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My phone is full of life-tracking apps, but it became increasingly apparent that they don't talk to each other. So, I decided to try logging my sleep, spending, routines, food, and work in Excel for a week to see whether consolidating everything would make the data easier to understand. By Sunday, patterns had started to emerge that I wasn't previously aware of.

It's always been hard to really stand behind any one brand when recommending a networking setup to friends or family—especially those without a ton of technology experience. UniFi has changed that though, and it's now the only network that I recommend to anyone who asks me.

After satirical paper The Onion bought right-wing conspiracy site Infowars, it faced legal obstacles — but now the people behind it say they're launching a new Infowars and sidestepping the courts.

The founder of Infowars, Alex Jones, declared bankruptcy in 2022 following defamation lawsuits from families of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, which Jones claimed was a hoax. He was ordered to pay them $1.3 billion in damages, and The Onion won an auction bid for Infowars in 2024 — but a judge swiftly blocked the sale.

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Then, in April 2026, The Onion announced a new way to buy the outlet: a licensing deal that would allow The Onion to publish on Infowars' site and start paying the Sandy Hook families. But that has faced legal challenges too, MS NOW reported, and The Onion has decided not to wait for the courts to relaunch the website.

"Alex is holding Infowars.com hostage," CEO of The Onion, Ben Collins, told MS NOW. "He's trying to intentionally degrade the assets so these families can never sell them, and the courts have largely obliged. We're tired of waiting around."

The refreshed Infowars is now set to launch on July 2 with original programming, with comedian Tim Heidecker as creative director. Heidecker, who's known for Adult Swim shows such as Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! with his creative partner Eric Wareheim, will host a parody of Jones's old Infowars show. An "emergency" statement from Heidecker (doing a Jones impression) has already been published on YouTube.

Other shows coming to Infowars this summer, according to MS NOW, are The Jim Haggerty Show and a documentary-style film called Birth of a Nation, which has the same name as the racist 1915 film featuring the Ku Klux Klan.

In an April interview with TIME, Heidecker said there will be a "transition phase" of doing Onion-style parody, and he eventually wants to turn Infowars into a "destination for good comedy — a new streaming site, a new comedy platform." He also stated that the team hopes this will be profitable and "provide nice, healthy budgets for young creators to make interesting things for the world."

He reiterated this in a June interview with WIRED, stating that "there will be a sense of curation" of comedy coming out of Infowars, "the same way Adult Swim was a brand."

Paramount+ is where many of us look for the loud, boisterous stuff—Sly Stallone running the Tulsa underworld, the latest Star Trek voyage, and, apparently, UFC fights at the White House. But quietly tucked away behind Taylor Sheridan's cowboy hat sits an excellent documentary library that's easy to scroll right past.

Google has dominated smartphone AI for years, with Assistant and Gemini having pulled well ahead of Siri. Well, Apple just upended this narrative with the introduction of Siri AI in iOS 27.The new assistant uses Gemini as a teacher, but has customizations that make it do things Android users have wanted for years

OneDrive is integrated into every corner of Windows 10 and Windows 11, and it seems very likely that integration will only increase as Microsoft pushes more and more cloud features into Windows. If you want to get rid of OneDrive but don't want to give up the convenience of a cloud service app on your desktop, you have options.

A lot of the everyday stuff on our devices quietly runs through someone else's servers. None of it feels like surveillance, but each one is a stream of pretty personal data flowing out of your hands. The good news is that for each of these, there's a free and open-source (FOSS) alternative that does the same job while keeping your data on your hardware. Here are three such FOSS apps worth setting up this weekend.

Want to try an Arch-based distro but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you’ve already been distro-hopping and still haven’t found the perfect fit? Here’s my personal ranking of the nine Arch-based distros I think are worth your time—based on real-world testing and my own preferences.

It's easy to lose an entire evening on Netflix. One more episode of that reality show you've been obsessed with (looking at you, Outlast: The Jungle), or getting lost in that thriller movie you didn't mean to start watching after Kimmel. More and more frequently, however, Netflix's documentary machine pumps out a true story so compelling that it lodges itself in your brain and won't leave.

