Timef 10/07/2025

By coating regular rebar with a thin layer of stainless steel, Allium Engineering could reduce the amount of concrete needed to build a bridge while also prolonging its life.

I spent quality time with the HyperSpace Trackpad Pro, which attempts to bring Apple’s Magic Trackpad experience to Windows.

Starting July 1, 2026, streaming services won’t be allowed to “transmit the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany,” according to the bill's text.

The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launches a Mastodon server.

The best coffee and espresso machine deals to get you wired and keep you wired on Prime Day.

VTuber Mori Calliope brings her love of anime and "Gachiakuta" full circle with "LET'S JUST CRASH," the anime’s new opening theme.

Amazon's Prime Day is here yet again, and lots of our favorite pet tech, from at-home DNA kits to pet cameras, is on heavy discount.

TechCrunch verified that the security bug in the Indian Income Tax Department's e-Filing portal exposed taxpayers' data to other users. The security researchers who found the flaw say the data leak is now fixed.

Lagoon Performance Pillows are beloved by professional athletes and sleep experts alike (including me), and right now each style is $20 off for Prime Big Deal Days.

OpenAI now has all the pieces in place for AI-driven commerce, establishing ChatGPT as a place customers go to buy and retailers go to sell.

Snag the first Qi2 flagship Android phones at hefty discounts during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days.

Amazon Prime Day’s a great time for beauty bargains. We tested the gadgets, tracked the prices, and scanned hundreds of deals to find what's worth it.

Caroline Timoney, creator of 'girlboss too close to the sun' TikTok, talks about how her phrase ended up in a Taylor Swift song.

The best Wi-Fi 7 mesh for most homes is on sale for Prime Big Deal Days.

A woman from Washington reunited with her missing Maine Coon cat Louie after 11 days using Love Lost, a free AI-powered pet recovery platform.

Up to 40% off the best robot vacuum mops? Yes please, October Prime Day has three 3i robot vacuum cleaners with up to 40% off.

With the help of immersive tech companies, Sesame Street launches a new Roblox world for gamers of all ages.

This ultrawide monitor is crystal clear, and it’s down to a fraction of its original price for Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days.

The Walmart Deals sale is full of discounts on WIRED-approved soundbars, TVs, and more.

Armstrong, who advised Musk during his Twitter takeover, will oversee the finances of both xAI and X, which were merged in April, the report said.

This has been a pretty great year for fitness trackers. If you want to be fit for the holiday season, you can take your pick.

The Pixel 9a is an amazing phone for the money, and now it's even better with this Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sale.

'The Life of a Showgirl' is Taylor Swift's latest album title, but performers are divided over whether Swift actually is a showgirl.

Fire HD tablets are great for streaming Prime content and they're 50 percent off right now

Banish battery anxiety for less with these power bank bargains from Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days.

Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones drop below $300 ahead of Prime Days, offering premium sound, adaptive noise cancelling, and Alexa voice control.

There's no better time than one of Amazon's sale events to treat yourself to a new Kindle. Here's the best of the Kindle sales happening for Amazon Prime Big Deals Day.

Grab Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones with adaptive noise canceling and 30-hour battery life before Prime Day prices vanish.

The Ghost & Phantom II Star Wars Lego has been discounted for Prime Big Deals Day

During Amazon's October Prime Day, Kindles are reaching all time low prices. Get the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, for its lowest price ever and save $50.

As of Oct. 7, Samsung Galaxy Buds FE are discounted at Amazon to $54.99 during October Prime Day, 45% off their list price of $99.99.

The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.

Answers to each clue for the October 7, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Jimmy Kimmel has reacted to a poll that shows that his popularity ratings are better than President Donald Trump's.

The Typhur Dome 2 air fryer makes fast wings and crispy pizza. It's a lot less expensive during Prime Big Deal Days.

The Bluetti Apex 300 is an all-in-one power station. It's now available at $1,499, an incredible Prime Day discount of $900.

Could Panthalassa’s Ocean-2 converter improve wave energy sourcing and lower the sector's negative impact on marine life?

Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era.

