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SAVE $100: The new Ninja Slushi Max is on sale for $399.99 with promo code MAX100, down from its usual price of $499.99. That's a 20% discount.Opens in a new windowCredit: NinjaNinja Slushi Max$399.99 at Ninja $499.99 Save $100use code MAX100 at checkoutGet DealIt's no secret that Ninja makes some excellent kitchen appliances. We now have soft-serve on the countertop and an air fryer that cooks in glass, the Ninja Crispi. But if you tend to host parties or have kids, there's a special appliance

SAVE $11.22: As of Oct. 29, get the Lego Lunch Bag for $16.78, down from its usual price of $28. That's a discount of 40% and the lowest price we've seen. Opens in a new windowCredit: AmazonLego Lunch Bag$16.78 at Amazon $28 Save $11.22 Get DealIf you're packing lunches for yourself or the kids every day, it's high time you did it in style. Skip the brown bag and pick out a fun lunch bag that everyone can enjoy, and save a little money while you're at it. There's an especially good deal for

Stop me if you've heard this one before: The new M5 Apple devices are faster and more powerful than their predecessors, with new AI tools built right into the experience. Yet they're also not a necessary upgrade for the vast majority of people.Already this year, I've said this exact same thing about headphones, smartwatches, laptops, tablets, and TVs. I'm also getting tired of finding new ways to say this: We're living in the era of iterative improvements, when companies release new products fas

SAVE $54: As of Oct. 29, you can get a Vizio 50-inch 4K LED TV for only $214 at Walmart. That's about 20% in savings.Opens in a new windowCredit: VizioVizio 50-inch 4K LED TV$214 at Walmart $268 Save $54 Get DealNot everyone is in the market for a top-of-the-line TV that costs thousands of dollars — especially in this economy. Sometimes you just want a TV that can do the basics: show you the content you want and look decent doing it. If that sounds like what you're looking f

"You've got mail!"While America Online, better known as AOL, is nowhere near its heights during the late 90s and early Aughts, when the dial-up service had more than 20 million paying subscribers, millions of people still hear that infamous catchphrase to this day when logging into their email account on America Online, better known as AOL.And those millions of users are worth a significant chunk of change to the Italian app maker Bending Spoons, which just announced it was acquiring AOL from Ya

When Sewell Setzer III began using Character.AI, the 14-year-old kept it a secret from his parents. His mother, Megan Garcia, only learned that he'd become obsessed with an AI chatbot on the app after he died by suicide. A police officer alerted Garcia that Character.AI was open on Setzer's phone when he died, and she subsequently found a trove of disturbing conversations with a chatbot based on the popular Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen. Setzer felt like he'd fallen in love w

We’ve reached the First Quarter Moon tonight, meaning we're halfway between the New Moon and the Full. Keep reading to find out what this means.What is today’s moon phase?As of Wednesday, Oct. 29, the moon phase is First Quarter. There will be 49% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.The moon is getting brighter each night, so there's always something to see right now. Tonight you should be able to see the Mare Vaporum, the Mare Fecunditatis, and the

Character.AI, a popular chatbot platform where users role-play with different personas, will no longer permit under-18 account holders to have open-ended conversations with chatbots, the company announced Wednesday. It will also begin relying on age assurance techniques to ensure that minors aren't able to open adult accounts. The dramatic shift comes just six weeks after Character.AI was sued again in federal court by the Social Media Victims Law Center, which is representing multiple parents o

How do you capture what it looks like to fall head over heels? This was the challenge writer/director Nia DaCosta faced in adapting Henrik Ibsen's classic play Hedda Gabler into a steamy and salacious sapphic romance. Hedda stars Tessa Thompson as the eponymous antiheroine, a woman who hungers for luxury, love, and freedom. And when she doesn't get what she wants, she proves to be a vicious mastermind. So, when Hedda's ex-lover, genderswapped by DaCosta to be Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss), turns up

