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Earlier this year, we ran a poll on the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate, the first commercially available tri-fold smartphone. The key takeaways from that were: 1) 26.4% said "I want a tri-foldable, but cheaper", 2) 22.1% said "I want a Mate XT Ultimate" and 3) 16.7% said "I want a tri-fold, but not from Huawei". This week Samsung may have delivered the answers to 1) and 3).

But AirTags have a few design flaws. First, the replaceable battery means you're chucking away handfuls of CR2032s every year. Then there's the shape and size. These tiny UFO-shaped devices don't have a lanyard hole and are too bulky to be placed in a wallet without giving you a pain in the rear. Also: My search for the ultimate USB-C charger for traveling is finally over Yes, some wallets have little holders for AirTags, but in my experience, they are all too bulky.

2. A three pack of wind-up turtles that float, swim, and totally distract them while you bathe your little one. So should you add these to your cart? Shell yeah. 3. A whaley cute shampoo rinser (which totally doubles as a toy) because they don't want any soap to get in those big, beautiful eyes. Kids never want to stop splashin' when they're playing with this!

Many companies have tried and failed to produce gaming handhelds that run Windows, and it's not hard to see the appeal. You could take all of your games with you, install mods and custom software, or even plug into a hub and get some work done. Lenovo is taking another swing at the Windows handheld game with the Legion Go 2, undeterred by mixed reviews on the original Legion Go and streamlined Legion Go S.

Talk to any older person about health concerns, and they will likely mention that one of their main fears is falling. And for good reason. While a younger person can often brush off a fall, such an event can be deadly for an older individual. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 14 million older adults fall each year, and these falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among people over 65.

Boston police said the skimmers can be hidden inside or placed over an ATM's card reader, allowing them to copy information from a card's magnetic stripe or chip. In some cases, thieves also set up tiny cameras to capture a PIN as it's typed into the ATM. At store checkout counters, criminals may use plastic overlays on keypads or card readers that secretly collect card data.

It's been a few years since the official introduction of the Bluetooth technology Auracast, which allows devices like earbuds, headphones, speakers, and hearing aids to connect to a single source without the need for pairing. Like a radio picks up your local radio stations, all you have to do is connect to the right broadcast. These could be flight announcements from your gate at the airport, the microphone a teacher is using during a presentation,

The maker movement has always had this tension between aspiration and reality. We want to believe that anyone with creativity and determination can fabricate complex physical objects, but the actual tools have never quite lived up to that vision. 3D printers got there eventually, becoming genuinely accessible after years of tinkering and iteration. CNC mills are still waiting for their Prusa moment, that breakthrough where capability and usability finally converge at a price point that makes sense for individual creators rather than small manufacturers.

Before a Marine is deployed, they're expected to master an essential set of tools that shape how they fight, communicate, navigate, and survive. This toolbox includes everything from rifles and radios to night-vision goggles and life-saving medical gear, these tools turn training into instinct and chaos into control. Here, 24/7 Wall St. is taking a closer look at the US Marine toolkit and how it is employed.

While hand tracking works for me about 70% of the time, when I'm focused on efficiency and getting work done, I need the headset to be as reliable as my laptop. Therefore, pairing the headset with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse is my preferred method for navigation until Samsung can improve the reliability of its hand and eye tracking. The availability of apps like Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Microsoft Office is strong, and they perform as expected.

Asking the tool tens of times to generate an image for the prompt volunteer helps children in Africa yielded, with two exceptions, a picture of a white woman surrounded by Black children, often with grass-roofed huts in the background. In several of these images, the woman wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase Worldwide Vision, and with the UK charity World Vision's logo. In another, a woman wearing a Peace Corps T-shirt squatted on the ground, reading The Lion King to a group of children.

If you've owned a Switch for a decent length of time, you've likely hit your storage limit. Even the Nintendo Switch OLED model, released in 2021, includes only 64GB of internal storage. The original 2017 Switch offers just 32GB, and with a portion of that dedicated to essential system files, you really have only about 25GB free for games. To put that into perspective, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom comes in just over 16GB.

The actual name is the Withings U-Scan, a $380 at-home urinalysis test with a removable cartridge that either measures your nutritional biomarkers or the likelihood of developing kidney stones. Somehow, for legitimate work purposes, I was going to spend the next several weeks measuring my pee. Because my pee was going to provide crucial data about my ketone, vitamin C, hydration, and "bioacidity" levels, whatever the hell that meant. Armed with this data, I could theoretically further optimize my diet and... I don't know. Be healthier?

Elon Musk says Tesla's Full Self-Driving software will enable users to glance at their phones in certain driving scenarios. On Thursday, Musk said drivers can use their phones while driving with FSD activated "depending on context of surrounding traffic" after an X user asked if they're able to "text and drive on FSD v14.2." The only issue: It's still pretty illegal to text and drive.

Sony extended Cyber Monday deals by a few extra days with discounts still active on the PS5 Pro, DualSense controllers, and PS VR headsets. If you want the ultimate PlayStation experience with Sony's most powerful console, this is it, currently sitting at $648 instead of the usual $749 in a record low deal. This pricing matters because the performance gap between the Pro and the standard PS5 Slim becomes impossible to ignore once you see games running at their maximum potential.

Govee makes some of our favorite solutions out there, and we just spotted its smart RGBIC Christmas tree lights going for less at Amazon. On a regular day, these lights would run you around $140, but the retailer just slashed the price by 36%, offering them for just $90 right now. It's the lowest we have seen them drop to in a long while. It was also originally a Black Friday discount, which managed to survive the main event.

A poll of 2,000 adults found that holiday magic is highest for children age six - a time when parents believe their child's imagination is at its most vivid. This is when they begin to weave stories, characters and worlds with effortless ease, making the wonder of Christmas even more magical. A quarter of parents say anticipation is at fever pitch as their children don their pyjamas and put out mince pies and carrots on Christmas Eve.

You can easily recognize Ressence, an independent watchmaker, from the crowd with its uncanny watches that make time telling unique, detailed, and exceptionally designed. For its latest iteration, the Type 3 MN, Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens has collaborated with Australian design genius, Marc Newson (a name we know from the first Apple Watch), and the result is easily the most intriguing watch in the industry.

Every military has weapons that looked unbeatable in brochures but fell apart the moment they reached the field. These guns were hyped as cutting-edge, reliable, or downright revolutionary, until soldiers actually used them. From fragile rifles to jam-prone machine guns, 24/7 Wall St. is taking a closer look at the firearms that never lived up to their reputations. To identify the overhyped guns that soldiers actually hate, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed various historical and military sources.

The Mustang is powered by a 750-watt motor nestled into the bike's rear hub, which can deliver up to 90 newton-meters of torque to its wheel. If you aren't versed in torque ratings, rest assured that 90 Nm is more than enough to get me, a 6' 4", 255-pound bike commuter, up a hill near my home that averages a 4 percent gradient, with incline pitches over 15 percent.

This CD player is clearly vintage-inspired, but it has some modern touches. Back in the day, you needed batteries for your CD player, but this one charges through USB-C. Like a classic boom box, the Yintiny has speakers built in, but it also has Bluetooth, so if you have a preferred or higher-quality speaker, you can have the CD's audio play through that instead.