Kerry Wan/ZDNET The iPhone 17e, Apple’s latest budget iPhone, hit stores and carriers this month. The “entry-level” iPhone 17 boasts some strong features, including the same A19 processor as the regular iPhone 17, a 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR OLED display, MagSafe charging, and Apple Intelligence. If you’re interested in picking one up, consider this deal…
Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is happening this week, with discounts on top tech, home and garden items, and more. But Amazon isn’t the only place to find great deals for spring. Walmart just dropped prices across tons of categories, including electronics, furniture, and more. Also: Amazon Spring Sale…
Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Spring is finally making an appearance across much of the country, and with it comes a fresh crop of sales, including Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, which runs into next week. If you’re a Costco shopper like I am, you’ll also find a bunch of new deals on…
Here’s what to do when you receive a “silent” scam call. Yori Meirizan/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways There’s a reason scam callers don’t respond when you answer. The goal is simply to confirm that your number is active and spammable. To deal with a…
You don’t have to abandon all your old AI memories to switch to Claude. Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Claude AI now lets you copy memories from another AI service. The goal is to help you easily switch to Claude. The process…
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. How personal do you get with your chatbot? Does it interpret your lab results? Help you sort out your finances? Offer advice at 2 a.m. when your worries are particularly existential? Without thinking about it too deeply, you might be revealing a whole trove of personal…
Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I put the new Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro against Bose’s flagship earbuds, the QuietComfort Ultra 2, and the rivalry was closer than expected. Both are lightweight, comfortable to wear, offer similar active noise cancellation performance, and last up to (roughly) 5.5 hours on a…
The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it’s not a social network, but an AI assistant that allows you to design your own algorithm, create custom feeds, and, one day, vibe-code your own app. At the Atmosphere conference over the weekend, Bluesky’s former CEO, Jay Graber, now chief innovation officer,…
While the relationship between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things had warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration — at least according to court documents published Friday. As reported by Engadget, these texts between Zuckerberg and Musk were released as…
While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs — also known as AI sycophancy — a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be. The study, titled “Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence” and…