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Best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices: It's the last day to get up to 68 percent off Kindle ereaders, Echo speakers and more

While you can often find discounts on Echo speakers, Fire tablets, Kindles and other Amazon devices throughout the year, Amazon Prime Day is the best time to buy them, period. Prime Day is basically Black Friday for all Amazon-made gear, provided you’re a Prime member who can actually

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Prime Day deal: It's the last day to get the Fire TV Stick 4K Max for only $35

Amazon Prime Day can be a good time to upgrade your home theater setup thanks to all the tech deals we usually see. As was to be expected, Amazon has discounted nearly all of its own streaming devices, including the

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These are the best Amazon Prime Day TV deals from Sony, LG, Samsung and others to get before the sale ends

Amazon Prime Day is always a great time to consider a TV upgrade (aside from Black Friday, of course). While the prices for big screen TVs have fallen quite a bit over the years, even for coveted tech like OLED, there’s always room for additional discounts. For the last day of July Prime Day, we’re seeing prices slashed on S

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Pick up the Amazon Echo Spot for $45 before Prime Day ends

Prime Day is almost over, but the sales are still abundant. There's deals on some of our favorite products, like the TP-Link Deco AX

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The best Anker Prime Day deals: Last chance to save on power banks, chargers and mobile accessories

You may not be looking to spend big on tech this Prime Day, but it's still a good idea to look for tech essentials during the shopping event while you can get some at good discounts. Anker makes some of our favorite charging gear and I always end up picking up an accessory or two durin

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The best Prime Day speaker deals: Last chance to get up to 47 percent off on JBL, Bose, Sonos and others

If you're ready to upgrade how you listen to music and experience TV, the July Amazon Prime Day sale is almost certain to be your best chance this year — but today's the final day. Amazon is knocking chunks off the prices of premium Sonos soundbars, bluetooth speakers from JBL and Soundcore,

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The best Prime Day Apple deals on AirPods, iPads, MacBooks and more for the last day of the sale

The last day of Amazon’s sale has arrived. Throughout the sale, we've been updating this with the best Apple Prime Day deals we could find. Since last July, Apple has released around a dozen new products, including the AirPods 4, the Apple Watch Series 10, an M4 MacBook Air an

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Prime Day 2025: The best headphone and earbud deals from Sony, Beats, Bose and more for the last day of the sale

Prime Day will soon come to a close, and when it does, you’ve missed your chance at some of the best headphone and earbud deals of the year. There are still great options available from a lot of big names, and since we’ve reviewed nearly the entire list, we know what the best choices a

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The best Amazon Prime Day deals under $50 that you can get before the event is over

We've officially hit the last day of Amazon’s July Prime Day sale. But there's still time to stock up on accessories and smaller electronics. Every Prime Day tech deal we listed here is on sale for $50 and under — some deals are even all-time lows. Right now, Anker cables and chargers, the Echo Spot smart speaker, microSD cards, Roku streaming sticks, Samsung Bluetooth trackers and more are on sale. And all of t

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Amazon Prime Day deals on SSDs and external hard drives for the last day: Save on Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk and more

If you've been holding an SSD or external HDD for your PC build in a cart, waiting to take advantage of an Amazon Prime Day discount, today is your last chance to grab your hardware at that cheaper price. Solid-state drives (SSDs) come in many shapes, from thumbnail-sized microSD cards to la

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How your favorite movie is changing language learning technology

Ryan sits down with CTO Aruna Srivastava and CPO Ruslan Mukhamedvaleev from Koel Labs to talk about how they’re innovating speech technology with the help of AI and classic movies. They also tell Ryan about their time in the Mozilla Builders Accelerator and their experiences as student co-founders in an ever-changing economic and technological landscape. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/11/how-your-favorite-movie-is-changing-language-learning-technology/

 4 HOURS LEFT: Get $15 free when you buy this Xbox gift card — Hurry, the clock is ticking on this deal

Newegg currently has a special promo code deal that gives you $15 off a $100 Xbox Gift Card. That's free money that you can put toward your next game purchase.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/get-15-dollars-free-with-xbox-gift-card-deal

Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

Pangolin is an open source self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy management server with identity and access control, designed to securely expose private resources through encrypted WireGuard tunnels running in user space.

We made Pangolin so you retain full control over your infrastructure while providing a user-friendly and feature-rich solution for managing proxies, authentication, and access, all with a clean and simple dashboard web UI.