SAVE 37%: As of June 19, you can get the Aiper Scuba X1 for $949.99, down from $1,499.99 at Amazon. That's a 37% discount or $550 savings.

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It's nearly Prime Day, and Amazon's sneaking in little discounts here and there to keep us interested. From robot vacuums to kitchen appliances to TVs and headphones, we're already seeing some impressive price cuts, but the outdoor and backyard gear is getting some of the most practical markdowns.

Right now, you can get the Aiper Scuba X1 cordless pool robot for $949.99 at Amazon, down from $1,499.99. That's a 37% discount or $550 savings. It's also the lowest price we've tracked for this model. But you'd better hurry: Amazon's got a clock running on this one, and it's almost over.

SEE ALSO: Prime Day is almost here: We found 50+ early deals already live on Apple, Sony, and Lego favorites

This little robot runs for 185 minutes on a single charge. Instead of drifting around aimlessly, it uses smart navigation to map out your pool and dodge obstacles on its own. When it's done, just pop it onto the included wireless charging dock.

As for the actual cleaning, its dual jets clear out everything from fine sand to stray pebbles, while the filtration system catches the tiny debris you can't even see. It also scrubs along the horizontal waterline to get rid of scum buildup. Essentially, it handles all the real manual labor so you don’t have to.

If you drive a Honda Accord, Civic, or CR-V, you may have a reason to take a quick look at your VIN. American Honda Motor Co. has issued a safety recall for nearly 100,000 vehicles across its Honda and Acura lineups due to a component defect that can cause the front passenger airbags to deploy at full force during a crash, even when a child or infant seat is in that position.

It’s hard to believe that Android Wear arrived over a decade ago. Google had great ideas for the platform that would eventually be renamed to “Wear OS,” but somewhere along the way, they were abandoned. To this day, Android Wear got a lot right.

The official World Cup ball now has something in common with a phone, a smartwatch, and nearly every other piece of modern tech: it needs to be charged.

Adidas’ Trionda, the match ball being used at the 2026 World Cup, is more than just a four-panel soccer ball with a red, green, and blue design meant to nod to the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It is also a connected device. Inside the ball is a small motion sensor that tracks its movement hundreds of times per second and sends data to the VAR room in real time.

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That may sound like a strange detail for a sport still built around feet, grass, bodies, and instinct. But during Sweden’s win over Tunisia, the ball already proved its worth, as the internal sensor helped decide whether a record-setting goal should count.

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In the 84th minute of Sweden’s win over Tunisia on Sunday, June 14, midfielder Mattias Svanberg came off the bench and scored with his first touch, just 12 seconds after entering the match. The goal would make him the fastest substitute ever to score at a World Cup, but it was initially ruled out for offside.

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The review came down to one hard-to-see detail: whether Sweden forward Alexander Isak had made a slight touch on the ball before it reached Svanberg. If he had not touched it, Svanberg would remain offside. If he had, the phase of play would reset, and the goal could count.

According to an ESPN VAR review of the incident, officials used Adidas’ connected ball tracking technology to determine that Isak had indeed made contact. The touch was so slight that it was difficult, if not impossible, to judge clearly with the naked eye...but the sensor registered it. VAR overturned the original offside decision. Svanberg’s record-setting goal stood.

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Connected ball technology is not new to the World Cup. Adidas first used a sensor-equipped match ball at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. For 2026, the technology has been updated, though, with a side-mounted 500Hz chip inside one of Trionda’s four panels, allowing the ball to send real-time, three-dimensional movement and touch data to VAR.

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In a World Cup increasingly shaped by technology, the smallest touch can now be enough to make history.

For most of us, when we think of enterprise hardware, we think "expensive." No wonder. Enterprise hardware, including HDDs, is built for servers, data centers, heavy workloads, and 24/7 use. You'd naturally expect them to cost more than consumer-friendly options.

