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Current price: $400 Original price: $430 One of our favorite deals is for a Samsung TV at Best Buy. If you’re looking for a budget-friendly model with a lot of display space — say, 65 inches — then you should consider the discount available. The Samsung CU7000 Crystal UHD 4K Smart Tizen TV is on sale with a $30 discount, and so you can pick up the TV for only $400. Sure, it doesn’t offer…

Across industries, artificial intelligence (AI) is optimizing workflows, increasing efficiency, driving innovation—and prompting investments in accelerators, deep learning processors, and neural processing units (NPUs). Some organizations are starting small with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for inference tasks before progressively expanding to accommodate a larger number of users. Enterprises that handle large volumes of private data may prefer setting up their own training clusters to get the accuracy that custom models built on select data can deliver….

The saying, “big things come in small packages,” is true, especially when it comes to technology. If you want a device that’s larger than a smartphone but more portable than a laptop, it sounds like you’re in the market for a tablet. A small tablet can work just as well as (or even better than) larger ones, especially when it comes to lugging one around between classes or in your work bag on your commute….

Maria Diaz/ZDNET As a smart home reviewer, I have a healthy variety of smart plugs and outlets in my home. There’s also your garden variety of smart lights and smart light strips, as you can expect. But the Kasa Smart Plug Ultra Mini is the one smart plug I can’t rave about enough. It’s one of the most reliable ones I’ve ever tested, both in connectivity and voice control integrations. Plus, each one is 20%…

PerlaStudio/Getty Images Between unencrypted messaging hacks, data breaches, and AI scam calls, smartphone-centered security threats appear to be everywhere. iVerify found that one type of spyware is trying to make a comeback. Also: Why you should power off your phone once a week – according to the NSA Last week, the mobile security firm resurfaced findings from its spyware detection feature: Out of 2,500 device scans that customers submitted for inspection, seven devices had been infected by the infamous…

AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), meant to protect processor memory from prying eyes in virtual machine (VM) environments, can be tricked into giving access to its encrypted memory contents using a test rig costing less than $10, researchers have revealed. Dubbed “BadRAM” by researchers from the University of Lübeck in Germany, KU Leven in Belgium, and the University of Birmingham in the UK, the proposed attack is conceptually simple as well as cheap: trick the…

In a world where technology increasingly shapes how cities manage safety and security, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is leading the way with its groundbreaking “Carpet CCTV” project. This ambitious initiative has revolutionized public safety by combining a massive surveillance network with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, creating a system that shifts the focus from reactive responses to proactive prevention. Over the past four years, the scope of Kazakhstan’s surveillance infrastructure has expanded dramatically. The…

Stack Social If you live near a BJ’s Wholesale Club and have been thinking about buying a membership, now is a great time: New members can buy an annual membership for just $20 (reg. $55) through this Stack Social deal — saving you 63%.  BJ’s is similar to Costco and Sam’s Club (both of which also are offering membership deals right now through the links provided), in that you can save up to 25% off…