Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Though this year’s Amazon Big Spring Sale is over, some of the latest premium headphones and earbuds are still discounted, including the Sony WH-1000XM5, and Apple AirPods Pro 3. Also: Amazon Spring Sale live blog 2026: Real-time updates on the best deals I test headphones and earbuds all year, wearing the…
Current price: $824 (35% off) Original price: $1,270 Finally, I’m rounding out the list with the Dell 16 Plus. It is perfect for all-day productivity at the office. Under the hood, it operates on an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V processor, 16GB of speedy LPDDR5X RAM, and a 1TB SSD, providing ample room for all…
pros and cons Pros These touch tags can withstand life on key chains and being dropped. They feature a USB-C rechargeable battery, so there are no button cells to mess with. They work with both iPhone and Android devices. Cons The little cover for the USB-C port isn’t attached, so it could become lost. Follow…
Thomas Trutschel / Contributor/ Photothek via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Apple has launched a security patch for iPhones still running iOS 18. The patch protects them against the dangerous DarkSword exploit. Install the patch ASAP, but consider updating to iOS 26. Getting the newest security patches for…
Lucid Motors seemed to have largely resolved its initial quality struggles with the Gravity SUV’s hardware and software, but the company is not out of the woods yet: It just issued a recall for more than 4,000 Gravity SUVs after discovering a problem with the seat belts. The company told the National Highway Traffic Safety…
SpaceX, the technology conglomerate founded by Elon Musk, reportedly filed disclosures confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of an initial public offering. SpaceX could seek a valuation of $1.75 trillion, according to Bloomberg, which cited anonymous sources. Under SEC rules, a private company can file its IPO registration statement confidentially 15 days…
Data centers have gotten so large that their power demands now rival entire U.S. states. Take Meta’s Hyperion AI data center, for example. When completed, the new AI data center will draw as much electricity as South Dakota. Last week, Meta announced it would fund seven natural gas power plants — on top of the…
Global investing in startups hit $297 billion in Q1 2026, breaking all records, according to new Crunchbase data. That’s a massive 2.5x increase over the $118 billion raised in the previous quarter. This single-quarter haul outpaces every full year of global VC activity prior to 2019. The unprecedented spike was fueled by just four behemoth…
Robotaxis operated by Baidu’s Apollo Go stalled throughout Wuhan, China, in some cases trapping passengers for up to two hours, according to multiple media reports as well as numerous video and social media posts. Baidu has not shared what caused the widespread outage. However, local police said it was a “system failure” that affected at…
Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software engineer discovered that Anthropic had, seemingly by accident, included access to the source code for the category-leading Claude Code command line application in…