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Adobe said it would offer $12 per share for Semrush, almost double the latter's closing price of $6.89 on Tuesday, before news of the deal.

When the ban goes into effect on December 10, Meta will revoke account access for users under the age of 16 in Australia.

Spotify new features will showcase who's behind your favorite songs, how music is connected, and what inspired the tunes.

Onepot AI is a a company that is home to the small-molecule synthesis lab POT-1.

In the face of heavy travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, the United States announced that soccer fans going to the World Cup will enjoy a certain priority for processing tourist visa.

OpenAI is pushing deeper into retail, with Target set to debut a new ChatGPT-powered app for shoppers. The app is launching in beta next week.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released documents showing he was close friends with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released documents showing he was close friends with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This new real-time interpreter can change your language while cloning your voice—sort of.

The automaker has taken the covers off its Cayenne Electric and Cayenne Turbo Electric, the most powerful production Porsches ever. But it won’t confirm a key AI feature of its first fully electric SUV.

Guardio is leveraging its experience building browser extensions and apps that scan for malicious and phishing sites to build a tool that looks for artifacts in code and websites made with vibe coding tools.

Find the best early Black Friday TV deal. The 65-inch TCL QM6K QLED TV is on sale for $497.99 at Amazon.

Mr. Summers’ departure from the artificial intelligence company’s board followed revelations of his communications with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Hinge's latest report states there's a communication gap, especially between straight men and women.

Kaaj announced on Wednesday a $3.8 million seed round from Kindred Ventures and Better Tomorrow Ventures.  

Harder, better, faster, modular. This truly amazing pro-tier controller can be finessed to do just about anything. But it will cost you.

Commerce Department proposes TP-Link router ban over Chinese security risks. Learn how this potential prohibition could affect your home network and devices.

Google has launched Gemini 3, the company's "most intelligent" LLM yet.

Get the best early Black Friday portable power station deal. As of Nov. 19, the EF EcoFlow Delta 3 Ultra portable power station is discounted to $1,598.99 at Amazon for Prime members.

Lovable CEO Anton Osika said he credits ignoring advice to move to Silicon Valley for the AI coding company's success.

The Relay app allows users to track their porn-free streaks and get group support. Its creators say they’re taking a stand against porn and AI erotica.

As of Nov. 19, the Samsung 75-Inch Neo QLED 4K QN80F TV has been discounted to $1,497.99 at Amazon ahead of Black Friday. This is 29% off its list price and its lowest-ever price.

"Stranger Things" stars Joe Keery and Gaten Matarazzo appeared on BBC Radio One and cold called their famous friends.

From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot?

Apple has retired the Mac's Launchpad, a feature that displayed all your apps and let you quickly pick the one you want to open. You can recreate the app launcher using these alternatives.

'Kirby Air Riders' has one neat mode surrounded by a whole lot of nothing.

As of Nov. 19, Pokémon TCG White Flare Booster Bundle is down to market value at Amazon.

Find the best TV deal ahead of Black Friday. Save 43% on the Insignia 50-inch Class F50 at Amazon.

Jimmy Kimmel has reacted to footage of Trump saying "quiet piggy" to Bloomberg's White House Correspondent Catherine Lucey on Air Force One.

As of Nov. 19, Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Booster Bundle can be free providing you qualify for this offer.

We compare the best Sony headphones and earbuds, from the new flagship Sony XM6 headphones to the affordable WH-CH720. Here's what's worth grabbing on Black Friday.

As of Nov. 19, Amazon's offering three months free of an Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan for new subscribers.

The Wacom One 14 is the brand's latest tablet, and it's an excellent beginner model for those new to digital art.

Over the last 10 months, President Trump has become close with Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, as the company’s chips have become a tool in trade and peace talks.

The Kinhank Super X2 is a retro gaming console with 70,000+ classic games pre-loaded, and it's only $89.97.

Microsoft has incorporated Copilot into Windows 11 and promises to transform it into a truly "agentic OS." Here's how to remove Copilot from your Windows laptop.

What is camelcamelcamel? Mashable's senior shopping reporter explains how to use the price tracker to find the lowest prices at Amazon.

Schools in the US are installing vape-detection tech in bathrooms to thwart student nicotine and cannabis use. A new investigation reveals the impact of using spying to solve a problem.

This 16GB RAM MacBook Pro normally costs $1,999, but now it's only $440.

Answers to each clue for the November 19, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Find the best iPad deal over Black Friday. Save over $70 on the iPad Pro M5 at Amazon.

Get the best gaming deal ahead of Black Friday. Save 38% on the Samsung 40-inch Odyssey G7 at Amazon.

The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 electric cooler stays chilled for days and it works as a portable power station.

Find the best Lego deal ahead of Black Friday. Save 41% on the Lego Harry Potter Mandrake Figure & Pot Plant Toy at Amazon.

As of Nov. 19, a new Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolutions Premium Figure Collection is dropping at multiple retailers, here's where and when to get it.

The Pennsylvania site, shorthand for the dangers of nuclear power after a 1979 meltdown, is set for revival under a deal to power Microsoft data centers.

Cloudflare has explained what caused its outage on Nov. 18, which prevented access to sites and services like X and ChatGPT.

Get 15% off functional, fashionable umbrellas with our exclusive Shed Rain discount code.

TikTok is adding new digital wellbeing tools like an affirmation journal, a background sound generator, and badges for using the app within limits

TikTok is testing a feature to control how much AI-generated content users see on the platform.

TikTok's other new well-being features include soothing sounds and breathing exercises.

With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.

