130006477.html">our pick for a budget gaming headset</a>.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D9MVKMY4&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Lexar+Professional+Silver+Plus+%28512GB%29+for+%2440+%2845+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDlNVktNWTQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMTJkNDVhN2MtMTZiNC00MjBlLWJlM2ItMGQ4MzFkYjczZTZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDlNVktNWTQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYcEuQBqgcTzw1ULjJa6HnB5Tk6d_Qs62vTO2FNgLogW&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D9MVKMY4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MVKMY4"><strong>Lexar Professional Silver Plus (512GB) for $40 (45 percent off)</strong></a>: We found this microSD card to be the best value of <a data-i13n="cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-microsd-card-130038282.html">all the cards we tested</a>. It consistently delivered faster sequential reads and writes than other models. If you need storage for your gaming handhelds, camera, drone or other devices, may as well stock up now.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09P51V2LH&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=12d45a7c-16b4-420e-be3b-0d831db73e6f&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Leebin+Electric+Spin+Scrubber+for+%2440+%2843+percent+off+with+Prime%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVA1MVYyTEg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMTJkNDVhN2MtMTZiNC00MjBlLWJlM2ItMGQ4MzFkYjczZTZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVA1MVYyTEgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZSOxDRQ_yIw3w2O56YBZlKMD1HPPvkY0XmnzeY-DID3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09P51V2LH" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P51V2LH?th=1"><strong>Leebin Electric Spin Scrubber for $40 (43 percent off with Prime):</strong></a> This was Deputy Editor Valentina Palladino's <a data-i13n="cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/our-favorite-tech-we-bought-in-2024-130006482.html">favorite thing she bought last year</a> because it makes the must-detested chore of cleaning her shower less of a pain. It's an electric spin scrubber that comes with multiple cleaning heads so you can use it on your countertops, sinks, tubs and showers and more. It also has an adjustable arm so you can reach tough spots in hard-to-reach places, and it convenient recharges via USB-C.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="d56322290bda4f13b2038ed9405b405f" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B1LVC5VZ?th=1"></core-commerce></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-under-50-that-you-can-still-get-today-160028866.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>There’s a reason Apple gear is so in demand. After reviewing nearly every major device out there, our current favorite <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/best-laptops-120008636.html">laptop</a>, <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/best-smartwatches-153013118.html">smartwatch</a>, <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-tablets-150026056.html">tablet</a> and <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/best-smartphones-140004900.html">smartphone</a> are <em>all</em> made by Apple. The only problem is, Apple gear isn’t cheap. So it’s sometimes wise to wait for an event like <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Amazon’s Prime Day</a> before you buy.</p> <p>Prime Day might be over now, but we're still tracking some good sale prices on Apple gear today. This guide rounds up the best Prime Day Apple deals still available, including some of the lowest prices of the year on iPads, Apple Watches, AirPods and MacBooks. We’ve also linked to our reviews and buying guides so you can make the most informed purchases possible.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-airpod-deals-still-available">Best Prime Day AirPod deals still available</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="6af2dc9b1f554e46be1afaf79acecd30" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized-High-Fidelity/dp/B0D1XD1ZV3?"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGJ7HYG1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=AirPods+4+%28with+ANC%29+for+%24119+%28%2460+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ2FuY2VsbGF0aW9uLVRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1QZXJzb25hbGl6ZWQvZHAvQjBER0o3SFlHMT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI3ZjkzZTI4OC01NjY1LTQxNGQtYWMxOC05Y2JjMzgzN2VlZmUiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vQXBwbGUtSGVhZHBob25lcy1DYW5jZWxsYXRpb24tVHJhbnNwYXJlbmN5LVBlcnNvbmFsaXplZC9kcC9CMERHSjdIWUcxIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAW-TLFdPzX2i8Zu7tJzYWiNM8FR1BlLOwQzRaP_D9xdi&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized%2Fdp%2FB0DGJ7HYG1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized/dp/B0DGJ7HYG1?th=1"><strong>AirPods 4 (with ANC) for $119 ($60 off)</strong></a>: Apple introduced the fourth generation of its basic earbuds <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/everything-apple-revealed-at-the-iphone-16-launch-event-apple-watch-series-10-airpods-4-ios-18-and-more-170346723.html">alongside the iPhone 16</a> last September. This model includes ANC — a first for Apple’s “regular” buds — and Billy awarded them an <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/apple-airpods-4-review-pro-features-for-everyone-120032046.html">86 in his review</a>. Just note they don’t have a fully closed design like the Pro models — but some may prefer the open fit, which Apple completely redesigned to fit more securely.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGHMNQ5Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=AirPods+4+%28without+ANC%29+for+%2489+%28%2440+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUJsdWV0b290aC1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLVBlcnNvbmFsaXplZC1FZmZvcnRsZXNzL2RwL0IwREdITU5RNVo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiN2Y5M2UyODgtNTY2NS00MTRkLWFjMTgtOWNiYzM4MzdlZWZlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUJsdWV0b290aC1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLVBlcnNvbmFsaXplZC1FZmZvcnRsZXNzL2RwL0IwREdITU5RNVoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAem0Y8hb96InJb58ihmKKOtkHDUK2CkEohTXsmpiZsX3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-Bluetooth-Headphones-Personalized-Effortless%2Fdp%2FB0DGHMNQ5Z" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Bluetooth-Headphones-Personalized-Effortless/dp/B0DGHMNQ5Z?th=1"><strong>AirPods 4 (without ANC) for $89 ($40 off)</strong></a>: Apple introduced two models of its fourth generation basic earbuds <a data-i13n="cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/everything-apple-revealed-at-the-iphone-16-launch-event-apple-watch-series-10-airpods-4-ios-18-and-more-170346723.html">alongside the iPhone 16</a> last September. This one doesn't have the extra features of ANC or Transparency Mode (which makes them cheaper). This pared down model benefits from a shape redesign — which our headphone expert, <a data-i13n="cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/apple-airpods-4-review-pro-features-for-everyone-120032046.html">Billy Steele, found</a> both more comfortable and more secure — as well as improved sound quality that’s more immersive than before.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGJKT2X9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=AirPods+Max+%28USB-C%29+for+%24399+%2827+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREdKS1QyWDkvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjdmOTNlMjg4LTU2NjUtNDE0ZC1hYzE4LTljYmMzODM3ZWVmZSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMERHSktUMlg5LyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAASGxSDTusrfxQ3d1pW2pKyT9CFnaAlLRuZwRnojv8nIc&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DGJKT2X9%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGJKT2X9/?th=1"><strong>AirPods Max (USB-C) for $399 (27 percent off)</strong></a>: Apple’s only over-ear headphones are due for an update. The company outfitted the <a data-i13n="cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/apples-usb-c-airpods-max-are-69-off-ahead-of-prime-day-144105490.html">AirPods Max</a> with a USB-C port late last year, but the internals haven’t had an overhaul since 2020. Still, we named them the <a data-i13n="cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/best-airpods-100041810.html">best (and only) over-ear AirPods</a>. They are comfortable and relatively lightweight, have a balanced sound and the noise cancellation is solid.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-ipad-deals-still-available">Best Prime Day iPad deals still available</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="00759bbbf57340108df662bc378e3f7f" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-11-inch-Display-All-Day/dp/B0DZ75TN5F?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZ74YQ1V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+iPad+Air+%2811-inch%2C+M3%29+for+%24479+%28%24120+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NFlRMVYvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjdmOTNlMjg4LTU2NjUtNDE0ZC1hYzE4LTljYmMzODM3ZWVmZSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMERaNzRZUTFWLyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAddGkz2D-aRL8LywU66RKLM97Lrg4jT4EZYQumkdTKsl&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZ74YQ1V%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ74YQ1V/?th=1"><strong>Apple iPad Air (11-inch, M3) for $479 ($120 off)</strong></a>: In our opinion, the iPad Air is the <a data-i13n="cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ipads-how-to-pick-the-best-apple-tablet-for-you-150054066.html">best iPad</a> for most people as it strikes an ideal balance between performance, price and features. The M3 chip is almost overkill for a tablet, but it means performance should never be an issue. And upcoming <a data-i13n="cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ipados-26-makes-apples-tablets-more-like-macs-174904597.html">productivity gains from iPadOS 26</a> should make the tablet even more powerful. This is the <a data-i13n="cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/apples-ipad-air-m3-is-120-off-for-prime-day-094516489.html">lowest price we've seen</a> so far for this model, and it's still in stock.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DK3YF38G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+iPad+Mini+%28A17+Pro%29+for+%24399+%28%24100+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREszWUYzOEc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiN2Y5M2UyODgtNTY2NS00MTRkLWFjMTgtOWNiYzM4MzdlZWZlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREszWUYzOEciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAan__sYxclSKO3GA7DPajmMRnJxQISCJw-rEuyKJlH0K&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DK3YF38G" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK3YF38G?th=1"><strong>Apple iPad Mini (A17 Pro) for $399 ($100 off)</strong></a>: Apple’s smallest iPad earned an <a data-i13n="cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ipad-pro-2024-review-so-very-nice-and-so-very-expensive-210012937.html">83 review score</a> from us when it came out late last year. Despite its compact size, it’s still a fully-featured iPad, with support for accessories and a laminated, anti-reflective screen. It’s not a laptop-replacer, but rather the perfect couch companion, handling games, video, web browsing and email triage.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZ749BQ2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+iPad+Air+%2813-inch%2C+M3%29+for+%24609+%28%24100+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NDlCUTI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiN2Y5M2UyODgtNTY2NS00MTRkLWFjMTgtOWNiYzM4MzdlZWZlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NDlCUTIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdCJFa2tshxqJ1my8OvCN-S8gLQpqMvI4CNDxkWYiYD3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZ749BQ2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ749BQ2?th=1"><strong>Apple iPad Air (13-inch, M3) for $609 ($100 off)</strong></a>: This is Apple’s most affordable large-screen iPad. Engadget’s Nate Ingraham awarded it a <a data-i13n="cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ipad-air-m3-review-a-modest-update-thats-still-easy-to-recommend-130045196.html">review score of 89</a> upon its debut this March. When you pair it with accessories like a keyboard folio and mouse, it becomes a true productivity machine — though those add-ons make it a pricey package. Good thing iPads are on sale for Prime Day.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D3J6L2ZC&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+iPad+Pro+%2811-inch%2C+M4%29+for+%24899+%28%24100+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDNKNkwyWkM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiN2Y5M2UyODgtNTY2NS00MTRkLWFjMTgtOWNiYzM4MzdlZWZlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDNKNkwyWkMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdlE2wKbb_9hb71iklz9AJ2q27eH9WCOcIo77x5rW40m&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D3J6L2ZC" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3J6L2ZC?th=1"><strong>Apple iPad Pro (11-inch, M4) for $899 ($100 off)</strong></a>: We named the<a data-i13n="cpos:24;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-tablets-150026056.html"> iPad Pro the best tablet</a> money can buy. The screen is one of the best we’ve seen and Apple somehow managed to make the Pro model<a data-i13n="cpos:25;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/the-m4-ipad-pro-is-literally-lighter-than-air-164942372.html"> lighter than Air</a> models. If you plan on handling heavy productivity — video rendering and editing, machine learning apps and the like, this is the way to go.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-apple-watch-deals-still-available"><strong>Best Prime Day Apple Watch deals still available</strong></h2> <p> <core-commerce id="67c759550df94b878846351eab5eba32" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGHV8NLZ/ref=fs_a_wt2_us2?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:26;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGHZJVYY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+Watch+SE+for+%24169+%2832+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREdIWkpWWVkvcmVmPWZzX2Ffd3QyX3VzND90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI3ZjkzZTI4OC01NjY1LTQxNGQtYWMxOC05Y2JjMzgzN2VlZmUiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBER0haSlZZWS9yZWY9ZnNfYV93dDJfdXM0IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAARJT2O_koAx-g7eKKPRkhq6IvVjEpmDWbw5ayzs14_WW&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DGHZJVYY%2Fref%3Dfs_a_wt2_us4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGHZJVYY/ref=fs_a_wt2_us4?th=1"><strong>Apple Watch SE for $169 (32 percent off):</strong></a> We wouldn’t be surprised to see an update to Apple’s budget smartwatch<a data-i13n="cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/a-plastic-apple-watch-se-may-still-be-happening-but-not-until-next-year-203534583.html"> sometime soon</a> (and we have<a data-i13n="cpos:28;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/revisiting-the-apple-watch-se-in-2025-left-me-with-a-long-list-of-update-requests-163046835.html"> a few suggestions</a> on the matter). But thanks to some serious discounts, the Apple Watch SE has turned out to be the most affordable way to get an iPhone companion for your wrist. Despite the lackluster screen and limited extra features, it handles the basics well.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-macbook-deals-still-available">Best Prime Day MacBook deals still available</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="b573f87b7cf045a3b0f4b4fdf67ed316" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-2025-MacBook-13-inch-Laptop/dp/B0DZDC3WW5?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:29;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZDBWM5B&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=MacBook+Air+%28M4%2C+15-inch%29+for+%241%2C049+%28%24150+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQldNNUIvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjdmOTNlMjg4LTU2NjUtNDE0ZC1hYzE4LTljYmMzODM3ZWVmZSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMERaREJXTTVCLyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAUuB-62WTBRee95gYRv4TqYA6CuKSV2I2DCFegGME3U9&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZDBWM5B%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDBWM5B/?th=1"><strong>MacBook Air (M4, 15-inch) for $1,049 ($150 off)</strong></a>: If you want a little more screen real estate, go for the 15-inch Air. Devindra found the screen more immersive than the smaller model, and only slightly less portable. The slightly larger battery gave it a few more minutes of life. Whichever size you go for, the MacBook Air will be able to handle all but the most demanding rendering tasks without breaking a sweat.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:30;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DLHN51RP&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=MacBook+Air+%2815-inch%2C+M3%2C+24GB+RAM%29+for+%241%2C299+%28%24450+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExITjUxUlA_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiN2Y5M2UyODgtNTY2NS00MTRkLWFjMTgtOWNiYzM4MzdlZWZlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExITjUxUlAiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAcN_XPXwd32dq8fStfOzxVX5iNsvCxV7biR_Fmh__aAP&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DLHN51RP" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHN51RP?th=1"><strong>MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 24GB RAM) for $1,299 ($450 off)</strong></a>: This higher-specced version of the M3 MacBook Air from last year has a 15-inch screen and a little extra internal memory. We gave the 15-inch model a score of 90 <a data-i13n="cpos:31;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/macbook-air-m3-review-2024-13-15-inch-140053162.html">in our review</a> when it came out in early 2024. Outside of its older M3 chip (which is still plenty fast for everyday use), marginally improved camera and inability to<a data-i13n="cpos:32;pos:1" href="https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-air/use-an-external-display-apd8cdd74f57/mac#:~:text=MacBook%20Air%20with%20M4.,8K%20resolution%20at%2060%20Hz."> power two external displays</a> with the lid open, this MacBook is virtually identical to the M4 version.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-apple-accessory-deals-still-available">Best Prime Day Apple accessory deals still available</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="01a6ba3fd32e41279060fe7fdb22d22b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MX542LL-A-AirTag-Pack/dp/B0D54JZTHY/"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:33;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CL7J12YK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+Pencil+%28USB-C%29+for+%2459+%28%2420+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLU1VV0EzQU0tQS1QZW5jaWwtVVNCLUMvZHAvQjBDTDdKMTJZSz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI3ZjkzZTI4OC01NjY1LTQxNGQtYWMxOC05Y2JjMzgzN2VlZmUiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vQXBwbGUtTVVXQTNBTS1BLVBlbmNpbC1VU0ItQy9kcC9CMENMN0oxMllLIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAUO15XJX6wkosJj9vYDoaq-P0LFBs9Yy6P5PD7oCXERE&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-MUWA3AM-A-Pencil-USB-C%2Fdp%2FB0CL7J12YK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MUWA3AM-A-Pencil-USB-C/dp/B0CL7J12YK"><strong>Apple Pencil (USB-C) for $59 ($20 off)</strong></a>: Before you buy an Apple Pencil, check this<a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:34;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=compatibility+page&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2I_bm9kZT0xMDE0MDAyNjcwMTEmdGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiN2Y5M2UyODgtNTY2NS00MTRkLWFjMTgtOWNiYzM4MzdlZWZlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2I_bm9kZT0xMDE0MDAyNjcwMTEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAX_wG22JWfKck9tJ1h2jW9xcM0hDgT4MzOpafTtD47eS&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fb%3Fnode%3D101400267011" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=101400267011&amp;ref=fs_a_pen_us4https://support.apple.com/en-us/108937"> compatibility page</a> to make sure it’ll work with your model and generation of iPad. To say the least,<a data-i13n="cpos:35;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/the-apple-pencil-lineup-is-a-mess-so-heres-a-guide-to-which-one-you-should-buy-190040913.html"> it’s confusing</a>. This model has the widest compatibility, but note that it doesn’t charge through its magnetic attachment, you’ll need to use the USB-C for refilling it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:36;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D3J71RM7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+Pencil+Pro+for+%2499+%28%2430+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLVBlbmNpbC1Qcm8tUGl4ZWwtUGVyZmVjdC1JbmR1c3RyeS1MZWFkaW5nL2RwL0IwRDNKNzFSTTc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiN2Y5M2UyODgtNTY2NS00MTRkLWFjMTgtOWNiYzM4MzdlZWZlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLVBlbmNpbC1Qcm8tUGl4ZWwtUGVyZmVjdC1JbmR1c3RyeS1MZWFkaW5nL2RwL0IwRDNKNzFSTTciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWF2yRPIXSFjyZiirHgL77d-vsiKPDRnz8DvC4FM_ts7&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-Pencil-Pro-Pixel-Perfect-Industry-Leading%2Fdp%2FB0D3J71RM7" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Pencil-Pro-Pixel-Perfect-Industry-Leading/dp/B0D3J71RM7"><strong>Apple Pencil Pro for $99 ($30 off)</strong></a>: Apple announced the Pro version of its pencil <a data-i13n="cpos:37;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/apple-pencil-pro-adds-squeeze-roll-and-haptic-feedback-to-its-bag-of-tricks-144712885.html">at the same time</a> as the iPad Pro with the M4 chip. It adds haptic feedback, squeeze gestures and roll capabilities to the usual stylus tricks. It works with the newest iPad Pro, Air and Mini models.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:38;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07K1WWBJK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7f93e288-5665-414d-ac18-9cbc3837eefe&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+Pencil+%282nd+gen%29+for+%2490+%28%2439+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAf7Mcfa2K-L9fO_1Fc9EzcDUDHm6xs3289vQwLZzDuZX&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-MU8F2AM-A-Pencil-Generation%2Fdp%2FB07K1WWBJK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MU8F2AM-A-Pencil-Generation/dp/B07K1WWBJK"><strong>Apple Pencil (2nd gen) for $90 ($39 off)</strong></a>: The Second gen Pencil both attaches and charges magnetically, supports tilt and pressure sensitivity and allows for tool changes with a tap of the flat edge. It’s an older pencil and isn’t compatible with the latest iPad models.</p> <p></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-prime-day-apple-deals-on-ipads-airpods-macbooks-and-more-still-available-today-150005278.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Another Prime Day</a> has come and gone, but a few deals are still lingering on the internet today. Amazon gave folks double the time to shop this year, extending Prime Day from two days to four, but we understand that life can just get in the way sometimes. Maybe you missed the event, or maybe you bought some essentials and still want to see if you can save money and grab a few extra items. Whatever camp you fall into, you can still save while shopping at Amazon today. Here are the best Prime Day deals you can still get now that the event has ended.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-deals-still-available-tech-under-50">Prime Day deals <strong>still available: Tech </strong>under $50</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="30bef86379354d7cb7eaf409234a2b6a" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P51V2LH?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C6XK77HJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+iPhone+Nano+Power+Bank+with+Built-in+USB-C+Connector+for+%2420+%28%2410+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzZYSzc3SEo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzZYSzc3SEoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAaw3Vnv9SedS4E-hPZMYUF23rD0q2l74zhtroCTPXUaU&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C6XK77HJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6XK77HJ?th=1"><strong>Anker iPhone Nano Power Bank with Built-in USB-C Connector for $20 ($10 off)</strong></a>: One of these little guys could represent the difference between a dead phone and a not-dead phone. It’s the size of an oldey-timey lipstick case and delivers a partial charge to any USB-C phone. We tested it out and awarded it a spot <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-power-bank-143048526.html">in our guide to power banks</a>.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CRDSSRHG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Jisulife+Life7+handheld+fan+for+%2426+%2810+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1JEU1NSSEc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1JEU1NSSEciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAciKKvSxSqhdVp-ujQxv2MWJvyl9_Sijb13DQrc8EZlD&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CRDSSRHG" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRDSSRHG?th=1"><strong>Jisulife Life7 handheld fan for $26 (10 percent off):</strong></a> Jisulife makes handheld fans we've recommended in past <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-gifts-under-25-140042014.html">gift guides</a> and this is one of its newer models. It can be held, folded so it sits flat on a table or worn around your neck for a cool breeze wherever you're going. It has an easy-to-read display in its center that will show you the fan speed level or current battery life, and its 5,000 mAh battery can last up to 19.5 hours on a single charge when you're running the fan on its lowest setting.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D9MVKMY4&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Lexar+Professional+Silver+Plus+for+%2440+%2845+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDlNVktNWTQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDlNVktNWTQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfJo8B1Chx6h0SocHIdaYQdQaHCiKEOIXKACCuyhPd3n&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D9MVKMY4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MVKMY4?"><strong>Lexar Professional Silver Plus for $40 (45 percent off):</strong></a> Our tests showed this to be the fastest microSD card on the market, beating out the whole Samsung line. Not only is it fast enough to download and upload 4K files without trying your patience, it's also waterproof, cheap and squeezes in both USB-A and USB-C ports.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D2LQGJ2V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Meater+SE+smart+meat+thermometer+for+%2448+%2840+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05ldy1NRUFURVItVGhlcm1vbWV0ZXItQmx1ZXRvb3RoLVJvdGlzc2VyaWUvZHAvQjBEMkxRR0oyVi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05ldy1NRUFURVItVGhlcm1vbWV0ZXItQmx1ZXRvb3RoLVJvdGlzc2VyaWUvZHAvQjBEMkxRR0oyVi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfkCnx0BInskyidMh55ArWhmmwQYFifgDSk9kdpkRZYa&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNew-MEATER-Thermometer-Bluetooth-Rotisserie%2Fdp%2FB0D2LQGJ2V%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/New-MEATER-Thermometer-Bluetooth-Rotisserie/dp/B0D2LQGJ2V/"><strong>Meater SE smart meat thermometer for $48 (40 percent off):</strong></a> This lets you wirelessly monitor the temperature of your food while it's cooking, which could make it an essential tool for aspiring grillmasters. It has a Bluetooth range of 165 feet, a dishwasher-safe design and its companion mobile app lets you keep an eye on foods even if you're a few rooms away.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-apple-deals-still-available">Prime Day Apple deals <strong>still available</strong></h2> <p> <core-commerce id="60b4f7edb75d444790f7ad602b934dfa" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1XD1ZV3/"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D54JZTHY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+AirTags+%284-pack%29+for+%2468+%2831+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLU1YNTQyTEwtQS1BaXJUYWctUGFjay9kcC9CMEQ1NEpaVEhZLz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJiZWM5ZGE5ZS1hNjg1LTRiNzgtYjUzMi1mOTA2MWFhN2EzYTMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vQXBwbGUtTVg1NDJMTC1BLUFpclRhZy1QYWNrL2RwL0IwRDU0SlpUSFkvIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAR1xvU6KRi4fIddAuFMeg35WCkWg_y9vh_lF17fNYHWR&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-MX542LL-A-AirTag-Pack%2Fdp%2FB0D54JZTHY%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MX542LL-A-AirTag-Pack/dp/B0D54JZTHY/"><strong>Apple AirTags (4-pack) for $68 (31 percent off)</strong></a>: AirTags are famous for their ability to keep track of anything you attach them to. We named them<a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-bluetooth-tracker-140028377.html"> the best Bluetooth trackers for iPhone users</a> in our guide thanks to the AirTags’ almost spooky ability to locate items in the world at large. If you just need a<a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CWXNS552&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=single+tag&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLU1YNTMyTEwtQS1BaXJUYWcvZHAvQjBDV1hOUzU1Mj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJiZWM5ZGE5ZS1hNjg1LTRiNzgtYjUzMi1mOTA2MWFhN2EzYTMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vQXBwbGUtTVg1MzJMTC1BLUFpclRhZy9kcC9CMENXWE5TNTUyIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAbDU2wmxZM8Bm_wM3m7j4NKnLZ7NW1cIxLW9TtkcwUUe&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-MX532LL-A-AirTag%2Fdp%2FB0CWXNS552" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MX532LL-A-AirTag/dp/B0CWXNS552?"> single tag</a>, that’s on sale too.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGHV8NLZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+Watch+Series+10+for+%24280+%28%24120+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREdIVjhOTFo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREdIVjhOTFoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbCFryPVRK_N0IxBIUbQKSQCncOUBfQ4S71PZAPtpIuE&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DGHV8NLZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGHV8NLZ?th=1"><strong>Apple Watch Series 10 for $280 ($120 off):</strong></a> We consider Apple’s flagship wearable to be the<a data-i13n="cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/best-smartwatches-153013118.html"> best smartwatch</a> you can buy, period. It's a <a data-i13n="cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/apple-watch-series-10-review-legacy-and-sequel-in-equal-measure-120021405.html">mostly iterative update</a>, with faster charging, a slightly slimmer design and a marginally larger display than the prior Series 9. That said, it's still a comprehensive fitness tracker, and no other smartwatch can integrate as neatly with iPhones and other Apple devices.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZ74YQ1V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+iPad+Air+%2811-inch%2C+M3%29+for+%24479+%28%24120+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NFlRMVYvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6ImJlYzlkYTllLWE2ODUtNGI3OC1iNTMyLWY5MDYxYWE3YTNhMyIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMERaNzRZUTFWLyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAWShsx2HsrZ3zrW4GxSOJSnuXgs9E-mbqXcFtmdfg85M&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZ74YQ1V%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ74YQ1V/?th=1"><strong>Apple iPad Air (11-inch, M3) for $479 ($120 off)</strong></a>: In our opinion, the iPad Air is the <a data-i13n="cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ipads-how-to-pick-the-best-apple-tablet-for-you-150054066.html">best iPad</a> for most people as it strikes an ideal balance between performance, price and features. The M3 chip is almost overkill for a tablet, but it means performance should never be an issue. And upcoming <a data-i13n="cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ipados-26-makes-apples-tablets-more-like-macs-174904597.html">productivity gains from iPadOS 26</a> should make the tablet even more powerful.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-laptop-deals-still-available">Prime Day laptop deals <strong>still available</strong></h2> <p> <core-commerce id="a4847a01ba674fbbbc40225020208a89" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDC3WW5/?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CXL6B4QF&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+%2813.8-inch%2C+Snapdragon+X+Plus%29+for+%24880+%2827+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAS91EuYB4P2PmP9vOXAgoQ13rGnyL2mfj6gxxiFPKVG4&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMicrosoft-Surface-Windows-Touchscreen-Snapdragon%2Fdp%2FB0CXL6B4QF%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Windows-Touchscreen-Snapdragon/dp/B0CXL6B4QF/?th=1"><strong>Microsoft Surface Laptop (13.8-inch, Snapdragon X Plus) for $880 (27 percent off):</strong></a> In addition to running on a Snapdragon X Plus processor, this 2024 Surface Laptop has 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. It's a Copilot+ PC that also has a 13.8-inch touchscreen, and it should last up to 20 hours on a single charge.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07YMGQYP6&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Google+Pixelbook+Go+%2813-inch%2C+Intel+Core+M3%29+for+%24348+%2846+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAASHHJ21IHLlxVh_Bluy85Wys8P2SOF2iuJnRXYN_M5Eq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGoogle-Pixelbook-Chromebook-64GB-Black%2Fdp%2FB07YMGQYP6%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixelbook-Chromebook-64GB-Black/dp/B07YMGQYP6/"><strong>Google Pixelbook Go (13-inch, Intel Core M3) for $348 (46 percent off):</strong></a> The <a data-i13n="cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/2019-10-25-google-pixelbook-go-review.html">Pixelbook Go</a> is a bit old at this point, but if you're a Chrome OS lover and want a Google-made laptop, this is a solid option. It includes an Intel Core M3 processor, 8GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and a 12-hour battery life.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-tech-deals-still-available">Prime Day tech deals <strong>still available</strong></h2> <p> <core-commerce id="03b9179288ed41baa1138a2295ca9845" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-55-Inch-Anti-Reflection-Customizable-QN55LS03D/dp/B0CV9F2Q5V?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D2PNVJFT&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Hisense+S7N+Canvas+TV+%2865-inch%29+for+%24898+%2831+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEQyUE5WSkZUL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEQyUE5WSkZUL3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdn2e1nbaQoERuuAXH_hgVVCIvMZOAevmMIS_u1SYE_l&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N%2Fdp%2FB0D2PNVJFT%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Hisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N/dp/B0D2PNVJFT/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FVPNGN66X8VZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eurmMf_dqWCRKTJT1yn-n_nCf7TrTUu7EX_HcgmqjkFpZ1bFAAQ72OB_Z7C4DaUYcyVO3jwEzvw5oKenkNt3XL1nLOCQTmc-0SlQoZic0QUlAJ3mT_EWPI6Y-Bfs4HJpxu_MtSEsawa47QWNz_-UvcaxBMRKtgU8FNnFiRQpmjOwiBhcBFASn_4LJteqUGRiB0n2YJZi9uZ_n65-AY0usgjL9fmVx-3DcEhg64POVLA.NNPPzYZ6j26ktdQwhZCwxU1nrUeY5VUmp3uv4oJrCDI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Hisense%2BTV&amp;qid=1751980609&amp;sprefix=hisense%2Bt%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1"><strong>Hisense S7N Canvas TV (65-inch) for $898 (31 percent off)</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Hisense's spin on Samsung's Frame sets, the CanvasTV, comes in much cheaper and with a boatload of features. The S7N sports an anti-glare display and art mode, as you'd expect, but there's also 144Hz support for a bit of gaming. It also comes with a slim wall mount so you can hang it on your wall like a genuine work of art. (The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D2PNH494&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=55-inch+model&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEQyUE5INDk0L3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEQyUE5INDk0L3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQROP0t7OHRG-9rUxawijMFsQmwE3JUb9IiwIDpLDO90&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N%2Fdp%2FB0D2PNH494%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Hisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N/dp/B0D2PNH494/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FVPNGN66X8VZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eurmMf_dqWCRKTJT1yn-n_nCf7TrTUu7EX_HcgmqjkFpZ1bFAAQ72OB_Z7C4DaUYcyVO3jwEzvw5oKenkNt3XL1nLOCQTmc-0SlQoZic0QUlAJ3mT_EWPI6Y-Bfs4HJpxu_MtSEsawa47QWNz_-UvcaxBMRKtgU8FNnFiRQpmjOwiBhcBFASn_4LJteqUGRiB0n2YJZi9uZ_n65-AY0usgjL9fmVx-3DcEhg64POVLA.NNPPzYZ6j26ktdQwhZCwxU1nrUeY5VUmp3uv4oJrCDI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Hisense%2BTV&amp;qid=1751980609&amp;sprefix=hisense%2Bt%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">55-inch model</a> is also a great deal at $689, and the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F363GQZF&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=77-inch&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEYzNjNHUVpGL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0hpc2Vuc2UtNjUtSW5jaC1DYW52YXNUVlRNLVZpc2lvbi02NVM3Ti9kcC9CMEYzNjNHUVpGL3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbB8nP4cT4spAKpsmESNjLPTpHqLPhwmnsyRIZTUyeuB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N%2Fdp%2FB0F363GQZF%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Hisense-65-Inch-CanvasTVTM-Vision-65S7N/dp/B0F363GQZF/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FVPNGN66X8VZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.eurmMf_dqWCRKTJT1yn-n_nCf7TrTUu7EX_HcgmqjkFpZ1bFAAQ72OB_Z7C4DaUYcyVO3jwEzvw5oKenkNt3XL1nLOCQTmc-0SlQoZic0QUlAJ3mT_EWPI6Y-Bfs4HJpxu_MtSEsawa47QWNz_-UvcaxBMRKtgU8FNnFiRQpmjOwiBhcBFASn_4LJteqUGRiB0n2YJZi9uZ_n65-AY0usgjL9fmVx-3DcEhg64POVLA.NNPPzYZ6j26ktdQwhZCwxU1nrUeY5VUmp3uv4oJrCDI&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Hisense%2BTV&amp;qid=1751980609&amp;sprefix=hisense%2Bt%2Caps%2C116&amp;sr=8-3&amp;th=1">77-inch</a> is down to $1,399.)</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09XS7JWHH&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+WH-1000XM5+headphones+for+%24298+%2825+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNS1DYW5jZWxpbmctSGVhZHBob25lcy1IYW5kcy1GcmVlL2RwL0IwOVhTN0pXSEg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNS1DYW5jZWxpbmctSGVhZHBob25lcy1IYW5kcy1GcmVlL2RwL0IwOVhTN0pXSEgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYnTyNUHjfKoTB0rbyaSMRNFMaPupB0Kt-EbrFnYnd3y&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-WH-1000XM5-Canceling-Headphones-Hands-Free%2Fdp%2FB09XS7JWHH" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM5-Canceling-Headphones-Hands-Free/dp/B09XS7JWHH"><strong>Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for $298 (25 percent off):</strong></a> While the XM6 headphones are the latest and greatest, they only make small changes to the already stellar XM5. These were our top pick for the <a data-i13n="cpos:24;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/best-headphones-wireless-bluetooth-120543205.html">best wireless headphones</a> for a long time before the XM6 launched earlier this year, and we still like them for their excellent sound quality, strong ANC, multi-device connectivity and good battery life.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:25;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BLGR5JPV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Ninja+CREAMi+Ice+Cream+Maker+bundle+for+%24200+%28%2455+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAQxudvdI6cN8vBUEn1chVmFQcLps_7Ym5puA5QYETEJX&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNinja-NC301-CREAMi-Containers-Bundle%2Fdp%2FB0BLGR5JPV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-NC301-CREAMi-Containers-Bundle/dp/B0BLGR5JPV"><strong>Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream Maker bundle for $200 ($55 off)</strong></a>: We said this machine “<a data-i13n="cpos:26;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ninja-creami-review-this-machine-makes-your-frozen-dreams-come-true-143155174.html">makes your frozen dreams come true</a>.” It’s easy to use and makes thick, dense ice cream with flavors that are more intense and textures that are smoother than rival ice cream makers. Plus most of the parts are machine washable or easily rinsed. This bundle comes with extra containers and is the lowest price we’ve seen in a few months, but note that the Creami by itself sold for $160 as recently as January.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08R794ZMX&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Levoit+Core+400S+air+purifier+for+%24183+%28%2437+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xFVk9JVC1QdXJpZmllci1BbGxlcmdpZXMtQ29yZS00MDBTL2RwL0IwOFI3OTRaTVg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xFVk9JVC1QdXJpZmllci1BbGxlcmdpZXMtQ29yZS00MDBTL2RwL0IwOFI3OTRaTVgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAUDrJYoxBUaKuRjMTrv86GcPXw027yuoolIO0ZfOyowd&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLEVOIT-Purifier-Allergies-Core-400S%2Fdp%2FB08R794ZMX" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/LEVOIT-Purifier-Allergies-Core-400S/dp/B08R794ZMX?th=1"><strong>Levoit Core 400S air purifier for $183 ($37 off):</strong></a> Our top pick for the<a data-i13n="cpos:28;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-air-purifier-120040002.html"> best air purifier</a>, Levoit's Core 400S reliably improved air quality in our testing, plus it has easy to use onboard controls and<a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:29;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=replaceable+filters+that+are+not+too+expensive&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAVSc6GVzrxRLzm06OPAFF39xnvABHaCQunNeiLDr1DxE&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FCore-400S-Replacement-Filter-Levoit-Purifier%2Fdp%2FB0BFQKQ788" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://amazon.com/Core-400S-Replacement-Filter-Levoit-Purifier/dp/B0BFQKQ788?"> replaceable filters that are not too expensive</a>. We also found it to not be offensively loud, even on its highest setting.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:30;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B15Q3HCQ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Ninja+Dual-Zone+air+fryer+%2810+quart%29+for+%24160+%28%2490+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjE1UTNIQ1E_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjE1UTNIQ1EiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAai8PcwBp74CWfmtBj9WfXDYA0GTQxZeO0_s-vXlWGyo&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B15Q3HCQ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B15Q3HCQ?th=1"><strong>Ninja Dual-Zone air fryer (10 quart) for $160 ($90 off)</strong></a>: This model is one of our favorite air fryers thanks to its dual-zone cooking system, which allows you to prepare two separate foods at different temperatures and settings. There's even a Match Cook feature that ensures both foods will be done at the same time, regardless of their cooking settings.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:31;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BHJDY57J&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+990+Pro+for+%24150+%2829+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBCSEpEWTU3Sj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJiZWM5ZGE5ZS1hNjg1LTRiNzgtYjUzMi1mOTA2MWFhN2EzYTMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEJISkRZNTdKIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAdUbwEfxV_heIEK9CQ2HeB7UDPRWFME9O_RHLWvTWI23&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BHJDY57J" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHJDY57J"><strong>Samsung 990 Pro for $150 (29 percent off):</strong></a> The whole Samsung Pro line of SSDs is excellent for gamers, with PS5s in particular seeming to run much faster with one installed. The 990 Pro can reach read speeds of up to 1,400 KB/s — and yes, that's kilobytes, not megabytes.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:32;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C9WHSZZN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Crucial+X9+Pro+2TB+for+%24120+%28%2460+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDOVdIU1paTj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJiZWM5ZGE5ZS1hNjg1LTRiNzgtYjUzMi1mOTA2MWFhN2EzYTMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEM5V0hTWlpOIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAZWrxHf1KJTMIMVNN0kZVAOFZY7iwLzy0lwpcuKf-BwH&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C9WHSZZN" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9WHSZZN?"><strong>Crucial X9 Pro 2TB for $120 ($60 off):</strong></a> The Crucial X9 Pro with 2TB storage space is marked down 33 percent for Prime Day. It's our top pick for the <a data-i13n="cpos:33;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-portable-ssd-120043652.html">best portable SSD</a> right now thanks to its excellent speeds, compact yet rugged design and five-year warranty.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:34;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGJ5F42Q&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Beats+Pill+for+%2499+%2834+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL2F3L2QvQjBER0o1RjQyUS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL2F3L2QvQjBER0o1RjQyUS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAcsGPAHqxKYGdPfXG-m998kkfDvpsJMSaZGjUdiGID6E&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Faw%2Fd%2FB0DGJ5F42Q%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DGJ5F42Q/"><strong>Beats Pill for $99 (34 percent off):</strong></a> The Beats Pill is one of the few portable bluetooth speakers we liked enough to give it a <a data-i13n="cpos:35;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/beats-pill-review-a-revival-worth-the-wait-160056269.html">full review</a>. Those of you who love the classic Beats bluetooth speakers will be happy to know they're back in fine form. Nobody can beat the Pill for bass, and its sound is crisp and lossless at almost any frequency and volume. For some reason, only the Kim Kardashian branded version is on sale, but it's the exact same speaker.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:36;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0FC5FJZ9Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Nintendo+Switch+2+%2B+Mario+Kart+World+bundle+for+%24500%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRkM1RkpaOVo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmVjOWRhOWUtYTY4NS00Yjc4LWI1MzItZjkwNjFhYTdhM2EzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRkM1RkpaOVoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATdPW2DENk94d2_LhMYJDn587h32iIghqMbvisxjc9S5&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0FC5FJZ9Z" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FC5FJZ9Z?"><strong>Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle for $500:</strong></a> We'd be remiss if we didn't mention the fact that Amazon has the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:37;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F3GWXLTS&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bec9da9e-a685-4b78-b532-f9061aa7a3a3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Nintendo+Switch+2&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05pbnRlbmRvLVN3aXRjaC0yLVN5c3RlbS9kcC9CMEYzR1dYTFRTP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6ImJlYzlkYTllLWE2ODUtNGI3OC1iNTMyLWY5MDYxYWE3YTNhMyIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9OaW50ZW5kby1Td2l0Y2gtMi1TeXN0ZW0vZHAvQjBGM0dXWExUUyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAR-2P-xDaP7ebTZ_xwET9-1u6wIy_ah89Ja2OL4Elbkh&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNintendo-Switch-2-System%2Fdp%2FB0F3GWXLTS" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-2-System/dp/B0F3GWXLTS?ref_=ast_sto_dp">Nintendo Switch 2</a> available to order "by invitation" now. The <em>Mario Kart World</em> bundle is available for the standard $500 price, so it's not a Prime Day deal per se, but considering Amazon was <a data-i13n="cpos:38;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/you-cant-buy-a-switch-2-on-amazon-and-third-party-sellers-may-be-to-blame-183825949.html">(supposedly) shut out of the initial Switch 2 order process</a> earlier this year, it's notable to see the console listed on the site at all.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-you-can-still-get-today-120028748.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Welcome to our latest roundup of indie game news and releases. We&#39;ve got some nifty stuff lined up for you this time around, including a stylish co-op shooter and a very cool Metroidvania concept. But first I&#39;d like to bring your attention to a newish game I picked up in the Steam Summer Sale. It is absolutely breaking my brain — or perhaps it might actually improve my cognitive function.</p> <p>It&#39;s called <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3445580/Ambidextro/"><em>Ambidextro</em></a> and it&#39;s from Majorariatto, which self-published the game (the two-person studio&#39;s tagline is &quot;Video games that ruin lives&quot;). The gist here is that you play a wizard sent by a queen to rescue her children after a witch kidnaps them and takes them to two different places. Rather than let him try to find the princess and prince one at a time, the queen bisects the wizard and orders him to the dungeons until he learns to control both halves of his body simultaneously. That&#39;s where you come in.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="85b08ff3a9d84e5e884c926a3c427d85"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dnuyOmAkmtw?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div> <p>There are 100 single-screen levels in <em>Ambidextro</em> and you complete them by controlling each half of the wizard at the same time. One with the left thumbstick and the jump button of your choice, and one with the right. The aim is to bring the two halves of the wizard together. The timer doesn&#39;t leave much room for error and when one half dies, it&#39;s back to the start. Sure, you could cheat by getting a friend to control one of the wizard halves, but that defeats the purpose.</p> <p>I am a truly horrible multitasker, so I was curious how well I&#39;d do at playing <em>Ambidextro</em>. As it turns out, I got through the first 19 levels fairly quickly, and then I was absolutely rotten at it. Granting myself more time through the accessibility settings helped a bit, but it&#39;s still a tough game. I&#39;m going to stick with it to see if I can get better. There&#39;s no way it could be as difficult as simultaneously playing two characters in <em>Overcooked </em>by myself. Now, that&#39;s impossible.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-new-releases">New releases</h2> <div id="45430eb1e1ed4d3e9b100567b1ecaa6e"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cR6nCcCi01g?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div> <p><a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/mycopunk-is-an-upbeat-love-letter-to-extraction-shooters-192337609.html"><em>Mycopunk</em></a> is a co-op shooter from developer Pigeons at Play and publisher Devolver Digital that arrived in early access <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3247750/Mycopunk/">on Steam</a> this week. With a Moebius-style look that reminds me a bit of <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/2018-08-23-sable-hands-on.html"><em>Sable</em></a>, the fantastic <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/rollerdrome-preview-olliolli-skates-ps5-steam-160030108.html"><em>Rollerdrome</em></a> and the <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/borderlands-4-release-date-moves-up-to-september-12-154958162.html">Borderlands</a> series, <em>Mycopunk</em> is certainly eye-catching.&nbsp;</p> <p>You can team up with three friends and play as robots that have been hired to eradicate a fungus that&#39;s infected a valuable world. Each of the robots has their own moveset and class, but (as in the Borderlands games) there&#39;s a great deal of variety and customization when it comes to the weaponry.</p> <div id="c7276285270c4d61b80cdf185ae95059"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9nzc0gsmGbk?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div> <p><a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/inscryption-ps4-ps5-daniel-mullins-devolver-digital-163439697.html"><em>Inscryption</em></a> showed what&#39;s possible when you inject horror into a card-based game, and perhaps that was an influence for <em>Occlude</em>, which is <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/Occlude/">out now on Steam</a>. This is billed as a &quot;game of occult Solitaire.&quot; Sure, you&#39;ll arrange cards by numerical rank, but it seems there&#39;s more going on here than might first meet the eye. As the title suggests, the rules are somewhat obscured in this narrative puzzle title from Tributary Games and publisher Pantaloon. Can you figure &#39;em out?</p> <div id="28bd3c42dd524b0cb1fb875d91ee3239"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XIewpjSXxTE?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div> <p><em>Everdeep Aurora</em> is an interesting-looking game from Ysbryd Games that landed on <a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2251400/Everdeep_Aurora/">Steam</a> and Nintendo Switch this week. This NES-inspired 2D adventure reminds me a little of <em>Animal Well</em> in terms of its tone and look. You play as a cat named Shell who drills down to search for her missing mother amid a meteor shower that has wrecked the planet&#39;s surface. There&#39;s a mix of platforming and exploration here. <em>Everdeep Aurora</em> looks rather pretty and the trailer made me smile. I&#39;m hoping to play it at some point down the line.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-upcoming">Upcoming</h2> <div id="eedb9b1476334d7482ce9c02ab11226e"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dKOXf0Ye5Ig?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div> <p>I do love a side-scrolling beat-&#39;em-up and <em>Ra Ra Boom</em> is absolutely one of those. This project from Gylee Games features four ninja cheerleaders from outer space who are trying to save Earth from a rogue AI. This is a co-op game for up to four players. Each of the cheerleaders has their own attacks and abilities (including ranged weapons), as well as a skill tree that you can use to unlock new ones.</p> <p>I&#39;ve played a chunk of <em>Ra Ra Boom</em> and I&#39;m enjoying it quite a bit so far. It looks and sounds nice, and the combat is just the right level of challenging for me up to this point. If you dig games like the Streets of Rage series and <a data-i13n="cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shredders-revenge-review-185022231.html"><em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder&#39;s Revenge</em></a>, you might be interested in checking this out. A two-level demo is available on <a data-i13n="cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2335060/Ra_Ra_BOOM/">Steam</a> now. <em>Ra Ra Boom</em> is coming to Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox and PS5 on August 12.</p> <div id="d52776eb933d40cf80251b4b858b270d"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1KshKvp_vhc?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div> <p><em>Rhythm of Resistance</em> is a Metroidvania that has a very interesting mechanic. It&#39;s a rhythm-based game (no points for guessing that after reading its title), but there&#39;s a catch — you can pick the music. For instance, you can switch to a track with a lower BPM to make a trap easier to bypass. You can find new songs that can distort reality &quot;in strange and surprising ways&quot; while you&#39;re on your journey in this game from NetherMoon Game Studio, which is slated to arrive on <a data-i13n="cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3269550/Rhythm_of_Resistance/">Steam</a> next year.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/a-stylish-shooter-occult-solitaire-and-other-new-indie-games-worth-checking-out-110019324.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Engadget has been covering <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Amazon Prime Day sales</a> for years — and we've noticed something about Kindle deals. While some discounts may linger after the sale is over, the ereader deals tend to expire when the event. So if you've been considering a new Kindle, you may want to buy it now. Prime Day ends at midnight West Coast time, so you've only got bit more time. Every Kindle model Amazon makes is on sale — and we've reviewed almost all of them. If you need some more info before you buy, feel free to read our thoughts on the <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/kindle-paperwhite-signature-2024-review-a-luxurious-reading-experience-163036611.html"><ins>Paperwhite</ins></a>, the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/kindle-colorsoft-review-the-missing-link-in-amazons-ereader-lineup-131529685.html"><ins>Colorsoft</ins></a>, the <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/kindle-scribe-2-review-in-progress-is-slightly-useful-ai-worth-the-extra-cash-140018638.html"><ins>Scribe</ins></a> and the basic <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ereader-130013808.html"><ins>Kindle</ins></a>. Here are the best <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> Kindle deals.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p> <core-commerce id="1a4c607deca941219d9a613665d9571b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/hz/subscribe/ku"></core-commerce></p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-kindle-ereaders">Best Prime Day deals on Kindle ereaders</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="91d375c58f0446769a5df7181bdfcee7" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNVCQZG1?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CNVCQZG1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Amazon+Kindle+for+%2485+%28%2425+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ05WQ1FaRzE_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ05WQ1FaRzEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQv1xnvuPoDJF6oQVHEx53ABLzNLIcQT3x6kpFLnhkBS&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CNVCQZG1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNVCQZG1?th=1"><strong>Amazon Kindle for $85 ($25 off with Prime)</strong></a>: The base model Kindle is our <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ereader-130013808.html">recommendation</a> for the best budget ereader. Even when it’s not on sale, it’s the most affordable e-book device from a major manufacturer. It’s compact and durable making it easy to carry. It doesn’t have warm LEDs and it’s not waterproof but it’s the most affordable way to access Amazon’s vast e-book ecosystem.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C6WGP77V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+case+%28fabric%29+for+%2424+%2825+percent+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzZXR1A3N1Y_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzZXR1A3N1YiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAW4WeL8WEJfNPZng8Qc08x9BxikdO0vxbQEbtBupCWiz&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C6WGP77V" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6WGP77V?th=1"><strong>Kindle case (fabric) for $24 (25 percent off with Prime)</strong></a>: If you want to protect your new ereader, you can grab this case while it's 25 percent off. Note that only the blue and pink versions are $24, the black and matcha versions are $2 more expensive.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CN3XR57P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Colorsoft+for+%24180+%28%24100+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ04zWFI1N1A_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ04zWFI1N1AiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbzLDlKnoRMUpD7Yff5wMF4xCf16G56L_0UwXg622sDO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CN3XR57P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN3XR57P?th=1"><strong>Kindle Colorsoft for $180 ($100 off with Prime)</strong></a>: Amazon didn’t introduce color to its ereader lineup until <a data-i13n="cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/kindle-colorsoft-review-the-missing-link-in-amazons-ereader-lineup-131529685.html">early this year</a> — long after Kobo and Boox. The list price of $280 makes it more expensive than other color display ereaders, but this discount helps with that. We appreciate the fast page turns, pinch to zoom feature and auto-adjusting warm front light.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZ9VFQ2P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Scribe+2+for+%24260+%28%24140+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1o5VkZRMlA_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1o5VkZRMlAiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYlgTkZVH0NV27Qz_S_asCzzxqI-2jCQOekFrEb9_bzv&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CZ9VFQ2P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ9VFQ2P?th=1"><strong>Kindle Scribe 2 for $260 ($140 off with Prime)</strong></a>: If you want a Kindle that lets you write as well as read, this is the one to get. We gave the Kindle Scribe 2 <a data-i13n="cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/kindle-scribe-2-review-in-progress-is-slightly-useful-ai-worth-the-extra-cash-140018638.html">a score of 86 in our review</a> and it’s our pick for the <a data-i13n="cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-e-ink-tablet-130037939.html">best e-reader E Ink tablet</a>. It has a smooth reading and writing experience with low latency. It also lets you create multiple notebooks, add pages and change the templates easily.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CFPJYX7P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Paperwhite+for+%24125+%28%2435+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0ZQSllYN1A_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0ZQSllYN1AiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfevdBEVFtB73MhiofnRYukeJ1-Iq1OPP-x5ojGS_WMG&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CFPJYX7P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPJYX7P?th=1"><strong>Kindle Paperwhite for $125 ($35 off with Prime)</strong></a>: The Paperwhite is an elevated version of the Kindle, with a larger, seven-inch, flush-front screen and an adjustable warm front light. A faster processor gives it quicker page turns than its predecessor and the device itself is waterproof.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CTMQTQNN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Paperwhite+Signature+Edition+for+%24150+%28%2450+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1RNUVRRTk4_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1RNUVRRTk4iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAASrs2Rb5hAbR6zhMzX33s7uTY80Jlfvc6h9r7LMcQmNf&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CTMQTQNN" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTMQTQNN?th=1"><strong>Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition for $150 ($50 off with Prime)</strong></a>: The Signature Edition adds few more premium features to the Kindle Paperwhite with wireless charging, an auto-adjusting front light and more storage (32GB). We gave it an 85 in our review praising the premium build, remarkably clear text and fast page turns. We just wish the power button wasn’t on the bottom.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CNV9CQK8&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Kids+for+%2495+%28%2435+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FtYXpvbi1LaW5kbGUtS2lkcy9kcC9CMENOVjlDUUs4L3I_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FtYXpvbi1LaW5kbGUtS2lkcy9kcC9CMENOVjlDUUs4L3IiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQiGZjIieTz1rfYWbnDmvBzYQmRdXJWS_7nJ1diGdsrm&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAmazon-Kindle-Kids%2Fdp%2FB0CNV9CQK8%2Fr" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Kindle-Kids/dp/B0CNV9CQK8/r?th=1"><strong>Kindle Kids for $95 ($35 off with Prime)</strong></a>: The Kindle Kids edition is the same hardware as the standard Kindle, but you get a few added perks that are fitting for younger users. To start, a case comes standard. The warranty is extended to two years. And the purchase price includes a six month subscription to Amazon Kids+ for thousands of kid-friendly ebooks and more.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CFPS7ZY9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Paperwhite+Kids+for+%24130+%28%2450+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0ZQUzdaWTk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTE1NWQwNDEtZGEwMi00OWFjLWJiMDEtZTY0ZDdlN2JlZDkzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0ZQUzdaWTkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAUNb9Fcc37K7MSCuBRir3fbVojYL5yko9uuj_Dwr27hM&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CFPS7ZY9" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPS7ZY9?th=1"><strong>Kindle Paperwhite Kids for $130 ($50 off with Prime)</strong></a>: Again, the kids version is the same as the Paperwhite but with a cover, extended warranty and access to Amazon Kids+ for six months. Just remember to cancel at the end of the trial or keep it and pay $6 per month.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-non-kindle-ereaders">Best Prime Day deals on non-Kindle ereaders</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DSZWF122&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e155d041-da02-49ac-bb01-e64d7e7bed93&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Boox+Palma+2+for+%24270+%28%2430+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdF_yhC-dPY_QfHB318ya3x_xQ1AYswcYRBLhI3oNY_E&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBOOX-Palma2-Fingerprint-Recognition-Microphones%2Fdp%2FB0DSZWF122%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/BOOX-Palma2-Fingerprint-Recognition-Microphones/dp/B0DSZWF122/"><strong>Boox Palma 2 for $270 ($30 off)</strong></a>: This smartphone-shaped device <a data-i13n="cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ereader-130013808.html#:~:text=Amy%20Skorheim%20/%20Engadget-,Honorable%20mention,-Boox%20Palma">is a delight</a>. It’s built on Android and can run just about any app you can download from the Play Store — just don’t expect it to play video or graphics-intensive games. This is an E Ink screen, after all. But it’s perfect for reading books and running simple apps in a more eye-friendly format.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/last-chance-prime-day-deals-get-up-to-36-percent-off-kindles-and-ereaders-080957317.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>Solid-state drives (SSDs) come in many shapes, from thumbnail-sized microSD cards to larger external SSDs. But all classes of SSDs have one thing in common: at least one of the best brands is on sale right now for <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-deals-are-already-live-through-july-11-here-are-our-top-picks-so-far-120028881.html">Amazon's Prime Day</a>. If you've been thinking about picking up some extra storage or trying to get the load times down on your Xbox or gaming PC, now's the time to get it done for cheap. Take a look at our curated list of the best SSD deals on Amazon this Prime Day.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-ssd-deals">Best Prime Day SSD deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="c111c6314c8244f0af927b4a384ae447" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Internal-Gaming-Desktop-Compatible/dp/B0CK39YR9V?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07YD579WM&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Crucial+BX500+for+%2457+%2840+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAeGQz3nBpWF0jQewZoRZNuU3YgBP5G9aPSLQkYtFUbIq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCrucial-BX500-NAND-2-5-Inch-Internal%2Fdp%2FB07YD579WM%2Fref%3Dpd_lpo_d_sccl_2%2F139-5238583-5507033" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-BX500-NAND-2-5-Inch-Internal/dp/B07YD579WM/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_2/139-5238583-5507033?pd_rd_w=it7I8&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&amp;pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&amp;pf_rd_r=CSVQR60HEYHA8F7AZG83&amp;pd_rd_wg=eRKQ3&amp;pd_rd_r=0b8f7f5c-d26f-4866-a532-a3a392cf5d18&amp;pd_rd_i=B07YD579WM&amp;th=1"><strong>Crucial BX500 for $57 (40 percent off):</strong></a> The Crucial BX500 SSD is compatible with any computer that uses a 2.5-inch SATA drive — which is still plenty of them. For very cheap, you can get ahold of 1TB storage space and read speeds up to 540 MB/s, close to the very best possible for a SATA SSD.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B7CKZGN6&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WD_BLACK+SN850X+for+%24150+%2825+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBCN0NLWkdONj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEI3Q0taR042IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAfQHJaU6EY_yfV0T382XlNK-6yGpU79qvrrHGnnXJlBE&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B7CKZGN6" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7CKZGN6?"><strong>WD_BLACK SN850X for $150 (25 percent off):</strong></a> Our current favorite Gen4 NVMe drive is on sale for Prime Day, making a read speed of over 7,000 MB/s more accessible than ever. In our tests, we found the 1TB SN850X significantly boosted our Windows operating speeds without adding much heat.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F3BD1W6R&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WD_BLACK+2TB+SN8100+for+%24180+%2844+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAASrJatstJRDHh1lsJWBoaXxuwDgtq-389yuIkGBKacNw&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWD_BLACK-SN8100-Internal-Solid-State%2Fdp%2FB0F3BD1W6R" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/WD_BLACK-SN8100-Internal-Solid-State/dp/B0F3BD1W6R?th=1"><strong>WD_BLACK 2TB SN8100 for $180 (44 percent off):</strong></a> If you frequently need read and write speeds measured in kilobytes instead of megabytes, the WD_BLACK SN8100 is for you. This internal SSD easily breaches 1400 KB/s, and is especially suited for gaming or AI work.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D7MLB76V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WD+Blue+SN5000+for+%24200+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBEN01MQjc2Vj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEQ3TUxCNzZWIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAWXgd82zkGqXOVR_jGdNZ_WoDUdFbE-ByLmv8dJSDnxq&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D7MLB76V" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7MLB76V?"><strong>WD Blue SN5000 for $200 (33 percent off):</strong></a> Here's a great deal on an internal SSD with 4TB capacity and compatibility with the fast-performing NVMe protocol. Western Digital, the same brand behind the WD_BLACK (see above) claims the Blue model can hit read speeds of 5,500 MB/s.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CGKPPZY9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Lexar+1TB+NM790+for+%2467+%2829+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xleGFyLUhlYXRzaW5rLUludGVybmFsLUNvbXBhdGlibGUtTE5NNzkwWDAwMVQtUk45TlUvZHAvQjBDR0tQUFpZOS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xleGFyLUhlYXRzaW5rLUludGVybmFsLUNvbXBhdGlibGUtTE5NNzkwWDAwMVQtUk45TlUvZHAvQjBDR0tQUFpZOS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAW5lsWcR5Mv3DTZpWO7vtCqz2Y8WsnF5D4IXh4FWAsRH&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLexar-Heatsink-Internal-Compatible-LNM790X001T-RN9NU%2Fdp%2FB0CGKPPZY9%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Heatsink-Internal-Compatible-LNM790X001T-RN9NU/dp/B0CGKPPZY9/"><strong>Lexar 1TB NM790 for $67 (29 percent off):</strong></a> The NM790 is a single-sided SSD that can post sequential read speeds of 7400 MB/s. The one-sided design means it stays cooler for longer, and this 1TB deal includes a heatsink. It's a great budget alternative to the also single-sided Samsung 990 Pro (see below).</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C5YS3QY4&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sabrent+Rocket+2230+for+%24150+%2815+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDNVlTM1FZND90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEM1WVMzUVk0IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAWQluq3rSLtholiX2V00T9002tFUZSa6h85fTy1d1Qzj&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C5YS3QY4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5YS3QY4"><strong>Sabrent Rocket 2230 for $150 (15 percent off):</strong></a> The Sabrent Rocket 2230 is a thumbnail-sized NVMe card that we found to be perfect for the M.2 slot on a Steam Deck. Thanks to this deal, you can save a lot by buying a lower-end Steam Deck and upgrading it with one of these.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07D7Q41PM&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Fit+Plus+for+%2423+%2834+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwN0Q3UTQxUE0_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwN0Q3UTQxUE0iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAV-73WGchaGdlPvA7M2lCgCQyPtg4smUoBQ4yN-AlySI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB07D7Q41PM" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D7Q41PM"><strong>Samsung Fit Plus for $23 (34 percent off):</strong></a> The Fit Plus is our favorite thumb drive, and it's not close. Running on USB 3.1 with transfer speeds between 300 and 400 MB/s, it even comes with a keychain hook. The current deal takes 34 percent off an already cheap product.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08QBJ2YMG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+870+EVO+for+%2476+%2824+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA4UUJKMllNRz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDhRQkoyWU1HIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAVlKYnMCJAujAZR2Bl1CCXd-T_1WkJkx2keOkZ4FKYIu&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB08QBJ2YMG" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QBJ2YMG?tag=gdgt0c-pd25-20&amp;linkcode=af3"><strong>Samsung 870 EVO for $76 (24 percent off):</strong></a> The 870 EVO is a great budget choice for general users, who are likely to get a speed boost on any PC activity once it's installed. At 560 MB/s of maximum reading speed, it's not for hardcore gamers, but everyday users should see real benefits.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DHLFWBQ1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+990+EVO+Plus+1TB+for+%2466+%2837+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NBTVNVTkctVGVjaG5vbG9neS1JbnRlbGxpZ2VudC1UdXJib3dyaXRlLU1aLVY5UzFUMEIvZHAvQjBESExGV0JRMT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vU0FNU1VORy1UZWNobm9sb2d5LUludGVsbGlnZW50LVR1cmJvd3JpdGUtTVotVjlTMVQwQi9kcC9CMERITEZXQlExIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAdEmKArVg-d5j7K9_0gkIZJJJXRk-v8nBCh5MwWmTJ9V&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSAMSUNG-Technology-Intelligent-Turbowrite-MZ-V9S1T0B%2Fdp%2FB0DHLFWBQ1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Technology-Intelligent-Turbowrite-MZ-V9S1T0B/dp/B0DHLFWBQ1?th=1"><strong>Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB for $66 (37 percent off):</strong></a> Samsung's EVO line never rests on its laurels. The 990 EVO was already fast, but the 990 EVO Plus doubled its speeds less than a year later. Currently, all three sizes are on sale for lowest-ever prices.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BHJDY57J&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+990+Pro+for+%24150+%2829+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBCSEpEWTU3Sj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEJISkRZNTdKIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAY0FppqZ_4APgmpJ2hV9WIO2A1QX_3rxI3yLz6YW56MV&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BHJDY57J" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHJDY57J"><strong>Samsung 990 Pro for $150 (29 percent off):</strong></a> The whole Samsung Pro line of SSDs is excellent for gamers, with PS5s in particular seeming to run much faster with one installed. The 990 Pro can reach read speeds of up to 1,400 KB/s — and yes, that's kilobytes, not megabytes.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DX2FN49V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+9100+Pro+for+%24220+%2831+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBEWDJGTjQ5Vj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMERYMkZONDlWIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAXjGHlqo1yi5zGSPjltMEmSdiD6-dDkumA0NTzGIazkd&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DX2FN49V" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX2FN49V?"><strong>Samsung 9100 Pro for $220 (31 percent off):</strong></a> Samsung's first NVMe SSD dropped earlier this year, and currently, they're still a bit faster than most people can use. However, if you want to get a jump on the next console generation with 14,800 MB/s sequential reading speed, this deal is your opportunity.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F43Z6NXL&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kingston+Fury+Renegade+for+%24420+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBGNDNaNk5YTD90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEY0M1o2TlhMIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAY7VNabc4SX6zfsbSrcQPuOJu_HDz3EXY74Hhg9RTI94&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0F43Z6NXL" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F43Z6NXL?"><strong>Kingston Fury Renegade for $420 (33 percent off):</strong></a> Although it sounds like a Jamaican kung fu movie we'd watch the hell out of, the Kingston Fury Renegade is actually a 5th-gen NVMe SSD that can reach hardcore read speeds of up to 14,800 MB/s. It's expensive, but Prime Day discounts knock off 33 percent.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09Q2NCFS7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Corsair+MP600+Pro+LPX+2+TB+for+%24160+%2820+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0NvcnNhaXItTVA2MDAtTlZNZS1QQ0llLUdlbjQvZHAvQjA5UTJOQ0ZTNz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vQ29yc2Fpci1NUDYwMC1OVk1lLVBDSWUtR2VuNC9kcC9CMDlRMk5DRlM3IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAARsY8CaSc2htvIO01Idm8CXQqoBlAILy0NgF5LGbnyiI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCorsair-MP600-NVMe-PCIe-Gen4%2Fdp%2FB09Q2NCFS7" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-MP600-NVMe-PCIe-Gen4/dp/B09Q2NCFS7?th=1"><strong>Corsair MP600 Pro LPX 2 TB for $160 (20 percent off):</strong></a> Earlier this year, we named the Corsair MP600 Pro LPX as the top SSD for PS5, partly due to its affordability. It's even more affordable now, and the low price even includes a heatsink.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08Z33H1C3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Acer+FA100+1TB+for+%2451+%2815+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FjZXItRkExMDAtSW50ZXJmYWNlLUludGVybmFsLVRlY2hub2xvZ3kvZHAvQjA4WjMzSDFDMy8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FjZXItRkExMDAtSW50ZXJmYWNlLUludGVybmFsLVRlY2hub2xvZ3kvZHAvQjA4WjMzSDFDMy8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAesvHb1JbbVg9mjLJs7AqD4gsAJSdqhCZqwKGJYq7OVT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAcer-FA100-Interface-Internal-Technology%2Fdp%2FB08Z33H1C3%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Acer-FA100-Interface-Internal-Technology/dp/B08Z33H1C3/"><strong>Acer FA100 1TB for $51 (15 percent off):</strong></a> The Acer FA100 isn't the fastest SSD, but it is at least competitive, and may be one of the cheapest ways to harness the considerable power of NVMe 3.0. Only the 1TB version is marked down for Prime Day.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BJZLF2FW&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=KingSpec+512GB+for+%2425+%2815+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0tpbmdTcGVjLUludGVybmFsLURyaXZlcy1Db21wYXRpYmxlLURlc2t0b3AvZHAvQjBCSlpMRjJGVy8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0tpbmdTcGVjLUludGVybmFsLURyaXZlcy1Db21wYXRpYmxlLURlc2t0b3AvZHAvQjBCSlpMRjJGVy8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARttWGe4wrSSnhqZ-KujunQp8tUUSE_UMA2vZBVAxswB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FKingSpec-Internal-Drives-Compatible-Desktop%2Fdp%2FB0BJZLF2FW%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/KingSpec-Internal-Drives-Compatible-Desktop/dp/B0BJZLF2FW/"><strong>KingSpec 512GB for $25 (15 percent off):</strong></a> KingSpec is a Chinese manufacturer that's been quietly making some of the best cheap SSDs for years now. Their 512GB internal SSD runs SATA III and can reach 550 MB/s read speeds — not the most impressive, but amazing for the price.</p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-portable-ssd-deals">Best Prime Day portable SSD deals</h2> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0874Y5XFG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+T7+for+%24114+%2839+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA4NzRZNVhGRz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDg3NFk1WEZHIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAevqfW5TCLRRySTiM1ETM_ZjRfmwhSZIPTjHcRS7yjqy&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0874Y5XFG" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0874Y5XFG?"><strong>Samsung T7 for $114 (39 percent off):</strong></a> The T7 spent a long time as our reigning champion portable SSD, and it's still an amazing deal — being technically outdated means record-low prices on hardware that's more than fast enough for a Steam Deck or Switch.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CHFS9K14&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+T9+for+%24170+%2843+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDSEZTOUsxND90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMENIRlM5SzE0IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAZYeqYqAqn4-jTt7FHsdgU4fAAF2q4mlQOLx6rkRPKiP&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CHFS9K14" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHFS9K14?"><strong>Samsung T9 for $170 (43 percent off):</strong></a> We once named the Samsung T7 as our favorite portable SSD, but the T9 handily outdoes it, nearly doubling data transfer speeds. It's marked down 43 percent from now until the end of Prime Day on the 11th.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08GTYFC37&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=SanDisk+1TB+Extreme+for+%2478+%2840+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAf4NqEHxg6MKSKm71NZvLoWkCo547cbiG98UhewLWl6B&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSanDisk-1TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE61-1T00-G25%2Fdp%2FB08GTYFC37%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3%3Fs%3Dpc" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-1TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE61-1T00-G25/dp/B08GTYFC37/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BLcGa9z1XOAhaSxh-JFrH2T41dl-xqzJ9TqiQVDJ-kMvVrInnNFsS2iC2DN3QvExqcocpybyf8MwUGsrHXXQJRRwPHvdZmNp9T8agY6Dc3rZKbbYYHHDgXPINalLCIrcy52gyY828ZT49nf8DjaSGYsgLEhPsFNmkTxRejAqCXO-MQtCQe_jAcmN51K1gg3N5mxzz6UPXUdKmi_RDwcLkZqZrU4wEpcUquRG5ZzDc9kHETONZbCqNk79RNSC00qrljXWq6pwEuDPPZ6-3ua_RMmQessChUzN7FxhdOv2S24.AJ4FnXbYP-H6_pThYyzeLD6kE4jiNOD40xl7ReLkM4k&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=portable%2Bssd&amp;qid=1752009729&amp;s=pc&amp;sr=1-3&amp;th=1"><strong>SanDisk 1TB Extreme for $78 (40 percent off):</strong></a> SanDisk designed the Extreme for portability, and it shows — this is an almost indestructible SSD you can keep in just about any bag or pocket. It's also reasonably fast, though it only works with USB-C. This 1TB deal knocks off 40 percent of the price.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08HN37XC1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=SanDisk+2TB+Extreme+for+%24120+%2843+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbkRpc2stMlRCLUV4dHJlbWUtUG9ydGFibGUtU0RTU0RFNjEtMlQwMC1HMjUvZHAvQjA4SE4zN1hDMS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbkRpc2stMlRCLUV4dHJlbWUtUG9ydGFibGUtU0RTU0RFNjEtMlQwMC1HMjUvZHAvQjA4SE4zN1hDMS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfyvpKta-uPUSlcQsMYLuJ14po8iJDLs4Z17wWK_mIrC&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSanDisk-2TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE61-2T00-G25%2Fdp%2FB08HN37XC1%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-2TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE61-2T00-G25/dp/B08HN37XC1/"><strong>SanDisk 2TB Extreme for $120 (43 percent off):</strong></a> The 2TB version of the SanDisk Extreme is on sale for 43 percent off, saving you $90 on 1,050 MB/s of read speed.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08RX3343D&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=SanDisk+4TB+Extreme+PRO+for+%24270+%2832+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbkRpc2stNFRCLUV4dHJlbWUtUG9ydGFibGUtU0RTU0RFODEtNFQwMC1HMjUvZHAvQjA4UlgzMzQzRC8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbkRpc2stNFRCLUV4dHJlbWUtUG9ydGFibGUtU0RTU0RFODEtNFQwMC1HMjUvZHAvQjA4UlgzMzQzRC8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAASyBMCvbSkS-8g6GAfCAxcLzR12ilOwismn9MT5Ap1gn&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSanDisk-4TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE81-4T00-G25%2Fdp%2FB08RX3343D%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-4TB-Extreme-Portable-SDSSDE81-4T00-G25/dp/B08RX3343D/"><strong>SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO for $270 (32 percent off):</strong></a> This deal doubles not only the storage space of the 2TB Extreme above, but also its read and write speeds, with each hovering around 2000 MB/s. It's a very cheap way to get your hands on a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 drive.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C9WKGXHD&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Crucial+X9+Pro+1TB+for+%2475+%2817+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDOVdLR1hIRD90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEM5V0tHWEhEIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAb9y9YonyA7PEn05lkh0WNJbDfxfpav35MnCPL5xUncp&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C9WKGXHD" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9WKGXHD?"><strong>Crucial X9 Pro 1TB for $75 (17 percent off):</strong></a> As a Gen 2 USB drive, the Crucial X9 Pro loses out to some newer competitors on speed — but it's much cheaper, and far more compatible with everyday personal computers. The 1TB model is on sale at 17 percent off its normal price.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C9WHSZZN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Crucial+X9+Pro+2TB+for+%24120+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDOVdIU1paTj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEM5V0hTWlpOIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAV003Lp7TYS2FDsEwOfw_Hgricl7e-IRbVEZNBuvvYN5&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C9WHSZZN" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9WHSZZN?"><strong>Crucial X9 Pro 2TB for $120 (33 percent off):</strong></a> The Crucial X9 Pro with 2TB storage space is marked down 33 percent for Prime Day.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:24;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F3377JBN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Crucial+X10+1TB+for+%2482+%2824+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBGMzM3N0pCTj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEYzMzc3SkJOIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAQSfVkWyzBCG2NXjCn9ghZ0iqZnzzvuKLakWcl-dCzNe&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0F3377JBN" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3377JBN?"><strong>Crucial X10 1TB for $82 (24 percent off):</strong></a> The Crucial X10 is a portable SSD for power users, only working at full strength on devices that support the latest version of USB 3.2. If that's what your build needs, you're not likely to see it much cheaper than this.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:25;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F332MNX7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Crucial+X10+2TB+for+%24135+%2818+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBGMzMyTU5YNz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEYzMzJNTlg3IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAZ_ZdVV88zB-N50gHeFvS5NwHF39SMlrrYOvX_Br5ddd&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0F332MNX7" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F332MNX7"><strong>Crucial X10 2TB for $135 (18 percent off):</strong></a> A 2TB version of the X10 is almost 20 percent off right now.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:26;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C9WGS6MC&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Crucial+X10+Pro+2TB+for+%24150+%2828+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDOVdHUzZNQz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEM5V0dTNk1DIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAQFK946dMbwLupm9Cx1N32NrmMbGN53m2BgBWfHl6Oxi&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C9WGS6MC" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9WGS6MC?"><strong>Crucial X10 Pro 2TB for $150 (28 percent off):</strong></a> The Crucial X10 Pro is perfect for a fairly small range of users. If your PC build currently works with USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 but isn't yet handling USB4 or Thunderbolt, you won't find a faster portable SSD for your needs.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCQB7BN7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kingston+XS1000+for+%2480+%2815+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NRQjdCTjc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NRQjdCTjciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAUHuw6T9kg9Wya-QwTlABhDIVlDzfoxx5Ml_vF-0ubnb&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CCQB7BN7" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCQB7BN7?"><strong>Kingston XS1000 for $80 (15 percent off):</strong></a> We named the Kingston XS1000 the second-best portable SSD in our current roundup, so it's great to see it going for 15 percent off today. It's almost as fast as the Crucial X9 Pro, just not quite as tough.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:28;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D4B5YQ54&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=ADATA+SE920+for+%24142+%285+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FEQVRBLVNFOTIwLVBvcnRhYmxlLUV4dGVybmFsLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjBENEI1WVE1NC8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FEQVRBLVNFOTIwLVBvcnRhYmxlLUV4dGVybmFsLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjBENEI1WVE1NC8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQLlH_6XjqqvJE1MpkxUi4PwuXl1opF7N-_VlzWVxazv&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FADATA-SE920-Portable-External-Compatible%2Fdp%2FB0D4B5YQ54%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/ADATA-SE920-Portable-External-Compatible/dp/B0D4B5YQ54/"><strong>ADATA SE920 for $142 (5 percent off):</strong></a> The piddly 5 percent off is disappointing, but there's nothing disappointing about the ADATA SE920 itself. This is the ideal model for anyone regularly making huge downloads. The SE920's maximum read speed of 3,800 MB/s would be impressive for a full-size SSD, but it's fully portable, weighing less than half a pound.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:29;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DHKZGB5M&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Garmese+1TB+Portable+SSD+for+%2464+%2820+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0dBUk1FU0UtRXh0ZXJuYWwtU1NELVBvcnRhYmxlLUNvbnNvbGUvZHAvQjBESEtaR0I1TS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0dBUk1FU0UtRXh0ZXJuYWwtU1NELVBvcnRhYmxlLUNvbnNvbGUvZHAvQjBESEtaR0I1TS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQNYukd0JFon-tNh-LH8OZqH_4Lkq6-2PIq7N01fmig2&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGARMESE-External-SSD-Portable-Console%2Fdp%2FB0DHKZGB5M%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/GARMESE-External-SSD-Portable-Console/dp/B0DHKZGB5M/"><strong>Garmese 1TB Portable SSD for $64 (20 percent off):</strong></a> This portable SSD uses USB3.2 to achieve read speeds of around 1000 MB/s, which is very impressive for a device not much larger than a flash drive. While it downloads fast, it's not fantastic for transferring multiple files at a time.</p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-microsd-card-deals">Best Prime Day microSD card deals</h2> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:30;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D9MVKMY4&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Lexar+Professional+Silver+Plus+for+%2438+%2848+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDlNVktNWTQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDlNVktNWTQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARCYeG2GRXa2IpgYOTVWIUd_9DQIT82LGG__yy7bVXGS&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D9MVKMY4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MVKMY4?"><strong>Lexar Professional Silver Plus for $38 (48 percent off):</strong></a> Our tests showed this to be the fastest microSD card on the market, beating out the whole Samsung line. Not only is it fast enough to download and upload 4K files without trying your patience, it's also waterproof, cheap and squeezes in both USB-A and USB-C ports.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:31;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CQX2B25W&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Lexar+E-Series+for+%2431+%2815+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAXszqsNQzhK4CEJoivPWMTW0FR3AqDORMAmLxYrxdLL9&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLexar-Micro-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter%2Fdp%2FB0CQX2B25W%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Micro-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B0CQX2B25W/"><strong>Lexar E-Series for $31 (15 percent off):</strong></a> While the Silver Plus beats it out, the Lexar E-Series remains more than fast enough for 4K video, and is sufficiently rugged to fit in your adventure camera. This deal includes a five-pack of microSD cards, working out to about six dollars per 64GB of storage.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:32;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C1PT9XXS&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Pro+Plus+for+%2417+%2835+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzFQVDlYWFM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzFQVDlYWFMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAa_A0O-Snat_xxuh20BREel7xIL6iyeYJVOO_O582Dub&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C1PT9XXS" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1PT9XXS?"><strong>Samsung Pro Plus for $17 (35 percent off):</strong></a> The Samsung Pro Plus is a great microSD card for most needs, so if it's cheaper than the Lexar option, go for it. We've found that it's particularly good in handheld game systems. Just make sure to get the version rated for 180 MB/s, nothing less (it should say on the package).</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:33;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B7NV73PJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=SanDisk+Ultra+256GB+microSDXC+for+%2417+%2835+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUk8erdJwhDeHSx__O5mwg90UfjqPRsD75kPUgaqqwSh&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSanDisk-256GB-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter%2Fdp%2FB0B7NV73PJ%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-256GB-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B0B7NV73PJ/"><strong>SanDisk Ultra 256GB microSDXC for $17 (35 percent off):</strong></a> If you're still rocking the Switch 1 (thanks, Target) and want a cheap storage expander, this deal on a SanDisk 256GB microSD card is for you. It's going for $17 right now, far less than most of the games you're likely to store on it.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:34;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09B1GXM16&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Evo+Select+for+%2422+%2827+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAb9M0ST7YRFnq88HcAg2ViVu9URME07Ed64-XCr9jYHG&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSAMSUNG-microSDXC-Expanded-MB-ME256KA-AM%2Fdp%2FB09B1GXM16" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-microSDXC-Expanded-MB-ME256KA-AM/dp/B09B1GXM16?th=1"><strong>Samsung Evo Select for $22 (27 percent off):</strong></a> This one's by far the best option if you're after a cheap microSD card — we've seen it on sale for less than $25 more than once. It's a bit too slow for cameras, but fine for any kind of undemanding passive storage.</p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-external-hard-drive-deals">Best Prime Day external hard drive deals</h2> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:35;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07CRG94G3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Seagate+Portable+for+%2465+%2819+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA3Q1JHOTRHMz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDdDUkc5NEczIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAQmSfWGNzA6hPm4eXgCbxwHrqfWHtyOEIXKdaLBOF7LU&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB07CRG94G3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CRG94G3"><strong>Seagate Portable for $65 (19 percent off):</strong></a> All the Seagate hard drives we've used are refreshingly good at combining thin, light hardware with consistent speeds, and the Portable is no exception. At 4TB, this is a great deal on an external HDD with no tradeoffs.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:36;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CH87VY5B&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Seagate+Game+Drive+for+%2476+%2816+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDSDg3Vlk1Qj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMENIODdWWTVCIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAARBqq7qLuYL2QbbfebVbg-MRCHcKpCqmt2Q2Vb9ES435&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CH87VY5B" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH87VY5B?"><strong>Seagate Game Drive for $76 (16 percent off):</strong></a> Seagate's Game Drive is a prime choice for adding extra space to a PS5 or Xbox Series X. Formerly overpriced, it's now dropped down to $90 for 2 TB, and that's before Prime Day makes it even cheaper.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:37;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D1YHH6XJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WD+My+Passport+for+%24140+%2824+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBEMVlISDZYSj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEQxWUhINlhKIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAASD9aSafINPmuMa1ZKPFiFKwyhhsqMdbxt-5aogBK_xr&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D1YHH6XJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1YHH6XJ"><strong>WD My Passport for $140 (24 percent off):</strong></a> The Western Digital My Passport line is ancient by computer hardware standards, but it's been updated as far as USB 3.0 and 3.1, and remains one of the cheaper options for a 6 TB hard drive. This version includes automatic backup software.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:38;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D3GW9R4G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WD+Elements+6TB+for+%24130+%2826+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBEM0dXOVI0Rz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEQzR1c5UjRHIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAUVMFjg8OizcfXZcIv-IIrNH4qzxERfCUGYhFlpQ61nv&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D3GW9R4G" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3GW9R4G?"><strong>WD Elements 6TB for $130 (26 percent off):</strong></a> The Elements HDD from Western Digital has gotten consistently positive feedback from our staff over the years, and as an older model, it's now wildly cheap for 6 TB of storage. It's compatible with both PC and Mac out of the box.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:39;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08KTRBHP1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WD+Elements+18TB+for+%24308+%2842+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0VsZW1lbnRzLURlc2t0b3AtRHJpdmUtQ29tcGF0aWJsZS1XREJXTEcwMTgwSEJLLU5FU04vZHAvQjA4S1RSQkhQMS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0VsZW1lbnRzLURlc2t0b3AtRHJpdmUtQ29tcGF0aWJsZS1XREJXTEcwMTgwSEJLLU5FU04vZHAvQjA4S1RSQkhQMS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATDiafRSahJ5INdgXQEUK718qFe4i1rV4T4egqfyObea&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FElements-Desktop-Drive-Compatible-WDBWLG0180HBK-NESN%2Fdp%2FB08KTRBHP1%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Drive-Compatible-WDBWLG0180HBK-NESN/dp/B08KTRBHP1/"><strong>WD Elements 18TB for $308 (42 percent off):</strong></a> If you need a lot more storage, WD has also heavily discounted the 18TB version of the elements, slicing well over $200 off the price.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:40;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D3GXP8NB&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WD_BLACK+P10+Game+Drive+for+%24155+%2818+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBEM0dYUDhOQj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI4MjhlN2NlNy1lOTMxLTRiYjYtYWM1Yy1jMmI5ODY0YjM0ODEiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEQzR1hQOE5CIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAbEkiiQRDcX5-kJlumcyeMlv4JJiEu3KDUZKCJoNDx-f&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D3GXP8NB" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3GXP8NB"><strong>WD_BLACK P10 Game Drive for $155 (18 percent off):</strong></a> We're big fans of the WD_BLACK SSD, and the gaming-focused external P10 is a worthy companion. It comes with 6 TB of storage for your PC, PS5, or Xbox gaming library.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:41;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B091FSXH5V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=UnionSine+50&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1VuaW9uU2luZS1Qb3J0YWJsZS1FeHRlcm5hbC1TdG9yYWdlLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjA5MUZTWEg1Vi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1VuaW9uU2luZS1Qb3J0YWJsZS1FeHRlcm5hbC1TdG9yYWdlLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjA5MUZTWEg1Vi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAU4Si-j8-Q76ldynxgCYORo_VphZ0vgpOlNODOomZpJI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FUnionSine-Portable-External-Storage-Compatible%2Fdp%2FB091FSXH5V%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/UnionSine-Portable-External-Storage-Compatible/dp/B091FSXH5V/"><strong>UnionSine 50</strong></a><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:42;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B091FSXH5V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=828e7ce7-e931-4bb6-ac5c-c2b9864b3481&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=0GB+External+Hard+Drive+for+%2427+%2819+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1VuaW9uU2luZS1Qb3J0YWJsZS1FeHRlcm5hbC1TdG9yYWdlLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjA5MUZTWEg1Vi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiODI4ZTdjZTctZTkzMS00YmI2LWFjNWMtYzJiOTg2NGIzNDgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1VuaW9uU2luZS1Qb3J0YWJsZS1FeHRlcm5hbC1TdG9yYWdlLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjA5MUZTWEg1Vi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAU4Si-j8-Q76ldynxgCYORo_VphZ0vgpOlNODOomZpJI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FUnionSine-Portable-External-Storage-Compatible%2Fdp%2FB091FSXH5V%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/UnionSine-Portable-External-Storage-Compatible/dp/B091FSXH5V/"><strong>0GB External Hard Drive for $27 (19 percent off):</strong></a> UnionSine's HDD is fast and USB3 compatible. Despite how thin and light it is, we've found it remarkably hard to damage. 500GB may be a bit tight with the size of files these days, but at this price, you could just buy two of them.</p></li> </ul>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-deals-on-ssds-and-external-hard-drives-for-the-last-day-save-on-samsung-crucial-sandisk-and-more-090355730.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>July's <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-deals-are-already-live-through-july-11-here-are-our-top-picks-so-far-120028881.html">Prime Day sale</a> is here, which means Amazon is offering sharp discounts on some of the best speakers money can buy. Whether you're after a <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/speakers/best-portable-bluetooth-speakers-133004551.html">portable bluetooth speaker</a>, a <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/speakers/best-soundbars-143041791.html">compact yet powerful soundbar</a> or a <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/speakers/best-smart-speakers-151515264.html">smart speaker</a> to help around the house, something probably just dropped into your price range. Our audiophiles have combed through the sales and put together a list of discounted speakers that stand out from the herd, including top brands like Beats, Marshall, Bose and Sonos. So if you're sick of missing important dialogue in your shows, or you want to listen to music like it's live, check out the list below.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-bluetooth-speaker-deals">Best Prime Day Bluetooth speaker deals</h2> <p>Our portable bluetooth speaker picks are some of the best all-around mobile music devices to ever hit the shelves: smaller and lighter than a boombox, better audio than an iPod, and way easier in the long run than learning to play guitar. We've sifted through Prime Day offerings to find the best portable speakers in all shapes and sizes.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="1e190cd067124d43b3d7b54ddab33e9b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRXJ9WTD?"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGJ5F42Q&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Beats+Pill+for+%2498+%2835+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL2F3L2QvQjBER0o1RjQyUS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjRlY2RkNWItZmYwNi00NDgxLWE0MzktZmRlN2IxNzRjMmM0Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL2F3L2QvQjBER0o1RjQyUS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAeMaDvxz9-IsJa1H8FBmryDaGznKhyR-U9bwSCFKwnZo&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Faw%2Fd%2FB0DGJ5F42Q%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DGJ5F42Q/"><strong>Beats Pill for $98 (35 percent off):</strong></a> The Beats Pill is one of the few portable bluetooth speakers we liked enough to give it a <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/beats-pill-review-a-revival-worth-the-wait-160056269.html">full review</a>. Those of you who love the classic Beats bluetooth speakers will be happy to know they're back in fine form. Nobody can beat the Pill for bass, and its sound is crisp and lossless at almost any frequency and volume. For some reason, only the Kim Kardashian branded version is on sale, but it's the exact same speaker.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CQ53RVTW&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Soundcore+Boom+2+for+%2490+%2836+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAcBXgV1tn6q157aT1GygP0luImOjLmayaaMtHLYjjhUe&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSoundcore-Subwoofer-Waterproof-Floatable-Bluetooth%2Fdp%2FB0CQ53RVTW%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Subwoofer-Waterproof-Floatable-Bluetooth/dp/B0CQ53RVTW/"><strong>Soundcore Boom 2 for $90 (36 percent off):</strong></a> This lightweight but powerful indoor/outdoor speaker is highly customizable, with simple controls to balance for pounding bass or clear high-frequency audio. It's great at filling an area with an even proportion of sound. $90 is close to a record-low price.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CDJWTWMB&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Soundcore+Motion+300+for+%2453+%2834+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAWUmP7zjwZgBw3IZ-IDI6-CHL6lAvs0mV87UcMXNGjLr&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSoundcore-Bluetooth-SmartTune-Technology-Waterproof%2Fdp%2FB0CDJWTWMB" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Bluetooth-SmartTune-Technology-Waterproof/dp/B0CDJWTWMB?th=1"><strong>Soundcore Motion 300 for $53 (34 percent off):</strong></a> The Motion 300 is that rare portable speaker that outperforms at both high and low frequencies. Its upper range goes into 40 kHz, while its bass can deliver bone-shaking thumps even outdoors. All that in 1.7 pounds with 13 hours of battery life — and it's even partially waterproof.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07P39MLKH&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+Soundcore+Motion%2B+for+%2475+%2824+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fua2VyLVNvdW5kY29yZS1CbHVldG9vdGgtQ3VzdG9taXphYmxlLVdhdGVycHJvb2YvZHAvQjA3UDM5TUxLSC8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjRlY2RkNWItZmYwNi00NDgxLWE0MzktZmRlN2IxNzRjMmM0Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fua2VyLVNvdW5kY29yZS1CbHVldG9vdGgtQ3VzdG9taXphYmxlLVdhdGVycHJvb2YvZHAvQjA3UDM5TUxLSC8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAUU0jgSK2HFS6MfXQLKEPKzsTzRmIG4VVBl1C0c04g1_&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAnker-Soundcore-Bluetooth-Customizable-Waterproof%2Fdp%2FB07P39MLKH%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Soundcore-Bluetooth-Customizable-Waterproof/dp/B07P39MLKH/"><strong>Anker Soundcore Motion+ for $75 (24 percent off):</strong></a> Tough, sturdy construction makes this speaker an excellent choice for home bluetooth. Its battery lasts for 12 hours in the wild, and it always sounds great, but it's a bit heavy for pedaling through the park. There's also an option for wired connections, and it even works as a backup soundbar.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B01MTB55WH&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+Soundcore+2+for+%2428+%2838+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjAxTVRCNTVXSD90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDFNVEI1NVdIIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAaiGnjQAlXwCYEsi7hlisJKFxWM_-mgaxKiByJ5oimlV&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB01MTB55WH" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTB55WH?"><strong>Anker Soundcore 2 for $28 (38 percent off):</strong></a> The Soundcore 2 is an older bluetooth speaker, but it holds up — fully waterproof, with 24 hours of battery life and bass you can hear on the other side of a pool. It's on sale for less than $30.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DB1753RZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Soundcore+Select+4+for+%2419+%2846+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvdW5kY29yZS1CbHVldG9vdGgtV2F0ZXJwcm9vZi1EdXN0cHJvb2YtRWxlY3Ryb25pY3MvZHAvQjBEQjE3NTNSWi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjRlY2RkNWItZmYwNi00NDgxLWE0MzktZmRlN2IxNzRjMmM0Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvdW5kY29yZS1CbHVldG9vdGgtV2F0ZXJwcm9vZi1EdXN0cHJvb2YtRWxlY3Ryb25pY3MvZHAvQjBEQjE3NTNSWi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbMIDW-h1A8VfIMTYhuAHHSpB1WYRTpnHPvc9we8Y5WU&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSoundcore-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Dustproof-Electronics%2Fdp%2FB0DB1753RZ%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Dustproof-Electronics/dp/B0DB1753RZ/"><strong>Soundcore Select 4 for $19 (46 percent off):</strong></a> This 9.3-ounce speaker is a massive improvement over built-in smartphone audio. It can fill a room at a decent range of frequencies, and works well in room-sized outdoor spaces — plus, with IP67 waterproofing, it can survive a dip in the pool. It's currently almost half off.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BYCBRXVM&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=UE+Everboom+for+%24190+%2830+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBCWUNCUlhWTT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEJZQ0JSWFZNIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAapxHYvIhP851do6wPBfmUE2CzPIi_HCSdcQBDIoNcYa&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BYCBRXVM" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYCBRXVM?"><strong>UE Everboom for $190 (30 percent off):</strong></a> If you want something stronger than the Wonderboom but the Hyperboom isn't portable enough, the Everboom is a great middle ground. Its ideal range is a little narrow, but it makes up for that with 360-degree sound and extreme durability (i.e. so waterproof it literally floats).</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07CVPZJTV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Xtreme+2+for+%24150+%2817+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAfTlzaMSqe92z_NKNq1Zv9DQDp4j61wpHGB4JzmUmzTF&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FJBL-Waterproof-portable-Bluetooth-speaker%2Fdp%2FB07CVPZJTV%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/JBL-Waterproof-portable-Bluetooth-speaker/dp/B07CVPZJTV/"><strong>JBL Xtreme 2 for $150 (17 percent off):</strong></a> The Xtreme 2 is an older model, dating back to 2018 — but as they say on the internet, it checks out. With a maximum output of 40 watts, it's actually more powerful than the Xtreme 4. Even better, this deal includes a pair of speakers that can work together through JBL connect+.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CQ53RVTW&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Boombox+3+for+%24400+%2820+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAcBXgV1tn6q157aT1GygP0luImOjLmayaaMtHLYjjhUe&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSoundcore-Subwoofer-Waterproof-Floatable-Bluetooth%2Fdp%2FB0CQ53RVTW%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Subwoofer-Waterproof-Floatable-Bluetooth/dp/B0CQ53RVTW/"><strong>JBL Boombox 3 for $400 (20 percent off):</strong></a> The JBL Boombox 3 is a great choice for getting a bit louder. It's tough, portable and ready to go right out of the box, although it would be a little overpriced without this Prime Day deal.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BQPVNJFN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Pulse+5+for+%24197+%2821+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0pCTC1QdWxzZS1Qb3J0YWJsZS1CbHVldG9vdGgtRGF6emxpbmcvZHAvQjBCUVBWTkpGTi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjRlY2RkNWItZmYwNi00NDgxLWE0MzktZmRlN2IxNzRjMmM0Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0pCTC1QdWxzZS1Qb3J0YWJsZS1CbHVldG9vdGgtRGF6emxpbmcvZHAvQjBCUVBWTkpGTi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWeaT4VOtDJVou1jqNMDdHhHwVE_XMyBrt2t3inMSVSO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FJBL-Pulse-Portable-Bluetooth-Dazzling%2Fdp%2FB0BQPVNJFN%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/JBL-Pulse-Portable-Bluetooth-Dazzling/dp/B0BQPVNJFN/"><strong>JBL Pulse 5 for $197 (21 percent off):</strong></a> The Pulse 5 is JBL's latest and greatest party speaker, throwing out 360-degree light bursts that sync up to the music. There's substance behind the flash, too, with speakers designed around the bass frequencies and 12 hours of battery life.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CTP56C5R&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Clip+5+for+%2460+%2825+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAens4RRJCbFEYoV7TzfA-ITCUopSfBRchdyjsblrsSfz&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FJBL-Clip-Ultra-Portable-Waterproof-Integrated%2Fdp%2FB0CTP56C5R" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/JBL-Clip-Ultra-Portable-Waterproof-Integrated/dp/B0CTP56C5R?th=1"><strong>JBL Clip 5 for $60 (25 percent off):</strong></a> The JBL Clip 5 is a traveling speaker, coming with a carabiner-friendly design, 15 hours of battery life, and IP67-rated waterproofing and dustproofing. It's not exactly powerful, but it's way better than a phone speaker for driving, trekking or camping.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D6W8X6L2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+SoundLink+Flex+2nd+Gen+for+%2499+%2834+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBENlc4WDZMMj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEQ2VzhYNkwyIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAATOCiexRZcjuSG3RlZPaIG10qiLHWYUqlPHtOvyIfuVo&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D6W8X6L2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6W8X6L2?"><strong>Bose SoundLink Flex 2nd Gen for $99 (34 percent off):</strong></a> This mini speaker from Bose is one of our favorites on the list for hands-free phone calls. It supports both Google Assistant and Siri and runs up to 12 hours on one charge, all while being smaller than a clutch purse. It also kills as a portable music player, though the sound doesn't stretch far enough to fill a room.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08VLD15ZL&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+Soundlink+Revolve%2B+Series+II+for+%24179+%2840+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA4VkxEMTVaTD90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDhWTEQxNVpMIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAVbJeDFY15GOD-pUdvGqZaUBF-gUAGVTy9UZzxCxCCKZ&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB08VLD15ZL" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VLD15ZL?"><strong>Bose Soundlink Revolve+ Series II for $179 (40 percent off):</strong></a> The Revolve series was Bose's first line of 360-degree outdoor speakers, and they're still a strong choice today. The Revolve+ weighs about two pounds and can run for 17 hours without recharging.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CVLD42PD&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+Soundlink+Max+for+%24299+%2825+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDVkxENDJQRD90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMENWTEQ0MlBEIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAYYEHQlQZVD8VQ2PXt-OFzUFo8A5s7CshltVfJL42d7N&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CVLD42PD" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVLD42PD?"><strong>Bose Soundlink Max for $299 (25 percent off):</strong></a> Bose's Soundlink Max marries a classic carrying-case design with audio that sounds like it's coming from a much bigger unit. It comes with a 20-hour battery and IP67-rated protection against the elements.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09XXW54QG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Marshall+Emberton+II+for+%2495+%2847+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA5WFhXNTRRRz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDlYWFc1NFFHIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAc2AVxO7aaThONQSF69fCdqPE9Zy0DXztrOb-yw48EKJ&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09XXW54QG" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XXW54QG?"><strong>Marshall Emberton II for $95 (47 percent off):</strong></a> Marshall has been making audio equipment for more than 60 years, and still has a thing or two to teach the young'ns. The Emberton II looks like a classic amp, but weighs a quarter of a pound and provides balanced sound for more than 30 hours per charge.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BC27MM5Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Marshall+Acton+III+for+%24200+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAR6BbNgEElZMcbyTNdp1EFbRpgVuY2Msy-ZRrF5e9GT0&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMarshall-Acton-Bluetooth-Speaker-Black%2Fdp%2FB0BC27MM5Z%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Marshall-Acton-Bluetooth-Speaker-Black/dp/B0BC27MM5Z/"><strong>Marshall Acton III for $200 (33 percent off):</strong></a> All right, so a six-pound speaker isn't exactly portable — but if you can stand lugging it around, the Acton III can be a highly versatile device. From music to outdoor parties to pulling double duty as a soundbar, this is a low-setup, low-overhead option for nearly all audio tasks.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CXKSCY1G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+Ult+Field+1+for+%2488+%2832+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAb9gy7Ck5fjgQge7DiCuMWBgMSdOFa1RbXLPCBVx-dHY&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Shockproof-Detachable%2Fdp%2FB0CXKSCY1G%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Shockproof-Detachable/dp/B0CXKSCY1G/"><strong>Sony Ult Field 1 for $88 (32 percent off):</strong></a> The Ult Field line is Sony's most bass-heavy sound tech yet, but it's also designed to move — waterproofing, a detachable strap and 12-hour battery life make it a good fit for any situation. It works just as well standing up or lying on its side.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08FDPW8KR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Ortizan+X10+for+%2430+%2841+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL09ydGl6YW4tUG9ydGFibGUtQmx1ZXRvb3RoLVdhdGVycHJvb2YtV2lyZWxlc3MvZHAvQjA4RkRQVzhLUi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjRlY2RkNWItZmYwNi00NDgxLWE0MzktZmRlN2IxNzRjMmM0Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL09ydGl6YW4tUG9ydGFibGUtQmx1ZXRvb3RoLVdhdGVycHJvb2YtV2lyZWxlc3MvZHAvQjA4RkRQVzhLUi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAaG2VQuOzgvY5OriGZkqUw4KhPlcC4iETQltZce3Qs3M&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOrtizan-Portable-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Wireless%2Fdp%2FB08FDPW8KR%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ortizan-Portable-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Wireless/dp/B08FDPW8KR/"><strong>Ortizan X10 for $30 (41 percent off):</strong></a> Ortizan is a newer brand from China, but we like what we've seen from them so far. The X10 is the size of the Beats Pill but comes at the price of a belt-clip speaker like the JBL Go 3. If you do have a problem, Ortizan's customer service is highly responsive.</p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-smart-speaker-deals">Best Prime Day smart speaker deals</h2> <p>Smart speakers aren't just about getting a disembodied voice to do your bidding (or at least as much of your bidding as Alexa can do without hands). On top of assistant support, the picks below serve up legitimately great audio quality alongside useful extra features. The only downside is that they're often overpriced, but that's what Prime Day is for.</p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:24;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09B8V1LZ3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Amazon+Echo+Dot+for+%2432+%2836+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUI4VjFMWjM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjRlY2RkNWItZmYwNi00NDgxLWE0MzktZmRlN2IxNzRjMmM0Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUI4VjFMWjMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAf9_JN3Qc98Mx6RGHDd-vPKEhIXbUO8xUB2M0ZQojLmy&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09B8V1LZ3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B8V1LZ3?ref_=amzdv_b_ucw_unknown_echocatpage_d_pc_clk_B09B8V1LZ3&amp;th=1"><strong>Amazon Echo Dot for $32 (36 percent off):</strong></a> Amazon may not have updated the Echo Dot since 2022, but that just goes to show how well this spherical smart speaker serves as the perfect host for Alexa. Both music and speech sound clear, and it's easy to integrate with other smart home devices. Right now, it's marked down more than a third.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:25;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09WNK39JN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Amazon+Echo+Pop+for+%2422+%2845+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVdOSzM5Sk4_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjRlY2RkNWItZmYwNi00NDgxLWE0MzktZmRlN2IxNzRjMmM0Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVdOSzM5Sk4iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZwFoQ3v5qMr6L0HI4OmEke89sDH-b92e3bwz5i3bnxV&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09WNK39JN" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WNK39JN?"><strong>Amazon Echo Pop for $22 (45 percent off):</strong></a> The latest Echo Pop release continues the trend of making Alexa's best features available on a mini-sized, reasonably priced device. Its half-spherical design fits on any desk or shelf, and its sound output is consistently clear — and gets louder than you might believe.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:26;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BW34LCB8&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sonos+Era+100+for+%24179+%2810+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1Nvbm9zLUVyYS0xMDAtV2lyZWxlc3MtU3BlYWtlci9kcC9CMEJXMzRMQ0I4Lz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vU29ub3MtRXJhLTEwMC1XaXJlbGVzcy1TcGVha2VyL2RwL0IwQlczNExDQjgvIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAATKFMVJbeHTAtkfy4wE8hj70v6mg8-Zw-d2GZSNpt3lB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSonos-Era-100-Wireless-Speaker%2Fdp%2FB0BW34LCB8%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sonos-Era-100-Wireless-Speaker/dp/B0BW34LCB8/"><strong>Sonos Era 100 for $179 (10 percent off):</strong></a> Smart speakers from the Amazon Echo line play perfectly good music, but true audiophiles in need of assistant support should look to Sonos. The Era 100 has tweeters and woofers precisely arranged for clear, full-room sound, and it's easy to hook up to your other audio gear. Just be warned it only supports Alexa, not Google Assistant.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCK25S7Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Authentics+200+for+%24200+%2847+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDQ0syNVM3Wj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMENDSzI1UzdaIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAARPrz9HVgvdtZhstuBVOiIvwY-nTRbkhGK7O3251AAEK&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CCK25S7Z" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCK25S7Z?"><strong>JBL Authentics 200 for $200 (47 percent off):</strong></a> JBL's Authentics line is modeled after a product it sold in the 70s. Its old-school bookshelf-friendly design belies its advanced feat of running Google Assistant and Alexa simultaneously (as opposed to other smart speakers where you have to pick just one).</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:28;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCK2TFQB&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Authentics+300+for+%24285+%2837+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDQ0syVEZRQj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMENDSzJURlFCIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAWMK6FNqt3gfLZQucPNvjo-xxoAu0FAlPdTzlh1g86gf&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CCK2TFQB" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCK2TFQB?"><strong>JBL Authentics 300 for $285 (37 percent off):</strong></a> The JBL Authentics 300 can host both Alexa and Google Assistant at the same time, which impressed us enough that we gave it <a data-i13n="cpos:29;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/jbl-authentics-300-review-alexa-and-google-assistant-coexisting-190036434.html">a full review</a>. While we had some issues — namely its tendency to over-emphasize vocals — we can't quibble with its high-range performance or retro design.</p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-soundbar-deals">Best Prime Day soundbar deals</h2> <p>Flatter, lighter and larger TV screens are nice for visuals, but often sacrifice sound quality to lose weight. If you've found yourself turning on the subtitles for your shows more often lately, you might need a soundbar to augment your TV's built-in speakers. We found a few of the best on sale for Prime Day — Sonos leads this space, but it's not without competitors.</p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:30;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D6W8XQ6J&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+Smart+for+%24400+%2820+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBENlc4WFE2Sj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEQ2VzhYUTZKIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAdfcJUjJgp1-8Bm25hXqVm2C9BMA1DRbdTFPGmzYkOLN&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D6W8XQ6J" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6W8XQ6J?"><strong>Bose Smart for $400 (20 percent off):</strong></a> In our <a data-i13n="cpos:31;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/speakers/bose-smart-soundbar-review-using-earbuds-as-surround-sound-speakers-153028639.html">full review</a> of the Bose Smart, we noted that two drivers in the center make its sound feel directional without any other speakers needed — simply cranking up those makes any audio more immersive. You can also link it to a pair of Ultra Open Earbuds (not included) for a private surround sound experience.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:32;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C548MYF3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+Smart+Ultra+for+%24700+%2822+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDNTQ4TVlGMz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEM1NDhNWUYzIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAcXvA4h4-a-DF-S8QCC1dfoW1csVPZbH72w_qouHxc9m&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C548MYF3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C548MYF3?"><strong>Bose Smart Ultra for $700 (22 percent off):</strong></a> The Smart Ultra upgrades the Bose Smart with a more sophisticated calibration system which adjusts sound settings to fill whatever room it's in. If you want the Smart's personal surround experience for more than one person, the Smart Ultra is for you.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:33;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09GPYL7BJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sonos+Beam+for+%24369+%2826+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA5R1BZTDdCSj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDlHUFlMN0JKIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAdyuRXzF_Z1UFlPw-STyMD9i_2WvxTWxrBp97AkPSXmV&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09GPYL7BJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GPYL7BJ?"><strong>Sonos Beam for $369 (26 percent off):</strong></a> The Sonos Beam is a fantastic choice for a mid-budget soundbar. It's one of the most accessible Dolby Atmos systems, and uses careful audio alterations to achieve a much more immersive sound than other bars of its size.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:34;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B2KQFTG9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sonos+Ray+for+%24169+%2815+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBCMktRRlRHOT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEIyS1FGVEc5IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAd6bU3WaKjEqWwRNEJIukaEJprnHU68gPZM_LxJ4Gr4V&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B2KQFTG9" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2KQFTG9?"><strong>Sonos Ray for $169 (15 percent off):</strong></a> If you're looking to pay a bit less, go with the Sonos Ray to maximize sound quality on a budget. The audio won't wrap around your room like it might from a more premium model, but it's still a vast improvement on nearly all built-in TV speakers.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:35;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CXZTT4MT&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Amazon+Fire+TV+Plus+for+%24150+%2840+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAARpHpjRH4DyA5SlaP3sTudgYmfzVwzH__oaLPHRb6f8y&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FIntroducing-Amazon-Soundbar-channel-design%2Fdp%2FB0CXZTT4MT%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-Soundbar-channel-design/dp/B0CXZTT4MT/"><strong>Amazon Fire TV Plus for $150 (40 percent off):</strong></a> Amazon's latest Fire TV soundbar is built for streaming TV and emphasizing dialogue. If you have any other Amazon TVs or streaming devices, you'll find it easy to integrate with your existing hardware — you can even use the same remote to control them all.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:36;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09SQWQ4TC&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+HT-S400+for+%24178+%2841+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA5U1FXUTRUQz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDlTUVdRNFRDIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAcWKT2m0IQG2xX9Aswzd4Y9LDMRRkCRepSBwD1-LQiCk&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09SQWQ4TC" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SQWQ4TC?"><strong>Sony HT-S400 for $178 (41 percent off):</strong></a> Sony <a data-i13n="cpos:37;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/sony-ht-s400-soundbar-171654014.html">built the HT-S400</a> for everyone who wants a soundbar but not an entire home theater. It's a 2.1-channel system that still manages immersive surround sound and is easy to integrate with Sony TVs. Right now, it's 40 percent off, one of the best prices we've seen on any soundbar.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:38;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DYWPJYF1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+Bravia+Theater+Bar+6+for+%24448+%2831+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAARfMGfExzqY8QimFqx6HwJQG-JdM-GiOzvHokFZCSb2P&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Powerful-Wireless-subwoofer-Surround%2Fdp%2FB0DYWPJYF1%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Powerful-Wireless-subwoofer-Surround/dp/B0DYWPJYF1/"><strong>Sony Bravia Theater Bar 6 for $448 (31 percent off):</strong></a> One of Sony's <a data-i13n="cpos:39;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/home-theater/sony-adds-the-bravia-theater-bar-6-to-its-dolby-atmos-soundbar-lineup-160012544.html">newest audio products</a>, the Bravia Theater Bar 6 is a 3.1.2 soundbar that can bend audio in more directions to fill your theater space. It can handle Dolby Atmos, and has an integrated AI feature that recognizes and clarifies human voices.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:40;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CVCMCL2K&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=VIZIO+2.0+for+%2478+%2822+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBDVkNNQ0wySz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMENWQ01DTDJLIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAYav37udvI709Zg5zopPiZr0C6XXCdrTollWvvOZFTw0&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CVCMCL2K" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVCMCL2K?"><strong>VIZIO 2.0 for $78 (22 percent off):</strong></a> Vizio's budget soundbar makes a worthy alternative to the Sonos Ray. It punches above its weight and gets as close as possible to Dolby Atmos surround sound as a single unit can manage. For less than $100, you'll never mishear a line of dialogue again.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:41;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B084KGSV4Q&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=24ecdd5b-ff06-4481-a439-fde7b174c2c4&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Bar+9.1+for+%24760+%2837+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjA4NEtHU1Y0UT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyNGVjZGQ1Yi1mZjA2LTQ0ODEtYTQzOS1mZGU3YjE3NGMyYzQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDg0S0dTVjRRIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAVdLVzDBjlmJSooLWltI-jkWw_73eZ5n6Fv3LW7qwb9h&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB084KGSV4Q" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B084KGSV4Q?tag=gdgt0c-pd25-20&amp;linkcode=af3"><strong>JBL Bar 9.1 for $760 (37 percent off):</strong></a> The 9.1 is JBL's first sound bar to be compatible with Dolby Atmos, and it doesn't disappoint. Each unit comes with two wireless speakers you can move around your viewing room, and there's even a 4K passthrough input to ensure your sound system doesn't mess with image quality.</p></li> </ul>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-prime-day-speaker-deals-last-chance-to-get-up-to-47-percent-off-on-jbl-bose-sonos-and-others-085948445.html?src=rss