GitHub:

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You Can Now Get Starlink for $15-Per-Month in New York, but There’s a Catch

The satellite internet company is selling a slower version of its Residential Lite plan in New York, but equipment still costs $349 upfront. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/you-can-now-get-starlink-for-15-per-month-in-new-york-but-theres-a-catch/#ftag=CADf328eec

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The PHP Podcast: 2025.07.10

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.5’s new INI Diff feature, Exploiting Public APP_KEY Leaks, Does Theo listen to the podcast? Spoiler: NO, and more. Links from the show: https://laravel-news.com/php-85-introduces-an-ini-diff-option Exploiting Public APP_KEY Leaks to Achieve RCE in Hundreds of Laravel Applications PHP TekTV – Secrets Security End-To-End [FrameworkBundle] […]

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Osudová data: Vrací se na scénu budoucnosti vesmíru Velký křach?

Podle dnešního mainstreamu se vesmír rozpíná a bude se rozpínat až kam mysl dohlédne. V poslední době se ale množí pozorování, podle kterých by temná energie mohla být dynamická a rozpínání vesmíru by mohlo mít svůj bod obratu, a to překvapivě brzy. Skončí náš vesmír tam, kde začal? http://www.osel.cz/14152-osudova-data-vraci-se-na-scenu-budoucnosti-vesmiru-velky-krach.html

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McDonald's Snack Wraps Are Back but Was It Worth the Wait?

Review: McDonald's Chicken Snack Wraps are back and I sampled both varieties on release day. Here's what I think. https://www.cnet.com/tech/review-are-mcdonalds-long-awaited-chicken-snack-wraps-worth-the-wait/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Can AI Decode Food Labels and Cosmetic Ingredients? Here's What This Platform Offers

Yuka is a health-focused app that uses AI to analyze the ingredients, additives and potential allergens in food and cosmetic products, in an attempt to support smarter, healthier choices. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/can-ai-decode-food-labels-and-cosmetic-ingredients-heres-what-this-platform-offers/#ftag=CADf328eec

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 Sea of Thieves is getting this widely-requested feature in early 2026 — and it's coming as part of a new subscription model

Sea of Thieves is getting custom servers, with Rare revealing that the highly-requested feature is finally coming to the Xbox pirate simulator in 2026.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/sea-of-thieves-custom-servers-early-2026

 I found the best Prime Day deal on our top Xbox and PC controller — and it's not on Amazon

Microsoft's Xbox Wireless Controller — our favorite Xbox controller choice — is on sale for a big discount on Amazon, but Walmart has an even better anti-Prime Day deal.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/i-found-the-best-prime-day-deal-on-our-top-xbox-and-pc-controller-and-its-not-on-amazon

 YouTube ramps up campaign against AI slop — with stricter monetization caveats on inauthentic and repetitive videos

YouTube Head of Editorial & Creator Liaison Rene Ritchie recently dismissed claims that the platform was getting ready to demonetize a wide range of videos, including AI-generated content, clips, and reactions.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/youtube-ramps-up-campaign-against-ai-slop-with-stricter-monetization-caveats-on-inauthentic-and-repetiti

 I decided to change which sites appear first in Google Search — and it works on Chrome, Edge, or Firefox

You can now tell Google the websites you would like to see more of in "Top Stories" in search results, and I'll show you the steps to configure it on any browser.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/how-to-choose-websites-that-show-up-in-google-search-on-chrome-edge-or-firefox

ExpressVPN completes massive U.S. network expansion
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LPDDR6 memory standard announced as DDR5 DRAM takes over
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Novinky ve vývoji Linuxu: nové verze posledních jader řeší chybu AMD TSA, Snapdragony X zrychlí

Linux 6.17 bez ovladače pro paketový zápis CD/DVD, podpora zobrazení u Intel Wildcat Lake a DG1, regrese jádra 6.16 bude v Linuxu 6.17 řešena, opravy pro Transient Scheduler Attacks v jádrech od 6.15 po 5.1 LTS. https://www.root.cz/clanky/novinky-ve-vyvoji-linuxu-nove-verze-poslednich-jader-resi-chybu-amd-tsa-snapdragony-x-zrychli/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=rss

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Apple, Mastercard and Visa's antitrust lawsuit over payments has been dismissed

Apple, Mastercard and Visa have successfully dodged a lawsuit that claimed the companies were colluding to maintain the current status quo in point-of-sale-payment card services,

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Amazon Prime Day vacuum deals discount the Dyson V15 Detect Plus by $180

Amazon Prime Day has returned for the summer, making it a good time to check to see if any big-ticket gadgets on your wishlist are on sale. A lot of our favorite tech is on sale at the moment, and that includes a number of Prime Day vacuum deals. One of the be

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You can (finally) buy the Nintendo Switch 2 on Amazon (but don't expect a Prime Day deal)

The scramble to buy the first wave of Nintendo Switch 2 gaming consoles left a lot of fans in the lurch. Getting your hands on a Switch 2 of your own still takes some luck if you weren't fortunate enough to snag a pre-order. One of the points of drama has be

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Sony will have gorgeous PlayStation 5 bundles for Ghost of Yōtei

