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The deal includes both the Essential and Premium plans. If your plan to combat the post-summer blues is binge-watching TV shows, movies, and sports, Paramount Plus is offering a great deal. New and returning subscribers can save 50 percent on an annual subscription to its Paramount Plus Essential and Paramount Plus Premium plans until September … Read more

Real men use electric chainsaws in temperatures down to -25C (-13F). | Image: Bluetti Bluetti’s at IFA 2025 with the world’s first portable power station built around a sodium-ion battery, and a second, slim unit designed to mount next to the fridge to keep it running during a blackout. The Pioneer Na (get it? Na … Read more

Ecovacs’ latest mopping robovac may not need to take charging breaks while cleaning your home. The company says its new Deebot X11 Omnicyclone uses GaN-enabled fast charging to power up every time it returns to its base station for mop rinses, allowing it to keep cleaning without stopping to charge. The X11 Omnicyclone robovac comes … Read more

We’ve covered OpenAI on Decoder in several ways this summer, from how it’s navigating the AI talent wars to how people are starting to feel attached to ChatGPT. Next week, we’re airing a recent conversation I had with Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI’s board. But today, I want to zoom in on the battle … Read more

Govee has some colorful new ideas for how a light strip can decorate your home. Its latest, the Permanent Outdoor Lights Prism, puts three lights in every bulb along the strip, with a prism lens above them that’s designed to create three distinct or blended beams of light. The strip supports full color, and Govee … Read more

The Nxtpaper 5G Junior ships with a choice of blue or orange case included. TCL has been making its E Ink-inspired Nxtpaper phones for years, but it’s taken the company until now to realize that parents are a likely demographic for it. That’s finally been remedied with the Nxtpaper 5G Junior, a kids phone launching … Read more

The EnerGeek GT01 will be available in black or white color options. | Image: Baseus Baseus has announced a new accessory that can wirelessly charge a Qi2-compatible smartphone directly on an outlet, making it useful as a hands-free wall mount. It’s reminiscent of a similar wireless charger that Zens released last year, but Baseus’ new … Read more

Optical zoom takes on generative AI. In case you missed it last week among other big news items, Google shipped a phone camera with a zoom feature that uses generative AI. That’s right: the Pixel 10 Pro comes with AI right inside the camera app that cleans up otherwise crappy digital zoom images all the … Read more

Eight years after breaking every record with an $800, 7,541-piece Star Wars Millennium Falcon, the Lego Group is introducing its first $1,000 set. It’s an intricately detailed Death Star nearly two feet tall (52.3cm), a foot and a half wide (48cm) and over a foot (38.3cm) deep, with enough compartments to re-enact nearly every iconic … Read more

LinkedIn is trying to help put a stop to recruitment scams by requiring anyone with a recruitment-related job title to verify their place of employment. Executives will have to go through the same process, while company page verification is now rolling out more widely too. Existing recruiters won’t need to go through verification immediately, but … Read more

Adobe is bringing its video editor Premiere to iPhone, promising “pro-level” editing on the go for free. The app will launch later this month, with an Android version also under development. The Premiere app features a familiar multi-track timeline, with support for an unlimited number of video, audio, and text layers. There’s automatic captioning, 4K … Read more

Nvidia announced last month that it’s planning to upgrade its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to RTX 5080 GPUs. Now, we have a date for that upgrade: September 10th. The upgrade will allow GeForce Now subscribers to rent what’s effectively an RTX 5080 in the cloud, with a huge 48GB of memory and DLSS 4 support. Nvidia’s … Read more

PlayCube is a cross between a Rubik’s Cube and TARS. | Image: TCL TCL is not a brand that elicits desire, typically, yet here I am, looking at its IFA 2025 announcement of the PlayCube, wondering how a projector that pays homage to both a Rubik’s Cube and TARS can fit into my life. The … Read more

These could be the rough shapes of the Galaxy S26, S26 Edge, and S26 Ultra. At least one phone in Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 range may look a little different to what we were expecting, and a lot more like Apple’s iPhone 17 series. That’s going by a photo of dummy phones shared by leaker … Read more

Dia’s simplicity is neat, but its AI integration is the point. Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he’ll own the thing: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser … Read more