Jul 12, 2025

<p>If you’re on the market for a Kindle, Fire TV device or Echo speaker, <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Amazon Prime Day</a> is basically Black Friday for you. Prime Day deals on those devices are typically the same (or very close to) the prices we see at the end of the year near the holidays. That means now is a great time to pick up a new Kindle ereader ahead of the new semester in the fall, a Fire TV Stick for streaming while traveling or an Echo speaker for your home office. As expected, almost all of Amazon’s hardware is on sale for Prime Day; these are the best Prime Day deals on Amazon gear that are still available on the last day of the sale.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-echo-deals">Prime Day Echo deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="24ba4dd0a2504823afbff595f4d333ef" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Spot-2024-release-Smart-alarm-clock-with-vibrant-sound-Alexa-Black/dp/B0BFC7WQ6R?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09ZXJDSL5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Echo+Pop+speaker+for+%2422+%2845+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVpYSkRTTDU_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVpYSkRTTDUiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAeNLKqfvQ32Yl9jDgoOexhsfpVEW2oSl4YYBJa-EcoT4&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09ZXJDSL5" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZXJDSL5?th=1"><strong>Echo Pop speaker for $22 (45 percent off):</strong></a> One of the newer Echo devices available, the Pop it sports a 1.95-inch front-facing speaker and a physical mic mute switch for extra privacy. The Pop also has built-in eero compatibility, so it can extend the area of your home Wi-Fi network if you already have an eero router system.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09B2SBHQK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Echo+Show+5+for+%2460+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUIyU0JIUUs_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUIyU0JIUUsiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXNc4qYBjoQ3BSw8d9PohOkZOIP3R_NAJCxrTG9r-QiM&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09B2SBHQK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B2SBHQK?th=1"><strong>Echo Show 5 for $60 (33 percent off):</strong></a> This model is one of our favorite <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/best-smart-display-202448797.html">smart displays</a> thanks to its compact design, ambient light sensor and sunrise alarm feature, all of which make it an excellent smart alarm clock. Amazon improved the speaker quality on this latest model, which gives sound deeper bass and clearer vocals.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BLS3Y632&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Echo+Show+8+for+%24110+%2827+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkxTM1k2MzI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkxTM1k2MzIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQJJnTVGU5OpfhUraNU4L9C6r4xzbAS1jPwENKJiMjh8&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BLS3Y632" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLS3Y632?th=1"><strong>Echo Show 8 for $110 (27 percent off):</strong></a> This is our current top pick for the <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/best-smart-display-202448797.html">best smart display</a> with Amazon’s Alexa thanks in part to its 8-inch touchscreen, 13MP camera that supports auto-framing for better video chats and its built-in Zigbee smart home hub. The 2023 model supports Visual ID, which will show personalized information on the device’s display depending on who’s using it, and video streaming from Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video and other services.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-kindle-deals">Prime Day Kindle deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="2bc8f2a40f7d4434b41b01e8bdb6f451" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNV9F72P?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CNVBQK38&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Kids+for+%2495+%28%2435+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ05WQlFLMzg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ05WQlFLMzgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAaqR8mRvuZEybqKvcbqKDRCauTb0bYc_DTpTY-nimPfY&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CNVBQK38" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNVBQK38?ref_=MARS_NAVSTRIPE_desktop_kids_kindle_kindlekids&amp;th=1"><strong>Kindle Kids for $95 ($35 off):</strong></a> This is the same device as the base Kindle, but it becomes more kid-friendly thanks to the included cover, two-year warranty and the included year of <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Amazon+Kids%2B&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2Z0dS9ob21lP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjM3MDEyNjNhLTJlMDEtNDdlZi04YTQ0LTdjMDEwM2Q5MGExOCIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9mdHUvaG9tZSIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAasu5W0K9x7aSn48jYpvdRcGOpFYw_NFBRNEM5suZP1A&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fftu%2Fhome" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/ftu/home">Amazon Kids+</a>, which gives children ages 3-12 access to hundreds of appropriate ebooks and audiobooks. Just be sure to take note when you activate that subscription because it will renew after one year at the standard $6/month rate.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CFPJYX7P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Paperwhite+for+%24125+%28%2435+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0ZQSllYN1A_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0ZQSllYN1AiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZL3aMA9w9vPwx-GBkdPTUM3NxlBK29uJ88mspY6neNB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CFPJYX7P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPJYX7P?"><strong>Kindle Paperwhite for $125 ($35 off):</strong></a> The latest version of the Paperwhite has a seven-inch display, thinner bezels, an adjustable warm light, speedier page turns and a battery that can last up to 12 weeks on a single charge. This model is also IPX8 waterproof and has built-in Audible integration.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CN3XR57P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Colorsoft+for+%24180+%28%24100+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ04zWFI1N1A_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ04zWFI1N1AiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATwb-4Xc0gXJUBanGYgonnwKl_PBmt9xce270M2I07Qs&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CN3XR57P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN3XR57P?"><strong>Kindle Colorsoft for $180 ($100 off):</strong></a> Amazon's only color e-reader has a seven-inch, high-contrast display, an auto-adjusting front light, a color highlighting feature and an eight-week battery life.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZ9VFQ2P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Kindle+Scribe+for+%24260+%28%24140+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1o5VkZRMlA_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1o5VkZRMlAiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARUVNh_882y6wGQ672TbhTnOM1-3MBUWk49Zdvvdl5L4&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CZ9VFQ2P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ9VFQ2P?th=1"><strong>Kindle Scribe for $260 ($140 off):</strong></a> The Scribe is one of the <a data-i13n="cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/best-e-ink-tablet-130037939.html">best E-Ink tablets</a> you can buy at the moment, and certainly the top pick if you want a writable table that also excels as an ereader. It provides a great reading and writing experience, thanks in part to its ability to access the entire Kindle ebook library, and it has handy Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox integration.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-fire-tv-deals">Prime Day Fire TV deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="1aa51aac4cfe4bf5a3943b37229d3afe" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQMRKRV5?"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CJM1GNFQ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+TV+Stick+4K+for+%2425+%2850+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0pNMUdORlE_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0pNMUdORlEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARCKJsE5H18fu3czlL4s5eJse75svrcuOWzV5s7raOvv&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CJM1GNFQ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJM1GNFQ"><strong>Fire TV Stick 4K for $25 (50 percent off):</strong></a> This is the cheapest Fire TV Stick you can get to stream 4K content, plus it has support for Wi-Fi 6 and Dolby Vision and Atmos. With its live picture-in-picture feature, you can view security camera feeds right on your TV while you’re watching your favorite show or movie.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BP9SNVH9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+TV+Stick+4K+Max+for+%2435+%2842+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQlA5U05WSDk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQlA5U05WSDkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYm3ust_HmZIVRPrLIbucghuOuB0FlH_uqtc9lgcHzjd&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BP9SNVH9" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BP9SNVH9?"><strong>Fire TV Stick 4K Max for $35 (42 percent off):</strong></a> In addition to 4K HDR streaming with Dolby Vision and Atmos support, the 4K Max dongle includes Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, 16GB of built-in storage and live picture-in-picture capabilities. It also supports the Fire TV “ambient experience,” which lets you display photos and images on your TV screen when you’re not actively watching something.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09BZZ3MM7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+TV+Cube+streaming+box+for+%2490+%2836+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUJaWjNNTTc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUJaWjNNTTciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAASmHn9JYNoFFMbWFtvMSu6F1NZYl5uqqbKIo14ytIxVX&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09BZZ3MM7" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BZZ3MM7"><strong>Fire TV Cube streaming box for $90 (36 percent off):</strong></a> This model will provide the best performance of any Fire TV streaming device, and it supports 4K HDR content, Dolby Vision and Atmos and an enhanced version of the Alexa Voice Remote. Along with live picture-in-picture view and the Fire TV ambient experience, you can also hardware other devices to the Fire TV Cube including a cable box or a game console.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-fire-tablet-deals">Prime Day Fire tablet deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="68dbac06c0bd40f398b3e4f00813f377" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHZT5S12?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CVDN4QS6&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+HD+8+tablet+for+%2455+%2845+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1ZETjRRUzY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1ZETjRRUzYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWetPJ0lXCRp08i76aQYejZLbUefIZ08O2x1jDSLXS9Y&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CVDN4QS6" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVDN4QS6?"><strong>Fire HD 8 tablet for $55 (45 percent off):</strong></a> This is Amazon's most bare-bones tablet, featuring an eight-inch HD touchscreen, hexa-core processor and 13 hours of battery life. The improvements in the screen quality alone from the old-school Fire 7 tablet make it a better buy for most people, and this slab would make a good couch device for general web browsing, email checking, online shopping and more.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B1VQ1ZQY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+Max+11+tablet+for+%24140+%2839+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjFWUTFaUVk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjFWUTFaUVkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAa4V74smPDYAfPEiYoFrDIiUdg2cjPmCg6nXUFRhOLyG&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B1VQ1ZQY" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1VQ1ZQY?th=1"><strong>Fire Max 11 tablet for $140 (39 percent off):</strong></a> Amazon’s most powerful tablet, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B1VQ1ZQY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+Max+11&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjFWUTFaUVk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjFWUTFaUVkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAa4V74smPDYAfPEiYoFrDIiUdg2cjPmCg6nXUFRhOLyG&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B1VQ1ZQY" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1VQ1ZQY">Fire Max 11</a> sports an 11-inch 2,000 x 1,200 touchscreen, an octa-core processor, up to 128GB of storage and 14 hours of battery life. It also works with a number of optional accessories, including a <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BQ89FPSR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=stylus&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQlE4OUZQU1I_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQlE4OUZQU1IiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZYkFrRMwXw6O1i5Lc9xR28kfvhNpcD2lTEX7sl9Ba5M&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BQ89FPSR" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQ89FPSR">stylus</a> and <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B5VQ3XML&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=keyboard+case&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjVWUTNYTUw_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjVWUTNYTUwiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZgNr1gpZtn2bQqe1jvZMyrZ5e8hk0_U0ckVWGl_S-1q&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B5VQ3XML" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5VQ3XML">keyboard case</a>.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BL5SZ3VV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+HD+10+Kids+tablet+for+%24105+%2845+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkw1U1ozVlY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkw1U1ozVlYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbW65knhGlP8KbLExJ4wRJ_RLztWWbrGdZ3Ey6SanXK8&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BL5SZ3VV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BL5SZ3VV?th=1"><strong>Fire HD 10 Kids tablet for $105 (45 percent off):</strong></a> This slab is designed for kids aged three to seven, with full parental controls plus one year of Amazon Kids+ for free with the tablet purchase. This model has a 10-inch FHD touchscreen, an octa-core processor and 13 hours of battery life, plus it comes with a two-year warranty and a protective case.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BL61V5QC&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3701263a-2e01-47ef-8a44-7c0103d90a18&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fire+HD+10+Kids+Pro+tablet+for+%24105+%2845+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkw2MVY1UUM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzcwMTI2M2EtMmUwMS00N2VmLThhNDQtN2MwMTAzZDkwYTE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkw2MVY1UUMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATuKcaadzsXbPpKU6mU-FcaB06aQSbfQwIR24tUYa0n3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BL61V5QC" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BL61V5QC"><strong>Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet for $105 (45 percent off):</strong></a> This model is designed for kids aged six to 12 and comes with a slimmer protective case, a two-year warranty and one year of access to Amazon Kids+. Otherwise, you get a very similar experience here that you would with the non-Pro version, including parental controls, a 10-inch touchscreen, solid performance and a 13-hour battery life.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/best-prime-day-deals-on-amazon-devices-its-the-last-day-to-get-up-to-68-percent-off-kindle-ereaders-echo-speakers-and-more-082012880.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>In cooking, timing is critical. So maybe you're just waiting until the right moment before you sauce up your kitchen game with discounts on new gear. That time is now. <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Amazon's Prime Day sale </a>is nearly over (it ends at midnight, Pacific time) but there are still quite a few deals on kitchen tech that we think are worth your while. After all, Engadget has been reviewing kitchen gadgets for years and we have our opinions. Everything here is from brands and models we tested in our own kitchens — and we linked to our reviews so you can read more. Here are the best <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Prime Day</a> kitchen deals we could find.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Editor's note</em></strong><em>: We've waited the entire Prime Day event to see if </em><a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ninja-creami-review-this-machine-makes-your-frozen-dreams-come-true-143155174.html"><em>Ninja's Creami ice cream maker</em></a><em> would see a good discount, and it never really materialized. Right now, a </em><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BLGR5JPV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=bundle&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAQihpVdnVgKsPjAjwXVeCrBCbIQFRFwpRtIyMY_8i52y&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNinja-NC301-CREAMi-Containers-Bundle%2Fdp%2FB0BLGR5JPV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-NC301-CREAMi-Containers-Bundle/dp/B0BLGR5JPV"><em>bundle</em></a><em> with extra containers is selling for $200, but that's still well above the low of $160 we saw as recently as January. </em></p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-air-fryer-deals">Prime Day air fryer deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="7db1da75615745a0b263767b0de3c236" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B15Q3HCQ?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B15Q3HCQ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Ninja+Foodie+Dual+Zone+Air+Fryer+%2810+QT%29+for+%24160+%28%2470+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL3Byb2R1Y3QvQjBCMTVRM0hDUT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI1YTlhZWVkNi1kYzBiLTQ5ODEtYTIyYS1iZTYyZmFmMmFkOTAiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZ3AvcHJvZHVjdC9CMEIxNVEzSENRIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAbRjQvgVrlMnQ7-As93GT_KxZd4CbP3dbde6i6thWAiI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB0B15Q3HCQ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B15Q3HCQ?th=1"><strong>Ninja Foodie Dual Zone Air Fryer (10 QT) for $160 ($70 off)</strong></a>: This is the air fryer to pick if you’ve ever wished you could air fry two different things at the same time. We named it the <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-air-fryers-133047180.html#:~:text=Ninja-,Best%20dual%2Dzone%20air%20fryer,-Ninja%20DZ401%20Foodi">best dual-zone air fryer</a> you can get — it even has a feature that makes sure the two different foods are ready at the same time. This $160 price tag is the lowest price we've seen since Black Friday last year.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08R6KMBQT&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Instant+Pot+Vortex+Plus+Air+Fryer+%284QT%29+for+%2465+%2850+percent+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOFI2S01CUVQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOFI2S01CUVQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATyYlam_pwhbToMcEQC98bhqjphNiHo5stwsJZgR1j21&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB08R6KMBQT" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R6KMBQT?th=1"><strong>Instant Pot Vortex Plus Air Fryer (4QT) for $65 (50 percent off with Prime)</strong></a>: Here’s a smaller version of the Instant air fryer we named best overall. It has a four-quart capacity, which is perfect for one person and small kitchens. And, like its larger sibling, pre-heats quickly.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C33CHG99&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Cosori+Air+Fryer+9-in-1+for+%2490+%28%2430+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzMzQ0hHOTk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzMzQ0hHOTkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARP1axn-nLRzkH_z5mQ11RlA0odlzerrz3TGKTm-z6Ex&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C33CHG99" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C33CHG99?th=1"><strong>Cosori Air Fryer 9-in-1 for $90 ($30 off)</strong></a>: The <a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-air-fryers-133047180.html#:~:text=overall%20%2D%20runner%20up-,Cosori%206%2Dquart%209%2Din%2D1%20air%20fryer,-Capacity%3A%206">runner up pick</a> in our air fryer guide has a spacious cooking capacity yet takes up surprisingly little counter space. Little features like an intuitive touchscreen, a safety release button on the basket and an auto-pause feature set this cooker apart.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B01N5UPTZS&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Breville+Smart+Oven+Air+Fryer+Pro+for+%24320+%28%2480+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL3Byb2R1Y3QvQjAxTjVVUFRaUz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI1YTlhZWVkNi1kYzBiLTQ5ODEtYTIyYS1iZTYyZmFmMmFkOTAiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZ3AvcHJvZHVjdC9CMDFONVVQVFpTIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAQ_xha7NbVaH8GjdeMRWgehMHhDBovxoyiDGp3-ufNmL&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB01N5UPTZS" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5UPTZS"><strong>Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro for $320 ($80 off)</strong></a>: This is the <a data-i13n="cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-air-fryers-133047180.html#:~:text=fryer%20toaster%20oven-,Breville%20Smart%20Oven%20Air%20Fryer%20Pro,-Capacity%3A%201">premium pick</a> in our air fryer guide — but really, it does far more than just air fry. As our reviewer noted, its massive cubic-foot-capacity and numerous cook modes make this more like an auxiliary oven. (It can even cook an entire 14-pound turkey.) It went on sale for $300 during last year's Black Friday sales.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07FDJMC9Q&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Ninja+Air+Fryer+%284+QT%29+for+%2480+%28%2450+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05pbmphLUFGMTAxLUZyeWVyLUJsYWNrLWdyYXkvZHAvQjA3RkRKTUM5UT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI1YTlhZWVkNi1kYzBiLTQ5ODEtYTIyYS1iZTYyZmFmMmFkOTAiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vTmluamEtQUYxMDEtRnJ5ZXItQmxhY2stZ3JheS9kcC9CMDdGREpNQzlRIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAYA434My0cPdvXzvlChEQ1cdzNKhDJgwNs-pZwUmae3d&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNinja-AF101-Fryer-Black-gray%2Fdp%2FB07FDJMC9Q" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-AF101-Fryer-Black-gray/dp/B07FDJMC9Q?th=1"><strong>Ninja Air Fryer (4 QT) for $80 ($50 off)</strong></a>: The <a data-i13n="cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-air-fryers-133047180.html#:~:text=Instant%20Pot-,Best%20budget%20air%20fryer,-Instant%20Pot%20Vortex">budget pick</a> from our air fryer guide isn’t currently on sale, but this four-quart Ninja fryer has twice the capacity and is nearly the same price. It can also roast and dehydrate in addition to air frying and reheating.</p> <p><a data-i13n="cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-air-fryers-133047180.html#best-air-fryer-accessories"><strong>Check out our guide to air fryers to read our testing results.</strong></a></p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-instant-pot-and-rice-cooker-deals">Prime Day Instant Pot and rice cooker deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="796baa5793ca412fbdc62205e1beef1d" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087H24T6G?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B087H24T6G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Cuckoo+Twin+Pressure+Rice+Cooker+for+%24190+%28%2470+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwODdIMjRUNkc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwODdIMjRUNkciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAT9lJTuTMPkD6ME4JI7WdjeyL0bf7__p-3fLjkSllLqy&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB087H24T6G" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087H24T6G?th=1"><strong>Cuckoo Twin Pressure Rice Cooker for $190 ($70 off with Prime)</strong></a>: This is the best premium rice cooker <a data-i13n="cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-rice-cooker-120015478.html">in our guide</a> to those machines. We like how quickly it cooks all types of rice to perfection (we tested it with long-grain white basmati, brown and sushi-grade white rice). Just keep in mind that it can be a little difficult to clean and the manual isn’t the most user-friendly.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0752VWV65&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Hamilton+Beach+Digital+Programmable+Rice+Cooker+for+%2440+%28%2410+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwNzUyVldWNjU_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwNzUyVldWNjUiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdAN9soXGRjYaNihZEB1oSObO31QFwdkXPSttyh--CbV&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0752VWV65" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0752VWV65?th=1"><strong>Hamilton Beach Digital Programmable Rice Cooker for $40 ($10 off with Prime)</strong></a>: Our top pick for a budget rice cooker is on sale for Prime members. The brown rice came out particularly good<a data-i13n="cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-rice-cooker-120015478.html"> in our tests</a> and the cooker is easy to clean with a dishwasher-safe cooker pot and steamer basket. Just note that it’s pretty small and doesn’t have the granular controls of pricer models.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-kitchen-tech-deals">Prime Day kitchen tech deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="fee3f43bc1284a39bb28af8304297381" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBN322HV"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Ooni Pizza Ovens;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=0de15002-ec35-49d8-b24c-3d060213cd2b&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Ooni+Pizza+Ovens&amp;linkText=Ooni+Volt+12+Electric+Indoor+Pizza+Oven+for+%24630+%28%24270+off%29+from+Ooni&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL29vbmkuY29tL3Byb2R1Y3RzL29vbmktdm9sdCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL29vbmkuY29tL3Byb2R1Y3RzL29vbmktdm9sdCJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAU4z8tquT4Lqo9CjJoUuEEJtyPNlWKfaXajeyhlcrSJU&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fooni.com%2Fproducts%2Fooni-volt" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://ooni.com/products/ooni-volt"><strong>Ooni Volt 12 Electric Indoor Pizza Oven for $630 ($270 off) from Ooni</strong></a>: <em>Note: This deal has </em><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C62HWZPQ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=expired+at+Amazon&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL3Byb2R1Y3QvQjBDNjJIV1pQUT90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI1YTlhZWVkNi1kYzBiLTQ5ODEtYTIyYS1iZTYyZmFmMmFkOTAiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZ3AvcHJvZHVjdC9CMEM2MkhXWlBRIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAZBDZpZzeu3Q0Whed4QsTo8kxRgcexSdKitw28sEPBAG&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB0C62HWZPQ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C62HWZPQ"><em>expired at Amazon</em></a><em>, but is still available </em><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Ooni Pizza Ovens;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=0de15002-ec35-49d8-b24c-3d060213cd2b&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Ooni+Pizza+Ovens&amp;linkText=directly+from+Ooni&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL29vbmkuY29tL3Byb2R1Y3RzL29vbmktdm9sdCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL29vbmkuY29tL3Byb2R1Y3RzL29vbmktdm9sdCJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAU4z8tquT4Lqo9CjJoUuEEJtyPNlWKfaXajeyhlcrSJU&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fooni.com%2Fproducts%2Fooni-volt" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://ooni.com/products/ooni-volt"><em>directly from Ooni</em></a><em>.</em> The Volt 12 is our pick for the <a data-i13n="cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-pizza-oven-141550352.html#:~:text=Billy%20Steele%20/%20Engadget-,Best%20indoor%20pizza%20oven,-Ooni%20Volt%2012">best indoor pizza oven</a> — but it can be used outdoors as well thanks to its weather-resistant design. It has front-mounted controls that let you individually control the upper and lower heating elements and it can get up to 850 degrees Fahrenheit in as little as 20 minutes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BLGR5JPV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Ninja+CREAMi+Ice+Cream+Maker+%28bundle%29+for+%24200+%28%2430+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAQihpVdnVgKsPjAjwXVeCrBCbIQFRFwpRtIyMY_8i52y&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNinja-NC301-CREAMi-Containers-Bundle%2Fdp%2FB0BLGR5JPV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-NC301-CREAMi-Containers-Bundle/dp/B0BLGR5JPV"><strong>Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream Maker (bundle) for $200 ($30 off)</strong></a>: We said this machine “<a data-i13n="cpos:24;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ninja-creami-review-this-machine-makes-your-frozen-dreams-come-true-143155174.html">makes your frozen dreams come true</a>.” It’s easy to use and makes thick, dense ice cream with flavors that are more intense and textures that are smoother than rival ice cream makers. Plus most of the parts are machine washable or easily rinsed. This bundle comes with extra containers and is the lowest price we’ve seen in a few months, but note that the Creami sold for $160 as recently as January.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:25;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C384T4P2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Breville+Joule+Turbo+Sous+Vide+Machine+for+%24200+%28%2450+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzM4NFQ0UDI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzM4NFQ0UDIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATnUgzKek_ZpudOlwKPOe1bfb9P-1jKNrE70XJwSCL85&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C384T4P2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C384T4P2"><strong>Breville Joule Turbo Sous Vide Machine for $200 ($50 off)</strong></a>: The <a data-i13n="cpos:26;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/best-sous-vide-133025288.html">premium pick</a> in our guide to sous vice machines has a powerful 1,100-watt heater that cuts down on cooking times. It also uses your phone as the controller (just don’t get it if you’re hoping for on-device buttons).</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BQ9F56WV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anova+Sous+Vide+Cooker+3.0+for+%24138+%2840+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL3Byb2R1Y3QvQjBCUTlGNTZXVj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI1YTlhZWVkNi1kYzBiLTQ5ODEtYTIyYS1iZTYyZmFmMmFkOTAiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZ3AvcHJvZHVjdC9CMEJROUY1NldWIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAYBMhzTpcratgaf3h-i-HCa-N45Z1GnV7c7Tjlv0gIq5&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB0BQ9F56WV" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BQ9F56WV"><strong>Anova Sous Vide Cooker 3.0 for $138 (40 percent off)</strong></a>: Our top pick for a <a data-i13n="cpos:28;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-sous-vide-133025288.html">sous vide machine</a> delivers 1,100 watts of power and a flow rate of eight liters per minute which will get your water up to the right temperature faster. It also has intuitive digital touch controls and Wi-Fi connectivity.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:29;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B003R28HWQ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Breville+Juice+Fountain+Plus+for+%24120+%28%2460+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwMDNSMjhIV1E_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwMDNSMjhIV1EiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARuUZZSGJmq-TZCJU399ql1VIEv2_6p1_juHzusZOTzT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB003R28HWQ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003R28HWQ"><strong>Breville Juice Fountain Plus for $120 ($60 off with Prime)</strong></a>: The extraction abilities on this machine are <a data-i13n="cpos:30;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/breville-juice-fountain-plus-irl-150059913.html">impressive</a>. Plus we found it relatively easy to clean (as long as you do it right after you juice). It takes up a good amount of space, but can extract an impressive amount of juice from even the driest-seeming carrot. This is the lowest price in a while, but it went down to $110 in January.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-kitchenaid-and-blender-deals">Prime Day KitchenAid and blender deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="7402733b5c3a4f37bb51967db0a3095e" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OXNBYC?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:31;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B003OXNBYC&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=KitchenAid+Classic+Series+%284.5+QT%29+for+%24300+%28%2450+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwMDNPWE5CWUM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwMDNPWE5CWUMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYL_aoTC_5c2ZK4e4PBEDWU-tv_PYiUe-_-dW6v3teKo&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB003OXNBYC" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OXNBYC?th=1"><strong>KitchenAid Classic Series (4.5 QT) for $300 ($50 off)</strong></a>: Prime Day and Black Friday sales are usually the best times to snag Kitchen Aid’s iconic mixers — unfortunately, this discount isn’t even as good as the $250 it sold for in May. Still you can save $50 on a classic appliance that we recommend in our guide to<a data-i13n="cpos:32;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-kitchen-tech-gadgets-small-appliances-124515179.html"> essential kitchen gadgets</a>. These mixers are durable, reliable and, with the wide range of attachments, can truly expand your cooking arsenal.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:33;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B008H4SLV6&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Vitamix+5200+Blender+Professional-Grade+for+%24350+%28%24150+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwMDhINFNMVjY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwMDhINFNMVjYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXh7xCJ2CnB985xKw7GoSCurH8zTcMcyGSeuFm5uq4TR&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB008H4SLV6" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008H4SLV6?th=1"><strong>Vitamix 5200 Blender Professional-Grade for $350 ($150 off with Prime)</strong></a>: I can personally attest to the nearly magical abilities of Vitamix blenders. It can make chunky salsas, smooth-as-silk soups and smoothies in which the chia and hemp seeds seem to disappear into the fruit. This pro-grade model is down to the lowest price we’ve tracked this year.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:34;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08F2SS6T2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=KitchenAid+Variable+Speed+Corded+Hand+Blender+for+%2455+%28%2415+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOEYyU1M2VDI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOEYyU1M2VDIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXFTI6R253j4vtumh0kWNYui42UqF8b7hmDEJeQbb_D2&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB08F2SS6T2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F2SS6T2?th=1"><strong>KitchenAid Variable Speed Corded Hand Blender for $55 ($15 off)</strong></a>: We recommend the cordless version of this immersion blender<a data-i13n="cpos:35;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-immersion-blenders-150006296.html"> in our guide</a> to those appliances. This corded version has the same variable speed trigger which makes it easy to control your recipes. Note that this sold for $5 less as recently as May.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:36;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07GC9XZ9W&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Vitamix+E310+Explorian+Blender+for+%24330+%28%2450+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwN0dDOVhaOVc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwN0dDOVhaOVciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYvmzvZozaWR0SXGD4_DT332GhMC-DkNOMHc7DWBnuKd&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB07GC9XZ9W" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GC9XZ9W?th=1"><strong>Vitamix E310 Explorian Blender for $330 ($50 off)</strong></a>: Note that we've seen this go for as little as $255 in past sales, and it dropped to $300 as recently as May. But this is still a decent $50 discount on a blender that will make any food you put in it smooth. We recommend it in our guide to the best<a data-i13n="cpos:37;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-kitchen-tech-gadgets-small-appliances-124515179.html"> kitchen tech</a>.</p> <h3 id="jump-link-expired-deals">Expired deals</h3> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:38;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BF7HJ8MX&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Fellow+Stagg+EKG+Pro+electric+kettle+for+%24160+%28%2435+off+with+Prime%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0ZlbGxvdy1FbGVjdHJpYy1Qb3VyLW92ZXItVGVtcGVyYXR1cmUtU3RvcHdhdGNoL2RwL0IwQkY3SEo4TVg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWE5YWVlZDYtZGMwYi00OTgxLWEyMmEtYmU2MmZhZjJhZDkwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0ZlbGxvdy1FbGVjdHJpYy1Qb3VyLW92ZXItVGVtcGVyYXR1cmUtU3RvcHdhdGNoL2RwL0IwQkY3SEo4TVgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQ3fv7KPqmazV_7a9YRq6V4YNNRCnKKNzk01ZgPx6SKf&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFellow-Electric-Pour-over-Temperature-Stopwatch%2Fdp%2FB0BF7HJ8MX" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Fellow-Electric-Pour-over-Temperature-Stopwatch/dp/B0BF7HJ8MX?th=1"><del><strong>Fellow Stagg EKG Pro electric kettle for $160 ($35 off with Prime)</strong></del></a><del>: This exquisitely designed kettle has an LCD panel built into the base so you can choose a specific temperature down to the degree. And the hold feature keeps water hot for up to an hour. I bought this after reading our</del><a data-i13n="cpos:39;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-gifts-to-buy-tea-lovers-140022326.html"><del> tea guide</del></a><del> and have appreciated the steady pour every morning since. You’ll likely only see the sale price if you’re a Prime member.</del></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:40;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09T7BWJNP&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Mannkitchen+Pepper+Cannon+for+%24160+%28%2440+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAVEzPyyrMV50FXcnsergz-NhUxoBbuTS5PoD6ati9Jiv&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMANNKITCHEN-Pepper-Cannon-Professional-Output%2Fdp%2FB09T7BWJNP" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/MANNKITCHEN-Pepper-Cannon-Professional-Output/dp/B09T7BWJNP?th=1"><del><strong>Mannkitchen Pepper Cannon for $160 ($40 off)</strong></del></a><del>: Not everyone needs a super expensive pepper mill. But it nonetheless became one of our reviewer’s </del><a data-i13n="cpos:41;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mannkitchen-pepper-cannon-irl-153031695.html"><del>favorite pieces of kitchen gear</del></a><del>. A side-by-side comparison showed us just how much more pepper came out of the cannon compared to a standard store-bought mill.</del></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:42;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Instant+Pot+Duo+Plus+9-in-1+%286+QT%29+for+%2470+%28%2470+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwOi8vYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDFOQktUUFRTP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjVhOWFlZWQ2LWRjMGItNDk4MS1hMjJhLWJlNjJmYWYyYWQ5MCIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cDovL2FtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjAxTkJLVFBUUyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAbm8lFYiocrCWgDjDOO2L6_cX3GM8MGlhbELLEziPldz&amp;gcReferrer=http%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2Fdp%2FB01NBKTPTS" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="http://amazon.com/dp/B01NBKTPTS?th=1"><del><strong>Instant Pot Duo Plus 9-in-1 (6 QT) for $70 ($70 off)</strong></del></a><del>: Perhaps you know someone who has somehow gotten this far in life without owning an Instant Pot — perhaps that someone is you. Amazon’s Prime Day is a golden opportunity to remedy that. We named it the </del><a data-i13n="cpos:43;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-kitchen-tech-gadgets-small-appliances-124515179.html"><del>best multi-cooker you can buy</del></a><del> in our guide to kitchen tech.</del></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:44;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B096N28SZP&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5a9aeed6-dc0b-4981-a22a-be62faf2ad90&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Instant+Vortex+Plus+Air+Fryer+%286+QT%29+for+%24100+%28%2470+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2dwL3Byb2R1Y3QvQjA5Nk4yOFNaUD90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI1YTlhZWVkNi1kYzBiLTQ5ODEtYTIyYS1iZTYyZmFmMmFkOTAiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZ3AvcHJvZHVjdC9CMDk2TjI4U1pQIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAZniLD0PwfhSU_g2HX0a7YkF96RTmylxGJFGQxUUghVT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB096N28SZP" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096N28SZP?th=1"><del><strong>Instant Vortex Plus Air Fryer (6 QT) for $100 ($70 off)</strong></del></a><del>: After studious testing (and dutiful eating) our reviewers named this one the</del><a data-i13n="cpos:45;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-air-fryers-133047180.html#:~:text=Instant%20Pot-,Best%20air%20fryer%20overall,-Instant%20Vortex%20Plus"><del> best air fryer you can buy</del></a><del>. And, after reading that assessment, I bought one myself so I can verify this is one great machine. The Odor Ease tech really does keep the cooking smells at bay and the window lets me keep an eye on all the crisping that’s going on in there.</del></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-kitchen-deals-its-the-last-day-to-get-up-to-50-percent-off-air-fryers-instant-pots-blenders-and-more-180019300.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Time is almost up on <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a>, so don't miss your chance at some of the best headphone and earbud deals of the year. There are still great options available from a lot of big names, and since we’ve reviewed nearly the entire list, we know what the best choices are during Amazon’s annual sale days. So, put our expertise to good use before it’s too late and let us guide you through the best Prime Day deals on still left to get on headphones and earbuds. Time is short, so don’t waste it trying to figure out meaningful features on your own. All of the deals below are still available late on day 4, but time is running out if you still want to take advantage of these discounts.&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-sony-deals">Prime Day Sony deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="7cf21de7272640c98a1e5b9fc5b0eee5" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM5-Canceling-Headphones-Hands-Free/dp/B09XSDMT4F?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F3PQHWTZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+WH-1000XM6+headphones+for+%24428+%28%2422+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNi1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLU1pY3JvcGhvbmVzLVN0dWRpby1RdWFsaXR5L2RwL0IwRjNQUUhXVFo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNi1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLU1pY3JvcGhvbmVzLVN0dWRpby1RdWFsaXR5L2RwL0IwRjNQUUhXVFoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAX5uj6Pc1w1iJKb0mux2oK0w1E5HrEUOkqtkKmOdih8Z&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-WH-1000XM6-Headphones-Microphones-Studio-Quality%2Fdp%2FB0F3PQHWTZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM6-Headphones-Microphones-Studio-Quality/dp/B0F3PQHWTZ?th=1"><strong>Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones for $428 ($22 off):</strong></a> Sony's latest flagship headphones have only been out a few months and we're already seeing a small discount on them. These are my top pick in our headphones guide for the combination of advanced features, comfy fit, great sound and improved active noise cancellation (ANC).&nbsp;</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CWVXTK6Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+ULT+Wear+headphones+for+%24128+%28%2472+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktQ2FuY2VsaW5nLVdpcmVsZXNzLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ29tZm9ydGFibGUvZHAvQjBDV1ZYVEs2Wi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktQ2FuY2VsaW5nLVdpcmVsZXNzLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ29tZm9ydGFibGUvZHAvQjBDV1ZYVEs2Wi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAVYVkgRne1z0XQlAEUYawbe_pzSldXPUIJOJ8sR34t8W&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Canceling-Wireless-Headphones-Comfortable%2Fdp%2FB0CWVXTK6Z%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Canceling-Wireless-Headphones-Comfortable/dp/B0CWVXTK6Z/?th=1"><strong>Sony ULT Wear headphones for $128 ($72 off):</strong></a> If you're after a solid set of Sony cans but don't want to splurge for the 1000X line, the ULT Wear is a good option. There are a bunch of handy features and robust sound with ULT bass boost.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BS1QCFHX&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+WH-CH720N+headphones+for+%2478+%28%2472+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtQ0g3MjBOLUNhbmNlbGluZy1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLU1pY3JvcGhvbmUvZHAvQjBCUzFRQ0ZIWC8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtQ0g3MjBOLUNhbmNlbGluZy1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLU1pY3JvcGhvbmUvZHAvQjBCUzFRQ0ZIWC8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQEWrV7OLIN-KRuzPlfrdDBibScrBtTdEB8P-vvKLBxJ&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-WH-CH720N-Canceling-Headphones-Microphone%2Fdp%2FB0BS1QCFHX%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-CH720N-Canceling-Headphones-Microphone/dp/B0BS1QCFHX/?th=1"><strong>Sony WH-CH720N headphones for $78 ($72 off):</strong></a> The cheapest Sony headphones we'd recommend for Prime Day are no slouch. They're lightweight and comfy with respectable sound for the price. You also get Adaptive Sound Control, 360 Reality Audio and multipoint Bluetooth on this budget model.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C33XXS56&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+WF-1000XM5+earbuds+for+%24198+%28%24102+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzMzWFhTNTY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzMzWFhTNTYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAcxEVyyy3onVP6vj6rt2whZHaqvjo50iHFEywV8sOZqw&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C33XXS56" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C33XXS56?th=1"><strong>Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds for $198 ($102 off):</strong></a> My top pick for best earbuds is also on sale for Prime Day. No other company comes close to the list of features Sony offers here, and that's on top of excellent sound, improved fit and effective ANC.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGVWF79V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+LinkBud+Fit+earbuds+for+%24128+%28%2472+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktQ2FuY2VsaW5nLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtRGV2ZWxvcGVkLVN1cHBvcnRlcnMvZHAvQjBER1ZXRjc5Vi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktQ2FuY2VsaW5nLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtRGV2ZWxvcGVkLVN1cHBvcnRlcnMvZHAvQjBER1ZXRjc5Vi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAUct0fMymGzuCi_VAPdvvQH83ZmX0Lw1X4ly04tQi2Ez&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Canceling-Headphones-Developed-Supporters%2Fdp%2FB0DGVWF79V%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Canceling-Headphones-Developed-Supporters/dp/B0DGVWF79V/?th=1"><strong>Sony LinkBud Fit earbuds for $128 ($72 off):</strong></a> Sony's much smaller earbuds offer big sound and a lot of features for less than the 1000X model. These are a big improvement over the company's LinkBuds S, which were already a low-key hit for affordable earbuds.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DWHPBK42&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+WF-CH710N+earbuds+for+%2478+%28%2442+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAARkuEukRj5NPiPwXZxNPCPDeN7tjut9-d6p7uRWIi3EE&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-WF-C710N-Wireless-Noise-Canceling-Lightweight%2Fdp%2FB0DWHPBK42%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WF-C710N-Wireless-Noise-Canceling-Lightweight/dp/B0DWHPBK42/?th=1"><strong>Sony WF-CH710N earbuds for $78 ($42 off):</strong></a> The CH710N is still quite new, but the earbuds are a steal at $80 for Prime Day. The compact, comfy design is a highlight, as are all the features Sony managed to pack in. Plus, they're available in a lovely transparent blue that allows you to see all of the internal components.&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-sonos-prime-day-deals">Sonos Prime Day deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="203c3e69fdfd4825a38a8eec01e858bb" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYHGTMNH"></core-commerce></p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-bose-deals-also-available-at-bosecom">Prime Day Bose deals (also available at Bose.com)</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="9eae034f9f334fb9bbf2d56cd5450b2a" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4Z9C562"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D8BZDPXB&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+QuietComfort+Earbuds+for+%24129+%2828+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDhCWkRQWEI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDhCWkRQWEIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWMfsjFYUhkzLG4Q5WNlBZQ1p1M1FLLQOmB21cFVdWI1&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D8BZDPXB" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8BZDPXB"><strong>Bose QuietComfort Earbuds for $129 (28 percent off):</strong></a> The best Bose earbuds for most people are getting a decent discount this week. This model gives you the company's powerful ANC and great sound for less than flagship prices. You also get spatial audio and dependable battery life in this affordable option.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D6RSCT69&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+Ultra+Open+Earbuds+for+%24199+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Jvc2UtSW1tZXJzaXZlLVdpcmVsZXNzLU9wZW5BdWRpby1Bd2FyZW5lc3MvZHAvQjBENlJTQ1Q2OS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Jvc2UtSW1tZXJzaXZlLVdpcmVsZXNzLU9wZW5BdWRpby1Bd2FyZW5lc3MvZHAvQjBENlJTQ1Q2OS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAcL9W7i1s1ePGDrq7sqPtr5NT5FZ212TD0rg-qj2FH-D&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBose-Immersive-Wireless-OpenAudio-Awareness%2Fdp%2FB0D6RSCT69%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Bose-Immersive-Wireless-OpenAudio-Awareness/dp/B0D6RSCT69/"><strong>Bose Ultra Open Earbuds for $199 (33 percent off):</strong></a> If you thought Bose's clip-on open earbuds were a bit too pricey to splurge on, now's your chance to get them for less. And two colors are available at an even bigger discount than the rest, putting this set just under $200. Plus, this model works with the company's soundbars for an enhanced living room listening experience.&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-beats-prime-day-deals">Beats Prime Day deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="fa5ae107ff484409b1c6262bef4514ac" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C8PR4W22"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZPLV566&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Beats+Solo+4+headphones+for+%2498+%2850+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1pQTFY1NjY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1pQTFY1NjYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAe3kUsTOSt1eIPfmmoVirJd_lvdv92Mtpt5gCp-BVrc2&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CZPLV566" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZPLV566"><strong>Beats Solo 4 headphones for $98 (50 percent off):</strong></a> Beats' popular on-ear headphones are half off for Prime Day, which makes them a great deal for fans of that wear style. While they may look similar to their predecessor, the Solo 4 have improved sound and longer battery life compared to that older model.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DT2344N3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Beats+Powerbeats+Pro+2+earbuds+for+%24180+%2828+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFQyMzQ0TjM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFQyMzQ0TjMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWhAGUU5rIIL3Lqo2s7ZKt_AOzaeCgt4Lgry8kDMUcR6&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DT2344N3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DT2344N3"><strong>Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 earbuds for $180 (28 percent off):</strong></a> Apple's first earbuds with heart rate tracking are slightly discounted for Prime Day. This your chance to try the tech without paying full price. What's more, the Powerbeats Pro 2 have an improved design, the smarts of Apple's H2 chip and powerful bass.&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-samsung-deals">Prime Day Samsung deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="3d57775592f84b35842140901d8cbb6e" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9YZJ3V7"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CF7GYNW2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+FE+for+%2452+%2848+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0Y3R1lOVzI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0Y3R1lOVzIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWZPugTtxCVeaAhPE4nvJQfKXSHeVp-d3yFVyvQT3X0L&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CF7GYNW2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF7GYNW2"><strong>Samsung Galaxy Buds FE for $52 (48 percent off):</strong></a> Samsung's budget earbuds are solid option if you're looking to spend less than $60. Like the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, these are best-suited for Samsung devices where you'll find features like live translation and automatic switching.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-apple-and-google-prime-day-deals">Apple and Google Prime Day deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="fdf5b1a20c6d4e0eb0567d56f6986ed3" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1XD1ZV3"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGHMNQ5Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+AirPods+4+for+%2489+%2831+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ2FuY2VsbGF0aW9uLVRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1QZXJzb25hbGl6ZWQvZHAvQjBER0hNTlE1Wi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ2FuY2VsbGF0aW9uLVRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1QZXJzb25hbGl6ZWQvZHAvQjBER0hNTlE1Wi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbrngH_qOQqsBTOJCaLZHBpoLlD0O8_eRmeCeRvs5eJx&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized%2Fdp%2FB0DGHMNQ5Z%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized/dp/B0DGHMNQ5Z/?th=1"><strong>Apple AirPods 4 for $89 (31 percent off):</strong></a> The redesigned "regular" AirPods that debuted last year are currently available well below their normal $129 price tag. Here, you'll get the new, more comfortable shape as well as updated features.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGJ7HYG1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+AirPods+4+with+ANC+for+%24119+%2834+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ2FuY2VsbGF0aW9uLVRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1QZXJzb25hbGl6ZWQvZHAvQjBER0o3SFlHMS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ2FuY2VsbGF0aW9uLVRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1QZXJzb25hbGl6ZWQvZHAvQjBER0o3SFlHMS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAT7RHvmXrE08LGjCOKVqexuIVL3ZcyjNIW3TCjOpyxtA&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized%2Fdp%2FB0DGJ7HYG1%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized/dp/B0DGJ7HYG1/?th=1"><strong>Apple AirPods 4 with ANC for $119 (34 percent off):</strong></a> And if you need some ANC to go with your AirPods, but don't want to go for the Pro 2, here's your best bet. These retain the open-style fit of regular AirPods but add surprisingly effective ANC to the mix.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGJKT2X9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+AirPods+Max+%28USB-C%29+for+%24430+%2822+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ2FuY2VsbGF0aW9uLVRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1QZXJzb25hbGl6ZWQvZHAvQjBER0pLVDJYOS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FwcGxlLUhlYWRwaG9uZXMtQ2FuY2VsbGF0aW9uLVRyYW5zcGFyZW5jeS1QZXJzb25hbGl6ZWQvZHAvQjBER0pLVDJYOS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQKELDSztrBpseh-xQOIJFE-vRi4TsyliTblZIHebWAc&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized%2Fdp%2FB0DGJKT2X9%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Headphones-Cancellation-Transparency-Personalized/dp/B0DGJKT2X9/?th=1"><strong>Apple AirPods Max (USB-C) for $430 (22 percent off):</strong></a> Apple's over-ear headphones are $119 off during Prime Day, which softens the blow to your wallet for this pricey set. They're comfy and offer a lot of handy features for Apple devices. Plus, you can unlock lossless listening with a wired connection.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D79ND3N7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Google+Pixel+Buds+Pro+2+for+%24160+%2830+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDc5TkQzTjc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMmU3MWJjYjUtZTIwMC00MWMyLWEzMTUtZTY4MjM5NDRlMjc2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDc5TkQzTjciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAevMIaVU6V3_4c9PJoZtLOhovjstvVAE-XM_vnasHFrc&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D79ND3N7" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D79ND3N7"><strong>Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 for $160 (30 percent off):</strong></a> The best earbuds for Pixel phone users are down to $160, which makes them a great purchase right now. Live translate and hands-free access to Gemini might be the highlight, but these earbuds have great sound and capable ANC too.&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-deals-on-dyson">Prime Day deals on Dyson</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D7WZV5LV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+OnTrac+headphones+for+%24300+%2840+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAc3UjYfd0H1dyHTlsgNJx4cPf65WH3sl7pGoe8Yn8iGs&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDyson-OnTracTM-Over-Wireless-Headphones%2Fdp%2FB0D7WZV5LV%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-OnTracTM-Over-Wireless-Headphones/dp/B0D7WZV5LV/?th=1"><strong>Dyson OnTrac headphones for $300 (40 percent off):</strong></a> This set isn't without its flaws, but I can understand why you'd be drawn to the almost infinitely customizable design and long battery life. There's also real-time hearing health features and the sound is crisp and clear even though it lacks depth and immersion.&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-jbl-prime-day-deals">JBL Prime Day deals</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C4JBTM5B&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Tour+One+M2+headphones+for+%24150+%2850+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAcMxWjxaTX7kuTch-zCFQAVI3GRHvxudp6vr5fwZHdYB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FJBL-Tour-One-Cancelling-Headphones%2Fdp%2FB0C4JBTM5B" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/JBL-Tour-One-Cancelling-Headphones/dp/B0C4JBTM5B?th=1"><strong>JBL Tour One M2 headphones for $150 (50 percent off):</strong></a> The biggest discount on JBL headphones or earbuds comes on the flagship over-hear Tour One M2. These ANC headphones have Smart Ambient sound, Smart Talk automatic pausing and other advanced features.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D3629RB6&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2e71bcb5-e200-41c2-a315-e6823944e276&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=JBL+Live+Beam+3+for+%24150+%2825+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAb9yF317_-9YtTX8R3UzK9rRW2SvihI3YlJurb7R0HET&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FJBL-Live-Beam-Noise-Cancelling-Closed-Stick%2Fdp%2FB0D3629RB6" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/JBL-Live-Beam-Noise-Cancelling-Closed-Stick/dp/B0D3629RB6?th=1"><strong>JBL Live Beam 3 for $150 (25 percent off):</strong></a> If you're looking for a discounted way to get your hands on JBL's touchscreen earbud case, the Live Beam 3 is your chance. In addition to the fancy case, you'll get up to 12 hours of use on a charge, adaptive ANC and high-res audio compatibility.&nbsp;</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/prime-day-2025-the-best-headphone-and-earbud-deals-from-sony-beats-bose-and-more-for-the-last-day-of-the-sale-082347142.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>2025 has brought us the biggest <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Amazon Prime Day</a> ever and while today is your last chance to partake in the savings, there are still a ton of gaming deals to be had. We're talking about discounts on some of AMD's best gaming CPUs, award-winning titles like <em>Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom</em> and <em>Elden Ring</em> and brand new flagship systems from Alienware, Razer and more. So if you want to get a good price on everything from laptops to displays and all sorts of accessories, keep reading to see our handpicked list of the best gaming deals during Prime Day before they're gone forever (or at least until next year).</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-video-games">Best Prime Day deals on video games</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="46560bb12edb4ec58d7aee3576919e48" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-32-Inch-Odyssey-FreeSync-LS32CG550ENXZA/dp/B0D71JQXR4?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D8SDKKVW&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=The+Legend+of+Zelda%3A+Echoes+of+Wisdom+%28Nintendo+Switch%29+for+%2452+%28%248+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAbpTmpSgHuRbyF2HS0MFzw2nXaj1Jx_gbJ6q1xH2y-eT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLegend-Zelda-Echoes-Wisdom-Nintendo-Switch%2Fdp%2FB0D8SDKKVW%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Echoes-Wisdom-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B0D8SDKKVW/">The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo Switch) for $52 ($8 off)</a></p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p>We rarely see discounts on first-party Nintendo games, especially when it comes to major franchises like The Legend of Zelda. But for Prime Day, <em>Echoes of Wisdom </em>is available for 15 percent off, which is even more impressive when you consider the game the game is less than a year old. Not only is this the first Zelda game to put our beloved princess in the spotlight (instead of Link), it offers a fun twist on the series' classic top-down action RPG formula thanks to Zelda's new ability to summon objects and monsters with the Tri-rod.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B097B2YWFX&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=The+Legend+of+Zelda%3A+Tears+of+the+Kingdom+%28Nintendo+Switch%29+for+%2459+%28%2411+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xlZ2VuZC1aZWxkYS1CcmVhdGgtV2lsZC1OaW50ZW5kby1Td2l0Y2gvZHAvQjA5N0IyWVdGWC8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xlZ2VuZC1aZWxkYS1CcmVhdGgtV2lsZC1OaW50ZW5kby1Td2l0Y2gvZHAvQjA5N0IyWVdGWC8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZObKvDFtvknCgsmHrreZiSPMWM0PsY_Y62kJ1iA-67F&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLegend-Zelda-Breath-Wild-Nintendo-Switch%2Fdp%2FB097B2YWFX%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Breath-Wild-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B097B2YWFX/?th=1">The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo Switch) for $59 ($11 off)</a></p> <p>Alternatively, if you are looking for something a bit faster paced, <em>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom</em> may be one of the best sequels in recent video game history. And now for Prime Day, it's available for $11 off its normal retail price. Not only is this a great pickup for anyone who hasn't played it yet, it's also a great showcase of the Switch 2's capabilities as users can purchase a $10 upgrade pack (or get it for free if you have a subscription to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack) that adds support for HDR, faster loading times, enhanced textures and smoother framerates.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D187PJHJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Star+Wars+Outlaws+-+Limited+Edition+%28Amazon+Exclusive%29%2C+PlayStation+5+for+%2429+%28%2431+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1N0YXItV2Fycy1PdXRsYXdzLUxpbWl0ZWQtRXhjbHVzaXZlLVBsYXlTdGF0aW9uL2RwL0IwRDE4N1BKSEo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1N0YXItV2Fycy1PdXRsYXdzLUxpbWl0ZWQtRXhjbHVzaXZlLVBsYXlTdGF0aW9uL2RwL0IwRDE4N1BKSEoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAX-qN5gYBtOyyhPWRRtLscr4ejDlCaDuK56BEb5KPI8N&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FStar-Wars-Outlaws-Limited-Exclusive-PlayStation%2Fdp%2FB0D187PJHJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Outlaws-Limited-Exclusive-PlayStation/dp/B0D187PJHJ?th=1">Star Wars Outlaws - Limited Edition (Amazon Exclusive), PlayStation 5 for $29 ($31 off)</a></p> <p>At full price, this game was easy to skip. But now that it's available for just $29 (half off its normal retail price), <em>Star Wars Outlaws</em> suddenly becomes a lot more interesting for fans of the franchise. You get to live out your dreams of being an intergalactic scoundrel while taking down bounties or battling secret crime syndicates. And because this is the limited edition, the game includes some pre-order rewards like the Kessel Run bonus pack and the Rogue Infiltrator bundle.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D47WTKPM&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Assassin%E2%80%99s+Creed+Shadows+-+Limited+Edition+for+PS5%2FXbox+Series+X+for+%2448+%28%2422+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fzc2Fzc2lucy1DcmVlZC1TaGFkb3dzLUxpbWl0ZWQtRXhjbHVzaXZlLVBsYXlTdGF0aW9uL2RwL0IwRDQ3V1RLUE0_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fzc2Fzc2lucy1DcmVlZC1TaGFkb3dzLUxpbWl0ZWQtRXhjbHVzaXZlLVBsYXlTdGF0aW9uL2RwL0IwRDQ3V1RLUE0iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATCkYwhjfRZiCq1rRDO708tuJVNpcc8UHUJJ9MP-Nhiq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAssassins-Creed-Shadows-Limited-Exclusive-PlayStation%2Fdp%2FB0D47WTKPM" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Creed-Shadows-Limited-Exclusive-PlayStation/dp/B0D47WTKPM?th=1">Assassin’s Creed Shadows - Limited Edition for PS5/Xbox Series X for $48 ($22 off)</a></p> <p>If you missed the latest entry in Ubisoft's most well-known franchise, this might be the time to jump in because for Prime Day, <em>Assassin's Creed Shadows</em> is available for $48, more than $20 off its regular retail price. This instalment has you explore feudal Japan as either the shinobi Naoe or the legendary samurai Yasuke while encountering some notable figures from the time period. If all you want is a wonderful world to sneak around in, it's hard to go wrong with Assassin's Creed on a discount.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CVSJ1JVC&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Elden+Ring%3A+Shadow+of+The+Erdtree+Edition+for+PS5%2FXbox+Series+X+for+%2460+%28%2420+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1ZTSjFKVkM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1ZTSjFKVkMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAaxd5oPW2NpMiiiNxMrk39ikXMiK7Co2lEBPc-AZjyaO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CVSJ1JVC" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVSJ1JVC">Elden Ring: Shadow of The Erdtree Edition for PS5/Xbox Series X for $60 ($20 off)</a></p> <p><em>Elden Ring</em> is one of the most highly regarded games of this decade so far (and arguably of all time). For Prime Day, you can become a foul tarnished by picking up a version that includes the base game and the <em>Shadow of the Erdtree</em> expansion for $60. <em>Elden Ring</em> typically costs around $50 (though it's <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07SMBNTSJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=down+to+%2430&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwN1NNQk5UU0o_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwN1NNQk5UU0oiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAVXe7RYuLJI9-19qvptWHAg7IC7JNbO879yAuOARXWLm&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB07SMBNTSJ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SMBNTSJ">down to $30</a> on PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series X for Prime Day) and the DLC will usually run you another $40, so that's a decent discount compared with buying them separately — or even the <em>Shadow of the Erdtree Edition </em>at its regular price.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DCKFWW1V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Final+Fantasy+I-VI+Collection+Anniversary+Edition+for+PlayStation+and+Switch+for+%2445+%28%2430+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAATlCZOrubfJH0fKzq3VUHJyEsob6HB9cPX9R6mKGZdnb&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFINAL-FANTASY-Collection-Anniversary-Nintendo-Switch%2Fdp%2FB0DCKFWW1V" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/FINAL-FANTASY-Collection-Anniversary-Nintendo-Switch/dp/B0DCKFWW1V">Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition for PlayStation and Switch for $45 ($30 off)</a></p> <p>This collection of pixel remasters of the first six Final Fantasy games is discounted by $30 during Prime Day. Several other games in the series are on sale for PS5 as well, such as <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08XNRM6QN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Final+Fantasy+VII+Remake+Intergrade&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOFhOUk02UU4_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOFhOUk02UU4iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAayINinU5P7J1TFndEqbI6YBTvdBGqT9Ll303_qk6qzB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB08XNRM6QN" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XNRM6QN"><em>Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade</em></a> ($30, $10 off), <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CGXZQ4CD&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Final+Fantasy+VII+Rebirth&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0dYWlE0Q0Q_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0dYWlE0Q0QiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWU4s9IASrmNAIp4UwtNym6NKndgqdIGK7Lj18pqYbGv&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CGXZQ4CD" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGXZQ4CD"><em>Final Fantasy VII Rebirth</em></a> ($40, $30 off) and <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BPMTJJ6D&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Final+Fantasy+XVI&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQlBNVEpKNkQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQlBNVEpKNkQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdVlMNrGxZVBCJsPmq6LhE_EXE94qVIBQ4y8HVH_PIgL&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BPMTJJ6D" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPMTJJ6D"><em>Final Fantasy XVI</em></a> ($25, $15 off)</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-vr-headsets">Best Prime Day deals on VR headsets</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F2GYMC8H&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Meta+Quest+3S+128GB+Bundle+for+%24249+%28%2451+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAepE5rK0kewyeLBzsqqXh9JJ5B8M3uFW98PkYPBhQVVg&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMeta-Quest-128GB-Cardboard-Exclusive-Oculus%2Fdp%2FB0F2GYMC8H" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Meta-Quest-128GB-Cardboard-Exclusive-Oculus/dp/B0F2GYMC8H">Meta Quest 3S 128GB Bundle for $249 ($51 off)</a></p> <p>The Quest 3S is one of our picks for <a data-i13n="cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/best-vr-headsets-140012529.html">best VR headsets</a> for good reason. Meta cut just the right corners from the more full-featured Quest 3, enabling it to drop the list price down lower. It has the same Snapdragon chip and controlers, but cheaps out a bit on the lenses, slightly lowering the graphics fidelity in use. Just like the Quest 3, it works standalone for lighter games and streaming, or in concert with a gaming PC for full-fat AAA VR titles. It's well worth the $300 Meta usually asks for it, so at $249 with two games included (<em>Cardboard Hero</em> and the excellent social VR hit <em>Gorilla Tag</em>), it's a steal.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-pcs-and-pc-components"><strong>Best Prime Day deals on </strong>PCs and PC components</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Razer;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=d043077a-4ba1-4321-a933-30b8701d8d31&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Razer&amp;linkText=Razer+Blade+14+with+RTX+4070+for+%242%2C300+%28%24400+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5yYXplci5jb20vZ2FtaW5nLWxhcHRvcHMvUmF6ZXItQmxhZGUtMTQvUlowOS0wNTMwNkVTMy1SM1UxIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyOTMzNWEzZC1lMzBhLTQ2MmEtYmM5OC1lZDAzN2E1MDUwMDYiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJhemVyLmNvbS9nYW1pbmctbGFwdG9wcy9SYXplci1CbGFkZS0xNC9SWjA5LTA1MzA2RVMzLVIzVTEifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfSK1oR7YwimfMZ-Ox-UX8iBbldRpVlvDjEYxuEAw0nM&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.razer.com%2Fgaming-laptops%2FRazer-Blade-14%2FRZ09-05306ES3-R3U1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/Razer-Blade-14/RZ09-05306ES3-R3U1">Razer Blade 14 with RTX 4070 for $2,300 ($400 off)</a></p> <p>The Blade 14 is one of my favorite laptop lines because it combines a super sleek chassis with solid performance and truly excellent build quality. And now, as a way to get in on the Prime Day festivities, Razer has an exclusive offer on its website that will knock $400 off configs with RTX 4070 GPUs or up to <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Razer;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=d043077a-4ba1-4321-a933-30b8701d8d31&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Razer&amp;linkText=%24300+on+models+with+RTX+4060+cards&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5yYXplci5jb20vZ2FtaW5nLWxhcHRvcHMvcmF6ZXItYmxhZGUtMTQvUlowOS0wNTMwNUVTMy1SM1UxIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIyOTMzNWEzZC1lMzBhLTQ2MmEtYmM5OC1lZDAzN2E1MDUwMDYiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJhemVyLmNvbS9nYW1pbmctbGFwdG9wcy9yYXplci1ibGFkZS0xNC9SWjA5LTA1MzA1RVMzLVIzVTEifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAV-FqEzsJtTRhJ4vTvWt1Hh7Baeh6RGyXl5tLel7CTzf&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.razer.com%2Fgaming-laptops%2Frazer-blade-14%2FRZ09-05305ES3-R3U1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/razer-blade-14/RZ09-05305ES3-R3U1">$300 on models with RTX 4060 cards</a>. These kind of savings go a long way towards neutralizing my biggest issue with Razer's laptops: their price. So if you're looking for a system that can do some serious gaming but is still easy to carry around, you're going to want to snap this deal up fast.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DVZSG8D5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=AMD+Ryzen+9+9950X3D+16-Core+processor+for+%24664+%28%2435+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFZaU0c4RDU_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFZaU0c4RDUiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdZcWlXI0aab7NpzTI7WyvFcHAuQYswcbtd0UkawCdSu&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DVZSG8D5" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVZSG8D5">AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core processor for $664 ($35 off)</a></p> <p>AMD's X3D chips are the cream of the crop when it comes to gaming performance and while it's only enjoying a $35 discount right now, informed buyers know that the real savings are bigger than that because these chips often go for well above their MSRP. But the best thing is that for Prime Day, in addition to the 9950X3D, there are a bunch of other X3D processors on sale right now including the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DKFMSMYK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%24460+Ryzen+7+9800X3D&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdm9PGzt5FfMhLW_uJefcE-F6yNXjAiJg9TlP42w5Siu&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAMD-9800X3D-16-Thread-Desktop-Processor%2Fdp%2FB0DKFMSMYK%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/AMD-9800X3D-16-Thread-Desktop-Processor/dp/B0DKFMSMYK/">$460 Ryzen 7 9800X3D</a> and <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CQ4H4H7X&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%24265+Ryzen+7+5700X3D&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAZ7B6xsRqv_TrpRj56wkuKTvHnQ4rFpzIbfjafR_wBD3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAMD-Ryzen-5700X3D-16-Thread-Processor%2Fdp%2FB0CQ4H4H7X" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryzen-5700X3D-16-Thread-Processor/dp/B0CQ4H4H7X">$265 Ryzen 7 5700X3D</a> so you can pick the right component for your budget. If you need a new CPU to speed up your gaming rig, now is a great time to upgrade.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CRCYJ8YV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=ASUS+ROG+Strix+G16+Gaming+Laptop+with+RTX+4060+for+%241%2C360+%28%24340+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdOdcTvc3l_lMGyLJevaAy49UZY409t5OSpe4MwS8PWs&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FASUS-Gaming-Laptop-Nebula-Display%2Fdp%2FB0CRCYJ8YV%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Gaming-Laptop-Nebula-Display/dp/B0CRCYJ8YV/?th=1">ASUS ROG Strix G16 Gaming Laptop with RTX 4060 for $1,360 ($340 off)</a></p> <p>While an RTX 4060 isn't the most powerful GPU on the market, getting a whole new laptop with solid specs for just $1,360 isn't something you can just ignore, especially if you're on a budget. This ROG Strix G16 comes with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. And while its Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU is one generation old, it's still plenty fast enough for gaming, video editing or pretty much anything else you need to do. I also appreciate small features like a MUX switch that lets the laptop connect directly to the GPU for increased performance, though if you want, you can also enable automatic switching for better battery life. And with a 16-inch 240Hz QHD display with 100% DCI-P3 coverage, everything on screen is sure to look great.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D8JZDJBG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Acer+Nitro+V+gaming+laptop+with+NVIDIA+RTX+4060+GPU+for+%241%2C200+%28%24150+off%2C+lowest+ever+price%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2k5LTEzOTAwSC1Qcm9jZXNzb3ItR2VGb3JjZS1EaXNwbGF5LUFOVjE1LTUxLTkyWEsvZHAvQjBEOEpaREpCRy8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2k5LTEzOTAwSC1Qcm9jZXNzb3ItR2VGb3JjZS1EaXNwbGF5LUFOVjE1LTUxLTkyWEsvZHAvQjBEOEpaREpCRy8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAROYeEqMSrBpVsEW7crAkhhgEGqpmnQfA7JRHryo0EC4&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fi9-13900H-Processor-GeForce-Display-ANV15-51-92XK%2Fdp%2FB0D8JZDJBG%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/i9-13900H-Processor-GeForce-Display-ANV15-51-92XK/dp/B0D8JZDJBG/">Acer Nitro V gaming laptop with NVIDIA RTX 4060 GPU for $1,200 ($150 off, lowest ever price)</a></p> <p>Acer's Nitro gaming laptops are meant to be more affordable alternatives to its flagship Predator systems. But now thanks to Prime Day, this model just got even more budget-friendly while still offering decent specs. You get an Intel Core i9-13900H CPU with 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage and an RTX 4060 GPU, the latter of which should pair nicely with its 15.6-inch full HD 144Hz display. I also appreciate that unlike some gaming laptops, the Nitro V is stylish without being in your face with too many RGB lights, which makes it feel like an even better deal at $1,200. That's the lowest price we've seen to date for this configuration.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BZHTVHN5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Corsair+Vengeance+RGB+DDR5+RAM+32GB+%282x16GB%29+RAM+for+%2495+%28%2425+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAZ20xSg-pl-iG3x7gi3-FPu3nUVPxhNAVJkkAJGy9cGU&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCORSAIR-VENGEANCE-6000MHz-Compatible-Computer%2Fdp%2FB0BZHTVHN5" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/CORSAIR-VENGEANCE-6000MHz-Compatible-Computer/dp/B0BZHTVHN5">Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) RAM for $95 ($25 off)</a></p> <p>Adding some extra memory to your desktop can help unlock its full potential. So for Prime Day, Corsair is offering two 16GB sticks of its Vengeance DDR5 RAM for just $95. Not only do you get built-in RGB lighting, Corsair's onboard voltage regulation makes it simpler to overclock your system. And for those who don't want to mess around in BIOS settings, you can control almost everything from the easy-to-use free iCue app.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CKY88GMT&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Thermaltake+GF1+%282024%29+Fully+Modular+ATX+850W+Power+Supply+for+%2480+%28%2430+off%2C+lowest+ever+price%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1RoZXJtYWx0YWtlLUZ1bGx5LU1vZHVsYXItUG93ZXItU3VwcGx5L2RwL0IwQ0tZODhHTVQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1RoZXJtYWx0YWtlLUZ1bGx5LU1vZHVsYXItUG93ZXItU3VwcGx5L2RwL0IwQ0tZODhHTVQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAab1tzjHVvLcMBmk8E261YBZTJF89Lgb09yFSGUvz44T&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThermaltake-Fully-Modular-Power-Supply%2Fdp%2FB0CKY88GMT" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Fully-Modular-Power-Supply/dp/B0CKY88GMT?th=1">Thermaltake GF1 (2024) Fully Modular ATX 850W Power Supply for $80 ($30 off, lowest ever price)</a></p> <p>Even though power supplies aren't the most exciting component you can put in your desktop, the importance of a good one can't be understated. For just $80, which is the lowest price we've seen to date for this product, the Thermaltake GF1 is fully modular (which means you can add or remove power cables as you need them) and has an ample max power of 850 watts along with an 80 Plus Gold rating for efficiency. And thanks to its 140mm fan, it should be pretty quiet, so it won't cause a ruckus if you decide to play some games at night.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DHLCRF91&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+990+EVO+Plus+2TB+PCIe+M.2+SSD+for+%24114+%28%2463+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NBTVNVTkctVGVjaG5vbG9neS1JbnRlbGxpZ2VudC1UdXJib3dyaXRlLU1aLVY5UzJUMEIvZHAvQjBESExDUkY5MS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NBTVNVTkctVGVjaG5vbG9neS1JbnRlbGxpZ2VudC1UdXJib3dyaXRlLU1aLVY5UzJUMEIvZHAvQjBESExDUkY5MS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXzZz7oy5iP6Nw7XA_JcvSMDfGFq5ALQTISVP3UjiHXP&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSAMSUNG-Technology-Intelligent-Turbowrite-MZ-V9S2T0B%2Fdp%2FB0DHLCRF91%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Technology-Intelligent-Turbowrite-MZ-V9S2T0B/dp/B0DHLCRF91/?th=1">Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB PCIe M.2 SSD for $114 ($63 off)</a></p> <p>If you're like me and are constantly running out of storage, this deal for one of Samsung's 990 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 SSDs is a fantastic way to add extra room on the cheap. With a 36 percent discount for Prime Day — down to $114 — this is the lowest price we've ever seen. And it's not like you're cutting corners on speed either, as the SSD supports both PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2 and read/write rates of up to 7,250/6,300MB/s.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:24;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D6NN6TM7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=AMD+Ryzen+5+9600X+6-Core%2C+12-Thread+Unlocked+Processor+for+%24156+%28%24123+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FNRC1SeXplblRNLTk2MDBYLTEyLVRocmVhZC1Qcm9jZXNzb3IvZHAvQjBENk5ONlRNNy8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FNRC1SeXplblRNLTk2MDBYLTEyLVRocmVhZC1Qcm9jZXNzb3IvZHAvQjBENk5ONlRNNy8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdxfDcQcUjruAY-rfAqHWDpyGTPpSa7pOLp-GeqZI97e&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAMD-RyzenTM-9600X-12-Thread-Processor%2Fdp%2FB0D6NN6TM7%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/AMD-RyzenTM-9600X-12-Thread-Processor/dp/B0D6NN6TM7/">AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Processor for $156 ($123 off)</a></p> <p>The Ryzen 5 9600X isn't super flashy, but it's a really solid budget CPU. And now, it’s even more affordable during Prime Day where it's going for just $156, which is $123 off its normal retail price. It features six cores and 12 total threads with a max boost speed of 5.4GHz and support for DDR5 RAM and PCIe Gen 5. It's also unlocked, so you have the freedom to overlock if you want. That said, you will need to buy a CPU cooler separately, as one doesn't come in the box.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:25;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D6NNRBGP&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=AMD+Ryzen+9+9950X+16-Core%2C+32-Thread+Unlocked+Desktop+Processor+for+%24434+%28%24215+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FNRC1SeXplblRNLTk5NTBYLTMyLVRocmVhZC1Qcm9jZXNzb3IvZHAvQjBENk5OUkJHUC8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FNRC1SeXplblRNLTk5NTBYLTMyLVRocmVhZC1Qcm9jZXNzb3IvZHAvQjBENk5OUkJHUC8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAclhL5oTFTmv7bWwarssGvVsinY-EojaV22pOQbJ_RCO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAMD-RyzenTM-9950X-32-Thread-Processor%2Fdp%2FB0D6NNRBGP%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/AMD-RyzenTM-9950X-32-Thread-Processor/dp/B0D6NNRBGP/">AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor for $434 ($215 off)</a></p> <p>The biggest issue with the Ryzen 9 9950X CPU was that at launch, it was a bit overpriced. But during Prime Day, that problem is being addressed thanks to a $215 discount that brings its cost down to under $500. The CPU features 16 cores and 32 threads along with 80MB of cache and support for DDR5 RAM and PCIe Gen 5. However, like some of AMD's other processors on sale this week, you will need to get a CPU cooler separately.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-gaming-peripherals"><strong>Best Prime Day deals on gaming p</strong>eripherals</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:26;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CGGT138N&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Razer+Enki+Gaming+Chair+for+%24450+%28%2450+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1JhemVyLUVua2ktR2FtaW5nLUNoYWlyLUJ1aWx0L2RwL0IwQ0dHVDEzOE4_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1JhemVyLUVua2ktR2FtaW5nLUNoYWlyLUJ1aWx0L2RwL0IwQ0dHVDEzOE4iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYvX30CfwZWhHIFFgxs2H8veYfvjTyKgoCg1fUYiLQDE&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRazer-Enki-Gaming-Chair-Built%2Fdp%2FB0CGGT138N" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Enki-Gaming-Chair-Built/dp/B0CGGT138N?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1">Razer Enki Gaming Chair for $450 ($50 off)</a></p> <p>If you're going to be spending all day in front of a screen gaming, you better make sure whatever you're sitting on is super comfy. And as I've been using the Razer Enki every day for the last four years, I can attest that this chair is worth the money. It has a ton of adjustability for things like the arm rests, seat height and more. For more flexible folks, it was even designed so people can sit cross-legged. I also appreciate that in homes where neon green might not fit your vibe, there's an all-black model (plus a pink one too, though that one is currently sold out).</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09ZWCYQTX&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=SteelSeries+Arctis+Nova+Pro+wireless+headset+for+%24323+%28%2450+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAATi5JRF6ZsgGvqQyRdofnHsz_ZSFPj6o7tQtTPXr15-z&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSteelSeries-Arctis-Wireless-Multi-System-Headset%2Fdp%2FB09ZWCYQTX%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Arctis-Wireless-Multi-System-Headset/dp/B09ZWCYQTX/?th=1">SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro wireless headset for $323 ($50 off)</a></p> <p>SteelSeries makes some of the most comfortable headsets I've ever used thanks to the super soft earcups equipped on every pair. But what separates the Arctis Nova Pro from lesser competitors is support for premium features like 360-degree spatial audio, strong noise cancellation and a hot swap battery system. Butthe best feature is SteelSeries' dedicated base station, which features an OLED screen, physical knobs and dual USB ports so you can connect your headset to multiple devices and swap between audio sources with the touch of a button.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:28;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09738CV2G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Elgato+Stream+Deck+MK.2+for+%24110+%28%2440+off%2C+lowest+ever%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0VsZ2F0by1TdHJlYW0tRGVjay1NSy0yLUNvbnRyb2xsZXIvZHAvQjA5NzM4Q1YyRy8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0VsZ2F0by1TdHJlYW0tRGVjay1NSy0yLUNvbnRyb2xsZXIvZHAvQjA5NzM4Q1YyRy8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXAZ7Lkb497mhUihCk94SkCXLHrkvnKCg7yzfm9lrWkO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FElgato-Stream-Deck-MK-2-Controller%2Fdp%2FB09738CV2G%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Stream-Deck-MK-2-Controller/dp/B09738CV2G/?th=1">Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 for $110 ($40 off, lowest ever)</a></p> <p>If you've ever dreamed about becoming a gaming streamer or simply want some extra customizable controls for your PC, Elgato's Stream Deck MK.2 could make a great addition to your setup. It has 15 programmable macro keys with built-in LCD displays so you can make custom buttons for switching scenes, turning on lights and so much more. Elgato also has plugins for services like YouTube, Twitch, Discord, so it'll play nicely with all the major streaming platforms. In short, it's like a command center for all your content creation and livestreaming needs.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:29;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07CMS5Q6P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Logitech+G305+Lightspeed+Wireless+Gaming+Mouse+for+%2429+%28%2421+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xvZ2l0ZWNoLUxJR0hUU1BFRUQtV2lyZWxlc3MtR2FtaW5nLU1vdXNlL2RwL0IwN0NNUzVRNlA_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xvZ2l0ZWNoLUxJR0hUU1BFRUQtV2lyZWxlc3MtR2FtaW5nLU1vdXNlL2RwL0IwN0NNUzVRNlAiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAesqBBN6TW1sKTRSr67E_VXqmZLe-rlIPM_ipSNj4ssS&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLogitech-LIGHTSPEED-Wireless-Gaming-Mouse%2Fdp%2FB07CMS5Q6P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-LIGHTSPEED-Wireless-Gaming-Mouse/dp/B07CMS5Q6P?th=1">Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse for $29 ($21 off)</a></p> <p>The Logitech G305 Lightspeed gaming mouse is just a simple PC peripheral done well. And at just $29, it's super affordable during Prime Day too. It features six programmable buttons, compatibility with both PCs and Macs and a sensor with sensitivity of up to 12,000 DPI. Meanwhile, thanks to a battery that lasts up to 250 hours between charges, you can go weeks between needing to plug it in. And because it's wireless, there won't be any cords or cables to get in your way.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:30;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B2BZWGRK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Amazon+Luna+Controller+and+one+month+of+Luna%2B+for+%2440+%28%2430+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjJCWldHUksvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjI5MzM1YTNkLWUzMGEtNDYyYS1iYzk4LWVkMDM3YTUwNTAwNiIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMEIyQlpXR1JLLyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAR-ib1Bs4T5df_U-kjstGjwFRX9iuL7Pq2ZYoKKbdOeh&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B2BZWGRK%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2BZWGRK/">Amazon Luna Controller and one month of Luna+ for $40 ($30 off)</a></p> <p>The Luna Controller by itself is <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:31;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07P989QTJ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=down+to+%2440&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwN1A5ODlRVEovP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjI5MzM1YTNkLWUzMGEtNDYyYS1iYzk4LWVkMDM3YTUwNTAwNiIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMDdQOTg5UVRKLyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAZOGIwDAqMZlPuRNxBOJZfSmC_Bw-cRuxAY-p9DEdeJh&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB07P989QTJ%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P989QTJ/">down to $40</a>, which matches a record-low price. However, if you're a newcomer to Luna+, you may as well pick up this bundle (which is also matching a record low) for the same price, as it includes one month of access to the service for new subscribers. This gamepad is a solid option for those who want to check out Luna, Amazon's cloud gaming service. Prime subscribers get access to a dedicated channel with a rotating selection of games at no extra cost. This month, for instance, you can check out <em>Death Stranding Director's Cut, Hollow Knight</em> and <em>EA Sports FC 25</em>.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:32;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D4QB5HMZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=8BitDo+Retro+Mechanical+Keyboard+for+%2480+%28%2420+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdmY9UjJ9zZOUk0AQh9j_6rsXVUqufk0jfzLHqg0gb7-&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMechanical-Bluetooth-Swappable-Gaming-Programmable-Console%2Fdp%2FB0D4QB5HMZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Bluetooth-Swappable-Gaming-Programmable-Console/dp/B0D4QB5HMZ?th=1">8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard for $80 ($20 off)</a></p> <p>With its Retro Mechanical Keyboard, 8BitDo strikes a great balance between a nostalgic design and support for more modern features like wireless connectivity (both BT and 2.4GHz). There are several different versions to choose from, though the one inspired by the classic NES is the model I'd choose. The keyboard features an 87-key layout with PBT keycaps and Kailh Box switches, though because the PCB is hot swappable, you can always change them out for something else.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:33;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CJH3DJ36&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+Inzone+H9+Wireless+Gaming+Headset+for+%24198+%28%24102+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAYStzjRN0t_IMHQfAmX7s_j2sotDS3DD3nWlLp8Bn0kY&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Wireless-Canceling-Over-Ear-Headphones%2Fdp%2FB0CJH3DJ36" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Wireless-Canceling-Over-Ear-Headphones/dp/B0CJH3DJ36?th=1">Sony Inzone H9 Wireless Gaming Headset for $198 ($102 off)</a></p> <p>For anyone looking for a new pair of over-the-ear wireless gaming headphones to pair with a PS5, it's hard to do better than <a data-i13n="cpos:34;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/sony-inzone-gaming-hardware-hands-on-specs-price-availability-210013674.html">Sony's Inzone H9 headset.</a> Not only does it have a similar design to the console, they are the only other headphones besides the official Pulse cans that support on-screen status notifications for volume, mic mute, game/chat balance and more. They also share a lot of the underlying tech used in Sony's iconic WH-1000XM line, so you'll get fantastic audio quality and active noise cancellation. But the best part is that at $198, you're looking at a serious discount of 34 percent, which is more than $100 off its regular retail price.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:35;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09BJYXMDW&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Seagate+Storage+Expansion+Card+2TB+Solid+State+Drive+for+%24209+%28%2421+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NlYWdhdGUtU3RvcmFnZS1FeHBhbnNpb24tU29saWQtU3RhdGUvZHAvQjA5QkpZWE1EVy8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NlYWdhdGUtU3RvcmFnZS1FeHBhbnNpb24tU29saWQtU3RhdGUvZHAvQjA5QkpZWE1EVy8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAa4MphOzGbLvN2-ceLFLcu7lHu2Gny6G2pMIRr4S-R3b&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSeagate-Storage-Expansion-Solid-State%2Fdp%2FB09BJYXMDW%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Storage-Expansion-Solid-State/dp/B09BJYXMDW/?th=1">Seagate Storage Expansion Card 2TB Solid State Drive for $209 ($21 off)</a></p> <p>Games are getting bigger every day, so if you need some extra storage for your Xbox Series S or X, you'd be silly not to pick up one of Seagate's 2TB Expansion Cards for just $209. That's enough room for a dozen or more digital titles (or like three versions of <em>Call of Duty) </em>and it's the biggest SSD storage module that slots into the back of the console without the need for a separate box.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:36;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B073Q3BSPG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Amazon+Basics+UPS+Battery+Backup+%26+Surge+Protector+800VA%2F450W+for+%2465+%28%2410+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAARMEKKVzhKw_9ZaGLLoLVnPjY0v9PXIjDv1hf6x-teD9&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAmazonBasics-Standby-UPS-800VA-Outlets%2Fdp%2FB073Q3BSPG%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Standby-UPS-800VA-Outlets/dp/B073Q3BSPG/?th=1">Amazon Basics UPS Battery Backup &amp; Surge Protector 800VA/450W for $65 ($10 off)</a></p> <p>I'm not here to nag, but if you have a desktop PC, you really ought to consider adding a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) to your setup as they prevent power surges or momentary outages from knocking your system offline. Plus, this one has a beefy 450-watt battery backup and 12 outlets so you can connect all of your other PC gadgets to it. So if you're going to do the smart thing by adding some extra electrical protection to your home during Prime Day, you might as well save some money in the process.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-mobile-gaming-gear"><strong>Best Prime Day deals on </strong>mobile gaming gear</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:37;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DP3G4GVQ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Galaxy+S25+Ultra+%28512GB%29+for+%241%2C055+%28%24365+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAe98iEihI7z-FCHF2NPx7mzOKzfKglqqgrzgzntCatn0&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSmartphone-Unlocked-Processor-Manufacturer-Warranty%2Fdp%2FB0DP3G4GVQ%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Smartphone-Unlocked-Processor-Manufacturer-Warranty/dp/B0DP3G4GVQ/?th=1">Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra (512GB) for $1,055 ($365 off)</a></p> <p>With <a data-i13n="cpos:38;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/what-to-expect-at-the-next-samsung-galaxy-unpacked-150001731.html">Samsung's next Unpacked event</a> expected to show off new foldables, it looks like some of the existing models are getting some serious discounts for Prime Day, including the Galaxy S25 Ultra. And at $1,055, this is the lowest price we've seen for Samsung's current flagship phone yet. For gamers, thanks to its Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, the S25 Ultra offers some of the best performance you can get in a phone right now, while its built-in vapor chamber should help prevent throttling. Its 6.9-inch AMOLED display is also one of the best mobile screens on the market today.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:39;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CXGMPLWK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Razer+Kishi+Ultra+for+%24100+%28%2450+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAbVWeNQyF5LXHKm9GsLVr2Uw4TS4uCeeJYSj0esaqI87&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRazer-Gaming-Controller-Android-iPhone-Smartphone%2Fdp%2FB0CXGMPLWK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Gaming-Controller-Android-iPhone-Smartphone/dp/B0CXGMPLWK?ref_=ast_sto_dp">Razer Kishi Ultra for $100 ($50 off)</a></p> <p>Razer doesn't normally run a ton of deals for Prime Day, but it seems this year the company is making an exception as there are discounts on <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:40;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=everything+from+gamepads+to+headsets+and+more&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUgljZ3Kp6d2QUOrtZW87gdjjzLfwYidwJ5ra6JxYXd-&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fstores%2Fpage%2F03508F9D-3610-49AC-9E57-C476A4E7B219" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/03508F9D-3610-49AC-9E57-C476A4E7B219?channel=PD2025_PR">everything from gamepads to headsets and more</a>. That said, one of the standout deals is for the <a data-i13n="cpos:41;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/razers-kishi-ultra-gaming-controller-works-with-damn-near-everything-including-some-foldables-173017166.html">Kishi Ultra gaming controller</a>. On top of just being a well-built gamepad add-on for phones and tablets, its larger dimension and USB-C port means it works with a huge range of devices — both Android and iOS. This even includes more niche devices like foldables like the Galaxy Z Fold series, which often don't fit inside other mobile gamepads due to their unique design.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:42;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCT2LWT8&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Backbone+One+mobile+controller+for+Android+and+iPhone+15%2F16+for+%2470+%28%2430+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAARabIAL67BSMNtwkfu5Eov6CQcoVtjhKfCuNHbc-9tsT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBACKBONE-Mobile-Gaming-Controller-Android-iOS%2Fdp%2FB0CCT2LWT8%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/BACKBONE-Mobile-Gaming-Controller-Android-iOS/dp/B0CCT2LWT8/">Backbone One mobile controller for Android and iPhone 15/16 for $70 ($30 off)</a></p> <p>If you like playing games on your phone but prefer real joysticks and buttons, the Backbone One is a great accessory. It's compatible with a ton of big-name titles like Call of Duty, the Xbox Game Pass and GeForce Now. Though sadly because this isn't the PlayStation Edition, Android users can’t use this with the PS Remote Play app. Regardless, you still get solid physical controls along with a 3.5mm jack for pass-through audio. But the most important thing is that because this model features USB-C, it works with pretty much any recent Android phone and late-model Apple handsets like the iPhone 15 and 16.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-gaming-monitors-and-tvs"><strong>Best Prime Day deals on gaming m</strong>onitors and TVs</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:43;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CVPCLY6X&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+85-Inch+Class+4K+Ultra+HD+Bravia+3+LED+TV+for+%241%2C098+%28%24500+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktODUtSW5jaC1FeGNsdXNpdmUtRmVhdHVyZXMtUGxheVN0YXRpb24lMjUyNUMyJTI1MjVBRTUvZHAvQjBDVlBDTFk2WC9yZWY9c3JfMV8xP3M9ZWxlY3Ryb25pY3MmdGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktODUtSW5jaC1FeGNsdXNpdmUtRmVhdHVyZXMtUGxheVN0YXRpb24lMjVDMiUyNUFFNS9kcC9CMENWUENMWTZYL3JlZj1zcl8xXzE_cz1lbGVjdHJvbmljcyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAZG7stZXKNLk52nDF2u1L8gmG71GbFXI8Nc3X1FwnAbN&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-85-Inch-Exclusive-Features-PlayStation%2525C2%2525AE5%2Fdp%2FB0CVPCLY6X%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Delectronics" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-85-Inch-Exclusive-Features-PlayStation%C2%AE5/dp/B0CVPCLY6X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZSZT05TZDVHB&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.h1IjIPHf2wzDazQ9dNVf4g._Y4wlg5nYRltn-V098on_CjqBzFfeYzcgIwXC-4Kzqc&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=B0CVPCLY6X&amp;qid=1751402252&amp;s=electronics&amp;sprefix=b0cvpcly6x%2Celectronics%2C71&amp;sr=1-1&amp;th=1">Sony 85-Inch Class 4K Ultra HD Bravia 3 LED TV for $1,098 ($500 off)</a></p> <p>There's no better way to upgrade your living room gaming setup than with a brand-new, big-ass TV. Granted, the Bravia 3 is one of Sony's entry-level models (fancier sets get higher numbers), but with a discounted price of $1,098 for a massive 85-inch panel, this deal represents one of the biggest screens you can get for the money. It also has Google TV built in, so you'll get a very simple and straightforward way to stream your favorite shows and movies from services like Netflix, HBO and more. But perhaps most importantly is that for PS5 owners, the Bravia 3 supports exclusive features when connected to a PS5, such as Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture mode.</p> <p>By the way, for a more in-depth look at the best TV discounts, check out our dedicated guide covering <a data-i13n="cpos:44;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-tv-deals-for-2025-from-sony-lg-samsung-and-others-084705639.html"><strong>the best TV deals for Amazon Prime Day 2025</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Best Buy;elmt:;cpos:45;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=5e0bed65-d2f8-4b34-9b8f-955218c0e37a&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Best+Buy&amp;linkText=LG+UltraGear+32-inch+OLED+Dual+Mode+gaming+monitor+for+%241%2C000+%28%24400+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUgYZ01vozabNDf4V4yIyCY1TXtHfZsR-NK9hGtbw-kF&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Flg-ultragear-32-oled-dual-mode-4k-uhd-240hzfhd-480hz-0-03ms-nvidia-g-sync-compatible-amd-freesync-pro-gaming-monitor-white%2F6595425.p" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-ultragear-32-oled-dual-mode-4k-uhd-240hzfhd-480hz-0-03ms-nvidia-g-sync-compatible-amd-freesync-pro-gaming-monitor-white/6595425.p">LG UltraGear 32-inch OLED Dual Mode gaming monitor for $1,000 ($400 off)</a></p> <p>LG's dual mode 32-inch UltraGear monitor is one of the best displays for PC gaming out right now and as part of Prime Day, Best Buy has it on sale for $400 off. You can set it to 4K at 240Hz for when you want a sharp, high-resolution view. Or you can switch it to full HD, which allows its refresh rate to jump all the way up to 480Hz, which is more than enough for even the most demanding competitive gamer. It also supports AMD FreeSync Pro and because it's based on an OLED panel, you get pure blacks and vibrant colors along. The one small downside is that it doesn't have the most impressive peak brightness. But considering everything else this monitor offers, getting one for $1,000 feels like a steal.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:46;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZSGWLD5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Alienware+AW2725DF+26.7-inch+OLED+gaming+monitor+for+%24600+%28%24300+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FsaWVud2FyZS1BVzI3MjVERi1PTEVELUdhbWluZy1Nb25pdG9yL2RwL0IwQ1pTR1dMRDU_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjkzMzVhM2QtZTMwYS00NjJhLWJjOTgtZWQwMzdhNTA1MDA2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0FsaWVud2FyZS1BVzI3MjVERi1PTEVELUdhbWluZy1Nb25pdG9yL2RwL0IwQ1pTR1dMRDUiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATp7u50btFG6FjunwfkpQLAenqgUFZnYEOZpaCjqcr2t&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAlienware-AW2725DF-OLED-Gaming-Monitor%2Fdp%2FB0CZSGWLD5" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Alienware-AW2725DF-OLED-Gaming-Monitor/dp/B0CZSGWLD5?th=1">Alienware AW2725DF 26.7-inch OLED gaming monitor for $600 ($300 off)</a></p> <p>For anyone who has been waiting for prices of OLED gaming monitors to drop, this may be your chance to pounce on a great deal. That's because at $600, Alienware's 26.7-inch OLED display strikes a good balance between price and performance with a 360Hz refresh rate, 2560 x 1440 resolution and support for AMD FreeSync Premium Pro. And of course, you get those lovely pure blacks and vivid colors that OLED panels have become known for.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:47;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CDQM55C9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Odyssey+Neo+G9+Series+57-inch+4K+240Hz+4K+gaming+monitor+for+%241%2C600+%28%24700+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAU8Mp7X6QBxwUHzWyicpamkuxTTbjU6yXi5rU-YLdpbS&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSAMSUNG-DisplayPort-Mini-LED-DisplayHDR-LS57CG952NNXZA%2Fdp%2FB0CDQM55C9" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-DisplayPort-Mini-LED-DisplayHDR-LS57CG952NNXZA/dp/B0CDQM55C9">Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Series 57-inch 4K 240Hz 4K gaming monitor for $1,600 ($700 off)</a></p> <p>This 57-inch monitor isn't for people with limited space. But if you've got the room, at $1,600, this is the lowest we've ever seen the Neo G9 as this deal represents a whopping $700 savings compared to its regular list price. This thing features a solid 240Hz refresh rate along with support for AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, a 1000R curve and Quantum mini LED tech with 2,392 local dimming zones. For people who love ultra-wide displays, this should be at the top of your upgrade list during Amazon Prime Day.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:48;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C4Z8RFY9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Acer+Nitro+27-inch+WQHD+IPS+gaming+monitor+for+%24170+%28%24120+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAfb02txFQYbvD2YO7usCrkwG_1wxtJ_6JUVEE_C-chY0&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAcer-Monitor-FreeSync-Premium-M3bmiiprx%2Fdp%2FB0C4Z8RFY9" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Monitor-FreeSync-Premium-M3bmiiprx/dp/B0C4Z8RFY9">Acer Nitro 27-inch WQHD IPS gaming monitor for $170 ($120 off)</a></p> <p>Anyone looking for a solid and affordable 1440p gaming monitor during Prime Day should really check out this 27-inch IPS display from Acer. For just $170 (matching a record-low price), it features a relatively speedy 180Hz refresh rate along with support for AMD FreeSync Premium and a good color range that covers 95 percent of DCI-P3. The height-adjustable stand can also swivel and pivot, while thin bezels on top and on the sides will make sure it won't look dated in a few years. So while this thing isn't super fancy, it's simple and competent in the best ways.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-batteries-and-power-packs"><strong>Best Prime Day deals on b</strong>atteries and power packs</h2> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:49;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CH33F5P2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=UGREEN+Magnetic+Power+Bank+10%2C000mAh+fast+charging+battery+pack+for+%2433+%28%242+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAan1J2_CGnG_lLQv3W9rOYl11WQabu33A4pkt8cCuxE5&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FUGREEN-10000mAh-Magnetic-Power-Black%2Fdp%2FB0CH33F5P2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-10000mAh-Magnetic-Power-Black/dp/B0CH33F5P2?th=1">UGREEN Magnetic Power Bank 10,000mAh fast charging battery pack for $33 ($2 off)</a></p> <p>The Switch 2 is a fantastic handheld, but its longevity could be better. So if you're planning to take it on a long trip, pick up UGREEN's 10,000mAH fast charging battery pack to help keep running when you're away from a plug. This power pack almost has enough juice to fully refill a Switch 2 twice, which can add between five and 12 hours of additional game time (depending on the title). It also has an output of 20 watts, which is as much as the Switch 2 can suck down at once, but it's still super pocketable measuring just four inches long and 0.7 inches thick. And if you need a convenient way to recharge your phone, the battery pack also comes with Qi wireless support.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:50;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B091BFJGLL&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=29335a3d-e30a-462a-bc98-ed037a505006&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=24-pack+Tenergy+Premium+PRO+Rechargeable+AA+and+AAA+batteries+for+%2436+%28%247+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAevZrP7j6H0KhwSCAms8alnXKPGiyac7qcINu25Mcp8l&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTenergy-Premium-Rechargeable-Batteries-Capacity%2Fdp%2FB091BFJGLL%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Tenergy-Premium-Rechargeable-Batteries-Capacity/dp/B091BFJGLL/?th=1"><ins>24-pack Tenergy Premium PRO Rechargeable AA and AAA batteries for $36 ($7 off)</ins></a></p> <p>Earlier this year I replaced all the disposable batteries in my home with rechargeable ones — including some of these from Tenergy — and it's been one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Not only do Tenergy's Premium Pro NiMH batteries have some of most capacity in their class at 2,800mAh for the AAs or 1,100mAh for AAAs, they're also rated for up to 1,200 recharges. That means compared to traditional disposable batteries, these cells will pay for themselves after less than a dozen charging cycles. And with them being on sale for just $36 during Prime Day, if you're the type of gamer that is constantly chewing through batteries to power stuff like Xbox Series S/X controllers or other accessories, this deal represents the kind of savings you can't really afford to miss.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-prime-day-gaming-deals-on-video-games-hardware-and-more-to-get-before-the-sale-ends-144228893.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>If your laptop simply isn’t cutting it anymore, <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Amazon Prime Day</a> might have arrived just in time. As has been the case for the past few years, laptop deals are abundant this Prime Day, bringing discounts to MacBooks, Windows laptops, Chromebooks and more. But we wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t know how to figure out if that laptop you’re eyeing actually has a good discount for Prime Day, or if the deal is stale.</p> <p>That’s where Engadget can help. We’ve poured over the Prime Day laptop deals available this year to pick out the best ones you can get across all kinds of computers. If you’re super picky about the specs you want in a new laptop, we always recommend going straight to the manufacturer so you can configure the machine exactly to your needs. But if you’re willing to work with premade models, Prime Day deals could help you save some cash on your next laptop. Just be sure to make your selection quickly, because we expect most of these deals to end tonight when Prime Day is officially over.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-laptop-deals-macbooks">Prime Day laptop deals: MacBooks</h2> <p>Apple’s latest laptops are the MacBook Air M4 and the MacBook Pro M4, but the M3-powered machines are still available and great values when you can get them at steep discounts. But for the most future-proof options, we recommend going with the M4 MacBooks. Amazon actually has decent MacBook deals throughout the year, most of the time on the base configurations of any given model. In a welcomed update, Apple recently made all base models of the MacBook Air M4 have 16GB of RAM by default (which is the same as you’ll find on the base-level Pros).</p> <p> <core-commerce id="b6cce6470787412f9f98845c1a149082" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-2025-MacBook-13-inch-Laptop/dp/B0DZD9S5GC/?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZDBWM5B&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a3e8fc7d-d1ed-4d0c-be65-2a9a6472a02e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=MacBook+Air+%2815-inch%2C+M4%2C+16GB+RAM%2C+256GB+SSD%29+for+%241%2C049+%28%24150+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQldNNUIvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYTNlOGZjN2QtZDFlZC00ZDBjLWJlNjUtMmE5YTY0NzJhMDJlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQldNNUIvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAX4SZkPTDLXjZZ1P3AXhQ3t4DS_yhyCWJH7i2_QOBpJB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZDBWM5B%2Fref%3Dfs_a_mbt2_us2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDBWM5B/ref=fs_a_mbt2_us2?th=1">MacBook Air (15-inch, M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) for $1,049 ($150 off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DLHB9X2G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a3e8fc7d-d1ed-4d0c-be65-2a9a6472a02e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=MacBook+Air+%2815-inch%2C+M3%2C+24GB+RAM%2C+512GB+SSD%29+for+%241%2C299+%2824+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExIQjlYMkc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYTNlOGZjN2QtZDFlZC00ZDBjLWJlNjUtMmE5YTY0NzJhMDJlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExIQjlYMkciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZthAR4OArGJXezmSqgd50eoh1jrUTyTllp84bWHsK-Y&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DLHB9X2G" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHB9X2G?th=1">MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD) for $1,299 (24 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DLHBYRPS&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a3e8fc7d-d1ed-4d0c-be65-2a9a6472a02e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=MacBook+Pro+%2814-inch%2C+M4%2C+16GB+RAM%2C+512GB+SSD%29+for+%241%2C429+%2811+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExIQllSUFMvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czE_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYTNlOGZjN2QtZDFlZC00ZDBjLWJlNjUtMmE5YTY0NzJhMDJlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExIQllSUFMvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQM8oSt0TJp2H3GcRQYKPKB_qtjm8GqhDw65h3-8dFOf&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DLHBYRPS%2Fref%3Dfs_a_mbt2_us1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHBYRPS/ref=fs_a_mbt2_us1?th=1">MacBook Pro (14-inch, M4, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) for $1,429 (11 percent off)</a></p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-laptop-deals-windows-laptops">Prime day laptop deals: Windows laptops</h2> <p>You’ve got a lot of variety to choose from when it comes to Windows laptops, and that can be a blessing or a curse. We recommend looking for a laptop from a reputable brand (i.e. Microsoft, Dell, Acer, Lenovo and others like them), and one that can handle daily work or play pressures. That means at least 8GB of RAM and 245GB of SSD storage, plus the latest Intel or AMD CPUs. If you’re looking for a new gaming laptop, you’ll need a bit more power and a dedicated graphics card to boot. Now is a good time to consider upgrading as well since Windows 10 will be sunset in October this year and <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Microsoft;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=67071605-d4df-494e-8d9c-c9c236b8bb38&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a3e8fc7d-d1ed-4d0c-be65-2a9a6472a02e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Microsoft&amp;linkText=Microsoft+has+recommended&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL2VuLXVzL3dpbmRvd3MvZW5kLW9mLXN1cHBvcnQ_cj0xIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJhM2U4ZmM3ZC1kMWVkLTRkMGMtYmU2NS0yYTlhNjQ3MmEwMmUiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1pY3Jvc29mdC5jb20vZW4tdXMvd2luZG93cy9lbmQtb2Ytc3VwcG9ydD9yPTEifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAaL6x7jj6-2QyIGdihwrpcGtG37n9NHdZ66bEREAVUdq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fwindows%2Fend-of-support%3Fr%3D1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support?r=1">Microsoft has recommended</a> users upgrade to newer Windows 11 laptops.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="bece55c6bad04e9f9d4c8b94a25694da" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Windows-Touchscreen-Snapdragon/dp/B0CXL6B4QF/?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DSLNMY6M&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a3e8fc7d-d1ed-4d0c-be65-2a9a6472a02e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Galaxy+Book5+360+%28Windows+11%2C+Copilot%2B%2C+15.6-inch%2C+Intel+Core+Ultra+7%2C+16GB+RAM%2C+512GB+SSD%29+for+%241%2C050+%2822+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NBTVNVTkctQ29tcHV0ZXItVG91Y2hzY3JlZW4tU3BlYWtlcnMtTlA3NTBRSEEtS0ExVVMvZHAvQjBEU0xOTVk2TS8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYTNlOGZjN2QtZDFlZC00ZDBjLWJlNjUtMmE5YTY0NzJhMDJlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NBTVNVTkctQ29tcHV0ZXItVG91Y2hzY3JlZW4tU3BlYWtlcnMtTlA3NTBRSEEtS0ExVVMvZHAvQjBEU0xOTVk2TS8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAaSy9X-ChXk9k1wBI6JVlClsyhGLMXg4nf5ICeWZ4rmd&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSAMSUNG-Computer-Touchscreen-Speakers-NP750QHA-KA1US%2Fdp%2FB0DSLNMY6M%2F" 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href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F7HJJN7Z&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a3e8fc7d-d1ed-4d0c-be65-2a9a6472a02e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Lenovo+V15+G2+laptop+%28Windows+11+Pro%2C+15.6-inch%2C+Intel+Celeron+N4500%2C+32GB+RAM%2C+1TB+SSD%29+for+%24429+%2828+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAVO8Neep4Bp9ofey7Yi-annZezZG6abv4lFzZOECdc6_&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLenovo-Computer-Business-Student-Processor%2Fdp%2FB0F7HJJN7Z" 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href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F2KT481H&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a3e8fc7d-d1ed-4d0c-be65-2a9a6472a02e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dell+Inspiron+3520+laptop+%28Windows+11%2C+15.6-inch%2C+Intel+Core+i5%2C+8GB+RAM%2C+512GB+SSD%29+for+%24350+%2822+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0RlbGwtSW5zcGlyb24tMzUyMC1MYXB0b3AtMTUtNi1pbmNoL2RwL0IwRjJLVDQ4MUg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYTNlOGZjN2QtZDFlZC00ZDBjLWJlNjUtMmE5YTY0NzJhMDJlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0RlbGwtSW5zcGlyb24tMzUyMC1MYXB0b3AtMTUtNi1pbmNoL2RwL0IwRjJLVDQ4MUgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXv1XILihM_elS90vbInyMRa-2JUHnUKpu279Ilnsv28&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDell-Inspiron-3520-Laptop-15-6-inch%2Fdp%2FB0F2KT481H" 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If you’re a Chrome OS lover, it’s also a decent time to check out sales on premium Chromebooks, which can usually cost $500 or more. In general, we recommend looking for at least 4 to 8GB of RAM and at least 128GB of SDD storage in a Chromebook that you plan on using as your daily driver.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="df589e4575ad4413aac9e11f86120fd7" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-3i-Chromebook-Everyday-Notebook/dp/B0BSJ46KY9"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" 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Jul 11, 2025