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is designed to execute coding tasks quickly and accurately in production-scale environments, representing a new step in AI-assisted programming. It's already being used by Cursor’s own engineering staff in day-to-day development — indicating maturity and stability.According to Cursor, Compos

Polymarket. Kalshi. Truth Social? It looks like Donald Trump's social network is getting into the prediction market space. On Monday, Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., announced that the social media platform would be the first such site to launch its own prediction market. The prediction market will be called "Truth Predict."Truth Social announced an "exclusive arrangement" that sees the company partnering with Crypto.com to make the prediction mar

An apparent Microsoft Azure outage on Wednesday took down important parts of the internet. The tech giant's cloud computing service confirmed it was having issues. Wrote Azure on its status page: "Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.We are taking several concurrent actions: Firstly, where we are blocking

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SAVE $11.80: As of Oct. 29, students can save 20% on The Brick by proving their educational status. That makes The Brick $47.20, down from its usual price of $59. Opens in a new windowCredit: The BrickThe Brick$47.20 at The Brick $59 Save $11.80Save 20% off The Brick with a student discount. Get DealWhen you get bored, what's the first thing you reach for? If you said your phone, so you can switch between social media platforms, you may want to give all that a rest. Scrolling fatigue can be real

TL;DR: Live stream Newcastle United vs. Tottenham Hotspur in the Carabao Cup for free on ITVX. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.Newcastle United have been wildly inconsistent in the early stages of the new Premier League season. You could make the same argument for Spurs, but Thomas Frank's team have secured some big results to climb the table and currently sit in third place. Now these two sides meet in the fourth round of the EFL Cup.If you want to

When researchers at Anthropic injected the concept of "betrayal" into their Claude AI model's neural networks and asked if it noticed anything unusual, the system paused before responding: "I'm experiencing something that feels like an intrusive thought about 'betrayal'."The exchange, detailed in new research published Wednesday, marks what scientists say is the first rigorous evidence that large language models possess a limited but genuine ability to observe and report on their own internal pr

SAVE $100: The Ninja Foodi Smart XL 6-in-1 indoor grill and air fryer is on sale for $199.99 at Amazon, down from the usual price of $299.99. That's a 33% discount.Opens in a new windowCredit: NinjaNinja Foodi Smart XL 6-in-1 indoor grill and air fryer$199.99 at Amazon $299.99 Save $100 Get DealOutdoor cooking these days is out. Unless you like frosty fingers, you've probably put the grill away for the year. But if you miss perfectly grilled steaks and vegetables, there's a Ninja appliance

SAVE $10/MONTH: The ESPN and Fox One bundle deal is now live. Get both sports streaming apps for just $39.99 per month instead of $49.98 per month. That's a savings of 20% for the best streaming lineup in sports.Opens in a new windowCredit: ESPN / Fox OneESPN + Fox One bundle$39.99/month (save $9.99/month)Get DealWatching live sports in the streaming age has become such a headache. Two new services joined the mix this year, and they're teaming up to bring us the best streaming lineup in sports.I

The next wave of Google's AI rollout is in the process of happening right now.Earlier this month, Google announced a bunch of Gemini-powered smart home devices, but several existing ones are also getting Gemini support this week. Specifically, users who have requested Early Access via the Google Home app should have gotten the ability to use Gemini on compatible devices on Tuesday. SEE ALSO:How to use Google Meet's new AI makeup tool This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or ha

SAVE $50: Amazon has both sizes of the new Apple iPad Pro (M5, WiFi, 256GB) on sale as of Oct. 29. Get the 11-inch model for $949 (normally $999) or the 13-inch variant for $1,249 (usually $1,299).Opens in a new windowCredit: AppleApple iPad Pro, 11-inch (M5, WiFi, 256GB)$949 at Amazon $999 Save $50 Get Deal Opens in a new windowCredit: AppleApple iPad Pro, 13-inch (M5, WiFi, 256GB)$1,249 at Amazon $1,299 Save $50 Get DealAt this point, I'm starting to feel bad for anyone who preordere

