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The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 comes with a free $100 gift card this weekend

Mashable - 3 hours 53 min ago

SAVE $100: The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 is bundled with a $100 Amazon gift card for $699.99.

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Samsung Unpacked dropped a wave of new gear this month — new Samsung phones, new watches, and even Samsung Galaxy Glasses.

And here's the sweetener: Amazon is currently bundling the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 with a free $100 gift card, priced at $699.99.

SEE ALSO: Upgrade your Switch 2 storage for less: Samsung’s P9 Express microSD is on sale at Amazon

This one's built for the outdoors. On a run or hike, it acts as a trail guide — giving you path, elevation, and pace guidance along the way, plus hydration alerts to help you stay ahead of dehydration rather than catch up to it. Instead of making you check your health stats separately, it also combines them into a single Heart Health Score, giving you one clear number.

Durability-wise, it's rated IP69K and 10ATM, meaning it's dust-tight and can handle water down to 100 meters, so both rugged trails and open water are fair game. For actual diving, it comes with a built-in dive computer from Mares that tracks ascent and descent, depth limits, and safety stops in real-time.

To get the gift card, select the gift card bundle variation at checkout. Since the offer ends Aug. 6, you should consider grabbing the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 now while you still can.

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Learn American Sign Language for just $10 with this 13-course bundle

Mashable - 3 hours 53 min ago

TL;DR: Become a sign language expert with help from The All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle, on sale now for just $10.49 (reg. $104) with code COURSE30 until Aug. 2.

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If you’ve always wanted to learn American Sign Language, consider this your sign that it’s finally time. This All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle gives you access to 13 informative courses on a wide range of topics from different instructors to help give you a comprehensive education.

Right now, you can score The All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle for only $10.49 with code COURSE30 until tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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Learn a whole new language at your own pace, all from the comfort of your couch, with this All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle. This online course combo is packed with 13 different courses that will shape you into an ASL expert in no time.

Kick things off with American Sign Language: Beginner, taught by Intellezy Learning. This course walks you through the origins of ASL — from finger-spelling and the alphabet to learning how to say different colors and animals — over 25 lectures and two hours of content.

Able Lingo, an established English and American Sign Language teacher who is TESOL and TEFL certified, teaches ASL: Family and Adjectives and ASL: Color and Nouns, which walk you through things like 24 different family signs and how to sign possessive pronouns, adjectives, and colors.

From there, hop into more niche topics with courses like American Sign Language for Business: Beginner, also taught by Intellezy Learning. This course teaches you all the basic business terms and vocab, so you can communicate using a new language and reach a broader audience.

Grab The All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle for just $10.49 with code COURSE30 now through tomorrow night at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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Categories: IT General, Technology

Docker became much easier once I started using a container manager

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 22:30

I love Docker, but I didn't always have such an easy time with it. In retrospect, not using a Docker manager was one of my biggest mistakes when first starting to use the software. While I run Portainer on a daily basis nowadays, my first time using Docker was spent without a manager. It was rough, to say the least.

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Claude and ChatGPT are ruining your critical thinking—here are 3 prompts that will keep your brain sharp

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 21:30

There is a growing body of research examining how AI influences the way we think, learn, and solve problems. While no study has yet measured the long-term cognitive effects of AI use—after all, these tools have been widely available for less than five years—researchers are identifying patterns that align with established findings in psychology and neuroscience.

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I built a whole-home leak detection system with $10 sensors

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 21:00

If something goes wrong in my home, like a pipe bursting, I would rather find out from a notification than stepping in inches of water. It’s for that reason that I’ve started building a water leak detection system using this one adorable, off-the-shelf sensor: the IKEA KLIPPBOK.

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7 ways to repurpose your old Android tablet

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 20:54

Got an old Android tablet gathering dust in a drawer? Wondering if there’s anything genuinely useful you can do with it besides recycling it? Here are seven practical ways to give your old Android tablet a new life and a new purpose.

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3 hidden Google TV Streamer settings you should change right now

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 20:45

Google's TV Streamer ships with a handful of defaults that work against you. These three changes take less than five minutes and make the whole experience faster and less intrusive.

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The 5 Samsung Galaxy features that beat Google Pixel's flashier alternatives

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 20:30

We often hear more about Google's Android features than Samsung's, even though Samsung sells far more phones. While those Samsung phones come with many Google apps installed, they're also packed with Samsung-specific features that are often better than their flashier alternatives on Pixel phones. Let's touch on some of the bangers.