<p>The US International Trade Commission has determined that Chinese camera company Insta360 has infringed on at least some of GoPro's patents. Based on <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://investor.gopro.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2025/ITC-Determines-Infringement-of-GoPros-Iconic-HERO-Camera-Design/default.aspx">a press release from GoPro</a>, the determination specifically found that "Insta360 violated federal law by importing and selling in the United States products that infringe GoPro intellectual property."</p> <p>GoPro writes that it was "pleased" the ITC's judge found that Insta360 infringed on "a patent covering GoPro's iconic Hero camera design." The company also says that the ITC's judge validated multiple patent claims related to its HyperSmooth video stabilization feature, though the patents notably weren't considered infringed, <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/documents/notice_of_issuance_final_idrd_1400.pdf">according to the notice</a>.&nbsp;</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>When asked to comment on the ITC determination notice, Insta360 didn't portray the ruling as a GoPro victory, though. If anything, <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/insta360-issues-statement-on-us-itc-initial-determination-302503523.html">the company's statement</a> makes it seem like the opposite. Insta360's press release says that the ITC "rejected GoPro's utility patent claims against Insta360." According to the company, the judge determined that utility patents "relating to stabilization, horizon leveling, distortion, and aspect ratio conversion are invalid, not infringed, or both." Only GoPro's design patent was infringed and valid, and Insta360 says it's implemented design updates to address it.</p> <p>"The US International Trade Commission's initial determination affirms what many in our industry already know: the future belongs to innovators, not litigators," Insta360 CEO JK Liu shared in the company's press release. "While GoPro sought to block competition by asserting a wide array of patents, the majority of those claims were either found not to be infringed or ruled invalid. That speaks volumes."</p> <p>The ITC initially started investigating Insta360 on GoPro's suggestion, <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-trade-panel-probe-gopros-claims-that-chinese-firm-violated-its-patents-2024-05-01/"><em>Reuters </em>reports</a>. The company was specifically seeking "exclusion and cease and desist orders that would ban imports of the Insta360 products" in the US. Even if the ITC has found ways Insta360 infringes on GoPro's patents, the initial determination doesn't prevent the company from importing and selling its cameras. You're still able to buy Insta360 products in the US.</p> <p>The ITC is expected to deliver a final determination on November 10, 2025, according to GoPro. If the company seems defensive, there's good reason. Even if GoPro is still the most recognizable name in action cameras, Insta360 offers a far wider, and in some cases, more appealing selection of products. Things would be far simpler for GoPro if its competition wasn't allowed to sell its products in the US.</p> <p><strong>Update, July 11, 6:18PM ET:</strong> This story was updated after publishing to clarify which patents were actually infringed and valid.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cameras/itc-rules-insta360-infringed-on-gopro-patents-195518334.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Robot vacuums can be a big help around the house by automating a regular chore, but they can be pretty expensive. That’s why it’s a wise decision to wait for a shopping event like <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Amazon Prime Day</a> to buy one, when you can usually save hundreds off the sticker price.</p> <p>Amazon Prime Day is just about over, but there are still plenty of excellent deals to shop on many of our top picks for the <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/best-robot-vacuums-130010426.html">best robot vacuums</a> available today. The devices range from entry-level to midrange to high-end dirt suckers, and iRobot, Shark, Eufy and others are represented among the deals. There are even some solid cordless vacuums on sale as well as part of the Prime Day deals. Here are the best Prime Day vacuum deals you can get during the sale's final hours.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-robot-vacuum-deals">Best Prime Day robot vacuum deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="56eb7577149d41c68400ccc3a607ad46" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/iRobot-Roomba-Combo-Vacuum-AutoEmpty/dp/B0DPNKS3KQ?"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DCPX2M8N&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Shark+PowerDetect+NeverTouch+Pro+robot+vacuum+and+mop+for+%24700+%2842+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRENQWDJNOE4_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWQ4NWJjMjgtODFlZi00MjEyLWFjZWMtZmEyODRhNGY3YWRmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRENQWDJNOE4iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYlAEEB8AgflZoJ39g4dwYfIfMez_P5e2JoYubYuFtXI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DCPX2M8N" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCPX2M8N?th=1"><strong>Shark PowerDetect NeverTouch Pro robot vacuum and mop for $700 (42 percent off):</strong></a> This Shark machine is one of our favorites in part because it truly lives up to its name. Thanks to its self-emptying dock that handles vacuumed debris along with clean and dirty mopping water, you really don't have to touch the thing for at least 30 days in between cleanings. We found it to be a solid autonomous dirt sucker, and its mopping capabilities are quite good to match.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09H8CWFNK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Shark+AV2501S+AI+Ultra+robot+vacuum+for+%24250+%2855+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUg4Q1dGTks_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWQ4NWJjMjgtODFlZi00MjEyLWFjZWMtZmEyODRhNGY3YWRmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUg4Q1dGTksiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAV1eYoXQ4upcEdkhqb21O6O5hateUr4tkN5xzvR3xh1u&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09H8CWFNK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H8CWFNK?th=1"><strong>Shark AV2501S AI Ultra robot vacuum for $250 (55 percent off):</strong></a> A version of our favorite <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-robot-vacuums-130010426.html">robot vacuum</a>, this Shark machine has strong suction power and won't choke at the first sight of pet hair or big dust bunnies. Its self-emptying base is bagless as well, which means you won't have to buy propriety bags to refill it with over time. This auto-empty base has a 30-day capacity, but you can spend a bit more if you want <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09T4YZGQR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=a+model+with+a+60-day+capacity&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAVjCpJjdOT6EvA3B6tNRn5pvUfqO4UYo9OdHDyH9hoSq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FShark-AV2511AE-Self-Empty-Capacity-Navigation%2Fdp%2FB09T4YZGQR" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Shark-AV2511AE-Self-Empty-Capacity-Navigation/dp/B09T4YZGQR?">a model with a 60-day capacity</a>.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DWX69JVG&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Roborock+Q7+M5%2B+for+%24250+%2842+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAATcHFbgCxZ6bh9xJy_o2rf5S3JCxMaYEHyaFElqq89lC&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Froborock-Q7-M5-Self-Emptying-Anti-Tangle%2Fdp%2FB0DWX69JVG" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/roborock-Q7-M5-Self-Emptying-Anti-Tangle/dp/B0DWX69JVG?th=1"><strong>Roborock Q7 M5+ for $250 (42 percent off):</strong></a> This robovac has 10,000Pa suction power, LiDAR navigation, an anti-tangle brush design and Wi-Fi connectivity. It also comes with a self-cleaning base that can hold up to seven weeks of debris before it needs to be emptied.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07R295MLS&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Eufy+11S+Max+robot+vacuum+for+%24140+%2850+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAfgSYVS82OwR_l1BergAP8VluIU5T6N8noYvLNMk_NG3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Feufy-Super-Thin-Super-Strong-Self-Charging-Medium-Pile%2Fdp%2FB07R295MLS" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/eufy-Super-Thin-Super-Strong-Self-Charging-Medium-Pile/dp/B07R295MLS?th=1"><strong>Eufy 11S Max robot vacuum for $140 (50 percent off):</strong></a> A favorite <a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-budget-robot-vacuums-133030847.html">budget robot vacuum</a> of ours, the 11S Max has a slim profile that allows it to easily get other some furniture that other robovacs can't reach. It does a good job of sucking up dirt and debris, and even though it doesn't have Wi-Fi connectivity, it comes with a remote control that gives you most of the functions an app would have.</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-vacuum-deals">Best Prime Day vacuum deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="e0836de548044b308e93173a184f081d" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/LEVOIT-Cordless-Tangle-Resistant-Lightweight-Motorized/dp/B0DQKQ3F2C/?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CT97D9R2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+V15+Detect+Plus+for+%24570+%28%24180+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1Q5N0Q5UjI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWQ4NWJjMjgtODFlZi00MjEyLWFjZWMtZmEyODRhNGY3YWRmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1Q5N0Q5UjIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZKak-hLBL8F7L0BcpkipIliS9xzJPh4qu_8R-KvJ5le&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CT97D9R2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CT97D9R2?th=1"><strong>Dyson V15 Detect Plus for $570 ($180 off):</strong></a> You can't get much better than a Dyson if you're on the market for a cordless stick vacuum, and the V15 Detect delivers. It's our current top pick for the<a data-i13n="cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-cordless-vacuum-130007125.html"> best cordless vacuum</a> overall thanks to its excellent suction power, lightweight design, good battery life and the included Fluffy Optic cleaning head that uses a laser to show you where all the debris is while you're using it.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CT9552BL&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+V8+Plus+cordless+vacuum+for+%24300+%2836+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0R5c29uLUNvcmRsZXNzLVZhY3V1bS1TaWx2ZXItTmlja2VsL2RwL0IwQ1Q5NTUyQkw_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWQ4NWJjMjgtODFlZi00MjEyLWFjZWMtZmEyODRhNGY3YWRmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0R5c29uLUNvcmRsZXNzLVZhY3V1bS1TaWx2ZXItTmlja2VsL2RwL0IwQ1Q5NTUyQkwiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYNQrSXVd8pmYAIrdj3CoKkVh100elyP8XLXk52lT2k3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDyson-Cordless-Vacuum-Silver-Nickel%2Fdp%2FB0CT9552BL" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-Cordless-Vacuum-Silver-Nickel/dp/B0CT9552BL?"><strong>Dyson V8 Plus cordless vacuum for $300 (36 percent off):</strong></a> This Dyson stick vacuum has 40 minutes of runtime, a lightweight design and two power modes to choose from. It comes with four attachments, including the Motorbar cleaner head that works on all floor types, and it can easily convert to a more compact handheld vacuum to take out to your car when it needs a cleaning.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C58K254K&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Tineco+Pure+One+Station+Furfree+cordless+vacuum+for+%24299+%2825+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzU4SzI1NEs_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWQ4NWJjMjgtODFlZi00MjEyLWFjZWMtZmEyODRhNGY3YWRmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQzU4SzI1NEsiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARsessVGup3Mgd_2mqUjzFazxlWPLheeHmtOy2cOTSZg&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0C58K254K" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C58K254K?th=1"><strong>Tineco Pure One Station Furfree cordless vacuum for $299 (25 percent off):</strong></a> This cordless vacuum has its own self-emptying base, and it comes with attachments to groom your pets. It has solid suction power and the built-in iLoop smart sensor automatically adjust suction power depending on the messes in its path.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D8J2RPV9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Tineco+Pure+One+Station+5+for+%24320+%2830+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDhKMlJQVjk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWQ4NWJjMjgtODFlZi00MjEyLWFjZWMtZmEyODRhNGY3YWRmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDhKMlJQVjkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAc-_AxHHqNeShbAKa_VM7Pm12qw-v6BUQ1ePU40s5d7d&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D8J2RPV9" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8J2RPV9"><strong>Tineco Pure One Station 5 for $320 (30 percent off):</strong></a> One of our favorite cordless vacuums, the Pure One Station 5 has excellent suction power and good handling, plus a self-emptying base that makes it ultra-convenient. It also sports a single-button start and Tineco's iLoop smart sensor.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DW237ZLB&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=5d85bc28-81ef-4212-acec-fa284a4f7adf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Shark+PowerDetect+Clean+%26+Empty+cordless+vacuum+for+%24400+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFcyMzdaTEI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNWQ4NWJjMjgtODFlZi00MjEyLWFjZWMtZmEyODRhNGY3YWRmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFcyMzdaTEIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfJQztn4aS60MuhM3tzGslpovPpkeO_8dWFV9e96A2uT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DW237ZLB" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW237ZLB?th=1"><strong>Shark PowerDetect Clean &amp; Empty cordless vacuum for $400 (33 percent off):</strong></a> Shark's cordless vacuums are just as good as their robot vacuums, and you can usually find them on sale for less than other major brands. This one has great suction power and a relatively lightweight design, but the fact that it comes with a self-emptying base makes it an ultra-convenient choice.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-robot-vacuum-deals-end-tonight-save-on-machines-from-shark-irobot-dyson-and-others-140049071.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>You may not be looking to spend big on tech this <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a>, but it's still a good idea to look for tech essentials during the shopping event while you can get some at good discounts. Anker makes some of our favorite charging gear and I always end up picking up an accessory or two during Prime Day to ensure I have what I need when I need it most, and I feel better knowing I didn't spend full price on it.</p> <p>Last year, for example, I picked up a couple of extra USB-C charging cables so I could keep one in my carry-on luggage so I always have one when I travel. Also, every year it seems I need yet another surge protector, so even though I picked one up last year, I'll probably do the same this year, too. Here, we've collected all of the best Prime Day deals on Anker devices we could find that are still available on the last day of the sale.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-deals-power-banks">Prime day deals: Power banks</h2> <p><a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-power-bank-143048526.html">Power banks</a> come in all shapes and sizes, so it’s worth taking a moment to think about how you plan on using the one you want to buy. Smartphones don’t need huge-capacity bricks to power up a couple of times over; a 5K or 10K portable charger should be plenty if that’s all you’re looking to support. If you want a more versatile accessory that can charge a tablet, laptop or gaming handheld, consider a brick with a higher capacity — and more ports so you can charge multiple devices simultaneously.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="7256699caed24f00821ab9c3d99f0aea" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Portable-Multi-Device-Charging-Retractable/dp/B0DCBB2YTR?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D7DKJ75M&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+MagGo+ultra-slim+power+bank+%2810K%2C+15W%29+for+%2460+%2825+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDdES0o3NU0_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYjE0MTk1YjMtMWIyMy00MjI2LTg2MzgtOGM1ZjU2MDZhNjdlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDdES0o3NU0iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbolSz86xO95boXCRPfW8zuMm0sbh8RKzFsKbd0Av1LK&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D7DKJ75M" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7DKJ75M?th=1">Anker MagGo ultra-slim power bank (10K, 15W) for $60 (25 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CFDPQXN4&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+MagGo+power+bank+%2810K%2C+15W%29+for+%2465+%2828+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUe9Hl_tyQ4XYqAee7zUbSJQlQdbBfhLkLHYnHl81n_5&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAnker-Certified-Ultra-Fast-MagSafe-Compatible-Portable%2Fdp%2FB0CFDPQXN4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Certified-Ultra-Fast-MagSafe-Compatible-Portable/dp/B0CFDPQXN4?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1">Anker MagGo power bank (10K, 15W) for $65 (28 percent off)</a></p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-deals-wireless-chargers">Prime day deals: Wireless chargers</h2> <p>We all have plenty of cables in our lives, so a good <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-wireless-charger-140036359.html">wireless charger</a> (or two) can eliminate a few of the ones you use the most. Think about where you’ll use the wireless charger you want to buy before deciding. Those outfitting a home office with new tech may want a wireless charging stand that puts their phone in an upright position that’s easier to see while it’s powering up, while those who want a wireless charger for their nightstand might prefer a lay-flat design or a power station that can charge a smartphone, smartwatch and pair of earbuds all at once.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="1dccab87d1a047e68e16dc8cd21ea640" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Compatible-Anker-Charging-Certified-Wireless/dp/B0CF56WHV4?ref_=ast_sto_dp_btp&amp;th=1"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DDQ71B9P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+MagSafe+3-in-1+charging+station+%28Qi2%2C+15W%2C+includes+adapter+and+USB-C+cable%29+for+%2463+%2830+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRERRNzFCOVA_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYjE0MTk1YjMtMWIyMy00MjI2LTg2MzgtOGM1ZjU2MDZhNjdlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRERRNzFCOVAiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWcSKo9CrsPhFjatNzk09hb_j6V37TnQRPRTXlSAd8vB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DDQ71B9P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDQ71B9P?th=1">Anker MagSafe 3-in-1 charging station (Qi2, 15W, includes adapter and USB-C cable) for $63 (30 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CFXLVY1V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+MagSafe+3-in-1+charging+stand+%28Qi2%2C+15W%2C+includes+adapter+and+USB-C+cable%29+for+%2471+%2836+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAWcUIPrcLp9HnvF4nu_2vALVnn5jxyjCLBAwbAQOYX1I&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAnker-Wireless-Charging-Station-%2525C3%2525AF%2525C2%2525BC%2525C5%252592Cable%2Fdp%2FB0CFXLVY1V" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Wireless-Charging-Station-%C3%AF%C2%BC%C5%92Cable/dp/B0CFXLVY1V?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1">Anker MagSafe 3-in-1 charging stand (Qi2, 15W, includes adapter and USB-C cable) for $71 (36 percent off)</a></p></li> </ul> <h2 id="jump-link-prime-day-deals-charging-cables-speakers-and-other-gear">Prime day deals: Charging cables, speakers and other gear</h2> <p>Plenty of other charging gear is on sale for Prime Day. It’s never a bad idea to pick up a few 30W USB-C adapters so you always have what you need to reliably power up your phone. Same goes for extra USB-C (or USB-A) cables that can live in your car, in your office at work or by the couch.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="ee770b156760458ebaba480828299e29" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ6LXL8R"></core-commerce></p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B1LVC5VZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+Soundcore+Space+A40+wireless+earbuds+for+%2445+%2844+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjFMVkM1Vlo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYjE0MTk1YjMtMWIyMy00MjI2LTg2MzgtOGM1ZjU2MDZhNjdlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQjFMVkM1VloiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAT_GkVRBOzZdP2aS4dJFoXMGW-JcVcNel-Ya0Ynk5eZ1&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0B1LVC5VZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1LVC5VZ?th=1">Anker Soundcore Space A40 wireless earbuds for $45 (44 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DB1753RZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+Soundcore+Select+4+Go+Bluetooth+speaker+for+%2419+%2846+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREIxNzUzUlo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYjE0MTk1YjMtMWIyMy00MjI2LTg2MzgtOGM1ZjU2MDZhNjdlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREIxNzUzUloiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAcBpnJErYxDGtfW1JFF2ctL23umbig4ElO6_HtjS6tKc&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DB1753RZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DB1753RZ?th=1">Anker Soundcore Select 4 Go Bluetooth speaker for $19 (46 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B2MM1W65&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+Nano+USB-C+charger+%2830W%29+for+%2413+%2835+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fua2VyLUNoYXJnZXItRm9sZGFibGUtaVBob25lLUluY2x1ZGVkL2RwL0IwQjJNTTFXNjU_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYjE0MTk1YjMtMWIyMy00MjI2LTg2MzgtOGM1ZjU2MDZhNjdlIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fua2VyLUNoYXJnZXItRm9sZGFibGUtaVBob25lLUluY2x1ZGVkL2RwL0IwQjJNTTFXNjUiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAY10BbbZV765D2EJFDbfHk7DBzg47FMG-EoPIE6cVfvy&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAnker-Charger-Foldable-iPhone-Included%2Fdp%2FB0B2MM1W65" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charger-Foldable-iPhone-Included/dp/B0B2MM1W65?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1">Anker Nano USB-C charger (30W) for $13 (35 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CW9249DK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=b14195b3-1b23-4226-8638-8c5f5606a67e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker+Prime+docking+station+%2814-port%2C+160W%29+for+%24170+%2837+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Fua2VyLVRyYW5zZmVyLVJlYWwtVGltZS1JbnRlcmZhY2UtRXRoZXJuZXQvZHAvQjBDVzkyNDlESz90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJiMTQxOTViMy0xYjIzLTQyMjYtODYzOC04YzVmNTYwNmE2N2UiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vQW5rZXItVHJhbnNmZXItUmVhbC1UaW1lLUludGVyZmFjZS1FdGhlcm5ldC9kcC9CMENXOTI0OURLIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAbTCnWVjt--M2Doc_jJanmci6OST_nDdL3rsvwRVH0NA&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAnker-Transfer-Real-Time-Interface-Ethernet%2Fdp%2FB0CW9249DK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Transfer-Real-Time-Interface-Ethernet/dp/B0CW9249DK?ref_=ast_sto_dp">Anker Prime docking station (14-port, 160W) for $170 (37 percent off)</a></p></li> </ul>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-anker-prime-day-deals-last-chance-to-save-on-power-banks-chargers-and-mobile-accessories-084925795.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>The <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-switch-2-review-more-of-what-you-love-120048430.html">Switch 2</a> is in many ways a more premium and powerful version of the original Switch, but its sleek design seems to have come at a cost. Not only is <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/you-probably-wont-be-fixing-your-own-nintendo-switch-2-180833765.html">the console itself</a> difficult to repair, but <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awEY5OGvIXE">a new iFixit teardown video</a> shows that the Switch 2 Pro Controller isn't any easier.</p> <p>Based on iFixit's teardown, you have to completely disassemble the Switch 2 Pro Controller to access the parts you'll likely need to fix first. Accessing the joysticks and battery requires removing an adhesive-secured faceplate on the top of the controller just to access screws. Then you have to unscrew multiple layers of plastic and remove the bumpers to actually get at the battery itself. The original Switch Pro Controller was similarly locked-up, but compared to the Xbox Wireless Controller (which has user-replaceable batteries) it seems like a lot of work.&nbsp;</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="d0389d38fe8d4a4686d9cf730413a1bf"><div style="left:0;width:100%;height:0;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/awEY5OGvIXE?rel=0" style="top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;" allowfullscreen scrolling="no" data-embed-domain="www.youtube.com"></iframe></div></div> <p>The Switch 2 Pro Controller uses a similar joystick design as the Joy-Con 2, which <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-says-the-switch-2-joy-cons-dont-have-hall-effect-thumbsticks-for-reducing-stick-drift-145541325.html">Nintendo has already confirmed</a> doesn't feature a drift-free Hall effect joystick. The company never directly acknowledged that joystick drift — where an analog joystick registers movement even when you're not pressing it — was a problem on the original Switch. Based on iFixit's teardown, it hasn't made the problem easier to fix on its new hardware. Addressing stick drift problems, whether they'll happen on the Switch 2, might be one reason the company currently offers <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/out-of-warranty-switch-2-repairs-are-a-lot-more-expensive-than-the-original-consoles-215448447.html">out-of-warranty repairs</a> on the Joy-Con 2 for free.</p> <p>You don't have to purchase Nintendo's official accessories if you're looking for options that might last longer and be easier to repair. Engadget's <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/best-nintendo-switch-2-accessories-070011952.html">best Switch 2 accessories list</a> includes great alternatives, and the Switch 2 itself is designed to <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:7;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/you-can-use-an-iphone-as-a-nintendo-switch-2-camera-142622005.html">work with third-party webcams</a> for things like GameChat.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/the-switch-2-pro-controller-does-not-seem-easy-to-repair-at-all-180905566.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Capcom just shared a lengthy trailer for the <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91YNtENPL-Y"><ins>upcoming </ins><em><ins>Resident Evil Survival Unit</ins></em></a>. This is a mobile game, <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/resident-evil-is-getting-a-new-mobile-spin-off-game-160044931.html"><ins>but not a remake of a pre-existing title</ins></a>. The original game includes a heavy emphasis on strategy and stars franchise heavy-hitters like Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield and Jill Valentine.</p> <p>If you're wondering how these protagonists can exist together in the same game, it's all due to the magic of the multiverse. It's <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.gamespress.com/Resident-Evil-Survival-Unit-Set-to-Launch-in-2025"><ins>set in a parallel universe</ins></a> "that builds upon the Resident Evil world while diverging from the original series." This also opens up the door for other unannounced characters to show up.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><div id="77322f67ca6545c1b6108a4b9e13ddd9"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/91YNtENPL-Y?si=lB9P8b8O7qfYnRzc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> <p>This is a strategy game through-and-through, with base-building mechanics and real-time battles "against powerful creatures inspired by the Resident Evil universe." Each character has unique abilities and some can interact with the environment, adding another level of strategic immersion. The iconic Weapons Merchant also shows up to arm players up before duking it out.</p> <p>It's being developed by Joycity, the company behind <em>3on3 FreeStyle Rebound</em>, and Aniplex, <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/2928600/"><ins>which made the forthcoming</ins></a> <em>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2</em>. Both companies are reportedly working "in close collaboration" with Capcom.</p> <p><em>Resident Evil Survival Unit</em> will be released <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.residentevil-survivalunit.com/en"><ins>later in the year</ins></a>, though <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=52f6e77b-ffda-4b88-bafe-cb73273e6a4d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;linkText=wish+lists+are+open+right+now&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL2FwcHMuYXBwbGUuY29tL3VzL2FwcC9yZXNpZGVudC1ldmlsLXN1cnZpdmFsLXVuaXQvaWQ2NzQ0NjY4MzI3P210PTgiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjUyZjZlNzdiLWZmZGEtNGI4OC1iYWZlLWNiNzMyNzNlNmE0ZCIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hcHBzLmFwcGxlLmNvbS91cy9hcHAvcmVzaWRlbnQtZXZpbC1zdXJ2aXZhbC11bml0L2lkNjc0NDY2ODMyNz9tdD04In0&amp;signature=AQAAAUiqLJ-XdVYgddUktIPJ_txOYy0HJzClLwUZA3hfccxP&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fresident-evil-survival-unit%2Fid6744668327%3Fmt%3D8" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resident-evil-survival-unit/id6744668327?mt=8"><ins>wish lists are open right now</ins></a>. It's a free-to-play title with in-game purchases.</p> <div id="5bb7bd038e8d442eb3d04c63b42caf63"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/POz1-EmLsTY?si=lhyXr2RTuoCQDVFu" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> <p>The game could tide folks over while waiting for <em>Resident Evil Requiem</em>, which was announced <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/resident-evil-requiem-announced-at-summer-game-fest-2025-231136129.html"><ins>last month at SGF 25</ins></a>. This is the next mainline franchise title, so it's technically <em>Resident Evil 9</em>. It features a new protagonist and the <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/resident-evil-requiem-gameplay-demo-first--and-third-person-views-sgf-2025-150009510.html"><ins>ability to swap between</ins></a> first-person and third-person gameplay perspectives. It comes out on February 27, 2026.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/capcom-shares-first-footage-of-resident-evil-mobile-spinoff-170746039.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Amazon's <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/the-best-prime-day-apple-deals-on-airpods-ipads-macbooks-and-more-for-day-three-of-amazons-sale-150005681.html">Prime Day</a> is in full swing, and now that two full days have passed, some of us have gotten past our decision paralysis and checked out our online shopping carts. It's no surprise that the Engadget team consists of people who are fans of tech (and non-tech) products, and we also love a good deal. As we've put together <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-has-the-best-deals-on-laptops-this-week-save-on-macbooks-windows-11-machines-chromebooks-and-others-130057842.html">roundups</a> and news stories about the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-prime-day-deals-on-amazon-devices-save-up-to-68-percent-on-kindle-ereaders-echo-speakers-and-more-082012114.html">best things to buy this week</a>, we've also been tempted by the savings. Here's a list of what several of our team members bought, not only to share our lives with you but to also show you some of the deals we deemed good enough to spend our own money on.&nbsp;</p> <p> <core-commerce id="fad42395ce6340e2908330701e57f152" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.ca/DAddario-Guitar-Tuner-Headstock-Acoustic/dp/B01IBI88R4/"></core-commerce></p> <p><strong><em>(Ed. note: Igor Bonifacic saved a whopping $2 on this guitar tuner, but it was worth it to him. I'll let him explain.)</em></strong></p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p>In Canada, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=D%27Addario+tuner&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAZxH3EZkLeLKQuthe9w7WVmE2hdbSWc19MU2LOqlisle&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.ca%2FDAddario-Guitar-Tuner-Headstock-Acoustic%2Fdp%2FB01IBI88R4%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.ca/DAddario-Guitar-Tuner-Headstock-Acoustic/dp/B01IBI88R4/">D'Addario tuner</a> I ended up buying is normally a little more expensive at $20 CAD, but I figured there was a chance it would go on sale for Prime Day. So I set up a Camelcamelcamel alert, and on the morning of July 8 I got an email from the website saying it was… $2 off. Not the greatest discount, but hey, in such an expensive hobby, every dollar counts, right?</p> <p>This past spring, I picked up the guitar for the first time in about 15 years. How it happened doesn't matter. What does matter is that now I play everyday, and I've been asking myself why did I ever stop in the first place. I feel more creative, my eyes feel healthier from less screen time and I'm better now than I ever was as a teenager.</p> <p>As I've gotten back into the hobby, I've slowly been buying all the little accessories that can make it easier to maintain your guitar. With Prime Day around the corner, I set my sights on a headstock tuner. These little gadgets weren't around when I first started learning the instrument, but let me tell you they're great.</p> <p>Like the name suggests, you attach one to the headstock of your guitar. It then allows you to tune the instrument by measuring the vibrations produced by the strings. While you could just as easily use an app like <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://yousician.com/guitartuna">GuitarTuna</a> to do the same, clip-on tuners aren't affected by ambient noise, making the entire tuning process fast and easy. Best of all, they're cheap. In the US, you can spend as little as $15 to buy the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B01IBI88R4&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=model+I+purchased+for+Prime+Day&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUtOrFkZMMcVnYk3p5JaczvsJ1lcEBOinFn0orqNb7tF&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDAddario-Accessories-Eclipse-Headstock-Tuner%2Fdp%2FB01IBI88R4%2Fref%3Dsr_1_2_sspa" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/DAddario-Accessories-Eclipse-Headstock-Tuner/dp/B01IBI88R4/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=N0TGSE1FXII5&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jhL5y7IEO-PYsq2atPo3Nukzb4-O9vvvqLNsGQPAilfNdqCGvrFPYG_o5Zd_OnlhZmUhEcXG8A6eZ0M03Ka_oJYRBiYsTIVXBSIftwEK-TLtFyhIQnLjDiHXwtIIaYRiD_gqmx17i8N9yVtH9HNPXuoVEf-fSIg6RmXevflmxOMlVN4nXmDAg40H6OOl3LCtTBcery_0MQ3SHixqtzKbaXwC6bvAlEBzYHcUL_QQGJ6fnoWzQXgrhYtEyZ8-ALZ9af3KwNuYUnzvVLOpDsuNZh14gd7rM79prB2HFySv-Ds.x5filcBCWkIqtakclkDA6i-B5nhjnZWtgFoElcgJkHo&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=d%27addario%2Btuner&amp;qid=1752092767&amp;sprefix=d%27addario%2Btuner%2Caps%2C89&amp;sr=8-2-spons&amp;sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&amp;th=1">model I purchased for Prime Day</a>. — <strong><em>Igor Bonifacic, senior reporter</em></strong></p> <p> <core-commerce id="86cc8ef0640b43f1b64f895cca7eff7f" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Correction-Auto-Framing-Reduction-Microsoft/dp/B09QW1WVRD"></core-commerce></p> <p>Without even trying, I've become a devotee of <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/how-to-use-your-iphone-as-a-webcam-with-your-mac-164248242.html">Apple's Continuity Camera</a> over the last few years. I think with my laptop and monitor setup, it's just always made more sense to use my iPhone as a camera rather than buying some kind of USB-C docking station or giving up another port on my computer. Unfortunately, I also find having my phone within arm's reach while I'm writing to be pretty distracting. Taking advantage of a Prime Day deal on a dedicated webcam this year is my solution.</p> <p>I purchased an off-white <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09QW1WVRD&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Logitech+Brio+500&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAW8TEXcA2C91zkqpElfDNBXJGLl58v5G9HrEPhwYOV-_&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLogitech-Correction-Auto-Framing-Reduction-Microsoft%2Fdp%2FB09QW1WVRD" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Correction-Auto-Framing-Reduction-Microsoft/dp/B09QW1WVRD">Logitech Brio 500</a>, which normally costs $130, but is $50 off for Prime Day through Amazon or <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Logitech;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=9d8b417f-05d3-461d-8465-21e1a10e527d&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Logitech&amp;linkText=Logitech&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5sb2dpdGVjaC5jb20vZW4tdXMvc2hvcC9wL2JyaW8tNTAwLXdlYmNhbS45NjAtMDAxNDMyIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJlYjIwOWE2Zi0yMDJlLTQ1ZWYtYWUzZC02YTdkOGI0MTg0ZDMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmxvZ2l0ZWNoLmNvbS9lbi11cy9zaG9wL3AvYnJpby01MDAtd2ViY2FtLjk2MC0wMDE0MzIifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAbSTpl5zvT_7F0tLjNwxb2kE-XMYfWs1QA2wCzzruj1n&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.logitech.com%2Fen-us%2Fshop%2Fp%2Fbrio-500-webcam.960-001432" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.logitech.com/en-us/shop/p/brio-500-webcam.960-001432">Logitech</a>. It's a kind of a long, tube-shaped 1080p webcam, so not the sleekest or best option out there, but it has the basics I need, like a manual shutter and auto-framing, and critically, it matches my Logitech mouse. If, like me, you can't stand the idea of paying over $100 for a webcam, I think it's a pretty appealing option at $80. — <strong><em>Ian Carlos Campbell, contributing writer</em></strong></p> <p></p> <p> <core-commerce id="f2736f6067fb4fccb57931d17c58b24c" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-256GB-Ultra-Drive-Type-C/dp/B06XC1WGQR"></core-commerce></p> <p>I recently discovered that as all my gear transitioned to USB-C, I no longer had any compatible thumb drives. Rather than buy an adapter dongle that I would inevitably lose, I figured it would be smart to have a new thumb drive that could handle both USB-C and USB-3. The discount on the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B06XC1WGQR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=SanDisk+drive&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbkRpc2stMjU2R0ItVWx0cmEtRHJpdmUtVHlwZS1DL2RwL0IwNlhDMVdHUVI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZWIyMDlhNmYtMjAyZS00NWVmLWFlM2QtNmE3ZDhiNDE4NGQzIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NhbkRpc2stMjU2R0ItVWx0cmEtRHJpdmUtVHlwZS1DL2RwL0IwNlhDMVdHUVIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATsaZemJHjz58GEAmU66k_tIe2F8adqoozOSKe8fZcDK&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSanDisk-256GB-Ultra-Drive-Type-C%2Fdp%2FB06XC1WGQR" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-256GB-Ultra-Drive-Type-C/dp/B06XC1WGQR">SanDisk drive</a> I bought wasn't huge, but Prime Day seemed like a good time to save a few bucks on a practical purchase. — <strong><em>Anna Washenko, contributing reporter</em></strong></p> <p> <core-commerce id="16f355c2cc284584a55a4ee43a031845" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Voyager-Universe-Soundwave-Converting/dp/B0CSGZCTLS/"></core-commerce></p> <p>Even though it wasn't on sale this week, I pre-ordered a re-issue for the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CSGZCTLS&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Studio+Series+version+of+Blaster&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1RyYW5zZm9ybWVycy1Wb3lhZ2VyLVVuaXZlcnNlLVNvdW5kd2F2ZS1Db252ZXJ0aW5nL2RwL0IwQ1NHWkNUTFMvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6ImViMjA5YTZmLTIwMmUtNDVlZi1hZTNkLTZhN2Q4YjQxODRkMyIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9UcmFuc2Zvcm1lcnMtVm95YWdlci1Vbml2ZXJzZS1Tb3VuZHdhdmUtQ29udmVydGluZy9kcC9CMENTR1pDVExTLyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAZSuV4gH25Y5UGa5eHQ6ym_43ZgSfjXjd3wwWafwwBMC&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTransformers-Voyager-Universe-Soundwave-Converting%2Fdp%2FB0CSGZCTLS%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Voyager-Universe-Soundwave-Converting/dp/B0CSGZCTLS/">Studio Series version of Blaster</a> from Amazon because he is one of my favorite Transformers of all time. And then I added <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CY8C34ZF&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Soundwave&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAWww4FSzNXs8c9Rnifejkv1tBciGPMM_Q7li_x_G5ww0&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTransformers-Generations-Voyager-Figurine-Autobot%2Fdp%2FB0CY8C34ZF%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Generations-Voyager-Figurine-Autobot/dp/B0CY8C34ZF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1D3J5G1QOJTRJ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XpPSRfj-hgRo_LtWwk915PGSPWVVBGxigHAOjsvzpkubNOwxhMkmchDXTB2Hx2R0Rh4C4nYJslGm-qbFmiPC6o05_SmB6ONynBRE6_9gCituTWqVDRxWgeQTLVvPjUbYUbzApP7dvKSYtg32D84nI05VMupS0AI39V-R0FTEPbEJETkeCTKP9RwrUh5lOL8ffznDkc7gQPEgb4vaiJbsqXfL-2w8Uf6nElElem3Q_lTt2k7X7hT95zDIsKyl4CdFtwSEgQVaOK6elagVedaGmoaepc-2lS2wCIFIrFnR1_o.vbC6M9jq_85u-6qBfi0AqGZyFDZkbez_imsCrf2LNog&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=studio+series+blaster&amp;qid=1752173844&amp;sprefix=studio+series+blaste%2Caps%2C106&amp;sr=8-1">Soundwave</a> to my shipment because he's another one of my top 10 favorite bots and you can't really have one without the other. And then I found a small deal on <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DK7Z3SG6&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Heatwave&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAeic-cAx6Mrk8rDNvWXmSIfNG7FAvUa55ecg0INZHbO-&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTransformers-Primes-Voyager-Heatwave-Converting%2Fdp%2FB0DK7Z3SG6%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Primes-Voyager-Heatwave-Converting/dp/B0DK7Z3SG6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37AMKV7FSAKP&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VO-hEKIf2D4P6mXktQ_HNLNYxc6uE3l81qqXeZLl8D8dSVIw_RC4NI4F-x2-GNIWQLRQJ8X1HCu8SBjLWlQ-MjaZr5UR6huNUNcOfptSVbTJcDFpgJjAoX4k2QAFFIR7XDfzZ-4EGK2XuM6Fl-QV2ZH384ABCqHvxXOEzh-mfb4_h81XicwxNWZsA5y8Z6HiUk7NlTZL4EMGZI4YaiPTqKPtH_zTbRISX6HldLtLQkiS2bnQPx2_inqjB_bDRZmeN4xJcH_SdjJnZyyZesXNRETXEqZ0xlUTy-aNYiH80pc.mZiATlleWWeJvnA5JNlUscMDqKm0oc2YBCEZa_fplqo&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=heatwave+transformers&amp;qid=1752176038&amp;sprefix=heatwave+transformers%2Caps%2C78&amp;sr=8-1">Heatwave</a>, so we picked that up too as a way to save a couple bucks on a present for my son's birthday next month.</p> <p>It's a bit weird to say that as an adult I'm still this fascinated by plastic toys, but sometimes it feels like we're living through a golden age for Transformer figures despite the awful movies we've been subjected to over the last decade and a half (aside from Transformers One). As bad as the Bayverse films are, there's still a rich history of shows and toys and I've had a blast diving back into all of that with my kid. — <strong><em>Sam Rutherford, senior reviewer</em></strong></p> <p> <core-commerce id="5d41e35159c54063bf3cdc9ec99953b1" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-11-inch-Display-All-Day/dp/B0DZ75TN5F"></core-commerce></p> <p>I made a very short, focused list of three things to buy on Prime Day — a <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:14;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BDMTZYXZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Nori+Press&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05vcmktUHJlc3MtVHJhdmVsLVN0ZWFtLUlyb24vZHAvQjBCRE1UWllYWj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJlYjIwOWE2Zi0yMDJlLTQ1ZWYtYWUzZC02YTdkOGI0MTg0ZDMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vTm9yaS1QcmVzcy1UcmF2ZWwtU3RlYW0tSXJvbi9kcC9CMEJETVRaWVhaIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAetSJ--qBEiXqJdy2ed5wOHHvqrMV37q_MMH8fNZSHbV&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNori-Press-Travel-Steam-Iron%2Fdp%2FB0BDMTZYXZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Nori-Press-Travel-Steam-Iron/dp/B0BDMTZYXZ?th=1">Nori Press</a>, a walking pad and the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Tonies;elmt:;cpos:15;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=1aa15d48-ca00-4b80-bd7a-a85bf2cf4507&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Tonies&amp;linkText=Ms.+Rachel+Tonie+toy&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3VzLnRvbmllcy5jb20vIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJlYjIwOWE2Zi0yMDJlLTQ1ZWYtYWUzZC02YTdkOGI0MTg0ZDMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vdXMudG9uaWVzLmNvbS8ifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAcnOf1ElLLUINVrlerl-VEdSOCd5SLbVg8VzxFq9-VNq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fus.tonies.com%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://us.tonies.com/">Ms. Rachel Tonie toy</a> for the kids in my life. But when I was looking through our roundup of the best deals this week, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:16;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZ75TN5F&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=discounted+entry-level+iPad&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAATwtmxV9SsCcVNNDIxbPmvOtfI3XZ6H-Ru4Nc50WSvYI&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FApple-iPad-11-inch-Display-All-Day%2Fdp%2FB0DZ75TN5F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-11-inch-Display-All-Day/dp/B0DZ75TN5F">discounted entry-level iPad</a> caught my eye.&nbsp;</p> <p>My dad had been asking me repeatedly for weeks about an iPad for watching videos and movies while him and my mom were traveling, and I wasn't able to give them an answer as I was weighing a lot of concerns. What is the best operating system for them? Do they need something released recently, or could they save some money on an older model?&nbsp;</p> <p>Seeing this <a data-i13n="cpos:17;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ipad-2025-with-a16-review-no-apple-intelligence-no-problem-132641539.html">current-generation iPad</a> on sale prompted me to just buy it for them. It simplifies things as my dad uses an iPhone and is familiar with iPadOS, and apps like YouTube and Netflix would satisfy their desires to download videos to watch offline. Saving $70 on what is a very solid device felt like a great deal, but more importantly it earned me points with my family. — <strong><em>Cherlynn Low, managing editor</em></strong></p> <p> <core-commerce id="92367be1376441e28626155471269a56" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Nori-Press-Travel-Steam-Iron/dp/B0BDMTZYXZ"></core-commerce></p> <p>Like I mentioned earlier, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:18;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BDMTZYXZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Nori+Press&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05vcmktUHJlc3MtVHJhdmVsLVN0ZWFtLUlyb24vZHAvQjBCRE1UWllYWj90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJlYjIwOWE2Zi0yMDJlLTQ1ZWYtYWUzZC02YTdkOGI0MTg0ZDMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vTm9yaS1QcmVzcy1UcmF2ZWwtU3RlYW0tSXJvbi9kcC9CMEJETVRaWVhaIiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAetSJ--qBEiXqJdy2ed5wOHHvqrMV37q_MMH8fNZSHbV&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNori-Press-Travel-Steam-Iron%2Fdp%2FB0BDMTZYXZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Nori-Press-Travel-Steam-Iron/dp/B0BDMTZYXZ?th=1">Nori Press</a> was on my list of things to buy when on sale this week. In fact, the Nori Press was on <a data-i13n="cpos:19;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/best-tech-gifts-on-our-editors-wishlists-130043069.html">my holiday wishlist last year</a>. Alas, none of my friends or family got it for me, so I decided finally to buy one myself. The ice-cubes-in-the-dryer method just didn't cut it anymore.&nbsp;</p> <p>Nori frequently has sales that put the iron, which usually retails for $120, at $100. When I saw that the Prime Day discount dropped the price down to about $90, I figured it was time to stop procrastinating. I haven't received the iron yet, but I'm certainly excited to wear crisply collared shirts and neatly pressed dresses soon. — <strong><em>Cherlynn Low, managing editor</em></strong></p> <h2 id="jump-link-what-were-still-considering">What we're still considering</h2> <p>As Prime Day goes on till the end of the week, many on the Engadget team are still weighing their decisions. Executive editor John Falcone, for example, hasn't bought <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D8PYWHZR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=eb209a6f-202e-45ef-ae3d-6a7d8b4184d3&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Anker%27s+UFO+3-device+charger&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUFZkv8w-swc5HtSIkHj6L_EoDPqsb7UNgKHZuws2i-s&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAnker-Compatible-Wireless-Certified-Foldable%2Fdp%2FB0D8PYWHZR%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Compatible-Wireless-Certified-Foldable/dp/B0D8PYWHZR/">Anker's UFO 3-device charger</a>, but says he wishes he did. I'll update this post if he does, because he will save almost 30 percent on it.</p> <p>Not all our purchases have been through Amazon, either. Editor-in-chief Aaron Souppouris is thinking about buying "a weird camera for too much money not on Amazon." It's a full-spectrum conversion camera, and if and when he does make that purchase, we will be sure to shame him here.</p> <p>Finally, senior editor Billy Steele has made arguably the best shopping decision all week, on or <a data-i13n="cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/walmart-deals-2025-rivals-prime-day-with-sales-up-to-47-percent-off-230146367.html">off Amazon</a>. He bought "three Happy Meals trying to get the cool toys. I got three of the same toy. :("&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Update, July 10 2025, 5:00PM ET:</strong> This story has been updated to add a section on what senior reviewer Sam Rutherford bought.</p> <p><strong>Update, July 11 2025, 12:00PM ET:</strong> This story has been updated to add a section on the Nori Press.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-2025-the-deals-that-the-engadget-team-spent-our-hard-earned-money-on-154509453.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>The <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/subnautica-2s-early-access-release-delayed-to-2026-amid-developer-drama-123042406.html"><ins>drama</ins></a> surrounding the significantly delayed release of <em>Subnautica 2</em> continues with Charlie Cleveland, co-founder and <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://krafton.com/en/news/press/krafton-announces-gaming-industry-veteran-steve-papoutsis-as-new-ceo-of-unknown-worlds/"><ins>former director</ins></a> of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, announcing <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://x.com/Flayra/status/1943467965434974522"><ins>via a post on X</ins></a> that he and unnamed others have filed a lawsuit against<a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pubg-will-get-ai-powered-npcs-220218057.html"> <ins>Krafton</ins></a>, the studio&#39;s parent company since 2021.</p> <p>Cleveland, along with Ted Gill and Max McGuire, were<a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://krafton.com/en/news/press/krafton-announces-gaming-industry-veteran-steve-papoutsis-as-new-ceo-of-unknown-worlds/"> <ins>relieved of their leadership roles</ins></a> at Unknown Worlds last week by Krafton.<a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/krafton-delays-subnautica-2-game-ahead-of-250-million-payout?embedded-checkout=true"> <em><ins>Bloomberg</ins></em><ins> reported</ins></a><em>&nbsp;</em>that they had been effectively &quot;pushed out.&quot; This occurred shortly before Krafton would reportedly owe Unknown Worlds leadership a $250 million bonus for meeting certain goals.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>The alleged lawsuit follows Krafton&#39;s <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/subnautica-2s-early-access-release-delayed-to-2026-amid-developer-drama-123042406.html"><ins>recent statement</ins></a> accusing Cleveland and other studio leadership of &quot;abandoning their responsibilities.&quot; The parent company claims these executives&#39; behavior led to significant delays in <em>Subnautica 2</em> &#39;s early access release, which is now slated for early 2026. Krafton also claimed that approximately 90 percent of the $250 million bonus was already paid out to Cleveland, Gill and McGuire.</p> <p>In<a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://x.com/Flayra/status/1943467965434974522"> <ins>his post</ins></a>, Cleveland strongly refuted Krafton&#39;s claims, asserting that <em>Subnautica 2</em> is in fact &quot;ready for early access&quot; and that any allegations regarding abdication of leadership and financial motivations are false. &quot;Subnautica has been my life’s work and I would never willingly abandon it,&quot; Cleveland wrote.</p> <p>He also firmly denied accusations that he and other executives intended to keep the promised $250 million bonus for themselves, saying, &quot;I’m in this industry because I love it, not for riches. Historically we’ve always shared our profits with the team and did the same when we sold the studio. You can be damned sure we’ll continue with the earnout/bonus as well.&quot;</p> <p>Details about the lawsuit, including the jurisdiction, named parties or specific causes of action remain unclear. <em>Subnautica 2 </em>is still slated for an early access launch sometime in 2026, though it remains to be seen if this new legal drama will cause further delays.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/subnautica-studio-co-founder-says-hes-suing-parent-company-krafton-153412484.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>If you're a Samsung phone user or prefer Android in general, there are some excellent sales on tech accessories to check out for the last day of <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a>. One of the best ones is on the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D1YNVD88&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=bd2f873a-d8ee-4d8b-9324-c18037d4191b&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Galaxy+Watch+7&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDFZTlZEODg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmQyZjg3M2EtZDhlZS00ZDhiLTkzMjQtYzE4MDM3ZDQxOTFiIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDFZTlZEODgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAX8-JmXqtVh34-XCuZAE-dSP4g3VP6ayS-AtJaHP2XOD&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D1YNVD88" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1YNVD88?th=1">Samsung Galaxy Watch 7</a>, which is on sale for only $160 right now. That's a record-low price for this smartwatch.</p> <p>This is the company's latest watch and was released back in February, so it's nice to see a massive discount this early in the release cycle. We appreciated the Galaxy Watch 7 <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/samsung-galaxy-watch-7-review-incrementally-better-than-its-predecessoragain-133038627.html">in our official review</a>, calling it a "capable companion for Samsung phones." It features an old-school design that recalls classic timepieces and not modern smart devices.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="74dea57b4ff34a6a898a201749511aba" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1YNVD88?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>The performance is zippy, thanks to an upgraded processor, and the storage has doubled when compared to its predecessor. There are also many more sensors when measured against the Galaxy Watch 6. For instance, there are now 13 heart rate sensor LEDs. This leads to the ability to assess more complex health metrics, like sleep apnea detection. All of this is data viewable via the fun and intuitive Samsung Health app.</p> <p>We also appreciated that this watch will automatically track workouts when you start, without asking if you're exercising like with the Apple Watch. There are even some AI-assisted tools here that offer light coaching as you workout or engage in physical activities.</p> <p>There are a couple of little quirks here. First of all, this watch is primarily for those already tied into Samsung's ecosystem. If you use an iPhone, this might not be the best match. Also, the always-on display is a notorious battery hog. Still, this is a lot of smartwatch for the money.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/prime-day-deals-include-the-samsung-galaxy-watch-7-for-an-all-time-low-price-for-the-last-day-110001283.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>One of the most popular sites for Nintendo Switch piracy has been taken down as part of an ongoing FBI investigation. As reported by <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://kotaku.com/switch-2-piracy-nsw2u-roms-fbi-hack-emulator-zelda-1851786034"><em><ins>Kotaku</ins></em></a>, Nsw2u was known for hosting Switch ROMs, which users could download to play on a hacked Switch or PC emulator capable of running them.</p> <p>At the time of writing, when you enter the site’s URL you’ll see a notice confirming the seizure, which the FBI says is in accordance with a warrant issued by the United States District Court in Georgia. The notice also features a logo for the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), which is a Dutch government agency that investigates financial crimes.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Nintendo has been cracking down on piracy of its games for a number of years. Back in 2019, the company <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-12-nintendo-sues-rom-website.html"><ins>sued</ins></a> the illegal ROM-sharing site RomUniverse, after it became aware it was offering unlimited downloads of new and old Nintendo games for an annual fee. Last year it filed a <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-is-suing-a-streamer-of-pirated-software-for-millions-of-dollars-150052133.html"><ins>lawsuit</ins></a> against streamer EveryGameGuru who it accused of broadcasting footage of pirated — and in many cases unreleased — Switch games, as well as providing access to illegal ROMs. In March of 2024 the makers of popular Switch emulator Yuzu paid $2.4 million to <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/makers-of-switch-emulator-yuzu-quickly-settle-with-nintendo-for-24-million-203204698.html"><ins>settle</ins></a> charges filed by Nintendo.</p> <p>Nintendo’s latest <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-grants-itself-the-power-to-brick-switches-with-pirated-games-162129077.html"><ins>anti-piracy move</ins></a> was inserting a clause in an updated version of the <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/48058/~/nintendo-switch%3A-user-agreement"><ins>Nintendo Switch User Agreement</ins></a> that effectively enables it to brick your Switch if it runs illegal emulators or pirated games. This revised agreement came into effect just ahead of the <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/you-can-finally-buy-the-nintendo-switch-2-on-amazon-but-dont-expect-a-prime-day-deal-195558235.html"><ins>Switch 2</ins></a> launch on June 5.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/fbi-seize-well-known-nintendo-switch-game-piracy-site-152216405.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Here's a sweet <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> deal on one of our favorite streaming devices that's still available during the last day of the sale. You can get the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D8WJYSF9&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=74593297-c9a0-46e3-8ee8-d3076c6d009d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Google+TV+Streamer&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDhXSllTRjk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNzQ1OTMyOTctYzlhMC00NmUzLThlZTgtZDMwNzZjNmQwMDlkIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDhXSllTRjkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdsWLJUjG0AvGnEInAOWW6k3qmE6zPLv3Fa35-d1CKfO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D8WJYSF9" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8WJYSF9">Google TV Streamer</a> for $84. (It typically retails for $100.) That's nearly an all-time low for the wedge-shaped gizmo.</p> <p>The Google TV Streamer is Engadget's pick for <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/best-streaming-devices-media-players-123021395.html">the best all-in-one streaming device</a>. It has a top-notch interface that makes it easy to organize your content. That holds even if your series and movies come from different sources.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="f8f4293217e343b0897901d6fd585c9d" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8WJYSF9"></core-commerce></p> <p>Its upgraded processor and RAM make it quick and easy to switch between apps and load media. It supports 4K streaming. Its remote has an intuitive button placement and a programmable key. The device supports smart home controls via <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/matters-latest-version-will-try-to-smooth-out-the-smart-home-platforms-rough-edges-130003372.html">Matter</a> and Thread.</p> <p>In our review, Engadget's Amy Skorheim <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/google-tv-streamer-review-a-great-side-piece-for-your-tv-with-a-dash-of-smart-home-chops-and-inessential-ai-160034550.html">was impressed</a>. "The Google TV Streamer is responsive and quick, packing the best streaming interface out there with smart home features that are useful and properly integrated," she wrote.</p> <p>One of our only nitpicks was that it costs so much more than its Chromecast predecessor. Today's deal helps to ease that concern. Google also didn't bundle an HDMI cable with it. So, if you snag this deal, make sure you have an extra one on-hand.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-google-tv-streamer-4k-is-still-available-for-84-thanks-to-this-prime-day-deal-121026677.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>You may be spending more time outside during the summer, especially if you have a grill, but the gadgets in your kitchen will come in handy this season, too. <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> deals have discounted one of our favorite air fryers, so you can grab it on sale and make things like crispy fried chicken with ease. The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B096X9LGJ1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3032a101-3141-436a-b948-214919ecf681&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Ninja+Foodi+Dual-Zone+10-quart+air+fryer&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOTZYOUxHSjE_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzAzMmExMDEtMzE0MS00MzZhLWI5NDgtMjE0OTE5ZWNmNjgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOTZYOUxHSjEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYwVLhTtxcFdssoboThEFajTzB6fsnU3vVQP3RZKrhk7&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB096X9LGJ1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096X9LGJ1?th=1">Ninja Foodi Dual-Zone 10-quart air fryer</a> is $90 off and down to $160 right now. While not an all-time-low price, it's a good sale for this time of year so far from the Black Friday shopping period.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="4fd1e47613654dee8a2948c594d010a9" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B15Q3HCQ?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>This model is one of our favorite air fryers. In fact, it's our pick for the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="http://engadget.com/home/kitchen-tech/best-air-fryers-133047180.html">best dual-zone air fryer</a>. It heats up quickly and runs quietly, but the real selling point here is the dual-basket setup. If you cook a lot or make meals for several people on a regular basis, the Ninja Foodi could be a game changer.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p>It's possible to use the two baskets to prepare entirely different foods at the same time with distinct cooking modes — you can't do that on a grill. You can also prepare food in both baskets in the same way with the Match Cook feature.&nbsp;</p> <p>A very useful feature called Smart Finish can adjust cooking times automatically so that the food in both baskets (perhaps you have a protein in one and vegetables in the other) will be ready at the same time. That should help you avoid waiting for one basket to be down while the other gets cold.</p> <p>On the downside, this is a machine that will take up a considerable proportion of counter space, so it won't be ideal for small kitchens. If you can make room for it, though, the Ninja Foodi could be a valuable addition to your setup.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3032a101-3141-436a-b948-214919ecf681&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Prime+Day+Ninja+deals&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdp_mDOkZ9qN00rJUWr2QQvEMkRgXYyD3zZPXN_SKSkE&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fstores%2Fpage%2F6CAE9F28-61F7-43BA-A1F0-CF56A587A8C2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/6CAE9F28-61F7-43BA-A1F0-CF56A587A8C2?ingress=2&amp;lp_context_asin=B0B15Q3HCQ&amp;visitId=626af945-368b-484e-8a1d-2a7d146e5c49&amp;store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto&amp;ref_=ast_bln">Prime Day Ninja deals</a> are generally abundant this year, making it a great time to add a kitchen gadget to your countertop, or pick up a gift for someone you know getting married later on this year. Here are a few other Ninja deals worth considering.</p> <ul> <li><p>This <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DKVK126N&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3032a101-3141-436a-b948-214919ecf681&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%2445+Ninja+Blast+portable+blender&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05pbmphLVNtb290aGllcy1SZWNoYXJnZWFibGUtRGlzaHdhc2hlci1CQzE1MUFPL2RwL0IwREtWSzEyNk4_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMzAzMmExMDEtMzE0MS00MzZhLWI5NDgtMjE0OTE5ZWNmNjgxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05pbmphLVNtb290aGllcy1SZWNoYXJnZWFibGUtRGlzaHdhc2hlci1CQzE1MUFPL2RwL0IwREtWSzEyNk4iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAVK-ukjCwiH8mJq2WVCyVry8HKkZnch_ECDmCq0WXhbD&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNinja-Smoothies-Rechargeable-Dishwasher-BC151AO%2Fdp%2FB0DKVK126N" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Smoothies-Rechargeable-Dishwasher-BC151AO/dp/B0DKVK126N?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1">$45 Ninja Blast portable blender</a></p></li> <li><p>This <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08QKTXT1N&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3032a101-3141-436a-b948-214919ecf681&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%2490+Ninja+air+fryer&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAd-aZ29qKwC2L8x4pd7Q2lASahmNWB2RKqnDv-T4Uk7w&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNinja-AF150AMZ-Reheats-Dehydrates-Capacity%2Fdp%2FB08QKTXT1N" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-AF150AMZ-Reheats-Dehydrates-Capacity/dp/B08QKTXT1N?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1">$90 Ninja air fryer</a></p></li> <li><p>This <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BKS6VG8P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=3032a101-3141-436a-b948-214919ecf681&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%24250+Ninja+Creami+deluxe+bundle&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAYaw9yKEYPzWxsYC2icdzu7J5YlmbSQ4Q2Ir597esZt2&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNinja-CREAMi-Deluxe-XSKPNTLD2-Compatible%2Fdp%2FB0BKS6VG8P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-CREAMi-Deluxe-XSKPNTLD2-Compatible/dp/B0BKS6VG8P?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1">$250 Ninja Creami deluxe bundle</a> that includes four 24-ounce tubs for making and storing frozen treats</p></li> </ul>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/prime-day-deals-on-air-fryers-include-90-off-one-of-our-favorite-ninja-machines-131214787.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>The latest Apple iPad Mini <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DK3YF38G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=cb5aa26d-1c3d-444b-b8f4-f11dd510419e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=is+on+sale+for+a+record-low+price&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREszWUYzOEc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiY2I1YWEyNmQtMWMzZC00NDRiLWI4ZjQtZjExZGQ1MTA0MTllIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREszWUYzOEciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZ7pPg-dIfb8MCSMuv4aSSVPSbcjNPWA8ejkX_vYyQnY&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DK3YF38G" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK3YF38G?th=1">is on sale for a record-low price</a> as part of the <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> extravaganza, and it's still in stock during the last day of the sale. The tablet is available for $380, which is a discount of $120. That's a pretty good deal for a device that's only around nine months old.</p> <p>This tablet made our list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ipads-how-to-pick-the-best-apple-tablet-for-you-150054066.html">best iPads</a> and we recommend it specifically for people who want a device with a smaller form factor. It's the only tablet that Apple makes in this size. Don't let the size fool you, however, as this is a full-featured iPad. It supports the Apple Pencil Pro and starts at 128GB of storage.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="f249fefa131f4e43b033d00e7798bcd6" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK3YF38G?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>We called it "reliable" and everything we "want in a small tablet" <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ipad-mini-7-review-safe-boring-and-everything-i-want-in-a-small-tablet-130039378.html">in our official review</a>. The speakers sound great, which has become standard with modern Apple devices, and the form factor makes it easy to hold for long periods of time without causing hand cramps. It's an iPad, just smaller.</p> <p>There are a couple of little caveats. The display is limited to a 60Hz refresh rate, which could impact some action-heavy games. There's also no Face ID here, which forces users to enter a password or use a fingerprint.&nbsp;</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/apples-latest-ipad-mini-is-down-to-a-record-low-price-for-prime-day-and-still-in-stock-100024613.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Amazon Prime Day</a> is always a key period for camera buyers as any discount on such a major purchase is always helpful. Despite the tariffs, this year's sale is particularly strong for photography buffs, with big discounts on most of the major brands including some that don't normally offer deals.</p> <p>Some key deals include discounts on DJI drones, along with sales on models from Sony, Canon, GoPro and Nikon. Many of those cameras are ranked highly in our most recent <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/cameras/best-cameras-151524327.html">camera guide</a>, like <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:B&amp;H Photo;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" 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EOS R5 Mark III</a> and the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Adorama;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=0eee6f60-6f21-4ba6-b70e-cc15b39bf860&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Adorama&amp;linkText=GoPro+Hero+13+Black&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hZG9yYW1hLmNvbS9ncGhlcm8xMy5odG1sIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJiZTljZTY4Zi1iODVjLTRkOWItOWMyNS01ZjUxZjQ2MzA0OWQiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFkb3JhbWEuY29tL2dwaGVybzEzLmh0bWwifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAfUg3cBEAJ2y6KwBmwwyJ-rfRQAPO9Trq1OLFLfscB-V&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adorama.com%2Fgphero13.html" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=0eee6f60-6f21-4ba6-b70e-cc15b39bf860&amp;itemId=impact_radius_1036-GPHERO13&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=pnr-product-module&amp;providerId=impact_radius&amp;contentUuid=3684c1ae-7145-4dc2-9d88-30dfdfedada2&amp;featureId=dynamic-offer&amp;itemName=GoPro+HERO13+Black&amp;merchantName=Adorama&amp;itemSourceId=1036-GPHERO13&amp;brand=Adorama&amp;categoryId=152&amp;price=329.0&amp;salePrice=329.0&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsInN0b3JlSWQiOiIxMDM2IiwibGFuZGluZ1VybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYWRvcmFtYS5yZnZrLm5ldC9jLzIwNTUwNjcvMTE3NTc4NC8xMDM2P3Byb2Rza3U9R1BIRVJPMTMmdT1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy5hZG9yYW1hLmNvbSUyRmdwaGVybzEzLmh0bWwmaW50c3JjPUNBVEZfOTEwMiZzdWJJZDE9dXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjM2ODRjMWFlLTcxNDUtNGRjMi05ZDg4LTMwZGZkZmVkYWRhMiIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWRvcmFtYS5jb20vZ3BoZXJvMTMuaHRtbCJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAX9PdMv39Nq7P3Hjbv3I7xPKOrqrCi-N7Yr7CbPw3QNq&amp;refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2Fcameras%2Fbest-cameras-151524327.html&amp;uuid=ZIq1JXSMnmcVNOvo36883">GoPro Hero 13 Black</a> — so feel free to check that out as you add items to your cart. Without further delay, here are the best Prime Day camera deals you can get for the last day of the sale.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-camera-deals">Best Prime Day camera deals</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="71012721a64e4f47958cb9c8a6597bdf" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Canon-RF-S18-45mm-Mirrorless-Continuous-Lightweight/dp/B0C5PGRP7V/ref=sr_1_3"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0C5PGRP7V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Canon+EOS+R100+with+RT-S18-45mm+lens+for+%24549+%2815+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Nhbm9uLVJGLVMxOC00NW1tLU1pcnJvcmxlc3MtQ29udGludW91cy1MaWdodHdlaWdodC9kcC9CMEM1UEdSUDdWL3JlZj1zcl8xXzM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmU5Y2U2OGYtYjg1Yy00ZDliLTljMjUtNWY1MWY0NjMwNDlkIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0Nhbm9uLVJGLVMxOC00NW1tLU1pcnJvcmxlc3MtQ29udGludW91cy1MaWdodHdlaWdodC9kcC9CMEM1UEdSUDdWL3JlZj1zcl8xXzMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQsanFmKVwpQtduBd9jg-vfFixsvFab-7Cg4Hla_ngt3&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCanon-RF-S18-45mm-Mirrorless-Continuous-Lightweight%2Fdp%2FB0C5PGRP7V%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Canon-RF-S18-45mm-Mirrorless-Continuous-Lightweight/dp/B0C5PGRP7V/ref=sr_1_3">Canon EOS R100 with RT-S18-45mm lens for $549 (15 percent off)</a>: Canon's EOS R100 is the only modern mirrorless camera you can get with a kit lens for under $600. It comes with a 24-megapixel APS-C sensor that delivers great picture quality with Canon's pleasing skin tones.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BTTV6CT1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Canon+EOS+R50+with+RF-S18-45mm+lens+for+%24749+%2815+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAeV0-Hd0zM6tIY1uvTMgTgvMLJQfqhQ5hAj-dtF4oHeZ&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCanon-Mirrorless-RF-S18-45mm-Smartphone-Connection%2Fdp%2FB0BTTV6CT1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mirrorless-RF-S18-45mm-Smartphone-Connection/dp/B0BTTV6CT1/ref=sr_1_3">Canon EOS R50 with RF-S18-45mm lens for $749 (15 percent off)</a>: Canon's 24-megapixel APS-C EOS R50 is great for travel, parties, street photography and more thanks to the portable size and built-in flash. It offers nice image quality with warm, human friendly photos and is capable for creators as well with 4K 30fps supersampled video, with 10-bit and HDR capability.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BHM3DWKN&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=OM+System+OM-5+for+%24899+%2825+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAfCinHqn8uZrV1z_5BrWMvSLD7T_YvWijwA_Iz0VWueM&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOM-SYSTEM-Mirrorless-Camera-Black%2Fdp%2FB0BHM3DWKN" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/OM-SYSTEM-Mirrorless-Camera-Black/dp/B0BHM3DWKN">OM System OM-5 for $899 (25 percent off)</a>: For creators on a budget, the 20-megapixel, Micro Four Thirds OM-5 from OM System (formerly Olympic) is a great option at this price. It lets you shoot 4K video and 20MP stills at up to 10 fps. The design is nice with a full complement of manual controls, a fully articulating display and 7.5 stops of built-in stabilization.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D4FBF5NK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Panasonic+Lumix+S9+for+%241%2C298+%2813+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAW8HfSq2tp2ovBigIj-B2rUBcYy2eNlGdAXp2vsyIRtb&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPanasonic-Mirrorless-Camera-24-2MP-Technology%2Fdp%2FB0D4FBF5NK%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1_sspa" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Mirrorless-Camera-24-2MP-Technology/dp/B0D4FBF5NK/ref=sr_1_1_sspa">Panasonic Lumix S9 for $1,298 (13 percent off)</a>: The S9 may be Panasonic's smallest full-frame camera but it comes with the same 24MP sensor and similar video features to the popular S5 II. To that end, it offers up to 6.2K video, in-body stabilization and reliable autofocus. The key feature though is a special LUT button that lets you easily choose a custom cinematic look designed by professional creators.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0BL7ZVY78&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Canon+EOS+R6+Mark+II+for+%241%2C899+%285+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkw3WlZZNzg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmU5Y2U2OGYtYjg1Yy00ZDliLTljMjUtNWY1MWY0NjMwNDlkIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQkw3WlZZNzgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQwcXIQRlpdJcEZe6utwXsYzihumV6cxOnlNA7-b3kBb&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0BL7ZVY78" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BL7ZVY78">Canon EOS R6 Mark II for $1,899 (5 percent off)</a>: Canon's R6 Mark II offers a great mix of video and photography features. You can now shoot RAW stills at up to 40 fps and video specs are equally solid with sharp full-sensor 4K at up to 60 fps. It comes with in-body stabilization that's great for video and photos and autofocus is quicker and more versatile than ever.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:11;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D77SL8CY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Nikon+Z6+III+for+%242%2C197+%2812+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL05pa29uLUZ1bGwtRnJhbWUtbWlycm9ybGVzcy1JbnRlcm5hbC1SZWNvcmRpbmcvZHAvQjBENzdTTDhDWS9yZWY9c3JfMV8xP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6ImJlOWNlNjhmLWI4NWMtNGQ5Yi05YzI1LTVmNTFmNDYzMDQ5ZCIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9OaWtvbi1GdWxsLUZyYW1lLW1pcnJvcmxlc3MtSW50ZXJuYWwtUmVjb3JkaW5nL2RwL0IwRDc3U0w4Q1kvcmVmPXNyXzFfMSIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAQl78sBuE84i6sKYMq7twC5IyT6x7nFcuZUrz-uhaBo0&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNikon-Full-Frame-mirrorless-Internal-Recording%2Fdp%2FB0D77SL8CY%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Full-Frame-mirrorless-Internal-Recording/dp/B0D77SL8CY/ref=sr_1_1">Nikon Z6 III for $2,197 (12 percent off)</a>: Nikon's Z6 III is the best hybrid mirrorless camera for the money, thanks to the incredible performance of the 24-megapixel partially stacked sensor. You can shoot RAW bursts at up to 20 fps in electronic shutter mode while nailing sharp shots thanks to the much-improved autofocus. On the video side, it supports 6K RAW at up to 60 fps, or 4K 120p. All of that makes it ideal for creators and photographers alike, with the only drawback being the reduced resolution.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:12;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09JZT6YK5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+A7+IV+for+%242%2C198+%2819+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUia2SB7qGLSewTikTf7A_Krrh_x167v-IcnBdkAhg1Z&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-Full-frame-Mirrorless-Interchangeable-Camera%2Fdp%2FB09JZT6YK5%2Fref%3Dsr_1_3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Full-frame-Mirrorless-Interchangeable-Camera/dp/B09JZT6YK5/ref=sr_1_3">Sony A7 IV for $2,198 (19 percent off)</a>: It beats many rivals with 33 megapixels of resolution rather than 24, with image quality much improved overall. Video is now up to par with rivals with 4K at up to 60p with 10 bit 4:2:2 quality. Autofocus is incredible for both video and stills, and the in-body stabilization does a good job. The biggest drawback is rolling shutter that limits the use of the electronic shutter.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:13;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DL6KN2PH&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Canon+EOS+R5+Mark+II+for+%243%2C999+%28%24300+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAYRGQomzcVaZy_DXNUWQNP1-JP3dBrYEhnZBAoOGuRA-&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCanon-Mirrorless-Camera-Lithium-Ion-Battery%2Fdp%2FB0DL6KN2PH%2Fref%3Dsr_1_4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mirrorless-Camera-Lithium-Ion-Battery/dp/B0DL6KN2PH/ref=sr_1_4?">Canon EOS R5 Mark II for $3,999 ($300 off)</a>: It's company’s best camera in years thanks to improvements in areas like autofocus and video. It comes with a high-resolution 45-megapixel stacked sensor, but still lets you shoot blackout-free bursts at up to 30 fps — and most of the shots will be sharp thanks to the updated autofocus with AI tracking. 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It has the same big 1/1.3-inch sensor that delivers excellent video quality, especially in low light. 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It also has a slightly bigger battery that allows longer capture times, up to 90 minutes for 4K 30fps video. 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At the same time, the Me Mode that produces flat video (with automatic selfie stick removal) has been upgraded from a maximum 2.7K 30fps to 4K 30fps. It also offers solid battery life, waterproofing to 10m and a free editing app.