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GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models

Microsoft Research - 5 hours 35 min ago
At a glance
  • The Flash family extends GigaPath and GigaTIME with dramatically improved efficiency, making large-scale pathology research more accessible and practical.
  • A distilled pathology foundation model backbone reduces computational requirements without sacrificing performance, enabling repeated analyses across larger patient cohorts.
  • These open models support population-scale discovery, helping researchers investigate disease biology, biomarkers, and clinical outcomes across diverse cancer datasets.

GigaPath (opens in new tab) and GigaTIME (opens in new tab) demonstrated how foundation models can support whole-slide analysis and tumor microenvironment modeling from routinely collected pathology data. GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash make these capabilities substantially more efficient, enabling researchers to analyze larger cohorts, run more experiments, and move toward population-scale discovery. GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash are research models. They are not intended or validated for clinical use, including diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection, or other patient-care decisions. Performance may vary across datasets, scanners, institutions, populations, and use cases.

The scale opportunity in computational pathology

Histopathology is among the richest and most widely available sources of information in cancer research. Every tissue biopsy produces a whole-slide image that captures cellular morphology at subcellular resolution — and hospitals generate millions of these slides each year. This data contains information relevant to diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection, and the biology of the tumor microenvironment.

Foundation models have begun to unlock this information at scale. But whole-slide images are large — often exceeding a gigapixel — and applying a foundation model to even a single slide requires processing thousands of image tiles. When a research question involves tens of thousands of patients, the computational cost grows quickly. And population-scale discovery is not a single model run: it requires repeated cycles of feature extraction, statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and validation across patient subgroups, biomarkers, and clinical endpoints. 

Computational cost limits the number of patients, datasets, tasks, and hypotheses that researchers can study. To realize the full potential of pathology foundation models, we need models that can be applied repeatedly and affordably across large patient populations.

From GigaPath and GigaTIME to the -Flash family

GigaPath (Nature, 2024) (opens in new tab) is a whole-slide foundation model pretrained on large-scale real-world histopathology data from Providence. Unlike models that operate only at the tile level, GigaPath learns contextualized representations of entire slides, capturing both local cellular patterns and global tissue architecture.

GigaTIME (Cell, 2026) (opens in new tab) extends this line of work to tumor microenvironments. Trained on 40 million cells with paired H&E and multiplex immunofluorescence (mIF) data, GigaTIME translates routine H&E images into virtual spatial proteomics maps across 21 protein channels. Applied to over 14,000 cancer patients, it generated a virtual population that uncovered more than 1,200 statistically significant associations between immune cell states and clinical biomarkers.

GigaPath and GigaTIME addressed the scale of pathology data and biological discovery. And now, the Flash family of models addresses scale of experimentation.

Figure 1: Overview of the GigaPath/GigaTIME model family. GigaPath-Flash provides efficient tile and slide encoders at 22M parameters. GigaTIME-Flash predicts spatial proteomics from H&E, replacing the CNN backbone with the distilled ViT-S encoder. Introducing GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash

The Flash family shares a core design goal: preserving useful pathology representations while substantially reducing the computational resources required to generate and use them. Both models are built on a common efficient backbone — a compact ViT-S tile encoder distilled from the original billion-parameter GigaPath encoder — and both are released under the Apache 2.0 license. 

GigaPath-Flash

GigaPath-Flash is an efficient foundation model for whole-slide representation learning. It combines a 22M-parameter ViT-S tile encoder with a 21M-parameter LongNet slide encoder. The tile encoder is distilled from the original GigaPath ViT-g teacher, transferring the representational capacity of a billion-parameter model into a backbone that is an order of magnitude smaller. The slide encoder contextualizes all tile embeddings via dilated attention, scaling linearly with the number of tiles.

On slide-level classification benchmarks (PANDA prostate grading and EBRAINS brain tumor subtyping), GigaPath-Flash achieves the lowest inference cost among whole-slide pretrained models while retaining competitive performance — scoring within 3% of the original GigaPath at roughly 50 times less compute.

