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There's a surprisingly healthy amount of video game deals up for grabs in the 2026 Prime Day sales, including some killer discounts for PS5, Switch, and even Xbox owners. (I promise I haven't forgotten you.)

Prime Day deals have discounted a bunch of our favorite tech from headphones to TVs to iPhone accessories and more.

Taylor Swift dropped by fiancé Travis Kelce's Tight End University concert at the Pinnacle in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday night.

The Wizards have struggled to live up to D.C.'s rich basketball history. With AJ Dybantsa, their long-suffering fans can dream again.

A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has been published after being blocked from a government health journal. The study in by JAMA Network Open shows the vaccine is about 55% effective against hospitalizations and reduces emergency visits by 50%.

Meta's CTO, Andrew Bosworth, suggests privacy expectations about smart glasses will be decided in the court of public opinion.

Here's today's Connections answer and hints for groups. These clues will help you solve New York Times' popular puzzle game, Connections, every day!

A bold claim from the chip giant could quietly defuse one of the loudest fights over AI's footprint.

Attorneys for Martha Avila’s family said the Tesla was in “Autopilot” mode when the speeding car crashed into the 76-year-old woman’s home, killing her.

Google's YouTube settles a social media addiction lawsuit brought by a teenager in Florida who accused the platform of causing mental health harms.

MorningStar Farms has announced a voluntary recall involving specific Buffalo Chik'n Nuggets and Hot & Spicy Sausage Patties sold in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Costa Rica

California intends to sue the Trump administration over its deal to end an offshore wind project proposed off the state’s central coast. State officials said they are combating the administration’s attacks on their offshore wind industry by sending a notice o…

Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.

A whopping nine new references with both major and subtle tweaks.

The 2026 Amazon Prime Day sale is now flying with a countless number of price drops across just about every product category.

A user claims they bought the new Google Home Speaker from Walmart, confirming an unfortunate design decision.

We got hands-on with a very early build of Monster Fantasy, a hybrid adventure that gives players the flexibility to choose whether they want to seek the thrilling challenge of big game beast-hunting or the laid back chilling of just catching bugs and good vi…

Here's a full roundup of Star Fox reviews with the game releasing on Nintendo Switch 2 in just a couple of days.

Do you ever wish you could enjoy your handheld games on a massive screen, even while on the go? Well, the RayNeo Air 4 Pro glasses just might be the solution you've been searching for.

Google today is rolling out Android 17 QPR1 Beta 5 and it’s mainly just a bug fixer except for the inclusion of the Gemini Intelligence logo.

Adobe wants its creative agent AI to make editing easier and less tedious.

Apple today released updated beta firmware for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2. The firmware is limited to developers...

​​Microsoft has released the KB5095093 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, which fixes numerous bugs and begins rolling out new features, including the new Point-in-Time restore feature.

Despite the departure of two top AI leaders that sent the company’s stock price down, Hassabis says Google is still on top.

Apple is making more of an effort to turn the iPhone into a physical wallet replacement in iOS 27, and there are several upgrades to the Wallet app.

While everyone is copying Hyundai’s virtual gear shift, introduced in the IONIQ 5 N, the company is already working on...

It's no secret that Valve's Steam Machine is launching at possibly the worst moment for both PC and console gaming hardware, given the ongoing DRAM crisis, but Valve engineer, Pierre-Loup Griffais, has recently shed light on the pre-RAM crisis pricing of the …

It's been reported that MIO: Memories in Orbit developer Douze Dixièmes is shutting down after regaining its independence.

Android 17 touch recognition issues persist, as Pixel users report another bug affecting touchscreen input while a video is playing....

Konami wants to find out who leaked its source code

This test can actually save your life.

Travelers at Chicago O'Hare International Airport may have been exposed to the measles.

Ticks may be tiny, but their bite can pack a threatening punch. Keep these pests at bay with expert approved ways to tick-proof your own backyard.

The CDC's tracker shows ER visits for tick bites at the highest rates since 2019. And some people are getting sticker shock over the cost of testing.

“It was completely harrowing," Jack Dilger said of his mother's diagnosis, which eventually led to 13 brain surgeries in two years

Two instances of a fatal and infectious disease that strikes rabbits has been found in two Utah counties, the state's Division of Wildlife Resources reports.

Sally Phillips said the community center provided physical and social opportunities for her husband Ken Titus after he was diagnosed with dementia

Shope papillomavirus causes the alarming horn-like growths on US rabbits. It poses no risk to humans, but pet rabbit owners should take precautions.

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This dietitian-created meal plan is free of added sugars, rich in fiber and lower in sodium and saturated fat to promote heart health.

“Optimizing a woman’s heart health before and during the time of the pregnancy may be possibly one of the earliest opportunities that we have to influence lifelong health outcomes for both th…

While many turn to a popular supplement to ease joint pain, new research suggests they could actually speed up cognitive decline.

New research links higher homocysteine, a marker of vitamin B12 and folate status, with fatigue in healthy adults and explains why nutrients matter.

Which fruits have the most prebiotics? Fruit rich in prebiotic fiber to feed good bacteria in the gut includes bananas, apples, blueberries and nectarines.

Tea, coffee, and kefir may support longevity by lowering inflammation and protecting against cell damage that might otherwise contribute to aging and chronic disease.

A careful look back at the 27 December 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20, what instruments recorded, and why the energy estimate depends on distance.

We are used to saying that Neanderthals went extinct, around forty thousand years ago, edged out by modern humans. Joshua Akey, a geneticist at Princeton, thinks that is the wrong word. His team’s reading of the DNA finds that Neanderthals and modern humans i…

A new genus and species of four-winged pennaraptoran dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern China is adding another twist to the story of how birds evolved from their dinosaur ancestors.

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before reaching Earth.

Many of Earth's mass extinctions await clear explanations. We know an impact wiped out the dinosaurs, but what about the planet's other extinction events? New research says flybys of planetary mass objects could've been responsible.

In June 1900, Nikola Tesla published an essay in The Century Magazine titled “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy.” Most of it was about electricity generation, solar power, and the technical ambitions he had accumulated over two decades of engineering wor…

It's a small uncrewed capsule designed to haul cargo to and from space.

Astronomers have uncovered the chemical profile of a very pink planet, potentially solving a decade-old mystery about its faint appearance.

Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published in 1905, made a number of strange predictions about how time and motion interact, several of which sounded so counterintuitive that for the next half-century even physicists who accepted the underlying mathem…

USC study: Diet, small amounts of amino acid methionine increased healthy lifespan.

NASA's plan to deorbit the International Space Station in coming years has stirred up a wave of reaction by a leading ocean conservation organization.

Jupiter-mass, squeezed into a lemon by the dead star it hugs, and wrapped in an atmosphere of almost pure carbon unlike any planet ever measured. The team that found it says it appears to break every known way of building a planet.

Float in a darkened module on the International Space Station, close your eyes, and wait. Before long, most astronauts report the same thing: an occasional flash, a spot or a short streak of light, against the dark behind their eyelids. No light is reaching t…

When and where the next large earthquake will strike remains one of the most difficult questions in geoscience. Researchers from the GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences led by Dr. Sadegh Karimpouli and Prof.

A study published in May in Nature Astronomy proposes a way to separate biological chemistry from non-biological chemistry that does not depend on finding any particular molecule. The signal is not which compounds are present. It is how evenly they are spread…

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a “lunar biocontainment facility.”