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“Facility water loops sometimes have good water quality, sometimes bad,” says My Troung, CTO at ZutaCore, a liquid cooling company. “Sometimes you have organics you don’t want to have inside the technical loop.” So there’s one set of pipes that goes around the data center, collecting the heat from the server racks, and another set of smaller pipes that lives inside individual racks or servers. “That inner loop is some sort of technical fluid, and…

Last year’s Garmin Forerunner was one of my favorite smartwatches. Matthew Miller/ZDNET Regular readers know that I always wear a Garmin with an LED flashlight on one of my wrists, and I use it daily. It’s exciting to see, for the first time, that Garmin now has a Forerunner model with this flashlight, which serves as an important safety feature for runners. Garmin’s new Forerunner 570 and Forerunner 970 launch with vibrant AMOLED touchscreen displays, a…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The CMF Buds 2 Plus are the most premium pair of earbuds from the Nothing sub-brand. At $69, they’re one of the best-sounding and most feature-rich earbuds in the price segment. The way these earbuds are designed makes them not ideal for side sleepers. The new Nothing CMF Buds 2 Plus sit above the CMF Buds Pro 2 in price hierarchy and offer similar sound, better call quality, and longer battery life….

ZDNET’s key takeaways A Shine Turbine kit, which includes a turbine, stand, guy lines, and pegs, costs $399, while the Essentials Kit, which adds a few more bits such as a wind speed meter, costs $488 — though both are on sale right now The kit includes everything you need to turn wind into electrical energy, and the turbine features a 12,000 mAh battery There are limitations, which include the weight of the kit and…

David Gewirtz / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET A few days ago, I showed you an amazing new ChatGPT feature available to paying users. Plus, Pro, and Team tier users can now point Deep Research at an entire GitHub repo and get back analysis reports. Also: I test a lot of AI coding tools, and this stunning new OpenAI release just saved me days of work As I showed, this capability helps speed up the…

tolgart / Getty Images Half of global technology leaders believe their organization has an AI skills shortage, and the capability gap has almost doubled in a year. The newly released Nash Squared/Harvey Nash Digital Leadership Report found that almost twice as many technology leaders (51%), compared with last year (28%), said their business has an AI skills shortage — an 82% jump. Also: The great AI skills disconnect – and how to fix it The…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The finder tag is equipped with a rechargeable battery, so you won’t have to throw away old button cells It features a bright LED for finding things in low light. The tag is on the pricier side. more buying choices I have a habit of putting things down and forgetting where I put them, so finder tags like the Apple AirTag have been a game-changer for me, saving me endless amounts of…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The new Ecovacs Deebot N30 Omni originally launched for $799, but is on sale at $400 This midrange robot vacuum and mop features auto-emptying, mop washing and drying, and strong suction, which we were able to confirm during testing The downside is that the Deebot N30 Omni doesn’t boast the best obstacle avoidance capabilities, which significantly hinders how often you have to rescue it after it gets stuck on a small object….

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Think that Apple’s Siri snooped on your private conversations in the past? If so, you may be able to snag a slice of the $95 million that Apple is paying out to settle a class action lawsuit. Also: Apple’s big, next-gen CarPlay Ultra upgrade is here – if you drive these cars A settlement page published Friday in the case of Lopez v. Apple Inc. explains the…