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ZDNET’s key takeaways Samsung’s Galaxy A35 5G is a well-rounded smartphone for $313 (currently $87 off) You’ll love the two-day battery life, amazing screen quality, and four years of software updates The biggest issue? Performance tends to vary from day to day and can lead to overheating. more buying choices What’s the deal? Samsung’s Galaxy A35 has seen an $86 discount on Amazon. You can purchase the midrange smartphone for $314 right now. I’m surprised…

Max Buondonno/ZDNET What’s the deal? Save $100 on the Galaxy Tab S9 FE on Amazon right now, or get up to $250 in instant credit from Samsung when you trade in an eligible device. Additionally, you can save up to $114 on the Galaxy Tab S9 FE+ model on Amazon or get up to $350 off with a trade-in on Samsung’s site. Also: The best tablets you can buy: Expert tested ZDNET’s key takeaways Samsung’s latest…

cagkansayin/Getty Images The economics of artificial intelligence are unsustainable for just about everyone other than GPU chip-maker Nvidia, and that poses a big problem for the new field’s continued development, according to a noted AI scholar.  Also: Gartner’s 2025 tech trends show how your business needs to adapt – and fast “The ecosystem is incredibly unhealthy,” said Kai-Fu Lee in a private discussion forum earlier this month. Lee was referring to the profit disparity between,…

ardasavasciogullari/Getty Images One of the most important aspects of a desktop for me is efficiency. I need an OS that makes it easy for me to work with multiple windows open in a way that is effortless and painless. The MacOS desktop is an outstanding option for users of all types. It’s elegant, simple to use, and rock solid.  Also: The best Macs: Which is right for you? For the longest time, MacOS didn’t have…

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET The iPhone 16 series comes with a physical Camera Control button that you can press to snap a photo or video, tap to display different settings, and slide to adjust the exposure and other elements. But the control can be challenging to operate, especially if you’re used to swiping and tapping the on-screen settings to take a photo. Also: My new favorite iPhone accessory makes shooting professional videos so much easier…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Behind every new smartphone feature is a powerful chipset that brings it to life. With the industry shift toward on-device AI, a need for an even more advanced and capable system-on-a-chip (SoC) has emerged, and Qualcomm’s latest iteration aims to meet this.  On Monday, at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, the company unveiled its newest mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claims is the most powerful and fastest processor in the world. The…

AAWireless/ZDNET While the AAWireless Android Auto dongle has been available for years now, it’s still one of the most highly recommended adapters on the market. The 4,000+ ratings of over four stars on Amazon are a testament to its quality. How the dongle works is fairly straightforward: You plug it (instead of your phone) into your car and then connect your phone to the adapter wirelessly, effectively giving you the same Android Auto capabilities but…

There’s been a lot of talk over the past few years about a shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent, but from where we sit at the NYC DOE Division of Information and Instructional Technology (DIIT), we see budding security pros all around us. As cybersecurity leaders of the DIIT, we work with 1,800 schools and approximately 1 million students across NYC to ensure secure internet access and offer innovative solutions in education technology. As part of…

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks. Recent critical vulnerabilities in VPNs and firewalls have exposed the risks…

Nikada/Getty Images Every year around this time, well-regarded analyst group Gartner releases its list of top 10 strategic technology trends for the upcoming year. Last year, among the 10 trends it identified for 2024 was AI-augmented development, and we’ve certainly spent a lot of time here on ZDNET discussing AI and programming. Also: The best AI for coding, and a bunch that failed miserably Now, just in time for its Orlando gathering of expense-account-wielding senior executives…