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Matthew Miller/ZDNET Several weeks ago, Google shut down WearOS 5 because it was soft-bricking some users’ watches when installed. Customers were hoping for a quick fix, but if you’re anticipating the OS’s new features, you’ll be waiting a little longer. In a community update about the issue, Google acknowledged the problem and added that it was working on it. It also added, though, that it plans to “resume the WearOS 5 rollout to these devices later…

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon on table Cesar Cadenas/ZDNET Amazon Prime Day ended a few days ago, but some deals are still live. Case in point: Lenovo’s twelfth-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon is currently $1,498, which is 40% off the normal price. I went hands-on with this laptop earlier this year and praised it for its great hardware, nice display, and solid battery life. It’s perfect for remote workers who need a dependable, high-performing device.  Also: Amazon Prime…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Owlet Dream Sock is an FDA-cleared baby sleep tracker for $299 and is FSA/HSA-eligible. It goes beyond your standard baby monitor by tracking your child’s heart rate, blood oxygen, and sleep patterns. It has three alarms: a yellow incorrect fit alarm, a purple abnormal reading alarm, and a blue alarm when the sock is out of range or low battery. While false low oxygen and abnormal heart rate alarms…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Getting an iPad Pro with a Magic Keyboard to work on the go and tinker with all of the best features that Apple’s flagship tablet offers is an enticing prospect — until you realize that this full setup starts at $1,400. The truth is that an iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard are not the best iPad setup for most users.  In theory, an M4 iPad Pro sounds like a great idea. It’s a…

Nina Raemont/ZDNET What’s the deal?  The Horizon Oura Ring is on sale on Amazon for a limited time. The discount varies by ring finish and can range from $50 to $100 off. It is a notably rare discount on a product that irregularly goes on sale. The deal comes amid Oura’s announcement of a fourth-generation smart ring, the Oura Ring 4.  ZDNET’s key takeaways  The Oura Ring is the most competitive smart ring on the…

First, the xarg command’s basic function is pretty simple. It echoes what you toss at it. In a sense, it’s not very different from echo, except that content needs to be redirected to it, not presented as an argument. $ echo a b ca b c$ echo a b c | xargsa b c Obviously, nothing is gained in the example above. The pipe and the use of xargs are just making the command more…

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale (also known as October Prime Day) is over — but Amazon has several deals still lingering on everything from TVs to laptops, robot vacuums, kitchen gadgets, smart tech, and beyond to help you get a jump on your holiday shopping. We aren’t sure how much longer these deals will stick around, so would recommend doing your shopping soon. Here at ZDNET, our tech and deal-hunting experts have been searching through thousands of…

To that end, AMD has launched the MI325X with greater memory capacity and bandwidth than the Instinct MI300X, which launched last December. The MI325X is based on the same CDNA 3 GPU architecture, compared with 192GB of HBM3 high-bandwidth memory and 5.3 TB/s in memory bandwidth in the MI300X. AMD said AI inference performance in the MI325X provides 40% faster throughput with an 8-group, 7-billion-parameter Mixtral model over Nvidia’s top-of-the-line Hopper H200, 30% lower latency…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET I’ve spent much of my life figuring out new ways to save battery life on Android phones. That might sound like an exaggeration, but growing up with access to nothing but poorly made Android devices meant I’ve always tinkered with their settings to maximize charge and push my phone’s battery life to the limit. Also: An anti-theft upgrade is coming to Android phones. Here’s how to see if you have it yet So,…