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The Nintendo Switch is one of the most popular modern gaming consoles, and one of the most popular consoles, period. And coupled with Nintendo’s reluctance to run regular discounts and sales, even on digital games, that means the holiday shopping season is your best bet for upgrading your Switch setup with a new OLED console or snagging a few new games for your library or replacement Joy-Con controllers. Also: The best Black Friday deals live…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET When GPT-4 was OpenAI’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM), paying $20 a month to access it with a subscription to ChatGPT Plus was a no-brainer for many users. However, since OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-4o, the choice is a bit more complicated.  Also: How to use ChatGPT to write your resume In May 2024, OpenAI revealed an omnimodel that makes GPT-4-level intelligence accessible to everyone. Free users can also access features…

The holiday shopping season will be here before you know it. And if you have a gamer on your gift list whose main platform is the PlayStation 5, it’s the perfect time to get them the latest games and accessories as well as consoles bundled with digital downloads of popular titles.  Also: The best Black Friday deals live now While Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping days of the year,…

I thoroughly enjoy testing cameras. When it comes to vlogging, you have to consider things beyond the scope of resolution. Vlogging is an event in itself. Yes, it’s easy to get started, but when you’re vlogging in certain scenarios, you’ll need to know your camera can keep up with you. For example, how’s the audio going to sound if you’re shooting in a windy location? I can answer that for you — horrible. So, your…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Ring Spotlight Cam Pro Battery is available for $230 but is currently on sale for $170 This Pro-level Ring camera has a removable rechargeable battery pack, top-of-the-line audio performance, and supports dual-band Wi-Fi, 2.4 and 5.0 GHz Unfortunately, the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro falls short on image quality, topping out at 1080p, the spotlights only reach 300 lumens in brightness, and the Pro features are only available with a subscription. more…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET What’s the deal? The Deebot T30S Combo is a robot vacuum and mop with a cordless vacuum on the side and is available for $850, its lowest price ever ahead of Black Friday. Also: The best Black Friday deals live now ZDNET’s key takeaways Ecovacs’ Deebot T30S Combo 3-in-1 robot vacuum, mop, and handheld vacuum is currently available for $950. The robot vacuum features an industry-leading 11,000 Pa of suction power, retractable mop pads…

Sometimes, you want to really unplug and listen to music while going for a nature walk, focusing on deep work, or decompressing during chaotic family gatherings (looking at you, Thanksgiving). But it can be difficult to truly disconnect if you’re listening to music on your phone, even if you’re on do not disturb mode. Enter the MVP of yesteryear: the MP3 player. This device used to be one of the only ways to listen to…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Boox Note Air4 C is a color ePaper tablet for notes and reading, available for $500 It’s easy to take the Boox Note Air4 C anywhere I go where I want to read, take notes, catch up on journaling, or keep tabs on my calendar; the tablet’s display is crisp and paper-like, and the included pen is accurate and pressure-sensitve, making it easy to create highly detailed sketches. That said, the…

TLS inspection technologies intercept and decrypt TLS traffic to check for malicious content or vulnerabilities. It then re-encrypts the traffic and forwards it to its destination. The capabilities help identify malware, data exfiltration, and other malicious traffic, and they also help ensure security compliance and the integrity of data in transit. This type of TLS inspection across all traffic flows can become burdensome for network and security teams, according to Cato, which is looking to…

Getting started on the Linux command line might seem overwhelming at first, but the many commands you need to use will fall into place more quickly than you might imagine. Let’s start with some introductory but very important commands. First, when you open a command terminal or log into a remote Linux server, you will be sitting at the command prompt. This might be just a $ or might be something as complex as [george@system…