Figure 2: Efficiency–performance trade-off on whole-slide benchmarks. GigaPath-Flash (red, top-left) achieves competitive performance at substantially lower computational cost than other whole-slide pretrained models. GigaTIME-Flash

GigaTIME-Flash replaces the CNN backbone of the original GigaTIME with the GigaPath-Flash ViT-S encoder, paired with a lightweight convolutional decoder for H&E-to-mIF translation. The model is fine-tuned using LoRA adapters, keeping the pretrained encoder weights largely frozen.

On both in-distribution and out-of-distribution cohorts spanning brain, breast, colon, and lung cancers, GigaTIME-Flash matches or improves upon the original GigaTIME in spatial protein prediction quality. The gains are particularly notable on out-of-distribution data, suggesting that the foundation model backbone improves generalization to previously unseen tissue types.

Figure 3: Mean windowed Pearson correlation for GigaTIME and GigaTIME-Flash on the GigaTIME test set and four out-of-distribution Prov-TMA cohorts. GigaTIME-Flash matches or improves upon the original across all cohorts. Efficiency without giving up the foundation

The efficiency gains of the Flash models are substantial:

ModelTypeEfficiency gainGigaPath-FlashWhole-slide Foundation Model~50× less compute, 97% of predictive performance compared to GigaPathGigaTIME-FlashSpatial Proteomics~6× faster, ~8× less memory, better predictive performance compared to GigaTIME

For a single slide, these differences reduce runtime and hardware requirements. Across tens of thousands of slides, they can determine whether an experiment is practical at all. To illustrate, we estimate the wall-clock time for generating virtual mIF across cohorts of different sizes on a single A100 GPU, assuming approximately 10,000 tiles per slide:

Model1,000 slides100K slides1M slidesGigaTIME-Flash~2 GPU-hours~7 GPU-days~70 GPU-daysGigaTIME~7 GPU-hours~30 GPU-days~300 GPU-daysEstimates assume ~10,000 tiles per slide, batch size 128, single NVIDIA A100 GPU. Actual runtime depends on slide size, tiling resolution, and hardware. Figure 4: GigaTIME efficiency scaling. Left: throughput (tiles/sec) vs. batch size. Right: peak GPU memory (GB) vs. batch size. GigaTIME-Flash scales to over 1,600 tiles/sec while using a fraction of the memory. An open model release

Both GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash are released as open-weight models under the Apache 2.0 license. Model weights and code are available on HuggingFace:

This is an early research release. Our current evaluations cover a limited set of benchmarks and cohorts, and broader validation across tasks, scanners, and patient populations is still needed. We expect the most valuable applications of these models to include scientific questions, cohorts, and use cases beyond those in our initial experiments. We welcome community evaluation, and we are equally interested in reports of where these models work well and where they fall short.

Downstream clinical applications will require additional multi-institutional and prospective validation.

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GigaPath and GigaTIME demonstrated what pathology foundation models can learn from whole slides and tumor tissue. GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash are a step toward making those capabilities usable across larger populations, more experiments, and a broader research community.

By making pathology foundation models more efficient, we hope to expand the scale of the scientific questions researchers can ask.

Acknowledgements

GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash are joint work across Microsoft Research, the University of Washington, and Providence. For technical details, see the paper.

Paper co-authors: Naoto Usuyama, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Sicong Yao, Hanwen Xu, Jaspreet Bagga, Guanghui Qin, Robert E. Kramer, Cliff Wong, Soohee Lee, Hao Qiu, Theodore Zhengde Zhao, Racheli Ben Shimol, Angela Crabtree, Kevin Matlock, Eduardo Alejandro Lozano Garcia, Naiteek Sangani, Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Maximilian Rokuss, Yashna Hasija, Naisargi Manishkumar Patel, Jason Entenmann, Alexandra Q. Bartlett, Bill J. Wright, Bernard A. Fox, Brian Piening, Sheng Zhang, Sheng Wang, Tristan Naumann, Carlo Bifulco, Hoifung Poon

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Amazons Labor Day 2026 Sale is live: Shop deals on TVs, Apple gear, Amazon devices, and more

