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Back-to-school season sometimes means re-evaluating whether your current family hauler can handle drop-off lines, an avalanche of football gear, and a packed carpool of your kids and all their friends without falling apart.

Back in July 2021, Microsoft announced Windows 365, a service that would let you use Windows on any device you like, including your iPad.

Every month, Netflix always has something new in store for every type of viewer. Whether you're a romantic, horror buff, or suspense lover, the streaming platform has a diverse pool of titles to pick from. And if you love documentaries, the collection of new titles is always solid.

Most people shopping for a used family SUV aren't looking for something that can move like a sports car. That's what makes this particular plug-in hybrid so easy to overlook.

The GPU market is a hellscape right now, and Nvidia's RTX 50 Super isn't coming to save us all (not that it would even if it did arrive). If you want a new GPU, my advice is not to get one. But what if you're desperate? Please, don't default to Nvidia.

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Need a new laptop to kick off the college semester? Or perhaps a daily driver laptop to keep up with emails and streaming the latest shows? The HP Omnibook 3 16 is a solid pick that won't break the bank, especially now that it's on sale for 33% off.

As of Aug. 12, you can grab the HP Omnibook 3 16-by0199nr laptop at Amazon with an AMD Ryzen 3 processor, 8GB RAM, and 256GB of storage for only $449.99. That's over $200 off its list price and its lowest price to date.

It may not be the most powerful or most stunning laptop on the market, but it'll get the job done. And at just 3.6 pounds, it's perfectly portable for lugging between classes or to and from an office. Yet, its 16-inch 2K touchscreen display gives you a ton of screen real estate to work with. Its battery life is perfectly sufficient at over 14 hours. It also features a fast-charge setting that can restore your battery from zero to half charged in just 45 minutes.

With only 8GB RAM and 256GB storage, I don't recommend any heavy gaming or demanding workloads on this laptop. It's more suited for casual streaming, web-browsing, note-taking, and other daily tasks. There are two USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, and an HDMI port on board, giving you plenty of options for extending your RAM or storage if you need to.

If you're in the market for a basic laptop that won't break the bank, at only $449.99, the 2026 HP Omnibook 3 16 is a great value.

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If you're looking for a gaming laptop that's just as good for classwork as it is for gaming, you should definitely check out the Lenovo Legion 5a.

As of Aug. 12, you can get the 15.3-inch Lenovo Legion 5a (Ryzen 7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) for $1,998.99, down from $2,273.29, at Amazon. That's a 12% discount or $274 in savings.

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While Lenovo is famous for its ThinkPad, the Legion lineup is designed for gamers who also need a serious WFH station. This laptop has a 15.3-inch OLED WQXGA display with a 165Hz refresh rate, so your contrast is deep, and your visuals are crisp and smooth. It's also equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 250 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 GPU. Plus, it comes with 32GB of RAM right out of the box, so you'll have plenty of headroom for multitasking, streaming, or whatever else, in addition to a 1TB SSD for your game library.

Astronomers have found the earliest example of a black hole rapidly bulking up in the universe — and it may finally resolve a long‑running cosmic dilemma.

The object appears just 660 million years after the Big Bang. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found that almost all of its light comes from a central black hole wrapped in a tight shell of stormy hydrogen gas, rather than from stars in a surrounding galaxy.

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That alone is striking. But what really matters is the clarity of the signal. After using computers to simulate different possibilities, the team was able to rule out stars and dust as the main sources of its incredible light.

That makes this object, dubbed MoM-BH*‑1, the strongest evidence yet of a newly proposed type of space object — a so-called black hole star — giving scientists a firm blueprint for a whole population of puzzling objects Webb has spotted near the beginning of time.

"You have something that looks a bit like a star but is 100 billion times brighter," said Rohan Naidu, lead author of the study and an MIT fellow at the time, in a statement. "That means you can't be powering this by nuclear fusion, which is the energy source that sits at the heart of all the stars we have."

The object is mind‑boggling: a black hole that is about 100,000 times more massive than the sun, sitting at the center of an enormous ball of gas. Through Webb's eye, it looks like a star the size of our entire solar system.

To put it bluntly: "It's huge," said Naidu, whose team's findings were published in the journal Nature. 

