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Guillermo del Toro is the king of gothic horror and classic monster cinema, renowned for hits like Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water. Now, he’s back with a new masterpiece—Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which is easily one of the fall’s most anticipated releases. Given the director’s gift for visual storytelling through uncommon artistry evoking entrancing beauty and feeling, there’s no doubt his film will both mesmerize and move us, but how true to the classic will it be?

The ultimate winter e-reader accessory is coming to Kobo e-readers. No, it's not a fuzzy case or branded knit blanket — it's a remote. Rakuten, the company behind Kobo e-readers, just announced that on Nov. 4, it'll be launching a remote that's compatible with the brand's e-readers. A remote is one of our favorite accessories for an e-reader, and Kobos are the first e-readers to get a native remote.

Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn says, "The Kobo Remote is the perfect accessory for peak immersive reading; it’s an invitation to lounge deeper, multitask smarter, and simply enjoy reading without limits, no matter whether your environment is beach or blankets."

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Page-turning remotes are not a new innovation in the e-reader landscape. The BookTok girlies have been all over it for years, touting cozy setups with gooseneck stands and remotes to keep their hands tucked under the blankets while still being able to turn to the next page on their e-readers.

Kobo's remote will come in two shades, white and black, just like most of its e-readers. The Kobo remote measures 3.92 inches long and about 1.18 inches wide. It has a curved design for an ergonomic feel, and is powered by Bluetooth and a AAA battery. E-reader remotes have never been sold by e-reader brands, making Kobo the first to do so.

The Kobo remote is compatible with the following Kobo e-readers: Kobo Clara 2E, Kobo Clara BW, Kobo Clara Colour, Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Libra Colour, Kobo Sage, Kobo Elipsa, and Kobo Elipsa 2E.

Most other page turners come in two parts: one piece that clips onto the side of the e-reader to tap the screen, and then the actual remote, which controls that clip-on piece. The Kobo Remote will just be one piece, as it's native to the Kobo operating system and communicates with the device over Bluetooth rather than needing a clip-on piece to tap the screen.

This page-turner is much needed in the Kobo system, as I've found that generic page-turner remotes don't always work with the Kobo e-readers. Because the screens on Kobo e-readers aren't flush to their borders, the lip prevents the page turners from pressing the screen unless positioned just right. With the Kobo Remote, that won't be a problem.

The only current downside I see is the price. At $29.99, it's $10 more than most remotes you can find on Amazon, which typically retail for $19.99. That being said, the extra cost will be worth it for the cozy reading experience.

Now that Kobo has released a remote for its e-readers, it's just a matter of time before Amazon designs a remote for Kindles.

The day has finally arrived for Windows 10 to go into retirement. So if you have a computer that can run Windows 11, the time has come to decide whether you want to go ahead, or if you should take a different path (cough, Linux, cough).

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new type of attack that affects Android devices, and they say it lets hackers get their hands on your private data in a matter of seconds.

This includes your private chats, text messages, emails, and even two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, as Ars Technica reported.

The attack, dubbed "Pixnapping" by the team of researchers who discovered it, can be used to extract information from any data displayed on the screen. First, the victim has to download a malicious app. Once the app is installed, a Pixnapping attack can occur without the victim providing any further device permissions.

"Anything that is visible when the target app is opened can be stolen by the malicious app using Pixnapping," reads a message on the Pixnapping website, a resource created by researchers to share information on the attack. "Chat messages, 2FA codes, email messages, etc. are all vulnerable since they are visible."

According to the Pixnapping website, the vulnerability is detailed in a new research paper, part of a collaboration between seven researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington, University of California, San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon University. A preprint of the paper, titled “Pixnapping: Bringing Pixel Stealing out of the Stone Age,” is available online and will be published this week at the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Taiwan.

Information that can not be displayed on the Android device's screen, such as a secret key that is obscured using asterisks for example, cannot be stolen by the hackers in a Pixnapping attack. This is because of the way the attack is carried out.

Once a victim installs the malicious app, it weaponizes the Android API to target other apps with access to sensitive data. The app then accesses the pixels displayed on the screen using an unintended data leak, also known as a hardware side channel. The malicious app pushes those individual pixels through the rendering pipeline, where the Pixnapping attack then performs graphical operations. This continues until optical character recognition, or OCR, can occur, meaning the app can extract text from visuals.

In effect, any information that's displayed on your device's screen can then be stolen.

"Conceptually, it is as if the malicious app was taking a screenshot of screen contents it should not have access to," the Pixnapping site reads.