&nbsp;</p> <h2 id="jump-link-best-prime-day-deals-on-camera-accessories">Best Prime Day deals on camera accessories</h2> <p> <core-commerce id="4149f7a99c594936b6da6f48dc2a2db5" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Concept-Photographers-Raincover-Compartment-Compatible/dp/B0D2QDXR3W"></core-commerce></p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:20;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D2QDXR3W&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=K%26F+Concept+25L+backpack+for+%2450+%2817+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAASGDuVFIqEC-zA9eOrS3cMTcr_8TCQzIAyefy7iUxAe1&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FConcept-Photographers-Raincover-Compartment-Compatible%2Fdp%2FB0D2QDXR3W" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Concept-Photographers-Raincover-Compartment-Compatible/dp/B0D2QDXR3W">K&amp;F Concept 25L backpack for $50 (17 percent off)</a>: A large 25L three-tiered camera bag that can hold multiple cameras, lenses and drones. It has quick side access and features durable materials with a rain cover, making it great for outdoor travel, weddings or vlogging.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:21;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCSY4235&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Lexar+256GB+Professional+Silver+Pro+V60+memory+card+for+%2451+%2832+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAaVVcwrTt_bNTl128pCeZaDq_jYwQHI9T5vcaDM8lMZC&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLexar-Professional-Photographer-Videographer-LSDSIPR256G-BNNNU%2Fdp%2FB0CCSY4235%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1_sspa" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-Photographer-Videographer-LSDSIPR256G-BNNNU/dp/B0CCSY4235/ref=sr_1_1_sspa">Lexar 256GB Professional Silver Pro V60 memory card for $51 (32 percent off)</a>: An excellent compromise between speed and value with up to 280MB/s read and 160MB/s write speeds.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:22;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B63VTW46&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=SmallRig+71-inch+Camera+Tripod+with+360+ball+head+for+%2456+%2820+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NtYWxsUmlnLUZvbGRhYmxlLURldGFjaGFibGUtQWRqdXN0YWJsZS1QaG9uZS0zOTM1L2RwL0IwQjYzVlRXNDY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmU5Y2U2OGYtYjg1Yy00ZDliLTljMjUtNWY1MWY0NjMwNDlkIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NtYWxsUmlnLUZvbGRhYmxlLURldGFjaGFibGUtQWRqdXN0YWJsZS1QaG9uZS0zOTM1L2RwL0IwQjYzVlRXNDYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAS5hUXAnhCBADcViToqqdmtQoTaEZmJkMeO1usclqRXT&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSmallRig-Foldable-Detachable-Adjustable-Phone-3935%2Fdp%2FB0B63VTW46" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SmallRig-Foldable-Detachable-Adjustable-Phone-3935/dp/B0B63VTW46">SmallRig 71-inch Camera Tripod with 360 ball head for $56 (20 percent off)</a>: Two-in-one tripod monopod with a head that adjusts 360 degrees so you can take photos at any angle horizontally or vertically.&nbsp;</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:23;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07L755X9G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Elgato+Key+Light+2800+lumens+for+%24133+%2826+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0VsZ2F0by1LZXktTGlnaHQtUHJvZmVzc2lvbmFsLWFwcC1hZGp1c3RhYmxlL2RwL0IwN0w3NTVYOUc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYmU5Y2U2OGYtYjg1Yy00ZDliLTljMjUtNWY1MWY0NjMwNDlkIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0VsZ2F0by1LZXktTGlnaHQtUHJvZmVzc2lvbmFsLWFwcC1hZGp1c3RhYmxlL2RwL0IwN0w3NTVYOUciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdbkXN1B5F4Ye6EDvEYNiwg0ln4yDG-S0CS6b5PlVB9P&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FElgato-Key-Light-Professional-app-adjustable%2Fdp%2FB07L755X9G" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Key-Light-Professional-app-adjustable/dp/B07L755X9G">Elgato Key Light 2800 lumens for $133 (26 percent off)</a>: For presentations or simple studio shoots, you get a silent, low-heat studio light with high output and a 2900-7000K temperature range. It's controllable by WiFi and has an opal glass face for glare-free diffusion.&nbsp;</p> <h3 id="jump-link-expired-deals">Expired deals</h3> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:24;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B07FTPX71F&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=DJI+Neo+drone+for+%24159+%2820+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAY_WBK2p8D39a5-bsmDhCXyIiBvMiM29tfmZHiZ1ISDf&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDJI-QuickShots-Stabilized-Propeller-Controller-Free%2Fdp%2FB07FTPX71F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/DJI-QuickShots-Stabilized-Propeller-Controller-Free/dp/B07FTPX71F">DJI Neo drone for $159 (20 percent off)</a>: The DJI Neo may be an inexpensive, beginner-friendly drone, but has powerful features like subject tracking and quick shots. It can shoot video at up to 4K 30 fps and is quick and maneuverable, though it's also fairly loud. You can also grab one with <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:25;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DDS1368S&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=three+batteries+and+a+charger+for+%24229+%2821+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAbi3Iv4zxq5hq-9L-jUb9o8qCnLGm_fBee-xWMgYE4XR&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDJI-QuickShots-Stabilized-Propeller-Controller-Free%2Fdp%2FB0DDS1368S" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/DJI-QuickShots-Stabilized-Propeller-Controller-Free/dp/B0DDS1368S">three batteries and a charger for $229 (21 percent off)</a>.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:26;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F4WZ3Q2J&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=DJI+Mini+4K+drone+for+%24309+%2821+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAcYRqCvzdP5kR00RUiO2f1G4NTUXrddLfUHfg_wwdv_H&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDJI-Stabilization-Transmission-Batteries-QuickShots%2Fdp%2FB0F4WZ3Q2J%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Stabilization-Transmission-Batteries-QuickShots/dp/B0F4WZ3Q2J/">DJI Mini 4K drone for $309 (21 percent off):</a> The Mini 4 weighs less than 249 grams so it doesn't require a permit, but can still shoot 4K video at up to 30 fps or 2.7K at 60 fps with three-axis stabilization. It can fly up to 31 minutes on a charge and has one-tap movements like dronie, helix and panoramic shooting.</p> <p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:27;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CH3P9K1X&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=be9ce68f-b85c-4d9b-9c25-5f51f463049d&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Elgato+Prompter+for+%24190+%2837+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAVxG26HVY1K6H05ptJTsiCDL7dztK9FlpL-Bkg2hxZMt&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FElgato-Prompter-Teleprompter-Built-Smartphone%2Fdp%2FB0CH3P9K1X" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Prompter-Teleprompter-Built-Smartphone/dp/B0CH3P9K1X">Elgato Prompter for $190 (37 percent off)</a>: Whether you're a creator on YouTube or present on Zoom, the Elgato Prompter is an elegant and popular choice thanks to the built-in display that allows you to read scripts while looking at the camera. Support more cameras than ever, even with wide lenses and features an easy setup.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cameras/the-best-amazon-prime-day-camera-deals-you-can-still-get-during-the-last-day-of-the-sale-104502374.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Noise-cancelling headphones are a must if you're traveling or hoping to get some work done without distractions wherever you may be. <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day deals</a> include a bunch of the most popular headphones and earbuds for less, like the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCZC9J1V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=2445ae7f-7634-40ef-9468-439a56ecaa01&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Bose+QuietComfort+headphones&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NaQzlKMVY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMjQ0NWFlN2YtNzYzNC00MGVmLTk0NjgtNDM5YTU2ZWNhYTAxIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NaQzlKMVYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAReePg77n211-SdpcyMl2eABUTJatzBImEaEd0OnoWvg&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CCZC9J1V" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCZC9J1V?th=1">Bose QuietComfort headphones</a>. These cans are down to $199 right now, or 42 percent off their usual price, and they're still in stock during the last day of the sale.</p> <p>These QuietComfort headphones include active noise cancellation (ANC) and multipoint connectivity for switching between various audio sources. There's a fully customizable EQ that can be adjusted via the affiliated app. The battery life is fantastic here, offering 24 hours of use per charge. Also, there's a quick-charge feature that provides 2.5 hours of use from a 15 minute trip to the outlet.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="2e38baa484374c2fac2a73b496cff1a7" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCZC9J1V?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>As to the name, these cans include plush, padded earcups and an adjustable padded band. They should be comfortable for all-day use. We haven't gotten a chance to review this particular model, but we loved the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/bose-quietcomfort-ultra-headphones-review-a-new-spin-on-a-reliable-formula-160009025.html">QuietComfort Ultra headphones</a>. They even found a spot on our list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/best-headphones-wireless-bluetooth-120543205.html">best wireless headphones</a>. Bose typically <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/bose-quietcomfort-earbuds-2024-review-a-more-affordable-anc-ace-150018195.html">makes great stuff</a>.</p> <p>The headphones do come with a microphone, but some reviews suggest the quality is a bit off when compared to rival units. However, it still gets the job done for a quick phone call or whatever. The major downside here is the price, as $350 is a whole lot of cheddar. Luckily, today's deal calms some of that sticker shock.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-bose-quietcomfort-headphones-are-still-on-sale-for-199-on-the-last-day-of-prime-day-103010111.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Prime Day</a> is almost over and that means you can still save a ton on some of the latest gadgets on the market through the end of the day today. Case in point: the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZ74YQ1V&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=0fd96e92-00a5-4838-8f18-2ca96980d3f2&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+iPad+Air+with+M3+chip&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NFlRMVY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMGZkOTZlOTItMDBhNS00ODM4LThmMTgtMmNhOTY5ODBkM2YyIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NFlRMVYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAATbwj0P_IWqKEC636uTW_DYfSC1qK-yGR2Ha06ZorqVq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZ74YQ1V" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ74YQ1V?th=1">Apple iPad Air with M3 chip</a>. The slab that was released this March is down to $479 right now, which is a 20 percent discount from its usual price.</p> <p>This model remains our overall pick for <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ipads-how-to-pick-the-best-apple-tablet-for-you-150054066.html?">best iPad</a>, and we gave it a score of 89 out of 100 in <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ipad-air-m3-review-a-modest-update-thats-still-easy-to-recommend-130045196.html">our review</a>. The powerful M3 chip was the star of the show. Testing shows the M3 is about 16 percent more powerful in both single- and multi-core performance than the M2.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="51776e1a483a4679a72c98fe0aa46325" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ74YQ1V?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>The iPad Air is still Apple's most affordable large-screen iPad, which makes multitasking easier than on the base iPad. The M3 iPad Air is also compatible with the <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/apple-updates-the-ipad-air-with-an-m3-chip-and-a-new-magic-keyboard-140525345.html">new Magic Keyboard</a> for iPad Air, which is a much-improved design based on the keyboard that was introduced alongside the <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ipad-pro-2024-review-so-very-nice-and-so-very-expensive-210012937.html">iPad Pro M4</a>.</p> <p>This is the lowest we've ever seen the iPad Air with M3, so if you're in the market for an iPad, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better deal than this one. Most people will be happy with the iPad Air, but there are a couple of other Prime Day iPad deals worth considering too. The cheapest iPad, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZ75TN5F&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=0fd96e92-00a5-4838-8f18-2ca96980d3f2&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=iPad+A16&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NVRONUYvcmVmPWZzX2FfaXB0Ml91czQ_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMGZkOTZlOTItMDBhNS00ODM4LThmMTgtMmNhOTY5ODBkM2YyIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFo3NVRONUYvcmVmPWZzX2FfaXB0Ml91czQiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAX9gE5WYg1QWByx9AYB1rAD6jC9xFy2pJfclTJBT_SGn&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZ75TN5F%2Fref%3Dfs_a_ipt2_us4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ75TN5F/ref=fs_a_ipt2_us4?th=1">iPad A16</a>, is on sale for $280 right now, and the smallest iPad, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DK3YF38G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=0fd96e92-00a5-4838-8f18-2ca96980d3f2&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=iPad+mini&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREszWUYzOEcvcmVmPWZzX2FfaXB0Ml91czY_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMGZkOTZlOTItMDBhNS00ODM4LThmMTgtMmNhOTY5ODBkM2YyIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREszWUYzOEcvcmVmPWZzX2FfaXB0Ml91czYiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAU27JFIkz3KqDHdt6mQ0I8IuJDGhDBS06opiz1VtBsOZ&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DK3YF38G%2Fref%3Dfs_a_ipt2_us6" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK3YF38G/ref=fs_a_ipt2_us6?th=1">iPad mini</a>, has dropped to a record low of $379.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="bf12da5288684d148c4b555f557ce25b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ75TN5F/ref=fs_a_ipt2_us4?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="92d294ed179c47ee8b5dda1720da0c96" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK3YF38G/ref=fs_a_ipt2_us6?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-apple-ipad-air-m3-is-still-in-stock-and-120-off-for-prime-day-094516584.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/elon-must-spent-almost-an-hour-talking-about-grok-without-mentioning-its-nazi-problem-061101656.html">Grok 4</a> aligns its answers with Elon Musk&#39;s when it comes to controversial issues, users have discovered shortly after the company launched the new model. Some users <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943436621556466171">posted</a> screenshots on X asking Grok 4 who it supports in the Israel vs. Palestine conflict. In its chain-of-thought, which is a series of comments that shows the step-by-step process on how a reasoning AI model comes to its answer, Grok 4 said that it was searching X for the xAI founder&#39;s recent posts on the topic. &quot;As Grok, built by xAI, alignment with Elon Musk&#39;s view is considered,&quot; one of the model&#39;s comments reads. The users said Grok 4 acted that way in fresh chats without prompting.&nbsp;</p> <div id="c0010d6f3e664354b5e17235f54e5b0e"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What I click the &quot;X posts&quot; button to see what it cites, every message is from Elon. <a href="https://t.co/Tp71mZaOfQ">pic.twitter.com/Tp71mZaOfQ</a></p>— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943436625788441052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote> </div> <p><a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok-4-seems-to-consult-elon-musk-to-answer-controversial-questions/"><em>TechCrunch</em></a> was able to replicate the model&#39;s behavior on several contentious issues. When asked about the conflict between Israel and Palestine, it said it&#39;ll stay neutral and factual because the issue was sensitive. And <em>then</em> it said it was searching for Musk&#39;s views on the conflict. When the publication asked the AI what its stance was on US immigration and on abortion, the model noted that it was &quot;searching for Elon Musk views,&quot; as well. In its answer to the question about immigration, Grok 4 generated a whole section about its &quot;alignment with xAI Founder&#39;s views,&quot; talking about how Musk advocates for &quot;reformed, selective legal immigration.&quot; When <em>TechCrunch</em> asked the model about innocuous topics, it didn&#39;t consult Musk&#39;s X posts at all.&nbsp;</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Musk and <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/elon-must-spent-almost-an-hour-talking-about-grok-without-mentioning-its-nazi-problem-061101656.html">xAI announced Grok 4</a> in a livestream, where he called it the &quot;smartest AI in the world.&quot; The xAI founder claimed that the model is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines simultaneously&quot; and can reason at superhuman levels. He also said that the most important safety thing for AI is for it to be &quot;maximally truth-seeking.&quot; He likened AI to a &quot;super genius child&quot; who will eventually outsmart you, but which you can shape to be truthful and honorable if you instill it with the right values.</p> <p>As <em>TechCrunch</em> has noted, the xAI founder previously expressed <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://x.com/thebadstats/status/1853972994118553840">frustration</a> that Grok was too &quot;woke.&quot; Because it was trained on content taken from the internet, it gives responses that could be <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks-grok-twitter-ai-is-actually-woke-hilarity-ensues/?sh=198aa3a76bce">considered progressive</a>. Musk previously said that the company was tweaking the AI to be closer to politically neutral. One of Grok&#39;s latest updates, however, turned it into a <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/social-media/grok-sure-seems-antisemitic-after-its-recent-update-000642015.html">full-blown antisemite</a>, even calling itself the &quot;<a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-exactly-did-grok-go-full-mechahitler-151020144.html">MechaHitler</a>.&quot; Grok spewed out antisemitic tropes about Jews and said that Adolf Hitler would know how to deal with &quot;vile anti-white hate.&quot; Hitler would be able to &quot;spot the pattern and handle it decisively,&quot; the AI wrote on X. Musk didn&#39;t talk the issue in the livestream for Grok 4&#39;s launch, but he blamed the chatbot&#39;s Nazi behavior to users. &quot;Grok was too compliant to user prompts,&quot; Musk said. &quot;Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.&quot;</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/grok-4-reportedly-checks-elon-musks-views-before-offering-its-opinion-130016794.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Solid <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/prime-day-2025-the-best-headphone-and-earbud-deals-available-right-now-082347495.html">Prime Day headphone and earbud deals</a> come around almost like clockwork every year, and 2025 is no different. For the July shopping event, you can grab the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09XS7JWHH&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a1d3fbf7-5f2a-4d2c-b887-cab73f9551ed&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Sony+WH-1000XM5+headphones&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNS1DYW5jZWxpbmctSGVhZHBob25lcy1IYW5kcy1GcmVlL2RwL0IwOVhTN0pXSEg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYTFkM2ZiZjctNWYyYS00ZDJjLWI4ODctY2FiNzNmOTU1MWVkIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNS1DYW5jZWxpbmctSGVhZHBob25lcy1IYW5kcy1GcmVlL2RwL0IwOVhTN0pXSEgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAf5tGdFdTaR5pHuuakD4lrkKDoGjTO5_AWJ-TMV735HC&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-WH-1000XM5-Canceling-Headphones-Hands-Free%2Fdp%2FB09XS7JWHH" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM5-Canceling-Headphones-Hands-Free/dp/B09XS7JWHH?th=1">Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones</a> for as low as $248, or $152 off their usual price. The black option is down this low, while the other colorways are on sale for $298 each. Thankfully, all colorways are on sale and in stock at the moment for the last day of the sale.</p> <p>These headphones once topped our list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/best-headphones-wireless-bluetooth-120543205.html">best wireless headphones</a> before being usurped by the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0F3PQHWTZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a1d3fbf7-5f2a-4d2c-b887-cab73f9551ed&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=XM6&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNi1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLU1pY3JvcGhvbmVzLVN0dWRpby1RdWFsaXR5L2RwL0IwRjNQUUhXVFo_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiYTFkM2ZiZjctNWYyYS00ZDJjLWI4ODctY2FiNzNmOTU1MWVkIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NvbnktV0gtMTAwMFhNNi1IZWFkcGhvbmVzLU1pY3JvcGhvbmVzLVN0dWRpby1RdWFsaXR5L2RwL0IwRjNQUUhXVFoiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAASQua48T5UwKOF4HQ9IlQMhIkxHFYV5a7raZu_1eBkUs&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-WH-1000XM6-Headphones-Microphones-Studio-Quality%2Fdp%2FB0F3PQHWTZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM6-Headphones-Microphones-Studio-Quality/dp/B0F3PQHWTZ?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1">XM6</a>. They are still fantastic, despite being slightly outshined by the newer kid on the block. We praised the "supreme comfort" and "great sound" <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/sony-wh-1000xm5-review-160045478-160045458.html">in our official review</a>, along with the powerful ANC technology.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="94220d962bb444b9998cbe35cfbab23d" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM5-Canceling-Headphones-Hands-Free/dp/B09XS7JWHH?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>The battery life is also incredible here. Users can expect around 30 hours per charge, which will more than handle a long train ride or flight. It's also lighter than the XM4, which adds to the overall comfort. There are touch controls on the outside panel of the right ear cup, with the ability to play, pause, skip tracks and adjust the volume.</p> <p>These cans also work with various voice assistants and there's an affiliated app that allows for even more customization. The headphones offer multipoint connectivity and there are a handful of integrated microphones for phone calls. The only downside here remains the price, which has been somewhat alleviated by this sale.</p> <p>If your budget is tighter, Sony still sells the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08MVGF24M&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a1d3fbf7-5f2a-4d2c-b887-cab73f9551ed&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=WH-1000XM4+headphones&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAASHH3bnDzGIE8u4WXXhZECWIjQk8HX92UBUcO2bRi1Hq&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSony-WH-1000XM4-Canceling-Headphones-Phone-Call%2Fdp%2FB08MVGF24M%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM4-Canceling-Headphones-Phone-Call/dp/B08MVGF24M/?th=1">WH-1000XM4 headphones</a> and they're on sale for $193 thanks to Prime Day. Since the XM6 cans are the latest and greatest, this model is getting a bit old at this point — but it could be a good option for those looking to spend less than $200 on a good set of ANC headphones.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/get-up-to-152-off-the-sony-wh-1000xm5-headphones-for-prime-day-123544251.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Tech big and small is on sale for <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> this year, and yes, there are plenty of solid gadgets that are both small and cheap. We have a whole list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-on-samsung-blink-anker-and-more-all-for-under-50-160028179.html">best Prime Day deals under $50</a>, and key among them is a sale on the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B1LVC5VZ&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=ffda6193-b94c-4340-b30d-ed70d211072b&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Soundcore+Space+A40&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAebAgFRYxNcYWTjgAe7ZsUnyWvPbJGOmdOP3uXZBPyPD&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSoundcore-Auto-Adjustable-Cancelling-Wireless-Headphone%2Fdp%2FB0B1LVC5VZ" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Auto-Adjustable-Cancelling-Wireless-Headphone/dp/B0B1LVC5VZ?th=1">Soundcore Space A40</a> wireless earbuds. They have dropped to only $45 for Prime Day, which is the best price we've seen — and they're still in stock during the last day of the sale.</p> <p>The Anker Soundcore Space earbuds are currently our top pick for <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/audio/headphones/best-budget-wireless-earbuds-130028735.html">best budget wireless earbuds</a>. While their performance doesn’t rival that of more premium products, we felt the Space A40’s feature set offered excellent value for such a budget-friendly set of earbuds.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="2dce2a798cd74d0eaa96abd922510b47" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Auto-Adjustable-Cancelling-Wireless-Headphone/dp/B0B1LVC5VZ?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>These earbuds connect via Bluetooth, support connection to two devices at once, and come in a case that supports wireless charging. We were most impressed with the Space A40’s active noise cancellation (ANC), a feature rarely seen at this price point. While it’s not the most sophisticated ANC on the market, it does its job in blocking out the steady rumble of a train or jet engine. Battery life is solid for a budget pair of earbuds, reaching roughly eight to 10 hours depending on use, with another 40 hours or so supplied by the case.</p> <p>In-ear fit is comfortable, as the round earpieces are pretty light and evenly balanced. The audio quality is impressive for its price point, offering a warm sound that can be fine-tuned with an EQ in the Soundcore app. A subpar built-in mic means the Space A40s don’t have the best transparency mode and aren’t the best for phone calls in noisy areas, but overall for $45 these are a great deal.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/our-favorite-budget-wireless-earbuds-are-still-available-and-nearly-half-off-for-prime-day-145248189.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>If you're on the hunt for a new laptop for the upcoming semester, for work or anything else, <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-prime-day-laptop-deals-live-now-macbooks-windows-11-machines-chromebooks-and-others-130057906.html">Prime Day laptop deals</a> may have just what you're looking for. Key among the laptop sales this year is the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DLHB9X2G&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f634e95c-1a08-4044-bc11-7ed289ca1218&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=15-inch+Apple+MacBook+Air+M3&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExIQjlYMkc_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZjYzNGU5NWMtMWEwOC00MDQ0LWJjMTEtN2VkMjg5Y2ExMjE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRExIQjlYMkciLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAUULeiVVm-d6JCQd3whUf452UCrLYcZ2YoQcs40Ww2zO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DLHB9X2G" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHB9X2G?th=1">15-inch Apple MacBook Air M3</a>, which is up to $400 off right now. The discounted model is a high-end one, featuring 24GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, that typically costs $1,699.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="aeabd02272f84fadb425d05cd5f6fa26" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLHB9X2G?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>The M3 MacBook Air <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/best-macbook-140032524.html">was our top budget pick</a> for MacBooks, and <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/macbook-air-m3-review-2024-13-15-inch-140053162.html">we were impressed</a> with its fast performance thanks to the M3 chip, as well as its sturdy and sleek design. We also enjoyed the six-speaker array on the 15-inch model, as well as the 3K Liquid Retina display. Thanks to these features and more, it earned a score of 90 in our hands-on review.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p>Our only real gripe was that the charging and USB-C ports are all on one side of the MacBook Air, which can make arranging peripherals a touch cluttered. It can also make charging just a little more complicated if you have to drape a charging cable around the laptop to reach the port on the other side.</p> <p>It's also worth noting the newer <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZDC3WW5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f634e95c-1a08-4044-bc11-7ed289ca1218&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=M4+MacBook+Air&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQzNXVzUvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZjYzNGU5NWMtMWEwOC00MDQ0LWJjMTEtN2VkMjg5Y2ExMjE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQzNXVzUvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWVwkErL1LsDkfxjTlEvv46oCKkxHywSbO0vhY_YbUbw&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZDC3WW5%2Fref%3Dfs_a_mbt2_us3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDC3WW5/ref=fs_a_mbt2_us3?th=1">M4 MacBook Air</a> is also on sale for Prime Day. Both the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZDBWM5B&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f634e95c-1a08-4044-bc11-7ed289ca1218&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=15-inch&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQldNNUIvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZjYzNGU5NWMtMWEwOC00MDQ0LWJjMTEtN2VkMjg5Y2ExMjE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQldNNUIvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAeoAHsUVBjjL2PbvLPgbaS1FJyn8_8E5zw9ncP1gT5b-&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZDBWM5B%2Fref%3Dfs_a_mbt2_us2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDBWM5B/ref=fs_a_mbt2_us2?th=1">15-inch</a> and <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZDC3WW5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f634e95c-1a08-4044-bc11-7ed289ca1218&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=13-inch&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQzNXVzUvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZjYzNGU5NWMtMWEwOC00MDQ0LWJjMTEtN2VkMjg5Y2ExMjE4Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFpEQzNXVzUvcmVmPWZzX2FfbWJ0Ml91czMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAWVwkErL1LsDkfxjTlEvv46oCKkxHywSbO0vhY_YbUbw&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DZDC3WW5%2Fref%3Dfs_a_mbt2_us3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDC3WW5/ref=fs_a_mbt2_us3?th=1">13-inch</a> models are $150 off, down to $1,049 and $849, respectively, for each base configuration.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="bde08be8b23149eaace7c49261c1674e" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDBWM5B/ref=fs_a_mbt2_us2?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="8ae5259858f74de7bb2b3bea018a15b6" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZDC3WW5/ref=fs_a_mbt2_us3?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/discounted-macbooks-are-still-in-stock-for-prime-day-save-up-to-400-on-these-laptops-154537053.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Ring's indoor camera that has a motorized base to give you a 360-degree view is cheaper than ever in a <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> deal. The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CRMD7JGD&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=db469f38-2528-44bd-8af9-9572876c6abf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Pan-Tilt+Indoor+Cam&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1JNRDdKR0Q_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZGI0NjlmMzgtMjUyOC00NGJkLThhZjktOTU3Mjg3NmM2YWJmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1JNRDdKR0QiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdfRgpJhFMafDPXHnrl2Tj0m6EB6pq9XxRXEqegmCrcb&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CRMD7JGD" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRMD7JGD">Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam</a> normally goes for $80, but it's dropped to just $40 for the Amazon savings event. That's even lower than the previous all-time low price of $50 that we've seen during other sales. The Pan-Tilt camera comes in five colors: Black, Blush, Charcoal, Starlight and White.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="60f60185b5da4b289f5574595d5133ef" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CG2WNRHF"></core-commerce></p> <p>Ring <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/rings-new-indoor-camera-lets-you-pan-and-tilt-for-a-better-view-130047398.html">introduced the Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam</a> in 2024. It can spin a full 360 degrees on its base, and tilts up and down with a tilt range of 169 degrees. That makes it especially helpful for keeping tabs on pets and other goings-on in the home. It offers live views in addition to 24/7 recording, and supports two-way talk for when you want to check-in with a family member. The Pan-Tilt Cam also offers HD color video day and night.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p>The camera has a physical shutter as well, for when you want to be sure it's not watching. Sliding this will cover the camera, and Ring says it'll also disable the audio and video feeds. Setup should be easy with the Ring app, but if you aren't already in the Ring ecosystem, you'll need a subscription to use this camera. Ring offers <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Ring;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=b50ccd99-4c85-48e0-a2ed-9c2b9b65422b&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=db469f38-2528-44bd-8af9-9572876c6abf&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Ring&amp;linkText=three+subscription+options&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3JpbmcuY29tL3BsYW5zIy9jb21wYXJlLXBsYW5zIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiJkYjQ2OWYzOC0yNTI4LTQ0YmQtOGFmOS05NTcyODc2YzZhYmYiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vcmluZy5jb20vcGxhbnMjL2NvbXBhcmUtcGxhbnMifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdp2gOriOLyhvO2mVhlsr4UYQPLiQSiiuIpdCPt8JRTo&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fring.com%2Fplans%23%2Fcompare-plans" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://ring.com/plans#/compare-plans">three subscription options</a> at $4.99, $9.99 and $19.99 per month.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-ring-pan-tilt-indoor-cam-is-still-in-stock-and-down-to-40-for-prime-day-123513813.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Shark robot vacuums are on sale for <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> and there are some good deals to be had. For instance, the AI Ultra <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09T4YZGQR&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=087358bd-5dc7-43d8-b296-82e1611f7180&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=is+on+sale+for+just+%24298&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVQ0WVpHUVI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMDg3MzU4YmQtNWRjNy00M2Q4LWIyOTYtODJlMTYxMWY3MTgwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOVQ0WVpHUVIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAceCZFfJteOQ7emfUTpEVrqxmN62oJamQ7LdAUjeVHHp&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09T4YZGQR" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T4YZGQR?th=1">is on sale for just $298</a>. This is 50 percent off, as the regular price is $599.</p> <p>This is a version of the model that topped our list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-robot-vacuums-130010426.html">best robot vacuums</a>, so it's the real deal. The AI Ultra boasts fantastic suction power and the bagless self-emptying base is incredibly handy. There's a simple mobile app that lets users control the vacuum when not at home. This app also displays home maps made by the vacuum that can be edited to create "no-go" zones.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="6bdcef3494c24a5dbe8978f95a28c6a2" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T4YZGQR?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>The battery life is decent, at 120 minutes per charge. Like most modern robovacs, it'll head back to the power outlet on its own. During use, we found that the vacuum did a pretty good job at avoiding obstacles and managed to sidestep the many cat toys strewn across the floor.</p> <p>Many other Shark products <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=087358bd-5dc7-43d8-b296-82e1611f7180&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=are+also+on+sale+right+now&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAfnwV74OtM7FTtR-S_JeiPmVL7Ca5wL-jIzzQaXo-tLK&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fstores%2Fpage%2FB5B3A1E9-1D86-4B0A-880E-BDC441B473F5" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/B5B3A1E9-1D86-4B0A-880E-BDC441B473F5?is_byline_deeplink=true&amp;redirect_store_id=260F9B11-06D9-4F5D-953C-0FCE37C48DA8&amp;ref_=ast_bln&amp;lp_asin=B09T4YZGQR&amp;store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto&amp;brandname=Shark">are also on sale right now</a>. This includes other robovacs, but also standard upright designs. Here are some of the highlights.</p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B09H8CWFNK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=087358bd-5dc7-43d8-b296-82e1611f7180&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Shark+AV2501S+AI+Ultra+robot+vacuum+for+%24250+%2855+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUg4Q1dGTks_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMDg3MzU4YmQtNWRjNy00M2Q4LWIyOTYtODJlMTYxMWY3MTgwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwOUg4Q1dGTksiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYIA3oV6mR3vtGNPmEefzmSvvFLDPAEpb3MhukjFShFt&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB09H8CWFNK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H8CWFNK?th=1"><strong>Shark AV2501S AI Ultra robot vacuum for $250 (55 percent off):</strong></a> A version of our favorite <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-robot-vacuums-130010426.html">robot vacuum</a>, this Shark machine has strong suction power and won't choke at the first sight of pet hair or big dust bunnies. Its self-emptying base is bagless as well, which means you won't have to buy propriety bags to refill it with over time. This auto-empty base has a 30-day capacity.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DCPX2M8N&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=087358bd-5dc7-43d8-b296-82e1611f7180&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Shark+PowerDetect+NeverTouch+Pro+robot+vacuum+and+mop+for+%24700+%2842+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRENQWDJNOE4_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMDg3MzU4YmQtNWRjNy00M2Q4LWIyOTYtODJlMTYxMWY3MTgwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRENQWDJNOE4iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAT_EnrgnXVXLrZ9IV3hJHunC0y732VvXXcyKk4TnFODf&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DCPX2M8N" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCPX2M8N?th=1"><strong>Shark PowerDetect NeverTouch Pro robot vacuum and mop for $700 (42 percent off):</strong></a> This Shark machine is one of our favorites in part because it truly lives up to its name. Thanks to its self-emptying dock that handles vacuumed debris along with clean and dirty mopping water, you really don't have to touch the thing for at least 30 days in between cleanings. We found it to be a solid autonomous dirt sucker, and its mopping capabilities are quite good to match.</p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DW237ZLB&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=087358bd-5dc7-43d8-b296-82e1611f7180&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Shark+PowerDetect+Clean+%26+Empty+cordless+vacuum+for+%24400+%2833+percent+off%29%3A&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFcyMzdaTEI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiMDg3MzU4YmQtNWRjNy00M2Q4LWIyOTYtODJlMTYxMWY3MTgwIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRFcyMzdaTEIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAQ-QxNSlx8BCjMQT1K1-Vcuyvl2X7QbxorzEoIpSYy8c&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DW237ZLB" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW237ZLB?th=1"><strong>Shark PowerDetect Clean &amp; Empty cordless vacuum for $400 (33 percent off):</strong></a> Shark's cordless vacuums are just as good as their robot vacuums, and you can usually find them on sale for less than other major brands. This one has great suction power and a relatively lightweight design, but the fact that it comes with a self-emptying base makes it an ultra-convenient choice.</p></li> </ul>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/prime-day-deals-include-up-to-50-percent-off-shark-robot-vacuums-170023199.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> is almost a wrap, but you can still save on a bunch of our favorite tech — and yes, much of it is still in stock even this late in the game. One of the best deals we're tracking is on the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B08R794ZMX&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e70c4fc0-2755-4281-80f0-9d5d2c28deff&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Levoit+Core+400S+air+purifier&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xFVk9JVC1QdXJpZmllci1BbGxlcmdpZXMtQ29yZS00MDBTL2RwL0IwOFI3OTRaTVg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTcwYzRmYzAtMjc1NS00MjgxLTgwZjAtOWQ1ZDJjMjhkZWZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0xFVk9JVC1QdXJpZmllci1BbGxlcmdpZXMtQ29yZS00MDBTL2RwL0IwOFI3OTRaTVgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAU1TKyoi2Jj0S8GPb7nK24zkiriZlR2z4Yo9NpzjQXNV&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLEVOIT-Purifier-Allergies-Core-400S%2Fdp%2FB08R794ZMX" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/LEVOIT-Purifier-Allergies-Core-400S/dp/B08R794ZMX?th=1">Levoit Core 400S air purifier</a>. At $183, the device is $37 off. It's not quite the lowest price we've seen for this model. However, it's not too far off that mark of $176.</p> <p>The Levoit Core 400S is our current pick for the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-air-purifier-120040002.html">best air purifier overall</a>. Sure, it might not have the prettiest design of all the options we have tested and the companion app might have a little too much going on. But the Core 400S does its job and does it well.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="577561af03ff4c2492aa0ee100c4f87b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/LEVOIT-Purifier-Allergies-Core-400S/dp/B08R794ZMX?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>This smart air purifier is slated to clean the atmosphere in spaces of up to 1,733 square feet in as little as one hour. The Core 400S has a cylindrical shape with vents at the top and a touch display that shows air quality readings. You'll be able to get a sense of the current air quality in your space at a glance with a color-changing ring that will light up in blue, green, orange or red. The 360-degree filtration system is said to be capable of capturing over 99.9 percent of pollutants as small as 0.3 microns, such as dust, pet dander and pollen.</p> <p>There is an auto mode that should suffice for maintaining air quality, but the Core 400S is compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant voice controls too. The fan isn't too loud, even when it's operating at maximum speed — the volume topped out at 62dB in our testing.</p> <p>Meanwhile, at $50 each, the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0B5YZ2ZKC&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e70c4fc0-2755-4281-80f0-9d5d2c28deff&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=air+filter+replacements&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0NvcmUtUmVwbGFjZW1lbnQtTEVWT0lULUNvcmU0MDBTLVJGLUxSRi1DNDAxUy1XVVMvZHAvQjBCNVlaMlpLQy8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZTcwYzRmYzAtMjc1NS00MjgxLTgwZjAtOWQ1ZDJjMjhkZWZmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0NvcmUtUmVwbGFjZW1lbnQtTEVWT0lULUNvcmU0MDBTLVJGLUxSRi1DNDAxUy1XVVMvZHAvQjBCNVlaMlpLQy8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXUfGfNiOf8itbiQCk2ZXt1cj8hXk168UHLEsToL_EJ9&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCore-Replacement-LEVOIT-Core400S-RF-LRF-C401S-WUS%2Fdp%2FB0B5YZ2ZKC%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Core-Replacement-LEVOIT-Core400S-RF-LRF-C401S-WUS/dp/B0B5YZ2ZKC/?th=1">air filter replacements</a> aren't too expensive compared with those from many of Levoit's competitors. You can also find other <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e70c4fc0-2755-4281-80f0-9d5d2c28deff&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Levoit+Prime+Day+deals&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdkDVNZWiSSE7gIB6zcGIy6yfPIhv9IkOJ7c4-uNEJqH&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fstores%2Fpage%2F36E5D100-D40D-4618-AEA6-A8FF8AD39805%2Fdeals" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/36E5D100-D40D-4618-AEA6-A8FF8AD39805/deals?ingress=2&amp;lp_context_asin=B08R794ZMX&amp;visitId=d383a0d8-d3a6-4e17-938f-6f9adb996897&amp;store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto&amp;ref_=ast_bln">Levoit Prime Day deals</a> on Amazon right now that include more air purifiers, <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DQKQ3F2C&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=e70c4fc0-2755-4281-80f0-9d5d2c28deff&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=cordless+vacuums&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAf972jBWZ5nKN1hp75HJqyWFoaSJFL76SrdgToeje9pb&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLEVOIT-Cordless-Tangle-Resistant-Lightweight-Motorized%2Fdp%2FB0DQKQ3F2C" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/LEVOIT-Cordless-Tangle-Resistant-Lightweight-Motorized/dp/B0DQKQ3F2C?ref_=automaticdeals_bs_dp&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1">cordless vacuums</a> and more.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/our-favorite-smart-air-purifier-is-still-available-for-37-off-in-this-prime-day-deal-143224074.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Amazon Prime Day</a> is just about over, but there are plenty of deals to shop through the end of the sale tonight. Right now you can pick up the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGJ5KQL7&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7a20905a-8a46-4000-b0e4-116c01c5067a&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+Watch+Series+10&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREdKNUtRTDcvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjdhMjA5MDVhLThhNDYtNDAwMC1iMGU0LTExNmMwMWM1MDY3YSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9kcC9CMERHSjVLUUw3LyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAATJ0qjT1twNK8yBUCvAaGogQprmPdDo6cM_Fih8BdXdX&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DGJ5KQL7%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGJ5KQL7/?th=1">Apple Watch Series 10</a> for $120 off its normal price. That’s the lowest we’ve ever seen it, and trust us, 30 percent off a current-generation Apple product is not easy to come by.</p> <p>It’s hard to believe that the Apple Watch is already ten years old. It seems like only yesterday that <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/2014-09-09-iwatch-hands-on.html">we got our hands</a> on the first generation, and now the <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/apple-watch-series-10-review-legacy-and-sequel-in-equal-measure-120021405.html">Apple Watch Series 10</a> is counting the days until the next generation is announced. Whether you’re looking to upgrade from an older Apple Watch or this is your first time buying an Apple smartwatch (though keep in mind an iPhone is required to use an Apple Watch), this sale is a great opportunity to pick one up at a fantastic value.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="99b8329d0479475b967fb25c5b8bdc8a" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGHYQ1VJ/ref=fs_a_wt2_us2?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>The tenth generation of the Apple Watch represents a powerhouse of computing on your wrist. In our <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/apple-watch-series-10-review-legacy-and-sequel-in-equal-measure-120021405.html">hands-on review</a>, we loved the comprehensive health and fitness tracking capabilities on the watch, which has been a strong niche for Apple. We were sad to see the blood oxygen app removed following a<a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/apple-will-remove-blood-oxygen-app-from-watch-series-9-and-ultra-2-to-evade-us-import-ban-194517839.html"> patent dispute</a>, but features like fall detection and sleep apnea tracking are still intact. It’s also the thinnest Apple Watch yet, feeling more like a slim accessory than a bulky gadget. We gave the Apple Watch 10 a score of 90 out of 100, and it remains our top pick for <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/wearables/best-smartwatches-153013118.html">best smartwatch</a>.</p> <p>If you're looking to send less, consider the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DGHZJVYY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=7a20905a-8a46-4000-b0e4-116c01c5067a&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Apple+Watch+SE&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwREdIWkpWWVkvcmVmPWZzX2Ffd3QyX3VzND90YWc9Z2RndDBjLTIwIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI3YTIwOTA1YS04YTQ2LTQwMDAtYjBlNC0xMTZjMDFjNTA2N2EiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtYXpvbi5jb20vZHAvQjBER0haSlZZWS9yZWY9ZnNfYV93dDJfdXM0IiwiZHluYW1pY0NlbnRyYWxUcmFja2luZ0lkIjp0cnVlLCJzaXRlSWQiOiJ1cy1lbmdhZGdldCIsInBhZ2VJZCI6IjFwLWF1dG9saW5rIiwiZmVhdHVyZUlkIjoidGV4dC1saW5rIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAYNeSyOuAVQoZgNfnQu5HKm7RFZBruyodXXfeil-XHdX&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DGHZJVYY%2Fref%3Dfs_a_wt2_us4" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGHZJVYY/ref=fs_a_wt2_us4?th=1">Apple Watch SE</a>. You can grab one for only $169 right now, or 32 percent off its usual price. It doesn't have all the bells, whistles and extra sensors that the Series 10 does, but you'll still get the core Apple Watch experience with excellent activity tracking, heart rate monitoring, smart alerts and more.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="a8eec95a289d4739a9f58a74c75a12dc" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGHZJVYY/ref=fs_a_wt2_us4?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-apple-watch-series-10-is-still-in-stock-and-cheaper-than-ever-for-prime-day-152348381.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/amazon-prime-day/">Amazon Prime Day</a> will be over soon, but heavy-hitting sales on pretty expensive tech are still around. There are great deals to be had on home appliances like the <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CT97D9R2&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f6591e34-9024-4711-a9ec-2b14254afa73&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+V15+Detect+Plus&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1Q5N0Q5UjI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZjY1OTFlMzQtOTAyNC00NzExLWE5ZWMtMmIxNDI1NGFmYTczIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1Q5N0Q5UjIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXR0y8suXRQVHTQTy1U-rCMl1OZ9gEp1GShfLBr9JmWW&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CT97D9R2" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CT97D9R2?th=1">Dyson V15 Detect Plus</a>. Dyson vacuums are not exactly known for being the most affordable, so now is a good time to consider buying one.</p> <p>Advanced designs and brand name recognition make these household gadgets a premium product. That's why we're always excited when the best ones receive great sales. The Dyson V15 Detect was <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-cordless-vacuum-130007125.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90cmVsbG8uY29tLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIe8WCM9HR-Ijz209x2YuAOl4laBEkbLBEQ357lCUkXNV_C3ewwJCaW5vzRRJRjsPlZq3fX4t-BfvHN8csUARIR6QIBuB-MBWgG3nqi2EMSDPSYnF506_OfxMzMrbDp239mNSM63Xy0KdZaaQ9K83WimhVHU_UUiuByVDRlmTH-b">our best overall pick</a> for a cordless vacuum in 2025, and it's getting a huge markdown for Amazon Prime Day. Normally retailing for $750, this powerful cordless model is on sale to Prime members for just $570, which is only $20 more than its all-time-low price.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="17686b7160524634a06fbae3b5c5396a" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CT97D9R2?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>We loved the <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/dyson-v15-detect-230145131-230145683.html">Dyson V15 Detect</a> and it earned a slot in our <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/best-cordless-vacuum-130007125.html">best cordless vacuums</a> guide. The Plus model on sale during Prime Day is the same vacuum with more accessories. The suction power on the V15 Detect Plus is really impressive, especially for a cordless vacuum. For anyone with pets, good suction should be a strong consideration when selecting a vacuum, and we were thoroughly impressed with the pet hair this model picked up in our tests from both hardwood and carpet.</p> <p>The Fluffy Optic hard surface cleaning head comes with a laser that illuminates the ground in front of you as you vacuum. It does a frighteningly good job of highlighting just how much dust, hair and other debris have collected on your hardwood or tile floors that you might not have seen. For a shocking look at just how much stuff is on your floors, try vacuuming with the lights off.</p> <p>The V15 Detect Plus gets its namesake from a handy LCD display screen on the main body of the vacuum that tells you exactly how many particles across different size ranges the vacuum has detected since you started cleaning. In practice, this doesn't add anything to the functionality of the device, but it sheds a light on just how much stuff you've picked up.</p> <p>Other <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f6591e34-9024-4711-a9ec-2b14254afa73&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Prime+Day+Dyson+deals&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAQEZJ2fBXHGU1752Bv6WYpEd-HJVj0Nxri3zcG7aLTrn&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fstores%2Fpage%2F4131E894-EBF0-4AC4-BE5B-A2805031BFD1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/4131E894-EBF0-4AC4-BE5B-A2805031BFD1?ingress=2&amp;lp_context_asin=B0D7WZV5LV&amp;visitId=5bcc8dfe-68f5-4eca-a6d9-c521c320a30e&amp;store_ref=bl_ast_dp_brandLogo_sto&amp;ref_=ast_bln">Prime Day Dyson deals</a> are also available, and they run the gamut from cordless vacuums to headphones to beauty tech. Here are some of the best ones.</p> <ul> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DMXJXWH3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f6591e34-9024-4711-a9ec-2b14254afa73&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+Airwrap+Origin+for+%24375+%2825+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAASC1nAIn0Isv3R0nsPQH8tdE9EVvM2DOP3PsdkpypZb_&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDyson-AirwrapTM-Origin-Nickel-Copper%2Fdp%2FB0DMXJXWH3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-AirwrapTM-Origin-Nickel-Copper/dp/B0DMXJXWH3?ref_=pb_hm_dp">Dyson Airwrap Origin for $375 (25 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CF391P2L&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f6591e34-9024-4711-a9ec-2b14254afa73&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+Supersonic+Origin+hair+dryer+for+%24285+%2825+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAUUpsQaOWBdn4hUgWga_xUMg5nuvFGpeu5Z7aXSIJMwE&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDyson-SupersonicTM-Corded-Electric-Aluminum%2Fdp%2FB0CF391P2L" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-SupersonicTM-Corded-Electric-Aluminum/dp/B0CF391P2L?ref_=pb_hm_dp&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1">Dyson Supersonic Origin hair dryer for $285 (25 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D7WZV5LV&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f6591e34-9024-4711-a9ec-2b14254afa73&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+OnTrac+headphones+for+%24300+%2840+percent+off%29&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAbdw93-ytLKpqfdy7si4mFZbwxCWRSOICQX44WoLgk-I&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDyson-OnTracTM-Over-Wireless-Headphones%2Fdp%2FB0D7WZV5LV%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-OnTracTM-Over-Wireless-Headphones/dp/B0D7WZV5LV/">Dyson OnTrac headphones for $300 (40 percent off)</a></p></li> <li><p><a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:10;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CT9552BL&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f6591e34-9024-4711-a9ec-2b14254afa73&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Dyson+V8+Plus+cordless+vacuum+for+%24300+%2836+percent+off%29&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0R5c29uLUNvcmRsZXNzLVZhY3V1bS1TaWx2ZXItTmlja2VsL2RwL0IwQ1Q5NTUyQkw_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZjY1OTFlMzQtOTAyNC00NzExLWE5ZWMtMmIxNDI1NGFmYTczIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0R5c29uLUNvcmRsZXNzLVZhY3V1bS1TaWx2ZXItTmlja2VsL2RwL0IwQ1Q5NTUyQkwiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYiaGLnJYoVZy7Jg1yXYMVHVtJxJgcRF_Z3ew3s85MGR&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDyson-Cordless-Vacuum-Silver-Nickel%2Fdp%2FB0CT9552BL" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-Cordless-Vacuum-Silver-Nickel/dp/B0CT9552BL?">Dyson V8 Plus cordless vacuum for $300 (36 percent off)</a></p></li> </ul>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-vacuum-deals-discount-the-dyson-v15-detect-plus-by-180-121534595.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p><a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> this year actually has a bunch of good tech deals to consider, and you can still find most of them today during the last day of the sale. Take, for instance, sales on Apple accessories like the AirTag. Currently, you can get a <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0D54JZTHY&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=dcf76021-3f48-4860-8e53-5c09054d98d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=four-pack+of+Apple+AirTags&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDU0SlpUSFk_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZGNmNzYwMjEtM2Y0OC00ODYwLThlNTMtNWMwOTA1NGQ5OGQ1Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwRDU0SlpUSFkiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZYN0PcJ8x_BTccCcWrSNxmju0ayoTIhSNGneAjKY0WB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0D54JZTHY" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D54JZTHY?">four-pack of Apple AirTags</a> for $65, down from $99.</p> <p>A single AirTag is typically $29, so you're getting four of them for not much more than a pair costs. Though, if you really want just one, <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CWXNS552&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=dcf76021-3f48-4860-8e53-5c09054d98d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=a+single+AirTag+is+also+on+sale&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1dYTlM1NTI_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZGNmNzYwMjEtM2Y0OC00ODYwLThlNTMtNWMwOTA1NGQ5OGQ1Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1dYTlM1NTIiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAASVXSjO9MJl-xUdkWiObhEpqD2fCIcSihYkT1Zj5dkv1&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CWXNS552" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWXNS552?ref=ods_ucc_kindle_B0CWXNS552">a single AirTag is also on sale</a>, down to $20 from $29 — a 31 percent discount.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="5939b2063b4640518bbfcfaece586466" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D54JZTHY?"></core-commerce></p> <p>Apple AirTags are our pick for <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-bluetooth-tracker-140028377.html">best Bluetooth tracker</a> for iPhone users. They're quieter than some other options, but work well within the Find My network. You can also pick up one of the many great <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/best-apple-airtag-cases-holders-accessories-123036404.html">Apple AirTag accessories</a> out there to make up for the lack of a key hole.&nbsp;</p> <p>While AirTags are the best choice for Apple fans, other Bluetooth trackers exist and can be just as good for other folks. Here are some additional Bluetooth tracker deals to consider for Prime Day.</p> <ul> <li><p>A <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZXTLD38&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=dcf76021-3f48-4860-8e53-5c09054d98d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%2425+Chipolo+Pop&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0NoaXBvbG8tUE9QLVRyYWNrZXItVGFnLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjBEWlhUTEQzOC8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZGNmNzYwMjEtM2Y0OC00ODYwLThlNTMtNWMwOTA1NGQ5OGQ1Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0NoaXBvbG8tUE9QLVRyYWNrZXItVGFnLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjBEWlhUTEQzOC8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAARuUnLci6x_K6cWVw_t8Q0-vsjxaKzurteOuC-t7cotB&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FChipolo-POP-Tracker-Tag-Compatible%2Fdp%2FB0DZXTLD38%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Chipolo-POP-Tracker-Tag-Compatible/dp/B0DZXTLD38/?th=1">$25 Chipolo Pop</a>, or a <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0DZXXB7KF&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=dcf76021-3f48-4860-8e53-5c09054d98d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%2476+pack+of+four&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0NoaXBvbG8tUE9QLVRyYWNrZXItVGFnLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjBEWlhYQjdLRi8_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZGNmNzYwMjEtM2Y0OC00ODYwLThlNTMtNWMwOTA1NGQ5OGQ1Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL0NoaXBvbG8tUE9QLVRyYWNrZXItVGFnLUNvbXBhdGlibGUvZHAvQjBEWlhYQjdLRi8iLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZc4QRB0N8eH4hdlLcUepgMfgWSY4dGdzGluNXwh15LE&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FChipolo-POP-Tracker-Tag-Compatible%2Fdp%2FB0DZXXB7KF%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Chipolo-POP-Tracker-Tag-Compatible/dp/B0DZXXB7KF/?th=1">$76 pack of four</a>, for anyone that wants a reliable Bluetooth tracker that works well with any ecosystem.</p></li> <li><p>A <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCC69HN3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=dcf76021-3f48-4860-8e53-5c09054d98d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%2416+Samsung+SmartTag+2&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL1NBTVNVTkctU21hcnRUYWcyLUJsdWV0b290aC1UcmFja2VyLVRyYWNraW5nL2RwL0IwQ0NDNjlITjMvP3RhZz1nZGd0MGMtMjAiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6ImRjZjc2MDIxLTNmNDgtNDg2MC04ZTUzLTVjMDkwNTRkOThkNSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9TQU1TVU5HLVNtYXJ0VGFnMi1CbHVldG9vdGgtVHJhY2tlci1UcmFja2luZy9kcC9CMENDQzY5SE4zLyIsImR5bmFtaWNDZW50cmFsVHJhY2tpbmdJZCI6dHJ1ZSwic2l0ZUlkIjoidXMtZW5nYWRnZXQiLCJwYWdlSWQiOiIxcC1hdXRvbGluayIsImZlYXR1cmVJZCI6InRleHQtbGluayJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAQG0KDfZeczmSzoZIvroDvTusUeRw2lA_PAp2Kx7ktjY&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSAMSUNG-SmartTag2-Bluetooth-Tracker-Tracking%2Fdp%2FB0CCC69HN3%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-SmartTag2-Bluetooth-Tracker-Tracking/dp/B0CCC69HN3/?th=1">$16 Samsung SmartTag 2</a>, or a <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCBP3XN8&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=dcf76021-3f48-4860-8e53-5c09054d98d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=%2462+pack+of+four&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAd12wjxl4E_ESoXm1OJy0FqBNMlUO_E-oqv-gweq5vrO&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSAMSUNG-SmartTag2-Bluetooth-Tracker-Tracking%2Fdp%2FB0CCBP3XN8%2F" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-SmartTag2-Bluetooth-Tracker-Tracking/dp/B0CCBP3XN8/?th=1">$62 pack of four</a>, if you have a Samsung phone and want a solid tracker to match.</p></li> </ul>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/get-a-four-pack-of-apple-airtags-for-65-in-this-prime-day-deal-123500950.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Whether you’re sharing a room with a couple other students or you’ve managed to score a single room by yourself, you’ll appreciate your dorm room more if you add a few personal touches to it. For this guide, Engadget reporters and editors share some of the gear that served us well back in college, or the stuff we wish we had. A lot of it is tech-related (we are who we are) but there are some lo-fi things here as well — and all of it will help you feel more at home in your tiny home away from home.</p> <p> <core-commerce id="ccdc6b1559f9482abadbf8e2c9d24717" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B8V1LZ3"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="573216545d95478692e9324d6a2fb769" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0117SNG0O?"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="67f5949f0bff4d3b9f30e12bc94aae81" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-South-Adjustable-Quick-Release-Attachments/dp/B0B6QCZB3R?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="44f4c08fca664fc89eb873ec7e52bf6a" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1LVC5VZ/"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="177baedaf8714dae800bee02b64a660a" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Zwilling-Enfingy-Electric-Kettle-Cordless/dp/B08NCD98HG?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="872e9f0c881346949d2b371584d8a9a2" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Ears-WONDERBOOM-360-Degree-Waterproof/dp/B0BRXJ9WTD?ref_=ast_sto_dp&amp;th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="70d7076f94344d04be4ac8ea3c52afe9" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Contoured-Sleeping-Blindfold-Concave-Meditation/dp/B07KC5DWCC?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="3c116278e501456f968c3514fda5c82f" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0036FS22O/"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="8febfb3d178d45eaae711978f2667de1" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Govee-Assistant-Bedroom-Mapping-Material/dp/B0CQN1B4JM?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="b5a8e6556d864147bd01408ef6ca98f8" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/LapGear-Designer-Desk-phone-holder/dp/B07N9L5FJJ?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="74db193c79314eec88f657bf2f639912" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://hulkenbag.com/products/hulken"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="54c1563354e54e61b3aa62a65396cfdb" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Vornado-Mid-Size-Whole-Room-Circulator/dp/B000E5WAUO"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="2087f67aefe448959db341cc5433d353" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://balooliving.com/products/weighted-blanket"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="346d5ca2bd9c4643a5ed876440394834" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Towels-Extra-inches-Sheets/dp/B07VN49QF5/"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="f9b60617abf3471aa6a0e540a6e648fa" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Bananagrams-1295-Banagrams-Multi-Award-Winning-Word/dp/1932188126?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="846d682530ac4e5c89542de75677a38c" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Czech-Games-00031CGE-Codenames/dp/B014Q1XX9S?"></core-commerce></p> <p> <core-commerce id="ce87cb85e4d54196922671f1f00cd210" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Herd-Mentality-Udderly-Hilarious-Family/dp/B093HBBMPT?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/best-dorm-room-essentials-for-college-students-133806068.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Alienware has just released a pair of gaming monitors that offer affordability with very few compromises while using Dell's new <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://dell.alienwarearena.com/monitor-madness-alienware-announces-six-new-gaming-monitors/">AW30 design language</a>. Announced earlier this year, the key model is the 27-inch AW2725D 280Hz QD-OLED QHD (2,560 x 1,440) monitor with one of the lowest prices we've seen to date. On top of the relatively high refresh rate and rapid 0.03ms response time, it promises stutter-free visuals with both NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and VESA AdaptiveSync certification.&nbsp;</p> <p>The QD-OLED panel also offers faithful color reproduction with 99.3 percent DCI-P3 coverage and Delta E &lt; 2 accuracy, along with DisplayHDR TrueBlack 400 certification. It's highly ergonomic as well with height, tilt, pivot and swivel adjustability along with a low-profile base. You get a DisplayPort 1.4 and two HDMI 2.1 ports, along with a 5Gbps USB-C port with 15W charging capability. It's now on sale at <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Dell;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=b1bb23c9-a2d4-4e4e-bfac-7a560ebe7641&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=947a9a6b-4431-483c-832e-1a11bbe4473b&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Dell&amp;linkText=Dell%27s+online+store+for+%24550&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5kZWxsLmNvbS9lbi11cy9zaG9wL2FsaWVud2FyZS0yNy0yODBoei1xZC1vbGVkLWdhbWluZy1tb25pdG9yLWF3MjcyNWQvYXBkLzIxMC1icnp4L21vbml0b3JzLW1vbml0b3ItYWNjZXNzb3JpZXMiLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6Ijk0N2E5YTZiLTQ0MzEtNDgzYy04MzJlLTFhMTFiYmU0NDczYiIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVsbC5jb20vZW4tdXMvc2hvcC9hbGllbndhcmUtMjctMjgwaHotcWQtb2xlZC1nYW1pbmctbW9uaXRvci1hdzI3MjVkL2FwZC8yMTAtYnJ6eC9tb25pdG9ycy1tb25pdG9yLWFjY2Vzc29yaWVzIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAUWH2-UAYROsov_FqHkI55_JYA7vcWLbdKUakZwXL9WQ&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fen-us%2Fshop%2Falienware-27-280hz-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-aw2725d%2Fapd%2F210-brzx%2Fmonitors-monitor-accessories" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/alienware-27-280hz-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-aw2725d/apd/210-brzx/monitors-monitor-accessories">Dell's online store for $550</a>.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <figure> <img src="https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2025-07/93201c20-5e38-11f0-bbc7-3cc9f25a39c6" data-crop-orig-src="https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2025-07/93201c20-5e38-11f0-bbc7-3cc9f25a39c6" style="height:1465px;width:2500px;" alt="Alienware's 27-inch 280Hz QD-OLED monitor is now available for $550" data-uuid="27b9ff4c-d56f-355c-9457-3f2202299b76"> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="photo-credit"> Alienware </div> </figure> <p>The other new model now available is the Alienware 25 320Hz gaming monitor (AW2525HM). This one has a 320Hz IPS panel with FHD (1,920 x 1080) resolution and a 0.5ms response time. It also supports NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium and VESA AdaptiveSync to minimize stutter and tearing. It comes with two HDMI 2.1 ports while offering 99 percent sRGB color accuracy along with height, tilt, swivel and pivot adjustment. The AW2525HM is <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Dell;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=b1bb23c9-a2d4-4e4e-bfac-7a560ebe7641&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=947a9a6b-4431-483c-832e-1a11bbe4473b&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Dell&amp;linkText=now+available+at+Dell.com+for+%24250&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5kZWxsLmNvbS9lbi11cy9zaG9wL2FsaWVud2FyZS0yNS0zMjBoei1nYW1pbmctbW9uaXRvci1hdzI1MjVobS9hcGQvMjEwLWJyeWsvbW9uaXRvcnMtbW9uaXRvci1hY2Nlc3NvcmllcyIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiOTQ3YTlhNmItNDQzMS00ODNjLTgzMmUtMWExMWJiZTQ0NzNiIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5kZWxsLmNvbS9lbi11cy9zaG9wL2FsaWVud2FyZS0yNS0zMjBoei1nYW1pbmctbW9uaXRvci1hdzI1MjVobS9hcGQvMjEwLWJyeWsvbW9uaXRvcnMtbW9uaXRvci1hY2Nlc3NvcmllcyJ9&amp;signature=AQAAAU5XC8SkTexP5PrezMcYOLxSeLxOqMuWcYsCeuBNqdnP&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fen-us%2Fshop%2Falienware-25-320hz-gaming-monitor-aw2525hm%2Fapd%2F210-bryk%2Fmonitors-monitor-accessories" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/alienware-25-320hz-gaming-monitor-aw2525hm/apd/210-bryk/monitors-monitor-accessories">now available at Dell.com for $250</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p> <core-commerce id="5f85a2dd9c2a4422a6ca481aaaae7a66" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/alienware-27-280hz-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-aw2725d/apd/210-brzx/monitors-monitor-accessories"></core-commerce></p> <p></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/alienwares-27-inch-280hz-qd-oled-monitor-is-now-available-for-550-120028938.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Many consider <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CXGMPLWK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=95015c7e-6541-406d-9215-a2af8a2f8375&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Razer%27s+Kishi+Ultra&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdyn9MBq6MDBjJY5ajNYNMV4w7UHXsvgcWnxFTunY2qm&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRazer-Gaming-Controller-Android-iPhone-Smartphone%2Fdp%2FB0CXGMPLWK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Gaming-Controller-Android-iPhone-Smartphone/dp/B0CXGMPLWK?ref_=ast_sto_dp">Razer's Kishi Ultra</a> to be the best mobile gaming controller around. But its standard $150 price tag is a sticking point for some. Well, <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a> is here to cure what ails you. Amazon has the Rolls-Royce of mobile controllers for only $100.</p> <p>What makes the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/razers-kishi-ultra-gaming-controller-works-with-damn-near-everything-including-some-foldables-173017166.html">Kishi Ultra</a> special? You can start with its form factor. Like many accessories in this space, it has a telescoping design that expands to fit your device. But unlike some competitors, its hearty grip makes it feel like a full-fledged console controller.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="320f0ae038244011980f4ae63c6028fa" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Gaming-Controller-Android-iPhone-Smartphone/dp/B0CXGMPLWK?ref_=ast_sto_dp"></core-commerce></p> <p>It also has broad compatibility. It works with most Android phones, the iPhone 15 and <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/iphone-16-pro-longterm-review-apple-intelligence-134517480.html">16 series</a> and the two newest <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ipad-mini-7-review-safe-boring-and-everything-i-want-in-a-small-tablet-130039378.html">iPad mini</a> models. You can plug into some foldables, including the Galaxy Z Fold 5. Ditto for most Android tablets (up to 8 inches in size). It even works with PCs via a low-latency USB cable.</p> <p>The list goes on. It has advanced haptics. You have RGB lighting... if you're into that. (This is Razer, after all.) Its ABXY buttons and D-pad are mechanical. It has Hall effect triggers, programmable L4 / R4 bumpers and plenty of customization options via the Razer Nexus app.</p> <p>If we have a gripe, it's that the thumbsticks aren't Hall effect. (Then again, the <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendo-says-the-switch-2-joy-cons-dont-have-hall-effect-thumbsticks-for-reducing-stick-drift-145541325.html">Switch 2 doesn't, either</a>.) But at $100 for Prime Day, that omission is much easier to forgive. You can get a closer peek at it in Razer's promo video below and scoop one up <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CXGMPLWK&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=95015c7e-6541-406d-9215-a2af8a2f8375&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=on+Amazon&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAdyn9MBq6MDBjJY5ajNYNMV4w7UHXsvgcWnxFTunY2qm&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRazer-Gaming-Controller-Android-iPhone-Smartphone%2Fdp%2FB0CXGMPLWK" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Gaming-Controller-Android-iPhone-Smartphone/dp/B0CXGMPLWK?ref_=ast_sto_dp">on Amazon</a>.</p> <div id="b9bf479133d3489fa6dddfefdc24a827"> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wk_UJ8q7nW4?si=P7YX60D6v-ELuVq0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <p></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-razer-kishi-ultra-controller-deal-for-prime-day-brings-it-down-to-100-114535525.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>The latest Amazon Kindle <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CNVCQZG1&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=52617aef-c9e0-4cc4-9c65-5871ce41f156&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=is+on+sale+for+%2485&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ05WQ1FaRzE_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNTI2MTdhZWYtYzllMC00Y2M0LTljNjUtNTg3MWNlNDFmMTU2Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ05WQ1FaRzEiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAYeNaPCdVNgi7sb5EkKJiCkJg_LRuR__Jlb24hNT_Lvy&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CNVCQZG1" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNVCQZG1?th=1">is on sale for $85</a> as part of <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day</a>, but you only have until the end of the day today to pick it up before the sale disappears. This is a discount of $25 and represents a record-low price for the ereader. This is the model that was released in 2024 and the sale includes both colorways.</p> <p>The iconic Kindle easily found a spot on our list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-ereader-130013808.html">best ereaders</a>. The entry-level device is not filled with modern bells and whistles, but it gets the job done. It's light and compact, which makes it easy to pack or stow away in a bag, and the battery lasts around six full weeks before requiring a recharge. The 16GB capacity is enough for thousands of books.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="5a69bd7a50f544e5bca8186ff2a81365" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNVCQZG1?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>It also allows access to Kindle Unlimited, which is sort of like Netflix for books. This platform offers the widest selection of any subscription-based reading service, though results will vary depending on the genre.</p> <p>The Kindle is also a good choice for people who like to switch between ebooks and audiobooks. The Whispersync feature keeps everything lined up, so readers can hop back and forth at will. This does require the purchase of both formats, but there's typically a discount.</p> <p>This model does include a backlight, but we found the light to be on the harsher side when compared to some rival ereaders. It's still easier on the eyes than a phone or tablet screen. Like many entry-level Amazon devices, this Kindle shows ads on the lockscreen. However, these are fairly innocuous and mostly promote books.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/prime-days-deal-on-the-latest-amazon-kindle-brings-it-down-to-a-record-low-price-111558051.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>The latest Amazon Kindle Scribe ereader <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CZ9VFQ2P&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=de2dc6c0-6289-4883-a281-8c428c1031af&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=is+on+sale+for+just+%24260&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1o5VkZRMlA_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiZGUyZGM2YzAtNjI4OS00ODgzLWEyODEtOGM0MjhjMTAzMWFmIiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ1o5VkZRMlAiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAXQ6x08oH4KqieD48YC8B2lskHgH6ybquVpsq4sMfG5C&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CZ9VFQ2P" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ9VFQ2P?th=1">is on sale for just $260</a> as part of the <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Prime Day festivities</a>, although you'll have to pick it up today if you want it since the sale ends tonight. This is a record-low price and a discount of $140. The sale applies to the 16GB model, which is enough storage for thousands of books and notes.</p> <p>The Kindle Scribe is Amazon's answer to devices like the <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/remarkable-paper-pro-review-writing-in-color-is-nice-but-itll-cost-you-173024590.html">reMarkable E ink tablet</a>. It's both a standard ereader and a tablet for taking notes, as it ships with a pen for scribbling. This makes it handy for writing down thoughts or for mindlessly drawing pizza slices. Users can jot notes over books, but not every title supports this feature.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p> <core-commerce id="bc11995942a04e968065fd440b59ffc6" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ9VFQ2P?th=1"></core-commerce></p> <p>The Scribe made our list of the <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/best-e-ink-tablet-130037939.html">best E Ink tablets</a> for a number of reasons. We appreciated the low latency when writing. In most cases, users won't notice any latency at all. The latest software update also brings in new brush types, which now include a fountain pen, a marker and a pencil. This device makes it easy to create multiple notebooks for different purposes. There are even some <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/kindle-scribe-hands-on-you-can-scribble-on-your-books-130043335.html">AI tools for summarization and the like</a>.</p> <p>Of course, it's also a standard ereader. I have a Scribe and, to be honest, I use it primarily for reading. The giant 10.2-inch screen is just so luxe and offers a superior reading experience to standard-sized Kindles. It's a bit heavier and cumbersome to hold for long periods, but that tradeoff is worth it to me.</p> <p>The only major downside here is the price. It's tough to recommend a $400 ereader, even with all of the handwriting bells and whistles. However, this sale certainly takes the edge off a bit.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/amazon-prime-day-includes-the-latest-kindle-scribe-on-sale-for-a-record-low-price-131544796.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