As of Oct. 7, the 40mm Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is discounted at Amazon for Prime Big Deal Days to $314.98, 10% off its list price of $349.99.

Asus' budget Chromebook is cheaper than ever this Prime Day, with the price dropping to below $250 for the first time ever.

Prime Big Deal Days is here, and we tracked down some of the best fitness tracker deals available.

See the moon phase expected for October 7, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

If you aren't yet on the packing cube bandwagon, consider this your sign—these are my favorite Amazon sets I've tested, and most are on sale right now.

We're tracking all the best early Prime Big Deal Days sales on Dyson vacuums, air purifiers, and fans.

During Prime Big Deal Days, get a mini air fryer for $39.99 or one of Ninja's biggest countertop ovens for $229.99 at Amazon.

We're tracking bargains, trends, and the general state of American capitalism live throughout Amazon's Big Deal Days sale.

We've scoured Amazon for the best deals under a Benjamin, from Roku to Instant Pot.

Cheap self-emptying robot vacuums and robot mop combos with self-washing mopping pads are on sale during October Prime Day.

As of Oct. 1, these are the best Bluetooth tracker deals for Amazon Prime Day.

The best unlocked phone deals ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days include the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 and Motorola Razr Ultra.

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days kicked off on Oct. 7, and there are some impressive Nintendo Switch offers live right now — here’s what to check out.

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is around the corner and Echo devices are already on sale. Here are the best Amazon Echo deals so far.

These are the best Prime Day laptop deals to consider on all the WIRED-approved laptops we've tested.

Taylor Swift appeared on "The Tonight Show" and played a true or false game with Jimmy Fallon based on rumors about her.

Shop Prime Day board game deals at Amazon.

The Anker Solix F2000 portable power station is on sale at Amazon for $799, down from the list price of $1,999. That's a whopping 60% discount.

For Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon unlocked free three-month subscriptions to Kindle Unlimited, Audible, and Amazon Music Unlimited.

October Prime Day deals on Roombas are up early, like the cheapest smart mapping Roomba to date: Shop the Roomba 104 for $149.99.

Take your photos to the next level with this lifetime subscription to Luminar Mobile for iOS and Android for just $19.99 (reg. $47.99).

Outfit your PC with eight helpful apps from this lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows, now just $39.97 (reg. $219.99) through October 19.

Access over 900 resume and cover letter templates for life with this lifetime subscription to ResumeInventor All-Access Plan, now only $59.99 (reg. $1,170).

How much do each of Paramount+'s plans cost per month, and what does each plan get you? Let's break it down.

Mashable's tech editor recommends tech deals to shop during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. Save on Apple, Beats, Shark, Samsung, and Bose gadgets.

Amazon's October Prime Day book deals are stellar, with up to 65% off physical books and Kindle versions of 2025 bestsellers.

As of Oct. 6, you can grab headphones from JLab, Dyson, Apple, Sennheiser, and more ahead of Prime Big Deal Days.

Prime Big Deal Days runs until Oct. 8, and we tracked down some of the best Fire Tablet deals available.

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days means a round of sales from other retailers, including The Home Depot. Here are all of the best deals on tools, Halloween decorations, and more.

Yup, Amazon Prime Day is back, and yes, we've got the best Amazon Prime Day mattress deals ready to go for you.

Target Circle Week is live through Oct. 11. Shop Halloween costumes, toys, and more during this anti-Prime Day sales event.

Walmart is the next retail giant to join in on the Prime Day sales. Running Oct. 7 through 12, Walmart will be offering a week of deals, bringing savings up to 50% off. Expect deals on Apple, Vizio, and Dyson.

This has been a good year for Apple. But Prime Day Apple deals on older Apple models are still worth considering.

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, aka October Prime Day, takes place Oct. 7-8 in 2025. Mashable shopping experts are curating the top deals.

Save 30% on the Apple Watch 10 in Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days.

Amazon's Fall 2025 Prime Day sale has great deals on WIRED-tested favorites like Kindles, laptops, Apple Watches, robot vacs, and more.

Save 41% on the Roku Smart TV 2025 in Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days

Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 and Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds 2 both excel at noise cancellation — but only one pair might be the better fit for you.

