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It’s hard to imagine a world without smartphones, but when Apple launched the first iPhone in 2007, it was no guaranteed success. In fact, a smorgasbord of haters was predicting it would fail badly. Oops! The CNET Group brands — CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, PCMag, Popular Science and ZDNET — have been
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Handheld vacuums fill a niche that full-size cordless models simply can’t by allowing you to easily clean stairs, upholstery and cramped car interiors without the hassle of bigger machines. Our Picks Bottom Line Chalk up another win for the Worx 20V Power Share Cordless Cube Vac, which also topped
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Save $700: Robot vacuums are better than ever, and the Roborock Saros 10R empties itself and even mops your floors to boot — and right now it’s yours for just $900. That’s just a few dollars more than the lowest price we’ve ever seen. However, this is a
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google has changed the way sideloading works on Android. * You must confirm you're not being coerced into doing so. * There's also a 24-hour waiting period before the setting is available. Sideloading
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A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker’s prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company’s DNS. The firewall had already blocked that payload, and blocking it is what wrote it into the log. That chain is GhostJacking, which Tenet Security demonstrated on the DEF
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Now there are ad slots on your iPhone at the top of search results and for “suggested places.” by Stevie Bonifield Aug 26, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC Image: Apple Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and
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An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points. PayRewards, the US arm of Pay.com.au, has launched with $28M in funding and a promise that bank transfers which currently earn nothing can earn something. The parent business is not speculative. Pay.
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Hyundai Motor Group has grown its US market share faster than any major carmaker this decade and is investing $26B through 2028 to build at least 80% of its American sales domestically. Its European plants already account for around 80% of its European sales. No carmaker has gained American market
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Flipboard has acquired Graze, a Portland startup that lets creators build, tune and monetise custom social feeds without writing code, mainly on Bluesky. Graze says it has delivered more than 41 billion posts to 12 million users since forming 21 months ago. Flipboard has bought the plumbing for custom social
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Dan Osborn was finishing up his fourth town hall last Sunday, he says, when a “hardcore MAGA” guy approached him. Osborn, who is running for the US Senate in Nebraska as an independent against Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts, said that he and the man didn’t have much common ground—
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Starting this September, Amazon’s Ring security brand is clarifying how it encrypts customer data on cameras, including security video data used for AI analysis, like turning it into video descriptions on your phone. This begins with a unique Ring standard called Throw Away the Key Encryption. Previously, Ring’s