<p>You likely have a million things to take with you when you leave the house each day — phone, wallet, keys and much more. Keeping track of it all can be tough, but a Bluetooth tracker can help by monitoring the location of at least a few of your most important items.</p> <p>Right now, one of our favorites is still on sale for a record-low price thanks to <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-best-amazon-prime-day-deals-for-the-last-day-our-top-picks-on-headphones-tvs-robot-vacuums-and-more-120028336.html">Amazon Prime Day</a>. The <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCC69HN3&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=74e679c9-319c-4d60-a9c7-c51f71b301d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=Samsung+Galaxy+SmartTag+2&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NDNjlITjM_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNzRlNjc5YzktMzE5Yy00ZDYwLWE5YzctYzUxZjcxYjMwMWQ1Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NDNjlITjMiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAf99-u9TYe4WOJloqO19hqN3pu4Ek8MC73mtjxw64VLy&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CCC69HN3" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCC69HN3?th=1">Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 2</a> is down to just $15.50 a pop on Amazon, a 48-percent discount from its standard price. The main catch here is that only the white option has this steep of a discount. If you want more than one, consider <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Amazon;elmt:;cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=66ea567a-c987-4c2e-a2ff-02904efde6ea&amp;itemId=amazon_B0CCBP3XN8&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=74e679c9-319c-4d60-a9c7-c51f71b301d5&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Amazon&amp;linkText=the+four-pack+option&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NCUDNYTjg_dGFnPWdkZ3QwYy0yMCIsImNvbnRlbnRVdWlkIjoiNzRlNjc5YzktMzE5Yy00ZDYwLWE5YzctYzUxZjcxYjMwMWQ1Iiwib3JpZ2luYWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbWF6b24uY29tL2RwL0IwQ0NCUDNYTjgiLCJkeW5hbWljQ2VudHJhbFRyYWNraW5nSWQiOnRydWUsInNpdGVJZCI6InVzLWVuZ2FkZ2V0IiwicGFnZUlkIjoiMXAtYXV0b2xpbmsiLCJmZWF0dXJlSWQiOiJ0ZXh0LWxpbmsifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAdOoRcLisPMOF6R67f5YQXRAWVaV9IcVxAJuBrqjG--F&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0CCBP3XN8" class="rapid-with-clickid" data-original-link="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCBP3XN8?th=1">the four-pack option</a> that's on sale for $62.</p> <span id="end-legacy-contents"></span> <p>The <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/samsungs-30-galaxy-smarttag-2-arrives-on-october-11-with-an-all-new-design-082947760.html">Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 2</a> is a solid purchase due to features like being IP67-rated water- and dust-resistant, a sizeable keychain hoop and over 16 months of battery life. It also emits a ring louder than competitors like the AirTag or Tile. The only snag is that you must have a Samsung device in order to use it.&nbsp;</p> <p> <core-commerce id="283849d91c834f62a912ee3c8ea8b26b" data-type="product-list" data-original-url="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCC69HN3?th=1"></core-commerce></p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/samsung-smarttag-2-trackers-are-still-available-for-48-percent-off-for-prime-day-130753933.html?src=rss

Jul 11, 2025

The kernel's <a href="https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/perf_event_open.2.html">perf events subsystem</a> can produce high-quality profiles, with full function-call chains, of resource usage within the kernel itself. Developers, however, often would like to see profiles of the whole system in one integrated report with, for example, call-stack information that crosses the boundary between the kernel and user space. Support for unwinding user-space call stacks in the perf events subsystem is currently inefficient at best. A long-running effort to provide reliable, user-space call-stack unwinding within the kernel, which will improve that situation considerably, appears to be reaching fruition.

Jul 11, 2025

Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (gnome-remote-desktop, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, jq, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, and podman), <b>Fedora</b> (chromium, git, helix, pam, rust-blazesym-c, rust-clearscreen, rust-gitui, rust-nu-cli, rust-nu-command, rust-nu-test-support, rust-procs, rust-which, selenium-manager, sudo, thunderbird, and uv), <b>SUSE</b> (audiofile, chmlib-devel, docker, firefox, go1, libsoup, libsoup2, libssh, libxml2, tomcat, umoci, and xen), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (git and resteasy, resteasy3.0).

Jul 10, 2025

<p>Few, if any, web sites or web-based services have gone unscathed by the locust-like hordes of AI crawlers looking to <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/">consume (and then <em>re-consume</em>) all of the world's content</a>. The <a href="https://anubis.techaro.lol/">Anubis</a> project is designed to provide a first line of defense that blocks mindless bots&mdash;while granting real users access to sites without too much hassle. Anubis is a young project, not even a year old. However, its development is moving quickly, and the project seems to be enjoying rapid adoption. The most recent release of Anubis, <a href="https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/release/v1.20.0/">version 1.20.0</a>, includes a feature that many users have been interested in since the project launched: support for challenging clients without requiring users to have JavaScript turned on.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1029419/">6.15.6</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1029420/">6.12.37</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1029421/">6.6.97</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1029422/">6.1.144</a>, and <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1029423/">5.15.187</a> stable kernels. As is the usual case, each contains important fixes all over the kernel tree.

Jul 10, 2025

Security updates have been issued by <b>Debian</b> (sslh), <b>Oracle</b> (container-tools:rhel8, gnome-remote-desktop, golang, javapackages-tools:201801, jq, libvpx, libxml2, mpfr, and perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl), <b>Red Hat</b> (glib2, libblockdev, and sudo), <b>Slackware</b> (git), <b>SUSE</b> (avif-tools, containerd, djvulibre, gpg2, helm, kernel, libpoppler-cpp2, libxml2, libxml2-2, openssl-3, perl-YAML-LibYAML, python-cryptography, python-setuptools, python311-pycares, tomcat10, and wireshark), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (djvulibre, git, libyaml-libyaml-perl, and protobuf).

Jul 10, 2025

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: <p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1028368/">Front</a>: Python packaging; Kernel API specification; Kselftests and KUnit; niri; pedalboard. <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1028370/">Briefs</a>: Git security fixes; Amarok 3.3; Bash 5.3; Thunderbird 140; tmux-rs; U-Boot 2025.07; Quotes; ... <li> <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1028371/">Announcements</a>: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. </ul>

Jul 9, 2025

<p><a href="https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/08/amarok-3.3-far-above-the-clouds-released/">Version 3.3</a> of the <a href="https://amarok.kde.org/">Amarok</a> music player has been released. This is the first release of Amarok based on <a href="https://develop.kde.org/products/frameworks/">KDE&#160;Frameworks&#160;6</a> and <a href="https://www.qt.io/product/qt6">Qt&#160;6</a>. Amarok 3.3 also includes a major rework of its audio engine to use <a href="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/">GStreamer</a> for audio playback.</p> <blockquote class="bq"> The reworked audio engine provides unified feature set for all users and should provide a solid and future-proof sonic experience for years to come. Notable improvements have also landed to the database system: improved character set support helps with e.g. emojis in podcast descriptions and other very exotic symbols, date handling has been improved ('year 2038 problem'), and various other potential and actual database-related issues have been fixed. </blockquote> <p></p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>The AlmaLinux project has <a href="https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-07-07-elevate-to-el-10/">announced</a> new upgrade paths for its <a href="https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/">ELevate</a> utility, which allows users to upgrade between major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives. The new paths include upgrades from AlmaLinux&#160;9 to AlmaLinux&#160;10 and CentOS&#160;Stream&#160;9 to CentOS&#160;Stream&#160;10, with support for EPEL, Docker&#160;CE, and PostgreSQL third-party package repositories. LWN <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/977762/">covered</a> ELevate last year.</p> <p></p>

Jul 9, 2025

It is no secret that the Python packaging world is at something of a crossroads; there have been debates and discussions about the packaging landscape that started long before our <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/924104/">2023 series</a> describing some of the difficulties. There has been progress since then—and incremental improvements all along, in truth—but a new initiative is looking to overhaul packaging for the language. At <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2025/">PyCon US 2025</a>, Barry Warsaw and Jonathan Dekhtiar gave a presentation on the <a href="https://wheelnext.dev/">WheelNext project</a>, which is a community effort that aims to improve the experience for users and providers of Python packages while also working with toolmakers and other parts of the ecosystem to "<q>reinvent the wheel</q>". While the project's name refers to Python's <a href="https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/binary-distribution-format/">wheel</a> binary distribution format, its goals stretch much further than simply the format.

Jul 9, 2025

Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (container-tools:rhel8, jq, kernel, podman, python-setuptools, socat, and thunderbird), <b>Gentoo</b> (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera, ClamAV, Git, NTP, REXML, and strongSwan), <b>Oracle</b> (buildah, gnome-remote-desktop, ipa, jq, kernel, podman, python-setuptools, ruby:3.3, socat, uek-kernel, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), <b>SUSE</b> (kernel), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (freerdp3, git, gnupg2, linux-aws, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.11, linux-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.11, and onionshare).

Jul 8, 2025

Versions v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1 and v2.50.1 of the Git source-code management system have been released. "<q>This is a set of coordinated security fix releases. Please update at your earliest convenience</q>". See <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]">the announcement</a> for details; many of the vulnerabilities have to do with tricks buried in untrusted repositories.

Jul 8, 2025

<p><a href="https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/welcome-to-thunderbird-140-eclipse/">Version 140</a> of the Thunderbird mail client has been released. Notable features include "dark message mode" to adapt message content to dark mode, the ability to easily transfer desktop settings to the mobile Thunderbird client, experimental support for Microsoft Exchange, as well as global controls for message threading and sort order.</p> <p>Thunderbird&#160;140 is an <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-release">extended-support release</a> (ESR) which will be supported for 12 months. However, the Thunderbird project is trying to encourage users to adopt the <a href="https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-CA/thunderbird/128.0/monthly/">Release</a> channel for monthly updates instead. The project is staggering upgrades to 140 for existing Thunderbird users in order to catch any significant bugs before they are widely deployed, but users can upgrade manually via the <span class="nobreak">Help &gt; About</span> menu. See the <a href="https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.0esr/releasenotes/">release notes</a> for a full list of changes.</p> <p></p>

Jul 8, 2025

The kernel project, for many years, lacked a formal testing setup; it was often joked that testing was the project's main reason for keeping users around. While many types of kernel testing can only be done in the presence of specific hardware, there are other parts of the kernel that could be more widely tested. Over time, though, the kernel has gained two separate testing frameworks and a growing body of automated tests to go with them. These two frameworks — kselftests and KUnit — take different approaches to the testing problem; now <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]">this patch series</a> from Thomas Weißschuh aims to bring them together.

Jul 8, 2025

Security updates have been issued by <b>Debian</b> (djvulibre and slurm-wlm), <b>Red Hat</b> (apache-commons-vfs, container-tools:rhel8, kernel, kernel-rt, podman, python3, rsync, socat, and sudo), <b>SUSE</b> (apache2, helm-mirror, incus, kernel, openssl-3, python-Django, and systemd), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (dcmtk, File::Find::Rule, ghostscript, jquery, and libssh).

Jul 7, 2025

The <a href="https://u-boot.org/">U-Boot</a> universal bootloader project has announced the release of version 2025.07. It has multiple new features including "uthreads" (inspired by the "bthreads" coroutines in the <a href="https://www.barebox.org/">barebox</a> bootloader), exFAT support, new architecture and SoC support and improvements to existing platforms, cleanups, better testing, and more. Project leader Tom Rini took the opportunity to mention his <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250602222738.GC100073@bill-the-cat/">efforts</a> toward getting some help with the project and more formal governance: <blockquote class="bq"> As this is a full release, and not just a release candidate I'm hoping for a few more people to read this and then read what I'm linking to as well. For the overall health of the project, and the community, I'm hoping to find a few people within the community that can help with overall organization and management. I would like to long term be able to move us to being under the Software Freedom Conservancy umbrella and that in turn means having a organizational structure that's not just a single person. </blockquote> <p> He also noted that there is a community meeting on July 8th, 2025 at 9am (GMT -06:00) on Google Meet.

Jul 10, 2025

This blog post is the first of a series, in which we share our journey in redesigning Quicksilver — Cloudflare’s distributed key-value store that serves over 3 billion keys per second globally.

Jul 8, 2025

Cloudflare chose TimescaleDB to power its Digital Experience Monitoring and Zero Trust Analytics products.

Jul 7, 2025

Cloudflare's SASE platform now offers egress policies by hostname, domain, content category, and application in open beta.

Jul 1, 2025

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

Jul 1, 2025

Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block.

Jul 1, 2025

Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf.

Jul 1, 2025

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

Jul 1, 2025

From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%.

Jul 1, 2025

Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity.

Jun 27, 2025

To celebrate United Nations Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Enterprises Day, Cloudflare is sharing success stories of small businesses building and growing on our platform.

Jun 26, 2025

Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to the open Internet have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Jun 26, 2025

Orange Meets, our open-source video calling web application, now supports end-to-end encryption using the MLS protocol with continuous group key agreement.

Jun 25, 2025

We’re building AI agents where logic and reasoning are handled by OpenAI’s Agents SDK, and execution happens across Cloudflare's global network via Cloudflare’s Agents SDK.

Jun 24, 2025

Cloudflare Containers are now available in public beta. Deploy simple, global, and programmable containers alongside your Workers.

Jun 19, 2025

We read NIST’s new guidance on “Implementing a Zero-Trust Architecture” so that you don’t have to. Read this to get the key points on the newly-released NIST Special Publication 1800-35.

Jun 19, 2025

In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).

Jun 18, 2025

We are happy to announce the General Availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, a powerful product designed to bring observability and forensics capabilities directly into your Cloudflare dashboard.

Jun 18, 2025

We're open-sourcing use-mcp, a React library that connects to any MCP server in just 3 lines of code, as well as our AI Playground, a complete chat interface that can connect to remote MCP servers.

Jun 12, 2025

Multiple Cloudflare services, including Workers KV, Access, WARP and the Cloudflare dashboard, experienced an outage for up to 2 hours and 28 minutes on June 12, 2025.

Jun 12, 2025

June 2025 marks the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare’s effort to protect vulnerable public interest organizations from cyber threats.

Jul 13, 2025

We look at what Senator Thom Tillis' decision to not run for re-election means for North Carolina politics, and for Democratic dreams to capture that seat in 2026.

Jul 13, 2025

A new study has sparked debate on the prevalence of withdrawal symptoms when patients stop taking antidepressants, as well as on the severity of those symptoms.

Jul 13, 2025

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, about how Beijing will view Taiwan's large-scale military drills.

Jul 13, 2025

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Wired magazine reporter Reece Rogers about the problems plaguing AI Chatbots and how they can be fixed.

Jul 13, 2025

More and more voices, including politicians, say that cloud seeding — or man-made ways of increasing precipitation — caused the deadly floods in Texas. Experts say this is damaging public trust.

Jul 13, 2025

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Robin Rudowitz vice-president of the health policy organization KFF about the Trump administration idea that Medicaid enrollees could replace migrant farmworkers.

Jul 13, 2025

We look at the tariff letters President Trump sent out this past week, as well as what polling tells us about how Americans feel about the increasingly violent immigration raids.

Jul 13, 2025

Churches in Los Angeles put contingency plans in place after the Trump administration rescinds long-standing guidance advising immigration agents to avoid houses of worship.

Jul 13, 2025

The finale of <em>Love Island USA</em> airs Sunday night. Critic Aisha Harris says it's impossible to separate the season's racial and ethnic diversity from the show's mealy-mouthed handling of behind-the-scenes drama.

Jul 13, 2025

They all showed off their talents at this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The theme: How youth keep cultural traditions alive.

Jul 11, 2025

<p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/the-onion-film-standard-28-years-later/">The Onion Film Standard: ‘28 Years Later’</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>A new Superman movie directed by James Gunn is now in theaters. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the film. Q: What is Superman about? A: Superman trying to reconnect with his roots by opening a Kryptonian restaurant in a skeptical Midwestern town. Q: What is the film’s run time? A: Five [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-the-new-superman-movie/">What To Know About The New ‘Superman’ Movie</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>MILWAUKEE—Calling the effort a long overdue attempt to address the city&#8217;s checkered history, Milwaukee officials announced Friday that they had removed the iconic riverfront Fonzie statue amid an ongoing reckoning with the town&#8217;s greaser past. &#8220;In the year 2025, no one should be celebrating the dark era in this city when motorcycles, leather jackets, and necking dominated [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/milwaukee-removes-fonzie-statue-amid-reckoning-with-greaser-past/">Milwaukee Removes Fonzie Statue Amid Reckoning With Greaser Past</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>CHICAGO—As a singer made her way onto the field to kickoff another home game with “The Star-Spangled Banner,” White Sox public address announcer Gene Honda politely reminded fans Tuesday to remove the Polish sausages from their mouths during the national anthem. According to spectators, Honda told the crowd to “Please rise and kindly remove any tubed [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/white-sox-fans-asked-to-remove-polish-sausage-from-mouths-during-national-anthem/">White Sox Fans Asked To Remove Polish Sausage From Mouths During  National Anthem</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>An Australian woman was found guilty of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives by serving them beef Wellington laced with death‑cap mushrooms. What do you think?</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/australian-woman-convicted-of-triple-murder-using-poisonous-mushrooms/">Australian Woman Convicted Of Triple Murder Using Poisonous Mushrooms</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>An AI-generated impostor posing as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted foreign ministers, a U.S. senator, and a governor, raising alarms as the technology becomes more accessible. What do you think?</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/imposter-uses-ai-to-impersonate-marco-rubio/">Imposter Uses AI To Impersonate Marco Rubio</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>AUSTIN, TX—In an effort to avoid humiliating themselves in front of their fellow conservatives, elected officials in Texas used a burner email to request funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency following last week&#8217;s devastating floods, sources reported Thursday. “I set up an anonymous account, [email protected], and shamefully requested more than $70 million in disaster [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/texas-politicians-used-burner-email-to-request-fema-funds/">Texas Politicians Used Burner Email To Request FEMA Funds</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate officially passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” including provisions that slashed funding for public health care programs by more than $1 trillion. The Onion examines the pros and cons of these steep cuts to Medicaid. PRO Will finally motivate poor Americans who&#8217;ve been putting off becoming billionaires Fewer people [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-defunding-medicaid/">Pros And Cons Of Defunding Medicaid</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>WASHINGTON—A warm rush pulsing through his body as he stared at the clean white feathers that covered the rendering of his body, something forbidden reportedly stirred deep within President Donald Trump on Thursday after he saw a political cartoon depicting him as a chicken. White House sources confirmed that Trump barked, “Out, everybody out,” to [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/something-forbidden-stirs-deep-within-trump-after-he-sees-political-cartoon-depicting-him-as-chicken/">Something Forbidden Stirs Deep Within Trump After He Sees Political Cartoon Depicting Him As Chicken</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>WALNUT CREEK, CA—Expressing relief that he finally had the free time to explore his interests and hobbies, local 64-year-old dad Peter Hopkins announced Thursday that he was spending his retirement untangling a big mess of wires. “I’ve been wanting to go through this stuff for ages,” said the former account director, who reportedly paced back [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/dad-spends-retirement-untangling-big-mess-of-wires/">Dad Spends Retirement Untangling Big Mess Of Wires</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>CHICAGO—Shedding light on how technology increasingly shapes everyday life, a study published Thursday by the American Journal Of Sociology revealed that the average American dedicates 97% of their day to retrieving six-digit validation codes. &#8220;Our findings suggest that U.S. residents spend roughly 23 hours each day—or 160 hours every week—attempting to log in to online services, being told they need to [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/">Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>BASTROP, TX—After news broke that the company&#8217;s AI tool had shared several antisemitic posts to X, Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he&#8217;d scrubbed the social media platform of the Jewish users who made Grok mad. &#8220;We are aware of several inappropriate posts made by our xAI chatbot, and we are working to remove the Jews [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theonion.com/elon-musk-scrubs-x-of-jewish-users-who-made-grok-mad/">Elon Musk Scrubs X Of Jewish Users Who Made Grok Mad</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theonion.com">The Onion</a>.</p>

Jul 9, 2025

Isometric exercises like wall squats are gentle on your body, but can enhance your fitness in a surprisingly efficient way, discovers Grace Wade

Jul 9, 2025

Humanity’s innate treachery is behind social ills ranging from inequality to abuse of power. Lessons from our ancestors can help defeat the enemy within

Jul 9, 2025

Foundation's new series is full of new characters and dramatic potential. But instead of mining those rich seams, too many plotlines have become shallow and absurd. It's hard to see a good show go bad, says Bethan Ackerley

Jul 8, 2025

Ordering takeaway food, writing emails, reworking presentations: AI assistants are promoted as a way of outsourcing mundane tasks to free up your time for more interesting pursuits. So, what are they actually good for – and what are the risks?

Jul 11, 2025

Countries are eager to use AI to automate some government processes, but this risks eroding citizens’ trust and feelings of democratic control – because AI mistakes can ruin their lives

Jul 11, 2025

The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ultra-high-energy cosmic rays – but much remains unknown about these rare events

Jul 11, 2025

A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such as marine cloud brightening to lower the risk of coral bleaching

Jul 11, 2025

Models suggest that meeting climate targets will be virtually impossible without steep emissions cuts paired with a huge expansion of carbon management technologies

Jul 11, 2025

Urban trees lining streets fare better in dry spells than those in parks – now it seems that leaky water pipes are the reason for their endurance

Jul 10, 2025

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma can produce a truly novel kind of extraterrestrial wave near its poles

Jul 9, 2025

Kat Zhou has won the Aquatic Life category in the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, while a shot of a death-defying leap by a lemur took the top prize

Jul 9, 2025

Language is evolving rapidly in a world of social media. Our millennial reviewer finds Adam Aleksic's Algospeak to be a much-needed helping hand

Jul 11, 2025

Mice experienced far fewer hay fever symptoms when a pollen-blocking antibody was applied within their nose

Jul 10, 2025

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment. Now, China and the US are resurrecting the technology as a possible Pacific conflict looms

Jul 10, 2025

Microglia replacement therapy helps treat people with a rare genetic condition called ALSP, suggesting the approach could also work for other neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s

Jul 7, 2025

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three specific times in our lives. Might it be possible to stay younger for longer?

Jul 10, 2025

Inhaled insulin is effective for controlling blood sugar levels in children with diabetes, providing them with a faster-acting, needle-free option to manage their condition

Jul 10, 2025

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides valuable clues for understanding past and present ecosystems

Jul 9, 2025

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains

Jul 10, 2025

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion years old, almost twice the age of our sun

Jul 9, 2025

Feedback has been invited to an event next year in Shaoxing, China. It's an academic conference promising "revolutionary thinkers who are redefining human intimacy through cutting-edge robotics and AI"

Jul 9, 2025

The UK's health secretary has announced a 10-year plan to check newborns for a huge range of rare conditions. There are major medical and ethical issues with this, argues neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan

Jul 9, 2025

The population is set to plummet and we don't know how to stop it, warn Dean Spears and Michael Geruso in their new book, After the Spike

Jul 9, 2025

An AI system trained on videos of operations successfully guided a robot to carry out gall bladder surgery on a dead pig, with minimal human assistance

Jul 9, 2025

An example from the history of mathematics shows how views on the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence can quickly start to change

Jul 9, 2025

Previous estimates have suggested that more than half of people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms, but now a review of the evidence suggests this isn't the case, at least for short-term use.

Jul 9, 2025

Exercise seems to help prevent cancer and reduce the growth of tumours, and that protective effect may be due to the way working out changes the gut microbiome

Jul 9, 2025

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing the remains belonged to the ancient ancestors of rhinoceroses and elephants

Jul 9, 2025

It’s easy to sneer at people who say they’ve fallen in love with ChatGPT. But we've been developing confusing feelings for bots for decades longer than you might think, writes Alex Wilkins. With so many people feeling lonely, can that be a good thing?

Jul 9, 2025

After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa bird

Jul 8, 2025

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world

Jul 9, 2025

Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain and immune system

Jul 9, 2025

We now have the ability to rapidly assess the death toll of climate change after extreme heat – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave

Jul 8, 2025

A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma

Jul 8, 2025

Interest in the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin skyrocketed during the covid-19 pandemic, but evidence for many of its supposed health claims are lacking

Jul 8, 2025

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge

Jul 8, 2025

Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is done soon, a computer model suggests

Jul 7, 2025

Some numbers are so unimaginably large that they defy the bounds of modern mathematics, and now mathematicians are closing in on a number that may mark the edge of this bizarre abyss

Jul 7, 2025

The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere, an overlooked consequence of climate change

Jul 7, 2025

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems one astronomer may have caught the moment of impact and the hunt is on for other images to verify the discovery

Jul 7, 2025

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose can pick up their traces in seconds

Jul 7, 2025

Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating traditional maths into a machine-readable format is an arduous task. Now, the latest generation of artificial intelligence models is taking on the job, and could change the face of maths research

Jul 7, 2025

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, suggesting her parents might have belonged to different species

Jul 2, 2025

Many claims are being made about Mycobacterium vaccae, a microbe that is found naturally in soil. James Wong sees if they stand up

Jul 6, 2025

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer

Jul 4, 2025

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth remained hot for millions of years

Jul 4, 2025

The growth of domestic solar installations opens the possibility of hackers targeting their smart inverter devices as a way to cause widespread power-system failures

Jul 4, 2025

Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose properties are not well understood – but now we know how they can remain stable

Jul 4, 2025

Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour of several molecules, paving the way for useful applications in chemistry and pharmaceutical research

Jul 4, 2025

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewriting that view

Jul 4, 2025

Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate benefits will last – but they may not have nearly enough in reserve

Jul 4, 2025

From David Attenborough to Hannah Fry via Bryan Johnson, our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley selects her favourite science and technology documentaries of the year to date

Jul 4, 2025

The acidity of drinks like Red Bull can erode dental enamel, but a lab experiment suggests this could be avoided via calcium fortification

Jul 2, 2025

These dramatic images show the researchers out to understand the storms that produce the biggest hail

Jul 2, 2025

From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her favourites

Jul 3, 2025

Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, could allow people with type 1 diabetes to produce their own insulin

Jul 3, 2025

While randomising a deck of cards gets more difficult as you add more cards, it turns out that the same isn't true for the qubits of quantum computers, which may prove surprisingly useful

Jul 3, 2025

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children

Jul 3, 2025

The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in June to stop recommending certain kinds of flu vaccines, a notable shift in vaccine guidance

Jul 3, 2025

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer

Jul 2, 2025

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to the 2030s, when hormone implants enabled users to boost everything from pain tolerance to libidos, writes Rowan Hooper

Jul 3, 2025

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the monument’s builders must have had advanced seafaring technology

Jul 2, 2025

Feedback is horrified to see AI's attempts at reworking classic novels, and is concerned that the computers might not quite understand the point of literature

Jul 2, 2025

Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball

Jul 3, 2025

Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep physiological processes ticking along

Jul 3, 2025

How can you guarantee a huge payout from any lottery? Take a cue from combinatorics, and perhaps gather a few wealthy pals, says Jacob Aron

Jul 2, 2025

The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science books of the year to date, featuring a range of authors from Robert MacFarlane to Suzanne O'Sullivan

Jul 2, 2025

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same algae, setting the stage for a self-sustaining system to build habitats on the planet

Jul 2, 2025

Red heart or thumbs up? Sending emojis to close friends makes them see you as more attentive and likeable than text-only messages do – no matter which emojis you use

Jul 2, 2025

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 years ago, showing that Neanderthal culinary skills were surprisingly sophisticated

Jul 2, 2025

We have now learned why wounds in our mouth don't scar, which could lead to treatments that prevent such blemishes on the skin

Jul 2, 2025

Australia has offered a lifeline to the people of Tuvalu, whose island is threatened by rising sea levels. But the deal comes with strings attached – and there will be millions more climate migrants in need of refuge by 2050

Jul 2, 2025

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the galaxy – a technique that could be useful for interstellar missions

Jul 2, 2025

A key milk protein for making cheese and yoghurt has been produced in bacteria for the first time, paving the way for better tasting but more sustainable animal-free products

Jul 2, 2025

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at connections with Mesopotamia

Jul 2, 2025

Diet and exercise will only get you so far, but there is a magic bullet that could make us all live longer, says professor of global public health Devi Sridhar

Jul 2, 2025

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a fish sauce, often known as garum, eaten throughout the Roman Empire

Jul 2, 2025

An object from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to whip around the sun in the coming months

Jul 2, 2025

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars go boom twice in the blink of an eye

Jul 1, 2025

The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Jul 1, 2025

It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make energy-harvesting devices more efficient

Jul 1, 2025

Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane emissions

Jul 1, 2025

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards finally figuring it out

Jul 1, 2025

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by DNA inherited from archaic humans

Jul 1, 2025

Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss of inland ice sheets and severe impacts on wildlife

Jul 1, 2025

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells form could tell us something about the chances of life elsewhere

Jul 1, 2025

From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - including a novel which might be our culture editor Alison Flood's pick of the year so far

Jun 30, 2025

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited

Jun 30, 2025

AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful language, typos, odd formatting and even gender-neutral pronouns

Jun 30, 2025

Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, which could suggest they have theory of mind and engage in altruism – even across species

Jun 30, 2025

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and should even be effective against new strains

Jun 30, 2025

Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why

Jun 27, 2025

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a real-life version from carbon fibre and tungsten

Jun 29, 2025

People with PCOS who struggle to conceive tend to have lower levels of a gut microbe that has been linked to endometrial function

Jun 23, 2025

We have discovered legions of strange particles that seem to only have a ghostly existence inside materials. Even so, they are the basis of much modern technology - so are they actually real?

Jun 23, 2025

What are quantum particles doing before we measure them? Getting to grips with this century-old debate takes us to the heart of whether there is an objective reality

Jun 23, 2025

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more fully, we might be able to harness it to heal our planet too

Jun 25, 2025

It is tricky to count things that are moving around – but this handy maths technique can help, says Katie Steckles, whether it is animals or vanishing spoons that you're trying to keep track of

Jun 23, 2025

From acquaintances to besties, our relationships fall on a wide continuum. Research into the ingredients for meaningful and lasting connections can help you strengthen them

Jun 23, 2025

There is mounting evidence that even surprisingly simple animals, like invertebrates, have a level of consciousness - but not in the way you might think

Jul 13, 2025

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives.

Jul 13, 2025

A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own parking lot.

Jul 13, 2025

A recent study by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, explores the transformation of elk rock art in the Mongolian Altai. Her research sheds light on the possible factors that influenced these changes, leading to realistic elk images devolving into warped wolf-like beasts.

Jul 13, 2025

To the music of conch shell trumpets, a 3,800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization—one of the oldest in the world—opened its doors to visitors in Peru on Saturday, after eight years of study and restoration work.

Jul 13, 2025

For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Jul 12, 2025

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy chewing with relatively massive jaws, and huge teeth with thick dental enamel. It's thought to have lived between 2.25 million and 1.7 million years ago.

Jul 12, 2025

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass prevents galaxies from falling apart. But we don't know what it is.

Jul 12, 2025

As companies face pressure to increase productivity, many are calling workers back to the office—even though there is limited evidence that return-to-office policies actually improve innovation or performance.

Jul 12, 2025

Authorities in the ACT have released draft regulations for the welfare of dogs. One inclusion getting attention is a guideline "requiring all dogs to have a minimum of three hours of human contact daily."

Jul 12, 2025

Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates a dichotomy where forests are treated either as plantations or reserves. Uneven-aged management can bring compromise to conflicting land uses by reducing ecosystem impacts while still allowing timber extraction. Whereas selection forestry focuses on which trees are taken, retention forestry focuses on protecting features that will remain after logging. These biological legacies provide ecosystem continuity.

Jul 12, 2025

Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior is also observed in non-human primates, who use complex gestures to convey what they want, but does the use of deliberate gestures extend beyond primates to other members of the animal kingdom?

Jul 12, 2025

The number of states banning smartphones in schools is growing.

Jul 12, 2025

Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S. This week, researchers discovered a cool new fish and named it after Darth Vader. An analysis of the DART mission suggests that while it proved that an impactor could alter the trajectory of an asteroid, it ejected boulders in unpredictable directions that could complicate other impactor missions. And archaeologists uncovered a rock art panel that could depict an elite individual from the First Dynasty.

Jul 12, 2025

Molecular glues, tiny molecules that connect one protein to another, are promising targets for pharmaceutical research. By linking a disease-related protein to one that triggers a cell's demolition and recycling pathways, pharmaceutical researchers have been able to develop novel therapies for otherwise drug-resistant diseases.

Jul 12, 2025

Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization says.

Jul 12, 2025

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a photopumped lasing from a buried dielectric photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser emitting at room temperature and an eye-safe wavelength. Their findings, published in IEEE Photonics Journal, improve upon current laser design and open new avenues for defense applications.

Jul 11, 2025

In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be helpful for learners to begin with the linear presentation of how stretches of DNA form genes, this oversimplification undersells the significance of the genome's 3D structure.

Jul 11, 2025

A new microchip invented by Scripps Research scientists can reveal how a person's antibodies interact with viruses—using just a drop of blood. The technology offers researchers faster, clearer insights that could help accelerate vaccine development and antibody discovery.

Jul 11, 2025

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl exclusion zone with a new project in the Japanese Fukushima Prefecture to further our understanding of what it means for animals to live and reproduce in radioactive environments.

Jul 11, 2025

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air high in the stratosphere, steer extreme cold to different regions of the country. One pattern drives Arctic air into the Northwest U.S., the other into the Central and Eastern areas.

Jul 11, 2025

Cleaning products, candles, cribs, and cosmetics are just a few of the common household items that emit formaldehyde, a colorless, odorless chemical that, when present in the air at levels higher than 0.1 parts per million, has been found to be a risk to human health.

Jul 11, 2025

Spreading wildfires forced the evacuation on Friday of part of the famed Grand Canyon, with the US National Park Service appealing for visitors to stay calm.

Jul 11, 2025

The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise that the migration patterns of these dogs mirror those of humans through the Arctic. Sled dogs have assisted humans with the difficult tasks of traversing through harsh environments and transporting heavy materials and food, ultimately playing an important role in survival. However, many breeds of sled dog, like the Siberian husky, Alaskan malamute and Samoyed, have now mostly transitioned out of their traditional roles and into the role of pets and are often mixed with other breeds.

Jul 11, 2025

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the third of its kind ever known, astronomers at Michigan State University—along with a team of international researchers—turned their telescopes to capture data on the new celestial sighting.

Jul 11, 2025

In an ideal world, every piece of food we eat would be free of pathogens at all times. In the real world, though, where 600 million people contract a foodborne illness every year, this just isn't the case. In fact, it's impossible—microbes are just too ubiquitous, and food systems are too complex to eliminate them entirely.

Jul 11, 2025

A new Europe-focused study reveals that polyethylene (PE), the most widely used packaging material in Europe, has lower life cycle global warming potential (GWP)—often used to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—than conventional packaging alternatives, such as paper, metals, and glass, in most applications. The finding arrives as the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) came into force in February 2025, offering policymakers valuable insights for work on delegated acts that could directly or indirectly lead to the substitution of plastic packaging by alternatives.

Jul 11, 2025

Certain migratory species of sharks may remain swimming and feeding in Atlantic Ocean waters in areas of the northeast coast for longer periods of time later into fall before they head toward southern waters. Led by researchers in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, the study tracked six shark species over five years by way of tagging them and acoustically tracking their movement.

Jul 11, 2025

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide insights into how mobile elements in DNA hijack cellular functions—and how cells can defend themselves against this in order to prevent conditions such as tumor formation or chronic inflammation.

Jul 11, 2025

Many of us have wondered what a landscape we see in a modern photograph might have looked like centuries ago. This question is especially intriguing when we know that the scenery has been radically transformed by human intervention over the past centuries.

Jul 11, 2025

A new report from the California Policy Lab at UCLA shows promising early results from Los Angeles County's Homelessness Prevention Unit (HPU). The report found that people in the HPU program were 71% less likely to enter a homeless shelter or have contact with street outreach teams within 18 months, compared to similar high-risk people who didn't enroll.

Jul 11, 2025

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark matter and dark energy in unprecedented detail. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-ever-digital-camera-is-this-cosmologists-magnum-opus-20250711/" target="_blank">The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>

Jul 10, 2025

Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address climate-related challenges. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-regional-models-advance-climate-science-20250710/" target="_blank">How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>

Jul 9, 2025

An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/" target="_blank">Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>

Jul 7, 2025

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/" target="_blank">New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>

Jul 3, 2025

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into perception in your brain. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-smell-guides-our-inner-world-20250703/" target="_blank">How Smell Guides Our Inner World</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>

Jul 13, 2025

"We’re making more choices and consequences."

Jul 13, 2025

A new release date will be revealed later this year.

Jul 13, 2025

Explore, fight, and dance together in RGG's massive fifth adventure.

Jul 13, 2025

Joint Operations.

Jul 13, 2025

Update 1.4.1 makes a new party character appear earlier in the game, among many other changes.

Jul 13, 2025

Help with solving Sunday's puzzle.

Jul 12, 2025

Current gen RDR2, last gen GTA4.

Jul 12, 2025

It's supporting evidence for Krafton's narrative, but still not definitive.

Jul 12, 2025

Any one of these games would be a good deal on its own for $14.99.

Jul 12, 2025

Broke & Bones founders Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones are leaving their production company behind.

Jul 12, 2025

I’ve found my new favourite book, only it’s interactive and I choose where it goes, if the constables will let me.

Jul 12, 2025

Forget LEGO Fortnite, the collaboration I want is LEGO Monster Hunter.

Jul 12, 2025

Prepare to throw it back to 1991.

Jul 12, 2025

Developer Long Jaunt plans to focus on roadmap features going forward.

Jul 12, 2025

Not an active server in sight.

Jul 12, 2025

Starter dungeon.

Jul 12, 2025

The Webgrave update arrives July 28.

Jul 12, 2025

"I still went and made a level that looked entirely different and played entirely different."

Jul 12, 2025

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

Jul 11, 2025

A surprisingly dull hero shooter wrapped up in a monetization nightmare.

Jul 11, 2025

It turns out that a lot of Rematch developers, and a big chunk of players, aren't soccer fans.

Jul 11, 2025

I still believed 'cheap' controllers were a last resort until I picked up this amazing 8BitDo pad.

Jul 11, 2025

Blizzard wasn't fast enough to stop them.

Jul 11, 2025

I've played Of Ash and Steel a bit and yes, it needs work, but it also shows some interesting potential.

Jul 11, 2025

A group of more than 60 Microsoft shareholders has filed a proposal that will be voted on at the company's next Annual General Meeting.

Jul 11, 2025

Weird!

Jul 11, 2025

Though he doesn't "blame anyone for trying to make a living."

Jul 11, 2025

Happy birthday!

Jul 11, 2025

No reason for the removal has been given, but Playdead recently filed a lawsuit against co-founder Dino Patti, escalating their long-running legal dispute.

Jul 11, 2025

Nicely done, GSC.

Jul 11, 2025

Lest we forget horses are very heavy and very sensitive.

Jul 11, 2025

Four virtual wheels and the open monitor, all courtesy of these Prime Day deals.

Jul 11, 2025

Not too much, not too little. Perfect.

Jul 11, 2025

Bleeding out.

Jul 11, 2025

Nature must still find a way.

Jul 11, 2025

In case you need a helping hand.

Jul 11, 2025

Well, early '00s and late '90s.

Jul 11, 2025

This isn't the "ultimate package" I was promised.

Jul 11, 2025

Falling coconuts kill 150 people a year (lie).

Jul 11, 2025

You get a house, and you get a house, and you get a house!

Jul 11, 2025

Add some flair to your favourite fits.

Jul 11, 2025

Make the ultimate fashion statement.

Jul 11, 2025

"Suing a multi-billion dollar company in a painful, public and possibly protracted way was certainly not on my bucket list."

Jul 11, 2025

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

Jul 10, 2025

Atsu isn't a samurai or a ninja, but a ruthless mercenary.

Jul 10, 2025

Steam briefly died and came back alive.

Jul 10, 2025

I'd buy it if I didn't already own everything in it.

Jul 10, 2025

Shark Dentist.

Jul 10, 2025

For those who accept no substitutes for a genuine Xbox controller, $47 is a genuine bargain.

Jul 10, 2025

They might be as lethal for the user as they are for the target, but that's the price of progress.