Since Webb opened for business in 2022, the observatory has spotted hundreds of "little red dots" like MoM-BH*-1 scattered through its deepest images. They've been labeled "little" because they show up as tiny sources of light too compact to tease apart into clear galaxies. They're "red" because they shine much more strongly in Webb's red‑sensitive views, a sign that we're seeing extremely distant objects whose light has stretched on its long journey across the universe.

The puzzle is that many of these dots look even redder and more dense than expected, suggesting something in or around them is changing their appearance in an extreme way. The debate has divided astronomers: Are they freakishly fast‑growing galaxies, or something stranger?

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Early on, many teams thought the intense color of the dots was due to dust. In most space images, dust makes things look redder by blocking blue light. If little red dots were just young galaxies buried in dust, that could explain their color and brightness — though it still wouldn't jibe well with how fast galaxies are known to grow.

Others argued that a black hole powered the dots. In that scenario, hot material falling into a black hole releases energy, but a surrounding orb of gas and dust mangles the light before it can escape, turning the system into a concentrated, reddish beacon. This is where the term "black hole star" comes in: It's not an actual star, per se, but a stage where a black hole sits at the center of a star‑size ball of gas, feeding rapidly on material.

A James Webb Space Telescope image of MoM-BH*-1, a so-called 'black hole star' in the early universe, which looks like a little red dot. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / DAWN JWST Archive / PRIMER Survey / Rohan Naidu

Earlier Webb studies, including detailed work on an object called GLIMPSE‑17775 and another known as The Cliff, made the black hole idea look increasingly plausible. They revealed dense gas, odd colors, and signs a hidden black hole was doing much of the work. But those studies still couldn't fully rule out more conservative explanations, where stars, dust, and a black hole all share the credit. 

They also featured objects that weren't nearly as ancient, existing around "cosmic noon" time versus MoM-BH*1's "cosmic dawn." 

When scientists split MoM‑BH*‑1's light into a spectrum — a measurement of brightness at each wavelength — they found a dramatic drop between redder and bluer light. In ordinary galaxies, that feature can come from the surfaces of certain types of stars. Here, though, the drop was more than twice as strong as any realistic combination of stars could produce.

Light from the material falling in toward the black hole tries to escape, but gets processed over and over again within the gas shell, which reshapes the spectrum and pushes energy toward redder wavelengths.

"We started to ask: Could you make something that red using just hydrogen, without any dust?" said Robert Simcoe, an MIT co-author, in a statement. "To our surprise, it turns out you can."

Since 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has has spotted hundreds of 'little red dots' scattered through its deepest images of the early universe. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Dale Kocevski

If dense gas — not dust — is doing most of the work in objects like MoM-BH*‑1, then some of those black holes could weigh much less than earlier estimates, simply growing at extraordinary rates while wrapped in gas. That would ease a major tension in cosmology, where some suspected early black holes seemed way too massive for how little time had passed since the Big Bang. 

The black hole star also seems to live in a tiny, dim galaxy, parked next to a much bigger one. In this arrangement, strong radiation from the larger galaxy could disrupt normal star‑forming processes in the smaller one.

That could eventually leave behind a huge cloud of gas that collapses more directly into a heavyweight black hole, the authors say, a shortcut some scientists think helped build the first supermassive black holes in the universe.

"We argue that Black Hole Stars may be powering all of JWST's Little Red Dots that are found almost everywhere in the early Universe," Naidu told Mashable in an email. "Which is to say, this channel of making massive black holes must be very common, to the point where every massive black hole (like the Milky Way's) may have gone through this phase." 

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SAVE $119: The DJI Osmo 360 Standard Combo is on sale at Amazon for $348, down from the list price of $467. That's a 25% discount.

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As dark as the world might seem, there's still beauty around. If you've been feeling inspired to capture stunning footage of your surroundings, an action camera is a great avenue. DJI makes some of the industry's best and there's a particular model on sale today.

As of Aug. 12, the DJI Osmo 360 Standard Combo is on sale at Amazon for $348, marked down from the list price of $467. That's a 25% discount or a savings of $119 and the best price we've seen at Amazon.

Like the name entails, the DJI Osmo 360 captures 360-degree footage in 8K resolution. The 1-inch 360-degree image sensor provides a larger image field and the f/1.9 aperture is excellent for capturing footage in low-light situations. Plus, DJI added SuperNight Mode to the Osmo 360 for even better clarity.

