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There’s been a big uptick in interest in speakers and soundbars over the last few weeks, as excitement builds for this month’s World Cup. Given the astronomical price of tickets, upgrading your home audio is one of the easier and more affordable ways to bring the atmosphere of the event to your home — and several top-rated models from Sonos are now on sale at Best Buy.• Shop all Sonos deals at Best BuyOf all the offers, I’d pick out this Sonos Beam (Gen 2) for $369 (was $499) as my first recommendation. This four-star-rated soundbar is a fantastic compact…

Like most Wi-Fi hardware from TP-Link, the Deco 7 Pro BE14000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Whole Home Mesh System is available in multiple model names. You’ll learn more about that in the hardware specification table below, but right off the bat, keep the following in mind: On Amazon, the Deco 7 Pro BE14000 is listed as the Deco BE67 model. At Best Buy, the Deco 7 Pro BE14000 is shown as the Deco BE68. The two are identical, and in either case, you’ll find a 3-pack for around $600 (before discounts), with a 2-pack and a single router costing accordingly less. Additionally, there’s…

The company released key measurements to encourage third-party add-ons. Cherlynn Low for Engadget Google seems to be encouraging everyone to make their own Fitbit Air accessories, not just companies and brands. The company has released the tracker’s technical specifications, along with its 2D CAD drawings to help you design accessories that fit the device perfectly. You’ll find the tracker’s exact measurements in the blueprints, along with crucial mating dimensions, tolerances and mating force specifications that you will need to be able to create a proper band.  “We know that your personal style is entirely unique – and…

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. I have a complaint about the yellow group in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle: How can a word be a synonym for itself? That will make sense once you play today’s game. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t…

China launches Sphere-style attractions at a fraction of Vegas costs.Chinese developers pursue cultural storytelling instead of spectacle alone.Tiangong Nova brings 16K immersive entertainment to regional audiences.China is preparing to open two immersive spherical entertainment venues that draw inevitable comparisons with the famous Las Vegas Sphere while costing dramatically less to build.Although both projects are considerably smaller than their American counterparts, developers appear focused on lowering costs.Dubbed Tiangong Nova and West Bund Starry Sky, these centers seek to create regional attractions capable of supporting tourism, culture, and digital entertainment experiences.Latest Videos From You may like China embraces a more affordable sphere…

When setting up a home network, everyone wants the best Wi-Fi coverage as quickly as possible with the least effort! This post includes quick tips for those looking to buy new Wi-Fi hardware today and set it up correctly. It will explain things briefly and point you in the right direction, including links to in-depth guides, detailed posts, and best lists. Want to obtain a quick answer even faster? Use the Table of Contents below. Dong’s note: I first published this frequently revised piece on January 9, 2022, and last updated it on June 1, 2026, to include up-to-date information.…

The worm, dubbed Shai-Hulud, has all the hallmarks of malware released last month as freely available open source. TeamPCP was the first group to use Shai-Hulud, and it promoted a competition that promised a $1,000 payment to the hacker who carried out the biggest supply-chain attack using the malware. TeamPCP has also been behind a rash of previous supply-chain attacks. Now that the worm is in the hands of many other threat groups, supply-chain attacks may ramp up further. The malware devotes considerable attention to CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) systems, which allow for faster and more reliable software releases by…

Along with the upcoming ProArt P-series laptops that will run NVIDIA’s new RTX Spark processor, ASUS has unveiled several other Windows laptops at Computex. Those include a new ExpertBook convertible model and Expertbook business laptop, along with three new Zenbook 14 models running Intel, AMD and Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.  It’s interesting that the Zenbook 14 model is available with three processor options and two flavors of Windows 11. The UX3480QA is the Windows 11 Arm64 model, packing a Snapdragon X X1 26 100 processor with 8 cores and 8 threads, along with a 45 TOPS Qualcomm Hexagon NPU. You’ll be…

At Google I/O in May, Google made it apparent that it is going all-in on AI with the world’s most popular search engine. And ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is still pushing its own AI browser. And yet people seem to be turning more and more to DuckDuckGo’s strictly AI-free search engine, which the privacy-focused company says is now it’s easier to access.DuckDuckGo’s new browser extensions for Chrome or Firefox allow you to make its anti-AI search experience, noai.duckduckgo.com, your default search engine. Here’s how.How to set up the extension  Set up is easy, taking seconds and just a few clicks. You can open…

The way I’d describe the original logic of network security is a crunchy outside and a soft middle.The perimeter was the defense. Everything inside it was trusted by default – not because anyone made that decision explicitly, but because the model didn’t require them to. As long as the outside stayed hard, the inside could stay soft.That logic held, until it didn’t.Latest Videos From You may like David BrownSocial Links NavigationSVP for International Business at FireMon.Cloud environments, remote access, partner integrations, and the sheer sprawl of modern IT infrastructure dissolved the perimeter as a meaningful boundary. Zero Trust was the…