Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is almost gone, so now is a great time to stock up on tech devices, essentials and even toys. If you’ve been nostalgic about your childhood days playing Lego or hope to share that joy with your child, then now is a great time to... Read more

I also wanted to call out one oddity I noticed in testing, which is that dogs seem very attracted to the big knob on the Woodridge’s control panel. Three different dogs who came over to my house during smoking sessions pressed it with their noses, probably due to the... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Unfortunately for Google, the release of its latest flagship language model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, got buried under the Studio Ghibli AI image storm that sucked the air out of the... Read more

Amazon is looking for more ways to personalize your shopping experience by unveiling a new generative artificial intelligence tool. Amazon’s new feature, called Interests, was announced on Wednesday as a way to help you discover products in its store that match your hobbies and preferences.  Amazon said its AI tool,... Read more

Using tax services yourself to file is often the cheapest and most straightforward way to get your taxes finished—and get that refund on its way. Rather than going in person to a tax professional, which can be costly and time-consuming, online tax services are made with the consumer in... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new academic study challenges a core assumption in developing large language models (LLMs), warning that more pre-training data may not always lead to better models. Researchers from some of... Read more

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Connections: Sports Edition might be tough today. How well do you know your teams from the Great White... Read more

While millions of people have been caught up in online data breaches and use inadequate privacy settings on their online accounts, high-level government security officials are exposed to a broader and more severe range of online threats, particularly from nation-state hackers, than most people. Officials told the news organization... Read more

SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, announced agreements to allow both students and game jam participants to work with union performers, despite the ongoing video game strike. The union created the Student Interactive Waiver agreement and the Game Jam Waiver Agreement, both of which provide video game developers at every stage... Read more

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. My daughter is very involved in her high school choir, so today’s NYT Strands puzzle was... Read more