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ZDNET It happens like clockwork, around the first of each month. Sites that focus on technology churn out nearly identical articles, all based on a chart like this one, prepared by the good folks at Statcounter Global Stats.   Every month, tech bloggers try to turn a chart like this one into a story, but most of them miss what’s actually happening. Statcounter GS I saw that chart in dozens of posts this month, along with…

Nina Raemont/ZDNET What’s the deal?  Amazon is taking $30 off the Beats Solo Buds, cutting the price of the earbuds down to $50 ahead of Presidents’ Day.  ZDNET’s key takeaways The Beats Solo Buds are budget earbuds at $80 (and currently on sale for $30 less) and available to purchase now.  Their compact size, fun colors, and 18-hour battery life make them earbuds appealing to Beats devotees. Other earbuds offer features these earbuds lack —…

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET What’s the deal? The EcoFlow River 2 Max portable power station 499Wh variant is on sale for only $299, a $100 discount. Also: The 60+ best early Presidents’ Day tech deals live now: Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and more I love power stations. They’re the off-grid adventurer’s answer to the power bank. They’re a huge box of batteries that can charge USB devices and run gadgets that need AC power. But power stations…

ZDNET only writes about deals we want to buy — devices and products we desire, need, or would recommend. Our experts looked for deals that were at least 20% off (or are hardly ever on sale), using established price comparison tools and trackers to determine whether the deal is actually on sale and how frequently it drops.  We also looked over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The EcoFlow Delta Pro 3 battery generator is available now for $3,699 The Delta Pro 3 has a capacity of 4 kWh, can be used with other units for up to 12 kW output, and features wheels for easy transport The DP3 is very heavy, a factor buyers should consider if they plan to load it in and out of vehicles What’s the deal? The EcoFlow Delta Pro 3 power station is…

ZDNET Last fall, Apple TV+ came to Android and Google TV devices in a roundabout way when it became available as an add-on to Amazon Prime Video. However, according to Bloomberg, Apple may finally announce the official streaming support for Android phones as soon as today. Also: Apple is launching a giant new health study – here’s why and how to join The Apple TV app would likely be available in the Google Play Store for Android devices,…

Olemedia/Getty Images AI search engine Perplexity says its latest release goes above and beyond for user satisfaction — especially compared to OpenAI’s GPT-4o. On Tuesday, Perplexity announced a new version of Sonar, its proprietary model. Based on Meta’s open-source Llama 3.3 70B, the updated Sonar “is optimized for answer quality and user experience,” the company says, having been trained to improve the readability and accuracy of its answers in search mode.  Also: The billion-dollar AI…

AI-driven insights are part of the platform, designed to help customers better automate workload controls as well as help organizations improve energy efficiency by forecasting power usage and enabling enterprises to set thresholds to control costs and carbon emissions on a worldwide level, Satterthwaite said. The platform also includes new global map view that lets customers can identify server health issues across distributed IT environments more quickly. The systems support automated on-boarding that simplifies server set-up…

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Unlike conventional offerings that rely on intrusive methods or software agents, BlueField-3 DPUs function as a virtual security overlay. They inspect network traffic and safeguard host integrity without disrupting operations. Other packages rely on tapping devices to access network data, which helps create a map of interconnected devices. But these tools don’t offer the same level of detail about what’s happening at the node level. “The beauty of Nvidia BlueField is that it enables comprehensive…