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Jada Jones/ZDNET What’s the deal? Amazon’s October Big Deals Day sales event is almost over, but deals as sweet as this one are hard to ignore. The new Beats Solo 4 headphones are $130 (save $70), or 35% off, just days after the sale. ZDNET’s key takeaways The Beats Solo 4 headphones are available for $130 at Amazon in Matte Black, Slate Blue, and Cloud Pink. Beats’ best-selling headphones return with up-to-date features, signaling that…

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Apple is reportedly cooking up a series of new AR headsets and smart glasses to attract more customers and better compete against the likes of Meta. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that the company is working on at least four new devices to serve as cheaper and friendlier alternatives to its expensive Vision Pro. Also: Stop your smart TV’s spying: How to turn off ACR…

MF3d/Getty Images Organizations are turning to automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to cope with a complex and expanding threat landscape. However, if not properly managed, this can have some drawbacks.   In a video interview with ZDNET, Daniel dos Santos, senior director of security research at Forescout’s Vedere Lab, stated that generative AI (gen AI) helps make sense of a lot of data in a more natural way than was previously possible without AI and automation. …

NurPhoto/Getty Images If you’re a Prime Video subscriber, you’ll soon have additional streaming options. Amazon announced that, later this month, Apple TV+ will be available as an add-on to existing Prime subscriptions. For $9.99 a month, you can get Apple shows like The Morning Show, Pachinko, Shrinking, Loot, and Palm Royale, plus exclusive MLB and MLS games, and more.  Also: Prime Video is getting more ads – because subscribers tolerated the first round so well The…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways LG’s CineBeam Q projector is a compact, premium 4K projector that’s on sale right now for $999 ($300 off the regular price).  Its auto keystone screen adjustment, vivid projection, and portability make it a top-tier projector. However, the CineBeam Q is expensive and requires an external speaker to really feel cinematic. Projectors are cool; they can take whatever media you want and blow it up tenfold, making screens out of blank…

Floriana/Getty Images The Internet Archive is slowly starting to recover from a recent DDoS attack that clobbered the main site and its subsidiary sites. Early Monday, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle posted on X that the Wayback Machine is back online — but with a couple of constraints. First, the site is operating in a provisional, read-only manner. That means you can access past versions of the more than 900 billion web pages in the archive….

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Chipolo One Point and Card Point are available starting at $28. They’re highly accurate, robust, and integrate well into the Google ecosystem. But the One is only splashproof and the Card version has a non-user-replaceable battery.   AirTags are one of the things that have set the Apple ecosystem apart from the Android ecosystem. But now that Google has rolled out its Find My Device network, the Android ecosystem is…

oxygen/Getty Images It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since Adobe announced Generative Fill at Adobe Max 2023, the company’s annual creative conference. Generative Fill, along with its cousins Generative Expand and Generate Image, has become such an integral part of my Photoshop process that it feels like I’ve been using all three forever.  It’s Adobe Max time once again. Here are some of the AI features the company just launched — we’ll follow…

A screenshot taken by a video generated using the Firefly Video Model.  Adobe Even though image generators may already seem like an innovative, advanced application of artificial intelligence (AI), companies have set their sights on the next forefront: AI video generation. Today, Adobe has become the first major company to make its AI video generator available to the public.  At its annual creativity conference, Adobe Max, the company unveiled its latest AI features and products across its…