Port your number to Metro by T-Mobile and get a brand-new Samsung Galaxy A37 for free, with Metro also waiving the activation fee (leaving $40 for the first month).
Jul 23, 2026 ·
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Six Netflix original films earned 18 Academy Awards nominations at the 2026 ceremony, winning seven including best animated feature and best original song for KPop Demon Hunters, best documentary short for All the Empty Rooms, and best live-action short for The Singers.
Jul 23, 2026 ·CNET
Nunchaku Lite lets Diffusers load SVDQuant-based “nunchaku” checkpoints via from_pretrained() (no custom pipeline or local CUDA compilation), cutting VRAM for a 1024×1024 ERNIE-Image-Turbo-nunchaku-lite NVFP4 run to about 12 GB vs about 24 GB for the BF16 pipeline while generating the image in about 1.7 seconds on an RTX 5090.
Jul 23, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Woot’s Summer of Gaming sale offers discounts up to 85% off games, hardware, and accessories through Aug. 24, with an extra GAMER20 coupon (20% off, capped at $40) valid only for Aug. 17.
Jul 22, 2026 ·CNET
Verizon and T-Mobile are offering up to $430 off Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 with qualifying trade-ins or new Watch Plan Plus 2.0 lines, which can make the 40mm Watch 9 free and the Ultra 2 cost less than $8–$1 per month after bill credits.
Jul 22, 2026 ·CNET
CNET lists promotions for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra that can knock up to $1,900 off the phones, including trade-in credits plus retailer or carrier perks.
Jul 22, 2026 ·CNET
Grabette is an open, low-cost handheld system that lets people record robot-manipulation demonstrations and automatically turn them into robot-ready LeRobot datasets in a browser, without a robot or teleoperation rig.
Jul 21, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Unicode Consortium approved nine new emoji on Sept. 16 that will roll out on devices in 2027, including a pickle emoji plus a cracking face, leftward and rightward thumb sign gestures, a monarch butterfly, a lighthouse, a meteor, an eraser, and a net with a handle.
Jul 20, 2026 ·CNET
Amazon and Best Buy are discounting Hisense TVs by up to $2,000 for fall/football season viewing, with deals starting around $400.
Jul 20, 2026 ·CNET
Microwaves are classified as non-ionizing radiation and “aren’t particularly mutagenic or carcinogenic,” and epidemiologic studies generally do not support a causal link between microwave oven use and cancer.
Jul 20, 2026 ·CNET
Roborock F25 XT wet-dry vacuum is on sale for $250 at Amazon (a $300 discount from $550, and an all-time low), but the Prime Day lightning deal ends tonight.
Jul 20, 2026 ·CNET
Knockoff, a free open-source browser extension, grays out or hides likely fake Amazon brands and can reach 100,000+ downloads since its early-July launch.
Jul 19, 2026 ·CNET
Air purifier use can help, but the article says the “most important thing” for indoor air quality is source control—reducing pollution sources first, then ventilating, and only relying on air purification when ventilation isn’t possible.
Jul 19, 2026 ·CNET
Eyebot’s kiosk vision test can produce a doctor-reviewed glasses prescription in about 90 seconds, with prescriptions typically sent to customers within 24 hours (the reporter received theirs in about 30 minutes).
Jul 19, 2026 ·CNET
Walmart is selling the Skullcandy Hesh 540 ANC wireless headphones for $50, down from about $159 (a $109 discount).
Jul 17, 2026 ·CNET
iOS 27 lets you roll back several disliked changes by adjusting settings for Liquid Glass transparency, Siri conversation retention (set to 30 Days or 1 Year instead of forever), Siri writing assistance, Siri activation (“Hey Siri” only), and automatic subtitles triggers.
Jul 17, 2026 ·CNET
Blink Outdoor 4 and Wired Doorbell 2K Plus bundle is $28 on Amazon, down $102 from $130 (78% off).
Jul 17, 2026 ·CNET
Filtered water can improve coffee taste by removing off-flavors and smells from municipal tap water that boiling alone doesn’t eliminate, such as metallic tang, mustiness, or hints of chlorine.
Jul 17, 2026 ·CNET
You can usually prevent major AI chatbots (Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, and X Grok) from using your data for model training by turning off specific “model improvement/training” settings and deleting existing chat conversations, but Meta has no guaranteed opt-out and may require submitting a form.
Jul 16, 2026 ·CNET
LG was named CNET People’s Picks’ overall winner for TV brands, with readers ranking it highest for picture quality (61.7% “Excellent” in bright rooms), fast-moving content (71% perfectly smooth), and OLED/QD-OLED preference (82.4% of LG owners).
Jul 15, 2026 ·CNET
