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ExpressVPN is back on sale again, and its two-year plans are up to 78 percent off right now. You can get the Advanced tier for $101 for 28 months. This is marked down from the $392 that this time frame normally costs. On a per-month basis, it works out to roughly $3.59 for the promo period.We’ve consistently liked ExpressVPN because it’s fast, easy to use and widely available across a large global server network. In fact, it’s our current pick for best premium VPN. One of the biggest drawbacks has always been its high cost, and this deal temporarily solves…

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.Today’s Wordle puzzle is pretty challening. You’ll need to guess one of the letters in the alphabet that rarely appear in words. Super spoiler: It’s No. 23 on our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.Read more: New Study Reveals Wordle’s Top 10 Toughest Words of 2025Today’s Wordle hintsBefore we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some…

InfinityBook Max 16 delivers desktop-class Intel Core Ultra 9 performanceRTX 5060 and 5070 GPUs allow customizable power and fan noise levels8mm low-profile cooling handles combined CPU and GPU power up to 170wTuxedo has unveiled the InfinityBook Max 16, a 16-inch Linux workstation built around the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, a 24-core processor derived from desktop-class designs.The company says the CPU can sustain power levels of up to 140 watts at maximum fan speed, which is notable for a device weighing just over 2kg.Tuxedo also claims about 90% of its peak performance is achievable below 100 watts, which could reduce…

When configuring a home router, you’ll run into many Wi-Fi settings with cryptic names. If you have no idea what they mean and find it hard to know the correct value to enter, you’re not alone. I myself have a hard time remembering all those acronyms or keeping track of the various ways different networking vendors inconsistently call the same things. This post will explain the common ones among these pesky Wi-Fi settings in friendly language. When you’re done, you’ll be able to configure your home network more confidently. It’s worth noting, though, that many of these settings are like…

Rackspace’s new pricing for its email hosting services is “devastating,” according to a partner that has been using Rackspace as its email provider since 1999. In recent weeks, Rackspace updated its email hosting pricing. Its standard plan is now $10 per mailbox per month. Businesses can also pay for the Rackspace Email Plus add-on for an extra $2/mailbox/month (for “file storage, mobile sync, Office-compatible apps, and messaging”), and the Archiving add-on for an extra $6/mailbox/month (for unlimited storage). As recently as November 2025, Rackspace charged $3/mailbox/month for its Standard plan, and an extra $1/mailbox/month for the Email Plus add-on, and…

Six years after the announcement of plans to build Atari Hotels in eight cities across the US, including Las Vegas, only one now seems to be moving forward, in Phoenix, Arizona. The Las Vegas deal ultimately “didn’t come to fruition,” spokesperson Sara Collins told Las Vegas Sun this week, and Atari Hotels is putting its focus into the Phoenix site “for the time being.”Phoenix was always meant to be the first site, followed by other hotels in Austin, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle. But Las Vegas is now apparently off the table, and there haven’t…

Our slow-moving queue curves around a two-story wooden boathouse filled with props from explorations through distant lands. At the front of the line, a Disney cast member dressed in khaki helps us step onto a quaint little boat for a tour around the jungle.This is Disneyland’s world-famous Jungle Cruise, filled with animatronic animals and painful puns from your skipper, and old-world set pieces depicting scenes straight out of the Amazon, Congo, Mekong and Nile rivers. It’s a ride that Walt Disney himself had a hand in developing, but something new is coming that separates it from its 1950s origins: a…

China details microwave weapon designed to disable drone swarms beyond 3kmHurricane 3000 uses high power microwaves to fry drone electronicsSystem is intended as part of China’s layered air defense strategyChina has revealed new details about a high power microwave weapon it says can disable drone swarms at distances beyond those claimed by comparable US systems.The truck mounted system, known as the Hurricane 3000, is designed to destroy or shut down drones by frying onboard electronics with focused microwave energy.Its developer, state owned defense contractor Norinco, said the weapon has an effective interception range of more than 3km against light and…

Following the first Wi-Fi 8 solutions unveiled in October 2025, Broadcom today announced additional chips at CES 2026, painting a more complete picture of the upcoming standard. These include an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) and two dual-band chips. As it turns out, like Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 8 will continue the sensible trend of not including the 6GHz frequency in certain applications. Broadcom’s new BCM4918 APU, BCM6714, and BCM6719 Wi-Fi 8 chips. Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 8: Next-Gen APU and dual-band devices Broadcom’s new Wi-Fi 8 hardware includes three components. Apart from the BCM4918 APU, which is a processor, there are the BCM6714…

TSMC posted net income of NT$505.7 billion (about $16 billion) for the quarter, up 35 percent year over year and above analyst expectations. Revenue hit $33.7 billion, a 25.5 percent increase from the same period last year. The company expects nearly 30 percent revenue growth in 2026 and plans to spend between $52 billion and $56 billion on capital expenditures this year, up from $40.9 billion in 2025. Checking with the customers’ customers Wei’s optimism stands in contrast to months of speculation about whether the AI industry is in a bubble. In November, Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned of “irrationality”…