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Like most DJI products, it's extra friendly for creators. The Osmo 360 weighs just 183 grams which is under half a pound. The 1950 mAh battery allows for continuous recording of up to 190 minutes which a quick 12-minute recharge will earn you a 50% battery increase.

The Osmo 360 works with gesture controls like holding up your palm to start and stop filming. Voice controls also let you go hands-free when recording. The Standard Combo includes the Osmo 360 camera, an Osmo Action Extreme Battery Plus, a carrying case, lens cleaning cloth, and a USB-C cable.

Since we still have plenty of great summer and fall days ahead, snag the DJI Osmo 360 Standard Combo while it's on sale for the best price we've seen. It'll be espeically useful if you're heading off on a trip soon.

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Smartphone release season is in full swing, and Google's the latest to drop its newest mobile devices. The tech giant announced the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro phones on Aug. 12 ahead of its annual Made By Google event.

The Google Pixel 11 starts at $899. It doesn't have an official release date yet, but it's now available for preorder through the Google Store, where you can save up to $500 with a trade-in. If you purchase it there anytime before Aug. 28, you'll also get a bonus $100 in Google Store credit or $130 off the new Pixel Watch 5 — your choice.

Alternatively, you can preorder the Pixel 11 through Best Buy for a free $100 gift card. It's also available through major carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile; the latter is giving it away for free (via monthly bill credits) with a trade-in on select plans.

SEE ALSO: T-Mobile is giving away the new Google Pixel 11 Pro for free — how to qualify

While the Pixel 11 technically costs $100 more than last year's $799 Pixel 10, Google upped the starting storage on the latest generation to 256GB, and the 256GB Pixel 10 costs — you guessed it — $899. So it's not really a price bump.

The Pixel 11 Pro, on the other hand, gets a proper $100 price bump over the Pixel 10 Pro: It starts at $1,099. By preordering it directly through the Google Store, you'll save up to $600 with a trade-in and earn a free $200 bonus credit or $250 Pixel Watch 5 discount (before Aug. 28). At Best Buy, the Pixel 11 Pro comes with a free $200 gift card. Meanwhile, you can get it for free through T-Mobile and AT&T with a trade-in and an eligible data plan.

Alongside these phones, Google also announced the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, the Pixel 11 Pro XL, and the Pixel Watch 5.

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The Pixel 11 isn't a huge upgrade over last year's Pixel 10, which didn't bring much new to the table. Minor upgrades for the Pixel 11 include a thinner camera bar, no 128GB model, and a new 512GB model, as well as AI features like Magic Capture. It's the only new Pixel phone that doesn't come with HiLight (but more on that when we get to the Pixel 11 Pro).

• Display: 6.3-inch display with 1080x2424 resolution and 60-120Hz refresh rate

• Processor: Google Tensor G6 processor

• Storage: 256/512GB

• Memory: 12GB

• Battery: 4,985mAh

• Rear cameras: 48MP wide, 13MP ultrawide, 10.8MP telephoto with 5x optical zoom

• Front camera: 10.5MP

The Pixel 11 comes in four colorways: Frost, pistachio, hibiscus, and obsidian.

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The Google Pixel 11 Pro comes packed with notable changes over the previous gen. Google's done away with the 128GB storage option, starting at 256GB instead. The lowest-storage model now comes with 12GB of RAM (compared to the 16 GB found on older Pros), but the rest of the line features higher memory. Brightness also gets a boost from 3,300 nits to 3,600 nits.

Most notable, however, is the addition of HiLight, a feature available only on the Pro and Fold Pixel models. HiLight is a customizable, multi-colored light on the rear camera bar that can visually signify notifications from messages to calls to Gemini activation, with the option to set certain colors for certain actions.

The remaining spec breakdown for the Pixel 11 Pro is as follows:

• Display: 6.3-inch display with 1280x2856 resolution and 1-120Hz refresh rate

• Processor: Google Tensor G6

• Storage: 256/512GB/1TB

• Memory: 12/16GB RAM

• Battery: 4,850mAh battery

• Rear cameras: 50MP wide, 48MP ultra-wide, 48MP telephoto with 5x optical zoom

• Front camera: 42MP

The smartphone will be available in four colors: Canyon, obsidian, fog, and olive.

