The NFL pre-season is well underway, and Labor Day weekend is here. That means you can find TV deals from brands like Samsung, LG, Hisense, and more.
These are the best laptop deals I've found for Labor Day, many of which we've tested and recommended.
Labor Day is tomorrow, and retailers like Amazon and Best Buy have plenty of phone discounts from brands like Samsung, OnePlus, Google, and more.
Labor Day weekend has arrived, and we've rounded up our favorite sales, from Apple products to appliances.
You can save up to $700 on these field-tested power stations, perfect for camping, RVs, and running a CPAP machine off the grid or during a blackout.
The aptly named Pebble X Plus has the tiniest subwoofer I've seen - but it delivers impressively full, punchy audio.
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.…
The LG Gram 17 (2025), powered by Intel's Lunar Lake chip, delivers notable improvements in battery life and cooling performance.
The FTC notified companies like Google, Meta, and Apple that they must not apply the Digital Services Act, which regulates digital platforms, if it jeopardizes the freedom of Americans.
Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State — Balaji Srinivasan wants to design a new kind of nation state, and he's making a troubled megaproject a testbed for his ideas.
Our list of Asian contributors to the world’s top AI models includes Vietnamese talent. What would it take to get them back to Vietnam?
Nuance Audio's smart glasses offer a discreet, innovative alternative to traditional hearing aids, featuring built-in speakers and a powerful companion app.
Say goodbye to melting ice with the Anker Solix EverFrost 2 - a battery-powered cooler that keeps items cold for up to three days, no ice required.
XR glasses are now a must-have for my travels, and RayNeo's Air 3s Pro offers strong features at an accessible price.
Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process Feature After a decade or two of the cloud, we're used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and while AI might seem relatively cheap now, it might not always be so.…
Noah Smith / Noahpinion: A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields — Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right? — The debate over whether AI …
Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun says he is trying to establish the Tron blockchain, which he founded and launched in 2018, as the virtual asset industry’s answer to Swift – the main messaging network used by the global banking system – on the back of a surge in stablecoin transactions around the world. “I estimate that our facilitated transactions will exceed Swift’s in the next five years,” Sun, 35, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. He added that the transaction...
Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression — We're used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination?
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which makes graphene-based electronics using standard semiconductor processes, raised a $55M Series C to scale its manufacturing — Paragraf pioneers graphene-based electronics with standard semiconductor processes, producing magnetic sensors and GMS while developing advanced devices.
Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 — - Aurasell is emerging from stealth with $30 million in seed funding. — The one-year-old AI startup wants to disrupt legacy sales software.
Wall Street Journal: Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI — With growing fears of an AI bubble, Beijing is charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of artificial superintelligence
Song Jung-a / Financial Times: PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually — South Korea's Krafton faces a tough fight to wring revenues from price-sensitive players — The South Korean games developer …
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more — She's spent nearly all of her working life atop the dating-app business, and believes artificial intelligence could be the matchmaker we all need
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: El Salvador has split its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now — El Salvador has transferred its 6,274 Bitcoin into 14 new wallet addresses as part of a security measure to protect against the threat of quantum attacks.
Phil Hoad / The Guardian: An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style — When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs.
Tor Blog: How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens — In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked …
Casely's Labor Day sale is here with cases starting at 2 for $30, thanks to a sweet BOGO offer. Plus, shipping is free.
The 25-year-old driver was attacked by a crowd who suspected him of being an undercover agent.
Shop Costco's Labor Day sale online right now, with major deals from brands like Apple, Lenovo, LG, and more.
Labor Day weekend is here, and we found great deals on tech at Walmart, including headphones, tablets, smartwatches, and more.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks — With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch
Labor Day Weekend is here. Find deals on some of the best smartwatches and fitness trackers on the market.
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: In light of his estate’s launch of the new $3.1 billion Fund for Science and Technology, we revisit a classic 2011 interview with the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to explore the “Idea Man” mindset that continues to shape his legacy. The conversation reveals the personal motivations behind his “big bet” philanthropy, his candid thoughts on his partnership with Bill Gates, and his passion for everything from brain science to jamming with rock stars. Related stories and links: With Todd Bishop and Kurt Schlosser.
Some users in Indonesia reported losing access to TikTok Live on the evening of August 30, 2025.
David Gilbert / Wired: Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident — WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.
I’ve been told by dentists and dental hygienists for the better part of my life that I could do a better job of flossing my teeth. It took an interview with a startup founder and the chance to try a unique product for me to finally consider a real change in habits. “You’re not alone,” said Brynn MacLennan. “Most people do not floss at all, and those that do mostly do it incorrectly. And that’s why we invented our product.” MacLennan is co-founder and CEO of Slate, a Spokane, Wash.-based maker of an electric flosser. MacLennan has a background as… Read More
Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest picks. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 30) appeared first on SingularityHub.
E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has won “consumer mindshare” amid its instant commerce push, according to company executives and analysts, to regain growth momentum in the highly competitive domestic market. The Chinese tech conglomerate’s New York-listed shares jumped 13 per cent to close at US$135 on Friday, after reporting robust earnings growth in the June quarter on the back of confidence on the mainland’s instant commerce sector. On Friday’s earnings call, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu...
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: TikTok suspends its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia, citing “increasing violence in protests” over lawmakers' pay — ByteDance's TikTok has suspended its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia following protests in the country, its spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.
Habitual phone-dropper? Fear no more--we've rounded up the best iPhone 15 screen protectors available now.
The Suunto Race 2 is a standout sports watch, offering personalized coaching plans and a bright, clear display.
Cory Weinberg / The Information: Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% — Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn't expanding as quickly as it had hoped.
All eyes are on Apple for its next iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods lineup - here's what could happen in September.
It's not what you think. I just don't want my daughter seeing YouTube.
We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming opinion To fight the enshittification of software, the first step is to pinpoint why and how it happens. Some observers are trying to do that.…
Google's newest flagship phones seamlessly integrate AI into your everyday apps - whether you're ready for it or not.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans — AI chatbots can be manipulated much in the same way that people can, according to researchers. But first... Three things to know:
Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3i offers great value on a budget, with a full-size keyboard, solid port selection, and an affordable price tag.