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9 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find the ones worth your money.

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The Fitbit Versa 4 is down to its lowest-ever price at Amazon — save $80 right now

Find the best Fitbit deal at Amazon. Save 40% on the Fitbit Versa 4 at Amazon.

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The best last-minute cheap tech gifts you can buy for under $25

ZDNET found the best cheap tech gifts -- and deals -- for under $25, so you can save on gift-giving for everyone on your list this holiday season.

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Rivian rolls out new ‘Universal Hands-Free’ driving feature

The driver assistance software is available on Rivian's for Gen 2 R1 cars and works on 3.5 million miles of North American roads. But it doesn't slow or stop for traffic lights or stop signs.

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Qt 6.11 Beta Released With New Canvas Painter, OpenAPI & TaskTree Modules

Qt 6.11 Beta 1 is out on-schedule with the code having entered its feature freeze and code branching earlier this month. This toolkit is working toward the stable Qt 6.11 stable debut in March...

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The Download: the worst technology of 2025, and Sam Altman’s AI hype

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The 8 worst technology flops of 2025 Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year. We like to think ther…

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AMD Awarding Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Laptops To Those Fixing ROCm Bugs

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" is beautifully awesome. Probably my favorite hardware of 2025 whether it's in desktop form with the likes of the Framework Desktop or for very powerful laptops between the Zen 5 CPU cores and very capable Radeon 8060S Graphics within devices like the HP ZBook Ultra G1a…

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Virgin Media O2 reveals record-breaking year of UK data use

UK operator releases data exploring how British people lived online in 2025, finding record-levels of data consumption including a rise in both broadband usage and mobile traffic

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Tuitar – A portable guitar training tool and DIY kit

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AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Open-Source Linux Performance For 2025

In the past few weeks on Phoronix we have explored a fresh look at the open-source Nouveau/NVK performance compared to the NVIDIA 580 packaged Linux driver as well as a multi-generation Nouveau vs. NVIDIA comparison from the GeForce GTX 980 to RTX 5080 since the forthcoming NVIDIA R590 driver series…

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Best price ever alert: A 4-pack of Apple AirTags just dropped to under $65

The Apple AirTag 4-pack is back on sale for $64.98, down from the list price of $99. That's a 34% discount.

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I tested a tiny plug-in that promises to stop electrical fires - here's my buying advice now

The Ting Smart Sensor quietly monitors your home wiring for potential hazards. Here's how it fared in my house.

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Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame

Luma AI's new model is available through the company's Dream Machine platform.

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Show HN: X Writer – Tweet from VS Code Without Distractions (BYOK, Open Source)

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The Anker Solix C1000 power station is over $100 off at Amazon

Find the best power station deal at Amazon. Save 32% on the Anker Solix C1000 at Amazon.

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IT service is reaching its breaking point. I lead it for Salesforce and see 3 tipping points

The model is cracking and needs to be reimagined.

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Apples new iOS feature is huge for people with non-Apple smartwatches

A new, EU-only feature called Notification Forwarding allows the iPhone to forward notifications to a third-party watch.

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Intel ISPC 1.29 Drops Gen9 GPU Targets, Add New Optimizations & Experimental RISC-V

Intel ISPC 1.29 released on Wednesday as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a C variant able to target Intel hardware from their CPUs to GPUs for SIMD programming...

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Score JBL Tune 770NC headphones at their best-ever price at Amazon — save $70 right now

As of Dec. 18, the JBL Tune 770NC headphones are still at their lowest-ever price of $79.95 at Amazon, 47% off their list price of $149.95.

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new Apple iOS update is wrecking my iPhone

Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled.