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Nina Raemont/ZDNET What’s the deal?  Training for a marathon in 2025? The Nothing Ear Open is still on sale for $60 less than its asking price of $189 after Presidents’ Day. That means you can get these impeccable open earbuds that I’ve run many miles in for $129 right now.  Also: The best Presidents’ Day deals still live ZDNET’s key takeaways The Nothing Ear Open is the design-forward brand’s first open earbuds, available now for a discounted…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET The Dyson Airwrap may be the most viral hair styling tool, with videos of the tool going viral years after launching. I was influenced by social media and asked for it as a Christmas gift two years ago. So, I am sure you want to know if the Dyson Airwrap was worth it. Simply put, two years later, it is still one of my most reached-for hair tools, having just used it last…

Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images Just weeks into its new-found fame, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is moving at breakneck speed, toppling competitors and sparking axis-tilting conversations about the virtues of open-source software.  Also: US sets AI safety aside in favor of ‘AI dominance’ However, numerous security concerns have surfaced about the company, prompting private and government organizations to ban the use of DeepSeek. Here’s what you need to know. Founded by Liang Wenfeng in May 2023 (and thus…

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Presidents’ Day may have come and gone, but the discounts continue during this post-holiday period. OnePlus is offering a killer deal for the OnePlus Open. By buying the smartphone from its official digital store, you’ll receive the OnePlus Buds Pro 3 as a free gift. The earbuds come in one of three colors: Midnight Opus (black), Lunar Radiance (white), or Sapphire (blue). Additionally, if you enter the code “SPRINGDEAL” at checkout, you shave…

Marc Piasecki/Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI, the startup that owns the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform and builds AI models, unveiled its latest innovation, Grok 3, on Monday. This AI model challenges the best from OpenAI in reasoning and other tasks.  The unveiling follows Musk’s hostile bid for OpenAI, Inc., the non-profit that controls OpenAI, last week. Musk released a statement about the bid, saying “It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source,…

Getty Images / NurPhoto / Contributor Elon Musk was an investor in OpenAI when it was founded in 2015. Since then, he’s completely severed his ties with the startup, alleging the company has departed from its original non-profit mission. He created his own AI company, xAI, and with it, a large language model (LLM) called Grok. Now, the company has launched a new model, Grok 3, which is soaring to the top of the chatbot…

JBL/ZDNET If you’ve been looking to upgrade your home audio this winter, this soundbar from JBL has excellent audio quality for music and movies and is on sale.  Also: The best Presidents’ Day deals still available You can still get the JBL Bar 700 for 17% off at Amazon even after Presidents’ Day. While it’s usually a steep price of $900, this deal sets the price of this speaker set to just $750.  The JBL Bar…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Nearly everything you do on your desktop, laptop, phone, and tablet begins with a Domain Name System (DNS) query. Essentially, DNS turns domain names (such as ZDNET.com) into an IP address so web browsers and apps know where to get the information you want.  Also: I tried a new anti-stress browser to see if it could really help me relax – and it actually works Without DNS, you’d have to type 34.149.132.124 every…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google is set to release the Pixel 9a, and WinFuture has released a fairly detailed look at this new device. The Pixel 9a will measure 6.09 x 2.89 x .35 inches, sport a 6.3-inch display with a resolution of 2424 x 1080 and a 120 Hz refresh rate and a 5100 mAh battery, and weigh 188g (which is less than the Pixel 8a), according to the leak.  Also: The iPhone SE 4 this…