Ghost of Yōtei is one of Sony's bigger AAA releases this year, and the company is marking the upcoming launch with gorgeous bundles of its current consoles. There are two versions of the themed bundle, each giving an aesthetic nod to a form of Japanese art. The version in

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Prime Day Deal: This Tiny 5-in-1 Fan Is Part of My Summer Survival Kit, and It's 26% Off Right Now

You won't catch me outside without the JisuLife Ultra2 -- the incredibly powerful, yet pocket-sized fan that also works as a battery pack, flashlight and more. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/prime-day-deal-this-tiny-5-in-1-fan-is-part-of-my-summer-survival-kit-and-its-26-off-right-now/#ftag=CADf328eec

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The Best Cotton Sheets I've Used Are 20% Off Right Now

The Supima cotton sheets from Buffy are my all-time favorite and with the company's summer sale, this is a good time to treat yourself to a set. https://www.cnet.com/deals/the-best-cotton-sheets-ive-used-are-20-percent-off-right-now/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Belkin essentially waves goodbye to its Wemo smart home brand
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The Naya Create modular keyboard is now available for purchase

The Naya Create modular keyboard is now available for general purchase after being an exclusive for Kickstarter backers. It features a split hinge design that lets users adjust each half independently to support a natural wrist posture and to reduce arm pronation.

Split designs are not uncommon, as there are several on our list of the

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Indeed and Glassdoor are cutting more than 1,000 jobs

Job-hunting platforms Indeed and Glassdoor are cutting their workforce, and it may be thanks to good old artificial intelligence. About 1,300 jobs from the companies will be eliminated, mostly in two departments: research and development, and people and sust

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Professor Oak's voice actor, James Carter Cathcart, has died

A prolific voice actor behind Pokémon's Professor Oak and many other classic animated characters has passed away. James Carter Cathcart, who was best known for his voice acting work in animation and video games, died of throat cancer at 71, Variety reports.

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Bluesky is adding age verification features for users in the UK

Bluesky users in the UK will soon need to verify their age if they want continued access to direct messages and all of the service's content. The company will begin rolling out age verification features later this month in order to comply with a UK law that requires platforms that offer adult content to confirm users' ages, Bluesky said in

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Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet

Hey HN, we're a YC startup building an open-source, privacy-first alternative to Perplexity Comet.

No invite system unlike bunch of others – you can download it today from our website or GitHub: https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS

--- Why bother building an alternative? We believe browsers will become the new operating systems, where we offload much bunch of our work to AI agents. But these agents will have access to all your

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Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones

Hey HN, Henry and Roman here - we've been building a cross-platform framework for deploying LLMs, VLMs, Embedding Models and TTS models locally on smartphones.

Ollama enables deploying LLMs models locally on laptops and edge severs, Cactus enables deploying on phones. Deploying directly on phones facilitates building AI apps and agents capable of phone use without breaking privacy, supports real-time inference with no latency, we have seen personalised RAG pipelines for users and more.

A

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Tesla sets annual meeting for November amid shareholder pressure

Tesla has scheduled an annual shareholders meeting for November, one day after the electric vehicle company came under pressure from major shareholders to do so.

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EU probes TikTok again over data transfers to China

TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said Thursday.

The Data Protection Commission opened the inquiry as a follow-up to a 

Prime Day Deal: My Favorite Scent Machine Transformed My Space Into an Oasis and Now It’s 15% Off

I paid full price for my tiny but powerful home diffuser, but you don’t have to. The JCloud scent machine is $166 during Amazon’s Prime Day sales event. https://www.cnet.com/deals/prime-day-deal-my-favorite-scent-machine-transformed-my-space-into-an-oasis-and-now-its-15-off/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Travel Mugs, Nonstick Pans and More Items That Don't Belong in the Dishwasher

The dishwasher can ruin your favorite cookware, tools and utensils. Here are 11 everyday kitchen items that aren't dishwasher-safe. https://www.cnet.com/news/travel-mugs-nonstick-pans-and-more-items-that-dont-belong-in-the-dishwasher/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Prime Day Deal: Save 15% on the Modular Speakers I Take Everywhere

Soundtrack your beach days, backyard barbecues and all your summer hangouts with the portable, high-quality Rocksteady Stadium 2.0 speakers. The 4-pack kit is on sale for Amazon Prime Day. https://www.cnet.com/deals/prime-day-deal-save-15-on-the-modular-speakers-i-take-everywhere/#ftag=CADf328eec

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Level Up Your Next Pool Party With Anker's Waterproof Speaker, Now $45 Off for Prime Day

The new Anker Soundcore Boom 3i is a good-sounding, compact and rugged speaker that works even while floating in water, making it the perfect summer speaker. https://www.cnet.com/deals/level-up-your-next-pool-party-with-ankers-waterproof-speaker-now-45-off-for-prime-day/#ftag=CADf328eec

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