GET HALLOWEEN CANDY IN AN HOUR: Waited too long to buy Halloween candy? A Walmart+ membership ($98/year) can get it delivered from a local store in about an hour, and it also includes perks like gas savings and a free streaming service.Opens in a new windowCredit: WalmartAnnual Walmart+ Membership $98  Shop NowHalloween is just a couple of days away, and if you're just now realizing your candy bowl is empty, you're probably not alone. The thought of going to a store right now and fighting o

A massive, slow-moving hurricane is making its way through the Caribbean. After slamming through Jamaica and causing extensive damage, according to The Guardian, Hurricane Melissa has hit Cuba. The news outlet reports that this is the strongest category 5 storm to hit Jamaica since it began recording storms in 1851, but has slowed to a category 3 over Cuba. Still, it will continue to cause destruction as it likely moves into the Bahamas.The storm is remarkable in that its speed (very slow, movin

SAVE $107: As of Oct. 29, the 10th-generation Apple iPad (A14 Bionic, WiFi, 64GB) is on sale for just $242 at Walmart. That's a 31% discount and its lowest price ever.Opens in a new windowCredit: AppleApple iPad, 10.9-inch (A14 Bionic, WiFi, 64GB)$242 at Walmart $349 Save $107 Get DealThe brand-new M5 Apple iPad Pro is awesome — and overkill for most people, between its high price and laptop-beating power. For a cheaper Apple tablet that gets the job done, we recommend the standard iP

Robotics company 1X officially launched its humanoid NEO Home Robot this week, opening up pre-orders for customers who want to live in a robot-assisted future. "Humanoids were long a thing of sci-fi...then they were a thing of research, but today — with the launch of NEO — humanoid robots become a product. Something that you and me can reach out and touch," 1X CEO and founder Bernt Børnich said in a blog post announcing NEO's launch.SEE ALSO:1X has launched NEO, a humanoid hou

Enterprise AI agents today face a fundamental timing problem: They can't easily act on critical business events because they aren't always aware of them in real-time.The challenge is infrastructure. Most enterprise data lives in databases fed by extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs that run hourly or daily — ultimately too slow for agents that must respond in real time.One potential way to tackle that challenge is to have agents directly interface with streaming data systems. Among the primar

Tesla's Cybercab was originally envisioned as an autonomous taxi without a steering wheel or pedals, but it might be a lot more like a regular car at launch. Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm spelled it out quite clearly in an interview with Bloomberg. "If we have to have a steering wheel, it can have a steering wheel and pedals," she said. SEE ALSO:Elon Musk wants $1 trillion to control Tesla's 'robot army'
This is in contrast with what Tesla CEO Elon Musk originally wanted for the Cybercab. "If

SAVE 15%: As of Oct. 29, the NordicTrack T Series 9 treadmill is $806.64 at Amazon, down from $949. That's a 15% discount and a $142.36 price cut. NordicTrack T Series 9 Treadmill $806.64 at Amazon $949 Save $142.36 Get Deal at Amazon
If you're thinking about finally getting a treadmill for home (especially with the weather getting colder), the biggest hurdle is usually the space. A treadmill is a massive piece of equipment to permanently park in a living room or bedroom, but you could alwa

SAVE $40: As of Oct. 29, get the DJI Mic 2 for $139, down from its usual price of $179 at Amazon. That's a discount of 22% and the lowest price we've seen. Opens in a new windowCredit: AmazonDJI Mic 2$139 at Amazon $179 Save $40 Get DealYou may know DJI primarily for its drones, but it's much more than that. The brand also boasts a variety of affordable and reliable microphones that TikTok creators have come to swear by. Unfortunately, a potential ban for the company still looms, but if you

