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Smart buttons are a useful way to trigger scenes and automations in your smart home. With Home Assistant, I've found that sometimes NFC tags can be more useful, as they allow me to know not just when a tag was scanned, but also the device that scanned it.

If the internet has taught us anything, it's that every few months, a new front opens in the quiet cultural skirmish between millennials and Gen Z. First, it was side parts versus middle parts. Then skinny jeans versus baggy denim. Then came the millennial pause and the Gen Z stare. Now the latest battlefield is… the top of your head.

Specifically, how much space you leave above it in a video.

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The debate began with Gen Z creator @taylormknott joking that you can instantly tell how old someone is by how they film a TikTok, because millennials leave "a ton of space between the top of their head and the top of the screen."

The observation resonated with younger viewers accustomed to TikTok's tight, face-forward framing. But it also triggered an immediate response from millennials. One such creator, screenwriter Andrew Briedis, posted a stitched rebuttal on Instagram Reels.

"Gen Z, you know I love you," he began, before launching into a lightly exasperated defense of millennial filmmaking instincts. His argument was simple: millennials aren't leaving that space by accident. They're doing it on purpose.

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"It's called the Rule of Thirds," he said, referring to the classic photography and cinematography principle that divides a frame into three sections and positions subjects along those lines for visual balance. Leaving space above the head, he argued, draws the viewer's eye intentionally rather than cramming a face into the center of the frame.

In other words, what Gen Z sees as awkward framing, millennials see as composition.

But beneath the technical explanation lay one rooted in generational experience with technology. "Any of us millennials, we didn't have phones to record on," he said. "You know what I had in high school? A digital camera that recorded like 20 seconds, and then I had to plug it into a computer and download it."

For millennials, visual storytelling was something learned deliberately: photography classes, film studies, and early YouTube tutorials about composition and lighting. The grammar of images, like the rule of thirds, was taught as a skill.

Gen Z, by contrast, grew up with front-facing cameras in their pockets. Video wasn't just something you learned in a class. It was something you did constantly, from a very young age. The result is a different visual language: closer framing, direct eye contact with the camera, and compositions optimized for a vertical phone screen rather than cinematic balance.

As a millennial myself, I don't think either approach is necessarily wrong. They’re just products of different media ecosystems.

Millennials were raised on cameras and camcorders that adhered to traditional photography rules. Video felt closer to filmmaking. Gen Z was raised on smartphones and social media platforms where immediacy and intimacy matter more than textbook composition. The goal isn't to frame a shot like a director — it's to feel like you're FaceTiming a friend.

Even the creator who started the "millennial space" debate eventually responded with another video that zoomed out from the joke (but, notably, kept the camera angle tight).

"All these things that we tease each other for," @taylormknott said in a follow-up TikTok, "are indicators of a larger truth that exposes how we interact with technology differently based on when we were given access to it during our childhood development."

In other words, the debate about how much space you leave above your head in a video isn't really about framing at all. It's about how two generations learned to see themselves on camera and how the tools they grew up with shaped what "normal" looks like on screen.

So when Gen Z jokes about the "millennial space," they’re not just roasting millennial camera angles. They're pointing at a visual style shaped by an earlier internet. And when millennials defend it, they're defending something else entirely — the idea that framing a shot is a craft.

Like most generational internet debates, the argument is less about who's right and more about how quickly media habits evolve. What looks correct to one generation can look completely off to another.

Even when it's just the space above your head.

2025 has seen some of the biggest leaps forward for folding smartphones. With its newly refined look, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is the most well-received foldable to date. And yet, while these book-style devices are getting all the attention, it'll be the smaller flip phones that ultimately win out.

Today, the NVIDIA Shield TV is a niche but well-regarded streaming box. However, when it first saw the light of day, that wasn't at all what the company had in mind for it. Yet through some clever pivots, that's what the Shield TV eventually became.

TL;DR: Live stream Newcastle United vs. Barcelona in the Champions League for free on Virgin Media Player or Prime Video. Access these free live streams from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The Champions League playoff round was truly fantastic. We had loads of goals, moments of real drama, and surprise results. Is there more to come from the knockout rounds? We can dream.

Newcastle United vs. Barcelona is one of the most interesting matchups from this round. Can Eddie Howe's team deliver a couple of massive performances and progress against the might of Barça? They are going to need huge efforts from the likes of Tonali and Woltemade if they stand any chance of advancing.

Barcelona will be looking to Lamine Yamal to continue his fine form of late. Yamal’s superb goal earned Barcelona a 1-0 win at Athletic Bilbao at the weekend. That restored Barcelona's lead at the top of La Liga. Now the focus for Hansi Flick's team is squarely on St. James Park.

If you want to watch Newcastle United vs. Barcelona in the Champions League for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

When is Newcastle United vs. Barcelona?

Newcastle United vs. Barcelona in the Champions League kicks off at 8 p.m. GMT on March 10. This fixture takes place at St. James Park.

How to watch Newcastle United vs. Barcelona for free

Newcastle United vs. Barcelona is available to live stream for free on a number of streaming platforms:

• Ireland — Virgin Media Player

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These free streams are geo-restricted, but anyone can access with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in another location, meaning you can unblock Virgin Media Player or Prime Video to stream the Champions League for free from anywhere in the world.

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FREE WITH PURCHASE: Through March 16, spending $150 at Lego.com unlocks a free Lego Botanicals Floral Picture Frame.

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New month, new seasonally-appropriate free Lego. Through March 16, you'll get a free Lego Floral Picture Frame from the Botanicals series when you spend $150 at Lego.com.

The 310 piece set is decorated with Lego roses, daisies, cineraria, delphinium, pussy willow, and camellia, matching the recently-released Lego Botanicals Flower Wall perfectly. The frame can then be hung vertically or horizontally.

Several popular premium Legos would meet the $150 minimum easily, like Claude Monet's Bridge over a Pond of Water set for $249.99 or the Milky Way Galaxy set for $199.99. You could also combine multiple lower-priced sets to hit $150 — and in that case, you have options. More than 40 new Lego sets were released on March 1, including Botanicals Magnolia Branches ($49.99), Floating Sea Otters ($119.99), and eight Lego Star Wars Smart Play sets ($39.99 to $159.99).

If you're stumped by an abstract math problem or a complicated physics concept, ChatGPT can help.

Announced today, OpenAI's chatbot can now generate interactive visuals in response to prompts on math and science questions, including dynamic, customizable graphs, diagrams, and geometric renderings. Once generated, users can adjust variables and manipulate formulas directly in the chat and watch the visuals change in real-time.

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For now, visual explanations are available for 70 "core concepts" in science and math, including specific physics and geometric formulas like the Pythagorean theorem, Charles’ and Ohm's laws, kinetic and potential energy, and more. The subjects are curated for high school and college-age learners, OpenAI says, and the company plans to expand the feature with additional subjects in the future.

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ChatGPT fields math and science questions from 140 million users each week, according to parent company OpenAI. Last year, the company launched Study Mode, a toggle-on ChatGPT experience designed to act more like an AI tutor rather than an all-around helper. With Study Mode on, ChatGPT is instructed not to give direct solutions but to encourage a more socratic style of learning. In Mashable's tests, however, the chatbot still provided answers, even when unprompted.

Dynamic visuals aren't a Study Mode-only feature, however, and the company told Mashable that the experience was designed and tested using the standard ChatGPT mode. Math and science visuals will appear across all ChatGPT experiences and plans, and are available now.

IBM OS/2 was an alternative to Microsoft Windows throughout the 1990s, but Microsoft won out in the end, and the operating system was relegated to niche use cases. Over 24 years since the final OS/2 release, and 19 years since IBM's support ended, the officially-sanctioned continuation ArcaOS is still going.

The big selling point of SSDs over hard drives has always been the fact that they are fast. You might think, then, that speed is the most important thing about an SSD. But these days, there are actually a lot of other things you should prioritize instead.

Google Photos is generally considered one of the best apps from the company, but it’s not without problems. One feature in particular has been under constant fire since it was announced. Thankfully, Google has finally relented, and “Ask Photos” can be turned off.

I use a lot of Zigbee devices in my smart home. For my needs, Zigbee still offers the best combination of low cost and utility. The truth is that Zigbee isn't perfect; it has plenty of frustrating issues.

Apple's latest iOS beta — 26.4 beta 4 — rolled out this week and came with a serious upgrade in emoji.

Your mileage may vary on what's technically new, but iOS 26.4 beta 4 brings a total of 163 new emoji designs. There are 13 truly new emoji concepts (which we've seen before), and then 150 new skin tone variations for the existing wrestling and people with bunny ears emoji.

The emoji-focused resource, Emojipedia, helpfully published a first look at all the new emoji. They appear to be variations on the new emojis introduced by Unicode — the nonprofit that standardizes digital characters — last year.

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The new concepts, as shown above, include a distorted face, a so-called fight cloud, a bigfoot-esque creature (technically, it's known as the "hairy creature"), an orca, a landslide, a treasure chest, and a ballerina in various skin tones. These are long-expected updates to emoji, as we covered back in 2025, but now they're starting to roll out.

