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ZDNET’s key takeaways The Lenovo Tab Plus retails for $330, but is frequently on sale. Contrary to its small size, the model houses a booming eight-speaker system and a long-lasting battery. The MediaTek Helio chipset and dim display won’t be winning any awards. more buying choices The Lenovo Tab Plus received a $130 discount, bringing it to an even more accessible $220 price point. If you’re in the market for a new tablet that won’t break…

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET The first time I used an anti-reflective display on a personal device was last year when I reviewed the Galaxy S24 Ultra. I was amazed by the quality-of-life improvements it brought to my daily use — and I wanted to see it on more devices. Therefore, I wasn’t too pleased when Apple priced its nano-textured iPad Pro out of budget by limiting it to the 1TB variant.  I wanted a flagship iPad with an…

A Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED monitor.  Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Whether you’re a PC gamer looking to upgrade your setup or prefer ultra-wide screens for productivity, you can grab the Samsung Odyssey G9 49-inch curved gaming monitor for $500 off right now when you buy directly from Samsung. This brings the price of this high-end ultra-wide screen to just $800, and if you hurry, you can get a 27-inch Samsung Odyssey G55C for free to use as…

Cliff Joseph/ZDNET Whether you’re an engineer working with sensitive design data or want to keep your data from falling into the wrong hands, you must invest in an encrypted hard drive. And right now at Amazon, you can save $80 on the 2TB Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 portable SSD. Also: The best external hard drives you can buy: Expert tested Current price: $290 Regular price: $370 The Kingston IronKey Vault 80 portable SSD features…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Flow Mini 2 by Sharge is on sale at Amazon for $23.90. It’s a compact portable charger with two ways to charge your devices, and it fits on phones with bulky cases. Its smaller size relegates to smartphone use, not larger devices I own a lot of power banks, but I’m drawn to big, bulky, industrial-looking ones. It’s not often that something dainty, and dare I say, stylish catches my eye….

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is available for $1,100 but currently $250 off. This cooler works as a portable mini-fridge, with dual-zone cooling and the capacity to freeze or refrigerate. The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is bulky and heavy, and it only comes with one battery so you have to purchase the second to reach the full 3.2 day capacity. more buying choices The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 58L electric cooler is…

Value private cloud’s financial visibility and predictability: 90% Report some level of waste on public cloud spend: 94% Believe more than 25% of their public cloud spend is wasted: 49% “Pretty much all of them believe that some of their spend, if not a majority of their spend, is wasted in public cloud. When you look at the survey data, 94% of the survey respondents said that public cloud spend is wasted, of which more…

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET It’s been agreed upon by the ZDNET team that the OnePlus 13 is this year’s sleeper hit. At a starting price of $899, the flagship phone can compete against more expensive phones like the Pixel 9 Pro XL and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. And we have OnePlus’ clean yet highly customizable software experience to thank for that. Also: Why I recommend this OnePlus phone over the S25 Ultra – especially at this price If you…

Xuanyu Han/Getty Images Hume AI is launching EVI 3, the third iteration of its Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) model, which can interact with users in a huge variety of humanlike voices. Like ChatGPT’s voice mode, EVI 3 comes with an assortment of preprogrammed AI voices. These are listed by personality and character descriptions, including “Old Knocks Comedian,” “Seasoned Life Coach,” “Wise Wizard,” and “Dungeon Master,” as well as the company’s namesake, the 18th-century philosopher David…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET The first Roku device was launched 17 years ago. It was initially developed in partnership with Netflix to stream its “Watch Instantly” service. Since then, the company has released numerous generations of streaming players and its very own Roku TVs — which means you might own one of these older devices. What is a cache? Just like your computer or smartphone, your Roku TV also stores temporary data (the cache) to help apps…