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T-Mobile has begun another wave of price hikes, this time hitting customers with legacy plans.A leaked memo obtained by CNET prepared the Internet for the price hikes. (Full disclosure: CNET is owned by Ziff Davis, the same parent company as Mashable.) In the memo, T-Mobile said this week it would begin raising prices for some subscribers. John Freier, president of T-Mobile’s consumer group, noted that the price hikes were due to “rising costs over the past several years.Subscribers

OpenAI's new API and Agents SDK consolidate a previously fragmented complex ecosystem into a unified, production-ready framework. For enterprise AI teams, the implications are potentially profound: Projects that previously demanded multiple frameworks, specialized vector databases, and complex orchestration logic can now be achieved through a single, standardized platform. But perhaps most revealing is OpenAI’s implicit acknowledgment that solving AI agent reliability issues requires outsi

The future is now, it seems, and Apple is right in the thick of it. Cupertino is reportedly working on a new feature for AirPods that would allow people to translate conversations live and in person. The news comes via Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Per Gurman, Apple intends to release the new feature “as part of an AirPods software upgrade due later this year.” He also notes that the feature will likely coincide with the release of iOS 19. It would work mostly through an a

Tesla stocks are tumbling, Tesla sales are falling, and people are protesting Tesla's showroom locations — Elon Musk and his EV car company are not having a great few weeks.Now, it seems like a production issue with Cybertruck has snuck in just in time to cap this week off.SEE ALSO:Tesla sales are reportedly falling globally. How bad is it?
According to electric vehicle news outlet Electrek, Tesla delivery agents are reportedly telling customers that their Cybertruck deliveries are on hold

RCS 3.0 was officially unveiled by the GSMA, an association representing mobile network operators. On the face of it, it’s fairly boring news. However, this one is special because it’ll finally fix RCS messaging between Android and iOS users. When Apple added RCS support to iOS 18, the company used an older version of the protocol. This caused chat messages between iPhone and Android users to be unencrypted. Fortunately, Apple has already agreed to update to the latest RCS proto

At Snapdragon’s Beats and Bytes event at SXSW, Mashable got a first-hand look at Dell’s XPS 13, powered by the Snapdragon(R) X Elite processor. It’s one of the thinnest, lightest and smartest Dell XPSs yet, with multi-day battery life, a vibrant OLED display, and on-device AI. And with ultimate performance delivered by Snapdragon X Elite, it runs cool even while it’s working hard.SXSW was born as a music festival, and at Beats and Bytes we also got a front-row seat as som

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Stephen King already has a whole book that basically predicted the rise of Donald Trump (see The Dead Zone), but now he's using one of his other novels to talk about the president's recent actions.Posting on Threads (where the horror author is now more active than X), King used his 1987 book Misery to analyse the current state of the U.S. economy.SEE ALSO:Every single Stephen King movie adaptation, ranked
"Think of it this way," he wrote. "Paul Sheldon is the American economy. Donald Trump is hi

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SAVE $330.58: As of March 14, get the Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar for $568.42 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $899. That's a discount of 37% and the lowest price we've seen. Opens in a new windowCredit: AmazonBose Smart Ultra Soundbar$568.42 at Amazon $899 Save $330.58Get DealWatching your favorite TV shows and movies at home means you likely have a great setup to enhance your programming. If you're still relying on your TV's built-in audio, you might be missing out on some of the more imp

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Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words created using generative artificial intelligence.  While some AI slop is glaringly fake, a lot isn’t. I remember the first time AI hoodwinked me. It was a striking video I saw on Instagram of a pair of snowy owls in the Arctic with a brood of six little chicks. Amazed by the scene, I

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It was the T-shirt heard around the World Wide Web.Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made headlines this week for taking the stage at Austin's SXSW wearing an oversized black tee. But it wasn't just any Hanes or Uniqlo basic: The shirt was screenprinted with the phrase "Mundus sine caesaribus," which is Latin for "a world without Caesars" — a clear dig at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who infamously wore a similar shirt referencing a Roman ruler at the company's developer conference last year.SEE AL

A new startup called Skylark has taken flight today — with TNW lending an extra set of wings. The company launches with a central mission: empowering non-technical founders to quickly create high-quality Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). To bring their plans to life, Skylark has created an AI-enhanced framework that promises rapid, efficient iteration cycles. Freelance developers apply the framework to build the MVP. While they code, Skylark’s internal team handles the client acquisit

Tired of having to figure out how to watch your favorite live news, reality shows, and sports? By the time you piece together which streaming bundle is right for you, your show’s likely to be half over. Why not sign up for Sling TV today and save half off your first month instead?Sling is one of the most affordable live TV streaming services out there, and it’s a cheaper alternative to cable. Sling’s two main plans — Sling Orange and Sling Blue — both offer 28 of th

There are some days that start off bland and then spin strangely and sensationally to change your life forever — for the better. Jay Duplass' The Baltimorons is about such an extraordinary day. Co-writing this comedy with leading man Michael Strassner, director Duplass crafts a journey that is an absolute side-tickling and soul-enriching delight — and it all begins with a broken tooth. After a robust slate of productions with his brother Mark Duplass — recently i

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What does an eclipse look like from the moon? Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander just sent back a stunning image from the lunar surface.The commercial space company's lander, which touched down on the moon without a hitch on March 2 as part of a mission for NASA, took a high-definition image of the eclipse from its top deck in the early hours of Friday — and it's mighty beautiful."Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around

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Being relentlessly haunted by a monstrous woman wouldn't be all that much fun, but at least in the trailer for 825 Forest Road the victims have each other.Hell House LLC writer/director Stephen Cognetti's movie sees a man moving into a new town, only to discover that the locals have something of a ghost problem — and there's even a support group where they sit in a circle and discuss what to do about it. It sounds almost like it could be a comedy, but the video above is all horror.825 Fore

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from pr

The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan's latest adaptation of a Stephen King story, made waves during its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last year — and now we have our first proper glimpse of the film via a teaser trailer.The film, which Mashable's Kristy Puchko describes as "surprising and upsetting, funny and profound" in her review, and which King himself called "one of the good ones", follows a man who's haunted by billboards that all contain an image of a strang

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, w

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.SEE ALSO:Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO:NYT Connections today: Hints and answers