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Apple Many businesses use logos and other branding to give themselves a visual identity — distinguishing them in the eyes of customers. Now, Apple is making it easier for such businesses to share their visual branding when dealing with iPhone users. On Wednesday, Apple announced an update to its Business Connect feature that allows companies to display their logos in emails, phone calls, and even Apple Pay purchases. With the new service, any verified business…

Amazon/ZDNET If you’ve been looking for a new digital storage option, Amazon has a deal on the 4TB Samsung T5 Evo portable SSD for just $230 — that’s 46% off the original price. With that much storage, it’s perfect for large digital game libraries, raw video and photo files, raw and rendered digital art, and other important programs and documents you may need to take on the go. And you won’t want to wait to take…

Zero Creatives/Getty Images Microsoft really, really, really doesn’t want you to upgrade your old Windows 10 PC to Windows 11.  That’s the logic behind the strict hardware compatibility requirements the company imposed when it launched the new operating system in 2021. If you try to install Windows 11 on a computer with a CPU from 2018 or earlier, you get an error message, along with a suggestion that maybe you should buy a new PC….

Apple/ZDNET Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event has officially concluded, but that doesn’t mean great laptop deals have dried up. Case in point: right now, the M2 Apple MacBook Air is on sale for just $899 at Amazon. That’s 10% off the total price and one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for this laptop since Best Buy had it on sale back in July.  Also: Amazon Prime Day: The best 100+ deals still available for…

oonal/Getty Images Google launched NotebookLM as an AI-first notebook and research assistant to help users make sense of all their notes, material, and more. The experimental offerings’ biggest standout feature has been its AI Overviews, which use artificial intelligence (AI) to transform text into a human-like audio podcast. Now, it is getting some handy upgrades.  Listen here: Google’s AI podcast tool transforms your text into stunningly lifelike audio – for free On Thursday, Google announced…

This is Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Air with an M3 chip. Apple Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Air M3 set the standard for ultraportable power when it burst onto the scene last year, offering Apple’s M3 chip, a lightweight and sleek form factor, and all the integrations that make MacBooks the powerhouse laptops they are.  Also: Amazon Prime Day deals live: We found 165+ of the best deals for October’s Big Deal Days Right now at Amazon, you…

Max Buondonno/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The $1,219 Galaxy Z Flip 6 is Samsung’s latest take on a modernized flip phone. Right now it’s on Amazon for $949. It comes with a few upgrades, such as a tougher design, better performance, a new main camera, and a bigger battery. It’s far from exciting, however, given its similarities to the Z Flip 5, and it’s priced over $200 more than Motorola’s Razr Plus. Samsung is already on…

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Outlaw Audio RR 2160 Mk II stereo receiver is available on Amazon for $1,000.  It’s a high-end receiver that delivers amazing sound, plenty of inputs and outputs, and has bass management that will floor you. It’s also far heavier than you’d expect. “If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it,” Duke Orsino said in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” The soundtrack of my life is…

Photo by NASA/Newsmakers As NASA looks toward long-term lunar missions, a few problems have arisen — specifically, how to create less trash in space and what to do with the trash that people create. That’s why the US space agency started the LunaRecycle Challenge.  This challenge is a two-phase competition, NASA says, focused on the design and development of recycling solutions that both reduce solid waste and improve the sustainability of longer-term lunar missions. Also:…