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Garmin’s high-end, all-out sports watch just stepped it up. The company unveiled the Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro, along with a solar-powered version of the Pro. The latter gets the first titanium case on a Fenix, pushing Garmin’s flagship even further into luxury sports watch territory. The
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Lord of the Rings freebies with purchase: The RingConn Gen 3 smart ring starts at $349 and for just a dollar more, you can add a charging dock to it. The Gen 3 comes with a particularly epic bonus right now: Lord of the Rings collaboration gifts for the first
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Save $131: If one of your goals for 2026 is keeping your house cleaner, a good vacuum makes it much easier. If you have pets, getting the right tool is even more important. Amazon has a great deal for you right now. You can get the Shark pet cordless stick
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Some leaders are inputting employee names and performance details into public AI platforms, according to data from The Predictive Index. Published Aug. 26, 2026 First published on In lieu of other support, many people managers are turning to public AI tools to prepare for difficult conversations, according to survey results
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This year, gluten-free dishes included a lemon-oregano shrimp with schug and feta—a lemony-herbal romp served over rice livened up with dried apricots. (Adding dried fruit to liven up rice is a favored trick by Green Chef, one I might plan to add to my normal cooking routines.) The American-fished
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It's not a problem that Taylor Sheridan has often had to contend with, but some fans are worried that Lioness season 3 is about to enter a mid-season slump. At the halfway point of the political drama, there's a lot going on, with few answers in
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For the past seven years, I have tracked consumer tech through constant shifts in hardware, platforms, and the way people actually use devices. Covering everything from budget gear to flagship hardware, I focus on what readers need to know, not on buzzwords or launch cycle hype. My expertise spans gaming
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Around 600 Microsoft employees have entered their pay into a crowdsourced spreadsheet circulating internally, and the resulting picture is of a company that now compensates two quite different populations. Base salaries run from $111,000 at level 59 to $280,000 at level 67, with Cloud and AI roles reaching
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed making public disclosure of air pollution from minor sources voluntary rather than mandatory, a change that would cover the diesel generators clustered around data centres. It follows the same direction as the exemptions the administration has already granted, having excused data centres and
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Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a nature reserve, a place where development is restricted because something there is worth preserving. He names childcare and jury
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SpaceX will build a second Starbase in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on a former Exxon property on the Gulf Coast, and it puts the price at $ 100 billion. The company describes it as a self-sustaining spaceport with its own propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping, vehicle processing, and an airport, which
