NETWORKING

SOPA Images/Getty Images You have a little more than a week to take advantage of an offer for a free year of Perplexity Pro, and now you have another incentive to sweeten the deal.  Subscribing to Uber One for $9.99 per month gets you several benefits: no delivery fees for grocery and food orders, 6% Uber cash on eligible rides, restaurant discounts, and more. Now, there’s one more benefit — free access to an AI-powered…

Artie Beaty/ZDNET What’s the deal? The GE Profile Opal 2.0 nugget ice maker is on sale for $499 in the Black Stainless colorway — that’s $50 off the usual price.  Why this deal is ZDNET-recommended The GE Profile Opal 2.0 nugget ice maker is a smart kitchen appliance that sells for $599.  If you want those satisfyingly munchable ice pellets often served at fast food restaurants, this machine will do the trick. It’s also operable…

Stack Social If you live near a BJ’s Wholesale Club and have been thinking about buying a membership, now is a great time: New members can buy an annual membership for just $20 (reg. $55) through this Stack Social deal — saving you 63%. Not only that, if you sign up through this deal, you’ll get a $20 store credit reward back when you spend $60 in your first 30 days — essentially making your…

Space Black MacBook Pro (M3 Max) running MacOS Sonoma wallpaper Jason Hiner/ZDNET Finding a good deal on a laptop on Amazon can be tricky. They’re often sold out, or the discount is so minimal that you might as well pay full price. Luckily, I stumbled across a great deal on the 2023 Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max, and I’d like to share it with you. Also: MacBook Pro (M3 Max) review: Apple’s pro AI laptop is…

ZDNET’s key takeaways This ESR car charger supports the Qi2 standard, allowing it to power up at 15W. The CryoBoost fan helps to keep your iPhone cool when charging. You do have to supply your own 12V USB-C car charger. Do you need to charge your iPhone in the car but are frustrated by having cables everywhere or finding that wireless charging is slow or causes overheating? If this sounds like what you need, ESR…

The A17 Pro chip in the iPhone 15 Pro has six GPU cores, but the same chip in the new iPad Mini only has five. Why? Apple Chip manufacturing is a sophisticated engineering process that produces CPUs and GPUs by arranging tracks and transistors on a nanometer scale. However, not all chips are created equal; variations in silicon material and manufacturing processes lead to differences in performance. Following manufacturing, each chip undergoes rigorous testing for…

Samsung/ZDNET Whether you’re a console or PC gamer, your display can make or break your gaming experience. The Samsung Odyssey Ark is a 55-inch, curved gaming monitor designed to be the ultimate display for hardcore gamers and content creators alike. And right now, you can save $1,000 on one at Best Buy — that’s a sizable 33% off.  The 55-inch screen uses a mini-LED panel to create brilliant colors and bold contrast. It features a…

“The message I got from the survey was that customers are operating in a world where there’s a massive proliferation of products, or applications, and that’s really translating into complexity. Complexity is equal to risk, and that complexity is happening in multiple places,” said Extreme Networks CTO Nabil Bukhari. Complexity is an interesting topic because it changes, Bukhari said. The first Ford cars were basically just an engine with brakes, but they were complicated to…

Onson/ZDNET The Onson 2-in-1 robot vacuum features both vacuum and mop functions to help clean pet hair and dirt. If you’ve had your eye on a robot vacuum but held off because of the price, you can save $250 on the Onson 2-in-1 robot vacuum right now at Walmart with this deal, bringing the price down to just $110. When you download the companion app, you’ll be able to set cleaning schedules, start and stop…