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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…

TCL/ZDNET The holidays are almost here, and it’s a great time to take advantage of deals on big-screen TVs. The 85-inch TCL Q65 is currently $600 off at Amazon — which means you can still snag a brand-new, big-screen TV for just $1,000.  An updated version of TCL’s mid-range TV, the Q65 offers support for both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos for improved picture quality and virtual surround sound to give you a more cinematic experience…

Amazon/ZDNET Amazon is offering a great deal on storage right now: When you buy a 1TB PNY CS900 internal SSD, you’ll get a 500GB SSD for free. The PNY CS900 is an internal SATA III SSD, which means it needs to be permanently installed in your PC or laptop. But what you sacrifice in portability, you make up for in versatility. With read and write speeds of up to 550 and 515MB/s, respectively, you can…

Lea Scaddan/Getty Images It’s no secret that X (formerly Twitter) has been in flux since Elon Musk took over the company. The platform has undergone a series of controversial changes, alienating users with each new decision. The most recent privacy shift, which allows blocked users to view your posts (though they can’t engage with you directly), has sent many of X’s most loyal users scrambling for the exits. Also: Cash App users have less than…

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images I’m no day trader. Back in the 1990s, I dabbled with Cocoa futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange using Globex. However, you may have noticed I’m not a commodity millionaire. Still, I know a thing or two about the stock market, and I think Perplexity AI, the rapidly growing AI company’s new finance-centric platform, Perplexity Finance, may be helpful to neophyte stock traders.  Also: Want a free year of Perplexity Pro? Here’s…

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Hot on the heels of Salesforce’s announcement last month of artificial intelligence agents for sales, Microsoft on Monday announced it will make ten agents available in Dynamics 365 for use in sales, customer service, finance, and supply chain operations. The company is also previewing an addition to its Copilot Studio development tool to let programmers make their own agents with hooks into proprietary corporate data. Also: Microsoft’s upgraded Copilot Studio…

Data management: Data management systems determine which data can be safely ignored, which data can be processed on site, and which should be passed along to more robust systems, either cloud or on-premises. Security and data privacy: Edge data centers constitute another attack surface that needs to be protected. IoT sensors themselves provide an entry point for hackers, and edge data centers might be situated in locations that don’t have dedicated IT/security professionals on site….

Ekaterina79/Getty Images Microsoft is conducting “AI tours” in 60 cities. These one-day events are designed to connect AI-curious business folk with Microsoft engineers and sales teams to help explore what Microsoft is calling the “AI-first company” and its enabling technology, Copilot. At Microsoft’s London stop today, the tech firm announced new features for Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents) designed to help companies build and deploy AI agents. Also: I’m a ChatGPT power user –…

Red Hat Well, that was fast. It was only back in early September that Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 1.0. Now, Red Hat has followed up by announcing the general availability of RHEL AI 1.2. This latest release introduces several key improvements aimed at streamlining the development, testing, and deployment of large language models (LLMs). Before jumping into what’s new and improved, here’s a bit about what RHEL AI brings. It’s…