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HTG Wrapped 2025: 24 days of tech 24 days of our favorite hardware, gadgets, and tech OnePlus has always been at the forefront of zippy Android flagship phones—and the OnePlus 15 is no different. It’s one of the first Android smartphones on the market with the powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, which will likely appear in many other Android flagships, including Samsung devices, starting in 2026. If you want to get a head start on this powerful new chip, the OnePlus 15 is your phone. The phone pairs the 8 Elite Gen 5 with 12 GB LPDDR5X Ultra or…

A lot of recipes start with telling you to move the oven rack or racks to specific levels. Why? Because it matters! You probably found out the hard way that an oven isn’t a giant box of equalized heat. Parts of it run hotter than others. The middle rack is reliable and moderate. The bottom rack is intense yet finicky. As for the top rack, give it the wrong job, and it’ll render your recipe into carbon. Think of those heat zones as assets, not liabilities. Used wisely, the top rack will deliver standout results: gloriously bubbling casseroles, browned peaks…

[Submitted on 17 Dec 2025] View a PDF of the paper titled Image Complexity-Aware Adaptive Retrieval for Efficient Vision-Language Models, by Mikel Williams-Lekuona and Georgina Cosma View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Vision transformers in vision-language models apply uniform computational effort across all images, expending 175.33 GFLOPs (ViT-L/14) whether analysing a straightforward product photograph or a complex street scene. We propose ICAR (Image Complexity-Aware Retrieval), which enables vision transformers to use less compute for simple images whilst processing complex images through their full network depth. The key challenge is maintaining cross-modal alignment: embeddings from different processing depths must remain compatible for text…

LG is teaming up with Dolby for a new collection of speakers that the companies are unveiling ahead of CES 2026. The LG Sound Suite features a modular lineup the H7 soundbar, M7 and M5 wireless surround speakers and the W7 subwoofer. The speakers can be combined in more than two dozen different configurations, from a pair to a full 13.1.7 channel surround sound home theater setup.The main pitch of the LG Sound Suite is its application of Dolby Atmos FlexConnect. This is the audio brand’s tech for optimizing sound from wherever wireless speakers are placed. It’s meant to deliver…

Right now, Apple TV+ is getting a lot of attention for airing Pluribus, which is quickly becoming everyone’s new nerdy obsession. But Pluribus is far from the only sci-fi show that’s thriving over there. Between Severance, Silo, For All Mankind, and more, it’s clear that the people at Apple TV+ love throwing money at sci-fi TV, and not every project they make gets the attention it deserves. For instance, the first season of a sci-fi comedy show called Murderbot aired this past summer, and now that the year is almost over, it’s time to give the series its flowers. Murderbot…

Still, if you still feel some trepidation, you can always use the finger guards that come with them. Some people, professional chefs and home cooks alike, think that these guards feel clumsy, so instead, we recommend buying a pair of cut-resistant gloves to use with your mandoline. These allow you to grip your produce and wield it as you’d like, all the while protecting your hands from the blade.NoCry Cut Resistant GlovesHow we tested mandolinesMost importantly, we took every mandoline mentioned in this story for a thorough test drive. We sliced (or tried to slice) through produce with a variety…

In this new era of generative AI technology, searchers have begun to swap keywords with prompts. Shorter and long-tail queries are being replaced by more conversational prompts, which tend to be longer and more in-depth. These days, searchers are expecting more complete answers than a paginated list of results. Until we get an AI-specific equivalent of Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools, we can’t really see for certain what or how our audience is behaving on AI search platforms as they look for our content, brands or products. However, we can still look for proxies to emulate how this…

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles could temporarily halt sales of Tesla vehicles in the state. This possibility arises after a judge ruled against the company for making misleading claims about its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features. Based on the decision, the DMV is giving Tesla 60 days to take action on how it describes its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features to consumers.  “If Tesla fails to address the issue, after 60 days it will be subject to the 30-day suspension of its dealer license,” the DMV said in a news release. Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five years ago. In that time, NASA’s most advanced rover to date, which is about the size of a small car, has traveled almost 25 miles (40 kilometers) while all the time conducting science research and collecting soil samples for return to Earth. In a new video (top) released on Wednesday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which overseas the space agency’s Mars missions, has shared footage captured by Perseverance’s two navigation cameras (navcams) as it completed a drive of 1,350.7 feet (411.7…

Seven months after Google teased “personal context” for AI Mode at Google I/O, Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of Knowledge and Information, says the feature still is not ready for a public rollout. In an interview with the AI Inside podcast, Fox framed the delay as a product and permissions issue rather than a model-capability issue. As he put it: “It’s still to come.” What Google Promised At I/O At Google I/O, Google said AI Mode would “soon” incorporate a user’s past searches to improve responses. It also said you would be able to opt in to connect other Google apps,…