Researchers tested the Pixnapping attack on Google Pixel 6 through 9 smartphones, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S25, running numerous different versions of the Android mobile operating system, from Android 13 to 16.

While this is certainly concerning news, researchers say that they are unaware of any real-world examples of the exploit being used in the wild. 

The team of cybersecurity researchers informed Google of the Android vulnerability in February. Google released its first patch for Pixnapping last month. However, the researchers discovered a workaround within days, and informed Google once again. Google says it will release an additional Pixnapping patch in its December Android security bulletin.

Josh O'Connor has had a banner 2025, starring in queer drama The History of Sound, art heist comedy The Mastermind, and highly anticipated whodunnit Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

But that's not all! O'Connor's busy 2025 slate actually kicked off back in Jan. with the Sundance Film Festival release of the upcoming drama Rebuilding, written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman.

SEE ALSO: 'The Mastermind' review: Josh O'Connor is truly magnetic in Kelly Reichardt's latest film

Audiences have seen O'Connor as royalty in The Crown and as a tennis hotshot in Challengers. In Rebuilding, though, he's in full-on cowboy mode. He plays Dusty, a Colorado cowboy who loses his entire ranch to a devastating wildfire. With no home left, he moves into a FEMA trailer camp, where he forges new bonds with his neighbors who, like him, have lost everything. He also reconnects with his ex-wife Ruby (The White Lotus Season 2's Meghann Fahy) and young daughter Callie-Rose (Lily LaTorre).

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Rebuilding received largely positive reviews out of its premiere at Sundance, praising O'Connor's performance as well as the film's empathy for Dusty and his new community members. That quiet empathy is on display in the film's first trailer, which promises O'Connor ruminating on life, family, and his daughter's future.

In addition to O'Connor, Fahy, and LaTorre, Rebuilding also stars True Detective: Night Country's Kali Reis and Weapons' Amy Madigan.

Rebuilding hits theaters Nov. 14.

A Cambodian “pig butchering” scam ring has been relieved of $15 billion in Bitcoin courtesy of the Department of Justice, according to a DOJ press release issued on Tuesday. The scam’s alleged ringleader, UK and Cambodian national Chen Zhi, has also been indicted for his role in the scam, though he remains at large. Prosecutors say that the scam ring relied on human trafficking and violence to maintain its operations, and that it stole billions of dollars from people all over the world since 2015. 

In a 68-page indictment unsealed on Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors accused Zhi and his associates of running a massive "phone farm" that operated 1,250 mobile phones, which controlled more than 76,000 social media accounts around the clock. The group reportedly also ran 10 “violent forced labor camps" across Cambodia, where human trafficking victims were coerced into stealing Bitcoin from unsuspecting victims. According to prosecutors, the people who worked in these camps were migrant workers who traveled to Cambodia in search of work but were instead trafficked and forced to work in these industrial scam compounds. 

The indictment reads like something you might see on TV or in a Hollywood movie, and government officials said it's the largest forfeiture action in the history of the Department of Justice.

A picture of a phone farm with 1,250 mobile devices appeared in the indictment. Credit: Department of Justice

For the uninitiated, a pig butchering scam works in two steps. The scammer creates a relationship with the victim, either through a traditional romance scam or some other means. Once the metaphorical “pig” has been “fattened,” the scammer will make their move and manipulate the victim into sending Bitcoin, often under the guise of a phony investment opportunity. Some victims will liquidate their entire life savings.

SEE ALSO: What are pig butchering scams? How to protect yourself from online con artists.

“Today’s action represents one of the most significant strikes ever against the global scourge of human trafficking and cyber-enabled financial fraud,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in a press release. “By dismantling a criminal empire built on forced labor and deception, we are sending a clear message that the United States will use every tool at its disposal to defend victims, recover stolen assets, and bring to justice those who exploit the vulnerable for profit. We are grateful for the hard work of Director Patel and the men and women of the FBI.”

International pig butchering rings, often located in Southeast Asia, operate massive phone farms and call centers to enact scams at an industrial scale. In Cambodia alone, the scam industry steals $12.5 to $19 billion annually, per the indictment. However, prosecutors said the accused scammers didn't just steal money. Prosecutors said they also used violence to "further their criminal schemes," and the indictment contains bloody images of alleged victims of the gang's activities.

The indictment accused Zhi and his associates of bribing officials to stay ahead of law enforcement raids. One section of the indictment detailed how Zhi and his co-conspirators allegedly hunted down an associate who fled with stolen money, leveraging contacts in the government and mob to locate the thief.