Amazon’s October Prime Day runs Oct. 7–8, and Pokémon fans can score discounts on TCG packs, merch, and collectibles.

Portable power stations from Anker, Bluetti, EcoFlow, and more are up to 50% off during October Prime Day.

Shop the best October Prime Day Samsung deals on Galaxy phones, tablets, monitors, TVs, earbuds, and more.

Shop the best speaker deals ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days: Sony ULT Field 3, JBL Go 4, and several Anker Soundcore speakers.

Prime Day is here, and we're rounding up the best deals on our favorite tested and approved Ninja kitchen appliances.

Shop the best tablet deals on offer for Prime Day.

Drone shopping for Prime Day is complicated this year. We've sorted through the sketchy sellers to find the best deals on DJI, Potensic, and more.

Amazon robot vacuum deals are going hard before Prime Big Deal Days even starts. Save on the newest Roombas and the new Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller.

30+ TVs are on sale the day during Prime Big Deal Days. Check out cheap QLED TVs in every size, plus LG C5 OLED deals.

We're rounding up the best Prime Day kitchen deals. Save on top brands like Ninja, Le Creuset, and Keurig before the main event.

Several Amazon devices are at record-low prices during October Prime Day, including Echo Shows, Fire tablets, and Echo Buds.

Before October Prime Day begins, shop deals on outdoor gear from brands like Yeti, DJI, Coleman, and more.

Prime Big Deal Days is here, and there's already some great early deals available. Here are some of the best we've found at Amazon for under $25.

While October Prime Day doesn't start until Oct. 7, we've found some of the best deals available at Amazon for under $50.

Prime Big Deal Days runs until Oct. 8, and we tracked down some of the best Lego deals.

Although the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sale doesn't start until Oct. 7, we've already found some amazing early game deals worth buying.

Mashable's senior shopping reporter has tracked down the best October Prime Day laptop deals on MacBooks and more.

Here's what you need to know about Best Buy's Techtober Sale, which competes with Amazon's fall Prime Day event from Oct. 6 to 12.

Prime Big Deal Days is here, so we tracked down the best earbuds deals leading up to the sale.

October Prime Day doesn't runs Oct. 7-8, but we tracked down eight of the best early headphones deals.

Here are the best Prime Big Deal Days DJI deals we've found so far. Shop drones, mics, and cameras.

The cellular Apple Watch Series 10 is $170 off for October Prime Day, making it one of the best deals we've tracked down ahead of the sale.

Mashable's senior shopping reporter and resident laptop expert rounds up the best October Prime Day MacBook deals at Amazon.

iPads are starting to see price drops for Prime Big Deal Days — here are the best ones so far.

Prime Big Deal Days kicks off Oct. 7 at Amazon, so we gathered the best Apple AirPods deals available during the sale.

The best October Prime Day Apple deals we've found include discounts on the Apple Watch Series 10 and M4 MacBook Air.

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days runs Oct. 7-8. We've got over 75 deals to start shopping for October Prime Day.

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days is here and runs October 7-8. Here's everything you need to know and sales available now.

The Dreame Pocket, a Dyson Supersonic dupe, is at its lowest price ever for Prime Big Deal Days — here's why we recommend it.

The Jackery Explorer 300 portable power station is on sale for $169, down from the list price of $259. That's a 35% discount.

The vacuum that changed my life is 50% off for Amazon's October Prime Day.

Keep tabs on everything from your keys to your pets with Apple AirTags — now 34% off for October Prime Day, aka Prime Big Deal Days.

As of Oct. 7, AirPods 4 are on sale during Prime Big Deal Days. The models without Active Noise Cancellation are 30% off to $89.99, while the models with ANC are 22% off to $139.99.

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.

The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck.

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

Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1571 on October 7 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.

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

“I don’t think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer said at OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco on Monday.

Mashable's tech editor recommends tech deals to shop during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. Save on Apple, Beats, Shark, Samsung, and Bose gadgets.

Swift's new 'Showgirl' album tries to reject toxic internet culture, but the pop star can't help herself.

