Month: July 2024
23 Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals (2024)
Prime Day falls on July 16 and 17, but we’ve handpicked deals on WIRED-tested products—from tech to blenders to hair straighteners—sitting at some of their lowest prices ever. Source
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The best tech of 2024 so far – the 11 finest gadgets we’ve tested and what’s coming next
You may have seen that 2024’s progress bar recently hit 50%. To mark that mildly terrifying milestone, we’ve decided to cast our eye back over the past six months pick out our biggest tech highlights of the year so far. There’s been no shortage of those – from the arrival…
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ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from a DJI e-bike to Nothing phone announcement
This week DJI made a surprising move into e-bikes, ChatGPT revealed how it works, and Nothing announced three new products – which we’ll find out more about in a showcase on Monday next week. We know keeping up with the world of tech can be a challenge, so in this…
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Electric bikepacking: lessons learned over four days and 250 miles
“Electric bikes are for cheaters” is the refrain sung by cocksure men in lycra, worried their weekend hobbies will be invaded by unfit neophytes on battery-powered gravel, mountain, and road bicycles. It reminds me of the early internet when AOL users were considered inferior to the online elite who did…
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They did it again: Tech publisher keeps on breaking Pi Calculation World Record — they almost doubled the previous one, reaching 202 trillion digits in 100 days and used 1.5PB of SSD storage
Engineers at StorageReview have shattered their own world record by calculating pi to an astounding 202,112,290,000,000 digits, smashing its previous record of 105 trillion digits set earlier this year in time for World Pi Day (March 14 – 3/14). The previous record, the team’s second attempt, was achieved using a…
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The Google Pixel 9 could finally fix a flaw that’s been bugging us for years
Google’s upcoming Pixel 9 series is slated to receive a much-needed upgrade: a better fingerprint scanner. According to a source familiar with the matter, Android Authority reports the smartphone line will sport the Qualcomm 3D Sonic Gen 2 ultrasonic fingerprint scanner at launch. That’s the same component powering fingerprint unlocking…
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