Following SpaceX's IPO on June 12 — the biggest in history, which made Elon Musk a trillionaire — the stock price dipped just days later when the company announced the acquisition of AI coding agent Cursor.

The initial price was $135, and reached over $170 the same day, Mashable reported. By Tuesday, June 16, it hit a high above $225, according to Forbes, but some of those gains were lost by Wednesday.

The $60 billion deal between SpaceX and Anysphere, the startup behind Cursor, was announced on Tuesday. The next day, the price fell five percent, CNBC reported, and dropped another 3.75 percent on Thursday.

SEE ALSO: Elon Musk seemingly found the cheat code for capitalism. The SpaceX IPO proves it.

The markets are closed today, June 19, with SpaceX's current share price at $185 at the time of this writing. It's dropped slightly today, but it's still well above its IPO share price.

But how low will it go? Investor research firm Morningstar reported that SpaceX is wildly overvalued, with its fair value estimate at $62 a share, and a best-case scenario would price shares at $169. That would be lower than today's price, but still higher than its IPO.

Not everyone believes SpaceX is overvalued, though. Investment bank Oppenheimer and Co. raised its projection for SpaceX stock from $190 to $250 following the acquisition disclosure. Analyst Timothy Horan said that SpaceX "owns every layer of the AI stack, giving it cost and quality advantages," and that Cursor is a major component of that.

So it remains to be seen whether the stock will dip much lower — and unless it dips below $138, Musk remains a trillionaire.

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Prime Day is just a few days away (yes, Amazon bumped the official sale up to June this year), and it's my pleasure, and journalistic duty, to give you the deets on where to find the best sex toy deals.

As I've noted in years past, buying sex toys on Amazon is a gamble. If you don't know what to look for, you could end up with something that does more harm than good (think porous jelly materials or chemical-laden vibrators). On top of that, Amazon isn't allowed to promote sex toys on Prime Day the way it does for TVs and air fryers, which means you have to dig to find the discounts.

SEE ALSO: I've tested 100+ sex toys. Here are the 15 most mind-blowing toys I've ever owned.

Luckily, you have me to do the research for you. To be transparent, there aren't a ton of early sex toy deals live on Amazon just yet, but I expect a lot more to drop when the official sale kicks off next week. Below, I've rounded up the best early discounts — including a few Amazon finds that are already marked down, the toys I'm betting will go on sale next week, and deals from outside brands running their own sales. Happy shopping!

Best Amazon Prime Day sex toy deal so far Tracy's Dog OG Lick $29.99 at Amazon
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A lot of the toys I usually hype up on Prime Day aren't on sale yet (I've listed those below), but Tracy's Dog is almost always marked down. It is one of my favorite sex toy brands for people who crave intense clitoral stimulation but aren't willing to pay more than $50. This is one of the only times I feel confident saying you'll get more bang for your buck.

Right now, you can get Tracy's Dog OG Lick for $29.99 at Amazon (it's basically just a newer version of the OG Sucking Vibrator, which I have and love). It's only 13% off on the Tracy's Dog website, so this is a good deal.

The OG Lick includes a remote and has seven licking modes and 10 vibration patterns. It's also waterproof and super easy to use hands-free (I actually love using mine while I'm giving my partner head; it's fun for everyone involved). Note: This is a "licking" vibrator; if you want suction, I recommend buying the OG Sucking Vibrator (which isn't available on Amazon for some reason).

More early Prime Day deals hiding on Amazon

• Satisfyer Pearl Diver — $24.95 $49.95 (save $25)

• Tracy's Dog Swirlii Vibrator — $39.99 $49.99 (save $10)

• Satisfyer Penguin — $49.95 $69.95 (save $20)

The toys I'm betting will go on sale next week

• PlusOne Bullet Vibrator — $14.99

• Ava Vibrator — $15.47

• Unbound Gemini — $34

• Satisfyer Pro 2+ — $39.98

All the sex toy deals you can shop right now

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• Magic Wand: Get up to $90 off select wands

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• PinkCherry: Get up to 80% off clearance, plus 40% off everything else with code PRIME

• Satisfyer: Get 30% off all travel-sized toys

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Completing any project comes with a sense of accomplishment, but there’s no denying that some are more impressive than others. Whether it’s functionality you never thought possible, the culmination of months of work, or a particularly inventive way of circumventing limitations—these ESP32 projects have it all.