Zhi is publicly known as the leader of the Prince Group, a multinational corporation that does business in over 30 countries. The group was “ostensibly focused” on real estate development and financial services, but the DOJ alleged it provided cover for the sophisticated scam operation. The indictment describes how Zhi and Prince Group executives allegedly used their ill-gotten gains to buy mansions, luxury yachts, expensive watches, private jets, and even rare artwork, "including a Picasso painting purchased through an auction house in New York."

The gang's operations even took place on U.S. soil, prosecutors claimed. The group reportedly used shell companies and financial institutions located in Brooklyn and Queens, New York to facilitate their schemes and defraud U.S. victims.

If located, arrested, and convicted, Zhi faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering. Zhi is currently at large, with a sizable amount of his assets in the DOJ's hands. According to a U.S. Treasury Department press release, the Treasury and the UK’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have also imposed sweeping sanctions against the Prince Group.

In total, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Justice Department National Security Division filed a civil forfeiture complaint for 127,271 Bitcoin, worth an estimated $15 billion.

The new red band trailer for HBO's IT: Welcome to Derry has everything fans of Stephen King's It could want. Children heading into sewers! Terrifying visions courtesy of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård)! And so, so, so much blood.

SEE ALSO: Is 'IT: Welcome to Derry' based on Stephen King's book?

Developed by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the sibling team behind IT and IT: Chapter Two, the upcoming IT prequel series transports viewers to Derry, Maine in 1962. That's 27 years before the first film takes place, meaning it's perfectly timed to Pennywise's last awakening before the events of IT. (King's novel kicks off in 1957, but the films moved the time period up several decades.)

Based on IT: Welcome to Derry's latest trailer, Pennywise's 1962 feeding cycle will play out similarly to his 1988 cycle. He's going to terrorize a group of Derry children and feed on their "tasty, tasty, beautiful fear." Of course, the Derry children are making his mission easier for him, because they keep going into the sewers where he lives! Given how many times I yelled, "Don't go in there" at this trailer, I can only imagine how many times I'll yell it at the TV during the actual series.

The red band trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry gives a haunting glimpse at the kind of scares that lay in store for Derry's citizens, including a gnarly, zombified take on Uncle Sam. But it's the image of Pennywise's clown form that proves an eternal terror — especially when he unhinges his jaw.

In addition to Skarsgård, IT: Welcome to Derry also stars Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso.

IT: Welcome to Derry premieres Oct. 26 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

Ever since I moved from a larger Android phone to a slightly smaller iPhone, I've been struggling to type the words I mean to type. It seems no matter how hard I try, I keep hitting the keys next to the one I thought I was hitting.

Today is the day we've been waiting for, as Microsoft has officially ended support for the Office 2016 and Office 2019 suites, standalone apps, and servers. That means if you are still running any of these versions, you won't be getting any more fixes or technical support from Microsoft.

Following the explosion in popularity of services like ChatGPT, the term "AI" was suddenly in everything. Much like the dot com boom and bursting bubble, simply adding the word "AI" to your company or product could boost sales and stock prices.

A significant feature is making its return to the Windows Copilot app. You can give direct links to the operating system’s Settings. The new capability, officially called "Direct Settings Access," is beginning to roll out to users in all Windows Insider Channels.

The Linux Mint team has announced the arrival of a new Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) release, LMDE 7 with the nickname "Gigi." This full release, following the LMDE 7 beta just over a month ago, is the first in the series to drop 32-bit support. It also updates the LMDE experience to keep up with other Linux Mint releases.

TL;DR: Live stream Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers for free on RTP Play. Access this free streaming site from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

Portugal are sitting at the top of Group F in World Cup qualification, having won every game so far. Hungary are second behind Portugal, and now these two sides meet at the Estádio José Alvalade. If Hungary can secure a huge victory away from home, they'll move to just two points behind Roberto Martínez's side.

If you want to watch Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

When is Portugal vs. Hungary?

Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers kicks off at 7:45 p.m. BST on Oct. 14. This fixture takes place at the Estádio José Alvalade.

How to watch Portugal vs. Hungary for free

Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers is available to live stream for free on RTP Play.

RTP Play is geo-restricted to Portugal, but anyone can access this free streaming service with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Portugal, meaning you can access free live streams on RTP Play from anywhere in the world.

Lve stream Portugal vs. Hungary for free by following these simple steps:

1. Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like 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 Portugal

4. Visit RTP Play

5. Stream Portugal vs. Hungary for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but most do offer free-trials or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers without actually spending anything. This clearly isn't a long-term solution, but it does give you enough time to stream select World Cup qualifiers before recovering your investment.

