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is a special kind of small talk, typically observed in office spaces around a water cooler. There, employees frequently share all kinds of corporate gossip, myths, legends, inaccurate scientific opinions, indiscreet personal anecdotes, or outright lies. Anything goes. In my Water Cooler Small Talk posts, I discuss strange and usually scientifically invalid opinions that I, my friends, or some acquaintance of mine have overheard in the office that have literally left us speechless. So, here’s the water cooler opinion of today’s post: AI is a bubble, just like the dot-com bubble of the turn of the millennium. It has no…
Dell’s official Black Friday deals start at 8 a.m. ET on November 28. Set your alarm to make sure you take advantage of the chance to save on Dell and Alienware laptops, desktops, monitors, and more, for a limited time. Here are a few discounts we’re really excited about: *Offers accurate at time of publication and subject to change. Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Subscribe Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand
The November sales season is the best time of year to pick up one of the best phones, with retailers and mobile networks offering Black Friday-specific SIM-free and contract deals, respectively.• Shop Amazon’s full Black Friday saleAmazon, for instance, is currently offering the budget-friendly iPhone 16e for just £499 (was £599), while at Sky, you can grab 40GB of data for just £10 per month, which can be applied to all of the best iPhones and best Android phones.I’m TechRadar’s Phones Editor, and below, I’ve detailed these Black Friday phone deals and many more, to help you snag the biggest…
Ready to change the way you organize your life? These Black Friday deals on the Cozyla Calendar+ 2 and the Cozyla Calendar+ Go have your back. Lock down scheduling, chores, meal planning, and so much more by upgrading to or gifting a Cozyla AI-powered smart calendar. *Offers accurate at time of publication and subject to change. Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Subscribe Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand
Salt can help mitigate the harsh bitterness caused by over-extraction, making a poorly brewed cup of coffee slightly more palatable, though it cannot fully correct major brewing errors.While salt offers a unique way to adjust coffee’s flavor, traditional methods like cream and sugar remain equally effective for achieving a gentler, more rounded cup. There are as many ways to drink coffee as there are coffee drinkers. Are you among the fringe group who prefers to add a pinch of salt to their coffee? Whether in the grounds or as an add-in to the final cup, coffee-salters are out there—in fable…
Adobe just paid $1.9 billion for Semrush. Not for the LLM tracking dashboards. For the platform, the customer relationships, and the distribution. Contrast: Investors poured $227 million into AI visibility tracking. Most of that went to tracking dashboards. The companies shipping outputs from agentic SEO raised a third of that. Adobe’s acquisition proves dashboards were never the point. Investors chased LLM monitoring because it looked like easy SaaS, but the durable value sits in agentic SEO tools that actually ship work. Why? Because agentic SEO goes beyond the traditional SEO tooling setup, and offers SEO professionals and agencies a completely…
Apple’s AirPods 4 have dropped back down to a record low price in a Black Friday deal on Amazon. If you aren’t looking for active noise cancellation, the model without ANC is a steal at 47 percent off, bringing it down to just $69 from its usual price of $130.The Apple AirPods 4 are the best budget AirPods you can get in 2025, with Apple’s H2 audio chip to support some of the more advanced audio features from more expensive models.AppleThey offer Voice Isolation, Personalized Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking and more. If you get the model without active…
November, you had a good run, but now it’s time for December to take it from here and ride the year off into the sunset. And speaking of sunsets, Hulu has a swath of titles leaving the service you should check out before they’re gone. You see, Hulu doesn’t own every movie or TV show that it streams, many of them are licensed by other studios for certain periods of time. And when those licenses expire, it’s time for them to go, likely finding their way to other streaming services like Netflix or Prime Video. We’ve already covered off all…
Thanksgiving dinner at my Aunt Mimi’s house is a holiday tradition that never gets old. Every year, 18 of us gather around her table with hungry bellies for a four-course feast: antipasto, cavatelli with my mom’s homemade sauce and meatballs, the turkey with all the accoutrements, and a variety of decadent pies and cookies for dessert. Then, we extend Turkey Day all weekend long with leftovers. The day after Thanksgiving, my family and I head to Maple Row Farm, the most adorable place to cut down your very own balsam fir. The day is filled with tailgating and sipping spiced…
Black Friday deals alert: Black Friday is finally here, which means it’s time to go get your shop on and savor all the discounts. We’re especially excited about some of the biggest savings you can score right now on products we’ve tested and loved, including this security camera. The two-camera bundle for the Blink Outdoor 4 is currently $70, which is an impressive $180 off the original list price. That’s a massive discount on a device that won a CNET Editors’ Choice Award. Plus, its long-lasting rechargeable batteries save you even more money. CNET’s key takeaways The Blink Outdoor 4 security…