Mashable - 5 hours 38 min ago
The best Amazon Labor Day deals at a glance: Best Apple deal Apple iPad Air, 11-inch (M4, WiFi, 128GB) $649 (save $100) Get Deal Best Amazon device deal Amazon Echo Show 11 $189.99 (save $60) Get Deal Best TV deal TCL 65-inch QM8L SQD-Mini-LED QLED 4K TV $1,397.99 (save $1,102) Get Deal Best headphones deal Bose QuietComfort Ultra $249 (save $200) Get Deal

If the Pumpkin Spite Latte's return to Starbucks didn't already alert you, Labor Day Weekend's arrival certainly will. Fall is coming, whether you're anticipating the season change or dreading it. The unofficial last hurrah of summer, Labor Day is the perfect excuse to squeeze in some last-minute beach days, backyard barbecues, and shopping sprees (obviously).

With tech prices constantly rising, major shopping holidays like Amazon's Labor Day sale are your best opportunity to score the devices you want at a discount. We've already noticed all-time low prices on some of our favorite TVs of 2026 and noise-cancelling headphones we adore. Plus, we're seeing some of the best discounts on Apple gear and Amazon devices since price hikes went into effect.

We fully expect this list to grow as the weekend nears, but here are some of the best deals we've spotted at Amazon so far.

Best Apple deal Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple iPad Air, 11-inch (M4, WiFi, 128GB) $649 at Amazon
$749 Save $100   Get Deal Why we like it

The M4 iPad Air is hands down our top pick for an iPad for most people. While it's incredibly similar to its predecessor, that's not necessarily a bad thing. It features a thin and lightweight build, brilliant Liquid Retina display, insanely fast performance powered by the M4 chip, and Apple's N1 and C1X connectivity chips. Mashable's tech editor says its powerful enough to handle memory-intensive programs like Final Cut Pro and even goes as far as calling it "way overpowered for most users." It starts at $749 for the 128GB version after the price hike, but for Labor Day, it's $100 cheaper.

Read our full review of the Apple iPad Air 2026 (M4).

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Best Amazon device deal Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Echo Show 11 $189.99 at Amazon
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Amazon surprised everyone with a monstrous price hike across all of its Fire TV, Kindle, and Echo devices earlier this month. This is the first big sale since the price hike, so we're happy to see many of these devices still getting the deal treatment. The Echo Show 11 is down to $189.99, which is $30 cheaper than its original price before the increase. Dubbed Amazon's "most advanced smart displays yet," the Echo Show 11 features the new in-house AZ3 Pro chips and Omnisense technology for AI-based, highly personalized experiences. There's also front-facing stereo speakers, a custom woofer for spatial audio, ambient visuals that adapt to your environment, and a built-in 13-megapixel camera that can recognize faces.

More Amazon device dealsBest TV deal Opens in a new window Credit: TCL TCL 65-inch QM8L SQD-Mini-LED QLED 4K TV $1,397.99 at Amazon
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It's been out less than six months, but it's already our top pick for a QLED TV for most people. That "SQD" in the title stands for "super quantum dot mini LEDS," which is a lot of tech jargon for extremely bright quantum dots. Mashable's TV expert calls it one of the brightest TVs you can buy, period, shouting out its "superb peak brightness, detailed picture quality, and fantastic glare handling." The 65-inch model clocks in at $2,499.99 on a normal day, but it's down to a best-ever $1,397.99 at Amazon for Labor Day — a 44% discount.

More TV dealsBest headphones deal Opens in a new window Credit: Bose Bose QuietComfort Ultra $249 at Amazon
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Since these headphones have been replaced by the 2nd generation, they won't be on shelves too much longer. We're huge fans of the latest generation, but like most modern tech, the upgrades are iterative. The original QuietComfort Ultras are "still some of the most comfortable and best-sounding headphones we've ever tested," Mashable's Sam Mangino writes. They can easily be worn all day without earaches, offer all-day battery life with noise cancellation turned on, have convenient foldable earcups, and superb sound quality. At only $249, they're a total steal (and the cheapest they've ever been)

Read our full review of the Bose QuietComfort Ultras.