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

What is the best VPN for RTP Play?

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

• Servers in 105 countries including Portugal

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A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $99.95 and includes an extra three months for free — 49% off for a limited time. This plan also 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 $12.95 (including money-back guarantee).

Live stream Portugal vs. Hungary in World Cup qualifiers for free with ExpressVPN.

SAVE $67.49: As of Oct. 14, the Ultimate Ears Everboom portable speaker is on sale for just $202.50 as a Lightning Deal at Amazon. That's a savings of 25% and its best price since Prime Day in July.

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If you missed out on the Bluetooth speaker deals during Prime Big Deal Days, this Lightning Deal on the Ultimate Ears Everboom might make up for it.

As of Oct. 14, the Ultimate Ears Everboom portable speaker is on sale for just $202.50 in cobalt blue. That's a savings of 25% and the best price we've seen since Prime Day in July. As a Lightning Deal, it will disappear once all units have been claimed or the deal timer runs out — whichever comes first. In other words, if you're in the market, you may want to grab it ASAP.

We haven't tested the Everboom specifically, but we've spent some time with plenty of other Bluetooth speakers from Ultimate Ears and they're some of our absolute favorites. We love the Hyperboom, Epicboom, and the Wonderboom, in particular. The Everboom falls in between the Wonderboom and the Epicboom in size, making it portable enough for travel and powerful enough for the outdoors. It's fully loaded with two full-range transducers with augmented magnets and two customized passive radiators. Translation: it packs big bass and crisp clarity. There’s also specific EQ modes for every party scenario you can select from in the Boom app and an Outdoor Boost setting for extra oomph.

The battery will last for up to 20 hours and its rugged build will endure just about anything you throw at it. It's dust proof, water proof, drop proof up to one meter and can even float in water. Our only real complaint is the price tag. But fortunately, if you grab the Lightning Deal at Amazon, the price isn't as much of an issue.

Samsung evidently went back to the drawing board for its next pair of Galaxy Buds wireless earbuds.

Android Authority spotted some iconography in the latest leaked build of Samsung's upcoming One Ui 8.5 OS update that point to redesigned Galaxy Buds coming potentially in the near future. Specifically, an icon with the file name "list_ic_earbuds_buds4" can be found in the One UI 8.5 build, which shows an illustrated silhouette of a pair of earbuds that Samsung has not actually announced yet. For reference, the Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro came out in summer of 2024, so a refresh might be in the cards soon.

SEE ALSO: Samsung TriFold phone: Everything we know

Anyway, the icon shows a wireless earbud with an AirPods-like stem (maintained from previous Galaxy Buds models), though the body of the earbud is angled differently from before. Interestingly, there's also what I assume to be a silicone ear tip, which is something the base Galaxy Buds 3 lacked. The Galaxy Buds Pro had those, so maybe Samsung is bringing some design parity to the next base model of Galaxy Buds.

Aside from that, there's very little to glean from this leak. There's no telling when the next Galaxy Buds will be announced or launched, though the existence of this iconography certainly suggests it's going to happen at some point.

Unfortunately, just like everything else, our love lives are at the mercy of algorithms. That's given rise to a cottage industry of dating coaches, forums, and self-proclaimed pickup artists all claiming to know the secret to "hacking dating app algorithms" and finding your soulmate — or at least clearing the goblins and trolls out of your queue.

Hacks for Hinge (and other dating apps) have exploded in popularity as people look for ways to game the app's algorithm to get better matches, and maybe even find a real connection. But some of the so-called tricks circulating right now are… well, kind of dumb.

SEE ALSO: All your Hinge questions, answered

Case in point: the viral "Hinge hack" for women recently covered by The Cut that promises to free hot men from "Rose Jail." (More on what that is below.) The method — credited to LA influencer and lawyer Eve Tilley-Coulson — is supposed to push attractive matches from Hinge's Standouts section into your Discover feed, where you'll see them more often.

What is the viral Hinge hack?

For the uninitiated, Standouts is a feature that Hinge introduced in 2020, curating a small selection of your "best potential matches" and refreshing every 24 hours. To like someone there, you need to use a Rose (Hinge's version of a Super Like). You get one free Rose every Sunday, or you can buy extras for $3.99 each. Users call it "Rose Jail" because you only have one chance per week to like one of the best options for you (according to Hinge's algorithm), or else you have to fork up cash.

