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Best Cordless Vacuums We've Tested (August 2025)
Many cordless vacuums come with anti-tangle brushrolls better suited for pet hair. Getty Images/Amy Kim/CNET Eureka Eureka ReactiSense 440 (Out of stock): This cordless vacuum would be our best overall pick if it was in stock. It has some of the highest scores of any cordless vacuum we’ve tested, with 97.53% sand pickup from hard…
The coolest tech of the ‘Alien’ universe, from medpods to X-ray torches
There are many things to love about the Alien series besides the drooling “perfect organism” at its center — the tenacious female heroines, the fascinating relationship between humans and the robots they create in their image, and the depiction of capitalism as its own bloodthirsty monster. Also appreciated by many fans is the future tech…
Lord, I’ve Eaten So Many Meal Kits. These Are the Best Ones
More Meal Kits We Liked Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Sunbasket ($12-$14 per serving): Sunbasket is a plan that focuses heavily on fresh, organic ingredients, and offers a whole lot of variety and good cooking techniques, including deglazing and attentiveness to saucing. And like Hungryroot, it also offers breakfasts and snacks to supplement meal options with little…
First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant | TechCrunch
I owned a lot of Alexa-powered devices in my former home: There were Amazon Echos in most rooms, including an older Echo Plus in the living room, a smattering of Dots, a Spot in a bedroom, and an Echo Show in the kitchen. A Fire TV ran in the bedroom. And, in a drawer, a…
Google Cloud’s data agents promise to end the 80% toil problem plaguing enterprise data teams
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Data doesn’t just magically appear in the right place for enterprise analytics or AI, it has to be prepared and directed with data pipelines. That’s the domain of data…
Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition review: A solid business laptop with some quirks
Step aside, old boy. The ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition is making me forget all about the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the most renowned business laptop for over a decade. Of course, Lenovo isn’t doing away with the X1 Carbon, but the X9 series certainly seems like the company’s experimental project for the same premium category. It’s…
Best Cheap Laptop for 2025 – Budget Computers Under $500
There are a ton of models for less than $1,000 on the market at any given moment, and a large fraction of those are less than $500. As long as you manage your expectations regarding options and specs, you can still get quite a bit from a budget laptop model, including good battery life and…
The Home Depot’s 2025 Halloween drop is live: Shop Skelly and friends online
Code Orange: The Home Depot has launched its 2025 Halloween collection online and on its mobile app. The drop marks the return of “Skelly,” the home improvement retailer’s iconic 12-foot skeleton, and the debut of a new 6.5-foot app-controlled Ultra Skelly. The collection went live around 6:30 a.m. ET on August 4, and all items…
Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you | TechCrunch
Shortly after Hunter Lightman joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2022, he watched his colleagues launch ChatGPT, one of the fastest-growing products ever. Meanwhile, Lightman quietly worked on a team teaching OpenAI’s models to solve high school math competitions. Today that team, known as MathGen, is considered instrumental to OpenAI’s industry-leading effort to create AI…
WWE Summerslam 2025 odds & analysis
With the wrestling world hit with the loss of the divisive Hulk Hogan, it’s time to move on already. Summerslam is one of WWE’s big four shows throughout the year, acting like a round-up of the events after WrestleMania. This time, it’s the first Summerslam that’s happening over two nights. Saturday and Sunday will be…