Best early Prime Day gaming deals at a glance: Best gaming monitor deal 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G5 $189.99 (save $140) Get Deal Best gaming-worthy TV deal 65-inch TCL ClassQM6K QLED TV $527.99 (save $272) Get Deal Best gaming mouse deal Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse $30.99 (save $18.96) Get Deal Best gaming keyboard deal Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard $182.99 (save $47) Get Deal Best gaming speakers deal Klipsch Reference R-40PM Bookshelf Speakers $316.99 (save $232.01) Get Deal

We're just days away from one of the biggest shopping events of the year.

This year, Amazon decided to launch into Prime Day a bit early, and we're in for big savings between June 23 and 26. But I've been covering Prime Day deals for nearly five years now, and I can tell you with certainty those dates are merely suggestions. You can find plenty of great deals before the sale starts, and other linger on into the days after the sale.

SEE ALSO: Shop the best Nintendo Switch deals ahead of Prime Day 2026

Anyone who's looking for gaming upgrades is likely in for some treats from Amazon. Before the sale starts, I've spotted some excellent gaming deals that are already live. Since I'm not one to enjoy strong mid-day summer sun, you can find me inside gaming until it's time for a dinner in the backyard.

If you're shopping ahead of the sale, these are the top gaming deals to grab before Prime Day hits.

Best gaming monitor deal Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G5 $189.99 at Amazon
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A gaming monitor has the power to change the whole gaming experience. Go curved, and you'll never go back to a dull flat screen. Lucky for us, the 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G5 has a 1000R curve, and it's on sale for a massive 42% off ahead of Prime Day, coming in at just under $190 instead of the list price of $329.99. It's also worth noting the 27-inch model is on sale for about $200 which makes the cheaper price on the 32-inch model a fantastic snag.

The Samsung Odyssey G5 come with game-worthy specs like a 165Hz refresh rate, AMD Radeon FreeSync, and a glare-free display.

Best gaming-worthy TV deal Opens in a new window Credit: TCL TCL 65-inch ClassQM6K QLED TV $527.99 at Amazon
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We often think of gaming as an expensive hobby, but it doesn't have to be if gaming items are multi-functional. For example. the 65-inch TCL ClassQM6K QLED TV can serve as your gaming display as well as your TV. Pair this with the sale price of $527.99, and things are looking a lot more realistic, price wise.

The TCL has a native refresh rate of up to 144Hz for crisp and quick gaming. The refresh rate is also excellent if you'll be sitting down to enjoy watching World Cup games this summer. TCL has the list price for the 65-inch ClassQM6K QLED TV set at $799.99, but Amazon's early Prime Day sale takes 33% off.

More gaming deals

• 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Bluetooth Controller — $63.99 $69.99 (save $6)

• PlayStation Portal + Case + Charging Station — $306.48 $322.97 (save $16.49)

• 49-inch Samsung Odyssey G9 (G95C) — $644.99 $999.99 (save $355)

Ryobi makes a ton of cordless 18V power tools with a collection of over 350 products, and even though I've been buying them for nearly 20 years, there are a few essentials that I can't live without. Whether it's to make a DIY repair or project around the house easier, or just a must-have tool, here's what you need to know.

In a television landscape overcrowded with ambitious storytelling, few shows have risen above the noise to earn both critical acclaim and Emmy recognition. From richly imagined worlds where power, identity, and survival collide in strikingly different ways, for example, to a modern mythological battleground where ancient gods clash with new beliefs, they push the boundaries of genre television, and that's why we love them.