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Another tri-folding phone is coming soon, with a catch

Mashable - 5 hours 53 min ago

Huawei is gearing up to unveil its next triple-folding smartphone, the Mate XT 2, at an event in China on September 7. The company will also debut HarmonyOS 7. Huawei hasn't published a full spec sheet yet, but a video teaser has given the clearest look so far at the device, according to GSMArena.

SEE ALSO: It's official: OnePlus smartphones will no longer be sold in U.S. and Europe

The teaser confirms earlier rumors that the Mate XT 2 will switch to an inward-folding, U-shaped design, a departure from the Z-shaped fold used on the original Mate XT and the Mate XTs. Other rumored specs include a 6,000 mAh battery and either a Kirin 9050 Pro or Kirin 9030S chip, while the camera setup is expected to closely resemble that of the Mate X7.

Can I buy Huawei in the U.S.?

Huawei devices, including its foldables, have effectively been locked out of the American market for years — the result of a national security dispute between the company and the U.S. government that stretches back nearly two decades.

The roots of that dispute go back to the mid-2000s, when networking giant Cisco accused Huawei of stealing its intellectual property, an early sign of the friction that would eventually escalate into formal government action.

Things came to a head in 2019, when the Trump administration signed an executive order effectively banning Huawei from U.S. communications networks and added the company to the Commerce Department's Entity List, restricting American firms from exporting technology to Huawei without a license.

SEE ALSO: The U.S. DJI drone ban, explained

That same year, the Justice Department charged Huawei with financial fraud and sanctions violations. In 2020, prosecutors added allegations of racketeering and trade secret theft. The U.S. also tightened restrictions on Huawei's access to foreign-made semiconductors built with American technology, while Congress provided $1.9 billion to help remove and replace Huawei and ZTE equipment in domestic networks.

The fallout extended well beyond politics and into Huawei's actual device lineup. As CNET has chronicled extensively, Huawei's CFO, Meng Wanzhou, was detained in Canada for nearly three years before striking a deal with the Justice Department in 2021 that allowed her to return to China. Around the same time, Huawei lost its license to use Google's Android services on new phones, and countries including the U.K. and Sweden banned Huawei equipment from their 5G networks entirely.

The Biden administration largely kept those restrictions in place and, in some cases, tightened them further. They remain in force today. The result is a company that remains one of the world's largest telecom equipment and smartphone makers, with a presence in more than 170 countries, but without an official smartphone retail presence in the U.S.

So while the Mate XT 2 may generate plenty of buzz when it launches next week, don't expect to find it at your local carrier store. For now, seeing Huawei's latest tri-fold in person will likely require a trip to a market where it is officially sold.

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5 new movies to watch this week across Netflix, Prime Video, and more (August 31-September 6)

How-To Geek - 6 hours 5 min ago

With September starting this week, many of the major streaming services will be adding new movies. Paramount+ welcomes the latest installment of a long-running comedy franchise that hit theaters in June. At Prime Video, Gal Gadot headlines an original thriller set in London.

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Home Depots Labor Day sale is live: Shop the best deals on grills, power tools, and outdoor gear

Mashable - 6 hours 28 min ago
The best Home Depot Labor Day deals at a glance: Best grill deal Weber Genesis E-325W 3-Burner Propane Gas Grill $899 (save $100) Get Deal Best power tool deal Milwaukee M18 18V Cordless 8-Tool Combo Kit $649 (save $649) Get Deal Best outdoor deal Ryobi ONE+ Whisper Series 12-inch Cordless Chainsaw $189 (save $60) Get Deal Best single power tool deal Ryobi ONE+ 18V Cordless 1/2 in. Impact Wrench $79 (save $60) Get Deal Best smart home deal eufy S430 SoloCam $139.99 (save $60) Get Deal

Labor Day Weekend is officially upon us, but Home Depot has already kicked off its huge holiday savings event.

