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TCL’s 2024 QM8 photographed in the ZDNET testing lab. Adam Breeden/ZDNET What’s the deal? Amazon is running a new deal for the TCL QM85 (2024) at various screen sizes. The biggest price drop has been given to the 98-inch, which has gone from $6,000 to $2,998, a difference of $3,002. If you want something more affordable, the 65-inch TV costs $899, having received a 40% discount. What makes this deal ZDNET recommended: The TCL QM8…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Lenovo’s sixth-generation ThinkPad T14s is available now, starting at $1,598. It’s is a powerful workhorse thanks to the new AMD Ryzen AI chipset and support for the speedy Wi-Fi 7 standard. Its display, on the other hand, isn’t all that impressive considering its price tag. Whenever Lenovo isn’t pushing the boundaries of laptop design, the brand is creating high-quality personal work computers like the new ThinkPad T14s Gen 6. On the surface the…

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images The rivalry between Threads and Bluesky continues to heat up as Meta steps into Bluesky’s territory to reveal a new feature.  On Thursday, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri announced that Meta, which owns Threads, is testing a feature that enables users to “find and easily follow collections of profiles that post about popular topics on Threads.” These collections will be suggested both when new users sign up for the site and in their For You…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Tineco Pure One Station 5 vacuum cleaner is available for $459. It’s a powerful cordless vacuum with a self-emptying base station, perfect for pet owners and parents. Some parts can be finicky, like lining up the floor brush on the base station, or its accessories getting stuck and not easily detaching. Since I began testing the Tineco Pure One Station 5, I’ve reached for it for everyday messes over any other…

Price: $79 Features: Covers 1,095 square feet | 3-in-1 filter | Touch control This Amazon best-seller is perfect for cold and flu season; with a HEPA-grade filter, it can purify a space about three times as big as the average New York City apartment. It even works well in Sleep Mode, as confirmed by a third-party lab, and helps filter away dust, allergens, pet hair, and more, including smog and wildfire smoke. This filter is also…

MirageC/Getty Images ChatGPT is the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that’s taken the world by storm. While there’s always the possibility it will simply make stuff up, there’s a lot you can do when crafting prompts to ensure the best possible outcome. That’s what we’ll be exploring in this how-to. Also: The most popular AI tools of 2024 (and what that even means) In this article, I’ll show you how to write prompts that encourage…

The Tech+ certification covers basic concepts from security and software development as well as information on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and quantum computing. Among the skills individuals taking the course with learn are: IT concepts and terminology: Understand notational systems, illustrate the basics of computing, and explain the value of data and troubleshooting. Software development: Comprehend programming language categories, interpret logic, and understand the purpose of programming concepts. Infrastructure: Learn how to…

Moor Studio/Getty Images Popularity in the tech world is hard to measure. I’ve talked at length about this in my discussions of programming language popularity. It really comes down to what you use to measure popularity — and how available those metrics are to those doing the analysis. When it comes to AI, that’s even more of a challenge because AI can be a stand-alone tool or can be embedded deeply in other products. For…