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ZDNET’s key takeaways The NexTool multitool is blade-free, making it TSA and airport security friendly. The tool is compact and can be attached to a keychain All the tools are decent quality, and can actually do the job they claim to be able to do. I like my EDC (everyday carry) gadgets, but when I travel by air, I almost always end up having to empty my pockets of a lot of useful stuff. I…

“Most companies don’t have full coverage of everything in their infrastructure within infrastructure as code, so there are a lot of blind spots—you don’t know what you don’t know,” Twizer emphasized.  On top of that he noted that keeping IaC in a state that always represents the existing configuration can be difficult. There are things like drift, people changing stuff directly in the console, and other real world scenarios that impact infrastructure. To help solve that…

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Apple just announced a date for its annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). The event keynote will take place on June 9 in Apple Park to kick off the conference, which will run until June 13. The event will feature the new software generation for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Vision Pro, and Apple TV.  Apple hosts media, developers, and students each year at its WWDC event. Developers attending in person or virtually…

Jada Jones/ZDNET Amazon’s Big Spring Sale kicked off on March 25, and it’s a great time to score deals on splurge items you’ve been waiting to buy. Luckily, there is no exception for Apple fanatics, and these savings are in full bloom. Also: The best early Amazon Spring Sale deals live now The AirPods 4, released at Apple’s hardware event in September 2024, are the company’s new and improved Bluetooth earbuds powered by an H2 chip….

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode was the first major AI-powered voice assistant to mimic a human conversation, addressing typical voice assistant shortcomings. The latest update makes the conversation experience even more seamless and natural. What’s new with Advanced Voice Mode? On Monday, OpenAI shared a video announcing the latest Advanced Voice Mode update, which enhances its human-like conversational capabilities, allowing it to interrupt you less when you are talking. This allows you to pause…

Liquid cooling here to stay Liquid-cooled switches will become a necessity, not a choice, according to according to Sameh Boujelbene, vice president with the Dell’Oro Group. “After liquid cooling racks and servers, switches are next. NVIDIA’s latest 51.2 T SpectrumX switches offer both liquid-cooled and air-cooled options. However, all future 102.4 T Spectrum-X switches will be liquid-cooled by default,” she wrote in a blog about GTC. Can you say Nvidia networking everywhere? At GTC 2025,…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Sony WF-C710N earbuds retail for $120 and punch well above their weight in immersive, clear sound. They have 30 hours of battery life, amazing sound, and improvements from their predecessors like EQ adjustments, in-ear detection, and responsive touch controls. Look elsewhere for earbuds with strong active noise cancellation. I’ve been reviewing earbuds for over a year, and I’ve started to think about the price of earbuds in terms of airfare. For…

ZDNET As an iPhone user, I’ve been waiting years for Siri to improve. But if anything, Apple’s beleaguered voice assistant has gotten worse. Whether I’m chatting with Siri when I’m at home, out and about, or behind the wheel via CarPlay, it still often fails to respond correctly. I’ve tried using other assistants, such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Those are helpful when I need in-depth information or analysis. But since Siri is built into…

When is Amazon’s Big Spring Sale 2025?  The e-commerce giant’s latest sales event will run from Tuesday, March 25, to Monday, March 31. However, several deals will go live before and after that time frame. Are deals really better during Amazon sales? While there are no guarantees that the prices you see are the lowest ever, Amazon — and the various retailers and sellers it works with — tends to keep promotions as competitive as…