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I gave my old Kindle a new lease of life by jailbreaking it and installing KOReader. While KOReader is packed with features, it lacks the polished feel of the stock Kindle software. Thankfully, there's a free KOReader plugin that makes my Kindle way more useful while still looking great.

What if Steven Spielberg were a misanthrope? On its surface, The End of Oak Street plays like a pastiche of Spielberg work, cherry-picking elements from Jaws and Jurassic Park, including signature moments of sound design and score. Yet the question at its core is not really about whether its American nuclear family will survive. (It's a Hollywood summer movie, after all.) It's what happens when the Amblin aesthetic is used as a husk to express a deep disdain for humankind. 

Warner Bros. gave writer-director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) a blockbuster budget that enabled top-notch visual effects and A-list stars like Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. And in return, he gave the studio a survival action movie bursting with ferocious feathered dinosaurs, but also oozing with existential dread and a slyly regressive politics. 

On its surface, The End of Oak Street looks like summer fun. But it is, in fact, as bleak and infuriating as the recent — and alarmingly similar — Netflix release The Last House. 

The End of Oak Street is a gory and mean sci-fi adventure.  CHRISTIAN CONVERY as Brian Platt, ANNE HATHAWAY as Denise Platt, MAISY STELLA as Audrey Platt and EWAN McGREGOR as Greg Platt in “The End of Oak Street,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

Mitchell begins in a setting so Spielbergian it might be considered copyright infringement: 1982, a sunny summer block party in a beautiful suburb, filled with vibrant green lawns and smiling families engaged in simple games like sack races and balloon tosses. It's idyllic. But soon, Mitchell mars this peaceful tableau with marital discord. 

Strained Denise Platt (Hathaway) and her oafish husband, Greg (McGregor), bicker in front of their children, teen Audry (Daisy Stella) and adolescent Brian (Christian Convery). The children whisper nervously about whether divorce could be on the horizon. They don't even know that Denise is writing a "fictional" novel about a fed-up housewife who flees her husband and children for a fresh start in New York. But before Denise can go full Kramer Vs. Kramer, some strange anomalies transport their neighborhood back to a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. 

Their quiet streets no longer lead to cities or even other suburbs, but to murky swamps, tropical forests, and a sharp cliff edge. Dinosaurs prowl the lawns or swoop down from the skies, ruthlessly turning people into prey. Mitchell indulges in his horror roots here, relishing the chance to turn minor characters into bags of blood, ready to burst over porches or across rooftops. 

It's a ghoulish spectacle that evokes Jaws more than Jurassic Park, but with the vicious edge of Colin Trevorrow's ugly Jurassic World. You might recall in that, in the reboot, a young woman, who dared to plan a wedding, was served up to satisfy the audience's bloodlust. Yet there's a more crucial difference between Mitchell's version of an Amblin movie and Spielberg's than this slasher-level graphic violence. 

CHRISTIAN CONVERY as Brian Platt, MAISY STELLA as Audrey Platt in “The End of Oak Street,” A Warner Bros. Pictures release. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

While Spielberg used his amazing stories to celebrate mankind's resilience and the power of community — even in his summer release Disclosure Day — Mitchell's story is harrowing in its portrait of survival of the selfish. His heroes will not come together as unlikely allies with neighbors and strangers. Mostly, when the Platts see another human being attacked, they take the opportunity to run the other way with a consistently astounding lack of situational awareness.

Realizing the seriousness of their predicament, Greg and Denise discuss whether or not to reach out to other survivors. Greg is against the idea, preferring to stay home and keep their resources to themselves. Denise argues that they must go out  — not so much to find allies or help others, but to hoard resources like food and water before the "others" get to them. 

CHRISTIAN CONVERY as Brian Platt in “The End of Oak Street,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

It's a grim vision of the American family, only made more uncomfortable by their son. See, all we know about Brian before the time-travel incident is that he's broken a neighbor boy's arm for no apparent reason. That it was an accident matters little, as he shrugs off the consequences of his actions. Instead, he sputters with impotent rage, desperate to exert his violent tendencies but too scared to do so in a remotely useful manner. In a Stephen King movie, he'd be an antagonist in the vein of IT's Henry Bowers.