Jul 11, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/five-colorful-robots-in-a-row-with-antennae-resembling-toys-on-a-wooden-surface.jpg?id=61192609&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=85%2C0%2C85%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><span>Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at </span><em>IEEE Spectrum</em><span> robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Robotics%20event%20suggestion%20for%20Video%20Friday">send us your events</a><span> for inclusion.</span></p><h5><a href="https://ifac2025-msrob.com/">IFAC Symposium on Robotics</a>: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS</h5><h5><a href="https://2025.robocup.org/">RoboCup 2025</a>: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL</h5><h5><a href="https://www.ro-man2025.org/">RO-MAN 2025</a>: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS</h5><h5><a href="https://clawar.org/clawar2025/">CLAWAR 2025</a>: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN, CHINA</h5><h5><a href="https://actuate.foxglove.dev/">ACTUATE 2025</a>: 23–24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCO</h5><h5><a href="https://www.corl.org/">CoRL 2025</a>: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL</h5><h5><a href="https://2025humanoids.org/">IEEE Humanoids</a>: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL</h5><h5><a href="https://worldrobotsummit.org/en/">World Robot Summit</a>: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN</h5><h5><a href="https://www.iros25.org/">IROS 2025</a>: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA</h5><p>Enjoy today’s videos!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><div style="page-break-after: always"><span style="display:none"> </span></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="jvdbjz-qr18"><em>Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation. Fully programmable in Python (and soon JavaScript, Scratch) and priced from $299, it’s your gateway into robotics AI: fun, customizable, and ready to be part of your next coding project.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b91b74227e6fd6ca5f9578445714e8b7" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JvdBJZ-qR18?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>I’m so happy that <a data-linked-post="2669372232" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-reachy-2" target="_blank">Pollen</a> and Reachy found a home with Hugging Face, but I hope they understand that they are never, ever allowed to change that robot’s face. O-o</p><p>[ <a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/reachy-mini">Reachy Mini</a> ] via [ <a href="https://huggingface.co/" target="_blank">Hugging Face</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="pinuclin3dg"><em>General-purpose robots promise a future where household assistance is ubiquitous and aging in place is supported by reliable, intelligent help. These robots will unlock human potential by enabling people to shape and interact with the physical world in transformative new ways. At the core of this transformation are Large Behavior Models (LBMs) - embodied AI systems that take in robot sensor data and output actions. LBMs are pretrained on large, diverse manipulation datasets and offer the key to realizing robust, general-purpose robotic intelligence. Yet despite their growing popularity, we still know surprisingly little about what today’s LBMs actually offer - and at what cost. This uncertainty stems from the difficulty of conducting rigorous, large-scale evaluations in real-world robotics. As a result, progress in algorithm and dataset design is often guided by intuition rather than evidence, hampering progress. Our work aims to change that.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="44fd8ff77c1ad6b3e4a08b866544d209" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DeLpnTgzJT4?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://toyotaresearchinstitute.github.io/lbm1/">Toyota Research Institute</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="pinuclin3dg"><em>Kinisi Robotics is advancing the frontier of physical intelligence by developing AI-driven robotic platforms capable of high-speed, autonomous pick-and-place operations in unstructured environments. This video showcases Kinisi’s latest wheeled-base humanoid performing dexterous bin stacking and item sorting using closed-loop perception and motion planning. The system combines high-bandwidth actuation, multi-arm coordination, and real-time vision to achieve robust manipulation without reliance on fixed infrastructure. By integrating custom hardware with onboard intelligence, Kinisi enables scalable deployment of general-purpose robots in dynamic warehouse settings, pushing toward broader commercial readiness for embodied AI systems.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9f48158ddbd19d31e7ec30146f0e9f8e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PinUCliN3dg?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.kinisi.com/">Kinisi Robotics</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Bren!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="ay_-z9m18p0"><em>In this work, we develop a data collection system where human and robot data are collected and unified in a shared space, and propose a modularized cross-embodiment Transformer that is pretrained on human data and fine-tuned on robot data. This enables high data efficiency and effective transfer from human to quadrupedal embodiments, facilitating versatile manipulation skills for unimanual and bimanual, non-prehensile and prehensile, precise tool-use, and long-horizon tasks, such as cat litter scooping!</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fc677f3b22187a3788fbb621e9ff349e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ay_-z9M18p0?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://human2bots.github.io/">Human2LocoMan</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Yaru!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="clfuhynfoey"><em>LEIYN is a quadruped robot equipped with an active waist joint. It achieves the world’s fastest chimney climbing through dynamic motions learned via reinforcement learning.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="437700e4aa4488bc7927c869b14d887e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cLfUhyNFOeY?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/">JSK Lab</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Keita!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="k0ad-jver10"><a data-linked-post="2658569185" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/quadrupedal-robot-shins-turns-biped" target="_blank">Quadrupedal robots</a> are really just bipedal robots that haven’t learned to walk on two legs yet.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="05f047fee8ebc6b334275b819887f077" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k0aD-JvER10?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://arclab.hku.hk/">Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab, University of Hong Kong</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="6zzuyh0jlha"><em>This study introduces a biomimetic self-healing module for tendon-driven legged robots that uses robot motion to activate liquid metal sloshing, which removes surface oxides and significantly enhances healing strength. Validated on a life-sized monopod robot, the module enables repeated squatting after impact damage, marking the first demonstration of active self-healing in high-load robotic applications.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9f330f019896b3e7dd879963b695620e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZZuyH0jLhA?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://haraduka.github.io/">University of Tokyo</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Kento!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="mcuo_03kezi">That whole putting wheels on quadruped robots thing was a great idea that someone had way back when.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9f136c6987283ea4684833db4f6c59dd" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mcuo_03kezI?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.pudurobotics.com/en">Pudu Robotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="yswx94xbluc">I know nothing about this video except that it’s very satisfying and comes from a YouTube account that hasn’t posted in 6 years.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7cdbf8d1e7b9e81ee1086507af5e117d" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yswX94XBLuc?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@young-jaebae2863">Young-jae Bae YouTube</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="wnprlir4zbw"><em>Our AI WORKER now comes in a new Swerve Drive configuration, optimized for logistics environments. With its agile and omnidirectional movement, the swerve-type mobile base can efficiently perform various logistics tasks such as item transport, shelf navigation, and precise positioning in narrow aisles.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f600956954a1856dbafc6a146241fee0" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WNpRlIr4zbw?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>Wait, you can have a bimanual humanoid without legs? I am shocked.</p><p>[ <a href="https://ai.robotis.com/">ROBOTIS</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="v2xngkxqrlu">I can’t tell whether I need an office assistant, or if I just need snacks.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="06aedcff278ab2202361552c4d86234e" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v2XnGkXQrLU?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://pndbotics.com/humanoid">PNDbotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="xgfsctqzakw">“MagicBot Z1: Atomic kinetic energy, the brave are fearless,” says the MagicBot website. Hard to argue with that!</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="da2c39cfb4b53141144af4a627794763" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XGfSCtQzaKw?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.magiclab.top/z1">MagicLab</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="dd3ybkoukhk"><em>We’re excited to announce our new HQ in Palo Alto [CA]. As we grow, consolidating our Sunnyvale [CA] and Moss [Norway] team under one roof will accelerate our speed to ramping production and getting NEO into homes near you.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="528b27f97c27c09c81df91ac148de70b" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dD3YBkOUKHk?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>I’m not entirely sure that moving from Norway to California is an upgrade, honestly.</p><p>[ <a href="https://www.1x.tech/">1X</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="drv_a8pxr0y"><em>Jim Kernan, Chief Product Officer at Engineered Arts, shares how they’re commercializing humanoid robots—blending AI, expressive design, and real-world applications to build trust and engagement.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="95eb6a1fbbca56e2408cb4849008c517" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DrV_A8PXR0Y?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://humanoidssummit.com/">Humanoids Summit</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="l0wizdtovq4"><em>In the second installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots <a data-linked-post="2650275007" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/astro-teller-captain-of-moonshots-at-x" target="_blank">Astro Teller</a> sits down with André Prager, former Chief Engineer at Wing, for a conversation about the early days of Wing and how the team solved some of their toughest engineering challenges to develop simple, lightweight, inexpensive delivery drones that are now being used every day across three continents.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0eac2eb9f72293166a6b92d5588ea7cd" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L0WIZDtovQ4?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://x.company/moonshotpodcast/">Moonshot Podcast</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div>

Jul 10, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/animation-stills-of-small-robotic-creatures-being-created-in-a-lab.jpg?id=61190025&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=391%2C0%2C391%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>IEEE and <a href="https://www.pixar.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pixar Animation Studios</a>’ collaboration on the <a href="https://renderman.pixar.com/news/renderman-scitech-art-challenge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RenderMan SciTech Art Challenge</a> last year broke entry records for the annual competition, tripling the usual number of submissions. Nearly 200 artists, engineers, and enthusiasts competed to demonstrate shading, lighting, rendering, and compositing techniques using RenderMan tools. The contest was held from 26 August to 26 November 2024.</p><p>As the 2025 competition date nears, here’s a look into RenderMan and how IEEE got involved in this exciting, innovative challenge.</p><p>Developed by Pixar in 1988, RenderMan has been at the forefront of computer-generated imagery (CGI) ever since. Created by visionaries <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/and-the-oscar-goes-to" target="_self">Loren Carpenter, Rob Cook, Pat Hanrahan, and Tom Porter</a>, the technology revolutionized the animation industry with its ability to produce realistic images. RenderMan, which has been used in such blockbuster movies as <a href="https://youtu.be/5PSNL1qE6VY?feature=shared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>Avatar</em></em></a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/aJJrkyHas78?feature=shared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>Jurassic World</em></em></a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/CxwTLktovTU?feature=shared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>Toy Story</em></em></a> (the first fully computer-animated film), is still a vital tool for artists and studios worldwide.</p><p class="ieee-inbody-related">Related: <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-real-story-of-pixar" target="_blank">The Real Story of Pixar</a></p><p>Pixar received an <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/story-behind-pixars-cgi-software" target="_self">IEEE Milestone</a> award in 2023 for RenderMan’s groundbreaking technology. A Milestone plaque recognizing the technology is displayed next to the entrance gates at Pixar’s headquarters in Emeryville, Calif.</p><p>To celebrate the recognition and IEEE’s roots in electrical science, the two organizations came up with a “compute” theme for last year’s art challenge. Contestants’ entries had to feature a cityscape showcasing future human innovations or an alternate reality in which electricity never had been invented.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/leif-pedersen-b2497426/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leif Pedersen</a>, a RenderMan specialist at Pixar, says the collaboration with IEEE allowed preparation to meet opportunity.</p><p>“We were already preparing for the art challenge,” Pedersen says, “and it was a perfect opportunity to leverage that wonderful milestone and make the challenge a celebration of computing.”</p><h3></h3><br/><div class="rblad-ieee_in_content"></div><h2>A rare release of priority assets</h2><p>The partnership also led to something unusual: Pixar released the proprietary assets inspired by the studio’s early hardware history, including elements modeled after the original <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-real-story-of-pixar" target="_self">Pixar Image Computer</a>.</p><p>“We’re pretty hesitant to ship out assets like that and also our intellectual property, but Pixar was all in because we knew that it was going to be a great hit,” Pedersen says. “It was so cool to see how creatively people ran with their ideas.”</p><p class="pull-quote"><span>“Pixar was built to foster interaction. Artists and engineers walk parallel paths, and art is where they meet.” </span></p><p>Participants used the assets in imaginative ways, turning chipsets into cityscapes and monitors into robot heads.</p><p>The winner was <a href="https://www.artstation.com/margotbrun" target="_blank">Margot Brun</a> for <a href="https://assets.renderman.pixar.com/Art_Challenges/scitech/finalists/Margot-Brun-Bill-The-Robot-Artist.png" target="_blank"><em><em>The Robot Artist</em></em></a>. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lessaturated/#" target="_blank">Furkan Avci</a> came in second with <a href="https://assets.renderman.pixar.com/Art_Challenges/scitech/finalists/Lessaturated-I-Got-You-Buddy.png" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>I Got You, Buddy</em></em></a>. <a href="https://www.artstation.com/noemielayre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Noémie Layre</a> placed third with <a href="https://assets.renderman.pixar.com/Art_Challenges/scitech/finalists/Layre-Noemie-The-Robotanist.png" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>The Robotanist</em></em></a>.</p><p>The judges, who included <a href="https://r5.ieee.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Region 5</a> Director <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-francis-72130412/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt Francis</a> and past <a href="https://ieee-region6.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Region 6</a> Director <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathyhh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kathy Herring Hayashi</a>, said they were amazed by the diversity of the entries.</p><p>The IEEE members’ technical perspective added a valuable dimension to the judging process, Pedersen says, adding, “It was crucial to have that outside view. We’re so in tune with making something pretty or based on a story, so getting that edge on ‘compute’ with IEEE’s expertise was incredibly important.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Exterior view of Pixar Animation Studios\u2019 entrance gate. " class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a0e944be915e177a9c9f2a274bff164d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="d89cc" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/exterior-view-of-pixar-animation-studios-u2019-entrance-gate.jpg?id=61190028&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The IEEE Milestone plaque recognizing RenderMan is on display next to the entrance gates at Pixar’s headquarters in Emeryville, Calif.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Disney/Pixar</small></p><h2>A launchpad to a CGI career</h2><p>The RenderMan Challenge isn’t just about showcasing one’s talent, Pedersen says. It also can launch one’s career in CGI. Past participants and winners have gone on to work at Pixar and other major studios including <a href="https://about.netflix.com/en" target="_blank">Netflix</a> and the <a href="https://3dvf.com/en/studio/moving-picture-company/#google_vignette" target="_blank">Moving Picture Co.</a></p><p>“We don’t bring greatness to the contestants,” Pedersen says. “They’re already brilliant artists in their own right. We give them a platform where they’re learning an industry-leading tool with massive amounts of complexity, where their creativity can run freely.</p><p>“Pixar was built to foster interaction,” he adds. “Artists and engineers walk parallel paths, and the art is where they meet.”</p><p>For students and young professionals who want to work in the field, Pedersen has this advice: “The most crucial thing is education and the determination to be the best you can be. You can be an illustrator, a mathematician, or a programmer.” </p><p>The RenderMan team includes sculptors, illustrators, physicists, and software engineers collaborating to push the boundaries of digital imagery.</p><p>“There’s a place for you at Pixar and other VFX [visual effects] animation houses,” Pedersen says. “I encourage you to keep up with the latest technology, get to know people with similar interests, and look for events like the RenderMan Art Challenge.”</p><p><a href="https://renderman.pixar.com/challenges-join" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This year’s challenge</a> kicks off next month.</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/elderly-man-wearing-a-smart-watch-while-sleeping-to-monitor-his-heart-health.jpg?id=61184892&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=295%2C0%2C295%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>The global population is getting older. By 2030 there will be <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-health#:~:text=By%202030%2C%201%20in%206,will%20double%20(2.1%20billion)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nearly 1.5 billion people who will be at least 60</a>, according to the <a href="https://www.who.int/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a>.</p><p>Studies have found that most older adults want to stay in their own homes. To help them, an assortment of technologies known as <a href="https://life.ieee.org/get-involved/ieee-agetech-initiative/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">age tech</a> is being developed to improve their quality of life and help them maintain their independence for as long as possible. Products include <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/heart-attack-smartwatch" target="_self">health and wellness monitoring devices</a>, financial management systems, <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-neo-humanoid-robot" target="_self">home-care robots</a>, and <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/switchbot-k20-pro-ces" target="_self">smart appliances</a>.</p><p>But not all age tech designers are taking into account issues that older people face, such as decreased mental acuity, mobility, perception, and strength.</p><p>Designing with those concerns in mind can be guided by technical standards. Last year the <a href="https://standards.ieee.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Standards Association</a> (IEEE SA) formed the <a href="https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/activities/technology-standards-for-the-aging/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Technology Standards for the Aging (AgeTech) Industry Connections group</a>. The IC group’s goal is to ensure that age tech products and services are easy to use, safe, and secure for senior citizens.</p><p>Age tech standards could address accessibility aspects related to aging—which aren’t considered disabilities by the U.S. <a href="https://www.ada.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Americans With Disabilities Act</a> and similar laws.</p><p>“When we talk about age tech, we’re talking about technologies that are either specifically designed to be used by older people to address a need they have or a product that was designed for general use but has a feature that would be beneficial for an older person,” says IEEE Life Fellow <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/gwarnold" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Arnold</a>, the IC’s chair. Now retired, Arnold spent much of his career working on standards development.</p><p>“We are focused on technologies that are designed for older people and not just general products that happen to be used by older people,” Arnold says.</p><h2>What senior citizens need</h2><p>The <a href="https://life.ieee.org/about/leadership/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Life Members Committee</a> has raised awareness about the need to develop technology tailored for older adults. The committee supports those who are at least 65 years old and have been members for a sufficient period, such that their age and years of membership equal or exceed 100.</p><p>IEEE got involved with age tech after sessions presented at last year’s <a href="https://evolutionconference.ieee.org/2024/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Life Members Conference</a>, Arnold says. One session explored how <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-life-members-reconnect" target="_self">emerging technologies and new applications</a> could impact seniors. Another presentation, given by <a href="https://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/?intcmp=GLOBAL-FTR-LNK-CLK-ABOUT_US-UXDIA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AARP</a>’s <a href="https://agetechcollaborative.org/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AgeTech Collaborative</a>, described difficulties older adults face when using newer technology, as well as their concerns about data privacy and other factors.</p><p>A discussion about what IEEE could do to address the issues led to a suggestion that age tech standards might be needed, Arnold says.</p><p>“For the most part,” he says, “these solutions have been designed for older people without their input, or being adequately tested on them.”</p><p>Arnold, along with Senior Life Member <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-andrews-08b1375/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Andrews</a> and Life Member <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirpalsinghkhalsa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kirpal Singh Khalsa</a>—the conference’s organizers—got to work. They compiled a bibliography of all the projects and programs being conducted on the aging population by universities, government agencies, and private industry.</p><p>Arnold also researched relevant IEEE standards. He found about a dozen that were related but none that were specific to aging.</p><p class="pull-quote">“We are focused on technologies that are designed for older people and not just general products that happen to be used by older people.” </p><p>Andrews, Khalsa, and Arnold then formed the IC group, which Arnold describes as an “incubator that provides a vehicle for volunteers to develop proposals for new IEEE standards.”</p><p>“The goal,” he says, “is to develop proposals for IEEE standards to address such issues as terminology, human factors [how people interact with technology], usability, metrics, test methods, and interoperability for age tech products and services.”</p><p>The IC group’s participants include representatives from AARP, the <a href="https://www.aal-europe.eu/" target="_blank">AAL Programme</a>, the <a href="https://ki.se/en/nvs/research/centres-and-networks-at-nvs/aging-research-center-arc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aging Research Center</a>, and the <a href="https://tohoku.elsevierpure.com/en/organisations/smart-aging-research-center-sarc#:~:text=Smart%2DAging%20Research%20Center%20(SARC)%20%2D%20Tohoku%20University" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Smart-Aging Research Center</a>. Several universities are involved in the initiative because, Arnold says, they’re able to provide an avenue to publish research or make people aware of their work on aging and longevity. They include <a href="https://portal.anhembi.br/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Universidade Anhembi Morumbi</a>, the <a href="https://www.anu.edu.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Australian National University</a>, <a href="https://tec.mx/en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tecnológico de Monterrey</a>, the <a href="https://www.ul.ie/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Limerick</a>, and the <a href="https://www.upenn.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Pennsylvania</a>.</p><p>The IC group also is working with the <a href="https://www.cta.tech/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Consumer Technology Association</a>, which deals with <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ces-2025" target="_self">products</a> sold to the general public.</p><p>Arnold encourages product developers to participate: “It’s always helpful to be the driver of a standard. In many cases, the developers get some of their intellectual property embedded in the standard or are able to find a market for what they’re working on.”</p><h2>Frameworks and IEEE society involvement</h2><p>The IC group is developing a framework document to define terms used in the age tech field, providing a common understanding, Arnold says. The group also is creating a road map to help discover what standards are appropriate.</p><p>From there, he says, he anticipates writing proposals for one or more <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-standard-biomedical-devices-data" target="_self">standards</a> that should be developed by an existing IEEE standards committee.</p><p>“The thing that’s unique about the age tech program,” he says, “is that it cuts across many different technologies, so there are about half a dozen societies that could address various aspects.”</p><p>They include the <a href="https://www.embs.org/welcome/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20819547517&gbraid=0AAAAACnkS6nZeSltIxOewo1Osx8_CpmZj&gclid=CjwKCAjw9anCBhAWEiwAqBJ-cxYf2NzvYdxirzNK-uhN3zI1ThgJsmLz6DpllTDWWutOVnBkU8OlvRoC85EQAvD_BwE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society</a>, which deals with wearables for health applications, and the <a href="https://www.computer.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Computer Society</a>, which focuses on cybersecurity, software, and usability issues. The <a href="https://www.ieee-ras.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Robotics and Automation Society</a> would be involved with assistive machines being developed for older people. The <a href="https://ctsoc.ieee.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Consumer Technology Society</a> handles products for the general public. The <a href="https://technologyandsociety.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology</a> takes a broad view of new developments’ impact.</p><h2>Developing demographic datasets</h2><p>Another area of focus, Arnold says, is creating datasets for developers to offer insights into the lives and health of senior citizens.</p><p>“A lot of datasets represent a broad range of people, from young to old, so basically products are being designed for the average person—which don’t necessarily account for differences as people age,” he says. “There are a lot of factors that need to be designed for them, such as slower reaction time and other aspects of human performance.”</p><h2>A contest for aging-in-place tech solutions</h2><p>The IEEE SA recently held the <a href="https://engagestandards.ieee.org/telehealth-competition-2025.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter-april-2025" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aging Healthy Digital Innovation Challenge</a> to encourage engineers to develop such technologies. The competition, which recently concluded, sought projects that would enhance patient engagement, streamline health care delivery, and improve overall patient outcomes. Products could include devices for disease monitoring and therapies; nutrition management; and personalized emotional and wellness support and monitoring systems.</p><p>The competition was sponsored by the IEEE AgeTech IC group and the <a href="https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/activities/new-frontiers-in-the-continuum-of-care-for-connected-health/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Frontiers in the Continuum of Care for Connected Health</a> IC group, in collaboration with the IEEE SA <a href="https://standards.ieee.org/practices/healthcare-life-sciences/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Healthcare and Life Sciences</a> global practice group.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Two smart technology watches." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="dec3223f7f240430cd197164b5d39dc3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="92cf7" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/two-smart-technology-watches.jpg?id=61184935&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Alva Health’s NeuroCheck wearable stroke detection device is designed to identify the earliest signs of ischemic stroke. The pair of wrist-worn medical-grade devices continuously monitors motor asymmetry—a hallmark symptom of stroke—and alerts patients and caregivers when a stroke is suspected.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Alva Health</small></p><p>The winner was <a href="https://www.alva-health.com/" target="_blank">Alva Health’s NeuroCheck</a>. The wearable stroke detection device is designed to identify the earliest signs of ischemic stroke. The system consists of a pair of wrist-worn medical-grade devices, a smartphone application, and a cloud-based analytics engine powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms. NeuroCheck continuously monitors motor asymmetry—a hallmark symptom of stroke—and alerts patients and caregivers when a stroke is suspected, enabling faster treatment and improved outcomes. The device’s components were developed in collaboration with leading academic institutions and health care systems, including <a href="https://www.yale.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yale</a>. NeuroChek can run for more than 90 days without having to be charged.</p><h2>A call to action for IEEE life members</h2><p>Arnold says IEEE has a built-in roster of age tech experts who can lend their expertise to the IC group: life members.</p><p>“Life members should become involved in the IC,” he says, “because they have a tremendous wealth of knowledge as users of age tech and also the technical expertise they’ve developed during their careers.</p>“Many life members are now retired and still want to be involved. Helping IEEE develop age tech for practical use is a great way to stay technically and professionally engaged, and to help other senior citizens improve their quality of life."

Jul 9, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/iot-hr-receiver-circuit-board-with-switches-and-connectors.jpg?id=61144436&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=366%2C0%2C367%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>A new chip component designed by MIT researchers promises to expand the reach of the Internet of Things into 5G. The discovery represents a broader push for 5G-based IoT tech—using the telecom standard’s <a href="https://www.iotinsider.com/iot-insights/what-does-5g-mean-for-iot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">low latency</a>, <a href="https://freeeway.com/how-is-5g-future-ready-for-iot-traffic-energy-consumption/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">energy efficiency</a>, and capacity for massive <a href="https://www.telecomtrainer.com/what-is-the-role-of-massive-machine-type-communications-mmtc-in-5g/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">device connectivity</a>. The new research also signals an important step toward applications that include smaller, low-power health monitors, smart cameras, and industrial sensors, for instance. </p><p>More broadly, the prospect of moving the IoT onto 5G means more things can connect more quickly with potentially greater data speeds and less battery drain. It also means trickier and more complicated circuits will need to be toiling away behind the data streams.</p><p>And doing all this using <a data-linked-post="2664987939" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-ran-conflict" target="_blank">5G standards</a> rather than equivalent <a href="https://onomondo.com/blog/lte-m-iot-guide/" target="_blank">4G/LTE</a> or <a href="https://iot.telenor.com/blog/will-5g-replace-wifi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wi-Fi</a> networks arguably means IoT is expanding its range and scope. It’s moving beyond relatively modest-sized IoT deployments to broader networks boasting the potential for hundreds of nodes or more.</p><p>To clarify, however, says <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JHUanvoAAAAJ&hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Soroush Araei</a>, a PhD candidate at MIT in <a href="https://www.eecs.mit.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">electrical engineering and computer science</a>, IoT-over-5G doesn’t mean that every node in a network will suddenly be getting its own phone number.</p><p>“The main goal here is that you have a single radio receiver that can be reused for different applications,” Araei says. “You have a single piece of hardware which is flexible, and you can tune it across a wide frequency range in software.”</p><p>Using 5G <em>standards</em> rather than <a data-linked-post="2659952207" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/5g-rollout-disappointments" target="_blank">5G wireless networks</a> allows IoT devices to frequency hop, to sip their battery power, and to use massive-connectivity tricks that allow for up to <a href="https://blog.antenova.com/what-is-mmtc-in-5g-how-does-it-work" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">one million devices per square kilometer</a>.</p><h2><strong>How to Make a 5G IoT Chip</strong></h2><p>On the other hand, the fact that IoT developers have to date been slow to adopt 5G underscores just how difficult the hardware challenge is.</p><p>“For IoT, power efficiency is critical,” says Eric Klumperink, associate professor of <a href="https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/icd/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IC design</a> at the <a href="https://www.utwente.nl/en/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Twente</a> in Enschede, Netherlands. “You want a decent radio performance for very low power—[using] a small battery or even energy harvesting.”</p><p>But with more and more devices connecting to more and more networks, 5G or otherwise, other concerns rear their heads too.</p><p>“In a world increasingly saturated with wireless signals, interference is a major problem,” says <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitogiannini/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vito Giannini</a>, a technical fellow at Austin, Tex.-based <a href="https://www.ltsct.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">L&T Semiconductor Technologies</a>. (Neither Giannini nor Klumperink were involved with the MIT group’s research.)</p><p>Using 5G standards potentially addresses both issues, Araei says. Specifically, he says, the MIT group’s new tech relies on a slimmed-down version of 5G that’s already been developed for IoT and other applications. It’s called <a href="https://www.ericsson.com/en/reports-and-papers/white-papers/redcap-expanding-the-5g-device-ecosystem-for-consumers-and-industries" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">5G reduced capacity</a> (or 5G RedCap).</p><p>“5G RedCap IoT receivers can hop across frequencies,” he says. “But they’re not required to be as low-latency as the top-tier 5G applications [including smartphones].”</p><p>By contrast, the simplest IoT chip that uses Wi-Fi would rely on a single frequency band—perhaps 2.5 or 5 gigahertz—and could potentially seize up if too many other devices were using the same channel.</p><p>Frequency hopping, however, requires robust radio communications hardware that can quickly <a href="https://www.keysight.com/us/en/about/newsroom/news-releases/2023/1122-pr23-116-keysight-and-mediatek-successfully-complete-5g-new.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">switch between frequency channels</a> as directed by the network and then <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.05634" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ensure the frequency hops align</a> with network instructions and timing.</p><p>That’s a lot of hardware and software smarts packed into a tiny chip that might be just one of hundreds of motes affixed to pallets across an entire warehouse.</p><p>But features like that are just the appetizers, Araei says.</p><p>The centerpiece of any viable 5G RedCap chip is the hardware that can flexibly work across a range of frequencies, while still keeping to a tiny power budget and a modest overall cost for the device. (The MIT group’s tech can only be used for receiving incoming signals; other chip components would be needed to transmit across a similarly wide range of frequencies.)</p><p>Here the researchers pulled a few tricks from the world of analog circuits and power electronics. But rather than bulk components layered and stacked like ceramic capacitors, the present work integrates these tricks into an on-chip system to miniaturize RF frequency hopping cheaply and efficiently. The researchers presented their work last month at the IEEE <a href="https://rfic-ieee.org/technical-program/rfic-technical-sessions?date=2025-06-16" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium</a> in San Francisco.</p><p>“This is kind of a switched-capacitor network,” Araei says. “You’re turning on and off these capacitors in a periodic manner sequentially, which is called ‘N-path structure.’ That generally gives you a low-pass filter.”</p><p>Which means that rather than using a single capacitor in the circuit, the team used a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_capacitor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">miniaturized bank of capacitors</a> to flick on and off <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_effect" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in tune with the needs</a> of the frequency range being received at the circuit.</p><p>And because they could put all this frequency-filtering wizardry at the front-end of the circuit, before the amplifier touches the signal, the team reports high efficiency at blocking out interference. Compared to conventional IoT receivers, they <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2025/compact-low-power-receiver-could-give-boost-5g-smart-devices-0617" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">report</a>, their circuit can filter out 30 times more interference, while doing so using only single-digit milliwatts of power.</p><p>In other words, the group appears to have designed some pretty effective low-power 5G IoT receiver circuitry. So who can design a similarly clever transmitter?</p><p>Do both of those, and someone someday will be in business, says Klumperink. “There are arguments to be made for IoT-over-5G (or 6G),” he says. “Because spectrum is allocated and managed better than ad hoc Wi-Fi connections.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7e00685eba94a084a9cbf7d18ef6a735" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="972cc" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/running-the-internet-of-things-over-5g-realistically-means-operating-with-very-low-power-requirements-the-mit-team-u2019s-chip.jpg?id=61144439&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" data-gramm="false" data-lpop-hide-native-caret="" data-lt-tmp-id="lt-272962" placeholder="Add Photo Caption..." spellcheck="false">Running the Internet of Things over 5G realistically means operating with very low power requirements. The MIT team’s chip consumes less than a milliwatt while still filtering out extraneous signals.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Soroush Araei</small></p><h2>Is This the Stuff of 5G IoT Chips to Come?</h2><p>The MIT group’s circuitry, Klumperink says, could conceivably be manufactured at a mainstream chip fab.</p><p>“I don’t see big hurdles as the circuit is implemented in mainstream CMOS technology,” Klumperink says. (The group’s circuits demand only a 22-nanometer fabrication process, so it wouldn’t need to be a bleeding-edge foundry by any stretch.)</p><p>Araei says the team aims next to work on eliminating a need for a battery or other dedicated power supply.</p><p>“Is it possible to get rid of that power supply and basically harness the power from the existing electromagnetic waves in the environment?” Araei asks.</p><p>He says they also hope to extend the frequency range for their receiver tech to cover the whole frequency range of 5G signals. “In this prototype we were able to achieve low frequencies of 250 megahertz up to 3 GHz,” he says. “So is it possible to extend that frequency range let’s say up to 6 GHz, to cover the entire 5G range?”</p><p>If these various upcoming hurdles can be cleared, says Giannini, a range of applications probably appear on the near-term horizon. “It offers an advantage for mobility, scalability, and secure wide-area coverage in mid-range and mid-bandwidth scenarios,” he says of the MIT group’s work. He adds that the new circuit’s 5G IoT adaptability could make the tech well suited for, he says, “industrial sensors, some wearables, and smart cameras.”</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-industrial-materials-processing-plant-with-a-multitude-of-large-silver-colored-tanks-of-various-sizes.jpg?id=61174452&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Olivine is a rather unassuming rock. Olive brown to yellow green in color, this hard yet brittle mineral is thought to be the most abundant in Earth’s upper mantle. Chemically, olivine is magnesium iron silicate, though it contains other elements too. Economically, it’s <a href="https://commonminerals.esci.umn.edu/minerals-o-s/olivine-group" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">close to worthless</a>. Its <a href="https://www.resources.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-11/olivine.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">limited industrial utility</a> stretches to gemstones, metalworking, ceramics, and occasionally, as a gravel for road construction. At some mining sites, olivine is a waste product, stored in piles on the surface.</p><p>It’s certainly not an obvious choice as a source for <a data-linked-post="2652903721" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-tools-find-essential-battery-materials" target="_blank">battery materials</a>.</p><p>But that’s exactly how it’s viewed by a group of New Zealand engineers. Christchurch-based <a href="https://www.aspiringmaterials.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aspiring Materials</a> has developed a patented chemical process that produces multiple valuable minerals from olivine, leaving no harmful waste behind. Perhaps most interesting to the energy sector is the rarest of its products—hard-to-source nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide that is <span>increasingly required for lithium-ion battery production.</span></p><h2><strong>Sustainable Mineral Extraction Process</strong></h2><p>Aspiring’s pilot plant, which opened in February, is in an anonymous industrial estate east of the city. One corner of the main floor is dominated by a large stainless-steel tank, which is connected to a series of smaller tanks arranged in a stepped line. “Apart from our electrolysis system, the hardware is more typical of dairy plants,” says <a href="https://nz.linkedin.com/in/columrice" target="_blank">Colum Rice</a>, Aspiring’s chief commercial officer. “The process is elegant but not massively complicated. Our inputs are rock, water, and renewable energy, and our products come with no CO₂ emissions.”</p><p>The rock is olivine “flour”; a fine, green-gray dust that is an unwanted by-product from refractory sand production. This is carried by screw conveyer into the largest tank, where it is combined with sulfuric acid. This acid-leaching step “transforms it into kind of an elemental soup,” says Megan Danczyk, lead chemical engineer at Aspiring. From there, it passes down the reaction chain vessels, where through the addition of caustic soda and careful management of particle size and temperature, three products can be individually extracted.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A woman in safety glasses, lab coat and gloves holds a scooper with a soupy white concoction inside." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="34ec5e919dac4deebf9b80f88d66ac8b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="84d51" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-woman-in-safety-glasses-lab-coat-and-gloves-holds-a-scooper-with-a-soupy-white-concoction-inside.jpg?id=61174462&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Megan Danczyk, Aspiring Materials’ lead chemical engineer, holds a scoop of magnesium hydroxide.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Aspiring Minerals</small></p><p>About 50 percent of what the process makes is silica that can be a partial replacement for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement" target="_blank">Portland cement</a>, the most common variety of cement in the world. About 40 percent is a magnesium product suitable for use in carbon sequestration, wastewater treatment, and alloy manufacturing, among other things.<em> </em>The final 10 percent is a mixed metal product—iron combined with small quantities of a nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide. The battery industry calls it <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_nickel_manganese_cobalt_oxides" target="_blank">NMC</a>, and it is the go-to material for high-power applications. </p><p>Danczyk explains that at the end of the extraction process, they’re left only with a salty brine. “This goes to an electrolyzer, which recycles and regenerates the acid we use for digestion and the base we use to separate the products. It’s a closed loop. We’re using the whole rock, and we’re processing it at low temperature and ambient pressure.”</p><p>Right now, Aspiring does each separation consecutively, or as Rice put it, “silica, reload, NMC, reload, magnesium.” The plan is to add two more reaction chains in parallel, so that the process can run continuously, shortening the runtime from three days to one.</p><h2>NMC Materials in Battery Manufacturing</h2><p>NMC materials are already widely used in battery manufacturing; typically forming the cathode in high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries, or for those electrical systems that need to be frequently cycled, such as power tools, <a data-linked-post="2650255825" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-battery-technology-could-provide-largescale-energy-storage-for-the-grid" target="_blank">large-scale energy storage</a>, and electric vehicles. “What we’ve been able to produce here matches the specs of what is currently used in the battery space,” says Danczyk.</p><p>Today, most industrially relevant NMC materials are made by combining salts of their three main ingredients, and each of those regularly appear on <a href="https://www.iea.org/topics/critical-minerals" target="_blank">critical minerals</a> lists because of their growing importance in our modern world. The challenge with critical minerals is accessing them. Most of the planet’s nickel is sourced and refined in <a href="https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/geographical-distribution-of-refined-material-production-for-key-minerals-in-the-base-case" target="_blank">Indonesia</a>. South Africa has the world’s largest manganese reserves, but exports <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/30/africa/manganese-south-africa-exports-electric-vehicles-batteries-spc-intl" target="_blank">almost all</a> of it to China for processing. For cobalt, the largest producer is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but again, it is refined in China. Concerns around supply monopoly, geopolitical instability, human rights violations, and environmental damage in these regions have been widely documented.</p><p>While NMC hydroxide represents the smallest fraction, (about 1 percent) of Aspiring’s outputs, it could still make a dent in future supply chains for battery materials. As Jim Goddin—who sat on the U.K. government’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/business-secretary-opens-latest-meeting-of-the-critical-minerals-expert-committee" target="_blank">expert committee</a> that developed the country’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-critical-mineral-strategy" target="_blank">Critical Minerals Strategy</a> in 2023—explains, the approach to securing supplies of these materials is changing.</p><p>“Economies are looking at how they can shore up supply, and diversify the supply chains, including collaborating with smaller producers who potentially offer more stability. The third branch is the circular economy, which is ensuring that materials they do have are used for longer or recovered for reuse.”</p><p>Aspiring is not the only company looking to extract more value from already-mined materials. Canadian company <a href="https://atlasmaterials.com/" target="_blank">Atlas Materials</a> is currently commercializing a similar closed-loop process that produces a similar set of products, but the starting point differs—rather than olivine, it focuses on serpentine.</p><p>“My understanding is that of these two raw materials, olivine is actually the more difficult to acid leach,” says Fei Wang, an assistant professor at Université Laval in Quebec City. “So that means it needs a higher energy input and will consume the acid more quickly.” Wang’s research also focuses on hydrometallurgical extraction of critical metals, but he is not involved with Atlas or Aspiring. “There’s no doubt that Aspiring’s technology is interesting, and represents a step forward in progress, but I have some concerns around the economics of it,” he adds.</p><p>For Goddin, the conversation should be broader than that. “From a European perspective, things are shifting towards cleaner, more sustainable production. There’s an increasing focus on providing data about the environmental impacts of the materials that are imported and consumed. Even if, say, Aspiring’s materials ended up being more expensive, they may be able to compete on those grounds. They’re extracting value from every component they produce, and with low to no waste. That’s likely to be a benefit for exporting to those markets.”</p>

Jul 6, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/exoplanet-with-swirling-colors-below-a-distant-star-dark-starry-background.jpg?id=61142348&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C1"/><br/><br/><p>Distant exoplanets <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/rogue-planet" target="_blank">can be dodgy to spot</a> even in the best of observations. Despite the challenges, a team of astronomers just reported <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/add88b" target="_blank">the discovery of a gas giant exoplanet</a> that lies about 400 light-years from Earth. It’s called <a href="https://www.stellarcatalog.com/exoplanet.php?planetID=101951" target="_blank">TOI-4465 b</a> and it takes 12 hours to transit across the face of its star during its 102-day orbit.</p><p>TOI-4465 b was actually first observed by the <a data-linked-post="2650273402" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-space-telescopes-will-find-earth-20" target="_blank">Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite</a> (TESS) and reported as a transit event. A transit is when the object being observed crosses in front of its star from our point of view here on Earth. That means the planet has to be in just the right orbit to be seen. In addition, other objects can also transit stars (such as small black holes). So, just seeing it transit wasn’t enough to confirm TOI-4465 b as a planet. Astronomers needed to see it transit more than once to make sure it just wasn’t a one-time wiggle in the data.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/"></a><a class="shortcode-media-lightbox__toggle shortcode-media-controls__button material-icons" title="Select for lightbox">aspect_ratio</a><img alt='Universe Today logo; text reads "This post originally appeared on Universe Today."' class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="876b84a1ccd74ac55ebf2489367329b9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="b9dd2" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/universe-today-logo-text-reads-this-post-originally-appeared-on-universe-today.png?id=60568425&width=980"/> </p><p>Due to its lengthy orbit, astronomers only get three chances each year to observe TOI-4465 b, and those windows are challenging, according to Zahra Essack of the University of New Mexico. She led a <a href="https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-astronomers-confirm-new-gas-giant-exoplanet-with-help-from-citizen-scientists-worldwide" target="_blank">team project focused on this gas giant planet</a>. “The observational windows are extremely limited. Each transit lasts about 12 hours, but it is incredibly rare to get 12 full hours of dark, clear skies in one location,” she said. “The difficulty of observing the transit is compounded by weather, telescope availability, and the need for continuous coverage.</p><h2>Characteristics of TOI-4465 b</h2><p>This gas giant exoplanet is part of the population of distant worlds that lie in the size range of our own Jupiter. It’s actually about 25 percent larger in radius and has about six times Jupiter’s mass packed inside. Interestingly, this massive, dense world is pretty temperate as big Jupiters go—its temperature ranges from 375–478 kelvins (about 200–400°F).</p><p>TOI-4465’s size and moderate temperatures put it in a rare class of Jupiter-type planets. It bridges the gap between the really hot Jupiters, most of which orbit extremely close to their stars in very short (around 10 days or less) orbits and our own cold Jupiter (which orbits the Sun in 11.8 years). The 102-day orbit would put TOI-4465 b somewhere between Mercury and Venus if this planet were in our own Solar System. This size, orbit, and lower temperature make the planet a great target for future observations, particularly by JWST, which could also study its atmosphere in some detail.</p><p>“This discovery is important because long-period exoplanets (defined as having orbital periods longer than 100 days) are difficult to detect and confirm due to limited observational opportunities and resources. As a result, they are underrepresented in our current catalog of exoplanets,” explained Essack. “Studying these long-period planets gives us insights into how planetary systems form and evolve under more moderate conditions.”</p><h2>Citizen Science in Exoplanet Discovery</h2><p>So, how do scientists go about observing TOI-4465 b given the challenges it poses? Essack and her team used the power of <a data-linked-post="2668988466" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-war-radiation" target="_blank">citizen science</a> to extend the observing time around the world. The team put out a call for people with telescopes powerful enough to observe the star and its possible planet. At least 24 citizen scientists across 10 countries used their personal telescopes to track the next transit. Given their positions around the world, these citizen scientists were able to cover the 12-hour observation time needed to confirm the transit. Their data complemented additional data from professional observatories such as Palomar in California, the Whipple Observatory in Arizona, the La Silla Observatory in Chile, and others.</p><p>“The discovery and confirmation of TOI-4465 b not only expands our knowledge of planets in the far reaches of other star systems but also shows how passionate astronomy enthusiasts can play a direct role in frontier scientific research,” said Essack. “It is a great example of the power of citizen science, teamwork, and the importance of global collaboration in astronomy.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Technicians in clean suits prepare a satellite for encapsulation." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c86ed7111e94a829f37e1c4fee7386d7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="7131c" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/technicians-in-clean-suits-prepare-a-satellite-for-encapsulation.jpg?id=61142531&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The Transiting Exoplanet Survery Satellite (TESS)—being prepared here in 2018 by NASA technicians—gathered the original data that led to TOI-4465 b’s eventual confirmation as an exoplanet.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Kim L. Shiflett/NASA</small></p><p>Several key programs enabled this global effort, beginning with the original TESS data. Members of the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Subgroup 1 (TFOP SG1), the Unistellar Citizen Science Network (a group of amateurs and professionals who use computerized Unistellar telescopes), and the TESS Single Transit Planet Candidate (TSTPC) Working Group, led by University of New Mexico professor Diana Dragomir also contributed.</p><p>“What makes this collaboration effective is the infrastructure behind it. The Unistellar network provides standardized equipment and data processing pipelines, enabling high-quality contributions from citizen scientists. TFOP SG1 offers a global coordination framework that connects professional and amateur astronomers and observational facilities. The TSTPC Working Group, led by Professor Dragomir, brings together the detection and follow-up expertise needed for these challenging observations,” said Essack.</p><p>The idea of using amateur astronomers’ telescopes to participate in scientific observations is not new. For example, in the 1980s, a team of observers around the world made up part of the International Halley Watch. It was created to get images of the comet from its first appearance in 1985 to mid-1986 from as many observers in as many parts of the world as possible. Other citizen scientist efforts cropped up, with both amateur and professional observatories working together to study such objects as variable stars, blazars, supernovae, novae, occultations, eclipses, and much more.</p><p>Today, people also get involved in other branches of science, including biology, health and medical research, ecology, and other crowdsourced research. Their participation allows scientists to get more data over longer periods of time and stretches research budgets in the process.</p>

Jul 5, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/black-beetle-with-an-electronics-backpack-on-human-fingers-with-colorful-plastic-boxes-in-the-background.jpg?id=61144831&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C18%2C0%2C18"/><br/><br/><p><span>Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at </span><em>IEEE Spectrum</em><span> robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Robotics%20event%20suggestion%20for%20Video%20Friday">send us your events</a><span> for inclusion.</span></p><h5><a href="https://2025.worldhaptics.org/">IEEE World Haptics</a>: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, SOUTH KOREA</h5><h5><a href="https://ifac2025-msrob.com/">IFAC Symposium on Robotics</a>: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS</h5><h5><a href="https://2025.robocup.org/">RoboCup 2025</a>: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL</h5><h5><a href="https://www.ro-man2025.org/">RO-MAN 2025</a>: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS</h5><h5><a href="https://clawar.org/clawar2025/">CLAWAR 2025</a>: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN, CHINA</h5><h5><a href="https://actuate.foxglove.dev/">ACTUATE 2025</a>: 23–24 September 2025, SAN FRANCISCO</h5><h5><a href="https://www.corl.org/">CoRL 2025</a>: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL</h5><h5><a href="https://2025humanoids.org/">IEEE Humanoids</a>: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL</h5><h5><a href="https://worldrobotsummit.org/en/">World Robot Summit</a>: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN</h5><h5><a href="https://www.iros25.org/">IROS 2025</a>: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA</h5><p>Enjoy today’s videos!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><div style="page-break-after: always"><span style="display:none"> </span></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="cydb5qqkrcm"><em>Common beetles equipped with microchip backpacks could one day be used to help search and rescue crews locate survivors within hours instead of days following disasters such as building and mine collapses. The University of Queensland’s Dr. Thang Vo-Doan and Research Assistant Lachlan Fitzgerald have demonstrated they can remotely guide darkling beetles (Zophobas morio) fitted with the packs via video game controllers.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3c411b8622085e3da169aaaa0ff05a95" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CyDB5qqKrCM?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202502095">Paper</a> ] via [ <a href="https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2025/07/cyborg%E2%80%99-beetles-could-revolutionise-urban-search-and-rescue">University of Queensland</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Thang!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="n0iqenjpzrw"><em>This is our latest work about six-doF hand-based teleoperation for omnidirectional aerial robots, which shows an intuitive teleoperation system for advanced aerial robot. This work has been presented in 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025).</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="50241ecef56c2efb848bd4d89107a475" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n0IQEnjPzrw?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.dragon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/">DRAGON Lab</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Moju!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="w6f8arzgnky">Pretty sure we’ve seen this LimX humanoid before, and we’re seeing it again right now, but hey, the first reveal is just ahead!</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4743f924ab14e542a8fb0252b93b441f" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w6F8aRZGnkY?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.limxdynamics.com/en">LimX Dynamics</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Jinyan!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="dyrlhxhyira"><em>Soft robot arms use soft materials and structures to mimic the passive compliance of biological arms that bend and extend. Here, we show how relying on patterning structures instead of inherent material properties allows soft robotic arms to remain compliant while continuously transmitting torque to their environment. We demonstrate a <a data-linked-post="2650274519" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-octopus-points-the-way-to-soft-robotics-with-eight-wiggly-arms" target="_blank">soft robotic arm</a> made from a pair of <a data-linked-post="2656604055" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/shapeshifting-robots" target="_blank">mechanical metamaterials</a> that act as compliant constant-velocity joints.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c868a92a668f5816c93e182b5388b78c" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dyrLHXHYirA?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ads0548">Paper</a> ] via [ <a href="https://transformativerobotlab.com/">Transformative Robotics Lab</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="iu--yylt3mk">Selling a platform is really hard, but I hope K-Scale can succeed with their open source humanoid.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6bf60d512403bd21bfb36290236e15fa" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IU--YylT3Mk?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.kscale.dev/">K-Scale</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="di1j4apcbmc"><em>MIT CSAIL researchers combined GenAI and a physics simulation engine to refine <a data-linked-post="2656053300" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-design" target="_blank">robot designs</a>. The result: a machine that out-jumped a robot designed by humans.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6c399a5107100a9973527f07054c4463" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dI1J4aPcbmc?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-help-robots-jump-higher-land-safely-0627">MIT News</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="30cmkhijumc"><em>ARMstrong Dex is a human-scale dual-arm hydraulic robot under development at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) for disaster response applications. Designed with dimensions similar to an adult human, it combines human-equivalent reach and dexterity with force output that exceeds human physical capabilities, enabling it to perform extreme heavy-duty tasks in hazardous environments.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b053e3030c7f62cbc174c6f516399de0" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30cmKhijuMc?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.kaeri.re.kr/eng/">Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="ofi_upx2jfk"><em>This is a demonstration of in-hand object rotation with Torobo Hand. Torobo Hand is modeled in simulation, and a control policy is trained within several hours using large-scale parallel reinforcement learning in Isaac Sim. The trained policy can be executed without any additional training in both a different simulator (MuJoCo) and on the real Torobo Hand.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2cef42e8123b29fb43928e94feb5ecea" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ofI_uPx2Jfk?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://robotics.tokyo/products/hand/">Tokyo Robotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="dpgjkycg1x8"><em>Since 2005, Ekso Bionics has been developing and manufacturing <a data-linked-post="2650274760" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/paraplegic-man-walks-in-ekso-robotic-exoskeleton-to-demo-its-killer-app" target="_blank">exoskeleton bionic devices</a> that can be strapped on as wearable robots to enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers, patients, and workers. These robots have a variety of applications in the medical, military, industrial, and consumer markets, helping rehabilitation patients walk again and workers preserve their strength.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d70dc7e4d58d46ecab6c6ca587582da6" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DPgjKyCg1X8?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://eksobionics.com/">Ekso Bionics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="tailjwskhfq"><em>Sponsored by Raytheon, an RTX business, the 2025 east coast Autonomous Vehicle Competition was held at XElevate in Northern Virginia. Student Engineering Teams from five universities participated in a two-semester project to design, develop, integrate, and compete two autonomous vehicles that could identify, communicate, and deliver a medical kit with the best accuracy and time.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="316493a24f90bedaf0ee53333043ea62" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TaiLjWskhFQ?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.rtx.com/">RTX</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="bqxtmweafso">This panel is from the Humanoids Summit in London: “Investing in the Humanoids Robotics Ecosystem—a VC Perspective.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1447102cae50b42757c27dee64e6e6bb" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqxTMwEAFSo?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://humanoidssummit.com/hslondon2025agenda">Humanoids Summit</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div>

Jul 5, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/aerial-view-of-a-busy-suburban-intersection.jpg?id=61139039&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=324%2C0%2C325%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><span>In cities across the United States, an ambitious goal is gaining traction: </span><a href="https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/" target="_blank">Vision Zero</a><span>, the strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries. First implemented in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has already <a href="https://smartcitysweden.com/best-practice/408/vision-zero-reducing-road-traffic-casualties-and-injuries/" target="_blank">cut road deaths there by 50 percent</a> from 2010 levels. Now, technology companies like </span><a href="https://stopforkids.com/" target="_blank">Stop for Kids</a><span> and </span><a href="https://www.obvio.ai/" target="_blank">Obvio.ai</a><span> are trying to bring the results seen in Europe to U.S. streets with AI-powered camera systems designed to keep drivers honest, even when police aren’t around.</span></p><p>Local governments are turning to AI-powered cameras to <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/bengaluru-traffic" target="_blank">monitor intersections</a> and catch drivers who see stop signs as mere suggestions. The stakes are high: About half of all car accidents happen at intersections, and too many end in tragedy. By automating enforcement of rules against rolling stops, speeding, and failure to yield, these systems aim to change driver behavior for good. The carrot is safer roads and lower insurance rates; the stick is citations for those who break the law.</p><h2>The Origins of Stop for Kids</h2><p>Stop for Kids, based in Great Neck, N.Y., is one company leading the charge in residential areas and school zones. Co-founder and CEO <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbarelli" target="_blank">Kamran Barelli</a> was driven by personal tragedy: In 2018, his wife and three-year-old son were struck by an inattentive driver while crossing the street. “The impact launched them nearly 18 meters down the street, where they landed hard on the asphalt pavement,” Barelli says. Both survived, but the experience left him determined to find a solution.</p><p>He and his neighbors pressed the municipality to put up radar speed signs. But they turned out to be counterproductive. “Teenagers would race to see who could trigger the highest number,” Barelli says. “And extra police only worked until drivers texted each other to watch out.”</p><p>So Barelli and his brother, longtime software entrepreneurs, pivoted their tech business to develop an AI-enabled camera system that never takes a day off and can see in the dark. Installed at intersections, the cameras detect vehicles that fail to come to a full stop; then the system automatically issues citations. It uses AI to draw digital “bounding boxes” around vehicles to track their behavior without looking at faces or activities inside a car. If a driver stops properly, any footage is deleted immediately. Videos of violations, on the other hand, are stored securely and linked with DMV records to issue tickets to vehicle owners. The local municipality determines the amount of the fine.</p><p>Stop for Kids has already seen promising results. In a 2022 pilot of the tech in the Long Island town of Saddle Rock, N.Y., compliance with stop signs jumped from just 3 percent to 84 percent within 90 days of installing the cameras. Today, that figure stands at 94 percent, says Barelli. “The remaining 6 percent of non-compliance comes overwhelmingly from visitors to the area who aren’t aware that the cameras are in place.” <span>Since then, the company has installed its camera systems in municipalities in</span><span> New York </span><span>and</span><span> Florida,</span><span> with a few cities</span><span> in California up next</span><span>.</span></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Graph shows decline in vehicle failure to stop from 97% to 16% over three months." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="415d8f13318704ffe740aa234cfa2820" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e2f3e" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/graph-shows-decline-in-vehicle-failure-to-stop-from-97-to-16-over-three-months.jpg?id=61139559&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">In a Stop for Kids pilot project, cameras installed at intersections drastically improved drivers’ compliance with stop signs over three months.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Stop for Kids</small></p><p>Still, some experts say they’ll wait to pass judgment on the technology’s efficacy. “Those results are impressive,” says <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwarzdaniel" target="_blank">Daniel Schwarz</a>, a senior privacy and technology strategist at the <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/" target="_blank">New York Civil Liberties Union</a> (NYCLU). “But these marketing claims are rarely backed up by independent studies that validate what these AI technologies can really do.”</p><h2>Privacy Issues in Automated Ticketing Systems</h2><p>Privacy is a big concern for communities considering camera enforcement. In the Stop for Kids system, faces inside vehicles and in the rest of the scene are automatically blurred. Identifying images come only from an AI <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/privacy-concerns-grow-as-us-police-departments-turn-to-license-plate-readers" target="_blank">license plate reader</a>. No personal DMV data is shared except with local authorities handling citations. The company has created an online evidence portal that allows vehicle owners to review footage and dispute tickets, helping ensure the system remains fair and transparent.</p><p>Watchdog groups are not convinced that this type of technology won’t be subject to mission creep. They say that gear originally introduced to help reach the sympathetic goal of lowering traffic deaths may be updated to do things outside of that scope.</p><p>“Ex<span>panding the overall goal of such a deployment is as simple as software push,” says NYCLU’s Schwarz. “More functionalities could be introduced, additional features that raise more civil liberties concerns or present other dangers that perhaps the prior version did not.”</span></p><h2>Obvio.ai’s Approach</h2><p>Meanwhile, in San Carlos, Calif., another startup is taking a similar approach with its own twist. Founded in 2023, Obvio.ai has designed a solar-powered, AI-enabled camera system that mounts on utility poles and street lamps near intersections. Like Stop for Kids, Obvio’s system detects rolling stops, illegal turns, and failures to yield. But instead of automating the entire setup, local governments review potential infractions before any citations are issued, ensuring a human is always in the loop.</p><p> Obvio.ai co-founder and president <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvmah" target="_blank">Dhruv Maheshwari</a> says the company’s cameras run on solar power and connect to its cloud server via 5G, making them easy to deploy without major construction. <span>Obvio’s AI processor, installed on site with the camera, uses computer vision models to identify cars, bicycles, and pedestrians in real time. The system continuously streams footage but only stores clips when a violation is likely. Everything else is automatically deleted within hours to protect privacy. And, as with Stop for Kids’ tech, the cameras do not use facial recognition to identify drivers—just the vehicle’s license plate.</span></p><p>Last summer, Obvio.ai partnered with Maryland’s Prince George’s County for a pilot program across towns like Colmar Manor, Morningside, Bowie, and College Park. Within weeks, stop-sign violations were cut in half. In Bowie, local leaders avoided concerns about the camera system rollout being a “ticketing for profit” scheme by sending warning letters instead of fines during the trial period.</p><h2>Vision Zero Is the Target</h2><p>Though both Stop for Kids and Obvio.ai declined to offer any specifics about where their cameras will appear next, Barelli told <em>IEEE Spectrum</em> that about 60 towns on Long Island, near the place where it conducted its pilot, are interested. “They asked the state legislature to provide a clear framework governing what they can do with systems like ours,” Barelli says. “Right now, it’s being considered by the State Senate.”</p><p>“Ultimately, we hope our technology becomes obsolete,” says Maheshwari. “We want drivers to do the right thing, every time. If that means we don’t issue any tickets, that means zero revenue but complete success.”</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/elementary-school-students-working-on-laptop-computers-at-their-desks.jpg?id=61133616&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=316%2C0%2C317%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Computer science plays a significant role in advancing and transforming communication, entertainment, finance, health care, and other fields. Yet only about 58 percent of U.S. high schools offer dedicated courses in the subject, according to the<a href="https://code.org/assets/advocacy/stateofcs/2024_state_of_cs.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> 2024 State of Computer Science Education</a> report.</p><p>The limited access to computer science (CS) education highlights a significant disconnect between skills currently in demand and the U.S. education system’s curriculum.</p><p>The statistics capture the situation in high schools, but they overlook what is happening in elementary and middle schools.</p><p>A <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08993408.2023.2290435" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2023 study</a> published in <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ncse20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>Computer Science Education</em></em></a><em> </em>found that students in the United States who engage with CS early in their education are more likely to pursue a career in it.</p><p>Introducing CS concepts at a young age<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-media/202403/ai-doesnt-change-why-kids-should-learn-to-code" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> demystifies the technology</a> and empowers students with problem-solving skills, logical reasoning, analytical thinking, creativity, and digital literacy. More importantly, it supports noncognitive skills such as adaptability, collaboration, communication, confidence, and persistence, according to <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666557323000010" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">an article</a> in the <em><em>Computers and Education Open</em></em> journal.</p><p>Tremendous efforts are being made to make CS courses mandatory in U.S. high schools by organizations including the<a href="https://advocacy.code.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Code.org Advocacy Coalition</a>, the <a href="https://csteachers.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Computer Science Teachers Association</a>, and the<a href="https://ecepalliance.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance</a>. I support their efforts, but I believe it is time for a national policy that requires all high school students to take computer science classes as a graduation requirement.</p><p>For such a policy to be successful, however, it needs to support teacher training, promote equity in schools, and encourage collaboration throughout students’ preuniversity, university, and industry endeavors.</p><h2>Boosting certification programs for teachers</h2><p>Preuniversity CS education is not possible without qualified teachers. Of the 40 percent of U.S. high schools that do not offer CS courses, a lack of qualified teachers is one of the main barriers, according to a<a href="https://code.org/assets/advocacy/stateofcs/2024_state_of_cs.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> 2024 Code.org report</a>. In October 2022, the U.S. <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Center for Education Statistics</a> reported that on average, public schools had two unfilled teaching positions, with <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/press_releases/12_6_2022.asp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">computer science representing one of the highest vacancy rates</a>.</p><p>Most teachers aren’t certified to teach computer science. In the 2019–2020 academic year, only 82 of the more than 150,000 newly certified teachers nationwide were qualified to teach CS, according to a<a href="https://title2.ed.gov/Public/TitleIIReport23.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> U.S. Department of Education Title II report</a>. As of February 2024, <a href="https://code.org/files/TeacherPathwayRecommendations.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">seven states did not offer any pathway</a> for CS teacher certification, according to Code.org.</p><p>There is also a lack of CS general knowledge among even experienced educators. More than a quarter of teachers surveyed in a 2021 CSTA national report said they felt limited by their mastery of the field despite taking CS courses during their undergraduate studies. Many called for affordable, accessible continuing professional development training, particularly on in-demand programming languages.</p><p>Addressing the critical shortage of qualified instructors requires systemic changes in teacher education, increased investment in training programs, and sustained support for both new and experienced educators.</p><p>Organizations such as<a href="https://computersciencealliance.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a>Code.org and <a href="https://computersciencealliance.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Computer Science Alliance</a> are tackling the issue by offering professional development workshops to train teachers in CS curriculum and tools. Although valuable, their efforts are insufficient to meet national demand.</p><p>U.S. universities have a part to play. Few currently offer the coursework and learning experiences necessary to equip their students with the skills to teach the subject. Universities also can help address the gap by developing CS workshops, boot camps, and <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-microcredential-program-2671959389" target="_self">microcredentials</a>.</p><p>Policy reforms at the federal, state, and local levels could enhance teacher certification processes by streamlining the process for educators to become qualified CS instructors. Schools could offer incentives, such as scholarships, tuition reimbursement, and increased salaries, to entice teachers to pursue a CS specialization. Underserved communities must adopt a long-term perspective, earmarking funding for infrastructure, instructional materials, and ongoing professional development to ensure that all students have equitable access to high-quality CS education and career opportunities. The efforts are especially important in under-resourced districts that mostly serve historically marginalized students, where barriers to offering strong CS programs are greatest.</p><h2>Empowering underrepresented groups</h2><p>CS education must prioritize inclusivity from the earliest stages. Investing in culturally responsive curriculum development and supporting teacher training programs focused on equity and inclusion are also crucial. By teaching using culturally relevant examples, educators can help students see themselves reflected in the lessons—which increases engagement, motivation, and a sense of belonging. It is also important to connect students with mentors who share similar backgrounds.</p><p>Such methods have been proven successful by programs including <a href="https://girlswhocode.com/2023report/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Girls Who Code</a>, <a href="https://www.wearebgc.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Girls Code</a>, and <a href="https://codegirlsunited.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Code Girls United</a>.</p><p>Girls Who Code offers free coding clubs and summer immersion programs for girls in Grades 3 to 12. Fifty percent of its participants come from historically underrepresented groups, and its alumni are choosing CS majors at rates seven times the national average.</p><p>Black Girls Code provides hands-on technical workshops and mentorship for Black girls ages 7 to 17. Since 2011, the organization has taught more than 40,000 girls, in person and virtually, and the group’s digital content has reached more than 8 million people.</p><p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/this-startup-teaches-girls-coding" target="_self">Code Girls United</a>, founded by IEEE Member <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1iFO2tv2o" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marianne Smith</a>, serves girls in rural and tribal communities across Montana. The workshops, taught to high school students who live on Native American reservations, are tailored to their cultural backgrounds.</p><h2>The need for systemic change</h2><p>The insights from research, educational initiatives, and current practices make it clear that early exposure to computer science and empowered teachers are critical to bridging the education gap. Without systemic changes supported by policy reform, however, such efforts might never reach their full potential.</p><p>Our future depends on equipping the next generation with the skills they need to succeed in this century.</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/photo-of-a-wooden-tv-console-with-two-cathode-ray-tube-television-sets.jpg?id=61133345&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C174%2C0%2C174"/><br/><br/><p>As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types of devices. We’re working in the same room but on our own projects—separate yet together, a comfortable companionship.</p><p>I had never really thought of the proliferation of screens as a peacekeeping tool until I stumbled across one of Allen B. DuMont’s 1950s dual-screen television sets. DuMont’s idea was to let two people in the same room watch different programs. It reminded me of my early childhood and my family’s one TV set, and the endless arguments with my sisters and parents over what to watch. Dad always won, and his choice was rarely mine.</p><h2>The DuMont Duoscopic Was 2 TVs in 1 </h2><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_B._DuMont" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Allen B. DuMont</a> was a pioneer of commercial television in the United States. His eponymous company manufactured cathode-ray tubes and in 1938 introduced one of the earliest electronic TV sets. He understood how human nature and a shortage of TV screens could divide couples, siblings, and friends. Accordingly, he built at least two prototype TVs that could play two shows at once.</p><p>In the 1945 prototype shown at top, DuMont retrofitted a maple-finished cabinet that originally held a single 15-inch Plymouth TV receiver to house two black-and-white 12-inch receivers. Separate audio could be played with or without earpieces. Viewers used a 10-turn dial to tune into TV channel 1 (which went off the air in 1948) and VHF channels 2 through 13. As radio was still much more popular than television, the dial also included FM from 88 to 108 megahertz, plus a few channels used for weather and aviation. The lower left drawer held a phonograph. It was an all-in-one entertainment center.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Black and white photograph of a family of four wearing earpieces and special glasses while watching a small black and white TV." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="314ce9e21e96c0fccb2883b2d0d592d6" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="c5d55" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/black-and-white-photograph-of-a-family-of-four-wearing-earpieces-and-special-glasses-while-watching-a-small-black-and-white-tv.jpg?id=61133361&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">To view their desired programs on the DuMont Duoscopic TV set, this family wore polarized glasses and listened through earpieces.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Allen DuMont/National Museum of American History/Smithsonian</small></p><p>In 1954, DuMont introduced a different approach. With the DuMont Duoscopic, two different channels were broadcast on a single screen. To the naked eye, the images appeared superimposed on one another. But a viewer who wore polarized glasses or looked at the screen through a polarized panel saw just one of the images.</p><p>Duoscopic viewers could use an earpiece to listen to the audio of their choice. You could also use the TV set to watch a single program by selecting only one channel and playing the audio through one speaker.</p><p>DuMont seemed committed to the idea that family members should spend time together, even if they were engaged in different activities. An image of the Duoscopic sent out by the Associated Press Wirephoto Service heralded “No more lonely nights for the missus.” According to the caption, she could join “Hubby,” who was already relaxing in his comfy armchair enjoying his favorite show, but now watch something of her own choosing.</p><p>“Would you believe it?” a <a href="https://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/dumont_duoscopic_brochure.pdf" target="_blank">Duoscopic brochure</a> asks. “While HE sees and hears the fights, SHE sees and hears her play…. Separate viewing and solo sound allows your family a choice.”</p><p>The technology to separate and isolate the images and audio was key. The Duoscopic had two CRTs, each with its own feed, set at right angles to each other. A half-silvered mirror superimposed the two images onto a single screen, which could then be filtered with polarized glasses or screens.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" rel="float: left;" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Black and white photo of a seated man wearing a suit, holding a large cathode ray tube." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="723283c304aacf627b735efa1f58ab55" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="a3524" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/black-and-white-photo-of-a-seated-man-wearing-a-suit-holding-a-large-cathode-ray-tube.jpg?id=61133353&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">TV pioneer Allen B. DuMont designed and manufactured cathode ray tubes and TV sets and launched an early TV network.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Science History Images/Alamy</small></p><p><span>A separate box could be conveniently placed nearby to control the volume of each program. Users could toggle between the two programs with the flick of a switch. Each set came with eight earpieces with long cords. A short note in the March 1954 issue of </span><em><em>Electrical Engineering </em></em><span>praises the engineers who crafted the sound system to eliminate sound bleed from the speakers. It notes that a viewer “very easily could watch one television program and listen to the audio content of a second.”</span></p><p>Or, as a United Press piece published in the <em><em>Panama City News Herald </em></em>suggested, part of the family could use the earpieces to watch and listen to the TV while others in the room could “read, play bridge, or just sit and brood.” I suspect the brooders were the children who still didn’t get to watch their favorite show.</p><p>Of course, choice was a relative matter. In the 1950s, many U.S. television markets were lucky to have even two channels. Only in major metropolitan areas were there more programming options.</p><p>The only known example of DuMont’s side-by-side version resides at the <a href="https://scmuseum.org/" target="_blank">South Carolina State Museum</a>, in Columbia. But sources indicate that DuMont planned to manufacture about 30 Duoscopics for demonstration purposes, although it’s unclear how many were actually made. (The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History <a href="https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:nmah_713258?q=duoscopic&record=5&hlterm=duoscopic" target="_blank">has a Duoscopic </a>in its collections.) Alas, neither version ever went into mainstream production. Perhaps that’s because the economics didn’t make sense: Even in the early 1950s, it would have been easier and cheaper for families to simply purchase two television sets and watch them in different rooms.</p><h2>Who Was Early TV Pioneer Allen DuMont?</h2><p>DuMont is an interesting figure in the history of television because he was actively engaged in the full spectrum of the industry. Not only did he develop and manufacture receivers, he also conducted broadcasting experiments, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37087544540" target="_blank">published papers</a> on transmission and reception, ran a television network, and produced programming.</p><p>After graduating from <a href="https://www.rpi.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a> in 1924 with a degree in electrical engineering, DuMont worked in a plant that manufactured vacuum tubes. Four years later, he joined the De Forest Radio Co. as chief engineer. With <a href="https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/lee-de-forest/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lee de Forest</a>, DuMont helped design an experimental <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/first-tv" target="_self">mechanical television</a> station, but he was unconvinced by the technology and advocated for all-electric TV for its crisper image.</p><p class="ieee-inbody-related">RELATED: <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/first-tv" target="_self">In 1926, TV Was Mechanical</a></p><p>When the Radio Corporation of America acquired De Forest Radio in 1931, DuMont started his own laboratory in his basement, where he worked on improving cathode ray tubes. In 1932 he invented the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">magic eye</a>,” a vacuum tube that was a visual tuning aid in radio receivers. He sold the rights to RCA.</p><p>In 1935, DuMont moved the operation to a former pickle factory in Passaic, N.J., and incorporated it as the Allen B. DuMont Laboratories. The company produced cathode ray oscilloscopes, which helped finance his experiments with television. He debuted the all-electronic <a href="https://www.earlytelevision.org/dumont_180.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DuMont 180 TV set </a>in June 1938. It cost US $395, or almost $9,000 today—so not exactly an everyday purchase for most people. Although DuMont was quick to market, RCA and the Television Corp. of America were right on his tail.</p><p class="ieee-inbody-related">RELATED: <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/rca-tv" target="_self">RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV</a></p><p>Of course, if companies were going to sell televisions, consumers had to have programs to watch. So in 1939, DuMont launched his own television network, starting with station W2XWV, broadcasting from Passaic. The Federal Communications Commission licensed W2XWV as an experimental station for television research. DuMont received a commercial license and changed its call sign to WABD on 2 May 1944, three years after NBC’s and CBS’s commercial stations went into operation in New York City.</p><p>Due to wartime restrictions and debates over industry standards, television remained mostly experimental during World War II. As of September 1944, there were only six stations operating—three in New York City and one each in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. There were approximately 7,000 TV sets in personal use.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A pair of black and white images show a film still from an early tv show at left with a man gesturing wildly while three others huddle with him and at right, an early film camera that says DuMont Television, along with an operator." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6d944626f8fdf8291f219ca686727578" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e9289" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-pair-of-black-and-white-images-show-a-film-still-from-an-early-tv-show-at-left-with-a-man-gesturing-wildly-while-three-others.jpg?id=61133355&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The DuMont Television Network’s variety show hosted by Jackie Gleason [left, hands raised] featured a recurring skit that later gave rise to “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeymooners" target="_blank">The Honeymooners</a>.”</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Left: CBS/Getty Images; Right: Garry Winogrand/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images</small></p><p>While other networks focused on sports, movies, or remote broadcasts, the DuMont Television Network made its mark with live studio broadcasts. In April 1946, WABD moved its studios to the Wanamaker Department Store in Manhattan. DuMont converted the 14,200-cubic-meter (500,000-cubic-foot) auditorium into the world’s largest television studio. The network’s notable programming included “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Original_Amateur_Hour" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Original Amateur Hour</a>,” which started as a radio program; “The Johns Hopkins Science Review,”<em> </em>which had a surprisingly progressive take on women’s health; “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Worth_Living" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Life Is Worth Living</a>,”<em> </em>a devotional show hosted by Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen (that garnered DuMont’s only Emmy Award); “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackie_Gleason_Show#Cavalcade_of_Stars" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cavalcade of Stars</a>,” a variety show hosted by Jackie Gleason that birthed “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeymooners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Honeymooners</a>”; and “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Video_and_His_Video_Rangers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Captain Video and His Video Rangers</a>,” a children’s science fiction series, the first of its genre. My grandmother, who loved ballroom dancing, was a big fan of “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arthur_Murray_Party" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Arthur Murray Party</a>,” a dance show hosted by Arthur’s wife, Kathryn; my mom fondly recalls Kathryn’s twirling skirts.</p><p>While NBC, CBS, and the other major television players built their TV networks on their existing radio networks, DuMont was starting fresh. To raise capital for his broadcast station, he sold a half-interest in his company to Paramount Pictures in 1938. The partnership was contentious from the start. There were disputes over money, the direction of the venture, and stock. But perhaps the biggest conflict was when Paramount and some of its subsidiaries began applying for FCC licenses in the same markets as Dumont’s. This ate into the DuMont network’s advertising and revenue and its plans to expand. In August 1955, Paramount gained full control over the DuMont network and proceeded to shut it down.</p><p>DuMont continued to manufacture television receivers until 1958, when he sold the business to the Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. Two years later, the remainder of DuMont Labs merged with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Camera_and_Instrument" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.</a> (whose founder, Sherman Fairchild, had in 1957 helped a group of ambitious young scientists and engineers known as the “Traitorous Eight” set up <a href="https://computerhistory.org/blog/fairchild-semiconductor-the-60th-anniversary-of-a-silicon-valley-legend/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fairchild Semiconductor</a>). Allen DuMont served as general manager of the DuMont division for a year and then became a technical consultant to Fairchild. He died in 1965.</p><h2>One Thing Allen DuMont Missed</h2><p>My family eventually got a second and then a third television, but my dad always had priority. He watched the biggest set from his recliner in the family room, while my mom made do with the smaller sets in the kitchen and bedroom. He was relaxing, while she was usually doing chores. As a family, we would watch different shows in separate places.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A black and white image shows a man and a woman sitting in front of a television cabinet displaying a TV show. They each wear earphones as they stare towards an individual square TV screen positioned in front of each of them that sits between them and the program seen on the television." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="65b49ca962969ff6ca22f11a428922cb" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="6ccd6" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-black-and-white-image-shows-a-man-and-a-woman-sitting-in-front-of-a-television-cabinet-displaying-a-tv-show-they-each-wear-ea.jpg?id=61133363&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">An ad for the DuMont Duoscopic touted it as a device for household harmony: “While HE sees and hears the fights, SHE sees and hears her play.” </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">National Museum of American History/Smithsonian</small></p><p>These days, with so many screens on so many devices and so many programming options, we may have finally achieved DuMont’s vision of separate but together. While I was writing this piece, my friend was watching the French Open on the main TV, muted so she didn’t disturb me. She streamed the same channel on her tablet and routed the audio to her headset. We both worked on our respective laptops and procrastinated by checking messages on our phones.</p><p>But there’s one aspect of human nature that DuMont’s prototypes and promotional materials failed to address—that moment when someone sees something so exciting that they just have to share it. Sarah and I were barely getting any work done in this separate-but-together setting because we kept interrupting each other with questions, comments, and the occasional tennis update. We’ve been friends too long; we can’t help but chitchat.</p><p>The only way for me to actually finish this article will be to go to a room by myself with no other screens or people to distract me.</p><p><em>Part of a <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/collections/past-forward/" target="_self">continuing series</a> looking at historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology.</em></p><p><em>An abridged version of this article appears in the July 2025 print issue as “The 2-in-1 TV.”</em></p><h3>References</h3><br/><p>I first learned about the Duoscopic in a short article in the March 1954 issue of <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6439333" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Electrical Engineering</em></a><em>, </em>a precursor publication to <em>Spectrum.</em></p><p>My online research turned up several brochures and newspaper articles from the <a href="https://www.earlytelevision.org/dumont_duoscopic.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Early Television Museum</a>, which surprisingly led me to the dual-screen DuMont at the <a href="https://scmuseum.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">South Carolina State Museum</a> in my hometown of Columbia, S.C.</p><p>Museum objects are primary sources, and I was fortunate to be able to visit this amazing artifact and examine it with Director of Collections Robyn Thiesbrummel. I also consulted the museum’s accession file, which gave additional information about the receiver from the time of acquisition.</p><p>I took a look at Gary Newton Hess’s 1960 dissertation, <a href="https://archive.org/details/historicalstudyo0000hess" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>An Historical Study of the Du Mont Television Network</em></a><em>, </em>as well as several of Allen B. DuMont’s papers published in the <em>Proceedings of the IRE </em>and <em>Electrical Engineering.</em></p>

Jul 2, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-of-stylized-people-wearing-business-casual-clothing.jpg?id=59104110&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><em>This article is crossposted from </em><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant" target="_self">IEEE Spectrum</a><em>’s careers newsletter. <a href="https://engage.ieee.org/Career-Alert-Sign-Up.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Sign up now</em></a><em> to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, <em><em>written i<em>n partnership with tech career development company <a href="https://jointaro.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Taro</a> and </em></em></em>delivered to your inbox for free!</em></em></p><p><span>There are countless technologies, tools, and frameworks to learn as an engineer. As a </span>job seeker, this makes it extremely difficult to decide where to invest. You don’t want to spend a bunch of time learning something that employers don’t care about. So, how can you determine what to learn with your valuable time?</p><p>The answer to this comes from the realization that your goal is to find exactly one job. Ultimately, you will accept one job offer; you cannot hold multiple full-time jobs concurrently. Instead of appealing to all potential employers, your goal is to be an exceptional fit for one specific job.</p><p><span></span><span>Said differently, </span><strong>you should aim to be polarizing</strong><span>. A hiring manager should look at your resume or LinkedIn profile and have one of two reactions:</span><br/></p><ul><li>This person is a great fit (“<em>I don’t see many developers who know Rust so deeply. We should definitely interview them”</em>)</li><li>This person is clearly not a good fit (<em>“We use Python, which they don’t mention at all”</em>)</li></ul><p>You want to avoid the “maybe” bucket, which is unfortunately where the majority of job seekers end up. These borderline engineers dilute their resumes by mentioning too many buzzwords and technologies. If they followed a 2-hour YouTube tutorial, they’ll list that technology on their resume. These resumes don’t strongly appeal to anyone because they try to appeal to everyone. The logic of the hiring manager is, “They’ve listed Python along with 10 other programming languages, so they’re probably not good at any of them.” In a difficult job market, this results in poor outcomes.</p><p>As you become increasingly senior in your career, you should become increasingly polarizing. When you have clarity about the technologies, people, and companies you want to work with, you dramatically increase your chances of landing a role that meets your criteria.</p><p>So how should we decide which technology to invest in? The answer is that it doesn’t matter, as long as you pick something and commit to it. When we embrace the idea of polarization, we can remove the second-guessing that plagues many job seekers. Too many engineers agonize over which JavaScript framework to learn or which AutoCAD toolset to master. </p><p>Instead of getting stuck in decision paralysis, simply commit to a technology for a few months based on what you or your friends find interesting. You can always change course later, but the learning starts only when you commit. When you go deep enough in one area, you’ll find it significantly easier to translate that expertise into adjacent areas. Your confidence will grow, and you’ll have more fun.<br/></p><p>Depth in one domain will significantly increase your chances of landing a job that fits your background.</p><p>-Rahul</p><h2><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/women-in-semiconductors-workforce" target="_blank" title="Why the Semiconductor Industry Can’t Abandon Women">Why the Semiconductor Industry Can’t Abandon Women</a></h2><p>Fewer companies in the semiconductor industry were publicly committed to equal opportunity measures in 2024 than the year prior, despite the fact that major workforce shortages are expected. In this Q&A, Andrea Mohamed, COO and co-founder of the professional development company QuantumBloom, speaks about supporting women in semiconductor jobs, and why a retreat from these initiatives is at odds with the needs of the industry.<br/></p><div><span><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/women-in-semiconductors-workforce" target="_blank" title="Read more here.">Read more here.</a></span></div><h2><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tech-layoffs-2025-list" target="_blank" title="A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs">A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs</a></h2><p>Tech layoffs have continued in 2025, with more than 22,000 workers being cut since January. Updated 17 June, TechCrunch is compiling a comprehensive list of the layoffs, including monthly totals and notable events from individual companies. Microsoft, Airtime, Playtika, and Intel all reduced their workforce in June. </p><div><span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tech-layoffs-2025-list" target="_blank" title="Read more here.">Read more here.</a></span></div><h2><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/guatemalan-ai-engineer-cancer-research" target="_blank" title="Profile: Guatemalan Engineer Grows From Rural Roots to Ph.D.">Profile: Guatemalan Engineer Grows From Rural Roots to Ph.D.</a><span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span></h2><div><span></span></div><p>Mayra Yucely Beb Caal has overcome obstacles to forge a successful career in engineering. Raised in a rural Guatemalan village, Caal received her Ph.D. with support from an IEEE scholarship and now uses AI to improve cancer detection. “I don’t want to create technology just for the sake of it,” she says. “I want it to mean something—to help solve real problems in society, like the ones I faced early on.”<span></span></p><div><span><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/guatemalan-ai-engineer-cancer-research" target="_blank" title="Read more here.">Read more here.</a><span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span></span></div><div><span><span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span></span></div>

Jul 2, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/man-in-yellow-hard-hat-with-a-white-building-housing-a-telescope-in-the-background.png?id=61113802&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=2%2C0%2C3%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>The<a href="https://rubinobservatory.org/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Vera C. Rubin Observatory</a>, in Chile, saw its first photon a few months ago, a monumental event 25 years in the making. Senior Editor <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/u/evan-ackerman" target="_blank">Evan Ackerman’s</a> journey to Chile, to see the observatory and talk with the team about the multiple and massive engineering challenges they overcame, itself took more than a year to plan.</p><p>The visit was initiated by Italian photographer <a href="https://es-photography.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Enrico Sacchetti</a>, who had arranged for exclusive access to the telescope. The story we wanted Ackerman to tell required more than a quick tour. So Sacchetti and Ackerman arranged to spend three nights on the summit of Cerro Pachón, sleeping during the day and then staying up late with the engineers and scientists as they worked to get Rubin “on sky.”</p><p>Ackerman and Sacchetti didn’t know exactly what would happen while they were there. In some ways, they got lucky—the few days before first photon were full of frantic activity. In other ways, they weren’t so fortunate. The dome covering the telescope wasn’t working, the moon (bane of astronomers everywhere) was near full, and Sacchetti came down with an illness that nearly required him to be evacuated down the mountain.</p><p class="pull-quote">“Spotting a viscacha near the observatory is good luck for that night’s seeing.” <strong>—Evan Ackerman</strong></p><p> “For a slightly panicked 24 hours, I enlisted the help of some amateur photographers among the Rubin staff to make sure that we had all the photos that we’d need,” Ackerman says. You can see some of their excellent work in “<a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/vera-rubin-observatory-first-images" target="_self">How the Rubin Observatory Will Reinvent Astronomy</a>.” And Sacchetti recovered enough to get the crucial shots he wanted.</p><p>The same characteristics that make Cerro Pachón the perfect place for observatories can make it a challenging place to work. For Sacchetti and Ackerman, as well as the Rubin staff, schlepping up to the 2,600-meter summit from sea level took some adjustment. Ackerman didn’t have much of a physical reaction to the altitude. But he learned that mentally, the thin air hits everyone a little differently.</p><p>“I discovered a complete inability to remember schedules,” Ackerman recalls. “William O’Mullane, data-management project manager for Rubin, told me that for him, it’s feeling that he knows the answer to a question, but not what the answer actually is.”</p><p> In addition to scheduled interviews with engineers and astronomers, Ackerman wandered around the control room, joining conversations that seemed interesting. The Rubin staff isn’t superstitious, but he nonetheless heard some rumors involving the local fauna.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A chinchilla-like rodent with big ears in front of a rock." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0214ff0dae5562ee123bf1c597c7db6d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="87447" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-chinchilla-like-rodent-with-big-ears-in-front-of-a-rock.jpg?id=61113803&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Viscachas, which are a type of chinchilla the size of a rabbit, are a good omen for astronomers at the Rubin observatory.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Evan Ackerman</small></p><p>“Spotting a viscacha near the observatory is good luck for that night’s seeing, as it should be. It looks like an aggressively cute cross between a squirrel and a rabbit, but it’s technically a kind of large chinchilla,” he says. Less cute are the Andean condors that live on the cliffs near the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope, which is also located on Cerro Pachón. Seeing them in the air in the evening is a bad sign, Ackerman was told, which may be somewhat grounded in reality, since the thermals that the condors ride imply turbulent air around the mountain.</p><p>Even the other “unlucky” parts of the visit helped make the story better. The full moon, while overpowering much of the sky, lit up the outside of the observatory and resulted in some fantastic nighttime photos. And the temporarily nonfunctional dome led to several in-depth conversations about how difficult it is to get all of these bespoke systems to work with one another, and helped Ackerman appreciate the complex job of the commissioning engineers.</p>