However, the profiles in Standouts are grabbed from the same pool as the usual Discover feed, so users curated for the former on Monday may appear in the latter on Tuesday after the refresh.

Now, the hack itself is… complicated, to say the least. According to Tilley-Coulson, in a three-part series on TikTok, you have to delete your account and remake it exactly at noon on Sunday. Once you've rebuilt your profile with photos and prompts, you buy a $29.99 Superboost, which keeps your profile highly visible for 24 hours. Then, this is key: you don't touch the app during that time. For the next week, you reject everyone in both your Standouts and regular feed (it's unclear whether this also means people who've already liked you). Supposedly, this shows the app that you're active but picky, forcing it to serve you better matches.

And just like that — if the TikTok theory is to be believed — you'll be swimming in hot men.

"Hinge is a business. It thus uses all the data you give it about your 'type,' 'patterns' etc. to hide those individuals behind a paywall," Tilley-Coulson told Mashable over email. "Thus, the less information you give Hinge, the more control you have over the individuals you see and are able to match with."

"Hinge limits the people you see and can like without paying...so there is no success without paying something," Tilley-Coulson stated.

A Hinge spokesperson told Mashable that the app prioritizes quality over quantity, saying Hinge aims "for users to experience fewer, but more meaningful, potential matches that lead to real dates."

"With Hinge's algorithm, we leverage deep learning to understand daters on a deeper level and deliver more thoughtful recommendations," the spokesperson continued. "We show you who you are most likely to match with based on predicting mutual interest in each other." Recommendations are based on factors such as who meets your preferences, who meets your "dealbreakers" (preferences that are non-negotiable), and profiles that you like, skip, or match.

Don't waste $30 on this 'hack'

Wanting to game the algorithm to make an already miserable experience slightly better is completely understandable. In recent years, dating apps have become notorious for annoying users into buying in-app purchases. And if the goal here is simply to get a better batch of potential matches, you're better off just paying for one of Hinge's premium tiers — Hinge+ at $19.99 or HingeX at $24.99 for a week. At least then you get unlimited likes and access to all the filters (height, politics, education level, the works). If your goal is to rack up likes, you don't need to spend $30 on a Superboost and waste a week pretending to be ultra-selective.

Having written about dating app "hacks" before — and, embarrassingly, having been on and off these apps for the last decade (I can even be found on Tinder.com's homepage) — I can confidently say you don't need to waste your money trying gimmicks like this. At least when straight guys were "gaymaxxing" the algorithm (pretending to be gay) to get more likes, they didn't have to pay to look like tools.

Even buying a boost and not swiping, so the app can't gauge your preferences, is based on old Tinder hacks from years past.

Hinge's algorithm (and Tinder's and Bumble's, for that matter) isn't some impenetrable black box. A mix of factors determines how you're ranked in other people's queues.

It's well-known that new accounts with fresh numbers on new devices perform better, thanks to the "new user boost" (formerly known as the "noob boost") that these apps provide to hook you early. Thus, part of the hack involves creating a new account to receive the "bump" — and doing so on Sunday at noon, as data shows that activity peaks late in the weekend.

But that effect fades quickly — especially if you reuse an old number or device tied to a deleted account. The apps also use facial recognition to detect repeat users and are heavily influenced by location. From personal experience, I've found that creating an account in a new city nets far more likes than recreating one in a place I've lived before (and yes, I delete and remake my accounts often).

The origin of this hack stems from a common misunderstanding about how Hinge ranks user "attractiveness." The theory borrows from Tinder's old chess-style rating system — the idea that the more likes you get, the higher your internal score climbs, and the more the algorithm pairs you with other high scorers. That's why this hack focuses so heavily on maximizing likes: the logic goes that if the app sees you as more "desirable," it'll start freeing the hot guys from Rose Jail and dropping them into your regular queue.

That rating system has long been "old news," however, according to Tinder. Hinge's algorithm is based on a system of finding optimal pairs that money can't buy (like organ donations), its director of relationship science, Logan Ury, revealed in 2020. An example is, if you have 10 men and 10 women, and you ask one group to rank their top choices, try to match with their first choice. If they get rejected, move to their second choice, and so on, until no one wants to match anymore.

None of the hack's elements is revolutionary, and it also shouldn't cost you money. Could you argue that these dating apps are deliberately blocking your blessings, hiding their so-called "high-value" users to tank your self-esteem and push you toward paid boosts and subscriptions? Yeah, probably. Many people do so online. Are these hacks, for both men and women, just the end result of a situationship culture that's created a paradox of choice? Also, yeah, probably.

