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If you’re not spending all of your money pre-ordering the new iPhone 16 Pro Max or grabbing a pair of Apple’s latest AirPods 4, here are some of the best tech deals available this week. We found everything from a 70-inch 4K TV for less than $430, Google’s Pixel 8 Pro with a $375 discount, and other gear you won’t want to miss. Hisense 70-inch 4K ULED Roku TV for $428 ($50 Off) Hisense 70-inch Roku TV (70R6E4) Get the stunning Hisense 70-inch Roku 4K Smart TV and enjoy a big picture, vivid colors, and crisp details on all your favorite movies, TV shows, or sports....

Between tax season, the Super Bowl, and Presidents' Day all coming up, we’re starting to see a big influx of deals and discounts on our favorite tech gadgets. Score a stunning Mini-LED TV for the big game, portable chargers for your travels, booming headphones, and more at the links below. Hisense U7N 65-inch Mini-LED TV for $698 ($302 Off) Hisense U7N The Hisense U7N is an affordable TV that packs tons of specs, impressive brightness, and all the gaming features you’ll need, including a high refresh rate screen and HDMI 2....

The interim version of Ubuntu Linux released in October of last year will soon get its last security update. That means, if you’re running Ubuntu 24.10, it’s time to start considering your upgrade path. Canonical has said that Ubuntu 24.10, nicknamed “Oracular Oriole” is going to be considered to have reached “End of Life” on July 26, 2025. That means no more updates of any kind, so your device’s security and overall stability will be at risk if you keep using Oracular Oriole beyond the 10th....

Summary Having a router in your house makes perfect sense, but what about a router that goes with you wherever you are? That’s what a travel router is, and you may be surprised how useful one of these little network gadgets can be when you’re away from home. Travel Routers Are Tiny The defining feature of a travel router is surely its diminutive size. These little routers are usually small enough to sit on top of your palm, though there’s still a range of sizes within this tiny niche....

Quick Links Summary Keystone correction is a feature in projectors that helps achieve a perfect rectangular image even when the projector isn’t aligned perpendicularly to the projection surface. It offers flexibility in projector placement and easy setup, especially with automatic keystone correction. Achieving the perfectprojectorimage can be a challenge. That’s where keystone correction comes in, a feature that ensures your image is displayed correctly. In this article, we’ll explore keystone distortion, how keystone correction works, and why it’s so important....

Summary If you have a pair of AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation (ANC), you can use Adaptive mode and noise canceling to reduce loud sounds. So can AirPods protect your hearing? The answer is complicated. Can AirPods Really Protect Your Hearing? Adaptive Audio blends transparency andnoise cancellationon both AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 (ANC) models. Apple has designed the feature to reduce the volume of loud sounds while maintaining clarity....

Summary Sound matters. Among the many labels you’ll encounter when setting up a soundbar or home theater, “ARC” and “eARC” are sure to pop up. But what do they actually mean, and why should you care? HDMI ARC Revolutionized Audio Transmission in Early Home Theaters HDMI ARC, short for Audio Return Channel, is a feature introduced in 2009 that makes it easier to connect your TV to a compatible soundbar, AV receiver, or sound system using just one HDMI cable....

Summary With Apple taking Mac gaming more seriously than it ever has before, it’s tempting to speculate about what a Mac designed for gaming would look like. Personally, I’d rather not. I Want Mac Gaming to Improve Across the Board Apple has done a lot of work to get Mac gaming into its current state. We’ve seenbig advancements like the Game Porting Kit, a developer tool to make launching games on macOS easier....

With security cameras that exist in a constantly-connected world, the occasional bug or vulnerability is bound to strike sometimes. With something that’s constantly recording inside or outside your house, though, the thought of a vulnerability striking your security cameras is really, really creepy. After all, if someone were to get into your cameras, they could have a look inside your house. Now, though, it looks like that’s exactly what’s happening toWyzeusers, as some have reported seeing live feeds from other people’s cameras....

Summary Windows handhelds like the ROG Ally have specs that put the Steam Deck to shame, but are let down by Windows being terrible as a handheld operating system. So, what if you could have the best of both worlds? Bazzite Brings a SteamOS-Like Experience to Windows Handhelds Bazziteis a special version of Linux that was designed from the ground up for gaming. It’s based on Fedora Linux, and uses the Universal Blue platform to manage, update, and distribute the operating system images....

Summary Using a hash symbol (#)—also known as a spilled range operator—in an Excel formula is a way to tell the program to consider all results in a spilled range. As a result, even if the spilled range grows or shrinks, the formula containing the # will automatically reflect this change. You can only take advantage of Excel’s spilled range operator if you’re using Excel for Microsoft 365 on Windows or Mac....

Quick Links Picture this—your manager has asked you for this year’s key figures. You have lots of tabs in your Excel workbook, but there’s so much data for you to trawl through to get what you need. The best way to get around this is to have a dashboard containing all the important information in chart form. Step 1: Plan Ahead You might think that a dashboard showingeverybit of data is the way forward, but the whole point of a dashboard is to summarizekeyinformation (such as key performance indicators, or KPIs) so you can analyze it at a glance....

A new blog post from the OSL explains, “Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While the Oregon State College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes in university funding makes our current funding model no longer sustainable. As a result, our current funding model is no longer sustainable.” The Open Source Lab has operated for 22 years as hosting infrastructure for variousopen software projects, in partnership with Oregon State University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science....