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For more than three decades, the Toyota Camry has been the default pick for young families. It’s earned that spot by being easy to live with, comfortable, and consistently predictable when it comes to running costs and ownership.

TL;DR: The GoCable 8-in-1 EDC 100W Cable is on sale for $21.99 (reg. $49.99) and combines fast charging, data transfer, and built-in tools in one compact design.

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If you’re always untangling cords or looking for the right adapter, this small upgrade can make travel or your daily routine a lot easier. The GoCable 8-in-1 EDC cable is built to replace a handful of cables and tools with just one compact pick, and it is currently on sale for $21.99 (reg. $49.99).

It’s a 100W charging cable, so it can handle everything from your phone to your laptop. All you have to do is just plug into a compatible charger. You’ll get faster charging than standard cables, plus quick data transfer when you need to move files.

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The 8-in-1 comes from all the added features. You get universal connectors like USB-C and Lightning, so you can charge most devices without carrying extra cords. There’s even an LED display for a quick check to see if your device is charging.

Aside from charging, it makes everyday transport easier. A magnetic wrap keeps the cable tangle-free, while the built-in carabiner makes it easy to clip to a bag or keychain. There’s also a bottle opener and a small, safety-designed cutter tucked into the design for quick, practical tasks.

This kind of all-in-one cable makes the most sense for people who travel often, commute with multiple devices, or just want to cut down on clutter. Instead of carrying separate cords for your phone, laptop, and accessories, you’ve got one cable that covers most of the basics.

At $21.99 (reg. $49.99), the GoCable is an easy way to streamline your setup without spending a lot on multiple chargers. If you’re ready to stop digging for the right cable, this quick swap helps keep things organized.

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For HBO Max viewers, May 2026 isn’t just about new content—it’s about experiencing stories that span not just continents and cultures but also lived experiences, and it’s all in a single lineup. From a sweeping historical drama rooted in Japanese history to a contemporary sports journey with global stakes and intimate reflections on identity and community, HBO Max offers some stand-out titles this month, including films pairing literary romance, large-scale disasters, and smaller, more enigmatic originals.

German SUVs don’t exactly have a reputation for being trouble-free, and reliability usually isn’t the first thing people associate with them. European luxury models tend to be a bit of a trade-off: brilliant to drive, but complicated enough that things can get expensive when they go wrong.

Before you dismiss it too quickly, this isn’t the Nissan Murano you remember from a decade ago. Nissan has finally given it its first major update since 2016, so it’s worth keeping an open mind.

Here in the automotive industry, we have always built cars with what is known as static technology. In other words, once a vehicle leaves the assembly plant, its hardware and software are typically locked in time. Unlike your phone, which can receive real-time updates to enhance its performance (and auto-download spammy games), your vehicle has historically remained the same since you drove it off the lot.

Are you enjoying Stranger Things: Tales from '85? The first animated spin-off of Netflix's flagship series is finally out for audiences to enjoy. The show struck the right chord with fans—Netflix has already renewed it for a second season. Tales from '85 is just a sign of what's to come as we all wait for the live-action Stranger Things spin-off from the Duffer Brothers.

We visit Hasbro headquarters to take a closer look at the prototype for Ultimate Grogu, a $600 high-end animatronic from Star Wars. The collectible brings the character to life with advanced motion and detail. It goes up for preorder on April 30.

I recently purchased a Murena Fairphone 6. There were sacrifices I expected to be made in switching to a privacy-centric, de-Googled version of Android–but I didn’t expect group texting to be one of them. Turns out, group texting is broken, and it’s not Murena’s fault. You will suffer the same fate if you switch to any phone that doesn’t have Google Messages.

Nine years after the unveiling, Tesla has started mass production of its Semi electric truck with hopes of transforming the shipping world.

It’s probably the shooting brake silhouette that draws people in initially, but after that, it’s the levels of refinement Toyota has packed (either knowingly or unknowingly) into the Crown Signia. Since its North American debut at the end of 2023, Toyota has presented a textbook example of understated luxury with the Crown Signia, a wagon-style SUV that is anything but a traditional wagon or SUV.

Artificial intelligence that can "reason" is now capable of diagnosing real-life medical scenarios as well as or better than physicians, according to the results of a study published Thursday in Science.

The researchers used previously unknown clinical cases to test OpenAI's reasoning model o1 against the company's older model, GPT-4, as well as physicians and medical residents in training.

In a range of experiments, the o1 model often improved significantly on GPT-4's diagnostic ability and bested physicians, too. When tested with the electronic health records of random emergency department cases from a Boston hospital, the o1 model was diagnostically accurate more than two-thirds of the time at initial triage. Two expert attending physicians had correct diagnoses roughly half of the time.

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Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, described the study's findings as "important" and suggested it's now "indisputable" that modern AI will outperform older large language models and doctors when asked to identify the right diagnosis and next step. He was not involved in the study.

However, Wachter, author of "A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future," added that more research is necessary before AI is fully implemented in clinical practice.

"The question is how closely this replicates real life, and the answer is moderately well but not perfectly," Wachter wrote in an email.

As the study's authors acknowledge, the experiments were limited to text-only input and didn't include the visual and auditory clues and cues that doctors often rely on for diagnosis. These can include a patient's level of distress and medical imaging.

"GenAI can probably begin to integrate these inputs but for now, a test of a written, and often artificially 'clean' clinical case scenario is not the same as going into an ER and dealing with the chaos," Wachter said. "Just watch The Pitt."

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Dr. Ashwin Ramaswamy, an instructor of urology at Mt. Sinai who has studied AI's ability to respond to consumer health inquiries, shared a similar response to the study.

While he commended the study's design, Ramaswamy noted that the AI reasoned over clinical information that had been collected, filtered, documented by humans. In real life, patients may be afraid, intoxicated, or actively deteriorating, among other challenges physicians encounter when making diagnoses.

"This is valuable and it shows the progress of the technology that it performed so well, but it skips a central part of the job of 'being a doctor,'" Ramaswamy said in an email.

He also wished for specific details about the errors made both by physicians and the LLM. If the model made an understandable near-miss, that's different than a dangerous, unexplainable mistake.

In Ramaswamy's own recent evaluation of ChatGPT Health, published as a peer-reviewed advance paper in Nature Medicine, he and fellow researchers found that AI's failure modes can be "jagged." In other words, AI might perform well when diagnosing a rare, difficult disease, but still miss something clinically obvious.

Ramaswamy said the new study strengthens the case for using AI as a "supervised clinician-facing second-opinion tool."

Indeed, based on their findings, the study's authors highlighted an "urgent" need for further studies and prospective clinical trials to determine how AI systems can improve clinical practice and patient outcomes.

"The rapid pace of improvement in LLMs has substantial implications for the science and practice of clinical medicine," wrote the authors, many of whom are based at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where the study was conducted.

An accompanying article, also published in Science and written by two experts at Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide, Australia, who were not involved in the study, agreed with its urgent implications. They also argued against replacing doctors with AI, instead envisioning a style of collaboration that provides oversight, contextual judgment, and accountability.

"Without robust demonstrated effectiveness, equity, and safety, many AI systems will remain insufficient for clinical use," the experts wrote.

In a segment where most updates feel pretty minor, the 2026 Toyota RAV4 actually moves the needle in ways you can feel. Instead of trying to reinvent the compact SUV, Toyota tightens things up with smarter engineering, better packaging, and a clear push toward electrification.

The Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid has quickly become the default choice for buyers looking to step into an affordable hybrid SUV. It’s practical, efficient, and backed by a reputation that makes it an easy recommendation. But when you look beyond the badge, it’s no longer the clear-cut value leader it appears to be.

Google Maps offers one of the most polished navigation experiences you can get. Out of the box, it does a great job getting you from point A to point B, with reliable directions, solid traffic data, and an easy-to-use interface.

The latest AI-powered scam alert: Online grifters are using AI deepfakes of Hollywood faves, including Taylor Swift and Rihanna, to bait TikTok users into signing up for fraudulent rewards programs.

According to a new report by Copyleaks, TikTok has seen a rise in fake red carpet videos of AI-generated celebrities, like Kim Kardashian, that appear to encourage users to sign up for "fraudulent or malicious services." Examples include late night clips of Swift advertising a mysterious "TikTok Pay" feature and press circuit clips of Rihanna schilling a views-for-rewards program.

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The synthetic impersonations aren't entirely convincing, with typically unsettling facial movements and unsynchronized audio, but that's not stopping alleged scammers. Many of the clips use TikTok branding and add textured filters to seemingly bypass the platform's AI detection tools. When users click on the videos, they are redirected to third-party sites that then solicit personally identifiable information.

Copyleaks has reported a rise in AI-enabled deepfake scams across social media platforms, some of which include hyper-sexualized, nonconsensual deepfakes of celebrities. Meta was recently the target of a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of the Consumer Federation of America, alleging the company profited from Facebook advertising scams.

Meanwhile, Hollywood still hasn't come up with a sweeping solution for nonconsensual celebrity deepfakes. Earlier this week, Swift reportedly filed to trademark her voice and likeness amid AI-generated deepfakes and growing public attention on posthumous legacy projects. Other celebrities have done the same.

Microsoft's stellar Surface Laptop is overdue for a refresh, and we just got some pretty concrete evidence that a new model is coming soon.

An unreleased Surface Laptop 8th Edition with an Intel Panther Lake processor and a 13.8-inch display appeared in two Geekbench 6 listings earlier this week. The listings, which were viewed by Mashable and captured in screenshots by Notebookcheck, were removed by Thursday morning.

A cached Google search result still shows one of the laptop's Geekbench 6 listings. Credit: Screenshot via Google

Primate Labs' Geekbench 6 is a popular benchmark for measuring devices' CPU performance. (We run it on every laptop we review.) Geekbench 6 results are automatically uploaded to a public online database unless the user enters a paid license key. Presumably, someone at Microsoft or Intel forgot to do so before benchmarking the device in question.

Microsoft hasn't confirmed any new Surface PCs for 2026 yet, though it announced significant price hikes for its current-gen devices earlier this month, citing "recent increases in memory and component costs." When reached for comment about this week's Geekbench 6 leak, a rep for the company said, "Microsoft has nothing further to share at this time."

What the leak tells us

The mysterious Surface Laptop's Geekbench 6 results revealed that it runs on a high-end Intel Core Ultra X7 368H chip with Arc B390 graphics and 32GB of RAM, per Notebookcheck's screenshots. It scores on par with other newer Windows laptops powered by the slightly lesser Core Ultra X7 358H chip, and with the M5 MacBook Air (in multi-core scenarios like video editing).

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The laptop's full name is "Microsoft Corporation Surface Laptop for Business 13.8in 8th Ed Intel," indicating that Microsoft will continue to earmark Intel configurations for business customers. The company originally launched its current Surface Laptop 7 with Qualcomm Snapdragon X series processors in May 2024; pricier enterprise models with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips arrived in January 2025.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 came in two sizes and four colors: platinum, sapphire, dune, and black. Credit: Microsoft

That schedule might be flipped for the next generation. Earlier this month, Windows Central reported that Microsoft is planning on releasing Intel-based Surface Laptops and Surface Pros this spring. Snapdragon X2 variants for consumers will likely follow later in the summer, possibly due to supply shortages of those chips.

The new Surface Laptop will reportedly feature a similar design, new colors, improved haptics, and an optional OLED display, per Windows Central.

UPDATE: Apr. 30, 2026, 1:39 p.m. EDT This story was updated with comment from a Microsoft rep.

If you're shopping around for a new CPU, you might have noticed that there are a lot more cores in mainstream chips these days. It wasn't that long ago that having eight cores was seen as extravagant. Now, 14- or 16-core CPUs are pretty ho-hum, and you'll even find them in mid-tier laptops.

New vehicle prices currently sit at record levels in the United States, floating right around $50,000 on average. That $50,000 figure is an all-time high for the automotive industry, which has seen new vehicle prices steadily rise over the last few years. For many, the rising MSRP of a new vehicle has become much harder to justify. And for those who do make a purchase, it’s important that every last dollar of the monthly payment counts.

Google Drive can make you feel like all your files and folders are safe. If you accidentally delete a file, you might expect that you can just download the version that's stored in Google Drive. This isn't always the case, however.