Deloitte is rolling out Claude to its nearly 500,000 employees after issuing a refund for a report that contained AI hallucinations.

Looking to shop local instead of supporting Amazon? On Oct. 7 and 8, Bookshop.org is offering free shipping on all orders. Plus, it falls during Banned Book Week and you can score an additional 20% off banned books.

Amazon now has two Prime Day shopping events per year. Oct. 7 and 8 is Prime Big Deal Days, and we're answering common questions before the big event.

Some fans are voicing their displeasure after the internet pointed out that Taylor Swift seemed to AI-generated videos in a high-profile promo.

The company has seen EV deliveries increase for seven straight quarters, even though it's still way off the ambitious goals it promoted when it went public in 2021.

Swifties love a puzzle, but some were rubbed the wrong way by a promotional scavenger hunt which appeared to use AI-generated videos.

Copyright holders will need to manually opt their characters out of OpenAI's Sora if they don't want them used in AI-generated videos.

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

The new deal covers output from four different solar projects. Microsoft has said it will spend $2.9 billion to expand its infrastructure in Japan.

The updates were part of a series of announcements geared towards wooing developers to OpenAI’s ecosystem, including the launch of an agent-building tool and the ability to build apps in ChatGPT. 

As Sora tops the App Store, MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' ability to make money.

OpenAI: You can use third-party apps like Spotify and Canva in ChatGPT

This Acer laptop just won Best Buy's Techtober sales event, sporting remarkably high specs for the price.

Woot has the Kindle Paperwhite on sale for only $100 ahead of October Prime Day, marking its best price ever. But there's a catch.

OpenAI’s latest move in the race to build massive data centers in the US shows it believes demand for AI will keep surging—even as skeptics warn of a bubble.

The move comes as Meta has been scaling back its creator payout programs over the past few years.

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, aka October Prime Day, takes place Oct. 7-8 in 2025. Mashable shopping experts are curating the top early deals.

“AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production, it is everything you need to build, deploy and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,” Sam Altman said Monday at OpenAI's Dev Day.  

OpenAI is launching a new way for developers to build applications that appear directly inside of ChatGPT's conversations.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday at Dev Day that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase of adoption among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments.  

Old rocket parts and decommissioned satellites are whizzing around in low Earth orbit, where they risk colliding with the ever-growing constellations of modern satellites being launched.

Here's everything you need to know about Meta’s Llama, from its capabilities and editions to where you can use it. We'll keep this post updated as Meta releases upgrades and introduces new dev tools to support the model's use.

Oracle fixes another security flaw that Clop hackers were using to steal sensitive personal information about executives as part of a mass-extortion campaign.

We're tracking all the best early Prime Big Deal Days sales on Dyson vacuums, air purifiers, and fans.

Sora 2, the highly realistic AI video generation app from OpenAI, is still perfecting its own safety features.

OpenAI, Jony Ive AI hardware faces reported delays

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break down some of the week's best stories, covering everything from Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist to the launch of OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video app.

Best Buy has the Apple AirPods Max on sale for $429.99 during its Techtober Sale to compete with October Prime Day.

Amazon added facial recognition, branded as “familiar faces,” to Ring cameras — sparking fresh privacy and consent concerns.

The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

Healthcare has a plastic problem, but Okosix thinks its bio-derived, biodegradable material can replace single-use plastics throughout the industry.

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons team back up with Yorgos Lanthimos for "Bugonia," about two conspiracy theorists who kidnap a CEO.

OpenAI's third developer conference is around the corner, and it's shaping up to be the company's biggest yet.

OpenAI is partnering with AMD to scale up its AI operation to the tune of six gigawatts over the coming years.

In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.

There's a pretty cool trick for clearing up your Gmail inbox's storage.

A 4-pack of Apple AirTags is on sale for $64.99 at Best Buy and Amazon as of Oct. 6, down from the normal price of $99. That's a 34% discount.

Everything you need to know about Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant that’s definitely not Alexa.

Instagram introduced a new Rings award that celebrates creative risk-takers with both digital and physical gold rings.