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These little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging. Modern electric vehicles have come a long way since range anxiety was an actual concern. These days, EV makers have to clear an EPA-verified range of at least 300 miles to be taken seriously. Sorry, Fiat 500e. Some EVs even boast a range closer to 500 miles. Still, for longer road trips or if you plan to be passing through an EV charging desert, it might make sense to try some techniques to squeeze a little more range out of your EV’s battery. Beyond the typical ways to…

July is when Samsung Messages stops working, and for anyone still using the app as their primary texting platform, that’s no longer a future problem. It’s a this-week problem. Samsung announced the US shutdown months ago, and the migration path has always been clear: Google Messages is the destination, and the process is straightforward. What isn’t automatic is your text history. Conversations, RCS threads and message archives don’t transfer on their own, and once the app goes dark, whatever didn’t make it over isn’t coming back.Lithium-ion batteries don’t fail all at once. Instead, they erode. Each charge cycle, each hour…

There is a particular kind of dread faced by soccer fans flying long-haul on the day of a big game. You take your seat and try to make peace with the fact that for the next nine hours, you will exist in an information vacuum before landing to a barrage of notifications telling you everything you spent the flight trying not to think about. So it felt like biting from forbidden fruit when, somewhere over the Atlantic and a few miles up, I was watching World Cup goals fly in — and they were live.I was flying Virgin Atlantic’s ‘Fearless…

The growing use of AI contributed to Oracle laying off 21,000 workers in a year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. In its annual regulatory filing for the fiscal year ending May 31, Oracle said it has 141,000 full-time employees. In its 2025 filing, Oracle said it had 162,000 employees. The reported 12.9 percent reduction followed March reports of mass layoffs at the database management software company. “[T]he adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce,” the filing reads. However, the job cuts…

People in Europe will soon lose access to Studio Canal movies they paid for on the PlayStation Store. Sony Sony has notified customers in a handful of European countries that they’ll soon lose access to some movies that they’ve purchased through the PlayStation Store due to the upcoming expiration of a licensing deal with Studio Canal. If you bought any of the movies on the list in affected regions, which includes hundreds of titles, “it will be removed from your video library” on September 1, according to the warning. It’s yet another frustrating reminder that paying…

The NotePin S AI wearable, seen here on the wrist of CNET’s Katie Collins, could be really useful for my job. And it’s on sale for Prime Day. Andrew Lanxon/CNETI took over the role of CNET’s editorial leader earlier this year, and while I’ve participated in Prime Day sales as a TV reviewer and general deals editor here for (literally) decades, this is my first Prime Day as EIC. In case you’re wondering what purchases a person like me is considering this time around, here’s a sampling.iPad 11-inch A16 ($300): My artistic daughter has been asking for an iPad and…

A Chinese medtech firm has gained EU approval for its remote surgery robotMedbot’s Toumai system can now be moved and marketed freely in the European UnionThe approval comes after Toumai was used for the UK’s first long-distance surgeryA Chinese medical technology firm has gained EU approval for its remote surgery robot following its use by a London surgeon to operate on a patient 1,500 miles away in Gibraltar.Shanghai Microport MedBot’s Toumai is a three-part remote surgery system that allows doctors and surgeons to perform operations on the abdomen and pelvis.The system is composed of a surgeon console, patient cart, and…

With evidence that the tools had overlapping infrastructure, company attorneys invoked RICO statutes that target organized crime; the legal action was then able to treat both tools as part of a single conspiracy. As a result, Microsoft said, it disrupted more than 200 command-and-control servers and severed criminal control of more than 18,000 infected computers. Europol, which helped coordinate the law-enforcement part of the operation, said it recovered as many as 27 million stolen login credentials and uncovered $47 million worth of “crypto assets of criminal origin.” “During this action, 326 servers and 142 domains were actioned by law enforcement…

In the immediate aftermath of Microsoft’s announcement that it was raising prices of the Xbox Series X and S for the third time this generation, a tiny trend broke out on our technology news feed. A smattering of stories appeared encouraging readers to run out and buy an Xbox console before the price hike goes into effect on August 1. Combine this deadline with the allure of active Prime Day deals on Xbox consoles, and the message from these articles is clear: The best and most fiscally responsible time to buy an Xbox is right now, so go do it. Allow me…

The NotePin S AI wearable, seen here on the wrist of CNET’s Katie Collins, could be really useful for my job. And it’s on sale for Prime Day. Andrew Lanxon/CNETI took over the role of CNET’s editorial leader earlier this year, and while I’ve participated in Prime Day sales as a TV reviewer and general deals editor here for (literally) decades, this is my first Prime Day as EIC. In case you’re wondering what purchases a person like me is considering this time around, here’s a sampling.iPad 11-inch A16 ($300): My artistic daughter has been asking for an iPad and…