Jason Hiner/Christina Darby/ZDNET The Apple Watch Series 9 remains one of the best smartwatches on the market, even though the Apple Watch 10 is widely available. This is thanks to the wearable’s improved health-tracking capabilities and key features such as Double Tap, which is a one-handed gesture input that lets you answer calls, pull up apps, and more by just tapping your thumb and forefinger together. Double Tap is great if you have fine motor issues…

Squadcast customers shared their experiences with the technology. “Since implementing Squadcast, we’ve reduced incoming alerts from tens of thousands to hundreds, thanks to flexible deduplication. It has a direct impact on reducing alert fatigue and increasing awareness,” said Avner Yaacov, Senior Manager at Redis, in a statement. According to SolarWinds, the SaaS-based offering will complement the company’s current portfolio, which serves the needs of IT organizations at businesses of all sizes, from SMBs to large…

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images Last October, Google began phasing out uBlock Origin, the popular content-filtering and ad-blocking extension, because it doesn’t adhere to Manifest V3, the search giant’s new extensions platform. Now, Reddit and X users report that their instances of Chrome have started removing extensions that don’t adhere to the new specification. In another Reddit thread, users report that the uBlock Origin extension has already been automatically disabled. The removal of uBlock Origin as a Chrome extension is upon…

ZDNET Buying stuff online can be a risky proposition. Sure, the big vendors do their best to make you feel safe, but what if you have to give up your credit card digits to a vendor you don’t know? As it turns out, there’s a type of financial instrument — called a virtual card — that can help. A virtual debit card can be turned on and off, spending limits can be set, and create…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET MWC 2025 is in full swing, and although smartphones are the focal point of the conference, mobile phone manufacturer HMD announced a unique pair of earbuds. The HMD Amped Buds feature a 1,600mAh battery for reverse wireless charging, enabling the buds’ case to wirelessly charge your smartphone. Also: Best of MWC 2025: 9 most impressive products that stole our attention The earbuds feature active noise cancellation, a bud-and-stem design, an IP54 durability rating,…

Apple/ZDNET Apple has been on a roll in the past month, introducing the iPhone 16e and M3 iPad Air and announcing its $500 billion investment in the US economy. Following the product announcements, a series of new accessories appeared for sale on its website, showcasing the company’s spring collection. Also: I replaced my iPhone 16 Pro with the 16e for a weekend – here’s everything I learned The new accessories include sport, braided, and Hermès Apple…

picture alliance/Getty Images If you’re looking forward to Android 16, you might not have to wait as long as you were expecting. Speaking to Android Police at Mobile World Congress, Google says the next version of Android is on track to arrive sometime in June.  Also: Android 16 Beta 2 now makes it easier to open Google Wallet on your Pixel – here’s how If that seems ahead of the normal schedule, it is. For…

ZDNET There are several blood pressure monitors on the market, but few reliable smartwatches with that functionality. Chinese tech brand Huawei’s Watch D2 could change that. Huawei’s Watch D2 includes an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring device, the first wrist-based device of its kind. The wearable is certified by China’s National Medical Products Association and the EU’s Medical Device Regulation. According to Huawei, the device is one-fifth the width and 1/25th the volume of a traditional…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET MWC 2025, or the Mobile World Conference, has officially kicked off in Barcelona. It’s an annual conference where tech companies come together to showcase upcoming mobile devices. Lenovo has joined the festivities by unveiling a slew of new laptops, from lightweight machines like the convertible ThinkPad T14s to powerful workhorses such as the Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition. In addition to these computers, the company showed off some very interesting prototypes. Also: Best of…

Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted. VMware products, especially the ESXi enterprise hypervisor, are high-value targets and have been repeatedly attacked by cybercriminal and cyberespionage groups over the years. Hypervisors, or…