SAVE $68: The Monster open-ear AC225 earbuds are on sale at Amazon for $29.99, down from the list price of $97.99. That's a 69% discount.Opens in a new windowCredit: MonsterMonster open-ear AC225 earbuds $29.99 $97.99 Save $68 Get DealDr. Frankenstein might have created a monster, but this Monster deal has a fright level of zero. If your earbuds have gone missing, gone through the washing machine, or you're curious about an open-ear design, you'll want to listen up.As of Oct. 29, the Monste

SAVE $28.39: As of Oct. 29, the Magic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy Booster Display is $197.98 at TCGplayer, compared to Amazon's price of $219.99.Opens in a new windowCredit: Wizards of the CoastMagic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy Booster Display$197.98 at TCGPlayer $219.99 Save $22.01 Get DealMagic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy isn't only good news for Final Fantasy fans, but for Magic as a TCG. Before Universes Beyond started bringing in some of the most popular fran

Remember when words used to mean something? Well, we had a nice run. In what might be the final death knell for language as a concept, Dictionary.com announced Wednesday that "67" is its Word of the Year for 2025. Yes, that's right — 67. Or six-seven. Or 6–7. Or "six seeeeeeeven." However you spell it, it's apparently a word now.If you're mostly offline, you may have been spared the whole six-seven phenomenon. I broke down its origins and meaning for Mashable, but to summarize: It me

Amber Ruffin returned to Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday for her lauded segment "Amber Says What," in which the comedian and writer runs through everything you (and she) may have missed in the news.We're talking Bad Bunny's Super Bowl spot, Labubus, deep sea discoveries using underwater robots (not this one), AI actor Tilly Norwood, Taylor Swift's song "Wood," how to pronounce Denzel Washington's name, Gloria Gaynor's recently revealed Republican donations, and the U.S. Mint's two-faced T

SAVE $28.39: As of Oct. 29, the Magic: The Gathering — Marvel Spider-Man Booster Display is $122 at TCGplayer, compared to Amazon's price of $150.39.Opens in a new windowCredit: The Pokémon CompanyMagic: The Gathering — Marvel Spider-Man Booster Display$122 at TCGPlayer $150.39 Save $28.39 Get DealUniverses Beyond is one of the best things to happen to Magic: The Gathering in years. Before longtime players and collectors swat me, hear me out. Magic has two major problems;

SAVE $43: As of Oct. 29, the Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 is on sale for $386 at Amazon. That's the lowest-ever price for this model.Opens in a new windowCredit: JackeryJackery Explorer 1000 v2$386 at Amazon $429 Save $43 Get DealIf you're heading out camping, you'll want a portable power station that's compact, not too heavy, and easy to carry around. With all the other stuff you need to cart with you, a needlessly heavy device is something you want to avoid. With this in mind, meet the Jacker

Queen Latifah has done over 60 movies, and Jennifer Hudson wants to know which ones are her favourites.The screen and music legend appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Wednesday, and attempted to pick one title, with a little help from the audience who call out their go-to Queen Latifah movies."I can't pick just a favourite, you know what I mean? I love them all in different ways," says Latifah in the clip above, of course, first throwing to 1996 icon Set It Off with Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivic

SAVE $300: As of Oct. 29, the Samsung 75-Inch Class QLED Q8F TV is on sale for $997.99 at Amazon. That's $300 off the list price for a limited time.Opens in a new windowCredit: SamsungSamsung 75-Inch Class QLED Q8F$997.99 at Amazon $1,297.99 Save $300 Get DealThere's so much to watch right now. The streaming scene is very much alive at the moment, and the MLB, NBA, and NFL are fighting it out for your attention every weekend. It's a beautiful time to be sat in front of your TV doing absolut

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're a birdwatcher.Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, 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, word or phrase

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you're good with letters.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 j

Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're good at reading facial expressions.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 hints today: Clues, answers for October 24, 2025
Where did Wordle come from?Origina