If the Miele Dreams grill is sorting dinner for you, that means there’s more time for socializing with friends and family. Luxury appliance manufacturer Miele is entering the outdoor cooking market with its new exterior kitchen range, which provides customizable modules and smart grilling capabilities. The “Dreams” modular outdoor kitchen introduced at IFA today includes … Read more

After years of unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC floating around on the internet, the software giant has released the code under an open-source license. 6502 BASIC was one of Microsoft’s first pieces of software, adapted in 1976 by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and early employee Ric Weiland to run on the 6502 CPU that … Read more

Huawei has announced the Mate XTs, its second-generation trifold phone, which is available to order now in China. It’s only a minor upgrade on the first edition, but comes with new colors, stylus support, and a slightly lower price tag. The biggest addition is the ability to use a stylus on the folding screen, though … Read more

Roborock is launching an updated Qrevo Curv robot vacuum that offers an impressive 25,000 Pa of suction power — topping the 18,500 Pa available with last year’s model. That’s not all that’s new with the Qrevo Curv 2 Pro, either, as the newly announced robovac comes with a dual-spinning mop system that automatically detaches before … Read more

Roborock, a company best known for its robovacs, is entering a new product category: robot lawnmowers. During the IFA 2025 tech conference, Roborock took the wraps off a trio of robot mowers, with its premium RockMow Z1 featuring an all-wheel drive system to handle steep slopes of up to 80 percent, or around 38.66 degrees. … Read more

If you’ve been eagerly awaiting Samsung’s long-teased trifold phone or Project Moohan XR headset, the company’s IFA launches may feel a little prosaic: an affordable spinoff of its flagship phone line, and a pair of Android tablets. The Galaxy S25 FE and Tab S11 series may not be Samsung’s most exciting launches of the year, … Read more

Take your pick from four color options. I’ve never been quite sure what to call the category Samsung’s Galaxy FE belongs to. Upper midrange? Midrange plus? Low flagship? Whatever we’re calling it, Samsung is bringing the concept back again this year in the Galaxy S25 FE, which continues to stand for Fan Edition. It’s still … Read more

Aeotec announced its Smart Home Hub 2 at the IFA tech show this week, marking the end of an era. The hub, produced in partnership with Samsung, is the fourth generation to support the SmartThings home automation platform, and the first without a Z-Wave radio. The Smart Home Hub 2 has twice the performance of … Read more

The coin-sized Work is designed to be discreet but includes LEDs that indicate when it’s recording. | Image: Anker Anker is the latest company to announce an AI-powered voice recorder designed to transcribe, summarize, and highlight important moments from a conversation or meeting. Its functionality is similar to what’s offered by devices like the Bee … Read more

An hour of direct sunlight can fully recharge the new Eufycam S4. | Image: Eufy Eufy, Anker’s smart home brand, has announced a new outdoor security solution with a stationary 4K wide-angle camera that can spot intruders and then trigger a pair of 2K cameras to pan, tilt, and zoom in to get a closer … Read more

Eufy’s MarsWalker can transport a robot vacuum up and down stairs. Who needs legs? Eufy, Anker’s smart home brand, believes it has solved the problem of how a single robot vacuum can clean multiple floors in your home. Its new MarsWalker robot is equipped with four arms to carry a vacuum between levels, so you … Read more

The Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro is a party on wheels. | Image: Anker Anker took its portable and incredibly bright Nebula X1 projector and jammed it into a 30 x 17 x 13.5-inch box with a 160W subwoofer to create the Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro. The resulting Google TV party projector — announced at IFA 2025 … Read more

Starting from the left: the Prime docking station, power bank, power bank with base, wall charger, and 3-in-1 bedside charger. | Image: Anker Just one week after EcoFlow launched the fastest 99Wh power bank yet, Anker is firing back at IFA 2025 with a souped-up portable battery of its own. Anker’s Prime Power Bank (26k, … Read more

Aqara’s smart home lineup announced at IFA. | Image: Aqara Aqara’s at IFA in Berlin where it just announced a slew of new smart home products, highlighted by a new wired doorbell camera, a video recording hub for Aqara cameras, and the company’s first battery-powered camera for outdoor use.  The new Doorbell Camera G400 is … Read more