Starting Aug. 27 and running through Sept. 9, Home Depot's Labor Day Sale is offering all kinds of deals to help you transition into fall with ease. Highlights include up to 45% off Ryobi cordless power tools, up to $160 off grills, up to $100 off DeWalt tool combo kits, and more. Whether you want to clean up your yard for cool-weather cookouts or try your hand at home improvement, there's likely a deal for you.

SEE ALSO: Shop the REI Labor Day sale: We found late summer outdoor and camping deals

The sale will be live until Sept. 9, but we expect some of the best deals to sell out in advance. So, if you see something you want, grab it sooner rather than later. We've rounded up some of the best deals we've spotted now that the sale has kicked off, but we'll keep an eye out for more price drops throughout the next week.

Best Home Depot grill deal Opens in a new window Credit: Weber Weber Genesis E-325W 3-Burner Propane Gas Grill $899 at The Home Depot
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It's honestly hard to beat a Weber if you're looking to replace your old grill. Their high-quality builds last longer than most, but they can get pretty dang expensive.

Luckily, for Labor Day, Home Depot has several models on sale for up to $100 off. The exclusive Weber Genesis E-325W, for instance, is down to $899 from $999. It features a 640-square-inch cooking space with three burners, two dual-row PureBlu burners for an ultra-hot Sear Zone, porcelain-enameled cast-iron cooking grates, and a sleek titanium-colored finish. And as with most Webers, it comes with a 12-year limited warranty.

More grill dealsBest Home Depot power tool combo kit deal Opens in a new window Credit: Milwaukee Milwaukee M18 18V Cordless 8-Tool Combo Kit $649 at The Home Depot
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This eight-tool Milwaukee kit is an impressive value at only $649 — 50% off its list price. It includes one 1/2-inch drill/driver, one 1/4-inch impact driver, one oscillating multi-tool, one 3/8-inch impact wrench, one brushless grinder, one 6.5-inch circular saw, one hackzall, an LED work light, two M18 XC 4.0Ah batteries, a M12/M18 dual voltage charger, and two contractor bags. You'll be prepared for practically any home improvement project you can dream up.

Best Home Depot power tool deal Opens in a new window Credit: Ryobi Ryobi ONE+ 18V Cordless 1/2 in. Impact Wrench $79 at The Home Depot
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Whether you're working on cars or stubborn home DIYs, an impact wrench can make your life easier. And this one from Ryobi is down to just $79 during The Home Depot's Labor Day Sale. It features 375 ft-lbs of fastening torque, up to 3,100 impacts per minute, and a variable speed trigger with an RPM of 0 to 2,700. There's even an on-board LED light for extra visibility during your projects.

More power tool dealsBest Home Depot outdoor power tool deal Opens in a new window Credit: Ryobi Ryobi ONE+ Whisper Series 12-inch Cordless Chainsaw $189 at The Home Depot
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Ryobi's Whisper Series cordless chainsaw is a hard deal to beat at only $189.

It's lightweight, easy to maneuver, and as the name suggests, 85% quieter than a typical gas-powered chainsaw. Plus, of course, it requires no fuel. Instead, it comes with a 6Ah high-performance battery that can make up to 112 cuts per charge with just the pull of a trigger. Its 12-inch bar and chain can tackle limbs and logs up to 10 inches in diameter, and there's an automatic oiler, tooled chain tensioning, and on-board tool storage for convenience. Purchased separately, the chainsaw, battery, and charger would run you up to $373, so this deal saves you nearly 50%.

More outdoor dealsBest Home Depot smart home deal Opens in a new window Credit: eufy eufy S430 SoloCam $139.99 at Home Depot
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If you want to keep tabs on your yard without breaking the bank or paying a monthly subscription, the eufy S430 SoloCam is down to $139.99 (original price $199.99). This wireless camera features 360-degree pan-and-tilt surveillance, dual lenses, and a built-in solar panel so you never have to worry about swapping batteries.

More smart home dealsBest Home Depot Halloween and holiday decor finds Opens in a new window Credit: Home Accents Home Accents Holiday 5 ft. Grave & Bones LED Pose-N-Stay Skeleton $39.98 at Home Depot
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Skelly is obviously our favorite Home Depot Halloween decoration, but he's not on sale (and neither are his bony friends). If you're looking to build out your yard display for less, the Home Accents Holiday 5 ft. Grave & Bones LED Pose-N-Stay Skeleton is only $39.98. It's fully poseable, durable enough to survive the autumn weather, and perfect for holding a coffee cup on your front porch until November.