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Basically, every time his family is confronted by a deadly dino, Brian fumbles with his bow-and-arrow set while someone else — often his mother or sister — rushes into the fray to save the day. Even when offered the chance to rescue his crush, Jeannette (Jordan Alexa Davis), he fails and watches in agony as his sister sweeps in as the hero he is not.

This might be the most inventive element of The End of Oak Street, subverting the expectations that the chance to be a hero will straighten the kid out. But it's also another sign of how Mitchell's filmic philosophies veer far bleaker than Spielberg's. 

The End of Oak Street is awful, despite Anne Hathaway's efforts.  ANNE HATHAWAY as Denise Platt in “The End of Oak Street,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Credit: Daniel McFadden

Mitchell, who also created the polarizing but compelling Under the Silver Lake, fails to world build a convincing world here. His suburbia is peopled with archetypes of the frustrated housewife, the doofy dad, the shy teen girl, the mean neighbor, and the kindly neighbor, but with little specificity or logic. Characters don't have personalities so much as functions. So, when Denise goes to the library to research a strange plant that's popped up in her neighbor's yard, of course the librarian (Emily Kuroda) recognizes it on the spot as vegetation from millions of years ago. 

The audience at the advanced screening I attended laughed at such inexplicable moments, as they did when McGregor — constrained by atrociously awkward dialogue — bellows in an American accent about dinosaurs and deceptions.

Hathaway manages to rise above the worst of Mitchell's dialogue, seemingly treating it as part of the pleasant facade she strives to maintain for others. But McGregor is swallowed up by the astonishingly oblivious dad he's tasked to play. When it comes to running from dinosaurs in abject terror, however, both are very convincing. But again — these are not Jurassic Park dinosaurs. These creatures are uglier, meaner, and act like Michael Meyers, creeping through the backgrounds of suburbia as a silent threat (no matter how massive) to the average Americans who remain oblivious to their violent potential. They are scary, but in a world where the characters feel paper-thin, the thrill is like a rollercoaster ride, with wheels greased by apathy.

CHRISTIAN CONVERY as Brian Platt, MAISY STELLA as Audrey Platt, JORDAN ALEXA DAVIS as Jeanette and ANNE HATHAWAY as Denise Platt, in “The End of Oak Street,” A Warner Bros. Pictures release. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

These crude sketches of an American family might be intended as a critique, showing how tribalism in the U.S. has risen to such a fevered pitch that a family will look only to its own survival when things get rough. (Or hey, maybe you take in a stray kid if one of your kids has a crush on her.) But I suspect this reading gives Mitchell too much credit, as the climax seeks to undo much of the callousness the Platt family exhibits, without asking them to risk anything. 

Put simply and without spoilers, the ending of The End of Oak Street feels like a studio note that Mitchell carried out under protest. Think The Bad Seed or 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which the happy ending feels like an apology to the audience for so much horror instead of a satisfying conclusion. Mitchell's final act feels not only feels unearned, but also seems to smirk at the audience, suggesting that they should know better. 

And if I'm wrong, and Mitchell did choose that ending, then what does The End of Oak Street even mean? What meaning can be pulled from a movie where archetypes of the nuclear family fight only for their own interests, and still get a fairly happy ending? I wasn't sure what to make of it in The Last House and I'm not sure what to make of The End of Oak Street. 

But if you're looking for carefree summer fun, look elsewhere. The End of Oak Street is not fun. It's bleak, brutal, and ultimately infuriating. 

The End of Oak Street opens in theaters on Aug. 14.

TL;DR: Watch Newcastle United vs. Everton in a 2026 pre-season friendly for free on SportyNet. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The new Premier League season is fast approaching. Top teams are now at the stage where they need to stop experimenting and start building momentum before the opening weekend.

It has been a summer of turmoil for Newcastle United, but they've still got a talented squad that could do well next season. They come up against Everton this week, as both Premier League teams look to get a real measure of where they stand.

If you're interested in watching the 2026 Nations Championship from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is Newcastle United vs. Everton?

Newcastle United vs. Everton in a 2026 pre-season friendly kicks off at 12:15 p.m. ET on Aug. 12. This fixture takes place at Murrayfield Stadium.

