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Black Friday deals are upon us, and pCloud is offering a a fantastic 3in1 bundle – offering a lifetime deal on 5TB of storage, as well as Encryption, and Pass Premium – all for 62% off. The Swiss cloud storage solution allows you full control of your online content – any time, anywhere. Cloud storage is growing more and more important to both business and personal life, with most of us having more photos and videos than we know what to do with – turning to the cheap and accessible cloud storage option.Now, pCloud already takes top spot in our…

A different approach to AI LeCun founded Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab, known as FAIR, in 2013 and has served as the company’s chief AI scientist ever since. He is one of three researchers who won the 2018 Turing Award for pioneering work on deep learning and convolutional neural networks. After leaving Meta, LeCun will remain a professor at New York University, where he has taught since 2003. LeCun has previously argued that large language models like Llama that Zuckerberg has put at the center of his strategy are useful, but they will never be able to reason and plan…

Meditation app Headspace is bringing back one of its biggest annual deals this Black Friday. Through December 4, you’ll be able to get 50 percent off the regular annual subscription price, bringing a full year of guided meditations, sleep sounds and mindfulness tools down to $35 per year. If you’ve been looking to build a better daily routine, this discount makes it easier to start.Headspace has become one of the most recognizable names in digital mindfulness. The app blends practical meditation guidance with structured courses and calming soundscapes designed to make everyday stress easier to manage. Its programs cover everything…

If you’re a mobile gamer, you know the bliss of playing anywhere you want to go — and the anxious downside of draining your phone’s battery as you do. That’s why the OnePlus 15’s massive 7,300-mAh battery makes this a promising handset for the discerning gamer on the go. Presumably, you’ll be able to play for longer without draining your phone down to low capacity.The reality is a little more complicated, partially because the OnePlus 15’s advantages can be diminished if graphics and the frame rate are cranked up to the max. It’s a good problem to have, as the…

In the last decade, business intelligence (BI) and data visualization have grown into a critical business functions. However, while BI and data viz tools have become increasingly prevalent, most organizations continue to struggle to extract timely and actionable insights from them.The problem isn’t adoption or access. Companies recognize the need. It’s both performance and capability. Today’s business intelligence platforms are still constrained by architectural limitations inherited from a different era: one where data came from a handful of sources and changed infrequently.In contrast, today’s data environment encompasses massive data warehouses, event streaming, real-time IoT sensors, and constantly shifting inputs that…

When it comes to getting connected on the go, turning on your phone’s Personal Hotspot feature is often enough. However, if you have a large group of devices that need lots of bandwidth or advanced features, such as VPN, it’s best to get a mini travel router. This post lists the current five best travel routers among those I’ve tested. They are all excellent for any extended trip, especially for those with a dozen or more devices that need Wi-Fi access to the Internet. Dong’s note: I first published this post on May 12, 2025, and last updated it on…

When Altman celebrates finally getting GPT to avoid em dashes, he’s really celebrating that OpenAI has tuned the latest version of GPT-5.1 (probably through reinforcement learning or fine-tuning) to weight custom instructions more heavily in its probability calculations. There’s an irony about control here: Given the probabilistic nature of the issue, there’s no guarantee the issue will stay fixed. OpenAI continuously updates its models behind the scenes, even within the same version number, adjusting outputs based on user feedback and new training runs. Each update arrives with different output characteristics that can undo previous behavioral tuning, a phenomenon researchers call…

The Apple MacBook Air M4 laptop has long hovered at $799 at Amazon — a full $200 below its Apple Store price. But it just dropped down to $749, which is the lowest price we’ve seen since this model was introduced in March. This sale is for the model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage, across all four colorways, but the 512GB model is also down to $949 — another all-time low versus the Apple Store price of $1,199.We ranked this as our favorite Apple laptop in our list of the best MacBook computers. Heck, it’s even…

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? The Saturday puzzle is always the longest of the week, so it’s not quite as easy as the other days. Today’s wasn’t too terrible. Read on for the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can…

SanDisk’s new USB flash drive brings 1TB storage on the goSanDisk Extreme Fit USB flash drive delivers SSD-like speeds in a thumb-sized packageIt’s designed to stay plugged in, blending storage with convenienceSanDisk has released a new USB flash drive designed to expand your device’s storage without compromising portability.The SanDisk Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive is the world’s smallest 1TB USB-C model, the company says, with acompact, low-profile design allowing it to remain permanently plugged into laptops or tablets, giving users an easy way to boost capacity without carrying extra gear.It’s also compatible with most USB-C laptops, tablets, and other devices,…