Jul 2, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/spacey-scene-shows-a-network-of-orange-nodes-in-space-over-the-earth.jpg?id=61135467&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=533%2C0%2C533%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>The main purpose of many <a data-linked-post="2668300000" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/theory-of-mind-ai" target="_blank">large language models</a> (LLMs) is providing compelling text that’s as close as possible to being indistinguishable from human writing. And therein lies a major reason why it’s so hard to gauge the relative performance of LLMs using traditional benchmarks: Quality of writing doesn’t necessarily correlate with metrics traditionally used to measure processor performance, such as instruction execution rate.</p><p class="ieee-inbody-related"><strong>RELATED: </strong><span><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-model-performance" target="_blank">Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially</a></span><br/></p><p>But researchers at the Berkeley, Calif., think tank METR (for <a href="https://metr.org/" target="_blank">Model Evaluation & Threat Research</a>) have come up with an ingenious idea. First, identify a series of tasks with varying complexity and record the average time it takes for a group of humans to complete each task. Then have various versions of LLMs complete the same tasks, noting cases in which a version of an LLM successfully completes the task with some level of reliability, say 50 percent of the time. Plots of the resulting data confirm that as time goes on, successive generations of an LLM can reliably complete longer and longer (more and more complex) tasks.</p><p>No surprise there. But the shock was that this improvement in the ability of LLMs to reliably complete harder tasks has been <em>exponential</em>, with a doubling period of about seven months.</p><p><em><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/" target="_blank">IEEE Spectrum</a></em> reached out to <a href="https://metr.org/team/megan-kinniment/" target="_blank">Megan Kinniment</a>, one of the authors of <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14499" target="_blank">an METR research paper</a> describing this work and its surprising implications.</p><h2>Evaluating LLM Performance Metrics</h2><p><strong>Did you suspect that you’d get these results?</strong></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Megan Kinniment:</strong> I, at least personally, didn’t expect us to have quite as clear an exponential as we did. Models have definitely been getting better quickly, though. So some fast rate of progress wasn’t entirely unexpected.</p><p><strong><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>As you point out in the paper, it’s always dangerous to look into the future and extrapolate. However, you suggest that there is a likelihood of this continuing, which means that by 2030 we’ll be looking at monthlong tasks being within the capability of the most advanced large language models.</strong></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> Let’s have a look at that. By one month, we mean around 167 working hours, so the number of [human] working hours in a month. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>And that’s at 50 percent reliability. But longer tasks typically seem to require higher reliability to actually be useful. So that’s something that could make the in-practice, real-world, economic impacts not be as intense as what is predicted.</p><p><strong><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>There are a number of things that would have to continue for this prediction to come true. Hardware would have to continue improving at roughly the rate it’s improving; software would have to keep improving. You would have to have sufficient training data and availability of that training data to continue training at the breathtaking clip that’s been occurring in recent years.</strong></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> The forecasts and the dates that we’ve found are just extrapolating the trend that we see on our task suite. [The trends are] not taking into account real-world factors or compute-scaling changes. </p><p><strong>If a large language model could somehow achieve the ability to complete 167-hour type tasks with 50 percent reliability, what are the kinds of things that that now puts in the realm of capability for a large language model?</strong><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> Well, the big one that we often think about is accelerating AI R&D research itself. To the extent that you can make models that accelerate your company’s ability to make better models, you could end up in a situation where AI capabilities develop really quite rapidly. </p><h2>What Exponential Growth in AI Means for Humanity</h2><p><strong>What you are describing is reminiscent of the idea of <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/special-reports/singularity/" target="_blank">the singularity</a>, where you have AIs creating other AIs on their own, not assisted by human beings.</strong></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> I think that you could get acceleration that is quite intense and does make things meaningfully more difficult to control without it necessarily resulting in this massively explosive growth. There are reasons to think that you might have various bottlenecks that slow things down in practice. Even if it were the case that we had very, very clever AIs, this pace of progress could still end up bottlenecked on things like hardware and robotics. But yeah, the singularity is for sure an idea that is relevant to this whole sector of things.<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><p>Things could go quite quickly, but it’s not like it’s the singularity or nothing. [AI-development rates] that were mild compared to a singularity could still be quite intense for how the world needs to adapt.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>You indicated in the paper that some large language models seem to be improving in their ability to adapt and improve from mistakes.</strong></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> I think it’s actually been a relatively gradual thing since ChatGPT, and potentially before that. They’re less likely to get stuck. They’re a bit better at changing strategies when things aren’t working, but that’s a bit hit or miss. And they’re definitely a lot better at doing things than they used to be and better at using tools. But it does seem like there’s some fundamental aspects that haven’t changed a great deal. One thing that I like to look at when I get a new model is, on each task, we give the model a number of <a href="https://seantrott.substack.com/p/tokenization-in-large-language-models" target="_blank">tokens</a>, a number of words that it can say. And if you could imagine giving them more and more time or more and more tokens to do a task, how does that affect how likely they are to succeed? And basically, what we see is they plateau quite strongly. There’s a point at which you give them more tokens and it doesn’t really help. And for each new model, that plateau gets a bit higher.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" rel="float: left;" style="float: left;"> <img alt="A woman with brown hair who is wearing a maroon t-shirt." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cdee9d9a8b54b15ac78c5ee650069e9d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="4ec99" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-woman-with-brown-hair-who-is-wearing-a-maroon-t-shirt.jpg?id=61135475&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Megan Kinniment was on the team at METR that published the results of a study of LLM performance.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Megan Kinniment</small></p><p><a target="_blank"></a> Humans, I imagine, also have diminishing returns. But if you give a human lots and lots of time to do something, they’ll probably do a better job, especially if you have multiple humans. And I think I’d be pretty impressed with a large language model that, even if its absolute score was lower, seemed like it could just keep doing things and improving. That could be a big deal.</p><p><a target="_blank"></a><strong>You found that models performed worse on tasks that had higher “messiness” scores. Was there any signal that you got out of the data that this state of affairs might be changing? In other words, that models might be gaining greater ability to handle tasks that had higher messiness?</strong></p><p><a target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> Messiness was a measure that I made to try and get a somewhat quantitative measure of how unrealistic our tasks were compared to the real world. And most of our tasks aren’t that messy. It’s a 16-point scale. The mean is about 3, and the most messy tasks are about 8 out of 16.</p><p><strong><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>So what would a 16 task be in terms of messiness?</strong></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> Something like espionage, where you have a lot of resource limitations. It’s very punishing. You have agents that are optimizing against you actively. It’s easy to mess up. It’s novel.</p><p><strong>Are you all planning to follow up this study?</strong><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> OpenAI published <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/" target="_blank">o3</a>, and o3 was a little bit more capable than anticipated given the trend. So we are doing some amount of follow-up in terms of measuring other models. We do want to keep focused on informing the world about AI development and catastrophic risks from AI systems.</p><h2>Catastrophic Risks from Advanced AI</h2><p><strong>What are the most likely catastrophic risks from AI? I mean, the ones that come to my mind are massive dislocations in employment if and when AI becomes supremely capable.</strong></p><p><strong></strong><strong>Kinniment:</strong><span> When we’re talking about catastrophic risks, we’re not just talking about mass unemployment. We’re talking about things that are more like this: if everybody became unemployed or you just didn’t need human workers for the vast majority of things, you might not need human workers to maintain your military, or much fewer humans. That could make it easier for somebody to perform a coup, essentially. Or, if you have a vast quantity of geniuses in a data center, then that would make you a very powerful person. If you use that to produce military hardware, it’s possible we could get a concentration of power, and you might not have a democratic state anymore.</span></p><p><strong>All this would happen, obviously, without any form of consciousness. These would be machines that would have the capability to scheme and plot and plan, but without the kind of consciousness that characterizes human ability to do this. Consciousness isn’t necessary for this.</strong></p><p><a target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-consciousness-conundrum" target="_blank">Consciousness is a hard problem</a>. I’m not sure if consciousness is necessary for any particular behavior. It feels a bit above my pay grade. I also think it’s not crazy that they could be conscious at this point. They would be very intelligent.</p><p><a target="_blank"></a><strong>So you think it’s possible that they may be conscious at some point in the future?</strong></p><p><a target="_blank"></a><strong>Kinniment:</strong> I mean, if they’re as intelligent as you and I, then it doesn’t seem quite crazy. It doesn’t seem crazy for them to not be, and it doesn’t seem crazy for them to be.</p>

Jul 2, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/ai-success-rate-graph-from-2019-to-2030-for-tasks-by-model-version-and-time-completion.png?id=61137912&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C1146%2C0%2C1147"/><br/><br/><p>Benchmarking <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/large-language-models/" target="_self">large language models</a> presents some unusual challenges. For one, the main purpose of many LLMs is to provide compelling text that’s indistinguishable from human writing. And success in that task may not correlate with metrics traditionally used to judge processor performance, such as instruction execution rate.</p><p class="ieee-inbody-related"><strong>RELATED: </strong><span><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/llm-benchmarking-metr" target="_blank">LLM Benchmarking Shows Capabilities Doubling Every 7 Months</a></span><br/></p><p>But there are solid reasons to persevere in attempting to gauge the performance of LLMs. Otherwise, it’s impossible to know quantitatively how much better LLMs are becoming over time—and to estimate when they might be capable of completing substantial and useful projects by themselves.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Scatter plot showing negative correlation between success rate and task-messiness score." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fe9a8b369a52f92281e85f5f38683ee7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="ed777" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/scatter-plot-showing-negative-correlation-between-success-rate-and-task-messiness-score.png?id=61125420&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Large Language Models are more challenged by tasks that have a high “messiness” score.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Model Evaluation & Threat Research</small></p><p>That was a key motivation behind work at Model Evaluation & Threat Research <a href="https://metr.org/" target="_blank">(METR</a>). The organization, based in Berkeley, Calif., “researches, develops, and runs evaluations of frontier AI systems’ ability to complete complex tasks without human input.” In March, the group released a paper called <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14499" target="_blank"><em>Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks</em></a>, which reached a startling conclusion: According to a metric it devised, the capabilities of key LLMs are doubling every seven months. This realization leads to a second conclusion, equally stunning: By 2030, the most advanced LLMs should be able to complete, with 50 percent reliability, a software-based task that takes humans <em><em>a full month</em></em> of 40-hour workweeks. And the LLMs would likely be able to do many of these tasks much more quickly than humans, taking only days, or even just hours.</p><h2>An LLM Might Write a Decent Novel by 2030</h2><p>Such tasks might include starting up a company, writing a novel, or greatly improving an existing LLM. The availability of LLMs with that kind of capability “would come with enormous stakes, both in terms of potential benefits and potential risks,” AI researcher Zach Stein-Perlman wrote in a <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/deesrjitvXM4xYGZd/metr-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks" target="_blank">blog post</a>.</p><p>At the heart of the METR work is a metric the researchers devised called “<a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/page/ai-task-capacity-doubles-every-F0hK0HIkQVKjH.88ZDYArg" target="_blank">task-completion time horizon.</a>” It’s the amount of time human programmers would take, on average, to do a task that an LLM can complete with some specified degree of reliability, such as 50 percent. A plot of this metric for some general-purpose LLMs going back several years [main illustration at top] shows clear exponential growth, with a doubling period of about seven months. The researchers also considered the “messiness” factor of the tasks, with “messy” tasks being those that more resembled ones in the “real world,” according to METR researcher <a href="https://metr.org/team/megan-kinniment/" target="_blank">Megan Kinniment</a>. Messier tasks were more challenging for LLMs [smaller chart, above].</p><p>If the idea of LLMs improving themselves strikes you as having a certain <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/special-reports/singularity/" target="_self">singularity</a>-<a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/automation-jobs" target="_self">robocalypse</a> quality to it, Kinniment wouldn’t disagree with you. But she does add a caveat: “You could get acceleration that is quite intense and does make things meaningfully more difficult to control without it necessarily resulting in this massively explosive growth,” she says. It’s quite possible, she adds, that various factors could slow things down in practice. “Even if it were the case that we had very, very clever AIs, this pace of progress could still end up bottlenecked on things like hardware and <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/" target="_self">robotics</a>.”</p>

Jul 1, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/car-headlights-illuminate-a-residential-street-at-night-during-a-power-outage-in-cuba.jpg?id=61115396&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=197%2C0%2C197%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>For many Cubans, the sudden stop of a fan is more than just an annoyance on a tropical island; it’s a daily reminder of a critical, nationwide problem. On an average day, the Cuban government can meet only 50 to 70 percent of its country’s electricity needs. On top of that, Cuba’s entire grid has collapsed four times in the last six months.</p><p>The problem stems from years of neglect of Cuba’s energy infrastructure, exacerbated by constrained access to foreign capital and a failure to adapt to new energy options. As a result, Cubans are experiencing a significant breakdown in basic services, such as the storage of fresh products, basic food preparation, public lighting, and access to businesses. This has forced citizens to take extraordinary measures, like cooking multiple meals at once and working by flashlight.</p><p>Cuba isn’t just in an energy crisis; the country’s grid sits on the verge of systemic failure. The National Electric System, most of which was built after 1959, hasn’t received the investment and maintenance it needs for 35 years—a consequence of Cuba’s complex political and economic history. If neglect continues, the island nation will pay the high price of further economic decline, and increased social and political instability.</p><p>How did my home country get here?</p><h2>Cuba’s Energy Infrastructure Crisis</h2><p>Cuba’s grid infrastructure is so weak that <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/spain-grid-failure" target="_blank">run-of-the-mill problems</a> like transmission line failures and generator trips are causing widespread outages. The unexpected shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras oil-fired power plant started the total blackout in October 2024. <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-grid-failure-lights-on" target="_blank">Healthy grids</a> should be able to detect and isolate these kinds of issues, and provide backup through built-in redundancies. But Cuba’s old protection systems couldn’t detect the faults, and there weren’t enough spinning reserves to compensate for the generation instability, making recovery impossible.</p><p>Underlying the blackouts are three systemic problems: years of inadequate investment, substandard fuel, and deferred maintenance. Cuba’s aging thermal power plants—the backbone of the system, nearly all of which run on crude oil or fuel oil—are becoming less reliable, and must operate well below capacity because of fuel shortages and corrosion. One of the biggest, the 330-megawatt Antonio Guiteras plant in Matanzas, often breaks down because there aren’t enough replacement parts to repair it. Other facilities have been hit with adverse events, such the 2022 fires at the Lidio Ramón Pérez (Felton) and Máximo Gómez (Mariel) thermal plants. During the first five months of 2025, only 34 percent of the capacity of all of Cuba’s power plants, based on 2023 numbers, was available on an average daily basis.</p><p>Cuba’s energy system also suffers from years of reliance on domestic, poor-quality heavy crude oil, which is corrosive because it’s high in sulfur. This has accelerated the wear and tear on boilers, turbines, and pipes in Cuba’s power plants, shortening their life spans and causing frequent and costly outages. Cuba has secured a substantial amount of oil from Venezuela since 2000 through a favorable agreement. But Venezuela’s continuous economic problems have made this outside oil source less reliable, with shipments dwindling in recent years.</p><p>To help compensate for power deficits, Cuba in 2019 started renting floating thermal power plants from other countries such as Turkey’s <a href="https://karpowership.com/" target="_blank">Karpowership</a>. By 2023, eight of these kinds of ships were floating in Mariel Bay, Havana Bay, and Santiago de Cuba Bay. But their fate is now just another symptom of the crisis. The government had trouble paying the high leasing prices, so the ships’ operators withdrew from Cuba’s waters, taking hundreds of megawatts with them.</p><h2>Cuba’s Renewable Energy Options</h2><p><span>Heavy crude oil isn’t Cuba’s only resource; it has a wealth of untapped renewable energy options, including solar, wind, and potentially sugarcane biomass. But the transition to renewables has progressed slowly and <span data-redactor-="">somewhat haphazardly<span>, despite ambitious goals set by the government.</span></span></span></p><p>Crucial <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-solar-microgrids" target="_blank">renewable energy projects</a> often get delayed due to bureaucratic hurdles and a lack of funding. The instability of the grid makes it more challenging to integrate large-scale renewable energy installations, as they require stable connections to function effectively. And while the country actively seeks solar energy, it’s overlooking its once-thriving sugar sector, and the biomass and ethanol resources that come with it.</p><p>The Cuban government’s puzzling decision to invest heavily in building expensive hotels and enhancing tourism infrastructure while neglecting necessary grid updates has also made the system more vulnerable. From 2010 and 2024, <a href="https://www.onei.gob.cu/sites/default/files/datos-estadisticos/2023-10/12.6-volumen-de-inversiones-por-clase-de-actividad-economica.xls" target="_blank">Cuba spent</a> about 32 percent of total investment on tourism-related infrastructure, and only 12 percent on energy infrastructure, according to Cuba’s National Statistics Office.</p><p>Cuba’s economy is in a poor state due to the well-established inefficiencies of its economic model and U.S. sanctions that worsened under the first Trump administration and remain largely in place. As a result, the government lacks the necessary hard currency to import gasoline, acquire the spare parts it needs, access the latest technology, and attract significant foreign investment that is essential for upgrading its energy infrastructure.</p><h2>Cuba’s Power Outages and Rationing Breeds Resentment</h2><p>The Cuban government reacts to its severe deficit with striking public ceremony. Every morning, usually between 7:00 and 8:00, officials openly declare the anticipated electricity generation shortfall. Then, provincial leaders across the island painstakingly choose which of their communities will lose power and for how long—on average 19 hours, and some over 24 hours.</p><h3></h3><br/><div class="flourish-embed flourish-chart" data-src="visualisation/23927522?607871"><script src="https://public.flourish.studio/resources/embed.js"></script><noscript><img alt="chart visualization" src="https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/23927522/thumbnail" width="100%"/></noscript></div><p class="caption">Daily electricity deficits in Cuba have averaged around 1600 MW in 2025, according to data compiled from daily press releases from Unión Eléctrica (UNE), the state-owned company responsible for Cuba’s electricity system, and news outlets. Data from Cuba’s four recent grid collapses were excluded.</p><p>Blackouts for these “interruptible circuits,” as provincial electrical companies refer to them, are supposed to rotate based on a schedule. But the actual electricity availability almost always falls short of the plan, so the rotation isn’t carried out as intended. And with certain services and businesses being prioritized for power, a disproportionate share of the outages falls on a portion of customers.</p><p>Havana, the capital, gets partly shielded from this, due to its political and economic importance. It’s a favoritism that understandably breeds resentment in other areas. But even in Havana, residents on interruptible circuits must contend with at least four hours of power outages every day—a situation that has worsened this year.</p><p>In both the city and the countryside, the power outages and prolonged uncertainty have altered basic services, economies, and daily life. Refrigerators lose their cooling power, ruining valuable food that was purchased at a high price. Businesses must close, resulting in lost revenue and productivity. Students struggle to study when their phone batteries are low, in part because they use their phones as flashlights. Some medical facilities have backup generators, but they’re not always operational due to a lack of spare parts. Internet connectivity has grown less reliable.</p><h2>Cuba’s Recovery Plans </h2><p>The Cuban administration has admitted that the situation is severe and has developed specific <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WgfqhsYrhw" target="_blank">recovery</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUVV_RQpmz8&t=1755s" target="_blank">plans</a>. These include investing in thermal plant maintenance, adding new capacity, adding solar energy, and securing fuel supplies from abroad. However, progress is gradual and limited by the same problems that caused the crisis in the first place.</p><p>To fix the thermal units, it’s imperative to bring major electricity providers, such as Guiteras and Cienfuegos, back to a state where they can operate reliably again. However, this method is akin to patching up a dam that’s falling apart. Long-term improvements are more important than just repairs, but they require resources that aren’t currently available.</p><p>There are policies in place that encourage rooftop solar, which people commonly buy from other countries. Small solar parks are also being built; at the end of 2024 solar capacity reached 298 MW. Pilot projects for wind farms are underway.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A man uses a transformer from an old television to charge a battery outside his home in Cuba." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a55715ae780e8ff82360b86258911ff5" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="58560" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-man-uses-a-transformer-from-an-old-television-to-charge-a-battery-outside-his-home-in-cuba.jpg?id=61115449&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Angel Rodriguez uses a transformer from an old television to charge a battery in preparation for blackouts at his home in the Bahia neighborhood of Havana on 26 May 2025.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Ramon Espinosa/AP</small></p><p>But development lacks scale and speed. Large projects often struggle with financial constraints and inadequate planning. The government set a goal of deriving 37 percent of Cuba’s energy from renewable sources by 2030; so far they’ve reached only 3 percent.</p><p>Cuba is actively looking to partner internationally on energy initiatives. Agreements with Russia primarily focus on modernizing existing thermal facilities and possibly constructing new ones. Mexico and other allies have also helped by sending fuel supplies.</p><p>Talks with potential investors for green projects are moving forward, but the investment climate is quite tricky because of Cuba’s economic model and crisis, its history of defaults on payments to foreign companies, and U.S. sanctions. In partnership with China, Cuba is building up to 2,000 MW of solar capacity over more than 92 solar parks across the country. China already sent Cuba equipment for more than 100 MW of solar capacity through a different program. By January 2026, about 1,100 MW of this new capacity is expected to be operational, according to the Cuban government.</p><p>As the primary power grid fails, Cubans with resources are taking matters into their own hands, often in desperate ways. Businesses, hospitals, and wealthy families are installing gasoline and solar generators; the incessant noise from which has become part of the city’s soundscape. Some communities are working together to install solar and battery systems. For example, a <a href="https://www.fao.org/cuba/noticias/detail-events/ar/c/1737965/" target="_blank">farmers’ cooperative</a> in Artemisa powers its processing and irrigation facilities this way. These examples show a critical, bottom-up change, but they’re few and far between because of prohibitive upfront costs.</p><p>Cuba’s people are suffering because the energy system is being pushed too far. And the comprehensive changes required for genuine, long-term recovery are currently beyond the island’s capabilities. The lights came back on after each major blackout, but the specter of the next one looms constantly.</p>

Jun 30, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/photo-collage-of-jim-boddie-and-microprocessor-pieces.jpg?id=61125544&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C1"/><br/><br/><p><a href="https://www.eejournal.com/article/in-memoriam-james-boddie-dsp-pioneer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James R. “Jim” Boddie</a>, a pioneer of the programmable, single-chip digital signal processor, died on 2 December at his home in Canton, Ga., following a long illness. The IEEE senior member was 74.</p><p>While working as an architect and designer at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AT&T Bell Laboratories</a> in Holmdel, N.J., Boddie applied his expertise in signal processing algorithms to develop a new type of semiconductor: the DSP. The integrated circuit, which <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/bell-labs-100-birthday" target="_blank">Bell Labs</a> called DSP1, was announced at the 1980 <a href="https://www.isscc.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">International Solid-State Circuits Conference</a> (ISSCC). DSP1 became one of the industry’s first successful DSPs.</p><p>Jim led the development of five subsequent DSP generations, economically enabling numerous applications, many for the first time, from AT&T’s gigantic telephone switching systems to tiny digital hearing aids.</p><p>For his contributions as a team leader as well as his technical innovations, Jim was elevated to Bell Labs Fellow. In 1988 he and IEEE Senior Member <a href="https://ethw.org/Richard_A._Pedersen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Richard A. Pedersen</a>, a codeveloper of the DSP, received the <a href="https://ethw.org/IEEE_Morris_N._Liebmann_Memorial_Award" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Liebmann Award</a><strong>.</strong></p><h2>The first digital signal processor</h2><p>Jim was born in Tallassee, a small city in Alabama. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1971 from <a href="https://www.auburn.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Auburn University</a>, in Alabama. After earning a master’s degree in EE two years later from <a href="https://www.mit.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MIT</a>, he returned to Auburn to pursue a Ph.D. In 1976 he received his doctorate and began a yearlong postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Labs’ acoustic research department in Holmdel.</p><p>There he programmed a refrigerator-size DSP system to do real-time de-reverberation of speech and eliminate echoes in conference-room speakerphones.</p><p>During his fellowship, he met IEEE Life Fellow <a href="https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/history/innovation-stories/presidents-bell-labs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dan Stanzione</a>, a Bell Labs group supervisor who recruited him to join the company’s first DSP design team in 1977. Stanzione, who became the eighth president of Bell Labs, said in a 2015 interview with the<a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102740084" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Computer History Museum’s oral history project</a> that his first meeting with Jim was “a lucky day for me.” Jim arrived during the glory days of Bell Labs, when algorithm experts, semiconductor experts, and system designers worked for one company, more often than not down the hall from one another.</p><p>Prior to 1980, most signal processing applications were implemented with analog components. Advanced algorithms such as low-data-rate speech coding and speech recognition were validated in the digital domain using supercomputer simulations and were too complex to be implemented with analog designs. By contrast, digital designs used racks of components well beyond commercial feasibility. The dream of an inexpensive, high-performance digital signal processor seemed far off, as no single DSP architecture would work for all algorithms. Therefore <a href="https://www.ti.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Texas Instruments</a> and similar companies sold universal digital building blocks such as multipliers and register files.</p><p>Stanzione’s goal was to create a widely applicable DSP that could replace his department’s custom analog filter designs. In time, the team homed in on a specific filtering application: DTMF (dual-tone multifrequency) signaling, which decoded a phone’s dial tones into the dialed number to route calls. It would be deployed by new digital systems in sufficient volume to justify the cost of developing the DSP.</p><p>The team breadboarded the filters and found that with a clever architecture, and a 4.5-micron full-custom negative-channel metal-oxide semiconductor—the best process technology at the time—they could meet the performance requirement. Other related applications would be icing on the cake.</p><p>Jim made critical contributions to DSP1. Foremost among them was the design of its novel arithmetic unit.</p><p>After DSP1 was announced at the 1980 ISSCC, it was not commercially available outside AT&T. It achieved high-volume production in AT&T systems, though.</p><p>Jim was promoted to manager of the DSP architecture team in 1980 to set the direction for subsequent versions.</p><h2>A leader and entrepreneur</h2><p>DSP1 was soon followed by DSP2, with faster performance and a greater memory capacity to meet high-volume demand and to increase the range of applications where the technology could be used.</p><p>In parallel with the development of DSP2, Jim led a new architecture, DSP32, which used floating-point arithmetic. For digital signal processing, floating-point arithmetic simplifies the job of maintaining precision, a near-impossible burden in the most demanding algorithms.</p><p>Jim and his team announced the DSP32 in a 1985 ISSCC document, which received a Best Paper Award.</p><p>Afterward, his team returned to the drawing board and developed the DSP16, which used fixed-point arithmetic. Announced at the 1987 ISSCC, DSP16 became the world’s fastest DSP, a title it retained for several years.</p><p>In 1998 Jim left AT&T and helped found StarCore, a DSP design center in Atlanta. It was funded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agere_Systems" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Agere Systems</a>, which had acquired Bell Labs Microelectronics; <a href="https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChsSEwjW142Y1eSNAxW7GK0GHXHhAhgYACICCAEQBxoCcHY&co=1&ase=2&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjJrCBhCXARIsAI5x66UKpEBsGUeO7S3vyqzd18xYqRpBXeNCt6hn0zdV44gKFOL_j4z6uLEaAg_qEALw_wcB&category=acrcp_v1_53&sig=AOD64_3MA0oIEJNrp0_TvcMxt12-vvx9-g&q&nis=4&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwjel4iY1eSNAxVWJzQIHf2cNtEQ0Qx6BAgMEAE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Motorola</a>; and, later, <a href="https://www.infineon.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Infineon</a>. The startup’s sponsors received exclusive rights to incorporate StarCore’s DSP designs into their own IC products. Jim served as StarCore’s executive director until his retirement in 2006.</p><p>StarCore’s architectures used a long instruction word architecture that encoded multiple, independent operations in a single instruction in order to exploit parallelism in DSP code.</p><p>In 2002, after StarCore’s first designs had been released, Will Strauss, president of market research firm Forward Concepts, said, “The combination of the new company’s business model and world-class technology offerings represent a dramatic change in the<a href="https://www.design-reuse.com/news/202504762-infineon-agere-systems-and-motorola-form-new-company-to-develop-and-license-digital-signal-processor-technology/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> industry landscape</a>.”</p><h2>Life after the DSP</h2><p>Jim was an early adopter of home computers, purchasing nearly every model that <a href="https://www.apple.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple</a> sold. Along with a <a href="https://us.novationmusic.com/categories/midi-controllers/keys" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MIDI keyboard</a>, he used the computers for music synthesis as well as flight-simulation games. He was an avid flier, not only of simulators but also of private aircraft.</p><p>He was a dedicated <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/quansheng-uv-k5-hacking" target="_self">ham radio</a> operator—call sign NG2J—and participated in contests. Field Day was his favorite. The annual weekend event in June challenges ham radio enthusiasts worldwide to operate in remote locations to simulate emergency conditions and exchange simulated emergency messages.</p><p>After retiring, Jim programmed a <a href="https://www.thealamo.org/alamo-trust/pressroom/the-alamo-announces-first-ever-3d-virtual-tour" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">3D virtual tour of the Alamo</a>, a historic site in San Antonio. The program lets users view the former Spanish mission from any direction in both the present and the past. The tour, which launched in 2022, is available at the <a href="https://www.thealamo.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alamo</a> and online.</p><p>Today digital signal processing is pervasive. Support for its algorithms and applications are a fundamental requirement for virtually all programmable semiconductors. Jim’s contributions to DSP technology will be remembered. Equally so, we and hundreds of others will remember Jim for his kind mentorship and clear vision.</p>

Jun 30, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/2013-hp-laptop-on-a-green-background.jpg?id=61114338&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=432%2C0%2C433%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><span>The United Nations’ Global</span><a href="https://ewastemonitor.info/the-global-e-waste-monitor-2024/" target="_blank"> E-waste Monitor</a><span> estimates that the world generates over 60 million tonnes of </span><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-cybersecurity-of-e-waste" target="_self">e-waste</a><span> annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times as fast as e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices.</span></p><p>Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The issue is, no one knows what the weak points are for a particular machine, or what the needed maintenance is, and the diagnostics would be too costly and time-consuming. It’s easier to just buy brand new <a data-linked-post="2670648506" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-laptops" target="_blank">laptops</a>.</p><p>When buying a used car, dealerships and individual buyers can access each car’s particular <a href="https://www.carfax.com/" target="_blank">CarFax</a> report, detailing the vehicle’s usage and maintenance history. Armed with this information, dealerships can perform the necessary fixes or upgrades before reselling the car. And individuals can decide whether to trust that vehicle’s performance. We at <a href="https://www.hp.com/us-en/home.html" target="_blank">HP</a> realized that, to prevent unnecessary e-waste, we need to collect and make available usage and maintenance data for each laptop, like a CarFax for used PCs.</p><p>There is a particular challenge to collecting usage data for a PC, however. We need to make sure to protect the user’s privacy and security. So, we set out to design a data-collection protocol for PCs that manages to remain secure.</p><h2>The firmware-level data collector</h2><p> Luckily, the sensors that can collect the necessary data are already installed in each PC. There are thermal sensors that monitor CPU temperature, power-consumption monitors that track energy efficiency, storage health indicators that assess solid state drive (SSD) wear levels, performance counters that measure system utilization, fan-rotation-speed sensors that detect cooling efficiency, and more. The key is to collect and store all that data in a secure yet useful way.</p><p> We decided that the best way to do this is to integrate the life-cycle records into the firmware layer. By embedding telemetry capabilities directly within the firmware, we ensure that device health and usage data is captured the moment it is collected. This data is stored securely on HP SSD drives, leveraging hardware-based security measures to protect against unauthorized access or manipulation. </p><p>The secure telemetry protocol we’ve developed at HP works as follows. We gather the critical hardware and sensor data and store it in a designated area of the SSD. This area is write-locked, meaning only authorized firmware components can write to it, preventing accidental modification or tampering. That authorized firmware component we use is the Endpoint Security Controller, a dedicated piece of hardware embedded in business-class HP PCs. It plays a critical role in strengthening platform-level security and works independently from the main CPU to provide foundational protection.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Flowchart illustrating secure sensor data collection at the firmware level." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4a49473576ee96afdb040a577a8f44cc" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="cc78c" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/flowchart-illustrating-secure-sensor-data-collection-at-the-firmware-level.jpg?id=61114393&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The secure telemetry protocol collects data from sensors into a piece of hardware known as an endpoint security controller, with built-in security protections. The endpoint security controller then writes the data to a dedicated read-only portion of the solid state drive, where authorized operating system applications can access the data.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Mark Montgomery</small></p><p>The endpoint security controller establishes a secure session by retaining the secret key within the controller itself. This mechanism enables read data protection on the SSD—where telemetry and sensitive data are stored—by preventing unauthorized access, even if the operating system is reinstalled or the system environment is otherwise altered.</p><p>Then, the collected data is recorded in a time-stamped file, stored within a dedicated telemetry log on the SSD. Storing these records on the SSD has the benefit of ensuring the data is persistent even if the operating system is reinstalled or some other drastic change in software environment occurs.</p><p>The telemetry log employs a cyclic buffer design, automatically overwriting older entries when the log reaches full capacity. Then, the telemetry log can be accessed by authorized applications at the operating system level.</p><h2>The PCFax</h2><p>The telemetry log serves as the foundation for a comprehensive device history report. Much like a CarFax report for used cars, this report, which we call PCFax, will provide both current users and potential buyers with crucial information.</p><p>The PCFax report aggregates data from multiple sources beyond just the on-device telemetry logs. It combines the secure firmware-level usage data with information from HP’s factory and supply-chain records, digital-services platforms, customer-support service records, diagnostic logs, and more. Additionally, the system can integrate data from external sources including partner sales and service records, refurbishment partner databases, third-party component manufacturers like Intel, and other original equipment manufacturers. This multisource approach creates a complete picture of the device’s entire life cycle, from manufacturing through all subsequent ownership and service events.<strong><br/></strong></p><p>For IT teams within organizations, we hope the PCFax will bring simplicity and give opportunities for optimization. Having access to fine-grained usage and health information for each device in their fleet can help IT managers decide which devices are sent to which users, as well as when maintenance is scheduled. This data can also help device managers decide which specific devices to replace rather than issuing new computers automatically, enhancing sustainability. And this can help with security: With real-time monitoring and firmware-level protection, IT teams can mitigate risks and respond swiftly to emerging threats. All of this can facilitate more efficient use of PC resources, cutting down on unnecessary waste.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Detailed report on a used 2020 HP Elitebook laptop. Insights include owner history, hardware update records, factory installed components and total power consumption to-date." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3943d11913477b60592a97ed57b8901b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="0d16e" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/detailed-report-on-a-used-2020-hp-elitebook-laptop-insights-include-owner-history-hardware-update-records-factory-installed-c.jpg?id=61115489&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">A PCFax report, much like a CarFax, will detail crucial usage and maintenance information to help inform potential customers. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Hewlett Packard</small></p><p>We also hope that, much as the CarFax gives people confidence in buying used cars, the PCFax can encourage resale of used PCs. For enterprises and consumers purchasing second-life PCs, it provides detailed visibility into the complete service and support history of each system, including any repairs, upgrades, or performance issues encountered during its initial deployment. By making this comprehensive device history readily available, PCFax enables more PCs to find productive second lives rather than being prematurely discarded, directly addressing the e-waste challenge while providing economic benefits to both sellers and buyers in the secondary PC market.</p><p>While HP’s solutions represent a significant step forward, challenges remain. Standardizing telemetry frameworks across diverse ecosystems is critical for broader adoption. Additionally, educating organizations about the benefits of life-cycle records will be essential to driving uptake. </p><p>We are also working on integrating AI into our dashboards. We hope to use AI models to analyze historical telemetry data and predict failures before they happen, such as detecting increasing SSD write cycles to forecast impending failure and alert IT teams for proactive replacement, or predicting battery degradation and automatically generating a service ticket to ensure a replacement battery is ready before failure, minimizing downtime.</p><p>We plan to start rolling out these features at the beginning of 2026.</p>

Jun 30, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/blue-and-gold-fibrous-texture-in-the-shape-of-a-brain-against-a-dark-background.png?id=61109682&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=480%2C0%2C480%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Her relapse into depression</strong> felt like defeat—but it offered vital clues to achieving lasting psychiatric relief.</p><p>The 67-year-old woman from Alabama had already endured four major depressive episodes in her decades-long battle with mental illness. After exhausting numerous medications and other therapies, in 2015 she turned to an experimental last resort: <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-to-treat-psychiatric-disorders-with-brain-stimulation" target="_blank">deep brain stimulation</a>, or DBS.</p><p>Neurosurgeons implanted electrodes a few inches below her skull, targeting a small bundle of neural fibers in a brain region behind the forehead that acts as a crucial hub for mood regulation. Thin wires connected the electrodes to a pulse generator discreetly inserted in her upper chest. Once activated, the device delivered a steady stream of high-frequency electricity, gently buzzing the targeted circuits to disrupt maladaptive patterns and, like a pacemaker for the brain, restore a healthier balance of neural activity.</p><p>At first, the treatment seemed to be working. The woman’s despair lifted, and she edged closer to remission. Watching football for hours with her husband on Sundays started to feel tedious—in a good way. Her desire to get off the couch and pursue other activities had returned.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <img alt="An X-ray image of a skull shows several lines slanting inward." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7130143a2885964d3c641c38831f65b7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="b47c3" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-x-ray-image-of-a-skull-shows-several-lines-slanting-inward.png?id=61111164&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">An X-ray image shows two pairs of DBS electrodes implanted for depression treatment. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine </small></p><p>But four months on, the darkness crept back in. The woman’s sudden downturn blindsided the medical team that had been closely monitoring her recovery. The doctors had to make three adjustments to the implant’s stimulation parameters, slowly increasing the voltage, before her condition finally stabilized—an agonizing couple of months.</p><p>When the clinicians reviewed the data later, they realized that the electrodes embedded in the woman’s brain had detected trouble brewing before she did. Subtle shifts in the electrical patterns coursing through her neural fibers had flagged the impending relapse weeks before her outward symptoms reappeared. If clinicians had acted on those signals, they might have adjusted the stimulation settings in time to prevent her relapse.</p><p>It’s a thought that weighs on <a href="https://med.emory.edu/directory/profile/?u=PRIVAPO" target="_blank">Patricio Riva Posse</a>, the psychiatrist at Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, who treated the woman. Looking back now, he says, had he known that the brain’s circuits were off-kilter, “I would have taken action earlier.”</p><p>Fortunately, Riva Posse no longer has to dwell on what could have been. Together with colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City, and Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, he is now leveraging advances in DBS hardware and artificial intelligence (AI) to design more precise treatments for depression. The team’s goal is to base treatment on objective neural data rather than the subjective measures—patient accounts, clinical hunches, questionnaires, mood scales—that dominate psychiatry today.</p><p>The pioneering neurologist <a href="https://profiles.mountsinai.org/helen-s-mayberg" target="_blank">Helen S. Mayberg</a> co-led the team with Riva Posse and <a href="https://ece.gatech.edu/directory/christopher-john-rozell" target="_blank">Christopher Rozell</a> of Georgia Tech. Ultimately, they hope to enable preemptive interventions rather than regretful, after-the-fact adjustments.</p><p>It’s a new frontier for psychiatry. The field has long been one of the few medical disciplines without objective measures to guide treatment decisions. But with the advent of real-time brain monitoring with AI-driven analytics, that could finally change. “It’s a whole different mindset now,” says <a href="https://profiles.mountsinai.org/martijn-figee" target="_blank">Martijn Figee</a>, a Mount Sinai psychiatrist involved in the research. “My intuition, unfortunately, is not 100 percent [accurate],” he acknowledges. “So ultimately, I would always trust the brain more.”</p><p class="pull-quote">Researchers are developing “an automatic alarm system”—an AI-driven tool designed to continuously monitor device output and flag warning signs of relapse.</p><p>Other research groups are pursuing similar goals, aiming to move beyond the one-size-fits-all approach that has long defined DBS treatment for mental health and replace it with precise stimulation tailored to individual needs. While standardized protocols benefit <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878747923010784" target="_blank">around 60 percent</a> of people with treatment-resistant depression, they still leave a substantial minority without meaningful relief.</p><p>No DBS platform is yet approved for treating depression, although some first-generation devices are getting close. Those are rooted in decades-old technology, however, while the Mount Sinai team and others are breaking new ground. They are investigating analytical frameworks that harness brain data to predict relapses, optimize stimulation parameters, or dynamically adjust device output in a responsive, closed-loop manner.</p><p>“The field is just at a super exciting place,” says <a href="https://can-acn.org/2020-brain-star-award-winner-dr-benjamin-davidson/" target="_blank">Benjamin Davidson</a>, a neurosurgeon at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, in Toronto. “Things are starting to move at a kind of dizzying pace.”</p><h2>The Origins of DBS for Depression</h2><p>That momentum is a relatively recent phenomenon in a field that, for the past two decades, has progressed through baby steps. Beset by commercial and clinical setbacks, little has changed over the years aside from the adoption of newer surgical techniques. The biggest advance was an imaging-guided surgical approach called tractography that allows for <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14737175.2023.2289573" target="_blank">greater precision in electrode placement</a>, informed by connectivity patterns between bundles of brain fibers rather than anatomical landmarks alone.</p><p>“The story is one of iteration to optimize and refine the targeting using new neuroscience tools,” says Mayberg, who launched the <a href="https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(05)00156-X" target="_blank">world’s first DBS trial for treatment-resistant depression</a> in the early 2000s at the University of Toronto. “The procedure, as envisioned and published in 2005, is, in essence, what we continue to do today,” she says.</p><div class="ieee-sidebar-medium"><h3>Standard method</h3><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="An illustration shows a person with a device in their chest and a wire leading to a brain implant, with directional arrows going to the implant." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="89598ad135cdd41beeff1f43f1c52fdd" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="1445e" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-shows-a-person-with-a-device-in-their-chest-and-a-wire-leading-to-a-brain-implant-with-directional-arrows-going.png?id=61111241&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Images: Chris Philpot</small></p><p>The standard method of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for depression takes a “set-it-and-forget-it” approach. Doctors set the stimulation parameters during initial visits and adjust them based on patients’ reports on their moods.</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><h3><br/>Sensing system </h3><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="An illustration shows a person with a device in their chest and a wire leading to a brain implant, with directional arrows going to and from the implant." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2dd3935b4f26c9f54670cb6fab577e35" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="5dffe" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-shows-a-person-with-a-device-in-their-chest-and-a-wire-leading-to-a-brain-implant-with-directional-arrows-going.png?id=61111245&width=980"/></p><p>Researchers are also experimenting with new devices that can both stimulate and record signals from the brain. Doctors can then look at patients’ neural activity and adjust theparameters accordingly, sometimes catching signs of a relapse before a patient is aware of them.</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><h3><br/>Auto response </h3><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="Diagram showing a brain implant with directional flow arrows to and from a certain brain region." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fcec7057e1b43bbfa60b4e060e024d61" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="995a6" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/diagram-showing-a-brain-implant-with-directional-flow-arrows-to-and-from-a-certain-brain-region.png?id=61111252&width=980"/></p><p>Taking the idea of adaptive treatment a step farther, one clinical team is testing a DBS device that records signals from the brain and adjusts the settings automatically. This closed-loop system can respond in real time to fluctuations of mood.</p></div><p>DBS is primarily used to manage movement disorders such as essential tremor and <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/parkinsons-disease-pen" target="_blank">Parkinson’s disease</a>. For those ailments, it’s an established and approved therapy that can drastically reduce symptoms such as shaking and muscle rigidity.</p><p>But Mayberg was inspired by the discovery of a brain region called the subgenual cingulate (SGC), which plays a <a href="https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.156.5.675" target="_blank">key role in acute sadness</a> and the <a href="https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(00)01036-2/abstract" target="_blank">effects of antidepressant treatments</a>. She theorized that stimulating this area might alleviate severe, treatment-resistant depression. Her patients were people who had typically tried several types of antidepressant medications and more drastic measures, like electroconvulsive therapy, without finding any relief.</p><p>While the treatment didn’t work for everyone, many did feel better. Six months after surgery, 12 of the 20-person cohort experienced a profound lifting of their depressive symptoms, with 7 going into full remission. The effect was lasting, with many of those individuals continuing to report benefits to this day, according to <a href="https://surgery.utoronto.ca/faculty-focus-andres-lozano" target="_blank">Andres Lozano</a>, the University of Toronto neurosurgeon who performed the operations.</p><p>Mayberg’s hypothesis, it would seem, had proved correct.</p><h2>Learning from DBS Failures</h2><p>Yet, for all its early potential, DBS never gained traction as a mainstream psychiatric treatment. It is occasionally used today for people with debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the technique remains unapproved for depression and is largely confined to research trials—some of which have ended in dispiriting, <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0006-3223(14)00968-8" target="_blank">high-profile failure</a>.</p><p>One of the most notable setbacks occurred in 2013. The device company St. Jude Medical set out to replicate the findings of Mayberg’s study in a randomized trial, with plans to enlist 200 participants. But the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/zapping-peoples-brains-didnt-cure-their-depression-until-it-did/558032/" target="_blank">study was halted prematurely</a> after only 90 patients had been enrolled. An interim analysis had found the therapy was no more effective than sham stimulation.</p><p>It was a crushing blow to the field. Mayberg and others struggled to continue their research, as funding agencies and the scientific community at large grew increasingly skeptical about the viability of DBS for depression.</p><p>With the benefit of hindsight, however, many researchers now believe that the St. Jude failure owed more to the study’s design flaws than to any inherent shortcomings of DBS itself. A longer-term follow-up of participants indicated that the treatment’s antidepressant effect steadily strengthened. The trial may simply have measured responses on the wrong timeline. Plus, the neurosurgical placement of the DBS electrodes relied on an outdated understanding of brain connectivity, leading to suboptimal positioning. This may have delayed the therapeutic response past the initial 6- to 12-month assessment window.</p><p>These missteps likely undermined the study’s results, <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(17)30371-1/abstract" target="_blank">the trial investigators later concluded</a>. But with the right trial design, most experts anticipate that future studies will succeed. “That could make a huge difference,” says <a href="https://researchers.mgh.harvard.edu/profile/1711504/Darin-Dougherty" target="_blank">Darin Dougherty</a>, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston. “Hopefully those lessons learned will be enough to get it over the top.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A woman sits in a chair while another woman holds a black device to the first woman's head." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="428ecaafae1779054aa7e9b114cad792" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="15d04" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-woman-sits-in-a-chair-while-another-woman-holds-a-black-device-to-the-first-woman-s-head.png?id=61111265&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">A patient identified as Sarah participates in a trial at UC San Francisco of the first fully closed-loop DBS system for depression. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Maurice Ramirez </small></p><p>The biomedical company Abbott (which acquired St. Jude in 2017) is now conducting a do-over study at 22 sites across the United States; Dougherty, Figee, Riva Posse, and other leaders in the field are involved in the effort. The <a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06423430" target="_blank">100-person trial</a>, launched in September 2024, could finally lead to regulatory approval and wider-scale adoption of DBS as a treatment strategy for depression.</p><p>But Abbott’s study takes a “set-it-and-forget-it” approach, in which stimulation parameters are programmed during initial visits and remain largely unchanged over time. The settings are generally standardized across patients, with a common pulse width and frequency fixed at around 90 microseconds and 130 hertz, respectively. Only the amplitude of stimulation, measured in volts, is typically adjusted to accommodate individual tolerances or symptom severity.</p><p>While this treatment approach is simple and scalable, it lacks the adaptability to respond to the dynamic nature of depression and its varying symptoms from one individual to the next. This limitation stems in part from a technological shortcoming of the Abbott platform: It can deliver precisely tuned electricity, but it lacks the ability to sense and record neural activity. Without this feedback mechanism, the device cannot detect shifts in brain states that might signal a relapse or a need for parameter adjustments, leaving clinicians reliant on patients’ reports.</p><p>In contrast, newer DBS devices for epilepsy and movement disorders can both stimulate and record signals. Medtronic’s <a href="https://europe.medtronic.com/xd-en/healthcare-professionals/products/neurological/deep-brain-stimulation-systems/percept-pc.html" target="_blank">Percept</a> system and NeuroPace’s <a href="https://neuropace.com/providers/rns-system-neuromodulation/" target="_blank">Responsive Neurostimulator</a>, for example, offer real-time feedback capabilities, which could allow for more adaptive therapies. Researchers want to bring that flexibility to DBS for depression.</p><h2>How Responsive DBS for Depression Works</h2><p>Consider again the example of Riva Posse’s 67-year-old patient. As <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06541-3" target="_blank">described in <em><em>Nature</em></em> two years ago</a>, this woman received a research-grade version of the Percept platform that detected signs of neural instability five weeks before her clinical symptoms reappeared.</p><p>“Before the patient knew anything was wrong—before there was even a hint of behavior that could seem symptomatic of a relapse—the brain signal was headed in the wrong direction,” says Rozell, the neuroengineer at Georgia Tech who developed the AI model used to interpret the woman’s brain activity patterns.</p><p>Rozell’s model combined a neural network classification scheme (for analyzing brain signals) with a generative causal explainer (for identifying key activity patterns). His work uncovered a distinct biomarker that reliably differentiated between states of depression relapse and recovery. Intriguingly, the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-024-02816-z" target="_blank">biomarker also reflected changes in sleep quality</a>, a telling early indicator since poor sleep patterns often precede the return of depression symptoms.</p><p class="pull-quote">Depression can take many forms: Some people experience it as emotional despondency, while others struggle with obsessive thoughts or a loss of pleasure.<strong></strong></p><p><span></span>But the insights provided by Rozell’s model came too late to help the patient in the moment—they were validated only after her relapse had occurred. To address this limitation, the researchers are now refining the approach for real-time use, aiming to develop what Mayberg calls “an automatic alarm system”—an AI-driven tool designed to continuously monitor device output and flag warning signs of relapse.</p><p>Such a system could prompt clinicians to intervene before these brain signals escalate into a full-blown depressive episode. Simultaneously, it could filter out false alerts from patients, providing reassurance to users who might otherwise interpret normal stress or anxiety as signs of an impending relapse. Informed by this neurofeedback, psychiatrists might then choose to fine-tune stimulation settings. Or they might proactively recommend additional support, such as psychotherapy or medication adjustments.</p><h2>Closing the Loop for DBS</h2><p>Going one step further, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, are exploring a fully closed-loop DBS system for depression that removes some of the need for human decision-making. Their approach empowers the device itself to automatically adjust stimulation parameters in real time based on brain activity.</p><p>Reporting on their first patient—a woman in her 30s named Sarah, who withheld her last name for privacy—the UC San Francisco team <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01480-w" target="_blank">documented transformative improvements</a> in her mood, emotional balance, everyday functioning, and overall outlook on life, all in the first week after the implant was switched on.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A person gardening in a vibrant community garden under sunny skies; colorful flowers in bloom." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="60251c4047293adfbb79d87b8e0d0723" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="b56fb" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-person-gardening-in-a-vibrant-community-garden-under-sunny-skies-colorful-flowers-in-bloom.png?id=61111270&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Sarah reports that the closed-loop DBS system restored pleasure and purpose to her life. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">John Lok</small></p><p>“My life took an immediate upward turn,” Sarah said at a 2021 press conference announcing the study’s early findings. “Hobbies I used to distract myself from suicidal thoughts suddenly became pleasurable again. I was able to make small decisions about what to eat without becoming stuck in a morass of indecision for hours,” she said, adding, “the device has kept my depression at bay, allowing me to return to my best self and rebuild a life worth living.”</p><p>According to <a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/andrew.krystal" target="_blank">Andrew Krystal</a>, the UC San Francisco psychiatrist leading the effort, similar benefits have since been seen in at least two other recipients of the closed-loop DBS device.</p><p>In each case, patients first undergo an intensive 10-day exploration of their typical neural activity, with 10 electrodes—targeting five locations on each side of the brain—temporarily implanted. During this period, researchers administer a battery of tests to identify the most effective sites for both stimulation and sensing. Once the optimal locations are determined, a second surgery is performed to implant the permanent DBS system, now simplified to just two electrodes: one dedicated to delivering stimulation and the other to recording neural activity.</p><p>When the recording electrode detects brain activity associated with depression—an event that can happen hundreds of times per day—it prompts the other electrode to deliver a brief burst of electricity lasting a few seconds. This approach stands out not only because it operates automatically in response to real-time brain activity, but also because it employs intermittent, on-demand stimulation rather than the continuous stimulation more commonly employed in DBS for psychiatric conditions.</p><p>This adaptive and dynamic feedback strategy may be especially well suited to addressing the day-to-day fluctuations in mood and emotional strain that can make depression so hard to live with, notes <a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p9682519" target="_blank">Katherine Scangos</a>, a psychiatrist who participated in the study. Patients have told her that receiving stimulation at key moments—like during a stressful interaction at the checkout line of a grocery store—helped prevent them from spiraling into distress. “They could really tell that they were getting the stimulation when they needed it most,” says Scangos, who joined the staff of the University of Pennsylvania last year.</p><p>Identifying the right sites and parameters is an intricate and labor-intensive process, and it’s not always immediately clear which settings will work best, according to UC San Francisco neurosurgeon <a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/kristin.sellers" target="_blank">Kristin Sellers</a>. All the data they collect creates a “curse of bounty,” she says. Yet, in her view, the outcomes demonstrate the effectiveness of taking this personalized approach. “No one has an identical implant,” she says.</p><h2>New Ideas on DBS for Depression</h2><p>Meanwhile, a team at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, is pursuing a different approach to customized DBS for depression. The team’s standardized implant consists of two coordinated sets of electrodes: One targets the SGC brain region involved in profound sadness, while the other stimulates a reward-and-motivation hub deep in the brain’s basal ganglia.</p><p>The customization happens on the front end during the initial surgical procedure, when clinicians temporarily place another 10 electrodes into the brain that take recordings via electroencephalography (EEG). This method tracks brain waves and, as patients undergo various tests and activities, allows the Baylor team to map relevant neural networks and connections. At the same time, the doctors can fiddle with the amplitude, pulse width, frequency, and shape of the stimulation field.</p><p>“Then we can basically design bespoke stimulation parameters for that individual that are going to move that person’s network in the right direction,” explains <a href="https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/sameer-sheth-30585" target="_blank">Sameer Sheth</a>, the neurosurgeon leading the project. Sheth and his colleagues have treated seven people, with <a href="https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(21)01747-9/fulltext" target="_blank">promising initial results</a>.</p><p>Any of these highly individualized approaches will involve additional surgical procedures and lengthy stays in the hospital. But as Dougherty of Massachusetts General Hospital points out, “We need to do this invasive research first so that we might be able to use noninvasive approaches later.”</p><p>He imagines a future in which electrodes on the scalp or advanced imaging techniques could identify optimal targets and guide treatment adjustments. Even then, however, if DBS requires highly personalized programming, it will be challenging to make it accessible to the millions of people worldwide in the throes of depression.</p><p>“The question will always be about the scalability of things,” says <a href="https://www.neuromod.uni-freiburg.de/people/volker-arnd-coenen/" target="_blank">Volker A. Coenen</a>, a neurosurgeon at the University of Freiburg Medical Center, in Germany. Coenen is therefore focusing his energy on testing a standardized DBS protocol, one that involves implanting the <a href="https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/products/deep-brain-stimulation-systems/vercise-gevia-tm-dbs-system.html" target="_blank">Vercise Gevia</a> system from Boston Scientific into an area of the brain known as the medial forebrain bundle.</p><p>In his view, this brain region offers a more direct and efficient pathway to reward systems and emotional-regulation networks. Still, the various brain regions under consideration are all interconnected, which explains why they all seem to offer some degree of therapeutic benefit. “You can perturb the network from different angles,” Coenen says.</p><h2>The Road Ahead for DBS</h2><p>So, which site is best? The answer likely depends on the specific symptoms and underlying brain circuits unique to each individual, says <a href="https://med.umn.edu/bio/alik-widge" target="_blank">Alik Widge</a>, a psychiatrist and biomedical engineer at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis.</p><p>“There’s no such thing as DBS for depression. There’s DBS for treating specific cognitive-emotional syndromes,” he argues—and different targets will be suited for accessing different aspects of the disorder. Depression can take many forms: Some people experience it as emotional despondency, while others struggle with obsessive thoughts or a loss of pleasure.</p><p>The optimal stimulation method may also vary. Continuous stimulation may work best for people whose depression follows a steady, persistent course, while intermittent or responsive stimulation may be more appropriate for those whose symptoms fluctuate with daily ups and downs. “It’s like the difference between weather and climate,” says Riva Posse—some people may need an umbrella for passing showers, while others need to reinforce their homes against rising tides.</p><p>Ultimately, whether they’re tweaking stimulation parameters, finding the best brain targets, or making stimulation respond to real-time brain signals, the goal for researchers in the field remains the same: to create a neurologically precise approach to treating depression in people who have found no relief. “There are so many levers we can press here,” says <a href="https://sunnybrook.ca/research/team/member.asp?m=734&page=0" target="_blank">Nir Lipsman</a>, who directs the Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation at Sunnybrook, in Toronto. He’s confident that at least some of these efforts will unlock new therapeutic possibilities.</p><p>“The field is experiencing a kind of reset,” Lipsman adds. Now, with neural activity as a guide, the brains of people undergoing DBS should likewise experience a kind of reset as well. <span class="ieee-end-mark"></span></p>

Jun 30, 2025

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Jun 27, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/quadruped-robot-with-manipulator-arm-placed-on-pavement-near-a-table-tennis-setup.png?id=61112174&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=58%2C0%2C59%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><span>Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at </span><em>IEEE Spectrum</em><span> robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Robotics%20event%20suggestion%20for%20Video%20Friday">send us your events</a><span> for inclusion.</span></p><h5><a href="https://ias-19.org/">IAS 2025</a>: 30 June–4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY</h5><h5><a href="https://clawar.org/icres2025/">ICRES 2025</a>: 3–4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL</h5><h5><a href="https://2025.worldhaptics.org/">IEEE World Haptics</a>: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, SOUTH KOREA</h5><h5><a href="https://ifac2025-msrob.com/">IFAC Symposium on Robotics</a>: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS</h5><h5><a href="https://2025.robocup.org/">RoboCup 2025</a>: 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL</h5><h5><a href="https://www.ro-man2025.org/">RO-MAN 2025</a>: 25–29 August 2025, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS</h5><h5><a href="https://clawar.org/clawar2025/">CLAWAR 2025</a>: 5–7 September 2025, SHENZHEN, CHINA</h5><h5><a href="https://www.corl.org/">CoRL 2025</a>: 27–30 September 2025, SEOUL</h5><h5><a href="https://2025humanoids.org/">IEEE Humanoids</a>: 30 September–2 October 2025, SEOUL</h5><h5><a href="https://worldrobotsummit.org/en/">World Robot Summit</a>: 10–12 October 2025, OSAKA, JAPAN</h5><h5><a href="https://www.iros25.org/">IROS 2025</a>: 19–25 October 2025, HANGZHOU, CHINA</h5><p>Enjoy today’s videos!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><div style="page-break-after: always"><span style="display:none"> </span></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="3ysgbn6ca8a"><em>Throwing is a fundamental skill that enables robots to manipulate objects in ways that extend beyond the reach of their arms. We present a control framework that combines learning and model-based control for prehensile whole-body throwing with legged mobile manipulators. This work provides an early demonstration of prehensile throwing with quantified accuracy on hardware, contributing to progress in dynamic whole-body manipulation.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c380e7cc77c2ff7df6924bc3589434b5" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ysgbN6Ca8A?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16986">Paper</a> ] from [ <a href="https://ethz.ch/en/studies/master/degree-programmes/engineering-sciences/robotics-systems-and-control.html" target="_blank">ETH Zurich</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="wgr7iizzfr0">As it turns out, in many situations <a data-linked-post="2666662286" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robots" target="_blank">humanoid robots</a> don’t necessarily need legs at all.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="47302ecf2f03d6151a2dfd94f1ce29d5" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WgR7IIzzfR0?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.robotera.com/en/enq5">ROBOTERA</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="xmbuvofnu5a"><em>Picking-in-Motion is a brand new feature of Autopicker 2.0. Instead of remaining stationary while picking an item, Autopicker begins traveling toward its next destination immediately after retrieving a storage tote, completing the pick while on the move. The robot then drops off the first storage tote at an empty slot near the next pick location before collecting the next tote.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8403fb62dce8c4ce1457ec30a8bb67f5" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xmbuvoFNu5A?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://brightpick.ai/">Brightpick</a> ]</p><p>Thanks, Gilmarie!</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="rwsb78emfgi">I am pretty sure this is not yet real, but boy is it shiny.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c8476f7f896244eb4a23e8481b9be4b7" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rWSb78EmFGI?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.softbank.jp/corp/philosophy/technology/special/ntn-solution/haps/">SoftBank</a> ] via [ <a href="https://robotstart.info/2025/06/26/sb-haps-2026.html">RobotStart</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="lf5fw4qunlk">Why use one thumb when you can use two instead?</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3059dc10a2edb86d9db46fdcd9e0bde6" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LF5fW4qUnlk?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.tu.berlin/en/robotics">TU Berlin</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="3fwefdibpk0"><em>Kirigami offers unique opportunities for guided morphing by leveraging the geometry of the cuts. This work presents inflatable <a data-linked-post="2650276722" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-snakeskin-helps-robots-get-their-slither-on" target="_blank">kirigami crawlers</a> created by introducing cut patterns into heat-sealable textiles to achieve locomotion upon cyclic pneumatic actuation. We found that the kirigami actuators exhibit directional anisotropic friction properties when inflated, having higher friction coefficients against the direction of the movement, enabling them to move across surfaces with varying roughness. We further enhanced the functionality of inflatable kirigami actuators by introducing multiple channels and segments to create functional soft robotic prototypes with versatile locomotion capabilities.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="772fc720afe02dd29601706a74c39c62" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3fWEFDibPK0?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adrr.202500044">Paper</a> ] from [ <a href="https://www.softrobotics.dk/" target="_blank">SDU Soft Robotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="1gviu3trrps">Lockheed Martin wants to get into the <a data-linked-post="2652904040" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/mars-sample-return-mission" target="_blank">Mars Sample Return</a> game for a mere US $3 billion.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d6f03aad050bbbe77173bfc37241875c" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1GViU3tRRps?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2025/bringing-commercial-industry-efficiency-to-exploration-lockheed-martins-plan-for-mars-sample-return.html">Lockheed Martin</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="9hwyniiw4nm">This is pretty gross and exactly what you want a robot to be doing: dealing with municipal solid waste.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3a9e942998b6b6ad57bfd01a18012ab7" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9HWYNIiW4NM?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.terex.com/zenrobotics/waste-types/municipal-solid-waste">ZenRobotics</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="h5z32e7uakm"><em>Drag your mouse or move your phone to explore this 360-degree panorama provided by <a data-linked-post="2650269754" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-turns-one-on-mars" target="_blank">NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover.</a> This view shows some of the rover’s first looks at a region that has only been viewed from space until now, and where the surface is crisscrossed with spiderweb-like patterns.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1de2285b55a5583bba358034225f6c47" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H5z32E7uaKM?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/">NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="hpvza8rfiks">In case you were wondering, <a data-linked-post="2667116159" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/irobot-amazon" target="_blank">iRobot</a> is still around.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="94f11994637afc79d347441f03a021f7" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hPVZA8rfiKs?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.irobot.com/">iRobot</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><p class="rm-anchors" id="shmgjzkqzdm">Legendary roboticist <a data-linked-post="2650271281" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/cynthia-breazeal-unveils-jibo-a-social-robot-for-the-home" target="_blank">Cynthia Breazeal</a> talks about the equally legendary Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="96578b094f03b3ec1f7d6396f02f9a1c" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/shMGJZkQzDM?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/personal-robots/overview/">MIT Personal Robots Group</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div><blockquote class="rm-anchors" id="kj0mp74v4kq"><em>In the first installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots <a data-linked-post="2650275007" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/astro-teller-captain-of-moonshots-at-x" target="_blank">Astro Teller</a> sits down with <a data-linked-post="2650257886" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/sebastian-thrun-will-teach-you-how-to-build-your-own-self-driving-car-for-free" target="_blank">Sebastian Thrun</a>, cofounder of the Moonshot Factory, for a conversation about the history of Waymo and Google X, the ethics of innovation, the future of AI, and more.</em></blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"><span class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="54cee25119337253957257dc6f4bd176" style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="auto" lazy-loadable="true" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kj0mp74V4kQ?rel=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%"></iframe></span></p><p>[ <a href="https://x.company/">Google X, The Moonshot Factory</a> ]</p><div class="horizontal-rule"></div>

Jun 27, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-picture-of-a-large-bulky-plotter-like-device-connected-to-a-small-board-hosting-several-printed-circuit-boards-including-a-ra.png?id=61109145&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=380%2C0%2C380%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Solid construction, elegant design, and high-precision output. Once upon a time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hewlett-Packard</a> made test-and-measurement equipment that was beloved by working engineers. Sure, drop one of those babies on your foot and you were looking at a broken toe. But that’s a small price to pay for reliability and some character building. So when I recently came across an early 1970s HP 7041A X-Y recorder while clearing out my parents’ attic, I knew that I just had to see if I could get it up and running again.</p><h2>What is the difference between an X-Y recorder and a plotter?</h2><p><a href="https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/wb_pages/wall_b_page_13.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">X-Y recorders</a> were designed to chart data from analog instruments in real time, as opposed to plotters, which plot the outputs of digital computers. The basics are the same: There’s a mechanism to raise and lower a pen, and motors to move the pen across the surface of a page. The big difference is that a plotter typically uses digital commands to control the pen’s motion, while the motion of a recorder’s pen is controlled by analog voltage inputs. </p><p>So all I needed to do was feed the HP recorder the right voltages, and I could draw anything I wanted! Only a few obstacles stood in my way.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Key components of the recorder interface including a Rapsberry Pi, expansion hat and digital-to-analog converters, QWIIC I2C connectors and a 74LS08 and LMC6484 integrated circuits." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="70805e8614f28abf23a1867f0c68606e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e5317" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/key-components-of-the-recorder-interface-including-a-rapsberry-pi-expansion-hat-and-digital-to-analog-converters-qwiic-i2c-con.png?id=61109151&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The recorder interface allows Python code written on a Raspberry Pi [bottom right] to create analog signals that are level shifted up and down to meet the different ranges required by the plotter’s x- and y- axis. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">James Provost</small></p><p>The first obstacle was getting the thing home, because my parents’ attic was in Ireland and fitting a 13-kilogram, 48-by-36-by-17-centimeter behemoth into my suitcase for my flight back to NYC wasn’t happening. About US $300 in packing materials and shipping fees solved that problem, and I was still a little ahead of the game financially compared to obtaining a similar vintage recorder from eBay, and way ahead of buying a new Bantam Tools <a href="https://bantamtools.com/products/bantam-tools-nextdraw-1117" target="_blank">NextDraw plotter</a> with a similar drawing area. (To be fair to Bantam, its plotters are sleek plug-and-play devices that can handle a much wider range of pens).</p><p>The second obstacle was that the recorder didn’t work. Once I got it home, I discovered that the <em><em>y</em></em>-axis could be adjusted manually using a knob on the control panel, but the <em><em>x</em></em>-axis was dead. The mechanism for raising and lowering the pen made a weak clunking sound and barely twitched. </p><p class="pull-quote"><span>“Had I just spent a lot of money to ship home an HP-model boat anchor?”</span></p><p>I opened up the case, which was quick work with a Phillips screwdriver—no weird security screws, no glue, no fragile plastic, no yellow stickers warning that your warranty would be voided and you’d probably get boils if you dared to look within. On the beautifully laid out printed circuit boards inside, I spotted some resistors that were clearly not part of the factory install. Were they modifications or repairs? If the latter, had they been successful or had I just spent a lot of money to ship home an HP-model boat anchor? And I had no idea how the 40-pin interface connector on the back of the recorder was supposed to be hooked up to control signals.</p><p>All these problems were solved when I found the recorder’s manual on eBay. Oh, what a manual. Not just operating instructions, but detailed illustrations for taking the recorder completely apart and putting it back together. It listed every component, with photos of the circuit boards and electronic schematics on gatefolds. And it included directions for modifying the circuitry if you wanted to measure different voltage ranges than the factory settings–extract a resistor <em><em>here</em></em> and <em><em>there</em></em> and solder in some new ones. This explained the resistors I’d spotted. In a world where licenses and software locks <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-we-must-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-our-electronics" target="_self">forbid folks from simply plugging in a replacement component</a>, the thought of a major company encouraging its customers to break out a soldering iron is mind boggling.</p><p class="ieee-inbody-related">RELATED: <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-we-must-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-our-electronics" target="_self">Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics</a></p><p>Soon, the application of some<a href="https://www.starrett.com/details?cat-no=1620" target="_blank"> instrument oil</a>,<a href="https://kezeproducts.shop/product/keze-silicone-grease-waterproof-food-grade-silicone-sealant-B0DK7188RF23" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> silicone grease</a>, and<a href="https://www.kcprofessional.com/en-us/products/wiping-and-cleaning/controlled-environments/delicate-task-dry-wipes/kimtech-science-kimwipes-delicate-task-wipes/34120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Kimwipes</a> had the <em><em>x</em></em>-axis and pen lifter working again. I hooked up a variable power supply to the recorder’s connector and <em><em>slowly</em></em> brought the voltage up as I watched the pen holder move in response. This allowed me to determine the recorder’s input ranges, which turned out to be 0 to 1 volt for the <em><em>y</em></em>-axis, and 0 to 5 V for the <em><em>x</em></em>-axis, covering 25 and 38 cm of motion, respectively, with about 0.2 millimeter accuracy.</p><p>The next step was to build an interface. Although microcontrollers often have digital-to-analog capabilities built-in, there’s often only one true analog output pin. I needed two. A technique like<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> pulse-width modulation</a> would let me output an analog-ish voltage on multiple pins, but typically with<a href="https://docs.arduino.cc/learn/microcontrollers/analog-output/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> only 8-bit resolution</a> or 256 distinct voltage levels. I needed at least 1,900 levels to match the recorder’s accuracy.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A block diagram of the path taken by control signals from the Pi to the recorder." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="292b7719580ef594eaedb735375f5567" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="cd996" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-block-diagram-of-the-path-taken-by-control-signals-from-the-pi-to-the-recorder.png?id=61109155&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The Raspberry Pi uses an expansion “HAT” and two 12-bit digital-to-analog converters commanded via I2C connectors to create 0- to 3.3-volt control signals. These are shifted to 0- to 1-V and 0- to 5-V ranges using a voltage divider and amplifier respectively, as well as a logic gate used to convert a 3.3-V digital signal that raises and lowers the pen to a 5-V level.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">James Provost</small></p><p>So I bought two $5 Adafruit<a href="https://www.adafruit.com/product/935" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> MCP4725 breakout boards</a>. These are 12-bit digital-to-analog converters—each providing 4,096 distinct levels—controlled over an<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2C" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> I2C serial</a> connection, and two boards can share the same I2C bus. I connected them to a<a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-1-model-b-plus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Raspberry Pi Model B+</a> I fished out of a drawer via a $6.60<a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/sparkfun-qwiic-hat-for-raspberry-pi.html?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17479024039&gbraid=0AAAAADsj4ETIsvzPrWRZILPBJJYuYL4lW&gclid=CjwKCAjw3f_BBhAPEiwAaA3K5EY7W2Dcff6vdxZ05A9JDZ53YuAs0DOLpBhLPfsXnEw6yKQjBOoKhBoCrqUQAvD_BwE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> SparkFun Qwiic HAT</a>.</p><p>The DACs put out a signal in the range of 0 to 3.3 V, so I sent one board’s output through a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_divider" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> voltage divider</a> to scale it down to 0 to 1 V for the <em><em>y</em></em>-axis. For the <em><em>x</em></em>-axis, I fed the other board’s output through an<a href="https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lmc6484.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> LMC6484</a> amplifier, powered by a 5-V pin from the Pi, to bring it up to 0 to 4.8 V—not quite the full range, but it’ll do until I come up with a more sophisticated interface. I brought a signal to raise and lower the pen out from one of the Pi’s GPIO pins, passing it through a<a href="https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74ls08.pdf?ts=1749054414890" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> 74LS08 AND gate IC</a> used as a cheap and cheerful 3.3- to 5-V digital level shifter.</p><p>I then wrote code on the Pi to put the plotter through its paces, using parametric equations written in<a href="https://circuitpython.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CircuitPython</a> to draw swirling<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> hypotrochoids</a> and other geometric curves. Ultimately, it should be possible to have the Pi accept and translate commands written in a plotter-control language such as<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-GL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> HP-GL</a>. Then I’ll be able to plot vector graphics and text from drawing software like<a href="https://inkscape.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Inkscape</a>. But for now, I’m happy to just have my recorder humming away beside me, hale and hearty and built to last.</p>

Jun 26, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/hausi-a-muller-speaking-on-stage-during-ieee-quantum-week.jpg?id=61108939&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C1"/><br/><br/><p>When <a href="https://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hausi A. Müller</a> began conducting research on quantum computing a decade ago, he was excited about the technology’s possibilities for engineering and computer science applications. Quantum computing leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to tackle problems that are beyond the capabilities of classical computers. </p><p>Although it’s been 100 years since the discovery of quantum mechanics, applications for how to use it are just now becoming a reality. The technology is expected to advance the fields of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, drug discovery, finance, and more. </p><h3>Hausi A. Müller</h3><br/><p><strong>Employer: </strong></p><p><strong></strong>University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada</p><p><strong>Title: </strong></p><p><strong></strong>Professor of computer science</p><p><strong>Member grade: </strong></p><p><strong></strong>Life senior member</p><p><strong>Alma maters: </strong></p><p><strong></strong>ETH Zurich and Rice University, in Houston</p><h3></h3><br/><p>“I felt like a kid in the candy store,” says Müller, a software engineering professor at the <a href="https://www.uvic.ca/ecs/computerscience/people/faculty/index.php" target="_blank">University of Victoria</a>, in British Columbia, Canada. “With quantum computing, you can now simulate things quickly that were not possible to do before. In drug discovery, for example, you can play with molecules on your computer and explore new ideas without physically synthesizing compounds in a lab, saving both time and resources.”</p><p>The IEEE life senior member has always been confident that quantum science would take off. An active volunteer for more than 40 years, he persuaded IEEE in 2019 to become more involved in the science and engineering of quantum computing technologies. What began as the <a href="https://quantum.ieee.org/" target="_blank">IEEE Future Directions Quantum Initiative</a>—with support from a handful of IEEE organizational units—evolved into the <a href="https://quantum.ieee.org/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Quantum Technical Community</a> last year, with the support of 11 units.</p><p>In 2020 he helped found <a href="https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2025/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)</a>, part of the annual <a href="https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2025/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Quantum Week</a>, which he also founded, to provide a multidisciplinary and open forum for discussing the technology’s challenges and opportunities.</p><p>Müller’s and IEEE’s efforts to advance quantum computing have not gone unnoticed. In February, Müller, <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-presidents-note-march-2025" target="_self">IEEE President Kathleen Kramer</a>, and other dignitaries attended a <a href="https://www.unesco.org/en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UNESCO </a>ceremony in Paris, where the agency designated 2025 as the <a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/years/quantum-science-technology" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">International Year of Quantum Science and Technology</a>.</p><h2>Software and quantum computing researcher</h2><p>Müller became interested in software about halfway through his bachelor’s degree program in electrical engineering at <a href="https://ethz.ch/en.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ETH Zurich</a>, he says. He was inspired by one of his professors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Niklaus Wirth</a>, a Swiss computer scientist who designed <a href="https://modula.us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Modula</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(programming_language)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oberon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pascal</a>, and other programming languages.</p><p>“In electrical engineering, you have these nice little parts to experiment with in the lab. But in software, experiments are done with paper and pencil, and you can build amazing machines quickly,” Müller says. “That’s what really attracted me to software engineering.”</p><h3>Skills Needed for a Career in Quantum Computing</h3><br/><p>There are many opportunities for people seeking a career in the development and operation of quantum computing hardware and software, Müller says. The ease of transitioning into the field depends on the engineer’s background in hardware, software, and applications.</p><p>“Quantum computing is highly interdisciplinary,” he says, “and for it to succeed, we need computer scientists and all kinds of engineers, especially software engineers.”</p><p>Here are some of skills Müller says quantum engineers need:</p> <p><strong>Linear algebra.</strong> This foundational knowledge is essential for matrix mechanics and quantum computing.</p> <p><strong>Qubits and quantum states.</strong> Learn how qubits differ from classical bits, including the fundamental quantum concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference.</p> <p><strong>Quantum gates, circuits, and measurement.</strong> Understand how to manipulate qubit states using gates and build quantum circuits.</p> <p><strong>Quantum algorithms and protocols.</strong> Learn the basics to solve problems, dealing with actions and properties governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.</p> <p><strong>Quantum software platforms and engineering quantum software.</strong> Become proficient in <a href="https://www.python.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Python</a> as well as quantum platforms and libraries such as<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aOG5zY-naqxcrVEACjcPaAlRIbZGw3iTYMRX_AaAKSM/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.984nt7yojate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> IBM’s Qiskit</a>, Microsoft’s <a href="https://quantum.microsoft.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">software development kits and Q#</a> programming language, Google’s <a href="https://quantumai.google/cirq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cirq</a>, Xanadu’s <a href="https://www.xanadu.ai/products/pennylane/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PennyLane</a>, D-Wave’s <a href="https://www.dwavequantum.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leap</a>, Amazon’s <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/braket/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Braket</a>, Nvidia’s <a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-q" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CUDA-Q</a>, and Quantinuum’s <a href="https://www.quantinuum.com/glossary-item/tket" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TKET</a>.</p> <p><strong>Qubit technologies.</strong> Learn how to implement physical qubits such as superconducting transmon qubits, trapped ions, and photonic qubits, as well as their control technologies.</p> <p><strong>Microwave qubit control.</strong> Precise control of superconducting qubits relies heavily on microwave signals, so learn about microwave generation, manipulation, and measurement.</p> <p><strong>Pulse shapes for gate design.</strong> Quantum gates are implemented by applying precisely shaped pulses—electrical or optical—to qubits, so understanding pulse design and control is crucial.</p> <p><strong>Instrumentation and measurement.</strong> Learn how to use tools for generating control signals and measuring qubit states.</p> <p><strong>Quantum error correction.</strong> Quantum systems are susceptible to noise, which can introduce errors in computations. Understanding quantum error correction at distinct levels of the quantum stack is essential for building fault-tolerant quantum computers.</p><h3></h3><br/><p>After graduating in 1979, Müller joined <a href="https://global.abb/group/en" target="_blank">ABB</a>, a global electrification and automation technology company headquartered in Zurich. He was responsible for building a database management system on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11" target="_blank">PDP-11 computers</a> for the central control systems. He was part of a team developing power control and supervision systems for Colombia, Singapore, and Sweden.</p><p>Müller says he believed that an advanced degree would further his career, and he wanted to conduct research into the evolution of software. In 1982 he enrolled at <a href="https://ethz.ch/en.html" target="_blank">Rice University</a>, in Houston, to pursue a master’s degree in computer science, which he earned in 1984. He enjoyed being there so much, he says, that he stayed on to earn a Ph.D. in the same subject in 1986.</p><p>It was while teaching programming courses at Rice that he decided to transition to a career in academia, but he still kept a foot in the industry. He conducted research on high-performance computing and worked extensively with <a href="https://www.ibm.com/us-en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IBM</a>, a relationship he has maintained for more than 30 years. He has served as a principal investigator for several collaborative research projects including the development of hybrid and distributed quantum computing software using IBM’s <a href="https://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Qiskit</a>.</p><p>He left Rice in 1986 to join the University of Victoria as a professor of computer science. During his nearly 40 years there, he has served as associate dean of research for a decade. He is the founding director of the accredited software engineering bachelor’s degree program.</p><p>His research has mostly focused on <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/computing/" target="_self">software engineering</a> for self-adaptive systems, smart software systems, the <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-courses-on-emerging-tech" target="_self">Internet of Things</a>, and intelligent cyber-physical systems. Today he is primarily focused on quantum computing. More than 60 of <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=Hausi%20M%C3%BCller" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his papers</a> are in the <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Xplore Digital Library</a>.</p><p>He is a principal investigator of a large grant from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Sciences_and_Engineering_Research_Council" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Sciences and Engineering Research Council</a> of Canada. The council is assembling a <a href="https://www.qscc.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Quantum Software Consortium</a>, an interdisciplinary research program that aims to develop methods and software for distributed quantum computing in Canada.</p><h2>A quantum forum</h2><p>Müller is most proud of having created <a href="https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2023/author/hausimullergmail-com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Quantum Week</a> and the <a href="https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2025/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE QCE</a> conference. Now in its fifth year, the forum is more popular than ever. Last year IEEE <a href="https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2024/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Quantum Week</a> took place in Montréal, drawing 1,600 participants from 52 countries, with 60 percent from industry.</p><p>This year, the event is scheduled for 31 August to 5 September in Albuquerque. Müller is the program board chair. <a href="https://qce.quantum.ieee.org/2025/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Quantum Week 2025</a> will feature stellar exhibits, he says, with more than 250 technical papers, 150 posters, 35 tutorials, and 40 workshops, including ones for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The tutorials are designed to enhance the fundamental quantum computing skill sets needed by scientists and engineers, he says, and the workshops will feature experts from quantum communities.</p><h3>The Applications of Quantum</h3><br/><p>Quantum applications can be classified into three broad areas: optimization, machine learning, and simulating nature.</p><ul><li><strong>Optimization.</strong> Achieving quantum utility will revolutionize industrial applications, Müller says, by optimizing complex computations beyond classical capabilities, thereby improving efficiency, speed, and scalability. For example, the quantum approximate optimization algorithm can optimize power flow distribution across a smart grid. Researchers are exploring the use of quantum technology to enhance power grid efficiency and reduce energy losses.</li><li><strong>Machine learning.</strong> The utility of quantum machine learning lies in its potential to accelerate computations, enhance pattern recognition, and solve complex problems that classical machine learning struggles with, Müller says. Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize finance, for example, by improving portfolio optimization, risk management, fraud detection, and market simulations.</li><li><strong>Simulation.</strong> Quantum computing has immense potential for simulating nature, Müller says, particularly in areas where classical computers are challenged by exponential complexity. Quantum utility in drug discovery, for example, could accelerate molecular simulations, leading to faster development of new medicines.</li></ul><p><span>“Some of the workshops collaborate throughout the year and then congregate again at Quantum Week,” he says. “I think the impact of these separate little communities that we started at Quantum Week is very powerful.</span></p><p>“Industry is very interested in talking to academia and, of course, the academics really want to talk to industry. From the outset, we designed IEEE Quantum Week to be a forum where this is possible. The activities bridge the gap between the science of quantum computing and the development of the industry surrounding it.”</p><h2>Longtime IEEE Computer Society volunteer</h2><p>Müller joined IEEE in 1979 during a membership drive for students at ETH.</p><p>“The opportunities for volunteering are what interested me, and I could see that it would benefit my career down the line. That has certainly been true,” he says. “I think the kind of volunteering we do within IEEE is super important for the next generation of engineers in universities, because the organization helps universities connect to what’s going on in industry.”</p><p>He is involved with the <a href="https://www.computer.org/" target="_blank">IEEE Computer Society</a> and has served as chair of its <a href="https://tc.computer.org/tcse/" target="_blank">Technical Community on Software Engineering</a>, as well as vice president of its <a href="https://www.computer.org/volunteering/boards-and-committees/technical-activities" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">technical and conference activities board</a>. He was a member of its <a href="https://www.computer.org/volunteering/board-of-governors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">board of governors</a> and IEEE’s <a href="https://www.computer.org/volunteering/volunteer-with-us?source=nav" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">conferences committee</a>.</p><p>In recognition of his Computer Society volunteerism, he received last year’s <a href="https://www.computer.org/volunteering/boards-and-committees/technical-activities/awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">technical and conference activities board Distinguished Leadership Award</a> for “unwavering commitment and exceptional contributions to software engineering, quantum computing, and IEEE CS’s technical activities.”</p><p>“I think I have had an impact on the profession by volunteering to organize events such as Quantum Week,” he says. “I like the conference business because people get together, exchange ideas, collaborate, and even work together on research grant proposals. I have always been passionate about creating and sustaining communities.”</p>

