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The popular bike trailer and stroller combo is now more user-friendly than ever.

Here are the best deals on some of our favorite pet tech ahead of Amazon Pet Day on May 13 and 14.

Microsoft will stop supporting the operating system later this year. If you’re still running Windows 10, here are your options.

As of May 9, the Beats Studio Buds + are on sale at Amazon for $99.95. Usually they're listed for $169.95, so you're saving 41%.

“I have rarely read a judge who is so obviously angry at a tech company.”

Cyclists around the world are obsessed with the beautifully appointed bicycles from Blue Lug in Tokyo. As a bike nerd myself, and with a trip to Japan on my calendar, I had to pay a visit.

A lawyer for anti-war activist Mahmoud Khalil, currently being held by ICE, says she was barred from using a computer in a key hearing—an example, experts say, of the unfairness of immigration court.

Apple is reportedly working on specialized chips for glasses and AI servers.

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As of May 9, the Dreame X40 Ultra Robot Vacuum with Mop is on sale at Amazon for $899.99. Usually it's listed for $1,499.99, so you're getting 40% off.

As of May 9, the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat robot vacuum and mop combo is on sale at Amazon for $499.99. It's normally listed for $999.99, so you're saving 50%.

Kurt the CyberGuy offers some easy fixes if you're struggling with Windows 11. PC users have reported slow performance, Wi-Fi problems and other issues.

As influencers are becoming more vocal about burnout, stress, dopamine addiction, and body image issues, a new therapy service is launching to cater to their unique career struggles.

Is Trump selling access to the administration in exchange for cryptocoins? On today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about the ethical concerns associated with TRUMP coin.

Live stream the 2025 MotoGP Grand Prix of France for free from anywhere in the world.

As of May 9, the 44mm Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 is on sale at Amazon for $279.99. That's $100 off the list price.

The Justice Department and Google are wrapping up a three-week hearing that could have a major impact on the search giant and how people gather information online.

A federal judge’s recent ruling has made it possible for apps to sell software and subscriptions outside the App Store without having to pay a commission.

Court documents show the company commissioned a sham report and lied on the stand to justify its actions, which will cast a shadow over future lawsuits.

At a landmark antitrust trial, a judge is weighing how to define competition for the social media giant in order to decide whether it broke the law.

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Here's how to avoid getting lured in by the fake Geek Squad scammers.

'Grand Theft Auto VI' may be a year away, but that didn't stop Rockstar from giving us a bunch to look at right now.

Running clubs are clogging sidewalks. #RunTok is exhausting. Maybe we don’t need to make everything a movement.

Turn your smartphone into a scanner with a lifetime subscription to SwiftScan VIP, now just $41.99 with code TAKE30 through June 1.

Keep track of your wallet once and for all with the KeySmart® SmartCard, now available in a three-pack for just $79.97 (reg. $119.97) through May 11.

Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd star in Andrew DeYoung's "Friendship," a cringe comedy about male loneliness.

Mashable spoke to former Hinge and Tinder users about being banned from the dating apps and how it impacts their love lives.

The NanoPhone is a credit-card-sized smartphone that barely takes up space while keeping you connected, and right now it's only $89.97 through June 1.

Grab lifetime access to Skoove Premium for just $119.99 (reg. $299.99) and start learning piano with interactive lessons. There are only a few days left to save.

ChatGPT passing the Turing Test feels like an inevitability. In fact, some researchers believe it already has.

Katee Sackhoff and Charithra Chandran co-star in the action movie, directed by James Madigan.

Psychological thriller "Sharp Corner," starring Ben Foster, will leave you wrecked. TIFF 2024 review.

"Sew Torn" is like "Pushing Daisies" meets "Run Lola Run." You won't want to miss this quirky comedy. Review.

Prior to being elected Pope Leo XIV, American Cardinal Robert Prevost had an X account. Here's what his posts say about his views.

The Apple MacBook Pro (M4 Chip, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD Storage) is on sale for under $1,322.02 at Amazon.

Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the puzzle.

Answers to each clue for the May 9, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Leave Microsoft 365’s monthly fees and grab a lifetime license for Office 2024 Home and Business for just £120.54 — no subscriptions, just full ownership.

You can't put a price on everything she's done for you, but heartfelt gifts certainly help.

Here are over 20 inexpensive but thoughtful Mother's Day gift ideas under $50 that will make Mom feel special without breaking the bank.

How to get free audiobooks. Stuff Your Earbuds Day takes place on May 9-10.

Hints and answers to today's Hurdle all in one place.

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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle.

The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1418 on May 9 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

The discussions follow those of rival OpenAI, which recently closed a funding round that valued it at $300 billion.

Microsoft tells Mashable that it hasn't raised the price of its base Surface laptops. In reality, it's just no longer selling them itself.

Josh Raffaelli, who has long roots as a Silicon Valley investor and has backed a number of Elon Musk companies, is suing his former employer, the massive trillion-dollar AUM Brookfield Asset Management, reports the New York Times.  Much of Raffaelli’s complaint concerns how Brookfield covered pandemic-related real estate losses and alleges the company fired him […]

CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.

AI is now being used to help the dead speak, even in courtrooms, like Christopher Pelkey in Arizona.

Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t allow our employees to use the DeepSeek app,” Smith said, referring to DeepSeek’s application service (which is available on both desktop and mobile.) Smith […]

In April, South Korea’s telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of personal data on approximately 23 million customers, equivalent to almost half of the country’s 52 million residents. At a National Assembly hearing in Seoul on Thursday, SKT chief executive Young-sang Ryu said about 250,000 users […]

In 2025, Aurora plans to operate fully driverless trucks at night, in poor weather, and beyond Houston and Dallas and into El Paso and Phoenix.

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return for one last film in The Conjuring franchise.

Nintendo's most recent financial report predicts 15 million Switch 2 sales before March 2026.

Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week after the company launched its commercial self-driving truck service in Texas. Anderson held the chief product officer position at Aurora. The resignation was posted in a regulatory filing along with the company’s first-quarter earnings report. His […]

Over $10 billion — that’s how much revenue Apple’s U.S. App Store raked in last year, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures. The firm’s estimates indicate that U.S. App Store revenue from commissions more than doubled between 2020 and 2024. In 2020, Apple’s share of App Store commissions was approximately $4.76 […]

Toyota released financial results for FY2025 in May and the report includes a shocking tariff bill.

After pleading guilty to two counts of fraud, the founder of failed cryptocurrency platform Celsius will serve 12 years in federal prison.

OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep research, the company’s tool that searches across the web and other sources to compile thorough research reports on a topic. Now, ChatGPT deep research can link […]

Charlize Theron returns in "The Old Guard 2," a sequel to Netflix's 2020 hit "The Old Guard."

Sankaet Pathak’s last startup, fintech Synapse, filed for bankruptcy in 2024 amid issues with partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Tens of millions of dollars in deposits made by consumers, mostly customers of fintechs that worked with Synapse, remain unaccounted for. Yet according to The Information, Pathak is reportedly moving full steam ahead on attempts to […]

Social media startup Fizz is suing grocery delivery giant Instacart and party planning app Partiful for trademark infringement, the company announced on Thursday. Earlier this week, Instacart launched a new drinks and snack delivery app for parties called Fizz and announced that Partiful had integrated Fizz directly into its platform. Founded in 2020, Fizz is a […]

Meta is reportedly reviving its facial recognition project for its AI glasses and is one of many companies leaning more into surveillance tech.

Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, according to Bloomberg. Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a research director for nearly five years, per his LinkedIn. Prior to Google, he worked as a researcher scientist at Meta. Meta’s FAIR, which has been around since 2013, has faced […]

Google is rolling out a feature in its Gemini API that the company claims will make its latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers. Google calls the feature “implicit caching” and says it can deliver 75% savings on “repetitive context” passed to models via the Gemini API. It supports Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 […]

Samsung is reportedly ramping up development on a new microdisplay technology for AR headsets and smart glasses.

Instagram Threads will begin testing video ads, Meta announced on Thursday. The test, which will make Threads look more like its competitor X, is an expansion of Threads’ advertising initiatives, which began last month with the opening up of ads to global advertisers. The news was announced at Meta’s presentation at the IAB NewFronts, where […]

VMware's new owner is pushing legacy license-holders to buy costly software support subscriptions. Broadcom says it may audit VMware users to make sure they're not skirting the rules.

Schools in Toronto and North Carolina are reporting extortion attempts.

The original Peloton bike is on sale at Amazon for $300 off its typical retail value. It's just $50 away from its lowest price ever.

A US deal to drop car tariffs from 25 to 10 percent could bolster UK luxury car sales—but only for the first 100,000 vehicles. This is particularly welcome news for Jaguar Land Rover.

Mashable spoke to Vince Vaughn, Joe Manganiello, Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Brenda Vaccaro, Stephen Chbosky, and Liz Maccie about their new Neflix film, "Nonnas."

Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant is going to start using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on desktop to protect users against online scams. It’s also launching new AI-powered warnings for Chrome on Android to help users be […]

This Microsoft Office license is only discounted to A$46 through 1 June. It has Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more for Windows computers.

The Cybertruck Range Extender has been cancelled by Tesla.

China's Geely has offered to take its EV startup Zeekr private, one year after the company debuted on the NYSE.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink has received anticipated state approval in India, opening the door to enter the world’s second-biggest internet market after China — over three years after SpaceX’s previous attempt to launch its satellite-based broadband in the country eventually failed. On Wednesday, the Indian Department of Telecommunications gave its nod to Starlink to start working toward […]

Some long-lasting rumors about an Xbox handheld console appear to have been vindicated this week.

As of May 8, get the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds for $30 off at Amazon.

The Garmin Lily 2 Active is on sale for just $249.99 instead of $299.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Garmin itself. That's 17% in savings.

The Philips Series 3300 automatic espresso machine is on sale at Amazon for $599.96, down from the normal price of $799.99. That's a 25% discount.

It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022. Since then, the startup has experienced explosive growth, reached a valuation exceeding a billion dollars, and expanded its employee count from low double digits to over 200. […]

As of May 8, save nearly $400 on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 at B&H Photo.

A viral hypothetical asks who’d win in a no-weapons fight between 100 Americans and 100 Brits, and the responses are as unhinged as they are patriotic.

A cute story about a couple who met and married in the world of 'Minecraft' surfaced this week.