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Note: These viral items featured in Home Depot's Labor Day event tend to sell out fast before October.

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Shop the REI Labor Day sale: We found late summer outdoor and camping deals

Mashable - 6 hours 55 min ago
The best REI Labor Day deals at a glance: Best tent deal REI Co-op Half Dome 2 Tent $197.39 (save $131.61) Get Deal Best watersports deal Bote Wulf Aero Inflatable Paddle Board with Paddle $399.99 (save $179.01) Get Deal Best campsite gear deal Rumpl Backcountry Puffy Blanket $89.83 (save $60.12) Get Deal Best cycling deal Ortlieb Back-Roller Panniers (pair) $164.99 (save $55.01) Get Deal Best water bottle deal Hydro Flask Standard-Mouth Vacuum Water Bottle $29.89 (save $10.06) Get Deal Best apparel deal Darn Tough Socks sale prices start at $14.19 Get Deal

Summer camping is out. Fall camping is in. According to the temperatures, camping in September, October, and maybe even November could be more comfortable and enjoyable than summer adventures. Whichever you prefer, a great camping journey requires great gear, and REI has been a longtime leader in providing the essentials we need.

Just in time for cooler temps, the REI Labor Day Sale is packing in the deals on camping gear like tents and camp chairs. There are also great discounts on watersport toys like kayaks and SUP. If your old clothing items are getting worn out, take advantage of 25% off all Darn Tough socks or get some new kicks while saving 25% with Keen and Altra.

SEE ALSO: Labor Day outdoor deals let you stock up on camping and backyard gear for less: Shop Coleman, Yeti, and Ninja

In addition to these sales, tons of REI's own brand items are also 25% off. If you've never tried out REI Co-op items, I can't recommend them enough. They often rival competitor items but cost a fraction of the price. Here are some of the best deals to shop during the REI Labor Day Sale.

Best tent deal Opens in a new window Credit: REI REI Co-op Half Dome 2 Tent (Earthen Grey) $197.39 at REI
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The REI Half Dome 2 Tent has been a favorite among the outdoor crowd for generations. If you could use the upgrade and you don't have your heart set on a particular colorway, the Earthen Gray option is on sale for a huge 40% off during the REI Labor Day Sale. The tent is easy to set-up thanks to the color-coded poles, and it comes with a protective rainfly and a durable footprint.

Best watersports deal Opens in a new window Credit: Bote Bote Wulf Aero Inflatable Paddle Board with Paddle $399.99 at REI
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Getting out on the water during a crisp fall morning is the ultimate form of refreshment. The Bote Wulf Aero SUP will take you out on the lake in comfort, and the design is great for beginners. The $399.99 sale price includes everything you need for an on-the-water adventure, including the Aero repair kit, hand pump, travel bag, and coiled leash.

Best camping deal Opens in a new window Credit: Rumpl Rumpl Backcountry Puffy Blanket $89.83 at REI
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Fall camping needs preparing with a few extra cozy layers, and the Rumpl Backcountry Puffy Blanket is just what every evening calls for. The weather-resistant blanket is made with a PFAS-free water repellent, and a cape-clip that easily allows you to wear the blanket as well, a cape. Maybe best of all, it's machine washable so you won't have to worry if a bit of s'mores ends up on the blanket.

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Cycling to the grocery store? Make carrying your treats home a breeze thanks to the pair of Ortleib Back-Roller Panniers. They're waterproof and well known as a leader in build quality. Each panier has a roll top closure to keep water out. Inside, both bags have a capacity of 20 liters each. There's also a smaller zipped compartment in each bag for storing important goods like keys and a wallet. A shoulder carrying strap and large reflectors add to the thoughtful design.