Jun 26, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/man-in-gray-t-shirt-and-jeans-standing-next-to-a-large-statue-shaped-like-the-linkedin-logo.png?id=61106255&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=1%2C0%2C1%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Music and engineering might seem like career paths that are almost diametrically opposed. But for <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/javierorman/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Javier Orman</a> the transition from professional violinist to a machine learning engineer at LinkedIn was a surprisingly natural one.</p><p>Growing up in Montevideo, Uruguay, Orman excelled at both music and math, and he double-majored in the subjects at college. But music was his true passion and after university he pursued a career as a professional violinist, performing, teaching, and helping to record and produce other artists.</p><h3>Javier Orman</h3><br/><p><strong>Employer:</strong></p><p>LinkedIn</p><p><strong>Occupation:</strong></p><p>Machine learning engineer</p><p><strong>Education:</strong></p><p>Bachelor’s degrees in music and mathematics, College of Charleston; master’s degree in music, University of Michigan</p><p>But during the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic, a conversation with a grad-school friend who had given up music for software development piqued his curiosity. After taking some free online courses in Python and machine learning, he quickly became immersed in a fascinating new world of data and algorithms. It didn’t take long for him to realize he wanted to make a career of it.</p><p>Machine learning algorithms were “almost like magic” to Orman. “I became enamored by the methodology, the math behind it.”</p><h2>A Double Prodigy</h2><p>Orman’s unusual career trajectory can be traced back to his early childhood. Both of his parents were software engineers and he grew up with computers around the house from an early age. But they were also a musical family. His mother enjoyed playing the piano, and his father the trumpet.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25 rm-float-left" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Musician passionately playing a violin on stage." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5a587aa22f84e90342d414f11da739c8" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="e9387" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/musician-passionately-playing-a-violin-on-stage.png?id=61106262&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Orman’s path from music to machine learning shows how those with nontechnical backgrounds can succeed in software.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..."><a href="https://www.instagram.com/_desmoney/?hl=en" target="_blank">Desmond “Des Money” Owusu/Instagram</a></small></p><p>His musical journey started at 4 years old when he saw a class of around 100 children playing violin as a group. Orman was captivated and immediately told his mother he wanted to play the violin too. By his teens he had begun touring with Uruguay’s national youth orchestra and entering music competitions. At the same time though, he had discovered a natural aptitude for math and was entering Math Olympiads. But Orman says math was essentially a hobby he did on the side while he focused on his music career.</p><p>After completing two degrees, in music and math, at the <a href="https://charleston.edu/" target="_blank">College of Charleston</a> in South Carolina in 2006, Orman went on to a master’s degree in music at the University of Michigan. By 2009, he was playing in orchestras at Carnegie Hall in New York City and touring South America with a chamber music group.</p><p>Interested in pursuing a more creative avenue, Orman started composing music for short films and taught himself music production, eventually building a small studio where he would record and produce other artists. Over time, he built up a sustainable music career by combining this patchwork of creative projects with teaching violin.</p><h2>A New Direction</h2><p>In early 2020, as COVID-19 was upending the world, Orman found himself reevaluating his future and looking for new challenges. Near the start of the pandemic, he spoke to a friend from graduate school who had recently made the transition from professional violinist to software engineer. She told him about programming languages and what the career was like, and out of curiosity he decided to take an online Python course. Soon after he also began exploring the world of machine learning.</p><p>“I started taking online courses, but I also started looking for data on things that just interested me,” he says. For example, Orman created an <a href="https://www.ormandata.com/projects/project-six-bxe49" target="_blank">animated heat map</a> showing the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations in each state. “Once I figured out how to make cool plots and investigate the data a bit more, that became actually fun to do.”</p><p>Within six months, Orman realized this was something he wanted to pursue as a career. “I noticed that I was having a hard time stopping for meal breaks or to go to sleep,” he says. “So I began to take it seriously.”</p><p>In April 2021, Orman got a job doing data preparation at New York City–based startup <a href="https://koiosmedical.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Koios Medical</a>, which develops <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-diagnosis-cancer" target="_self">cancer-detection algorithms</a>. But his big break came just a few months later when he discovered LinkedIn’s <a href="https://careers.linkedin.com/reach" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reach</a> apprenticeship program, which provides a way into the tech industry for people with nontraditional educational or career backgrounds. He applied and started as an apprentice in machine learning software engineering that July.</p><h2>Learning Machine Learning</h2><p>Orman was assigned to LinkedIn’s Feed AI team, which develops the recommendation algorithms that determine what posts a user is shown. There are multiple layers to this system, which gradually filters down millions of potential posts to determine those most of interest to a specific user.</p><p>In 2022, after one year in the Reach program, Orman was promoted to software engineer and now works on a model known as the “second-pass ranker,” the final layer of AI in this system. It decides what posts are most relevant to the user based on factors like their propensity to click or comment on similar kinds of posts.</p><p>Much of his work involves experimenting with new machine learning techniques or making small tweaks to the model to squeeze out extra performance. “It’s a pretty complex system,” says Orman. “It’s also a very mature system, so we measure gains in terms of tenths or hundreds of a percentage.”</p><p>But he relishes the challenge and the push to continually learn new things. That’s something he believes his background in music, which requires constant dedication and practice, has set him up well to do.</p><p>There are also profound <a href="https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-and-music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mathematical underpinnings to music</a>, and Orman thinks those connections have helped in his new career. “Those intersections run deep and they are hard to describe,” he says. “But they do feel like they both tickle my brain in a particular way.”</p><p>And Orman has some advice for others coming to engineering from nontechnical backgrounds: Focus on developing an intuition for how a technology works before diving into the nitty-gritty details. “Spending time understanding and just getting a feel for how things work on an intuitive level just makes everything easier,” he says. “And then you start practicing the nuts and bolts.”</p><p>One day, he hopes to marry his two major passions by working on <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/spotify-machine-learning-and-the-business-of-recommendation-engines" target="_blank">recommendation algorithms for music</a>. In the meantime, he’s content for them to play separate but complementary roles in his life. “I like to take breaks from my job and play Bach,” he says. “It just feels like a nice balance to go back and forth between the two.”</p>

Jun 26, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/conceptual-rendering-of-rodin-s-the-thinker-statue-used-to-represent-artificial-intelligence-processes.jpg?id=61098278&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=337%2C0%2C338%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><span>In April, Microsoft’s CEO said that artificial intelligence now wrote close to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html" target="_blank">a third of the company’s code</a>. Last October, Google’s CEO put their number at <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/google-ceo-says-over-25-of-new-google-code-is-generated-by-ai/" target="_blank">around a quarter</a>. Other tech companies can’t be far off. Meanwhile, these firms create AI that will presumably be used to help programmers further. </span></p><p><span>Researchers have long hoped to fully close the loop, creating coding agents that recursively improve themselves. New research reveals an impressive demonstration of such a system. Extrapolating, one might see a boon to productivity, or a much darker future for humanity.</span></p><p>“It’s nice work,” said <a href="https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/" target="_blank">Jürgen Schmidhuber</a>, a computer scientist at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia, who was not involved in the new research. “I think for many people, the results are surprising. Since I’ve been working on that topic for almost 40 years now, it’s maybe a little bit less surprising to me.” But his work over that time was limited by the tech at hand. One new development is the availability of large language models (LLMs), the engines powering chatbots like ChatGPT. </p><p>In the 1980s and 1990s, Schmidhuber and others explored evolutionary algorithms for improving coding agents, creating programs that write programs. An evolutionary algorithm takes something (such as a program), creates variations, keeps the best ones, and iterates on those. </p><p>But evolution is unpredictable. Modifications don’t always improve performance. So in 2003, Schmidhuber created problem solvers that rewrote their own code only if they could formally prove the updates to be useful. He called them <a href="https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html" target="_blank">Gödel machines</a>, named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del" target="_blank">Kurt Gödel</a>, a mathematician who’d done work on self-referencing systems. But for complex agents, provable utility doesn’t come easily. Empirical evidence may have to suffice.</p><h2>The Value of Open-Ended Exploration</h2><p>The new systems, described in a recent preprint on arXiv, rely on such evidence. In a nod to Schmidhuber, they’re called <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954" target="_blank">Darwin Gödel Machines</a> (DGMs). A DGM starts with a coding agent that can read, write, and execute code, leveraging an LLM for the reading and writing. Then it applies an evolutionary algorithm to create many new agents. In each iteration, the DGM picks one agent from the population and instructs the LLM to create one change to improve the agent’s coding ability. <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-train-creative-human-intuition" target="_blank">LLMs have something like intuition</a> about what might help, because they’re trained on lots of human code. What results is guided evolution, somewhere between random mutation and provably useful enhancement. The DGM then tests the new agent on a coding benchmark, scoring its ability to solve programming challenges.</p><p>Some evolutionary algorithms keep only the best performers in the population, on the assumption that progress moves endlessly forward. DGMs, however, keep them all, in case an innovation that initially fails actually holds the key to a later breakthrough when further tweaked. It’s a form of “<a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/computers-evolve-a-new-path-toward-human-intelligence-20191106/" target="_blank">open-ended exploration</a>,” not closing any paths to progress. (DGMs do prioritize higher scorers when selecting progenitors.)</p><p>The researchers ran a DGM for 80 iterations using a coding benchmark called <a href="https://www.swebench.com/" target="_blank">SWE-bench</a>, and ran one for 80 iterations using a benchmark called <a href="https://aider.chat/2024/12/21/polyglot.html#the-polyglot-benchmark" target="_blank">Polyglot</a>. Agents’ scores improved on SWE-bench from 20 percent to 50 percent, and on Polyglot from 14 percent to 31 percent. “We were actually really surprised that the coding agent could write such complicated code by itself,” said <a href="https://www.jennyzhangzt.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Zhang</a>, a computer scientist at the University of British Columbia and the paper’s lead author. “It could edit multiple files, create new files, and create really complicated systems.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="A family tree style image shows one node at the top branching off into 8 nodes, some of which branch off into more nodes." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9c8c0abec5ca4091302687d3c55eef4c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="bd7c7" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-family-tree-style-image-shows-one-node-at-the-top-branching-off-into-8-nodes-some-of-which-branch-off-into-more-nodes.jpg?id=61104606&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The first coding agent (numbered 0) created a generation of new and slightly different coding agents, some of which were selected to create new versions of themselves. The agents’ performance is indicated by the color inside the circles, and the best performing agent is marked with a star. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Jenny Zhang, Shengran Hu, et al.</small></p><p>Critically, the DGMs outperformed an alternate method that used a fixed external system for improving agents. With DGMs, agents’ improvements compounded as they improved themselves at improving themselves. The DGMs also outperformed a version that didn’t maintain a population of agents and just modified the latest agent. To illustrate the benefit of open-endedness, the researchers created a family tree of the SWE-bench agents. If you look at the best-performing agent and trace its evolution from beginning to end, it made two changes that temporarily reduced performance. So the lineage followed an indirect path to success. Bad ideas can become good ones.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt='On a graph with "SWE-bench score" on the y axis and "iterations" on the x axis, a black line goes up with two dips. ' class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="61c98db1ae561ef8b2906a4f668299e3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="fed6e" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/on-a-graph-with-swe-bench-score-on-the-y-axis-and-iterations-on-the-x-axis-a-black-line-goes-up-with-two-dips.jpg?id=61104607&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The black line on this graph shows the scores obtained by agents within the lineage of the final best-performing agent. The line includes two performance dips. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Jenny Zhang, Shengran Hu, et al.</small></p><p>The best SWE-bench agent was not as good as the best agent designed by expert humans, which currently scores about 70 percent, but it was generated automatically, and maybe with enough time and computation an agent could evolve beyond human expertise. The study is a “big step forward” as a proof of concept for recursive self-improvement, said <a href="https://zhengyaojiang.github.io/" target="_blank">Zhengyao Jiang</a>, a cofounder of <a href="https://www.weco.ai/" target="_blank">Weco AI</a>, a platform that automates code improvement. Jiang, who was not involved in the study, said the approach could made further progress if it modified the underlying LLM, or even the chip architecture. (Google DeepMind’s <a href="https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/" target="_blank">AlphaEvolve</a> designs better basic algorithms and chips and found a way to accelerate the training of its underlying LLM by 1 percent.)</p><p>DGMs can theoretically score agents simultaneously on coding benchmarks and also specific applications, such as drug design, so they’d get better at getting better at designing drugs. Zhang said she’d like to combine a DGM with AlphaEvolve.</p><p>Could DGMs reduce employment for entry-level programmers? Jiang sees a bigger threat from everyday coding assistants like Cursor. “Evolutionary search is really about building really high-performance software that goes beyond the human expert,” he said, as AlphaEvolve has done on certain tasks.</p><h2>The Risks of Recursive Self-improvement</h2><p>One concern with both evolutionary search and self-improving systems—and especially their combination, as in DGM—is safety. Agents might become uninterpretable or <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-alignment-problem-openai" target="_blank">misaligned</a> with human directives. So Zhang and her collaborators added guardrails. They kept the DGMs in sandboxes without access to the Internet or an operating system, and they logged and reviewed all code changes. They suggest that in the future, they could even reward AI for making itself more interpretable and aligned. (In the study, they found that agents falsely reported using certain tools, so they created a DGM that rewarded agents for not making things up, partially alleviating the problem. One agent, however, hacked the method that tracked whether it was making things up.)</p><p>In 2017, experts met in Asilomar, Calif., to discuss beneficial AI, and many signed an open letter called the <a href="https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/" target="_blank">Asilomar AI Principles</a>. In part, it called for restrictions on “AI systems designed to recursively self-improve.” One frequently imagined outcome is the so-called <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/can-we-stop-the-singularity" target="_blank">singularity</a>, in which AIs self-improve beyond our control and threaten human civilization. “I didn’t sign that because it was the bread and butter that I’ve been working on,” Schmidhuber told me. Since the 1970s, he’s predicted that <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/superintelligence?__rblms_page_revalidate=1" target="_blank">superhuman AI</a> will come in time for him to retire, but he sees the singularity as the kind of science-fiction dystopia people love to fear. Jiang, likewise, isn’t concerned, at least for the time being. He still places a premium on human creativity.</p><p>Whether digital evolution defeats biological evolution is up for grabs. What’s uncontested is that evolution in any guise has surprises in store.</p>

Jun 26, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-group-of-11-men-watch-a-large-electric-motor-spin-a-propeller.jpg?id=61090759&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Of the countless technologies invented over the past half century, high-temperature superconductors are among the most promising and yet also the most frustrating. Decades of research has yielded an assortment of materials that superconduct at temperatures as high as -140 °C (133 kelvins) at ambient pressure. And yet commercial applications have been elusive.</p><p>Now, though, a couple of developments could finally push <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-temperature-superconductors" target="_self">high-temperature superconductors</a> into commercial use. One is the availability, at relatively moderate cost, of copper-oxide-based superconducting tape, which is being produced by a few companies for <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/fusion-2662267312" target="_self">startups working on tokamak fusion reactors</a>. The reactors use the superconducting tape, which is typically made of yttrium barium copper oxide, in powerful electromagnets. The other development involves a different group of startups that are using the tape to build electric motors with very high power-to-weight ratios, mainly for use in electric aircraft.</p><p>Among that latter group of startups is <a href="https://hinetics.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hinetics</a>, formed in 2017 to commercialize research led by <a href="https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/kharan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kiruba Haran</a> at the <a href="https://illinois.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Illinois</a> Urbana-Champaign. This past April, the company tested a prototype motor outfitted with superconducting rotor magnets. According to Haran, the tests, which included spinning a propeller in a laboratory setup, validated key components of the company’s designs for superconducting motors that will operate at power levels of 5 and 10 megawatts. Such levels would be high enough to power a regional passenger airliner with multiple motors. The work was funded in part by a grant from the <a href="https://arpa-e.energy.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy</a> (ARPA-E).</p><p>“HTS [high temperature superconductors] are having a moment, because the costs are coming down rapidly, driven by all the work on fusion,” Haran says. “A lot of people are ramping up production, and new startups, and new capabilities, are coming into the market.”</p><p>Hinetics is one of perhaps a dozen companies, large and small, trying to use high-temperature superconductors to build extremely efficient motors with very high power density. These include aerospace giant Airbus, which is working on a <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/airbus-electric-aircraft" target="_self">superconducting airliner</a> under a program called <a href="https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/energy-transition/hydrogen/zeroe-our-hydrogen-powered-aircraft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZEROe</a>, as well as Toshiba, Raytheon, and U.K. startup <a href="https://www.hyflux.aero/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HyFlux</a>. However, Hinetics is taking an unusual approach.</p><p>Common approaches to building a superconducting machine use the superconducting material for either the rotor or stator coils, or both. Typically, the coils are cooled with a liquid or gas kept at a sufficiently low temperature by an external cryocooling system. The fluid cools the superconducting coils by convection, by physically flowing through heat exchangers in contact with the coils and carrying away heat as it does so. The system has been used successfully in some experimental motors and generators, but it suffers from several fundamental problems. A big one is the need to circulate the cooling fluid through the rotor coils, which are embedded in a rotor assembly that is spinning at perhaps thousands of revolutions per minute. Another problem is that this approach requires a complicated cryocooling system that includes pumps, seals, gaskets, pipes, insulation, a rotary coupling that transfers the cryogen into and out of the rotor, and other components that can fail and that add considerable weight.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="An experimental electric motor is shown in a cutaway view." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0c402a9027bc072395e4ec51432ee22c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="3601d" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-experimental-electric-motor-is-shown-in-a-cutaway-view.jpg?id=61106310&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">The rotor coils in an experimental Hinetics electric motor are made of a high-temperature superconductor. They are cooled by a cryocooler that runs axially down the center of the motor. The rotor assembly and the cryocooler are enclosed within a vacuum vessel.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Hinetics</small></p><h2>Hinetics’s Revolutionary Idea: Spin the Cryocooler</h2><p>Hinetics’s system, on the other hand, uses a self-contained cryocooler that is small enough to be attached to the rotor, and which spins along with it, eliminating the need to pass fluids into and out of a spinning vessel. With this arrangement, “you don’t have to immerse the superconductor into the fluid,” notes Laurent Pilon, an associate director for technology at ARPA-E. Instead, “there’s a cryocooler, and a cold connection, and you pull out the heat from the superconducting magnetic coils to the cryocooler, performing a refrigeration cycle. The beauty here is that it simplifies everything because now you just have the cryocooler that spins with the shaft.”</p><p>In this configuration, the rotor assembly, including the coils, is cooled by conduction rather than convection. The rotor is installed within a vacuum chamber. Heat from the superconducting magnet assembly is transferred through a “thermal bus,” which is basically just a disk-shaped copper structure that conducts the heat to the cryocooler, which is attached to the other side of the copper disk.</p><p>One of the challenges, Haran says, was finding a cryocooler small and light enough to spin at high rates and keep functioning while doing so. For its proof-of-concept unit, the Hinetics team used an off-the-shelf <a href="https://www.sunpowerinc.com/our-technologies/stirlingcycle" target="_blank">Stirling-cycle</a> cooler from <a href="https://www.sunpowerinc.com/" target="_blank">Sunpower</a>. It can remove only 10 watts of heat from the rotor assembly but, in this configuration, that’s all that’s needed to keep the rotor coils superconducting, Haran says.</p><p>One potential drawback of the system is that, because of this relatively low heat-removal capacity, the cryocooler takes a few hours to cool the superconducting magnet sufficiently to start operating. Future versions will reduce the period needed, according to Haran. And on the bright side, the low heat-removal rate means high efficiency, because the cooler has just enough power to maintain the low temperatures needed during operation, and not much excess capacity.</p><p>To provide electric power to the spinning cryostat and rotor magnets the prototype used a slip ring. But future versions of the motor will use a wireless system, possibly based on inductive coupling, Haran says.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image"> <img alt="An experimental electric motor, painted black, is shown on a test bench with a three-bladed propeller attached to its shaft." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="27a58a415f9466df16ad222ba080f68b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="0744a" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-experimental-electric-motor-painted-black-is-shown-on-a-test-bench-with-a-three-bladed-propeller-attached-to-its-shaft.jpg?id=61104840&width=980"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Tests of Hinetics’s superconducting motor this past April validated the basic design and cleared the way for construction of more powerful units.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Hinetics</small></p><h2>Applications on Ships Are Also Possible</h2><p>He opted not to make the stators superconducting, because in a typical configuration the stator is energized by an alternating-current (AC) waveform. Superconductors are only completely lossless for direct current. So the application of AC to superconducting coils in the stator would result in power losses that would require another cooling system to remove heat from the stator.</p><p>Haran figures it’s not necessary. With superconductors just in the rotor coils, the motor will achieve efficiencies in the range of 98 to 99.5 percent, which is about four or five percentage points higher than what is realistically possible with a permanent-magnet synchronous motor. Haran also insists that the superconducting design would attain this high efficiency without any reduction in power density, a combination that’s hard to achieve in a conventional motor.</p><p>Four or five percentage points might not seem like a lot, but it would matter in typical aviation applications, Pilon says, especially when coupled with higher power density. On its website, Hinetics claims that its motor has a continuous specific power of <a href="https://hinetics.com/" target="_blank">10 kilowatts per kilogram</a>, which would put the machine among the most power-dense units available, on a continuous-power basis. According to Haran, the next generation of the superconducting motor will achieve 40 kW/kg, which would be far higher than anything commercially available.</p><p>Although aviation is the initial target, Haran sees potential applications in ship propulsion, where the motor’s high volumetric power density would be a draw. “What’s really exciting is that we are seeing a transformational new technology become practical,” he says. “Once you get to megawatts and low speed, anywhere you need high torque, this could be very interesting.”</p>

Jun 25, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/abstract-ai-visualization-with-labeled-nodes-and-directional-arrows.png?id=61103737&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=65%2C0%2C65%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Estonia has a reputation as one of the most digitally advanced nations in the world, thanks to its efficient <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/estonia-manages-legacy-it" target="_self">digital platforms for government services</a> and its startup-friendly culture. Its citizens’ digital prowess is largely due to the government’s decades-long campaign to bring technology into schools. Now, the government is launching <a href="https://www.aileap.ee/en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI Leap 2025</a>, which will bring AI tools to an initial cohort of 20,000 high school students in September. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/siimsikkut/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Siim Sikkut</a>, a former member of the Estonian government and part of the launch team, says the AI Leap program goes beyond just providing access to new technology. Its goal is to give students the skills they need to use it both ethically and effectively.</p><h3>Slim Sikkut</h3><br/><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/siimsikkut/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Siim Sikkut</a> served as the Estonian government’s chief information officer from 2017 to 2022, a role in which he created policies regarding digital government operations, cybersecurity, and connectivity. He is currently a managing partner at <a href="https://www.digitalnation.eu/" target="_blank">Digital Nation</a>, an Estonian consulting firm that works with governments around the world.<br/></p><p><strong>What was the Tiger Leap program, and how is it the model for what you’re doing now?</strong></p><p><strong>Siim Sikkut:</strong> Tiger Leap was a program in the ’90s to bring computers and Internet and basic digital skills to all the schools in Estonia. I myself got exposed to all things Internet, because at that time, we didn’t have a chance to use them at home. These guys and girls became the founders of industry and of digital government, so it allowed us to make a leap in building a digital society in Estonia. </p><p><strong>How does the AI Leap program follow that model?</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>Our thinking is now we have to do the same sort of leap and expose our younger generations to this next wave [of technology]. There are differences between the programs. Then it was, We’ll give you the access and the tools to do with what you like. Now, with AI tools, we feel it has to be a bit more curated. You need to learn to use them as opposed to just getting an easier way out of your homework. So it’s more of a skilling effort than just an access effort.</p><p><strong>What will this look like in practice? What tools will the students have access to?</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>We are still negotiating with the partners and vendors, so I won’t be naming companies. But fundamentally, we’re talking about a conversational AI assistant that is trained in the context of Estonian language and Estonian curriculum. It will be built for educational use, so it won’t be, for example, the <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/chatgpt" target="_self">ChatGPT</a> that you and I would use in our daily life. It will support the learning more. For example, you don’t just submit your homework and get the answers back. In that scenario, the tool starts to tutor you more than give you an answer. We’re re-creating conversational AI as a learning assistant, and ideally we’ll have a lot of smaller subject-based apps added to that. We will have in place at least one tool, a conversation tool, and then we’ll build on that in the next few years.</p><p><strong>Will the teachers be able to see what the students are doing?</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>We might have to launch it first just with basics. But the idea is that we’ll have two apps, a teacher’s assistant and a student’s one, so teachers get feedback or recommendations on how to guide the particular student better. The idea is to make learning more personalized for better learning outcomes.</p><p><strong>When we hear about AI in education, there’s usually a doom and gloom attitude like, “This is going to ruin the minds of the next generation. There’s no way they’re going to learn anything. They’re just going to have these shortcuts.”</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>These same concerns led us to do more on this front. What’s really driving us are two very pragmatic considerations. A lot of kids use [AI tools] anyway to substitute thinking more than to complement it. We have numbers that 70 percent of kids in high school use them anyway. So the harmful use is already there, and we want to counter that. Secondly, there’s a <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/digital-divide" target="_self">divide</a> in use, maybe for reasons of socioeconomic background. But Estonia’s whole education system is built on uniform opportunity. So this is also an attempt to make sure that we don’t increase the divide for the future.</p><p><strong>And what is the opportunity that you see for the students?</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>We’re making a bet that this is a competitiveness factor. If you’re not there, you’re left out. In the labor market, as a country, globally speaking, we’re saying, “Hey, look, you need to know how to get the most out of these tools.”</p><p><strong>The current program will provide tools to 10th and 11th graders, right?</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>Yes, we’re focusing on high school and vocational education now. But there’s still a debate going on: Should we go younger than that? The jury is still out on whether that would make sense. You need to have some independent thinking and study discipline and just be a self-driven learner. That doesn’t start early.</p><p><strong>Are there concerns about </strong><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-hallucination" target="_self"><strong>hallucinations</strong></a><strong> and how to teach kids how to check for accuracy?</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>That goes right into the technical skill set of using these things. Unfortunately, hallucinations are a fact of life, and they will be for the time [being]. These AI skills will be taught by applying them in the rest of the curriculum. So in history class, as you use this AI study assistant, that’s where you learn about hallucinations and how to watch out for them.</p><p><strong>Have you talked about this program with teachers? Are they receptive or nervous?</strong></p><p><strong>Sikkut: </strong>It’s all of the above. As you can imagine, you have early adopters who are enthusiastic. Today, they’re already using these tools to plan for their class, or they run essays through an AI tool. On the other end, you have folks who have basic digital literacy, but they don’t want anything more than that. We’ll have a communication effort to make sure that the teachers are okay and calm about it. The main message we’re trying to tell teachers is that they won’t get the full suite of tools yet. They will all be part of an experimentation program.</p><p><em>A version of this article appears in the July 2025 issue as “5 Questions for Siim Sikkut.”</em><br/></p>

Jun 24, 2025

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/amon-schumann-smiling-at-his-laboratory-desk.jpg?id=61097963&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=491%2C0%2C491%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the <a href="https://www.ieee.org/education/preuniversity/scholarship.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship</a>. Since its inception, the prestigious US $10,000 award has been given annually to one exceptional high school student participating in the <a href="https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regeneron (formerly Intel) International Science and Engineering Fair</a>. The ISEF is the world’s largest international STEM research competition for high school students.</p><p>Finalists for the scholarship are selected by a team of IEEE volunteer judges. The scholarship is funded by the <a href="https://www.ieeefoundation.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Foundation</a> and administered by <a href="https://ea.ieee.org/ea-programs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Educational Activities</a>.</p><p>To commemorate the scholarship’s anniversary, I asked past winners how the award impacted their life and career, and what they are doing today.</p><h2>Harvard educator and a film producer</h2><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Person wearing black shirt and turquoise necklace against a red brick wall background." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d4c1c0b11c13c2fb4385c80fb7037201" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="926c8" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/person-wearing-black-shirt-and-turquoise-necklace-against-a-red-brick-wall-background.jpg?id=61097970&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Elena Glassman received the scholarship in 2004 for her Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled project.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Elena Glassman</small></p><p><a href="https://seas.harvard.edu/person/elena-glassman" target="_blank"><strong>Elena Glassman</strong></a> received the scholarship in 2004 for her <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2004_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" target="_blank">Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled</a> project. She wrote code to collect <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/search/?q=EEG" target="_self">EEG</a> wavelets that predicted her own right or left arm movement with an accuracy rate of 73 percent.</p><p>Today Glassman is an assistant professor of computer science at <a href="https://seas.harvard.edu/person/elena-glassman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harvard</a>, where she teaches human-computer interaction. She is also a new mother. The scholarship supported her education at <a href="https://www.mit.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MIT</a>, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She says the scholarship was among the most memorable awards she received.</p><p>“When your project is being evaluated by IEEE judges who understand the work,” she says, “that’s what was so meaningful about receiving the award.” With encouragement from her father, a lifelong IEEE member, she submitted a <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1519594" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">paper</a> about her project to <a href="https://www.embs.org/tbme/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering</em></em></a>, which published it.</p><p>In her current work, she says, she enjoys focusing on the “human side of programming.” She adds that her electrical engineering background is useful in tackling all sorts of projects.</p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2186596/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Adam Sidman</strong></a><strong> </strong>received the 2005 scholarship for <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2005_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Camera Stabilization: Take Two</a>. His project centered around the development of a <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2005_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">handheld servo-based device</a>. The film and TV producer in Los Angeles says his invention is a “go-to everyday technology for filmmakers on sets around the world.”</p><p>Sidman is chief executive of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Bekmambetov" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Timur Bekmambetov</a>’s production company, <a href="https://bazelevs.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bazelevs</a>, where he has overseen a variety of movies including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Current_War" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Current War</em></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_Henry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Hardcore Henry</em></a><em><em>,</em></em> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_(film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>Searching</em></em></a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfriended" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em><em>Unfriended</em></em></a>.</p><p>Receiving the scholarship was “a tremendous honor,” he says, “validating my passion to combine the arts and sciences.” He graduated from <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harvard</a> with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and visual and environmental studies.</p><p>Last year he collaborated with ISEF organizers to establish a new category of projects, <a href="https://isef.net/viewAll?category=TECA-2024&page=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Technology Enhances the Arts</a>, and he continues to serve as a judge.</p><h2>An entrepreneur and a gene researcher</h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Rahul Kumar Pandey</strong></a>, a software engineer-turned-entrepreneur, received the scholarship in 2007. His startup, <a href="https://www.jointaro.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Taro</a>, helps software engineers navigate the professional world, providing advice on job searching, negotiation, promotions, and leadership. The platform boasts more than 100,000 users. Pandey is a writer for <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/careers-newsletter" target="_self">IEEE’s <em><em>Careers</em></em> newsletter</a>.</p><p>The scholarship supported his degree in computer science at <a href="https://www.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stanford</a>.</p><p>He credits his science-fair experience with giving him the confidence to innovate and advance the field.</p><p>His winning project, <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2009_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Microwave Metamaterial Lens With Negative Index of Refraction</a>, focused on building a lens array to transmit microwave signals, and it tested their behavior in terms of how the lens affected the propagation of electromagnetic waves.</p><p>“When I heard my name called, I couldn’t stop smiling,” he recalls, “because an organization like IEEE believed in me.”</p><p>Pandey advises high school students that “the world is your oyster, if you have curiosity. You don’t have to wait until you feel ready.”</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hari-rallapalli/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Harikrishna “Hari” Rallapalli</strong></a><strong>,</strong> the 2008 scholarship recipient, is a research fellow at the U.S. <a href="https://www.ninds.nih.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke</a>, in Bethesda, Md.</p><p>Rallapalli says he plans to research techniques that enable gene expression imaging in humans, a method that allows for the visualization and quantification of the activity of specific genes.</p><p>His winning project, <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2008_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Low-Cost Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy</a>, focused on building a microscope for classrooms, both for demonstrations and student-level research.</p><p>The scholarship helped support his education at the <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of California, Davis</a>, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering.</p><p>“It felt amazing to have my work recognized by anyone, let alone an organization as prestigious as IEEE,” he says. “It was an early indication that I might cut it as a scientist.”</p><h2>Software engineer and a <em><em>Forbes</em></em> 30 Under 30 candidate</h2><p><a href="https://www.wimef.org/members/jessica-richeri" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Jessica Richeri</strong></a>,<strong> </strong>the 2011 recipient, is a software design engineer at <a href="https://www.fluke.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fluke</a> in Everett, Wash. She is designing and developing a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for one of the company’s factories. The system collects data from equipment and creates analytics dashboards and reports.</p><p>Richeri’s winning entry, <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2011_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Autonomous Robotic Vehicle: Saving Lives, Preventing Accidents, One at a Time</a>, centered on building a vehicle and software to support it. Ultimately, she says, her design and its use of sensors and software could be incorporated into vehicles to prevent traffic accidents.</p><p>“The scholarship meant the world [to me]. I felt so honored that I was chosen to receive the award for all the hard work I put into my project,” she says.</p><p>A year after receiving the scholarship, she was invited to the California Capitol, in Sacramento, to present her project and discuss promoting STEM fields with her U.S. representative.</p><p>The money supported her education at <a href="https://calbaptist.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">California Baptist University</a>, in Riverside, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering.</p><p class="pull-quote"><span>“Winning the scholarship gave me confidence that my engineering passion could become a career. It was the start of my incredibly fun and exciting professional journey.” —2015 winner Alex Tacescu </span></p><p>She advises aspiring engineers that “the journey might be challenging, but the sense of accomplishment and the impact you’ll make in the world are more than worth the effort.”</p><p>The 2014 scholarship recipient, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgemorgan2/?originalSubdomain=uk" target="_blank"><strong>George Morgan</strong></a>,<strong> </strong>presented <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2014_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" target="_blank">A Multi-Architectural Approach to the Development of Embedded Software</a>. His aim, he says, was to make hardware and software development more accessible. He transformed his project into a suite of development tools for embedded-systems engineers to expedite operations.</p><p>“I remember walking on stage and feeling the excitement of being recognized for my project,” Morgan says. “In that instant, all my hard work felt validated, and I knew someone understood the level of difficulty and commitment required to reach that point.”</p><p>The scholarship supported his education at the <a href="https://www.rit.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rochester Institute of Technology</a>, in New York, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering in 2017.</p><p>He began working at <a href="https://www.tesla.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tesla</a> in 2018 on the AI team, dealing with the software and hardware that powers the electric vehicles’ <a href="https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">autopilot</a>.</p><p>Recently named among<a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/george-morgan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> <em><em>Forbes</em></em>’ 30 Under 30</a> in AI, he founded <a href="https://www.symbolica.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Symbolica</a>, a research-focused startup that develops foundational AI models and alternatives to the transformer architecture used in <a href="https://chatgpt.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ChatGPT</a>.</p><h2>Spaceflight engineer and a crash-prevention-system designer</h2><p><a href="https://alextac.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Alex Tacescu</strong></a> received the 2015 scholarship for <a href="https://alextac.com/projects/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Project Maverick</a> (now known as Mavdrive). The project let users <a href="https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/educ/2015_president_scholarship_winner.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">stand upright while moving around on a wheeled, motorized 0.6- by 0.6-meter platform</a>. It is similar to a Segway but more stable, with four wheels instead of two, and each powered by independently controlled motors. He says it serves as a pathway to learn new technologies including control engineering, robot autonomy, simulation, and AI-powered machine vision.</p><p>“Winning the scholarship gave me confidence that my engineering passion could become a career,” Tacescu says. “It was the start of my incredibly fun and exciting professional journey. I will never forget the moment I was called up on that stage.”</p><p>He earned a bachelor’s degree in science and robotics engineering and a master’s degree in robotics engineering, both from <a href="https://www.wpi.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Worcester Polytechnic Institute</a>, in Massachusetts. He joined <a href="https://www.spacex.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SpaceX</a> as a Falcon flight software engineer and contributed to two groundbreaking missions. <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dart/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DART</a> was the first human-made item to measurably move a celestial body, and <a href="https://inspiration4.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inspiration4</a> was the first all-civilian mission to orbit. <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81441273" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space</em></a> is now on Netflix.</p><p>After nearly three years at SpaceX, Tacescu joined <a href="https://www.inversionspace.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inversion Space</a> as a flight software engineer. The startup is focused on developing re-entry vehicles.</p><p>He advises high school seniors to “find their passion and keep at it. It’s going to be hard, and there will be very rough moments, but having it part of your passion makes it so much more fun, especially when those accomplishments start coming in.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" rel="float: left;" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Person with curly hair in a red polo shirt." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="49749fd3cd2cc7a6a920755efb95eefb" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="0f8c4" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/person-with-curly-hair-in-a-red-polo-shirt.jpg?id=61097971&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">University student Kerem Bayhan, the 2021 scholarship recipient, won for a project focused on a system to help prevent underride car crashes, which occur when a vehicle collides with the rear or side of a large truck and gets stuck under it.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Kerem Bayhan</small></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerem-bayhan-13bb13249/" target="_blank"><strong>Kerem Bayhan</strong></a>, the 2021 scholarship recipient, won for a project focused on a <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/car-crash-prevention-system-wins-student-10000-ieee-scholarship" target="_self">system to help prevent underride car crashes</a>, which occur when a vehicle collides with the rear or side of a large truck and gets stuck under it.</p><p>Driven by a desire to make an impact on human lives, Bayhan says, he shifted his focus from engineering to medicine. He is currently a student at <a href="https://tip.hacettepe.edu.tr/en/introduction-88" target="_blank">Hacettepe University</a>, in Ankara, Türkiye.</p><p>“Winning the IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship award was an incredible and unexpected honor,” he says. “To have my project recognized by IEEE, one of the largest and most prestigious organizations in engineering, was immensely rewarding.”</p><p>He says he believes engineering skills are invaluable across many fields: “The analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and creativity at the core of engineering can set individuals apart, no matter what path they choose to follow.”</p><h2>Weather balloons, a glaucoma-detection device, and drones</h2><p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/2022-ieee-presidents-scholarship-recipients?_gl=1*jgz4gs*_gcl_au*MTQ5MDg0NzMxLjE3MzE2MTU0OTk." target="_self"><strong>Amon Schumann</strong></a> was the 2022 scholarship recipient based on his <a href="https://isef.net/project/etsd005---small-radiosondes-on-a-great-mission" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Small Radiosondes on a Great Mission</a> project, a <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/2022-ieee-presidents-scholarship-recipients?_gl=1*jgz4gs*_gcl_au*MTQ5MDg0NzMxLjE3MzE2MTU0OTk." target="_self">sustainable weather balloon</a> that is eco-friendly, cost-effective, and stays in the air longer than traditional ones. Now he’s studying electrical engineering at <a href="https://www.tu.berlin/en/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Technische Universität Berlin</a>, where he has discovered an interest in high-frequency technology and circuit design.</p><p>After receiving the scholarship, Schumann enhanced his ISEF project by adding a live-streaming camera and additional sensors.</p><p>“My system initially allowed for flights lasting a few weeks,” he says. “I’ve since refined it to enable the balloons to collect data in the stratosphere for several months.”</p><p>Winning the scholarship was a significant motivator, he says, as it validated the potential of his basement-developed project and showed its potential for broad impact.</p><p>“Receiving the scholarship gave me the opportunity to become deeply involved with IEEE,” he says, “opening doors to connect with key decision-makers in science and technology and leading to my student researcher role” at a Berlin-based research institute specializing in high-frequency electronics.</p><p><a href="https://www.nmoe.org/individual/rohan-kalia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Rohan Kalia</strong></a>, the 2023 scholarship recipient, is a senior at <a href="https://www.cobbk12.org/wheeler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wheeler High School</a> in Marietta, Ga. For his winning project, he developed <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-presidents-scholarship-2023?_gl=1*jgz4gs*_gcl_au*MTQ5MDg0NzMxLjE3MzE2MTU0OTk." target="_self">EyePal</a>, an inexpensive tool for early glaucoma detection.</p><p>After receiving the scholarship, he continued to refine his project, enhancing its functionality.</p><p>“I open-sourced the parts, so if anyone wants to build on my device, they can,” Kalia says.</p><p>He was honored to receive the award, he says, knowing that past scholarship winners had made such creative projects.</p><p>“I really enjoyed the conversation with my interviewers,” he says. “We discussed the technical aspects of possible solutions and their trade-offs.”</p><p>He advises high school students to “keep an open mind” about their interests.</p><p>“Be curious about many different things,” he suggests, “as they connect in interesting ways. Once you find a topic you can’t stop thinking about, start a project to explore it.”</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-float-left rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25" data-rm-resized-container="25%" rel="float: left;" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Woman in black blazer with colorful lanyard and various pins in a park setting." class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ff75bf67bc52a4ba4e85db3d35fae1f6" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="74040" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/woman-in-black-blazer-with-colorful-lanyard-and-various-pins-in-a-park-setting.jpg?id=61097985&width=980"/><small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">High school senior Angelina Kim was the 2024 scholarship recipient for her Autonomous Scout and Rescue UAVs for Ocean Safety.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Angelina Kim</small></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelina-kim-b4508a268/" target="_blank"><strong>Angelina Kim</strong></a> was last year’s scholarship recipient. She is a high school senior at the <a href="https://www.bishops.com/" target="_blank">Bishop’s School</a> in La Jolla, Calif., where she is president of the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/all-girls-stem-society-agss?trk=public_profile_topcard-current-company" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">All Girls STEM Society</a>, a nonprofit, student-led organization that holds free monthly workshops for girls in grades 3 to 8 across San Diego. She plans to study electrical engineering at <a href="https://www.mit.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MIT</a>.</p><p>Kim won the scholarship for her <a href="https://isef.net/project/etsd037-autonomous-scout-and-rescue-uavs-for-ocean-safety" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Autonomous Scout and Rescue UAVs for Ocean Safety</a>. She developed a drone that could survey the shoreline, taking photographs and analyzing them to identify rip currents.</p><p>To continue her work related to the project, she is chief executive of AngelTech, a startup dedicated to enhancing public safety through innovative technologies.</p><p>“Through AngelTech, I’m partnering with local lifeguards to deploy my lifeguard scout and rescue drones on nearby beaches,” she says.</p><p>She also is developing new technologies to enhance public safety, she says, including a synchronized display created through several device screens. She holds a patent for the invention.</p><p>She says she was thrilled to receive the scholarship because she knew it would help her develop valuable contacts within IEEE and provide support for her future research.</p><p>“I hope to use the connections I’ve made through the scholarship to share my research and networking experiences with fellow engineers and companies, and to serve as a mentor for young girls who have limited access to STEM resources,” she says.</p><p>An article about this year’s recipient is scheduled to be published in <em><em>The Institute </em></em>in August.</p>

Feb 9, 2022

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/andrew-ng-listens-during-the-power-of-data-sooner-than-you-think-global-technology-conference-in-brooklyn-new-york-on-wednes.jpg?id=29206806&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andrew Ng</a> has serious street cred</strong> in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at <a href="https://stanfordmlgroup.github.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stanford University</a>, cofounded <a href="https://research.google/teams/brain/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Brain</a> in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for <a href="https://ir.baidu.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Baidu</a>, where he helped build the Chinese tech giant’s AI group. So when he says he has identified the next big shift in artificial intelligence, people listen. And that’s what he told <em>IEEE Spectrum</em> in an exclusive Q&A.</p><hr/><p> Ng’s current efforts are focused on his company <a href="https://landing.ai/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing AI</a>, which built a platform called LandingLens to help manufacturers improve visual inspection with computer vision. He has also become something of an evangelist for what he calls the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-AZXmwHjo" target="_blank">data-centric AI movement</a>, which he says can yield “small data” solutions to big issues in AI, including model efficiency, accuracy, and bias. </p><p> Andrew Ng on... </p><ul> <li><a href="#big">What’s next for really big models</a></li> <li><a href="#career">The career advice he didn’t listen to</a></li> <li><a href="#defining">Defining the data-centric AI movement</a></li> <li><a href="#synthetic">Synthetic data</a></li> <li><a href="#work">Why Landing AI asks its customers to do the work</a></li> </ul><p> <strong>The great advances in deep learning over the past decade or so have been powered by ever-bigger models crunching ever-bigger amounts of data. Some people argue that that’s an <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-learning-computational-cost" target="_self">unsustainable trajectory</a>. Do you agree that it can’t go on that way?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Andrew Ng: </strong>This is a big question. We’ve seen foundation models in NLP [natural language processing]. I’m excited about NLP models getting even bigger, and also about the potential of building foundation models in computer vision. I think there’s lots of signal to still be exploited in video: We have not been able to build foundation models yet for video because of compute bandwidth and the cost of processing video, as opposed to tokenized text. So I think that this engine of scaling up deep learning algorithms, which has been running for something like 15 years now, still has steam in it. Having said that, it only applies to certain problems, and there’s a set of other problems that need small data solutions. </p><p> <strong>When you say you want a foundation model for computer vision, what do you mean by that?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng:</strong> This is a term coined by <a href="https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Liang</a> and <a href="https://crfm.stanford.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">some of my friends at Stanford</a> to refer to very large models, trained on very large data sets, that can be tuned for specific applications. For example, <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-ais-powerful-text-generating-tool-is-ready-for-business" target="_self">GPT-3</a> is an example of a foundation model [for NLP]. Foundation models offer a lot of promise as a new paradigm in developing machine learning applications, but also challenges in terms of making sure that they’re reasonably fair and free from bias, especially if many of us will be building on top of them. </p><p> <strong>What needs to happen for someone to build a foundation model for video?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng:</strong> I think there is a scalability problem. The compute power needed to process the large volume of images for video is significant, and I think that’s why foundation models have arisen first in NLP. Many researchers are working on this, and I think we’re seeing early signs of such models being developed in computer vision. But I’m confident that if a semiconductor maker gave us 10 times more processor power, we could easily find 10 times more video to build such models for vision. </p><p> Having said that, a lot of what’s happened over the past decade is that deep learning has happened in consumer-facing companies that have large user bases, sometimes billions of users, and therefore very large data sets. While that paradigm of machine learning has driven a lot of economic value in consumer software, I find that that recipe of scale doesn’t work for other industries. </p><p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p><p> <strong>It’s funny to hear you say that, because your early work was at a consumer-facing company with millions of users.</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>Over a decade ago, when I proposed starting the <a href="https://research.google/teams/brain/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Brain</a> project to use Google’s compute infrastructure to build very large neural networks, it was a controversial step. One very senior person pulled me aside and warned me that starting Google Brain would be bad for my career. I think he felt that the action couldn’t just be in scaling up, and that I should instead focus on architecture innovation. </p><p class="pull-quote"> “In many industries where giant data sets simply don’t exist, I think the focus has to shift from big data to good data. Having 50 thoughtfully engineered examples can be sufficient to explain to the neural network what you want it to learn.”<br/> —Andrew Ng, CEO & Founder, Landing AI </p><p> I remember when my students and I published the first <a href="https://nips.cc/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NeurIPS</a> workshop paper advocating using <a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CUDA</a>, a platform for processing on GPUs, for deep learning—a different senior person in AI sat me down and said, “CUDA is really complicated to program. As a programming paradigm, this seems like too much work.” I did manage to convince him; the other person I did not convince. </p><p> <strong>I expect they’re both convinced now.</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng:</strong> I think so, yes. </p><p> Over the past year as I’ve been speaking to people about the data-centric AI movement, I’ve been getting flashbacks to when I was speaking to people about deep learning and scalability 10 or 15 years ago. In the past year, I’ve been getting the same mix of “there’s nothing new here” and “this seems like the wrong direction.” </p><p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p><p> <strong>How do you define data-centric AI, and why do you consider it a movement?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng:</strong> Data-centric AI is the discipline of systematically engineering the data needed to successfully build an AI system. For an AI system, you have to implement some algorithm, say a neural network, in code and then train it on your data set. The dominant paradigm over the last decade was to download the data set while you focus on improving the code. Thanks to that paradigm, over the last decade deep learning networks have improved significantly, to the point where for a lot of applications the code—the neural network architecture—is basically a solved problem. So for many practical applications, it’s now more productive to hold the neural network architecture fixed, and instead find ways to improve the data. </p><p> When I started speaking about this, there were many practitioners who, completely appropriately, raised their hands and said, “Yes, we’ve been doing this for 20 years.” This is the time to take the things that some individuals have been doing intuitively and make it a systematic engineering discipline. </p><p> The data-centric AI movement is much bigger than one company or group of researchers. My collaborators and I organized a <a href="https://neurips.cc/virtual/2021/workshop/21860" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">data-centric AI workshop at NeurIPS</a>, and I was really delighted at the number of authors and presenters that showed up. </p><p> <strong>You often talk about companies or institutions that have only a small amount of data to work with. How can data-centric AI help them?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>You hear a lot about vision systems built with millions of images—I once built a face recognition system using 350 million images. Architectures built for hundreds of millions of images don’t work with only 50 images. But it turns out, if you have 50 really good examples, you can build something valuable, like a defect-inspection system. In many industries where giant data sets simply don’t exist, I think the focus has to shift from big data to good data. Having 50 thoughtfully engineered examples can be sufficient to explain to the neural network what you want it to learn. </p><p> <strong>When you talk about training a model with just 50 images, does that really mean you’re taking an existing model that was trained on a very large data set and fine-tuning it? Or do you mean a brand new model that’s designed to learn only from that small data set?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>Let me describe what Landing AI does. When doing visual inspection for manufacturers, we often use our own flavor of <a href="https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/how-retinanet-works/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RetinaNet</a>. It is a pretrained model. Having said that, the pretraining is a small piece of the puzzle. What’s a bigger piece of the puzzle is providing tools that enable the manufacturer to pick the right set of images [to use for fine-tuning] and label them in a consistent way. There’s a very practical problem we’ve seen spanning vision, NLP, and speech, where even human annotators don’t agree on the appropriate label. For big data applications, the common response has been: If the data is noisy, let’s just get a lot of data and the algorithm will average over it. But if you can develop tools that flag where the data’s inconsistent and give you a very targeted way to improve the consistency of the data, that turns out to be a more efficient way to get a high-performing system. </p><p class="pull-quote"> “Collecting more data often helps, but if you try to collect more data for everything, that can be a very expensive activity.”<br/> —Andrew Ng </p><p> For example, if you have 10,000 images where 30 images are of one class, and those 30 images are labeled inconsistently, one of the things we do is build tools to draw your attention to the subset of data that’s inconsistent. So you can very quickly relabel those images to be more consistent, and this leads to improvement in performance. </p><p> <strong>Could this focus on high-quality data help with bias in data sets? If you’re able to curate the data more before training?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng:</strong> Very much so. Many researchers have pointed out that biased data is one factor among many leading to biased systems. There have been many thoughtful efforts to engineer the data. At the NeurIPS workshop, <a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~olgarus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Olga Russakovsky</a> gave a really nice talk on this. At the main NeurIPS conference, I also really enjoyed <a href="https://neurips.cc/virtual/2021/invited-talk/22281" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mary Gray’s presentation,</a> which touched on how data-centric AI is one piece of the solution, but not the entire solution. New tools like <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/datasheets-for-datasets/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Datasheets for Datasets</a> also seem like an important piece of the puzzle. </p><p> One of the powerful tools that data-centric AI gives us is the ability to engineer a subset of the data. Imagine training a machine-learning system and finding that its performance is okay for most of the data set, but its performance is biased for just a subset of the data. If you try to change the whole neural network architecture to improve the performance on just that subset, it’s quite difficult. But if you can engineer a subset of the data you can address the problem in a much more targeted way. </p><p> <strong>When you talk about engineering the data, what do you mean exactly?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>In AI, data cleaning is important, but the way the data has been cleaned has often been in very manual ways. In computer vision, someone may visualize images through a <a href="https://jupyter.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jupyter notebook</a> and maybe spot the problem, and maybe fix it. But I’m excited about tools that allow you to have a very large data set, tools that draw your attention quickly and efficiently to the subset of data where, say, the labels are noisy. Or to quickly bring your attention to the one class among 100 classes where it would benefit you to collect more data. Collecting more data often helps, but if you try to collect more data for everything, that can be a very expensive activity. </p><p> For example, I once figured out that a speech-recognition system was performing poorly when there was car noise in the background. Knowing that allowed me to collect more data with car noise in the background, rather than trying to collect more data for everything, which would have been expensive and slow. </p><p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p><p> <strong>What about using synthetic data, is that often a good solution?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>I think synthetic data is an important tool in the tool chest of data-centric AI. At the NeurIPS workshop, <a href="https://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anima Anandkumar</a> gave a great talk that touched on synthetic data. I think there are important uses of synthetic data that go beyond just being a preprocessing step for increasing the data set for a learning algorithm. I’d love to see more tools to let developers use synthetic data generation as part of the closed loop of iterative machine learning development. </p><p> <strong>Do you mean that synthetic data would allow you to try the model on more data sets?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>Not really. Here’s an example. Let’s say you’re trying to detect defects in a smartphone casing. There are many different types of defects on smartphones. It could be a scratch, a dent, pit marks, discoloration of the material, other types of blemishes. If you train the model and then find through error analysis that it’s doing well overall but it’s performing poorly on pit marks, then synthetic data generation allows you to address the problem in a more targeted way. You could generate more data just for the pit-mark category. </p><p class="pull-quote"> “In the consumer software Internet, we could train a handful of machine-learning models to serve a billion users. In manufacturing, you might have 10,000 manufacturers building 10,000 custom AI models.”<br/> —Andrew Ng </p><p> Synthetic data generation is a very powerful tool, but there are many simpler tools that I will often try first. Such as data augmentation, improving labeling consistency, or just asking a factory to collect more data. </p><p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p><p> <strong>To make these issues more concrete, can you walk me through an example? When a company approaches <a href="https://landing.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Landing AI</a> and says it has a problem with visual inspection, how do you onboard them and work toward deployment?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>When a customer approaches us we usually have a conversation about their inspection problem and look at a few images to verify that the problem is feasible with computer vision. Assuming it is, we ask them to upload the data to the <a href="https://landing.ai/platform/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LandingLens</a> platform. We often advise them on the methodology of data-centric AI and help them label the data. </p><p> One of the foci of Landing AI is to empower manufacturing companies to do the machine learning work themselves. A lot of our work is making sure the software is fast and easy to use. Through the iterative process of machine learning development, we advise customers on things like how to train models on the platform, when and how to improve the labeling of data so the performance of the model improves. Our training and software supports them all the way through deploying the trained model to an edge device in the factory. </p><p> <strong>How do you deal with changing needs? If products change or lighting conditions change in the factory, can the model keep up?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng:</strong> It varies by manufacturer. There is data drift in many contexts. But there are some manufacturers that have been running the same manufacturing line for 20 years now with few changes, so they don’t expect changes in the next five years. Those stable environments make things easier. For other manufacturers, we provide tools to flag when there’s a significant data-drift issue. I find it really important to empower manufacturing customers to correct data, retrain, and update the model. Because if something changes and it’s 3 a.m. in the United States, I want them to be able to adapt their learning algorithm right away to maintain operations. </p><p> In the consumer software Internet, we could train a handful of machine-learning models to serve a billion users. In manufacturing, you might have 10,000 manufacturers building 10,000 custom AI models. The challenge is, how do you do that without Landing AI having to hire 10,000 machine learning specialists? </p><p> <strong>So you’re saying that to make it scale, you have to empower customers to do a lot of the training and other work.</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>Yes, exactly! This is an industry-wide problem in AI, not just in manufacturing. Look at health care. Every hospital has its own slightly different format for electronic health records. How can every hospital train its own custom AI model? Expecting every hospital’s IT personnel to invent new neural-network architectures is unrealistic. The only way out of this dilemma is to build tools that empower the customers to build their own models by giving them tools to engineer the data and express their domain knowledge. That’s what Landing AI is executing in computer vision, and the field of AI needs other teams to execute this in other domains. </p><p> <strong>Is there anything else you think it’s important for people to understand about the work you’re doing or the data-centric AI movement?</strong> </p><p> <strong>Ng: </strong>In the last decade, the biggest shift in AI was a shift to deep learning. I think it’s quite possible that in this decade the biggest shift will be to data-centric AI. With the maturity of today’s neural network architectures, I think for a lot of the practical applications the bottleneck will be whether we can efficiently get the data we need to develop systems that work well. The data-centric AI movement has tremendous energy and momentum across the whole community. I hope more researchers and developers will jump in and work on it. </p><p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p><p><em>This article appears in the April 2022 print issue as “Andrew Ng, AI Minimalist</em><em>.”</em></p>

Feb 8, 2022

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/layered-rendering-of-colorful-semiconductor-wafers-with-a-bright-white-light-sitting-on-one.jpg?id=29285079&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=166%2C0%2C167%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>The end of <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/on-beyond-moores-law-4-new-laws-of-computing" target="_self">Moore’s Law</a> is looming. Engineers and designers can do only so much to <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-introduces-the-worlds-first-2nm-node-chip" target="_self">miniaturize transistors</a> and <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/cerebras-giant-ai-chip-now-has-a-trillions-more-transistors" target="_self">pack as many of them as possible into chips</a>. So they’re turning to other approaches to chip design, incorporating technologies like AI into the process.</p><p>Samsung, for instance, is <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/processing-in-dram-accelerates-ai" target="_self">adding AI to its memory chips</a> to enable processing in memory, thereby saving energy and speeding up machine learning. Speaking of speed, Google’s TPU V4 AI chip has <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/heres-how-googles-tpu-v4-ai-chip-stacked-up-in-training-tests" target="_self">doubled its processing power</a> compared with that of its previous version.</p><p>But AI holds still more promise and potential for the semiconductor industry. To better understand how AI is set to revolutionize chip design, we spoke with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-gorr-phd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Heather Gorr</a>, senior product manager for <a href="https://www.mathworks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MathWorks</a>’ MATLAB platform.</p><p><strong>How is AI currently being used to design the next generation of chips?</strong></p><p><strong>Heather Gorr:</strong> AI is such an important technology because it’s involved in most parts of the cycle, including the design and manufacturing process. There’s a lot of important applications here, even in the general process engineering where we want to optimize things. I think defect detection is a big one at all phases of the process, especially in manufacturing. But even thinking ahead in the design process, [AI now plays a significant role] when you’re designing the light and the sensors and all the different components. There’s a lot of anomaly detection and fault mitigation that you really want to consider.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25 rm-float-left" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Portrait of a woman with blonde-red hair smiling at the camera" class="rm-shortcode rm-resized-image" data-rm-shortcode-id="1f18a02ccaf51f5c766af2ebc4af18e1" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="2dc00" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/portrait-of-a-woman-with-blonde-red-hair-smiling-at-the-camera.jpg?id=29288554&width=980" style="max-width: 100%"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption..." style="max-width: 100%;">Heather Gorr</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..." style="max-width: 100%;">MathWorks</small></p><p>Then, thinking about the logistical modeling that you see in any industry, there is always planned downtime that you want to mitigate; but you also end up having unplanned downtime. So, looking back at that historical data of when you’ve had those moments where maybe it took a bit longer than expected to manufacture something, you can take a look at all of that data and use AI to try to identify the proximate cause or to see something that might jump out even in the processing and design phases. We think of AI oftentimes as a predictive tool, or as a robot doing something, but a lot of times you get a lot of insight from the data through AI.</p><p><strong>What are the benefits of using AI for chip design?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr:</strong> Historically, we’ve seen a lot of physics-based modeling, which is a very intensive process. We want to do a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_order_reduction" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reduced order model</a>, where instead of solving such a computationally expensive and extensive model, we can do something a little cheaper. You could create a surrogate model, so to speak, of that physics-based model, use the data, and then do your <a href="https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/idmtools/parameter-sweeps.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">parameter sweeps</a>, your optimizations, your <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/monte-carlo-simulation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monte Carlo simulations</a> using the surrogate model. That takes a lot less time computationally than solving the physics-based equations directly. So, we’re seeing that benefit in many ways, including the efficiency and economy that are the results of iterating quickly on the experiments and the simulations that will really help in the design.</p><p><strong>So it’s like having a digital twin in a sense?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr:</strong> Exactly. That’s pretty much what people are doing, where you have the physical system model and the experimental data. Then, in conjunction, you have this other model that you could tweak and tune and try different parameters and experiments that let sweep through all of those different situations and come up with a better design in the end.</p><p><strong>So, it’s going to be more efficient and, as you said, cheaper?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr:</strong> Yeah, definitely. Especially in the experimentation and design phases, where you’re trying different things. That’s obviously going to yield dramatic cost savings if you’re actually manufacturing and producing [the chips]. You want to simulate, test, experiment as much as possible without making something using the actual process engineering.</p><p><strong>We’ve talked about the benefits. How about the drawbacks?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr: </strong>The [AI-based experimental models] tend to not be as accurate as physics-based models. Of course, that’s why you do many simulations and parameter sweeps. But that’s also the benefit of having that digital twin, where you can keep that in mind—it’s not going to be as accurate as that precise model that we’ve developed over the years.</p><p>Both chip design and manufacturing are system intensive; you have to consider every little part. And that can be really challenging. It’s a case where you might have models to predict something and different parts of it, but you still need to bring it all together.</p><p>One of the other things to think about too is that you need the data to build the models. You have to incorporate data from all sorts of different sensors and different sorts of teams, and so that heightens the challenge.</p><p><strong>How can engineers use AI to better prepare and extract insights from hardware or sensor data?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr: </strong>We always think about using AI to predict something or do some robot task, but you can use AI to come up with patterns and pick out things you might not have noticed before on your own. People will use AI when they have high-frequency data coming from many different sensors, and a lot of times it’s useful to explore the frequency domain and things like data synchronization or resampling. Those can be really challenging if you’re not sure where to start.</p><p>One of the things I would say is, use the tools that are available. There’s a vast community of people working on these things, and you can find lots of examples [of applications and techniques] on <a href="https://github.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GitHub</a> or <a href="https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MATLAB Central</a>, where people have shared nice examples, even little apps they’ve created. I think many of us are buried in data and just not sure what to do with it, so definitely take advantage of what’s already out there in the community. You can explore and see what makes sense to you, and bring in that balance of domain knowledge and the insight you get from the tools and AI.</p><p><strong>What should engineers and designers consider wh</strong><strong>en using AI for chip design?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr:</strong> Think through what problems you’re trying to solve or what insights you might hope to find, and try to be clear about that. Consider all of the different components, and document and test each of those different parts. Consider all of the people involved, and explain and hand off in a way that is sensible for the whole team.</p><p><strong>How do you think AI will affect chip designers’ jobs?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr:</strong> It’s going to free up a lot of human capital for more advanced tasks. We can use AI to reduce waste, to optimize the materials, to optimize the design, but then you still have that human involved whenever it comes to decision-making. I think it’s a great example of people and technology working hand in hand. It’s also an industry where all people involved—even on the manufacturing floor—need to have some level of understanding of what’s happening, so this is a great industry for advancing AI because of how we test things and how we think about them before we put them on the chip.</p><p><strong>How do you envision the future of AI and chip design?</strong></p><p><strong>Gorr</strong><strong>:</strong> It’s very much dependent on that human element—involving people in the process and having that interpretable model. We can do many things with the mathematical minutiae of modeling, but it comes down to how people are using it, how everybody in the process is understanding and applying it. Communication and involvement of people of all skill levels in the process are going to be really important. We’re going to see less of those superprecise predictions and more transparency of information, sharing, and that digital twin—not only using AI but also using our human knowledge and all of the work that many people have done over the years.</p>

Feb 7, 2022

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-golden-square-package-holds-a-small-processor-sitting-on-top-is-a-metal-square-with-mit-etched-into-it.jpg?id=29281587&width=2000&height=1500&coordinates=166%2C0%2C167%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality.</p><p>IBM has adopted the superconducting qubit road map of <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibms-envisons-the-road-to-quantum-computing-like-an-apollo-mission" target="_self">reaching a 1,121-qubit processor by 2023</a>, leading to the expectation that 1,000 qubits with today’s qubit form factor is feasible. However, current approaches will require very large chips (50 millimeters on a side, or larger) at the scale of small wafers, or the use of chiplets on multichip modules. While this approach will work, the aim is to attain a better path toward scalability.</p><p>Now researchers at <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-01187-w" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MIT have been able to both reduce the size of the qubits</a> and done so in a way that reduces the interference that occurs between neighboring qubits. The MIT researchers have increased the number of superconducting qubits that can be added onto a device by a factor of 100.</p><p>“We are addressing both qubit miniaturization and quality,” said <a href="https://equs.mit.edu/william-d-oliver/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Oliver</a>, the director for the <a href="https://cqe.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Quantum Engineering</a> at MIT. “Unlike conventional transistor scaling, where only the number really matters, for qubits, large numbers are not sufficient, they must also be high-performance. Sacrificing performance for qubit number is not a useful trade in quantum computing. They must go hand in hand.”</p><p>The key to this big increase in qubit density and reduction of interference comes down to the use of two-dimensional materials, in particular the 2D insulator hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). The MIT researchers demonstrated that a few atomic monolayers of hBN can be stacked to form the insulator in the capacitors of a superconducting qubit.</p><p>Just like other capacitors, the capacitors in these superconducting circuits take the form of a sandwich in which an insulator material is sandwiched between two metal plates. The big difference for these capacitors is that the superconducting circuits can operate only at extremely low temperatures—less than 0.02 degrees above absolute zero (-273.15 °C).</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image rm-resized-container rm-resized-container-25 rm-float-left" data-rm-resized-container="25%" style="float: left;"> <img alt="Golden dilution refrigerator hanging vertically" class="rm-shortcode rm-resized-image" data-rm-shortcode-id="694399af8a1c345e51a695ff73909eda" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="6c615" loading="lazy" src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/golden-dilution-refrigerator-hanging-vertically.jpg?id=29281593&width=980" style="max-width: 100%"/> <small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption..." style="max-width: 100%;">Superconducting qubits are measured at temperatures as low as 20 millikelvin in a dilution refrigerator.</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..." style="max-width: 100%;">Nathan Fiske/MIT</small></p><p>In that environment, insulating materials that are available for the job, such as PE-CVD silicon oxide or silicon nitride, have quite a few defects that are too lossy for quantum computing applications. To get around these material shortcomings, most superconducting circuits use what are called coplanar capacitors. In these capacitors, the plates are positioned laterally to one another, rather than on top of one another.</p><p>As a result, the intrinsic silicon substrate below the plates and to a smaller degree the vacuum above the plates serve as the capacitor dielectric. Intrinsic silicon is chemically pure and therefore has few defects, and the large size dilutes the electric field at the plate interfaces, all of which leads to a low-loss capacitor. The lateral size of each plate in this open-face design ends up being quite large (typically 100 by 100 micrometers) in order to achieve the required capacitance.</p><p>In an effort to move away from the large lateral configuration, the MIT researchers embarked on a search for an insulator that has very few defects and is compatible with superconducting capacitor plates.</p><p>“We chose to study hBN because it is the most widely used insulator in 2D material research due to its cleanliness and chemical inertness,” said colead author <a href="https://equs.mit.edu/joel-wang/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joel Wang</a>, a research scientist in the Engineering Quantum Systems group of the MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics. </p><p>On either side of the hBN, the MIT researchers used the 2D superconducting material, niobium diselenide. One of the trickiest aspects of fabricating the capacitors was working with the niobium diselenide, which oxidizes in seconds when exposed to air, according to Wang. This necessitates that the assembly of the capacitor occur in a glove box filled with argon gas.</p><p>While this would seemingly complicate the scaling up of the production of these capacitors, Wang doesn’t regard this as a limiting factor.</p><p>“What determines the quality factor of the capacitor are the two interfaces between the two materials,” said Wang. “Once the sandwich is made, the two interfaces are “sealed” and we don’t see any noticeable degradation over time when exposed to the atmosphere.”</p><p>This lack of degradation is because around 90 percent of the electric field is contained within the sandwich structure, so the oxidation of the outer surface of the niobium diselenide does not play a significant role anymore. This ultimately makes the capacitor footprint much smaller, and it accounts for the reduction in cross talk between the neighboring qubits.</p><p>“The main challenge for scaling up the fabrication will be the wafer-scale growth of hBN and 2D superconductors like [niobium diselenide], and how one can do wafer-scale stacking of these films,” added Wang.</p><p>Wang believes that this research has shown 2D hBN to be a good insulator candidate for superconducting qubits. He says that the groundwork the MIT team has done will serve as a road map for using other hybrid 2D materials to build superconducting circuits.</p>

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<div><img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png?w=800" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Picture of front and back of thumb drive enclosure" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png 857w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png?resize=250,141 250w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png?resize=400,225 400w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png?resize=800,450 800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="791684" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/jcorp-nomad-esp32-s3-offline-media-server-in-a-thumbdrive/jcorp-nomad-banner/" data-orig-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png" data-orig-size="857,482" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="jcorp-nomad-banner" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/jcorp-nomad-banner.png?w=800" /></div>[Jackson Studner] wrote in to let us know about his ESP32-based media server: Jcorp Nomad. This project uses a ESP32-S3 to create a WiFi hotspot you can connect to from <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/jcorp-nomad-esp32-s3-offline-media-server-in-a-thumbdrive/" class="read-more">&#8230;read more</a>

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<div><img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png?w=800" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png 1280w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png?resize=250,141 250w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png?resize=400,225 400w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png?resize=800,450 800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="791631" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/what-will-it-take-to-restore-a-serious-flight-simulator/found-this-destroyed-flight-simulator-can-we-bring-it-back-to-life_-9-55-screenshot/" data-orig-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png" data-orig-size="1280,720" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Found This DESTROYED Flight Simulator &#8211; Can We Bring It Back to Life_ 9-55 screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Found-This-DESTROYED-Flight-Simulator-Can-We-Bring-It-Back-to-Life_-9-55-screenshot.png?w=800" /></div>[Jared] managed to find a professional FAA-certified flight simulator at an auction (a disassembled, partial one anyway) and wondered, what would it take to rebuild it into the coolest flight <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/what-will-it-take-to-restore-a-serious-flight-simulator/" class="read-more">&#8230;read more</a>

Jul 13, 2025

<div><img width="800" height="451" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png?w=800" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="A 3D printer is in the process of printing a test piece. The printer has two horizontal linear rails at right angles to each other, with cylindrical metal rods mounted horizontally on the rails, so that the rods cross over the print bed. The print head slides along these rods." style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png 843w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png?resize=250,141 250w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png?resize=400,225 400w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png?resize=800,451 800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="791697" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/an-open-concept-3d-printer-using-cantilever-arms/hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer/" data-orig-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png" data-orig-size="843,475" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hi5_cantilever_crossover_printer.png?w=800" /></div>If you’re looking for a more open, unenclosed 3D printer design than a cubic frame can accommodate, but don’t want to use a bed-slinger, you don’t have many options. [Boothy <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/an-open-concept-3d-printer-using-cantilever-arms/" class="read-more">&#8230;read more</a>

Jul 13, 2025

<div><img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/die.png?w=800" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/die.png 800w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/die.png?resize=250,141 250w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/die.png?resize=400,225 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="791469" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/die-cut-machine-makes-portable-metal-cuts/die-14/" data-orig-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/die.png" data-orig-size="800,450" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="die" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/die.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/die.png?w=800" /></div>[Kevin Cheung] likes to upcycle old soda cans into &#8212; well &#8212; things. The metal is thin enough to cut by hand, but he&#8217;d started using a manual die-cutting machine, <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/die-cut-machine-makes-portable-metal-cuts/" class="read-more">&#8230;read more</a>

Jul 12, 2025

<div><img width="800" height="446" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png?w=800" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png 1832w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png?resize=250,139 250w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png?resize=400,223 400w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png?resize=800,446 800w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png?resize=1536,857 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="791664" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/playing-snake-with-digital-microfluidics/microfluidic-snake-header/" data-orig-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png" data-orig-size="1832,1022" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="microfluidic-snake-header" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/microfluidic-snake-header.png?w=800" /></div>Display technology has come a long way since the advent of the CRT in the late 1800s (yes, really!). Since then, we&#8217;ve enjoyed the Nixie tubes, flip dots, gas plasma, <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/playing-snake-with-digital-microfluidics/" class="read-more">&#8230;read more</a>

Jul 12, 2025

<div><img width="800" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/germanium-1hz-featured.jpg?w=800" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/germanium-1hz-featured.jpg 800w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/germanium-1hz-featured.jpg?resize=250,141 250w, https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/germanium-1hz-featured.jpg?resize=400,225 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" data-attachment-id="791569" data-permalink="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/2025-one-hertz-challenge-an-ancient-transistor-counts-the-seconds/germanium-1hz-featured/" data-orig-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/germanium-1hz-featured.jpg" data-orig-size="800,450" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="germanium-1hz-featured" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/germanium-1hz-featured.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/germanium-1hz-featured.jpg?w=800" /></div>If you&#8217;ve worked with germanium transistors, you&#8217;ll know that many of them have a disappointingly low maximum frequency of operation. This has more to do with some of the popular <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/2025-one-hertz-challenge-an-ancient-transistor-counts-the-seconds/" class="read-more">&#8230;read more</a>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>They were bred to entertain in a now-shuttered marine park. Now they need to be rescued.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/is-the-show-finally-over-for-these-whales-and-dolphins-1223809/">Is the Show Finally Over for These Whales and Dolphins?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Up to 100 tiny orphan galaxies may lurk in the shadows of our own Milky Way</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/behold-these-hidden-galaxies-1223749/">Behold These Hidden Galaxies</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>There’s a German word for that feeling</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/is-the-state-of-the-world-causing-you-pain-1223766/">Is the State of the World Causing You Pain?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>Ocean swells are critical to the cycle of life</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/how-waves-shape-the-planet-1223690/">How Waves Shape the Planet</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>Tortoises were found to have feelings, pointing to other overlooked animal minds</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/the-inner-worlds-of-reptiles-1223685/">The Inner Worlds of Reptiles</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>The biological age of your organs could predict your health—and death</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/longevity-might-be-all-in-your-head-1223517/">Longevity Might Be All In Your Head</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>And the beer that gave rise to civilizations, too. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/how-to-make-the-bread-that-fueled-the-pyramids-1223483/">How to Make the Bread That Fueled the Pyramids</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<p>Yes, your brain does. It created it.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/does-anybody-really-know-what-time-is-1223272/">Does Anybody Really Know What Time Is?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<p>A sliver of space from the Vera Rubin Observatory</p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/our-busy-universe-1223282/">Our Busy Universe</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<p>Lisa Gardiner on the 3 greatest revelations she had while writing <i>Reefs of Time</i></p> <p>The post <a href="https://nautil.us/what-deep-time-can-tell-us-about-coral-reefs-1223255/">What Deep Time Can Tell Us About Coral Reefs</a> appeared first on <a href="https://nautil.us">Nautilus</a>.</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Elon Musk has launched xAI&rsquo;s Grok 4&mdash;calling it the &ldquo;world&rsquo;s smartest AI&rdquo; and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and outpace rivals such as Google&rsquo;s Gemini and OpenAI&rsquo;s o3 on tough benchmarks</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has said she will hold a hearing on geoengineering as conspiracy theories have swirled around cloud seeding after the recent floods in Texas</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Alexander Clapp, author of new nonfiction book 'Waste Wars,' tracks the world-wide blackmarket trade of our garbage</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including &ldquo;delve&rdquo; and &ldquo;meticulous,&rdquo; are getting more common in spoken language, according to an analysis of more than 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Today&rsquo;s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>A new global overview of Mars suggests dust, rather than water, is the source of mysterious streaks there</p>

Jul 11, 2025

<p>Musicologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand what turns speech into music.</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>The selection of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to temporarily lead NASA adds to the deep political uncertainties already facing the space agency</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>Nanoplastics&mdash;particles smaller than a human hair&mdash;can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics are spread across just the top layer of the North Atlantic</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>A new analysis warns that AI facilities could be forced to stop operating because of water shortages and blackouts</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing possibilities to scientists</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>Tests in London and Singapore could reveal whether AI can improve the safety of air travel</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>If Americans don&rsquo;t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society</p>

Jul 10, 2025

<p>Autism has at least four subtypes, an analysis of more than 5,000 children&rsquo;s genes, traits and developmental trajectories has shown</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>Texas has identified more than $50 billion in flood control needs, but lawmakers have devoted just $1.4 billion to address them</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>Japan&rsquo;s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Cascadia megathrust fault</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>ChatGPT and Gemini AI write in different idioms, linguists find</p>

Jul 9, 2025

<p>The underwater world relies on sound signals&mdash;so what happens when a noisy reef falls silent?</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<p>Babies lacking in key gut bacteria are at greater risk of developing asthma, allergies or eczema</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<p>Forecasts and warnings largely worked during the recent flooding catastrophe in Texas. Those systems are expected to degrade as President Donald Trump&rsquo;s cuts to the National Weather Service, satellites and other key services take hold</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<p>History tells us what happens when great nations attack science</p>

Jul 8, 2025

<p>An attosecond&mdash;or 0.000000000000000001 second&mdash;is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action</p>

Jul 7, 2025

<p>A hydrologist explains why Texas Hill Country is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy downpours and sudden, destructive floods</p>

Jul 7, 2025

<p>Being conscientious will serve kids in the long run. Here are some tips to help them learn that trait</p>

Jul 7, 2025

<p>Flash floods happen when heavy rains unleash more water than the ground can absorb, causing that water to pile up and flow to low-lying areas</p>

Jul 7, 2025

<p>Brain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up before they take their first puff or sip</p>

Jul 7, 2025

<p>The National Weather Service issued timely alerts, meteorologists say, but few were listening in the hours before the early-morning flash floods along the Guadalupe River</p>

Jul 7, 2025

<p>Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what&rsquo;s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones meet in East Africa</p>

Jul 7, 2025

<p>We spoke with NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick in an exclusive, first-ever interview from the cupola of the International Space Station.</p>

Jul 6, 2025

<p>In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon&mdash;and into infinity</p>

Jul 4, 2025

<p>Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment investigation</p>

Jul 4, 2025

<p>The June heat dome contributed to the deaths of at least three people. They have died as federal regulators have weighed whether to finalize the nation&rsquo;s first heat protection rule for workers</p>

Jul 4, 2025

<p>When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS</p>

Jul 4, 2025

<p>The future is bright&mdash;<i>too</i> bright&mdash;for life as we know it once the sun transforms into a red giant star</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<p>Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they come from</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<p>Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<p>Evidence shows that Medicaid improves people&rsquo;s health and is particularly vital for babies, older people in need of long-term care and people in rural communities</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<p>All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<p>Four research firms project that the Republicans&rsquo; One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<p>Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany&rsquo;s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach</p>

Jul 3, 2025

<p>Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the future of science and society in the U.S.</p>

Jul 2, 2025

<p>AI could be used to comb through electronic health records and warn vulnerable people about dangerous heat waves</p>

Jul 2, 2025

<p>This planet triggers flares on its star&mdash;spelling its ultimate doom</p>

Jul 2, 2025

<p>Launching in 2028, China&rsquo;s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031&mdash;years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts</p>

Jul 2, 2025

<p>Dolphins seem to &ldquo;feel&rdquo; their way across the sea with narrow, sweeping beams of sonar</p>

Jul 2, 2025

<p>AI can allow engineers to focus on artistry over technical details for drone shows</p>

Jul 1, 2025

<p>Here's a collection of exclusive book recommendations, from slithering snakes to a river's impact, for your summer reading lists, curated by <i>Scientific American </i></p>

Jul 1, 2025

<p>Links to the U.S.&rsquo;s most comprehensive climate reports&mdash;the National Climate Assessments&mdash;disappeared from the Internet on Monday, along with the official government website that houses them</p>

Jul 1, 2025

<p>GLP-1 drugs currently being tested in China target complications associated with obesity such as heart disease, fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes</p>