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I took the DJI Pocket 4P travelling — here are my favorite vlogging clips so far, including slow motion, the new 60mm lens, and DLog2 color profile

I've been testing DJI's upcoming Pocket 4P and can share sample footage taken with the dual-lens vlogging camera ahead of its release.

AI is starting to look a lot like the early days of cloud – and the real race is operational

AI’s model race is fading. The real battle is running systems reliably at scale.

If you kill every Fable NPC, Playground Games says the world will 'stay empty for some time' before being repopulated by 'full NPCs'

Playground Games has confirmed that if Fable players, for some reason, decide to kill every NPC in a settlement, they will repopulate over time.

The fantastic and 4.5-star-rated Breville Barista Express drops to its lowest-ever price on Amazon

The Breville Barista Express plummets to $499.95 at Amazon - that's a record-low price for the 4.5-star coffee machine.

NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, June 30 (game #1115)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, June 30 (game #849)

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, June 30 (game #1618)

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

Want to Boost Your Home’s Resale Value? Install a Heat Pump

Heat pumps are more than just a way to keep your home comfortable without using fossil fuels.

New study claims just 2% of schools in England have AI strategies — despite it being 'already embedded in day-to-day teaching and learning'

Although AI is widely used in English schools, only 2% have formal strategies, leaving most struggling to grow adoption safely.

The AI jobs debate just got messier

A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs. 

Vibe-coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

Wix-owned vibe-coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.

One of AMD's most powerful CPUs gets a 60% price cut — 192-core EPYC 9965 CPU costs less than $6000 new and I can't explain why it's so cheap

AMD's server-class Epyc 9965 CPU comes with a 192-core, 384-thread Zen 5-based configuration and can be had for less than half its original sub-$15,000 asking price.

I found two EOFY gaming laptop deals worth checking today, whether you want RTX 5060 value or RTX 5090 power

Looking for an EOFY gaming laptop deal? These Acer Nitro V and Lenovo Legion Pro 7i discounts cover both lower-cost RTX gaming and high-end desktop-replacement power.

JB Hi-Fi EOFY laptop deal: this lightweight Asus Zenbook A14 has a big discount

JB Hi-Fi has discounted the Asus Zenbook A14 to AU$1,399, making this lightweight OLED laptop a solid buy for work, study and travel.

Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

Inside Genebench-Pro

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

Want a cheap Yeti cooler for your 4th of July celebrations? I'm a deal-hunting outdoor expert, and I've tracked down the only holiday offers actually worth your money

Yeti coolers are going cheap, and you can get yours delivered in time for 4th July — these are the holiday discounts our outdoor expert has vetted for real value.

Adobe and Disney are teaming up to design the next generation of theme park rides with Foundry AI

Adobe and Disney will build a custom AI solution trained on the latter's IP and leveraging Adobe's Firefly Foundry service.

IBM unveils new record-breaking chip with 100 billion transistors in less than 1 nanometer footprint — new NanoStack design is like "a 100-storey skyscraper" packed with highly efficient processing power

IBM unveiled a 0.7 nm NanoStack chip carrying 100 billion transistors through an ambitious three-dimensional architecture design.

Apple may have a plan to 'ease frustration over price hikes and longer delivery times' with its Macs — but I wouldn't count on it working

Analyst suggests more consumer RAM is going to data centers next year — maybe a lot more, and that's a real worry.

US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree

Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.

How to watch Netherlands vs Morocco: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time for FIFA World Cup 2026 in a crunch last-32 encounter

Here's how to watch Netherlands vs Morocco for free online and from anywhere at the FIFA World Cup 2026, in an entertaining last-32 tie between two dark horses.

Quote of the day by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates: 'If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot' — devising policy ideas to counter automation risks

Slowing down the robotics, AI, and automation build-out might give us time to understand how to structure our labor markets

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans

Earlier today, T-Mobile started notifying customers that it will be retiring many legacy plans and moving subscribers onto one of its current rate plans. This move includes plans that date back to the 3G era, and it's going about as well as you'd expect. Affected customers began sharing screenshots...

Buying a Mattress in 2026? We Tested 100+ and These Were the Standouts

WIRED has tested 100-plus bed-in-a-box mattresses for a week each. Our top pick, the Helix Midnight Luxe hybrid, is the best bed you can buy online.

'Near zero-cost memory expansion through recycling': Meta will reuse terabytes worth of DDR4 memory using CXL tech and avoid paying the RAM tax

Meta reused retired DDR4 memory through CXL technology, reducing server requirements and avoiding expensive new DRAM purchases.

I went inside FIFA's super-secret Technology Command Center for the World Cup — but sadly I can't really tell you too much about what I saw

The FIFA World Cup Technology Command Center was a tech nerd's dream - but you'll just have to believe me.