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No more sleeping through your alarm because you dared to turn down the volume before you went to bed. Filipe Espósito for Engadget One really annoying thing about the iPhone is how alarm and ringtone volumes have always been linked. If you turned down the ringtone volume, chances are you&
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Buying a gaming laptop in 2026 can be a bit of a nightmare, thanks to the global memory shortage that has sent prices sky-high. Gaming laptops have been hit particularly hard, and that's made trying to find one for a sensible price that still offers enough power to
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The math doesn't always math. Goskova Tatiana/Shutterstock Dropped your phone by accident in this economy? The AI boom raising memory prices across consumer tech can make you consider some worrying financial decisions. Many flagship devices have long crossed the $1,000 threshold, and repairs can range from
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Charging your phone in the middle of the day can be annoying and inconvenient, especially when you’re on the go. Instead of fumbling with chargers, how about more battery life for your smartphone? That’s what’s driving 52% of US adults to consider upgrading their phone according to
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I want to talk about Magnus Carlsen. That’s right, the chess genius who even laypeople like me know about because of how good he is. He’s leagues beyond anyone else. You would’ve thought the room for improvement in today’s world would be marginal given the game
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Who’s the boss? When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems? The Lake Mariner Data Center under construction. The Lake Mariner Data Center under construction. In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New
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Why fragmented IT is quietly eroding portfolio value, and what unified operating model change Private equity has gotten very good at underwriting value creation on paper, synergy models, EBITDA bridges, 100-day plans, and add-on roadmaps. Technology, however, is where a surprising amount of that modeled value quietly leaks back out,
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When Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones hit the market back in August 2020, I awarded them a CNET Editors’ Choice Award, calling them nearly flawless. Despite their age and the release of two successors — the WH-1000XM5 and WH-1000XM6 headphones — the 1000XM4s remain quite popular. Now, Sony is leaning into that legacy