How to watch Newcastle United vs. Everton for free

Newcastle United vs. Everton in a 2026 pre-season friendly is available to live stream for free on SportyNet.

SportyNet is geo-restricted to Brazil, but anyone can secure access with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in the UK, meaning you can livestream Newcastle United vs. Everton for free from anywhere in the world.

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Newcastle United vs. Everton without committing your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream this fixture before recovering your investment.

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Like everyone else, we cannot get enough of chains like Burger King, McDonald’s, and Taco Bell. Is it good for us? That's up for debate. Is it good for our bank balance? Absolutely not.

You've got to play the game, and if that means signing up for a million different rewards schemes and apps, we're in. And to help you squeeze absolutely everything out of some of the most popular restaurant chains in the U.S., we've compiled a list of the best offers available this week.

Here's how to eat for free this week using app hacks.

Auntie Anne’s

Get a free Original or Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel after you download the app and make your first purchase.

Burger King

Daily/weekly BOGO offers (like BOGO Original Chicken Sandwich) in the Royal Perks app.

Cinnabon

Download the Cinnabon Rewards app and get a free 4-Count BonBites upon joining and making a purchase.

Del Taco

Get two free Del Tacos when you join Del Yeah! Rewards and make any small purchase.

El Pollo Loco

Claim a free $5 reward/point multiplier on your first order after signing up for Loco Rewards.

Hardee’s

Download the My Rewards app to claim a free Famous Star or Hand-Breaded Chicken Sandwich with a $1 purchase.

Insomnia Cookies

Download the Insomnia Rewards app to claim a free Warm Chocolate Chunk Cookie with no purchase required.

Krispy Kreme

Free doughnut of choice upon rewards signup.

McDonald’s

Free 10-piece Chicken McNuggets with any $1+ purchase for new app accounts.

Moe’s Southwest Grill

Get free Queso & Chips added to your account instantly when you download the Moe Rewards app.

Taco Bell

Free Cantina Chicken Crispy Taco, Beefy 5-Layer Burrito, or Soft Taco upon downloading the app.

Wendy’s

New app users get a free 10-Piece Nuggets offer plus 150 bonus rewards points with any $1 purchase.

Whataburger

Create a new account in the Whataburger app and automatically receive a coupon for a free Whataburger.

TL;DR: The new Google Pixel 11 is available for free right now with T-Mobile. To qualify, trade in an eligible phone in any condition on an Experience Beyond plan.

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Google has finally dropped its new smartphone lineup, and the Google Pixel 11 proves that you don't need to drop $1,000+ to get best-in-class Android hardware. Packing the exact same next-gen Tensor G6 silicon and on-device Gemini AI processing as its more premium siblings, the Pixel 11 delivers about 90% of the flagship experience at a far more approachable starting price.

And now T-Mobile is making an upgrade even more appealing by dropping a bunch of free deals on launch.

For a limited time, you can get your hands on the Google Pixel 11 for free at T-Mobile. To qualify for this promotion, you simply need to trade in an eligible phone in any condition on an Experience Beyond plan.

The total cost of the phone is covered via 36 monthly bill credits. If you cancel or switch carriers before the end of your contract, you’ll need to pay the remaining balance. What's happening here is that you're committing to stick it out with the Google Pixel 11. That shouldn't be a problem, because Google really has thrown a lot at this new release.

We should also note that you need to pay taxes and a $35 device connection charge when signing up. That's always the case with these free deals.

Score the new Google Pixel 11 for free with T-Mobile.

Whether you're starting college this year or coming back in the fall for another semester, one thing is almost universally true: dorm Wi-Fi is a bit of a joke. You can't expect much in a building shared with hundreds of other students, all of whom rely on the internet for both their studies and their entertainment.

SAVE $100 + FREE GIFT CARD: As of August 12, get the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 with a free $100 Amazon Gift Card at Amazon. That's a discount of 13%.

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Looking for a new smartwatch to get a headstart on all of your fall activities? If you're an Android user, a Samsung Galaxy Watch is a great way to go. It's made even better by a new deal at Amazon that nets you not only a high-end model, but a discount and a gift card to go with it.

