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Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win

The Best Smart Bird Feeders for Backyard Birding

These bird feeders come with cameras and connected apps to let you see and learn about the birds in your neighborhood.

The Sonos Roam 2 Is Still the Best Sonos Bluetooth Speaker

The second-generation Sonos portable Bluetooth speaker now comes with a battery that actually works.

Moog’s Labyrinth Is an Affordable Dual-Line Sequencer for Synth Nerds

This affordable desktop sequencer helps you create mazes with two lines of music.

The Bold Bose SoundLink Max Is Our New Favorite Outdoor Speaker

This thumpingly loud, sonically impressive, robustly muscular outdoor speaker is excellent, and all the better for concentrating on the job at hand.

The Hero Gauntlet Does Not Want to Be Your Hand—and That’s Great

Using 3D printing and tech found in ski and mountaineering gear, Open Bionics aims to make customizable precision-gripping prosthetic hands available to anyone.

Missed Out on Prime Day? These 155 Deals Are Still Going Strong

You can still snag many of the same Prime Day deals on security cameras, hair straighteners, and iPads—though these discounts are quickly disappearing.

There's Still Time to Shop The 313 Absolute Best Prime Day Deals

We've been watching, and these deals are going fast. From laptops and tablets to Airpods and Echo dots, grab the best Prime Day deals before it's too late.

There's Still Time to Shop the Best Prime Day TV Deals

Our favorite TV deals and home theater deals from Amazon’s big sales event. Find deals on TCL, Hisense, LG, Samsung, and more.

It's Your Last Chance to Save on These 11 Outdoor Items We Love

Less than 12 hours left to snag the best deals on water bottles, bikes, action cameras, and camping gear before I turn off your phone and make you go outside!

All the Top New Features Coming to MacOS Sequoia

Apple has officially released the public beta for macOS 15 Sequoia. We break down how to install it, all the new features to look forward to, and tell you whether your current Mac will support the new operating system.

How to Shop With Virtual Credit Cards to Protect Your Privacy

Keep your real credit card details to yourself by using virtual card services from Privacy, Revolut, and possibly even your current bank.

How to Use an eSIM for International Travel

Setting up the eSIM feature on your smartphone and buying a cheap data plan is a great way to stay connected while on vacation.

How to Turn Off Google Ads for Sensitive Topics

If you don’t want to see ads related to alcohol, pregnancy, or weight loss, you can block them. Google offers additional controls to adjust all the other ads you see too.

Why the Global CrowdStrike Outage Hit Airports So Hard

The aviation industry is optimized within an inch of its life. A bad software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down computers running Microsoft Windows—and a cascade of airports with it.

Prison Phone Call Fees Are Out of Control. The FCC Can Finally Rein Them In

The changes are expected to save incarcerated people and their families at least $500 million a year in exorbitant phone and video call fees.

Decoding Nascar’s First All-Electric Prototype Race Car

Nascar just unveiled its experimental EV. But how can stock-car racing embrace an electric future without losing its gasoline-fueled fan base?

Tesla’s Cheaper Long-Range Model 3 Is Back

Plus: The Ford Capri returns as an EV, Samsung workers are on indefinite labor strike, and the market for anti-obesity drugs is messier than ever.

The Blurred Reality of AI’s ‘Human-Washing’

This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human—a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line.

Semaglutide for the People

This week, we learn how easy it is to buy cloned Ozempic on the internet, and we explore what the latest research is revealing about how GLP-1 drugs affect our bodies.

The Future of Vaping After the Fall of Juul

This week, we talk to the hosts of the new podcast Backfired about how the e-cigarette industry got to where it is today and where it can go from here.

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend.