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The best celeb interview podcasts of the week (Sept. 4, 2026)
It won't shock you that there's a superabundance of interview podcasts and internet series out there. You're probably subscribed to a bunch of content creators (perhaps those who made this year's Mashable 101) or maybe you depend on your feed to hand-deliver the most viral clips. But your time is precious, so we've rounded up the best on the internet this week.
Whether you're into deadpan showdowns, niche hot takes, or simply wholesome interviews between creative minds, here's what we reckon is worth your time (and of course, we'd never leave out Mashable's own Say More, what are you, nuts?).
SEE ALSO: The Mashable 101: The creators defining the internet in 2026 1. Baby, This is Keke Palmer: Laverne CoxEmmy-winning actor, producer, podcaster, and author Laverne Cox joined Keke Palmer's podcast this week for a must-watch interview with range. Having released her memoir Transcendent in June, Cox had plenty to talk about from dating her MAGA ex to her two years of celibacy and her constant fight for trans visibility and rights. In one of the most vulnerable conversations in the podcast, Cox reflects on healing from childhood trauma and abuse. It's a powerful, honest must-watch, and a testament to both interviewer and interviewee.
How to watch/listen: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Instagram, TikTok
2. Gaydar: Anania x MUNAAre MUNA members Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson "gay, straight, or homophobes"? The Dancing on the Wall artists were put to the test by Gaydar's Anania this week, naming as many trans artists as possible in 10 seconds, unpacking lesbian national anthems and gender dysphoria, and ranking their tattoos. A truly excellent time.
How to watch: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram
3. Say More: Mark Stetson x Will Forte, John Cena and Lana CondorWant to watch John Cena take "Choose Your Squad" extremely seriously? Coyote vs. Acme stars Will Forte, John Cena, and Lana Condor joined Mashable executive producer Mark Stetson for the ultimate Looney Tunes showdown on this week's Say More. It's hilariously no-nonsense stuff watching Cena see his top picks (Pepé Le Pew and Granny) swiped by his co-stars. The vengeance is real.
Where to watch: Mashable, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
4. Royal Court: Brittany Broski x Adam ScottBrittany Broski and Adam Scott, what an unexpected dream team! In the latest episode of the creator and podcaster's Royal Court, the pair unpack Hokum and being literally shit-scared during horror films, watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High too young, serving up openfaced sandwiches during Party Down, discovering The Twilight Zone as a kid, and more.
How to watch: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
5. Solid Air: Derrick Gee x WednesdayArtists nerding out over their favourite tracks with one of the internet's go-to music commentators? Always in. On this week's Solid Air, Derrick Gee sat down at home with Wednesday to dig into the music the North Carolina band loves, from The Seraphims to Vatos Tristes. It's pure music appreciation.
How to watch: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram
6. Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Kenan ThompsonAmy Poehler and Kenan Thompson have walked a similar comedy path, as the latest episode of Good Hang will attest. The Saturday Night Live stars reconnected for Poehler's podcast released Tuesday, with Thompson being the longest-tenured cast member in SNL history — over 22 seasons and counting.
The longtime friends unpacked the art of timing in comedy and life, Thompson's pre-SNL career (including the Mighty Ducks franchise), auditioning for SNL at 23, getting his own writing on SNL with the recurring "Scared Straight" sketch, ice skating on the Rink at Rockefeller Center at 1 a.m. after filming SNL Christmas specials, fanning out over American figure skater Alysa Liu, and more.
And as always, there's a special guest question from Thompson and Poehler's fellow SNL star Maya Rudolph.*
How to watch/listen: YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Instagram
From YouTubers and TikTok stars to streamers and podcasters, Mashable talks to creators about how they built their platforms, the gear they swear by, and the trends they see coming next. Read more of our creator coverage, sign up for our Trending Now and Top Stories newsletters or get Mashable push alerts to discover the internet's most exciting voices.
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How to watch F1 live streams online for free
This season of F1 is unlike any other. Every season of F1 has a number of fascinating storylines to follow, but due to a major set of regulation changes, there's so much uncertainty right now. And uncertainty can lead to exciting racing.
Mercedes looked totally dominant in the early stages of the season, but now McLaren seems to have the edge.
If you are interested in watching F1 2026 for free from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.
What is F1?Formula One (F1) is the highest class of international open-wheel single-seater racing. A season consists of a series of races held in multiple countries and on multiple continents, either on purpose-built circuits or on closed public roads.
Lando Norris is the defending champion. McLaren won the Constructors Championship in 2025.
When is F1 in 2026?The 2026 F1 season is the 77th edition of the championship. This year's championship features 24 Grands Prix events held all over the world between March and December:
Australian Grand Prix — March 8
Chinese Grand Prix — March 15
Japanese Grand Prix — March 29
Miami Grand Prix — May 3
Canadian Grand Prix — May 24
Monaco Grand Prix — June 7
Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix — June 14
Austrian Grand Prix — June 28
British Grand Prix — July 5
Belgian Grand Prix — July 19
Hungarian Grand Prix — July 26
Dutch Grand Prix — Aug. 23
Italian Grand Prix — Sept. 6
Spanish Grand Prix — Sept. 13
Azerbaijan Grand Prix — Sept. 26
Singapore Grand Prix — Oct. 11
United States Grand Prix — Oct. 25
Mexico City Grand Prix — Nov. 1
São Paulo Grand Prix — Nov. 8
Las Vegas Grand Prix — Nov. 21
Qatar Grand Prix — Nov. 29
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix — Dec. 6
It's important to note that these dates are only for race days. The Chinese, Miami, Canadian, British, Dutch, and Singapore GPs will host a sprint race.
How to watch F1 for freeFor the first time, Apple TV has made an entire F1 race weekend available for free to viewers in the U.S., with live coverage of the Austrian Grand Prix from June 26–28. Fans can watch every session live on Apple TV — including practice, qualifying, and Sunday’s Grand Prix — with no subscription required.
In the U.S., F1 is now exclusive to Apple TV. If you want access to the whole season, an Apple TV subscription costs $12.99 per month or $99 per year.
Apple TV Opens in a new window Credit: Apple TV Apple TV (7-day free trial) Apple TV comes with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. This is a sneaky trick, but you could sign up to watch the next F1 race and then cancel your subscription before you need to spend anything. This obviously isn't a long-term fix, but it does give you the opportunity to live stream select F1 race weekends for free. Shop Now Apple TV Prime Video Channel Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Apple TV Prime Video Channel (7-day free trial) Already an Amazon Prime member? You're in luck. You can sign up for a 7-day free trial of Apple TV+ through Prime Video Channels. This lets you watch select F1 races live with the Prime Video app. The subscription typically costs £9.99 per month after the trial ends, but you can cancel at any time. That means you can watch select races without actually spending anything. Shop Now Apple One Opens in a new window Credit: Apple One Apple One (30-day free trial) Apple One bundles Apple TV with Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness Plus, Apple News Plus, and 50GB of iCloud Storage for $19.95 per month after a one-month free trial. Time it right and this trial could provide access to up to four race weekends for free. You do need to be a new or returning subscriber to each of the included services to get the free trial. Shop NowIt's worth noting that the best Apple TV free-trial offer comes with purchases of new Apple devices. New subscribers can get three months of Apple TV for free after purchasing any eligible Apple product, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, or Apple TVs. This special offer goes live for 90 days after the new device is activated — that's a good chunk of the season.
Im watching the Italian GP for free this weekend — how to live stream F1 for free
TL;DR: Sign up for a 7-day free trial of Apple TV+ through Prime Video Channels to watch select F1 races for free. Watch the Italian GP for free with the Prime Video app.
Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Apple TV Prime Video Channel Watch the Italian GP for free with a 7-day trial Shop NowIn the early stages of this F1 season, it looked like Mercedes were going to race away from the competition. Ferrari briefly showed signs of pace, but McLaren has now emerged as the real rival. Norris and Piastri have been climbing the standings in recent weeks, and they'll expect to be fighting for spots on the podium at Monza this weekend.
Kimi Antonelli still tops the standings, but he'll be well aware that Norris is on the verge of winning his third straight GP. Can anyone stop the defending champion?
SEE ALSO: ExpressVPN review: A stylish VPN service with proven privacy and a large U.S. presenceIf you want to watch F1 2026 for free from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.
When is the Italian GP?The Italian GP is the 13th race of the 2026 F1 season. Here's the full schedule from the Autodromo Nazionale Monza:
Practice 1 — 6:30-7:30 a.m. ET on Sept. 4
Practice 2 — 10-11 a.m. ET on Sept. 4
Practice 3 — 6:30-7:30 a.m. ET on Sept. 5
Qualifying — 10-11 a.m. ET on Sept. 5
Race — 9 a.m. ET on Sept. 6
Fans can follow all the action from this race weekend without spending anything.
How to watch the Italian GP for freeAmazon Prime delivers fast shipping, Prime Day discounts, and access to the Prime Video library. For F1 fans in the U.S., Prime Video comes in clutch this season. Apple TV holds exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights for F1, and you can sign up for a seven-day free trial of Apple TV directly through Prime Video Channels.
That trial gives you full access to select races for free, including this weekend's Italian Grand Prix. The subscription rolls over to $12.99 per month after 7 days, but you can disable automatic renewal in your settings and still stream the entire race weekend for free.
Of course, if you're already paying for Amazon Prime, calling it "completely free" is questionable. But if you don't have an active membership, Amazon offers a 30-day free trial for new users. Stacking that Prime trial with the seven-day Apple TV channel trial means you're truly spending nothing to stream this weekend's race.
If you've already made use of this hack, you still have a few workarounds:
Apple TV: New standalone subscribers qualify for a direct seven-day free trial through Apple's app.
Apple One: If you want more than just streaming, the Apple One tier packages Apple TV alongside Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+, Apple News+, and 50GB of iCloud storage — and it comes with a full one-month free trial ($19.95 per month after the promotional period).
Apple: The most generous Apple TV offer is tied to new hardware purchases. Buying an eligible iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV grants new subscribers three months of free service. You obviously have to spend money on hardware, but if you were already planning an upgrade, it effectively unlocks a massive chunk of the F1 season for free.
The U.S. Open has an influencer problem. But creators are not solely to blame.
Naomi Osaka was about to serve at deuce in the second set of her opening-round U.S. Open match, but chair umpire Kader Nouni was looking somewhere else: a luxury suite where a group of attendees appeared to be staging a content shoot.
"Guys, please, in the suite behind me," he said into his microphone. "Thank you guys, please take your seat."
The interruption was brief, and Osaka went on to defeat Anastasia Zakharova in straight sets. Online, however, the moment's momentum was just getting started. The footage circulated alongside other videos and images of creators taking selfies in the stands, drawing a variety of comments calling the spectacle "a South Park episode," declaring that "social media was a mistake," and observing that "The fatigue is real."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.But given how major live events are marketed these days, was any of this really a surprise?
"The worst crowd experience I’ve ever had." This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Creators have been on the U.S. Open’s invite list for years, documenting its fashion, food, celebrity sightings, and courtside culture for audiences who might otherwise have little interest in tennis. In 2025, the United States Tennis Association formalized that relationship by issuing media credentials to 54 creators. This year, it approved around 100, including 20 focused on food and beverages. That does not include creators invited separately by sponsors hosting parties, campaigns, and luxury suites.
USTA CEO Craig Tiley has said he wants the tournament to become "tennis Disneyland." You can see how influencers fit into that vision. An all-day entertainment destination needs people to show off everything there is to do, wear, eat, and drink.
The hope is that someone who comes for the outfit videos and aesthetically pleasing Honey Deuces might stay for the tennis. Players understand the potential. Aryna Sabalenka told Front Office Sports that she loves creators bringing "fresh eyes" to the sport, while Daniil Medvedev said its growing visibility has "a lot more upside than downside." Jessica Pegula has similarly credited influencers with helping tennis experience a "crossover Hollywood moment."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.The tournament’s audience has grown alongside that strategy. The 2025 U.S. Open drew a record 1.14 million attendees, while the USTA said interactions across its social accounts increased from 2.3 billion in 2024 to 3.1 billion in 2025. Those figures do not tell us how much of that growth creators drove, but they help explain why organizers want to keep expanding their reach.
The awkward part comes when the content production starts interfering with the event everyone is supposedly there to promote.
In his SportsVerse newsletter, journalist Daniel-Yaw Miller wrote that he and a friend "could barely focus on the action amid a sea of influencers posing around us for endless fit pics and filming TikToks mid-point." He had encountered a similarly creator-filled suite at a France-Sweden World Cup match earlier that summer.
Another spectator who posted footage under the TikTok handle @katticuspfinch told Inc. that photo shoots were happening around the stadium, including during active play. Having attended the tournament for more than a decade, she described this year’s crowd as "the worst crowd experience I’ve ever had."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.The experiences reflects a broader shift in live sports. The NBA brought more than 200 creators to its 2026 All-Star festivities, while YouTube and FIFA offered behind-the-scenes access at this summer’s World Cup and organized the first YouTube FIFA Creator Cup. Just before the U.S. Open, the ATP held its first Talent Summit, bringing together creators nominated by major social platforms to discuss fandom and sports engagement.
There is plenty of money encouraging those relationships. According to the a 2025 creator economy report, U.S. spending on creator advertising is projected to reach $44 billion in 2026, up from $29.5 billion in 2024. Nearly half of the ad buyers surveyed consider creators a "must buy," behind only social media and paid search.
For brands, the appeal is clear: access to established communities through people those communities already watch. For everyone forced to share both physical and digital space with the resulting campaign, the benefits can be harder to identify.
"My favorite thing about this sport was the silence."All summer long, I’ve been writing about influencer invasions. In the Hamptons, practically every desirable location seemed to become the site of another sponsored experience. A creator could begin the morning at a branded workout, attend a product launch in the afternoon, and end the night at a yacht party, producing several pieces of aspirational content along the way.
By July, businesses were protesting: A Nantucket shop hung a"No influencers" sign, prompting a heated debate over whether creators bring small businesses valuable attention or make those spaces less enjoyable by treating them like unrestricted sets.
Similar complaints have surfaced around filming in cafes and fitness studios, where other customers may find themselves maneuvering around equipment or appearing in footage they never agreed to be part of.
By the time the U.S. Open began, the brightly lit selfies were arriving in front of an audience already primed to be annoyed. The footage brought several grievances into one frame: conspicuous perks, disruptive behavior, and the feeling that something people cared about had become someone else’s backdrop.
For tennis fans, the interruption also touched a particular nerve. Silence during play is part of the experience. "I’m so overstimulated. Irritated. But mostly sad at what this tournament has become. My favorite thing about this sport was the silence."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.One attendee described a couple arriving after Ben Shelton’s match had begun, photographing their Honey Deuces, looking at their phones, ordering a car back to Manhattan, and leaving before the match ended.
“Why even come and waste the seats, space, tickets, air, if you are showing up for one hour for a photo?!” she asked.
"The influencers are just doing their job"Faulting (pun-intended) the people holding the phones leaves out everyone who invited them.
"Lowkey blame the brands though, the influencers are just doing their job," one commenter wrote.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.There's some merit to that argument. Creators may be the ones holding the phones, but they're working within a system built by brands and event organizers. Sponsors including Moët & Chandon, Ralph Lauren, Maestro Dobel Tequila, and Grey Goose host guests in elaborate hospitality suites designed to generate attention beyond the court.
Still, the people in those booths should be able to maintain decorum — or at least be briefed on content creation rules before they start filming. As Osaka said in a press conference, “If you come to a sporting event, you have to respect the sport. I feel like it’s common courtesy to read up on the sport. Especially the etiquette."
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Josephine Wong, general manager of creator commerce platform POP.STORE, agrees with Osaka. "Credentialing needs to come with guidelines: what to film, when it’s appropriate, and what level of access actually makes sense for the assignment," Wong said. "The same way any newsroom would brief a reporter."
"Nobody had defined what that suite full of people was supposed to be doing there, so they did the only thing they had a plan for, which was content about themselves," she added.
Morgan Riddle, a fashion and lifestyle creator who built her following by documenting life around professional tennis with her now-ex-boyfriend Taylor Fritz, argued that the behavior is neither unique to the U.S. Open nor limited to professional influencers.
"Every single person who goes to the Open is going to take photos and take content, except maybe the older, die-hard, OG tennis fans," she told Us Weekly.
Riddle described that impulse as part of "the state of the world," pointing out that people increasingly document everything from sporting events to engagements and weddings with an online audience in mind, whether or not they are professional influencers.
In fact, one of the women swept into the U.S. Open backlash was not even there for work. As The Cut reported, one attendee who went viral for the timing of her selfie, Mriganka Chawla, was not in a brand suite and rather attended the match with her fiancé.
Regardless of whether every person swept into the backlash was actually an influencer, the U.S. Open recognized that the underlying behavior was a problem. After the incident, a prominent digital board instructed attendees to "refrain from the use of flash photography or other lighting." The USTA also said it was reminding ticket holders and suite guests through emails, notifications, and signs around the grounds to avoid activities that interfere with play.
Credit: Screenshot: Threads, @patkiernanThose are sensible steps, but ideally, guests should be properly briefed by brands inviting them before anyone switches on a light during play.
Wong does not believe bringing creators to the tournament was inherently a mistake. "The USTA credentialing close to 100 creators wasn’t the wrong call," Wong told Mashable. "Every major sports property is fighting for attention from audiences who no longer discover events through traditional broadcast."
For Wong, the problem is not whether the person holding the phone is a sports creator or a lifestyle influencer. What matters is whether the creator has something to offer beyond proof that they received an invitation.
"The ring-light disruption during Osaka’s match wasn’t really a creator problem, it was an access-without-purpose problem," Wong said.
That's why the guest list matters. Some of the most notable events in the industry right now are also the most targeted — at an Aug. 26 Hard Court party hosted by newsletter writer Jessica Schiffer, guests included former NCAA tennis champion and creator Ayan Broomfield, Hard Hitting writer Mel Kenny, The Sweat Lookbook writer Lee Glandorf, and other "sports x fashion" writers who gathered to discuss this growing intersection (as per Daniel-Yaw Miller of SportsVerse).
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Many tennis fans (and casual watchers) questioned whether the U.S. Open needs influencers at all when interest is already surging. ESPN’s 2025 coverage was the tournament’s most watched since 2022, with the men’s final audience jumping 82 percent and the women’s rising 50 percent from the previous year. The momentum continued in 2026, when every signature ticketed Fan Week event sold out and registrations for free Fan Access Passes climbed 66 percent.
That question feels even more urgent now that attending the tournament has become so expensive that even hard-core tennis fans can’t afford it. Grounds passes originally priced at $65 were reselling for more than $300 during the tournament’s first week, putting the experience out of reach for many fans.
"It’s maybe not the greatest thing for the real tennis fan because they’ve started getting priced out of the market," former player Patrick McEnroe told Front Office Sports about the surge of influencers at matches. With demand already high and tickets increasingly unaffordable, it’s easy to understand why fans question who receives those coveted seats.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Of course, I’m a digital culture editor — I know better than anyone how important influencer culture is to brands and the broader social media ecosystem we live in (whether we like it or not). At the U.S. Open, a good post can introduce someone to a lesser-known player, explain a confusing term, or convince them to try a Honey Deuce.
But there’s a difference between inviting people into tennis and turning tennis into a backdrop. Judging by this year’s overwhelming backlash, the U.S. Open may have discovered where that line is.
Is playing GTA 6 cheating? We asked a relationship therapist.
The release of Grand Theft Auto VI is still months away, but every piece of news about it is revving up the internet. The latest TikTok discourse is whether playing GTA 6 is considered "cheating" if you're in a relationship.
The debate began when it came to light that the game has an optional system that lets players maintain a romantic relationship between the main characters, Jason and Lucia. Beyond completing missions together, players can also text, plan activities, hold hands, and (gasp!) kiss.
SEE ALSO: Could GTA 6 teach Gen Z how to be in a relationship?The fact that developing Jason and Lucia's relationship is optional didn't stop enraged TikTokkers from taking to the platform to express their discontent about this, and accuse men of cheating on their partners if they play.
"In absolutely no human way is my fiancé playing GTA 6," TikTok user @diaryofasalesgirl posted, and also told other women not to let their partners play, either. "It's cheating btw if he has a girlfriend in GTA 6," another user, @ahhnuska, posted. A third TikTok user, @natalitovarr, even called the game "interactive porn." (None of these creators responded to Mashable's request for comment.)
Mashable spoke to Los Angeles-based sex and couples therapist, Ilana Grines, for the answer, and it's not as simple as these videos make it seem.
What even is cheating, anyway?There's no one definition of cheating or infidelity. Grines told Mashable over the phone that it's nuanced, and it's actually up to each couple to come up with their own definition.
"In my clinical definition, infidelity isn't just the presence of romance or sexual content," she explained. "It's much more about what the couple has agreed to, and whether this is something that's being hidden or spoken about," be it anything from flirting to pornography.
It's important to bring it back to the specific couple: Have they talked about it? Have they agreed to specific limits and agreements, whether about the game or otherwise?
But here's the thing: It's not about what cheating means. Couples often get stuck here about what constitutes cheating instead of talking about the behavior underneath it, Grines said. What about the behavior — in this case, going on dates and texting a fictional character — bothers you?
Dig into what specifically feels like cheating, be it emotional time, nudity, sexual interaction, fantasy, or something else. "Once you identify that part that actually hurts, let's negotiate some parameters around that for our relationship," she said.
What the 'GTA 6' debate says about modern relationshipsOn the GTA 6 matter, Grines said, first and foremost, that she believes the argument is "TikTok bait." (That would make sense, as the most viral videos calling it cheating have been counterbalanced with other enraged people explaining why it's absolutely not cheating.)
But even beyond the virality, the thought that it's cheating says something about modern relationships.
We're going into unknown territory, Grines said, not just with video games, but with technology like AI chatbots. Sex and couples therapy in the age of AI is a big topic of conversation for her right now, and while GTA 6 is very different from interacting with a bot that can respond directly to you, the throughline is that couples are engaging in things we don't have relational scripts for.
"We are trying to catch up to a world that's rapidly changing, and it's really important to have conversations about it, not only with ourselves but with our partners," she said.
Because we're in relationships alongside the emergence of new technology, it brings about feelings we may not have the language to talk about. We might jump to saying something is cheating when, really, we're talking about something else.
If your boyfriend, as Jason, has to text Lucia back, and he does, and that bothers you because your boyfriend doesn't text you back, are you really talking about the game? "Or are we talking about our own pain points, our own injuries that are not about a fictional romance, rather our own romance," Grines said.
Talking about the game may be easier than talking about your relationship. After falling down the "is GTA 6 cheating" TikTok rabbit hole, Grines's understanding is that the people calling the game "cheating" were really picking up their own sources of hurt and translating them through the game, and not having the ability to say what they want to work on in the relationship.
Grines's advice for those people is to talk about the game before it comes out and to recognize that their feelings aren't ridiculous. But if you're not able to have a conversation before the game releases, she does think it could create relationship problems.
So…is 'GTA 6' cheating?On the direct question of whether GTA 6 is cheating, Grines wouldn't inherently consider it that way. Though again, it depends on what each couple agrees to.
But, also, a growing trend over the last few years (in my opinion, not Grines's), is that cheating has become the ultimate crime. It seems that every few months, the internet comes out with its pitchforks (fingers) to vilify people who appear to be committing infidelity, as in the 2025 Coldplay concert scandal and the more recent viral kiss between lawyers in Central Park.
Cheating is typically considered wrong in monogamous couples (and even non-monogamous people can cheat, depending on the relationship's agreement), but the way social media goes after people whom the majority believes are cheating has become absurd. They try — and often succeed — in getting them fired from their jobs. They might get their homes doxxed online. They and their families are harassed.
The internet has done similar to those for actions that are not acts of betrayal, like cheating, but the mob mentality continues to confound. And cheating isn't illegal! Maybe it's increased moralization. Maybe it's schadenfreude. Maybe it's boredom. Whatever it is, this frenzy over whether texting a pixelated woman is cheating might stem from this pattern.
On the increased moralization of cheating, Grines said, we have a need to "insert ourselves into other people's relationships and cast judgment when we have no knowledge of them."
"We live in a generation where things that feel really big are not spoken about in a way of recovery, [but] rather in a way of shame," she continued, "and shame doesn't allow for us to actually make changes."
So, is GTA 6 cheating? Neither Grines nor I think so. But the debate itself is masking something a lot deeper.
A battle-tested spacecraft now begins its approach to Mercury
A European spacecraft bound for Mercury cleared a major hurdle on Thursday when it safely separated from its propulsion module that has carried it through deep space since 2018.
BepiColombo now flies on a slimmer stack made of two orbiters and a sunshield. The change marks the end of the mission's long cruise and the start of its months‑long arrival phase as it closes in on the planet nearest to the sun.
After the separation command at 2 p.m. local time in Germany on Sept. 3, teams waited nearly two hours for radio signals to cross more than 120 million miles of space. Fresh data then revealed the spacecraft in its expected new configuration, with healthy power levels from its remaining solar panel. Dropping the transfer module meant the most important instruments onboard were no longer blocked.
"Finally, we have science cameras," said Paolo Cappuccio, a European Space Astronomy Centre scientist in Spain. "Let's go to Mercury."
The mission will give scientists new insight into Mercury, the least studied planet in the solar system — even less so than dwarf planet Pluto. That's not because scientists don't care about it, but because Mercury is the hardest world to reach, mission leaders say. Spacecraft must shed huge amounts of speed to fall inward toward the sun and match Mercury's tight, fast orbit. Only two missions — NASA's Mariner 10 and Messenger — have ever visited Mercury before, and only Messenger orbited it.
SEE ALSO: What one tiny signal can and can't tell us about dark matterLaunched in 2018, BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and Japan's JAXA. Until today, the car‑size Mercury Transfer Module, or MTM, used solar power and ion engines to push the spacecraft through a series of flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury.
About six years into flight, the team faced a major crisis when that module's solar panels began underdelivering on power. That forced engineers to redraw BepiColombo's path, cut back on the engine firings, adjust the schedule of key maneuvers, and accept a later arrival at Mercury so they could keep the spacecraft healthy.
Engineering cameras were located on three areas of the Mercury Transfer Module, which is now separated from BepiColombo and drifting through space. Credit: ESA infographicAt separation on Thursday, the space-weary BepiColombo was still about 2.1 million miles from its destination, but it had reached the final leg of its journey. Small release devices let the module drift away at roughly 1 mph, while the remaining spacecraft briefly entered a "safe mode" to reset.
The spacecraft separated from the propulsion module because it needed to switch to a lighter setup better suited for steering and doing science in orbit around Mercury.
Before shutting down for good, the module sent its final snapshots from three small cameras. The images show parts of the spacecraft — a solar panel edge, an antenna, and a boom — against the blackness of space. Mercury itself does not appear, both because of camera angles and the fact that the planet is still millions of miles away.
There are no pictures of the actual separation because, once detached, the module had no computer or antenna to continue snapping with the engineering cameras.
These images were taken by small cameras meant for monitoring systems on the spacecraft, not the science cameras mounted on the orbiters. Credit: ESAWant more science and tech news delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for Mashable's Light Speed newsletter or get Mashable push alerts today.
Over the next weeks, flight teams will adjust BepiColombo's trajectory so it arrives at just the right spot — at just the right speed — to let Mercury's gravity capture it. A key engine burn on Nov. 21 is expected to place the stack into a wide orbit around Mercury.
In December, Japan's MIO spacecraft will separate into its own high path to study Mercury's magnetic bubble, while Europe's orbiter will focus on the planet itself, mapping the surface and probing the interior.
Mercury bakes to more than 750 degrees Fahrenheit in daylight and plunges below minus 290 degrees at night. BepiColombo must survive not only fierce sunlight but also the heat that Mercury's surface radiates back into space. Engineers built special heat‑resistant coverings and solar panels that can cope with the brutal assault from the sun.
After taking final selfies, the spacecraft dropped its propulsion module, which it doesn't need anymore, and is beginning its approach to Mercury. Credit: ESAScientists hope the twin orbiters will reveal why this small world has such a large metal core, how its thin cloud of gas changes over time, and how its magnetic field compares with Earth's when they reach their final paths around March 2027.
When the telemetry from the spacecraft came through at exactly the moment the team expected, Elsa Montagnon, BepiColombo's spacecraft operations manager, said she felt relief.
"I don't have words," Montagnon said. "It has power, it has propulsion, it could reorient itself, and it can communicate with us. We have a mission."
By Any Means review: Mark Wahlberg takes the Johnny Depp path
There are moments where By Any Means feels like Paramount once envisioned it as a prestige play for the Oscars.
Directed by Elegance Bratton, the drama draws on true events to expose anti-Black racism in the American South in the 1960s. In the lead role, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Special FBI Agent Wayne Strider, a Black G-man who's investigating the murder of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer (Giancarlo Esposito).
In scenes where he's cajoling a witness or speaking sternly to his wife (Nicole Beharie) about the dangers they face as Black people in Mississippi, Abdul-Mateen is earnest, intense, and riveting. In these sections, it seems screenwriter Sascha Penn is channeling Chris Gerolmo's approach to 1988's Mississippi Burning, which centered on the murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. By Any Means also opens with the investigation of this triple homicide, though from a markedly different angle.
However, Penn then pivots to an approach that feels more Green Book, pairing Abdul-Mateen's dignified Southern Black man with a fast-talking, impulsive white New Yorker (Mark Wahlberg, who is also a producer on the film). And while Wahlberg's mischievous screen presence brings a levity to the content, his performance ignites a battle over what this movie means and who it's for. And in the end, it's a mess with a jarringly pandering political message.
By Any Means is about as historically accurate as Wolf Creek. Credit: Paramount Pictures"Based on a true story" is a title card that should be met with suspicion, as movies for decades (particularly horror movies) have used it as a marketing tool to juice a little more terror or anticipatory dread out of an audience. Journey with me back to 2005, when the deeply disturbing Greg McLean horror thriller Wolf Creek was marketed as being "based on true events." The film itself simply used those events as a springboard for cinematic speculation. By Any Means works the same way.
The film presents Special FBI Agent Wayne Strider as a local man who's come home to Mississippi to fight for equality through his work in government. So, when his friend Vernon's home is fire-bombed, resulting in the man's death, Strider is eager to work on the case — even if it's off the books. His boss (David Strathairn in a role that is entirely exposition-driven) assigns him to be the handler for Gregory Scarpa, a mafia hit man and informant who busts heads for the FBI when their more traditional (i.e., legal) paths of investigation fail.
So, By Any Means opens with a montage of archival footage, establishing where the American South was in terms of KKK activity and anti-Black violence in 1964, when Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner went missing. Then, Bratton cuts to a grimy, abandoned warehouse, where a scrawny white man, badly beaten and bloody, is bound to a chair. Scarpa emerges from the shadows and pummels the man with a bat until he reveals where the activists' remains might be found. Then a title card transports us to two years later, days before Vernon Dahmer's murder.
When the locals, Black and white, won't talk to the FBI — either out of fear of retribution from the KKK or because they are complicit — Scarpa is called down from Brooklyn to get the information "by any means" necessary. However, before you get too intrigued by this concept, be warned that the final title cards suggest that most of what you've seen is inspired by the suspicion that Scarpa may have been involved in some way alongside an "unnamed" Black agent.
This makes By Any Means only more confounding. Because with such a specious connection to reality, Penn and Bratton could have done anything. And instead, they did this.
By Any Means' politics are confounding. Credit: Paramount PicturesBy Any Means becomes a kind of buddy-cop movie, where Strider is the by-the-books hero, and Scarpa is the scrappy, no-rules, no-fucks-given man of action. While that premise evokes Lethal Weapon, their odd-couple energy is more reminiscent of Green Book, not only in the archetypes of the loudmouth white New Yorker and the refined Southern Black gentleman, but also in the condescending notion that the latter needs the former to educate him about the Black experience. In Green Book, it was that scene about eating fried chicken. In By Any Means, it's Scarpa explaining to Strider why Malcolm X's methods are better than Martin Luther King Jr.'s.
SEE ALSO: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's friendship, explained by the 'Blood Brothers' directorWhile this is a curious setup, the conversation is surface-level, using both icons of the American civil rights movement to show that Scarpa believes the best way to gain power is through violence. It's how he rose through the ranks of the mob, and it's a skill set that makes him valuable to the FBI. However, By Any Means only glancingly shows how white privilege distinguishes Scarpa from Strider. When a white police officer pulls the pair over, the cop is eager — giddy, even — to pull a gun on Strider, while not perceiving Scarpa as a threat. That Scarpa can shoot the cop and be confident he'll get away with it is intriguing, but not explored in a meaningful way. Instead, By Any Means feeds into the problematic American trope of cops/feds breaking the rules in pursuit of a "good" result without question.
By Any Means seems to ask, "When the system fails, why not resort to baseball bats, guns, and vigilantism?" Notably, this is the same argument the KKK members in the movie (led by a solidly unnerving Ethan Embry) use to justify their actions. They say the system is failing them, so they're responding with homemade bombs, gunfire, and a fiery cross. The final series of title cards lays out the aftermath of Scarpa's speculated actions, with underwhelming legal ramifications. This makes for a muddied message about the place of violence in seeking justice.
Mark Wahlberg goes Johnny Depp in By Any Means Necessary. Credit: Paramount PicturesWahlberg's chaotic charisma is compelling in By Any Means, initially making Scarpa a curious devil's advocate that challenges Strider's by-the-book approach. But Wahlberg is out of his depths in this role.
Now, I'm not one of those critics who think Wahlberg's never been good. In Martin Scorsese's The Departed, he's perfectly employed as a Boston cop who has a foul mouth and a mean streak. In Pain & Gain, Michael Bay expertly placed him in a role of clownish masculinity that was funny and a scorching commentary on the American dream. In Fear, he was seductive as a bad boy and terrifying as an abusive boyfriend. Here, however, Wahlberg seems to be reaching for the husky gruff-but-lovable gravitas of James Gandolfini or Russell Crowe (specifically in The Nice Guys) and coming up very short.
Part of the problem is that Wahlberg's action-hero charm is ill-suited to Scarpa, who is cocky but also scripted as a tough-as-nails New Yorker. For one, if Wahlberg's Boston accent is meant to be a Brooklyn one, he's failed absolutely. For another, the prosthetics applied — presumably to make him look more like the real Scarpa — are comically odd. Looking at the movie's poster, Wahlberg is unrecognizable. Straight on, he vaguely resembles Woody Harrelson. But in profile, the nose applied is so big and so obviously false that it is constantly distracting.
Topped with a bad wig and a pot belly, Wahlberg leans in by mugging. His frown pulls deep, perhaps aiming for De Niro, but hitting Temu Florence Pugh. As I watched, agog at the nose that felt too matte and untextured to be real, I thought of Johnny Depp in Black Mass, where his pursuit of looking like mobster Whitey Bulger translated to an on-camera look so alien that it was hard to watch. As with films like Fantastic Beasts, Dark Shadows, and The Lone Ranger, Depp's make-up felt a crutch, that paired with much mugging, was offered in place of an extraordinary performance.
Which is all to say, I could imagine a version of By Any Means that is nuanced and compelling, using the hit man as a vehicle to expose the shortcomings and loopholes in our criminal justice system. Within such a film, Strider's embrace of rule-breaking in the third act might feel satisfying or at least exciting, rather than the predictable capitulation demanded by American movies, where the cops are always right, even when they do wrong.
As it is, Bratton makes half of a film that aches with purpose, reflected in the smoky saxophone-heavy score of Terence Blanchard. To their credit, Abdul-Mateen, Beharie, and Esposito give stirring performances that demand to be taken seriously. But Wahlberg, with his violent comic relief, undercuts any seriousness. Through him, By Any Means misses the mark as a movie with a mission, instead seeming to pander to a white audience. Scarpa's domineering presence suggests a coddling approach meant to assure white audience members that, like the beguiling hit man, they may not be exemplary allies, but at least they're not the KKK members actively seeking the death of their Black neighbors. Frankly, that wasn't enough then, and it's not enough now.
Milwaukee tools are heavily discounted in Home Depots huge Labor Day sale — shop starter kits from $129
Every home has that one drawer of half-broken tools you've been meaning to replace, and Home Depot's Labor Day sale is a solid excuse to finally do it. With up to 62% off Milwaukee's 12-volt cordless tools, you can score top-tier durability and long-lasting battery life without breaking the bank.
Below are the best deals from the sale, from a stapler that'll save your hands on upholstery projects to a cutoff tool that can handle metal, PVC, and tile in tight spaces.
Best for upholstery and DIY fixes Opens in a new window Credit: Milwaukee Milwaukee M12 Cordless Crown Stapler $129 at The Home Depot$339 Save $210 Currently sold out, but you can sign up to get notified for restocks. Get Deal Why we like it
The Milwaukee M12 Cordless Crown Stapler drives 3/8-inch staples through a range of materials, and at just 3 lbs. and 7.5 inches long, it's compact enough to fit into tight spaces or clip right onto your tool belt. The trigger is designed to reduce hand fatigue, and you can switch between sequential and contact firing modes depending on the job, which is useful whether you're doing upholstery, securing weatherstripping, or laying carpet underlayment.
Best for finishing touches Opens in a new window Credit: Milwaukee Milwaukee M12 FUEL Oscillating Multi-Tool $199 at The Home Depot$449 Save $250 Get Deal Why we like it
The M12 FUEL Oscillating Multi-Tool is built for speed and control: Milwaukee's Powerstate brushless motor pushes out 10,000 to 20,000 oscillations per minute, which the brand says is the fastest cutting speed on a 12V platform. It's also designed to vibrate less, so your hands don't take the brunt of a long project, and the tool-free blade change means you're not hunting for an Allen key mid-task. It handles wood, metal, plaster, and drywall, and switches over to a sander with the right attachment.
Best for tight-space cutting jobs Opens in a new window Credit: Milwaukee M12 FUEL Compact Cut-Off Tool $199 at The Home Depot$449 Save $250 Get Deal Why we like it
The M12 FUEL Compact Cut-Off Tool is for the small, awkward jobs like trimming a rusted-out bolt, cutting PVC to fit, or working under a sink where a full-size saw just won't reach. It spins at 20,000 RPM and comes with three accessories out of the box, so it's ready for multiple materials without extra purchases. The reversible blade rotation gives you more control over the direction of your cut, and an LED light helps you see what you're doing in dim spaces.
Best for auto repair and maintenance Opens in a new window Credit: Milwaukee M12 Cordless 3/8 in. Ratchet $199 at The Home Depot$459 Save $260 Get Deal Why we like it
The M12 Cordless ratchet gives you the power and speed of a pneumatic tool without needing an air hose, making it much more practical for home maintenance or car repairs. It produces up to 35 ft-lbs of torque and 250 RPM, and at just under 11 inches long and less than 2 lbs, it fits into engine bays and other cramped spots that pneumatic ratchets can't reach. A built-in LED light and onboard fuel gauge help you see what you're doing and track your charge.
More Milwaukee tools dealsMilwaukee M18 FUEL 1/4-Inch Hex Impact Driver & Hackzall Combo — $199 $369 (save $170)
Milwaukee M18 FUEL 1/2-Inch Impact Wrench Kit w/ 5.0Ah Battery — $299 $459 (save $160)
Milwaukee M18 FUEL Hammer Drill and Impact Driver Combo Kit w/ (3) 5.0Ah Batteries — $399 $558 (save $159)
Milwaukee M18 FUEL 6-1/2-Inch Plunge Cut Track Saw with 55-Inch Guide Rail — $429 $569 (save $140)
Milwaukee M18 8-Tool Cordless Combo Kit w/ (2) Batteries & Charger — $649 $1,298 (save $649)
Get a 16GB MacBook Pro for $370 with this limited-time offer
TL;DR: This Grade A refurbished 2020 MacBook Pro has 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD storage, a Retina display and Touch Bar for $369.99 (reg. $1,580).
Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple MacBook Pro 2020 (Refurbished) $369.99$1,580 Save $1,210.01 Get Deal
Need a MacBook that can take on your everyday workload without using up your entire budget? This Grade A refurbished 2020 MacBook Pro is a MacBook under $500 Best of Web Price, and it’s on sale for $369.99 (reg. $1,580), with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and a 10th Gen Intel Core i5 processor.
There’s a reason the MacBook Pro remains a popular choice for work and creative projects. The 2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor can Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, while 16GB of RAM is built to handle multitasking, coding, photo work, and other demanding applications. The 512GB SSD also provides quick access to your files and enough local storage for a sizable collection of documents, photos, and other media.
The 13.3-inch Retina display offers a 2560 x 1600 native resolution, 500 nits of brightness, and True Tone technology, which adjusts the display’s color temperature based on the surrounding light. You also get a Magic Keyboard with Touch Bar and Touch ID, plus four Thunderbolt 3 ports for charging, displays, and compatible accessories. The battery is rated for up to 10 hours of use.
This MacBook could be a good fit for students, professionals, or those who want macOS for writing, coding, photo editing, streaming, and general productivity without paying the price of a new machine. At roughly 3 pounds, it’s portable enough to take between home, the office, or campus.
The lower price comes with a Grade A refurbished rating. That means the MacBook should arrive in near-mint condition with minimal to no scuffing on the case. It’s worth keeping in mind that this is a 2020 Intel-based model, but for shoppers who don’t need the latest Mac hardware, the configuration still offers plenty of capable specs.
Bring home this refurbished MacBook Pro for $369.99 (reg. $1,580) while supplies last.
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Don’t keep adding to your monthly bills — get 1TB of cloud storage for life for just $75
TL;DR: Own your cloud storage space outright with this 1TB lifetime subscription for Vault Cloud Storage, now for just $74.99 (reg. $799).
Opens in a new window Credit: Vault Vault Cloud Storage: Lifetime Subscription (1TB) $74.99$799 Save $724.01 Get Deal
Your digital life is always growing, not shrinking. From family photos and videos to work documents and important personal files, you add to your collection year after year. If you’re looking for a more affordable way to secure your content, Vault Cloud Storage lets you own your space rather than rent it.
Right now, you can secure a lifetime subscription for 1TB of Vault Cloud Storage for just $74.99 (reg. $799).
Your memories are important — they deserve a permanent storage solution. If you’re fed up with paying monthly fees, Vault Cloud Storage lets you pay once and own 1TB of storage outright. This affordable option not only saves you money over time, but it also helps you get your digital life in order.
Vault Cloud Storage uses AES-GCM-256 to encrypt your files directly in your browser before they’re ever uploaded, so only encrypted data is stored in the cloud. That means no readable document contents are ever stored by Vault, keeping your info as secure as possible.
In addition to encrypting your files, Vault Cloud Storage protects your privacy when you log in. Your account is protected by a unique 12-word recovery phrase that only you know.
Once you’re logged in, you can stay on top of your files by sorting them with tags and notes. You can also easily share files via revocable access keys. Need to export files? That’s simple too — and you can access your Vault Cloud Storage account from all compatible web browsers, like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.
With Vault Cloud Storage, the maximum file size you can upload is 200 MiB per file, and there’s no daily upload-volume quota. Your lifetime license gives you access to 1TB of space, and if you choose to park your files there for a while, there’s no inactivity deletion.
Snag this 1TB lifetime subscription for Vault Cloud Storage for only $74.99.
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The 2018 iPad Pro was supposed to change the way we work. It didnt, but thats OK.
In 2015, Apple launched the first iPad Pro, a powerful tablet aimed at professionals. In 2018, the iPad Pro got so good that we thought it had a chance of replacing the laptop altogether. This hasn't happened, and I don't think it will anytime soon.
Today, I'm looking at Mashable's former contributor Raymond Wong, who reviewed the third generation of Apple's iPad Pro back in 2018.
Apple got everything right with the iPad Pro, except perhaps on the multitasking front, which Wong notes in his review. And the company's Pro tablets improved with each iteration. In particular, the third-gen iPad Pros got a USB-C port instead of Lightning, they had wonderfully bright, large displays (with Face ID instead of a Touch ID button for the first time), Apple's powerful A12X Bionic chip, and up to 1TB of storage.
If you got one with the optional Magic Keyboard, you basically had a touchscreen laptop with enough computing power and storage to put most laptops to shame (at least back in 2018). And it did all that while dead silent and razor thin, the thinnest iPad ever, and it really felt impossibly thin. One could not believe that Apple could stuff such a workhorse into such an elegant enclosure.
Impossibly thin. Credit: Raymond Wong/MashableSo why didn't we ditch our MacBooks for the iPad Pro back in 2018? Why haven't we done it today, six years later? (OK, some surely have, but I've tried and failed, and literally no one I know has done so without switching back to the MacBook at some point).
I could go into the technicalities of Apple's iPadOS vs macOS; there's still a big chasm, and it's still way harder to manipulate files and perform some basic tasks on the iPad than it is on a Mac. Or the fact that the Magic Keyboard, as great as it is, never felt as good as the one on a typical MacBook.
But I believe, as I always have, that the laptop has evolved into the perfect work machine for most humans, and that people are so used to them that they strongly dislike the idea of adapting to something new for their daily tasks.
The Magic Keyboard was nice but it was never as good as the one on the MacBook. Credit: Raymond Wong/MashableOn the other hand, the iPad, including the iPad Pro, is great for iPad things: Reading, watching TV shows, movies, and music videos, playing games, and light work. It's the thing you reach out for when you're on your couch, not sitting at your desk.
As such, the iPad Pro has always remained overpowered, which is the best possible flaw a gadget can have. I never really need the powerful chips or the storage that my iPad has, but it's nice to know it can handle powerful tasks if the need ever arises.
SEE ALSO: Apple might launch a bunch of new MacBook Pro and iPad Pro devices in early 2027Apple seems devoted to the idea of the iPad Pro: An incredibly powerful tablet-laptop hybrid with a touchscreen, aimed at creative professionals. Rumor has it the company will launch new iPad Pro devices in early 2027. And that's perfectly fine; while I'll probably never ditch my MacBook for an iPad Pro, I'm glad that the iPad Pro exists.
Credit: Mashable "iPad extreme: Apple's 2018 iPad Pros pack more power than almost anyone will ever need," published Nov. 5, 2018.How to watch South Africa vs. New Zealand online for free
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When it comes to international rugby, it truly doesn't get any bigger or better than South Africa vs. New Zealand. In fact, you could call it Rugby's Greatest Rivalry.
The All Blacks are playing eight fixtures in August and September, including four Test matches against the World Champions.
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Tesla launches Cybercab rides in Austin
The Tesla Cybercab, a robotaxi vehicle designed for autonomous taxi rides, is finally here, and available to customers – but not very many of them.
On Thursday, Tesla officially launched the Cybercab, making it available to users through its Robotaxi app.
The company's Robotaxi fleet consists of Tesla Model Ys, Robovans, and now Cybercabs, and the rides are available in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. However, the Cybercabs appears to only be available in Austin.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Tesla seemingly confirmed this by announcing on X that "the future has arrived in Austin."
The Cybercab, originally announced in 2024, does not have a steering wheel or pedals; you can't just sit in it and drive it as you would any other car. Instead, it's designed from the ground-up for autonomous rides. According to The New York Times, the Cybercabs in Austin indeed do not have a steering wheel, but there's only 45 of them in Tesla's Austin fleet which is 314 vehicles strong.
Some Tesla enthusiasts, including Sawyer Merritt, took to X to post videos of their first Cybercab rides.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.In the video, Merritt is seen entering the Cybercab along with his wife. The two-seater cabin basically consists of a massive display, and no discernible human-oriented driving controls at all.
"The cabin is comfortable and spacious, the suspension is soft, and FSD is VERY smooth. It’s an incredible vehicle. The screen is HUGE," wrote Merritt in a tweet.
SEE ALSO: Waymo is launching its robotaxi in Denver, San Diego, and TampaIf you're wondering, no, you cannot buy a Tesla Cybercab for yourself. Tesla, however, has opened a Robotaxi interest form as it prepares to sell the vehicles to fleet buyers looking to build a Robotaxi network of their own.
Bissells Labor Day sale is live: Our favorite deals on stick vacuums, steam cleaners, and more
Labor Day sales are back, offering a whole stack of fresh deals on outdoor gear, power tools, mattresses, and much more. Leading vacuum cleaner brand Bissell has joined in the fun with a bunch of discounts on cleaning products, including advanced stick vacuums and carpet cleaners.
Some of the discounted items are already top sellers, so you can rely on their quality and performance. These cleaning products are popular for a reason. They get the job done. And with the Labor Day sale already live at Bissell, you can save up to $100. Here are some of our favorites:
Best carpet cleaner deal Opens in a new window Credit: Bissell Little Green Mini Portable Carpet Cleaner $89.99 at Bissell$99.99 Save $10 Get Deal Why we like it
Perfect for smaller homes and pet owners, the Little Green Mini Portable Carpet Cleaner is a scaled-down version of Bissell’s flagship carpet cleaning model. It’s also the brand’s lightest, most compact portable deep cleaner. It’s designed to spray, scrub, and shift stains entirely with surprisingly powerful suction. The size-and-power combo makes it especially good for spot-cleaning messes — particularly if you have messy kids or pets. It comes equipped with a HydroRinse hose tool and a 4-inch Tough Stain tool, both of which work on carpets, furniture, car interiors, and pet beds.
Best stick vacuum deal Opens in a new window Credit: Bissell Bissell PowerClean DualBrush Cordless Stick Vacuum $349.99 at Bissell$399.99 Save $50 Get Deal Why we like it
The PowerClean DualBrush Cordless Stick Vacuum is one of Bissell’s premium stick models, made all the better by an impressive $100 discount for Labor Day.
It’s essentially a 3-in-1 vacuum that converts between full-size and handheld modes, with two brush heads and a nozzle attachment to choose from. It uses both DualBrush Technology and AutoAdapt Power Boost, which detect dirt and automatically increase suction, giving you up to 75% more power. And pet owners will appreciate the FurFinder headlights, which help you locate hidden pet hair and other debris.
Best Hydrosteam cleaner deal Opens in a new window Credit: Bissell Bissell Revolution HydroSteam $349.99 at Amazon$399.99 Save $50 Get Deal Why we like it
The Bissell Revolution HydroSteam is one of the brand’s most powerful and innovative carpet cleaners. This upright machine delivers a deep clean using Hydrosteam Technology, which combines water, steam vapor, and a highly effective cleaning solution to tackle embedded dirt and tough stains. You can also crank up the power with its even more powerful SteamWash Max Clean Mode. And as with other Bissell models, it’s tested and proven for pet homes, with DirtLifter brush heads packed with 12 rows of bristles and a 2-in-1 pet upholstery tool.
The Ruggable Labor Day sale is live: Save up to 30% on the viral washable rugs
SAVE UP TO 30%: The Ruggable Labor Day sale is live and takes up to 30% off sitewide, including popular collaborations with Star Wars, Disney, Iris Apfel, and more.
Opens in a new window Credit: Ruggable Ruggable Labor Day Sale Shop NowWe're not in spring-cleaning mode, but back-to-school season and crisp fall air always evoke the feeling of a fresh start. If you've been looking around your home thinking a rug would really pull the room together, there's a fantastic Labor Day sale in store for you.
The Ruggable Labor Day sale takes up to 30% off sitewide, including some of the brand's most popular options. Sale rugs include doormats, outdoor rugs, indoor rugs, and even rugs suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.
It's hard to decide on the perfect rug. Ruggable's expansive selection might not make that task any easier, but it sure is enjoyable. The popular rug brand focuses on the idea that you can, in fact, machine-wash a rug. In addition, Ruggables are stain-resistant. That means they're great for homes with pets, kids, or anyone who's lived through the heartbreak of spilling red wine on a rug.
SEE ALSO: Harry Styles' Loop earplugs are perfect for his Madison Square Garden residency — where to buyRJ Andersen's review of Ruggable explained that not only do they win on cleaning points, but they're also "surprisingly thick and soft." Spot cleaning was also easy for spills that didn't require a wash, and durability was great.
In addition to having thousands of design options, Ruggable has some incredible collabs that are included in the sale, like Disney, Star Wars, Jungalow, and plenty more.
Shop Ruggable's Labor Day sale to score savings of up to 30% off top sellers. Consider it a home refresh before the holidays.
The best Labor Day TV deals: Our favorite deals on TCL, LG, Samsung, and more
Labor Day isn't just the unofficial kick off of fall and football season, it's also a great time to score tech at cheaper prices. TV deals are particularly impressive this week, with some of our favorite models of 2026 down to record lows. If you've been putting off upgrading your TV, now's a great time to take the leap.
More deals will likely pop up leading into the weekend, but with some of these models at their best prices ever, there's really no need to wait. I've rounded up the best Labor Day TV deals worth adding to your cart below.
Best QLED TV deal Opens in a new window Credit: TCL TCL 65-inch QM8L SQD-Mini-LED QLED 4K TV $1,397.99 at Amazon$2,499.99 Save $1,102.00 Get Deal Why we like it
TCL's QM8L SQD-Mini-LED TV is our favorite QLED TV for most people. Mashable's TV expert shouts out its "superb peak brightness, detailed picture quality, and fantastic glare handling" in her review. She also dubs it one of the brightest TVs you can buy, period, which is largely due to its "super quantum dot mini LEDs" (the SQD in its name). It clocks in at $2,499.99 for the 65-inch model on a normal day, but for Labor Day, it's down to a best-ever $1,397.99 at Amazon. That's 44% in savings.
Best OLED TV deal Opens in a new window Credit: LG LG 65-inch C6 OLED 4K TV $1,499.99 at Amazon$2,699.99 Save $1,200.00 Get Deal Why we like it
The LG C6 is what we'd call the "best affordable OLED TV," compared to competitors' prices, and the best OLED TV for most people. With a $1,200 discount, the 65-inch model is the same price as the 55-inch option on a normal day. It also happens to be its best price on record. The C6 features inky black levels, stark contrast, improved audio, peak brightness, and refresh rate over its predecessor, and a generally impeccable picture quality.
Best RGB TV deal Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung Samsung 65-inch R85H Micro RGB 4K TV $1,499.99 at Best Buy$2,099.99 Save $600.00 Get Deal Why we like it
RGB TVs were easily the biggest TV trend at CES 2026 and Samsung's R95H is easily the best RGB TV of the year. However, it's pretty dang expensive, even on sale ($2,799 for the 65-inch option). On the other hand, its more affordable sibling, the R85H, is down to a much more palatable $1,499.99 for the 65-inch version. Like the R95H, it uses individual red, green, and blue LEDs to deliver better color accuracy than non-RGB TVs. It's almost too vivid. If you're curious about RGB TVs, it's a solid entry-level option that won't require emptying your wallet.
More Labor Day TV deals50 to 55-inch TV dealsInsignia 50-inch F50 LED 4K TV — $159.99 $299.99 (save $140)
Amazon 50-inch Omni QLED 4K Fire TV — $259.99 $469.99 (save $210)
LG 55-inch LX7B Gallery Mini LED 4K TV — $699.99 $1,299.99 (save $600)
Hisense 55-inch UR8 RGB Mini LED 4K TV — $899.99 $1,499.99 (save $600)
LG 65-inch LX7B Gallery Mini LED 4K TV — $899.99 $1,799.99 (save $900)
Hisense 65-inch S7 Canvas Hi-QLED 4K TV — $997.99 $1,999.99 (save $1,002)
Sony 65-inch Bravia 7 Mini LED QLED 4K TV — $1,298 $1,598 (save $300)
Samsung 65-inch S85H OLED 4K TV — $1,397.99 $1,999.99 (save $602)
LG 65-Inch B6 OLED 4K TV — $1,399.99 $1,999.99 (save $600)
Samsung 65-inch S90H OLED 4K TV — $1,597.99 $2,697.99 (save $1,100)
Sony 65-inch Bravia 8 II QD QLED 4K TV — $2,498 $3,299.99 (save $801.99)
Samsung 65-inch S95H OLED 4K TV — $2,799.99 $3,399.99 (save $600)
Hisense 75-inch U6 Pro Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $797.99 $1,399.99 (save $602)
Hisense 75-inch U7 Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $1,197.99 $1,999.99 (save $802)
Samsung 75-inch R85H Micro RGB 4K TV — $1,999.99 $2,799.99 (save $800)
Sony 75-inch Bravia 7 II RGB 4K TV — $2,299.99 $3,099.99 (save $800)
Samsung 75-inch The Frame Pro QLED 4K TV — $2,397.99 $2,797.99 (save $400)
Samsung 75-inch R95H RGB 4K TV — $3,799.99 $4,499.99 (save $700)
Insignia 85-inch Class F50 Series 4K Fire TV — $599.99 $899.99 (save $300)
Hisense 85-inch U6 Pro Hi-QLED Mini-LED 4K TV — $1097.99 $1,999.99 (save $902)
Samsung 85-inch M80H Mini-LED 4K TV — $1,199.99 $1,799.99 (save $600)
Hisense 85-inch U7 Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $1,397.99 $2,499.99 (save $1,102)
Hisense 85-inch UR8 RGB Mini LED 4K TV — $2,199.99 $3,499.99 (save $1,300)
Hisense 100-inch U6 Mini-LED 4K TV — $1,999.99 $2,999.99 (save $1,000)
TCL 98-inch QM7L SQD-Mini-LED QLED 4K TV — $2,497.99 $3,999.99 (save $1,502)
Hisense 100-inch UR8 RGB Mini LED 4K TV — $3,499.99 $5,999.99 (save $2,500)
The 30+ best Labor Day tech deals: We found laptops, TVs, headphones, and AirTags on sale
Labor Day sales are already live in full force. It's an especially good time to shop if you've been thinking about upgrading some older tech: For one thing, these sales offer some welcome relief from RAMageddon-related price hikes (which just keep coming, ugh). For another, they're probably your last real chance to save on big-ticket gadgets like laptops, TVs, and premium headphones until late October, when early Black Friday festivities get going.
Below, I've rounded up a big batch of the best Labor Day tech deals that I could find at Amazon, Best Buy, and beyond. That includes new record-low prices on devices from brands like Apple, Sony, and TCL, with discounts soaring as high as 60%.
Most retailers' Labor Day sales run through Labor Day proper on Monday, Sept. 7, so I'll continue to update this story into the long weekend.
Best Labor Day Apple deal Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple AirTag (2nd Gen, 4-pack) $79.99 at Amazon and Walmart$99 Save $19.01 Get Deal
Individual AirTags are marked down to $24 this week, but if you snag a four-pack on sale for $79.99, you're only paying $19.99 per tracker. (That deal is up for grabs at both Amazon and Walmart, by the way, and it's a new all-time low.) Apple updated the AirTag with a louder speaker and a bigger finding range at the beginning of the year. Mashable's Stan Schroeder called it "a useful little thing" that "saved me a lot of worrying once when my baggage got lost," rating it a 4.2/5.
Read Mashable's full review of the Apple AirTag (2nd Gen).
AirPods dealsApple AirPods 4 — $99 $129 (save $30)
Apple AirPods 4 with ANC — $148.99 $179 (save $30.01)
Apple AirPods Pro 3 — $199 $249 (save $50)
Apple AirPods Max 2 — $479 $549 (save $70)
Apple iPad, 11-inch (A16, WiFi, 128GB) — $399 $449 (save $50)
Apple iPad Air, 11-inch (M4, WiFi, 128GB) — $649 $749 (save $100)
Apple iPad Air, 13-inch (M4, WiFi, 128GB) — $849 $949 (save $100)
Apple iPad Pro, 11-inch (M5, WiFi, 512GB) — $1,299 $1,399 (save $100)
Apple iPad Pro, 13-inch (M5, WiFi, 256GB) — $1,399.99 $1,499 (save $99.01)
Apple MacBook Neo (A18 Pro, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $689.99 $699 (save $9.01)
Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M5, 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,649 $1,799 (save $150)
Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M5, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,849.99 $1,999 (save $149.01)
Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M5 Pro, 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $2,759.99 $2,999 (save $239.01)
Apple AirTag (2nd Gen) — $24 $29 (save $5)
Apple Pencil (USB-C) — $69.98 $79 (save $9.02)
Apple Pencil Pro — $97 $129 (save $32)
Apple Magic Keyboard Folio for iPad — $199 $249 (save $50)
Apple iPad Magic Keyboard Case for iPad Pro (11-inch) — $225 $299 (save $74)
$2,499.99 Save $1,102.00 Get Deal
Offering a sharp, ultra-bright picture and boasting a clean, virtually bezel-free design, this TCL display is our favorite 65-inch QLED TV for most people. It's an especially good pick for folks "who know they'll be doing a good amount of their TV watching in the daytime," wrote Leah Stodart, Mashable's former TV expert. That's you, college football fans. Its Labor Day sale price of $1,397.99 on Amazon — a 44% savings — marks its lowest price ever. That beats a rivaling deal at Best Buy by $2.
50- and 55-inch TV dealsInsignia 50-inch F50 4K TV — $159.99 $299.99 (save $140)
Amazon 50-inch Omni QLED 4K Fire TV — $259.99 $469.99 (save $210)
LG 55-inch LX7B Gallery Mini-LED 4K TV — $699.99 $1,299.99 (save $600)
Hisense 55-inch UR8 RGB Mini-LED 4K TV — $899.99 $1,499.99 (save $600)
Hisense 55-inch U6 Pro Mini‑LED 4K Fire TV — $497.99 $849.99 (save $352)
LG 65-inch LX7B Gallery Mini-LED 4K TV — $899.99 $1,799.99 (save $900)
Hisense 65-inch S7 Canvas Hi-QLED 4K TV — $997.99 $1,999.99 (save $1,002)
Sony 65-inch Bravia 7 Mini-LED QLED 4K TV — $1,298 $1,598 (save $300)
Samsung 65-inch S85H OLED 4K TV — $1,397.99 $1,999.99 (save $602)
LG 65-Inch B6 OLED 4K TV — $1,399.99 $1,999.99 (save $600)
Samsung 65-inch S90H OLED 4K TV — $1,597.99 $2,697.99 (save $1,100)
Hisense 65-inch UR9 RGB Mini-LED 4K TV — $1,699.99 $2,199.99 (save $500)
Sony 65-inch Bravia 8 II QD QLED 4K TV — $2,498 $3,299.99 (save $801.99)
Samsung 65-inch S95H OLED 4K TV — $2,799.99 $3,399.99 (save $600)
Hisense 75-inch U6 Pro Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $797.99 $1,399.99 (save $602)
Hisense 75-inch U7 Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $1,197.99 $1,999.99 (save $802)
Samsung 75-inch R85H Micro RGB 4K TV — $1,999.99 $2,799.99 (save $800)
Sony 75-inch Bravia 7 II RGB 4K TV — $2,299.99 $3,099.99 (save $800)
Samsung 75-inch The Frame Pro QLED 4K TV — $2,397.99 $2,797.99 (save $400)
Samsung 75-inch R95H RGB 4K TV — $3,799.99 $4,499.99 (save $700)
Insignia 85-inch Class F50 Series 4K Fire TV — $599.99 $899.99 (save $300)
Hisense 85-inch U6 Pro Hi-QLED Mini-LED 4K TV — $1,097.99 $1,999.99 (save $902)
Samsung 85-inch M80H Mini-LED 4K TV — $1,199.99 $1,799.99 (save $600)
Hisense 85-inch U7 Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $1,397.99 $2,499.99 (save $1,102)
Hisense 100-inch U6 Mini-LED 4K TV — $1,999.99 $2,999.99 (save $1,000)
Hisense 85-inch UR8 RGB Mini-LED 4K TV — $2,199.99 $3,499.99 (save $1,300)
TCL 98-inch QM7L SQD-Mini-LED QLED 4K TV — $2,497.99 $3,999.99 (save $1,502)
Hisense 100-inch UR8 RGB Mini-LED 4K TV — $3,499.99 $5,999.99 (save $2,500)
$399.99 Save $201.99 Get Deal
The last-gen Sony XM5s are an honorable mention on our best headphones guide because they're sooo similar to the newer XM6s, and because they're frequently on sale. (The $460 XM6s really only add folding ear cups and slightly better sound out of the box.) This week, the XM5s are chilling at their lowest price yet: Amazon and Best Buy both have them listed for $198 during their Labor Day events, which is a whopping 51% off their $399.99 MSRP.
Read Mashable's full review of the Sony WH-1000XM5.
More headphone dealsSony WH-CH520 — $38 $69.99 (save $31.99)
Anker Soundcore Q20i — $39.97 $69.99 (save $30.02)
Marshall Major V — $89.99 $169.99 (save $80)
Sony ULT Wear — $148 $249.99 (save $101.99)
Beats Studio Buds + — $149.95 $169.95 (save $20)
Nothing Headphone (a) — $159 $199 (save $40)
Bose QuietComfort — $199 $359 (save $160)
Beats Studio Pro — $249.95 $349.99 (save $100.04)
Sonos Ace — $299 $399 (save $100)
Bose QuietComfort Ultra — $329 $449 (save $120)
Sony WH-1000XM6 — $398 $459.99 (save $61.99)
$1,149.99 Save $550 Get Deal
This 16-inch PC is the best battery life laptop we've ever tested: It lasted 40 hours and 14 minutes in a video rundown test. Its portable design and large, colorful display are also highlights — it's "great for streaming movies and juggling multiple documents" on the go, to quote my review. This model with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage would make a great daily driver for folks with basic workloads (think web browsing and sending emails). It's 47% off at Staples right now; the same configuration is $90 pricier on HP's website.
Read Mashable's full review of the HP OmniBook 3 16.
More Windows laptop dealsHP OmniBook Ultra 14 (Snapdragon X2 Elite, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,799.99 $2,249.99 (save $450)
Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S (Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070Ti, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,899.99 $2,199.99 (save $300)
Asus Zenbook Duo (Intel Core Ultra 9 386H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $2,199.99 $2,499.99 (save $300)
Dell XPS 14 (Intel Core Ultra X7 358H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $2,699.99 $3,149.99 (save $450)
Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (MediaTek Kompanio Ultra, 12GB RAM, 256GB UFS) — $579 $749 (save $170)
$49.99 Save $30.00 Get Deal
A slew of Amazon's smart home devices saw price hikes last month, but fortunately, most of the lineup is on sale for Labor Day. The biggest discount is going to the Fire TV Stick 4K Select, Amazon's cheapest 4K streaming stick: It typically retails for $49.99 these days (previously $39.99), but it's currently listed for just $19.99 at Amazon and Best Buy — an impressive 60% savings. It's only $2 away from its record-low Prime Day price.
More streaming stick dealsAmazon Fire TV Stick HD — $17.99 $39.99 (save $22)
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus — $39.99 $69.99 (save $30)
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max — $49.99 $84.99 (save $35)
Amazon Fire TV Cube — $109.99 $199.99 (save $90)
Amazon Echo Studio — $194.99 $219.99 (save $25)
Amazon Echo Pop Kids — $29.99 $49.99 (save $20)
Amazon Echo Dot Kids — $54.99 $89.99 (save $35)
Amazon Echo Dot — $54.99 $79.99 (save $25)
Amazon Echo Show 5 — $69.99 $99.99 (save $30)
Amazon Echo Spot — $69.99 $109.99 (save $40)
Amazon Echo Dot Max — $94.99 $119.99 (save $25)
Amazon Echo Show 8 — $149.99 $199.99 (save $50)
Amazon Echo Show 11 — $189.99 $249.99 (save $60)
Amazon Echo Show 15 — $269.99 $349.99 (save $80)
Sonos Era 300 — $379 $479 (save $100)
Google Nest Thermostat — $79 $129.99 (save $50.99)
Score a full year of Audible Premium Plus for less than $100 this Labor Day
SAVE $50: Through Sept. 13, new and select returning subscribers can score an entire year of Audible Premium Plus for just $99. Typically $149.50 for the year, that saves you $50.50 on an annual subscription.
Opens in a new window Credit: Audible Audible Premium Plus (Annual Plan) $99 for one year (save $50.50) Get DealAudible's newer Standard plan might be cheaper than its Premium Plus plan ($8.99 vs. $14.95), but it doesn't come with the same perks. I personally don't think it's worth it unless you come across a discount. The Premium Plus plan is far superior. And this Labor Day promotion knocks the price down to less than the standard plan for a limited time.
Through Sept. 13, new subscribers and most returning subscribers can score an entire year of Audible Premium Plus for only $99. It typically costs $14.95 per month or $149.50 per year, so you'll save $50.50 on the annual plan (or $80.40 compared to the monthly plan).
The difference between the Standard and Premium Plus plans lies in how long you can keep the audiobooks you choose. With Standard, you're essentially just borrowing one book per month, and it disappears once the calendar turns. Premium Plus membership lets you "buy" whatever title you want with a monthly credit. And you'll get to keep it indefinitely. You'll also unlock access to over 150k included audiobooks and podcasts that don't require a credit card to purchase.
With the annual plan, you'll also receive all 12 of your monthly credits up front, so you can "buy" a dozen titles whenever you see fit. No need to wait until the first of each month to make your selections.
Why pay for Audible at all when apps like Libby exist? Plain and simple, there are no wait times. You can easily select and listen to new 2026 releases, popular BookTok picks, Goodreads favorites, and more without waiting for your hold to go through.
The best deals on Ryobi cordless tools in Home Depots Labor Day sale — shop deals for under $50
There's a version of every home project where you end up making three trips to the hardware store because you're missing one specific tool. Home Depot's Labor Day sale is a good chance to close that gap for good — it's taking up to 69% off Ryobi's 18-volt cordless tools, and since Ryobi's batteries are compatible with over 300 different tools, getting one today means you're already set up for future buys.
We rounded up the best deals from the sale below, from a circular saw that can handle your bigger cuts to a driver kit that covers everything else on your list.
Best beginner deal Opens in a new window Credit: Ryobi ONE+ 18V Cordless 1/4 in. Hex Screwdriver Kit with Compact Battery and Charger $49.97 at Home Depot$158.94 Save $108.97 Get Deal Why we like it
Every DIY kit needs a reliable driver, and the Ryobi 18V ONE+ 1/4-inch Hex Screwdriver Kit covers the basics: driving screws, drilling holes, hanging shelves, or fixing a fence. It's lightweight, making it easy to handle for smaller jobs, and its design reduces hand fatigue during overhead or tight-space work, while an onboard LED worklight illuminates dark work areas. Swapping bits is also effortless thanks to the 1/4-inch keyless quick-connect collet.
Best angle grinder deal Opens in a new window Credit: Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Brushless Cordless 4-1/2 in. Angle Grinder with 4.0 Ah High Performance Battery $99 at Home Depot$248 Save $149 Get Deal Why we like it
An angle grinder isn't the flashiest tool, but it's the one you reach for when you need to cut or shape metal, or just nip off the end of a screw that's poking through where it shouldn't. The Ryobi 18V ONE+ HP 4-1/2-inch Angle Grinder can make up to 210 cuts on a single charge, so you're not stopping mid-project to recharge, and comes with an 18-volt, 4-amp-hour battery.
Its smart brushless motor keeps the tool cool so it lasts longer, while an updated design lets you make flat cuts easily against surfaces. With a comfortable grip, quick tool-free guard adjustments, and a battery that works across hundreds of other Ryobi tools, it’s built to handle tough DIY projects with total ease.
Best multi-tool deal Opens in a new window Credit: Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Brushless Cordless Oscillating Multi-Tool with 4.0 Ah High Performance Battery $99 at Home Depot$248 Save $149 Get Deal Why we like it
The Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V cordless oscillating multi-tool with 4.0 Ah high-performance battery does a little bit of everything: cutting wood, PVC, metal, or drywall, plus sanding and polishing depending on which attachment you swap in. It comes with a plunge-cut blade, a flush-cut blade, and a sanding attachment right out of the box, and you can adjust the speed depending on what you're working on, useful for anything from rough cuts to more delicate jobs like refinishing furniture.
Best circular saw deal Opens in a new window Credit: Ryobi Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Brushless Cordless 7-1/4 in. Circular Saw with ONE+ 18V 4.0 Ah High Performance Battery $139 at Home Depot$268 Save $129 Get Deal Why we like it
If you don't have a table saw, the ONE+ HP 18V Cordless 7-1/4-inch circular saw is basically your stand-in for one. It handles long, straight cuts through materials like plywood and two-by-fours, which covers a lot of ground for woodworking or repair projects. It also has an attachment port for a shop vac or dust collection system, so you're not left cleaning up sawdust for the rest of your weekend.
Silo showrunner Graham Yost teases what to expect from Season 4 — including one key characters fate
Silo showrunner Graham Yost can sum up the fourth and final season in two words: "It's war."
The upcoming season, set for a July 9, 2027 release, picks up in the wake of Season 3's twisty finale, which took viewers inside Silo 1. There, we discovered survivors from the show's past timeline, who are cryogenically frozen and periodically reawakened to serve shifts controlling the other silos. Among them are Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) and his sister Charlotte (Jessica Brown Findlay), whose memories have been erased and who have been renamed Troy and Susan.
SEE ALSO: When is 'Silo' Season 4 coming out?Troy butts heads with Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) at the end of Season 3, in a sequence that merges the show's timelines and sets the stage for a showdown between Silo 18 and Silo 1, and between Juliette and Daniel. According to Yost, that means we'll be getting more of Juliette on the warpath.
"[This season] Juliette has come from not knowing who she was to saying, 'We have to take on Silo 1.' That's Juliette. That is the full return of Juliette. In Season 4, we are full-on Juliette from the first frame of the season to essentially the final one," Yost told Mashable.
SEE ALSO: 'Silo' Season 3's twisty ending, explainedOn top of Juliette's full return, Silo Season 4 is also going to be showing more of the inner workings of Silo 1.
"Certain characters we've spent some time with really move up into the fore," Yost said of the new focus on Silo 1.
Among the characters you can expect to see more of are Senator Rosalind Thurman (Laura Innes), her daughter Anna (Morven Christie), her aide Henry (Reed Birney), and Charlotte, now Susan.
However, several key characters are missing from that list. What happened to trillionaire Per Stensen (Colin Hanks)? Or journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick)? Both their fates were left unclear following the nuclear explosion that sent the silo residents underground. (But Per had to have engineered the apocalypse, right? The timing was too convenient!)
Yost confirmed that we could get answers on at least one of these topics. "The biggest thing is you will find out what happened to Helen," Yost said.
Knowing Helen's fate post-explosion will help better connect the past and the present, including finding out how the Pez dispenser and Helen and Daniel's baby's sonogram photo became relics in Silo 18. Plus, Helen and her baby are likely the ancestors of some Silo 18 citizen we've grown to know and love over the seasons. Who is their descendant?
In an interview with Backstage, Henwick confirmed that she will be back for Season 4, meaning we're in for flashbacks to her time in Silo 18. A Season 4 teaser, released alongside the Season 3 finale, confirms this. What did her life look like there, especially in the aftermath of the explosion? And was she, in true journalistic fashion, able to uncover secrets about the silos' true purpose? Bring on Season 4 so we can find out.
Silo Season 3 is now streaming on Apple TV. Season 4 premieres July 9, 2027.
UPDATE: Sep. 4, 2026, 1:37 p.m. This article has been updated to reflect further information on Season 4's release.