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I will never wall-mount a TV again

How-To Geek - 7 hours 5 min ago

I've always thought a wall-mounted TV was the cleanest, highest-tier TV installation unless you move into the realm of custom cabinets that hide your TV until you're ready to watch it. I lived in a place with walls that could not take a wall mount for years, but when I moved into a more modern house, one of the first things I did was pay a professional to install our TV, mounted on the wall.

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My Fall 2: Deadpoint interview with the cast featured a ropes course

Mashable - 8 hours 25 min ago

Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko was sent on a ropes course ahead of interviewing Fall 2: Deadpoint's cast Tom Brittney, Arsema Thomas, and Harriet Slater. Her training time was apparently almost as long as the actors' for the Fall sequel.

"We didn't have that much time," said Tom Brittney. "From casting to filming, it was pretty short. It was, like, a week or two."

Slater added, "In the first week, we were just practicing some stunts," "But other than that I feel like we mostly just winged it!"

Arseme Thomas jumped in, "Yeah, they threw us on there and they were like, 'Exactly how you're reacting, we'll get that!'"

Fall 2: Deadpoint is in theaters September 2.

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The surprises we expect and want from Apple’s surprise and shine event

Mashable - 8 hours 32 min ago

Apple’s September iPhone Event will be led by a new CEO, loaded with hardware, and full of surprises. We could finally get a foldable iPhone, new smart speakers, powerful smartwatches and more. Here’s what to expect and what we really want to see once Apple pulls back the curtain on September 9th.

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The 5 times you really should use solid infill on your 3D printer

How-To Geek - 8 hours 35 min ago

When you slice a 3D model to print, you have to make a decision about what the inside of that model will look like. Unless the designer created a custom internal structure, any open volume inside the model will be filled somehow.

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4 creative ways people use Android Auto outside of their cars

How-To Geek - 8 hours 35 min ago

Android Auto is strongly associated with cars and driving. I mean, it is right there in the name. But while navigation gets most of the attention in its interface, Android Auto is really a simple interface with large buttons, voice controls, and easy access to a few essential apps, which makes it surprisingly useful beyond the driver's seat.

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How to watch Safiullin vs. Alcaraz online for free

Mashable - 8 hours 57 min ago

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The 2026 U.S. Open is up and running, and all eyes will be on the return of Carlos Alcaraz. We're sorry Sinner, but nobody gets the people going like Alcaraz.

The second seed faces off against Safiullin in the first round. Fans will expect a confident win from the Spaniard, but he's been out of action for some time, and a shock result could be on the cards.

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 2026 U.S. Open before recovering your investment.

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

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How to watch the 2026 US Open online for free

Mashable - 8 hours 57 min ago

TL;DR: Live stream the 2026 US Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the French Open or Wimbledon, but you could feel the absence of Carlos Alcaraz. We missed his all-action style, his passion, and his rivalry with top seeds. Fans will be desperately hoping he's back to defend his US Open title, and the good news is that he's officially on the entry list.

Barring any late injuries, we should finally get to see Alcaraz in a Grand Slam singles draw. Of course, that's not the only story. Sabalenka will be looking to defend her title against a host of talented players, including Americans like Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula. Questions will also be asked of Zverev and Djokovic as they look to bridge the gap to the game's biggest stars.

If you want to watch the 2026 US Open for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

What is the US Open?

The US Open Tennis Championships (or US Open) is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. It is the fourth and final of the four Grand Slams, held after the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon.

The defending singles champions are Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka.

When is the 2026 US Open?

The 2026 US Open is the 146th edition of the tournament. This year's event takes place from Aug. 30 to Sept. 13.

How to watch the 2026 US Open for free

The 2026 US Open is available to live stream for free on 9Now.

9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this streaming platform with a VPN. These handy tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to secure servers in Australia, meaning you can unblock 9Now from anywhere in the world.

Access free live streams of the 2026 US Open by following these simple steps:

  1. Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (we recommend ExpressVPN)

  2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

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

  4. Visit 9Now

  5. Watch the 2026 US Open for free from anywhere in the world

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If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for the US Open?

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

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A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 80% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with a money-back guarantee).

Live stream the 2026 US Open for free with ExpressVPN.

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