SHOP NOW: As of Oct. 29, shop the new Amazon Echo Studio. It's the most advanced smart speaker from Amazon, now featuring Dolby Atmos.Opens in a new windowCredit: AmazonAmazon Echo Studio$219.99 at Amazon  Shop NowOn Sept. 30, 2025, Amazon debuted a new collection of Echo devices, built for Alexa+. The new AI-powered voice assistant does a lot more than play whatever music you ask it to. Now Alexa+ can hold a conversation or plan a date night. To keep up with its innovative internal tech, A

TL;DR: Give your wallet a break ahead of the holidays with this Sam’s Club Plus Membership with Auto-Renew, on sale now for $50 (reg. $110) for just two more days until Oct. 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT.Opens in a new windowCredit: Sam's Club1-Year Sam's Club Plus Membership (Auto-Renew)$50 $110 Save $60 Get DealIt’s the most wonderful time of the year… unless you’re a wallet. With the holidays fast approaching, there’s no better time to show your bank account a little

SHOP NOW: As of Oct. 29, the Amazon Echo Dot Max is now available to purchase. Shop the smart speaker at Amazon for $99.99.Opens in a new windowCredit: AmazonAmazon Echo Dot Max$99.99 at Amazon  Shop NowIn February 2025, Amazon announced its revamped voice assistant called Alexa+. The AI-powered assistant can do more than ever before, including holding conversations, drafting messages, and analyzing documents. With all of these new capabilities, Amazon announced a new collection of Echo dev

SAVE $100: As of Oct. 29, the Eureka J15 Evo Ultra is on sale for $499.96 at Amazon. That's a 17% saving on the list price.Opens in a new windowCredit: EurekaEureka J15 Evo Ultra$499.96 at Amazon $599.99 Save $100.03 Get DealBuying a robot vacuum is like buying yourself a little gift every single day — the gift of no vacuuming. And if you've been on the hunt for the right "gift" to buy, this latest Amazon deal on the Eureka J15 Evo Ultra might sway you. As of Oct. 29, this impressive

The moment Mack McConnell knew everything about search had changed came last summer at the Paris Olympics. His parents, independently and without prompting, had both turned to ChatGPT to plan their day's activities in the French capital. The AI recommended specific tour companies, restaurants, and attractions — businesses that had won a new kind of visibility lottery."It was almost like this intuitive interface that older people were as comfortable with using as younger people," McConnell

Presented by Splunk, a Cisco CompanyAs AI rapidly evolves from a theoretical promise to an operational reality, CISOs and CIOs face a fundamental challenge: how to harness AI's transformative potential while maintaining the human oversight and strategic thinking that security demands. The rise of agentic AI is reshaping security operations, but success requires balancing automation with accountability.The efficiency paradox: Automation without abdicationThe pressure to adopt AI is intense. Organ

Enterprises, eager to ensure any AI models they use adhere to safety and safe-use policies, fine-tune LLMs so they do not respond to unwanted queries. However, much of the safeguarding and red teaming happens before deployment, “baking in” policies before users fully test the models’ capabilities in production. OpenAI believes it can offer a more flexible option for enterprises and encourage more companies to bring in safety policies. The company has released two open

Presented by ElasticAs organizations scramble to enact agentic AI solutions, accessing proprietary data from all the nooks and crannies will be keyBy now, most organizations have heard of agentic AI, which are systems that “think” by autonomously gathering tools, data and other sources of information to return an answer. But here’s the rub: reliability and relevance depend on delivering accurate context. In most enterprises, this context is scattered across various unstructured

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a novel approach to train large language models (LLMs) in 4-bit quantized format while maintaining their stability and accuracy at the level of high-precision models. Their technique, NVFP4, makes it possible to train models that not only outperform other leading 4-bit formats but match the performance of the larger 8-bit FP8 format, all while using half the memory and a fraction of the compute.The success of NVFP4 shows that enterprises can continue to cut i

In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course — one that values efficiency over enormity, and accessibility over abstraction.The 114-year-old tech giant's four new Granite 4.0 Nano models, released today, range from just 350 million to 1.5 billion parameters, a fraction of the size of their server-bound cousins from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. These models are designed to be highly accessible: the 350M variants