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Why I still use the '90s most ridiculed desktop accessory in 2026

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 20:00

Yes, I daily-drive a trackball mouse. I have used trackballs on and off throughout my life, but I've never actually owned one. It was usually at school or using my dad's friend's PC. An architect, he swore by this big A4Tech trackball mouse and when I had to do anything on one of these computers (usually fix them), the big red ball mouse was the only option.

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Android Auto isn't worth the hassle—my car's infotainment does it better

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 19:45

I know many consider Android Auto to be essential when buying a car—but as for me, I rarely use it. The way I see it, my car's infotainment system is already a better experience.

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This one free tool backs up my files to multiple cloud services at once

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 19:30

Rclone is an app that lets you upload, download, sync, and delete files in the cloud. Let me show you why it's better than the official apps from your cloud providers.

Categories: IT General, Technology

9 Google Messages features everyone should know

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 19:07

From a built-in spam detector to the option of pinning messages and automatically deleting OTPs, the Google Messages app offers a variety of features. Here are nine Google Messages features that everyone should know about.

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5 of the weirdest ways I control my smart home

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 19:00

I love tinkering with Home Assistant. While the main purpose of using it is to create automations for controlling my smart home, sometimes you need to do things manually. Tapping smart home dashboards or shouting at voice assistants isn't always that much fun, but over the years I've set up plenty of weird and wonderful ways to make my smart home do what I want.

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Sam Altman suggests parents generate AI podcasts about their kids

Mashable - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:53

OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman is trending on X for suggesting that parents use ChatGPT to generate podcasts about their children's lives in lieu of... listening to them.

"cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night," he shared on X in all lowercase. "connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests."

SEE ALSO: The OpenAI-Hugging Face hack was worse than we thought

He continued, "Every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc."

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The post has amassed around 9,500 likes at the time of this writing, dwarfed by 120,000 likes on the reply, "What if you just talked to your children?" from Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch. (The same day, Hirsch also criticized Google's addition of its AI image generator into Google Earth, which it reversed.) Other popular replies have the same sentiment: That Altman is apparently encouraging users to disconnect from their families.

The backlash about AI tools has ramped up in recent years, for a myriad of reasons, including environmental impacts, surveillance, job loss, and fears of AI psychosis. The potential degrading of relationships is also a concern for some, as more people turn to chatbots to outsource relational conflicts or even seek to replace relationships themselves.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

Categories: IT General, Technology

I drove a 500-horsepower Porsche Cayman, and it beat a GT4 RS where it matters

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:45

I owned a 981-generation Porsche Cayman S for several years. I put about 4,000 track miles on mine before I moved on to something else. My Cayman S was brilliant on the racetrack. It was so well-balanced, the PDK transmission was fantastic, and the car sounded great as well.

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Motorola's answer to Samsung DeX is faster, smarter, and built for what you actually do

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:45

Samsung DeX is the oldest and most popular Android-based desktop, but it wasn't my first, and it's not necessarily the best. Depending on how you want to use your phone with an external display, you would be wise not to sleep on Motorola's Smart Connect.

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I refuse to pay Microsoft for these 7 features that Linux offers for free

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:30

Linux is pretty impressive, and its greatest feature is arguably its cost. If you were to dip into your pocket and pull out nothing but fresh air, you'd still have enough to cover the license fees for this powerful system. Windows, on the other hand, well, Microsoft locks many of its capabilities behind a tiered payment structure. But what supposed features am I talking about? Seven off the top of my head; maybe you can think of more?

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3 groundbreaking movies you can only watch on Paramount+

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:15

Some movies stand out because of the stories they tell, while others make an impression because of how differently they tell them. Paramount+ has a mix of both, with a collection of original movies that aren't afraid to experiment with genre or storytelling.

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I ditched my ISP's DNS to kill their tracking. Here's what actually changed

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:00

I lived in my previous apartment for more than seven years, and during most of that time, I used a small ISP that had a lot going for it. For starters, I paid the equivalent of $18, first for a 250/50Mbps plan and later for a 500/100Mbps plan, which was a great price no matter where you live, if you ask me. Better yet, I never signed a contract. I was on their prepaid plan, so when I moved apartments, I just let them know I no longer needed their service, returned the equipment, and that was it.

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I spent $10,000 remodeling my garage—and it was better than buying another car

How-To Geek - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 17:45

Many car enthusiasts dream about the next modification: bigger brakes, better tires, and more horsepower! Others simply enjoy performing their own maintenance. I am no different. But after years of spending money on my cars, I finally invested in the place where I work on them instead. Looking back, it may have been the best automotive investment I've ever made.

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