But everyone's experience on a dating app is different. Attractiveness is subjective, and what works for one person won't necessarily work for another. And as The Cut rightly points out, even for the women this hack supposedly "worked" for, getting to (and beyond) the first date is the real challenge. One that no $30 Super Boost is ever going to solve.

This article reflects the opinion of the writer.

UPDATE: Oct. 15, 2025, 4:44 p.m. EDT This article has been updated with comments from Tilley-Coulson.

SAVE $300: As of Oct. 14, get the Motorola Razr+ for $699.99, down from its usual price of $999.99. That's a discount of 30% and the lowest price we've seen.

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Looking to buy a new phone? How about going back in time and experiencing your flip phone era again? You can do that with the modern take on the Motorola Razr+, which you can get right now at Amazon for its lowest sale price yet. So if you're not sure you want an iPhone and Samsung's lineup isn't catching you, this is a great alernative.

As of Oct. 14, get the Motorola Razr+ for $699.99, down from its usual price of $999.99 That's $300 off and a discount of 30%. It's also the lowest price we've seen.

SEE ALSO: I relived my high school days and used the Motorola Razr+ for a week

The 2025 Razr+ is a sleek device that boasts a compact flip design that's IP48 water resistant, has a titanium-reinforced hinge, and an internal and external display that might just change the way you use your phone. You can stay on the outside of your phone to text, make calls, and even take pictures before ever opening it up into what is essentially a "typical" smartphone. It does all this and more, and is especially snappy thanks to its Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor.

With a 4000mAh battery it has all-day battery life with 45W TurboPower charging to top you back up when you're running low, so you don't have to sit around and wait for your phone to have enough juice for the day. And the glossy exterior is colorful with textured backing so it doesn't slip out of your fingers.

Mashable's RJ Andersen took the phone for a spin and awarded it a 4.3 out of 5, praising it for being "super convenient and pocket friendly" and appreciating its "upgraded external screen".

"For casual users — or diehard fans of foldable phones — it’s definitely worth considering. Retailing at $999 (and frequently on sale), it’s definitely a better phone than any of its predecessors, enough so that it feels like a worthy opponent to the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5," wrote Andersen.

Pick up yours now if you're looking to either make a change to a new phone or upgrade your old Razr.

BMW’s most affordable crossover may not grab headlines like its larger, more powerful siblings, but it’s quietly one of the smartest buys in the luxury segment. It delivers the premium feel and driving dynamics BMW is known for, just in a more compact, efficient, and accessible package.

SAVE $100: The Bluetti Elite 30 v2 portable power station is on sale at Amazon for $199 in select colorways, down from the standard price of $299. That's a 33% discount and the lowest we've ever seen.

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A portable power station is awesome in so many situations. It can keep your phone, laptop, and WiFi router going during a power outage at home. It's also a must-pack for camping trips. But it's a hard stretch to say a portable power station is a fun device. Sure, they're absolutely useful but they're box-shaped and come in black and greys. Bluetti, however, it changing the game and if you like fun colorways, check out this deal.

As of Oct. 14, the Bluetti Elite 30 v2 portable power station is on sale at Amazon for $199 in select colorways including pink, green, and purple. That's down from the standard price of $299 which takes $100 off the normal price from the 33% discount. This is the lowest (and first) discount we've seen on this new model from Bluetti.

Some portable power stations are designed to keep big appliances going like a window AC or the refrigerator. Others, like the Bluetti Elite 30 v2, are perfect for smaller gadgets like your phone and laptop, providing 228Wh of capacity. And while the majority of portable power station are bland, Bluetti introduced great colorways with the Elite 30 v2.

SEE ALSO: The Anker Solix C1000 Gen 2 just dropped to a record-low price at Amazon

This compact portable power station is easy to carry around the house or the campground since it weighs under 10 pounds and has a built-in handle. It comes with versatile port options including two AC outlets, two USB-C, and two USB-A.

In real-life scenarios, Bluetti says the 228Wh can keep a fan going for over 16 hours or recharge a phone 16 times. If you plan to use it at home during a power outage, it'll keep the WiFi router online for almost 15 hours.

While it's down to a all-time low price, snag the colorful Bluetti Elite 30 v2. It'll be perfect for winter storms and summer camping.

I'm fond of going to the theater and soaking up the big-screen experience, but there's also much to be said for staying in and enjoying a movie in the comfort of your own home. That's one of the reasons I subscribe to Netflix, as the streaming service offers a great catalog.