As of August 12, get the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 with a free $100 Amazon Gift Card at Amazon. That's $100 off and a discount of 13%. You'll get a physical Amazon gift card in a mini envelope with this bundle that may ship separately. You'll have to wait until you receive the gift card and activate it to use it on any future purchases.

SEE ALSO: All the best smartwatches for every wrist and interest

This sleek piece of tech eschews the typical smartwatch design for a more modern look, but it's got every feature you could want. It's chock-full of fitness and health-centric sensors and apps and can track your runs and exercise, overall heart health, and five additional health metrics, including sleep. It can even assist you with figuring out your readiness for the day with all of this information to compute what kind of things you should get up to.

But it's also got everything you could want in terms of regular smartwatch activity as well, including instant AI assistance. You need only raise your wrist and speak normally to get it too. It can handle payments, scheduling, calls, and anything else you might expect from a piece of tech like this straight from your watch. Plus, it boasts a screen with 5,000 nits of brightness so it's crisp and easily legible in any light situation.

If you're ready for a little something new for your smartwatch needs, this is a great option that you won't want to sleep on, especially with the discount and additional gift card. Now's the time to go ahead and invest, right before the countdown to the holidays.

SAVE $59: As of Aug. 12, the Apple AirPods Pro 3 are on sale for $189.99. That's a savings of 24% or $59.01 — the best deal we've seen since Prime Week.

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The Apple AirPods Pro 3 were marked safe from the dreaded Apple price hike of 2026. But that doesn't mean we're about to run out and buy them at full cost — and you shouldn't either.

As of Aug. 12, the Apple AirPods Pro 3 are down to only $189.99 at Amazon. That's 24% or $59.01 off their list price of $249 and probably the best deal we've seen since the week of Prime Day.

Rumor has it that new AirPods will likely be dropping soon, allegedly featuring cameras. But TBH, the Apple AirPods Pro 3 are still pretty dang impressive earbuds. At not even a year old, they're some of our favorite noise-cancelling earbuds overall (and we've tested a ton). Mashable's reviewer called them " a remarkable upgrade in functionality over their predecessors, with better battery life and ANC, as well as a new heart rate sensor."

Other perks of the Pro 3's are new health and fitness features, a balanced sound profile, intuitive controls and seamless connectivity for Apple users, and a Live Translate mode with a lot of potential. There's also a hearing aid function that our reviewer calls "questionable," though I will say my own dad is loving it.

If you've had a new pair of AirPods on your list for some time, I recommend picking up the Pro 3s while they're 24% off. Or you can wait for the new ones to drop, most likely next month, and hope for a price tag that isn't astronomical.

If you've ever searched for ways to make your Excel spreadsheets look better, you've probably been told to avoid Comic Sans MS, stop using thick borders, and choose better cell colors. But that advice is mostly geared toward appearance rather than usability. I get much better results by using Excel's built-in formatting tools to make data easier to read, compare, and understand.

TL;DR: Watch Leeds United vs. Manchester United in a 2026 pre-season friendly for free on ITVX. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The problem with pre-season friendlies is that they don't really matter. You get a lot of experimentation and teams that aren't fully committed. That's just the way it is. Teams don't want to lose their best players to injury before the season has even started.

That being said, Leeds United vs. Manchester United looks like a thrilling fixture that probably won't be all that "friendly." These sides go way back, and we expect a competitive game as they look to sharpen up before the Premier League returns.

If you're interested in watching the 2026 Nations Championship from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is Leeds United vs. Manchester United?

Leeds United vs. Manchester United in a 2026 pre-season friendly kicks off at 2:30 p.m. ET on Aug. 12. This fixture takes place at Croke Park.

How to watch Leeds United vs. Manchester United for free

Leeds United vs. Manchester United in a 2026 pre-season friendly is available to live stream for free on ITVX.

ITVX is geo-restricted to the UK, but anyone can secure access with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in the UK, meaning you can livestream Leeds United vs. Manchester United for free from anywhere in the world.

Livestream Leeds United vs. Manchester United for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (we recommend ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in the UK

4. Visit ITVX

5. Watch Leeds United vs. Manchester United for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Leeds United vs. Manchester United without committing your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream this fixture before recovering your investment.

What is the best VPN for ITVX?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport on ITVX, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

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A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and usually offers a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99.

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