On Wednesday, Emm, based in the UK, announced a $9 million seed (£6.8 million) round led by Lunar Ventures as it prepares to officially launch the smart menstrual cup in 2026.  

Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

See the moon phase expected for November 19, 2025 as well as when the next full moon is expected.

Short answer: You definitely need some. Long Answer:

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.

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" #1613 on November 19 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.

The Jeep Recon, an all-electric SUV with an estimated 250 miles of range, is here, and I couldn’t be more surprised. Here’s why. Three years ago, Jeep unveiled how it was reshaping its portfolio with the launch of three EVs — two of which were bound for the North American market by 2024. The all-electric […]

A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.

Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.

Amazon-owned Zoox deploys its autonomous cars in San Francisco, following the launch of a select service in Las Vegas.

Constellation Energy will use the loan to refurbish a reactor it idled in 2019. Microsoft has agreed to buy the power once the facility reopens in 2028.

Taking a page from Big Tech, legacy industries, and their U.S. peers, European tech companies are increasingly learning to lobby for themselves.

As of Nov. 18, get the 45-inch LG Ultragear gaming monitor for its lowest price yet.

The 55-inch LG Class B4 Series OLED 4K TV is on sale at Walmart for $698, down from the normal price of $1,099.99. That's a 37% discount.

Get lifetime access to the AdGuard Family Plan for just $18.97 with code FAMPLAN through Nov. 20 and protect all your devices from ads, trackers, and phishing.

Get lifetime access to the 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan for $74.97 (reg. $540) and use all the top AI models in one unified platform.

To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.

Tesla received a ride-hailing permit this week from Arizona regulators, opening the door for the automaker to begin operating a robotaxi service in the state. A spokesperson with Arizona Department of Transportation told TechCrunch the automaker applied for a Transportation Network Company permit on November 13.  Tesla has met the requirements to operate as a […]

Why do huge portions of the internet keep going down? We have an answer.

Federal judge rules against FTC in Meta antitrust case.

Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue says all the attention is on LLMs, but smaller, specialized models will make sense in many use cases going forward.

Mashable's senior shopping reporter (and laptop expert) rounds up the best early Black Friday laptop deals across retailers like Amazon and Best Buy.

As of Nov. 18, the Shark FlexStyle is down to $199.99, saving you $130. That brings the hair styler down to its lowest price ever.

Lambda's new raise was a solid beat over the amount that deal-watchers say it was hoping to hit.

Lambda's new raise was a solid beat over the amount that deal-watchers say it was hoping to hit.

The Cloudflare CTO has apologized for the massive number of outages on Tuesday.

Thanksgiving can be daunting. Meal kit boxes from Sunbasket and Blue Apron offer the satisfaction of making a home-cooked feast with a lot less stress.

A federal judge ruled that Meta is not a monopoly in lawsuit with the FTC.

The lawsuit is the latest problem to crop up for the startup.

Pick up a new Meta headset, Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, and pocket a $50 gift card in the process.

Some of the season's best Advent calendars are already on sale ahead of Black Friday. Pick up popular gifts from Kiehl's, Lego, Bloomingdales, and Sephora.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sounds the alarm over trillion-dollar AI bubble, saying that "no company is going to be immune, including us" if the bubble bursts.

From runaway robots to “sonic bombs,” we reviewed offbeat alarm clocks designed to awaken even the heaviest sleepers.

Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.

The investment follows an announcement last week that Toyota will spend up to $10 billion over the next five years in the United States.

Early Black Friday robot vacuum deals are slow in 2025, but the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller and Narwal Freo Z10 Ultra are at record-low pricing.

As of Nov. 18, get the Apple Watch Series 11 for its lowest price yet.

Kristen Stewart makes her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, starring Imogen Poots.

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

Spotify Premium is offering free four-month trials to new users through Dec. 31, which is about $48 in savings.

Quora's AI platform Poe now lets users engage in group chats with up to 200 people across AI models and bots.

Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, and Colman Domingo co-star in Jon M. Chu's Broadway adaptation's final chapter.

Venture funds have longer timelines than anyone planned for, compelling LPs to rip up and rebuild their allocation models.

Sphere helps automate registration, calculation, filing, and remittance obligations for companies.

Meta launched a new Facebook Reels tool that helps eligible creators protect their original content from being reposted without permission.

Hyundai AutoEver America suffered a data breach affecting 2,000 current and former employees, exposing names, Social Security numbers and driver's license information.

The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.

In a year that again saw AI assistants and tools climb the app store charts over and over, it's interesting to see a timer that helps you disconnect from your tech winning Google's highest app award.

Maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the attention of Google’s competitors. Will it put the company at the top of the A.I. leaderboard?

Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search interface.

Microsoft still sees AI agents as the future of work, and the enterprise software giant wants companies to be able to manage those agents just like human employees.

Gemini 3 is skilled at reasoning, generating video, and writing code. Amid talk of an AI bubble, Google notes the new model could help increase search revenue too.

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NFL Sunday Ticket is on sale for just $48 for the rest of the season. That's 68% cheaper than its current list price.

The Narwal Freo Z10 robot vacuum and mop combo is on sale at Amazon for $649.99, down from the normal price of $1,099.99. That's a 41% discount.

As of Nov. 18, get the DJI Mic Mini for its lowest price yet.

Can't load your latest podcast episode? A major Cloudflare outage is affecting websites, including Apple Podcasts.

Users who tried to log into ChatGPT on Nov. 18 were met with this error message: "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed."

Agentio, which matches creators with brands, is expanding beyond YouTube and testing Meta platforms to facilitate sponsored content.

Starting Tuesday, users can voluntarily undergo the age-check process to secure access to communication features.