Hairy creature, aka Bigfoot, appears to be the most anticipated of the new emoji. Personally, I think the fight cloud emoji has a bright future, especially for anyone who loved Saturday morning cartoons back in the day.

To see all the new emoji introduced in iOS 26.4, head to Emojipedia.

Reliability rankings often shift from year to year, but a few automakers consistently compete for the top spot. In recent years, Subaru managed to climb to the front in several industry reports, challenging Toyota’s long-standing reputation for building some of the most dependable vehicles on the road. Now, new data suggests that the balance of power has shifted once again.

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It's-a Mar10 Day! If you're looking for a slightly less conventional way to celebrate (compared to playing a Mario game on the Nintendo Switch 2) you might consider a Lego build. Amazon is celebrating Mar10 Day by offering tons of discounts on Mario-themed Lego sets, and we're in love with all of them. Here are some fun Mario Lego deals to shop today in honor of the famous plumber himself.

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Love escaping their fireballs or dread their brutality, the Mario Piranha Plant is an icon. Lego designed this build with 540 pieces and recommends it to builders ages 18 and up. Posable parts include the leaves, head, mouth, and stalk. Plus, it could potentially blend in with your other Lego Botanical builds, but who knows what damage it could do come nightfall.

The Lego Mario Piranha Plant usually sells for $59.99, but it's on sale at Amazon today for only $41.99 in honor of Mar10 Day.

At a glance

• Today’s AI agents store long interaction histories but struggle to reuse them effectively.
• Raw memory retrieval can overwhelm agents with lengthy, low-value context.
• PlugMem transforms interaction history into structured, reusable knowledge.
• A single, general-purpose memory module improves performance across diverse agent benchmarks while using fewer memory tokens.

It seems counterintuitive: giving AI agents more memory can make them less effective. As interaction logs accumulate, they grow large, fill with irrelevant content, and become increasingly difficult to use.

More memory means that agents must search through larger volumes of past interactions to find information relevant to the current task. Without structure, these records mix useful experiences with irrelevant details, making retrieval slower and less reliable. The challenge is not storing more experiences, but organizing them so that agents can quickly identify what matters in the moment.

In our recent paper “PlugMem: A Task-Agnostic Plugin Memory Module for LLM Agents,” we introduce a plug-and-play memory system that transforms raw agent interactions into reusable knowledge. Rather than treating memory as text to retrieve, PlugMem organizes that history into structured knowledge designed to support decisions as the agent acts.

Cognitive science offers a useful framework here. It distinguishes between remembering events, knowing facts, and knowing how to perform tasks. Past events provide context, but effective decisions rely on the facts and skills extracted from those events.

This distinction motivated a shift in how we decided to design memory for AI agents. PlugMem implements this shift by converting the agent’s interaction history, such as dialogues, documents, and web sessions, into structured, compact knowledge units that can be reused across tasks.

How PlugMem works

A key difference between PlugMem and conventional AI memory systems is what gets stored. Traditional approaches store text chunks or named entities (references to people, places, and concepts). PlugMem uses facts and reusable skills as the fundamental building blocks of memory. This design reduces redundancy, increases information density, and improves retrieval precision. It’s built around three core components:

Structure. Raw interactions are standardized and transformed into propositional knowledge (facts) and prescriptive knowledge (reusable skills). These knowledge units are organized into a structured memory graph, enabling knowledge to be stored in a form designed for reuse.

Retrieval. Rather than retrieving long passages of text, PlugMem retrieves knowledge units that are aligned with the current task. High-level concepts and inferred intents serve as routing signals, surfacing the most relevant information for the decision at hand.

Reasoning. Retrieved knowledge is distilled into concise, task-ready guidance before being passed to the base agent, ensuring that only decision-relevant knowledge enters the agent’s context window.

Figure 1 illustrates how these components work together.

Figure 1. PlugMem organizes different types of agent interactions into a knowledge-centric memory graph, enabling structured retrieval and reasoning. One memory, any task

Most AI memory systems are built for one job. A conversational memory module is designed around dialogue. A knowledge-retrieval system is tuned to look up facts. A web agent’s memory is optimized for navigating pages. Each performs well in its target setting but rarely transfers without significant redesign.

PlugMem takes a different approach. It is a foundational memory layer that can be attached to any AI agent without needing to modify it for a specific task.

Evaluating PlugMem

To test PlugMem, we evaluated the same memory module on three benchmarks that each make different demands on memory:

• Answering questions across long multi-turn conversations
• Finding facts that span multiple Wikipedia articles
• Making decisions while browsing the web

Across all three, PlugMem consistently outperformed both generic retrieval methods and task-specific memory designs while allowing the AI agent to use significantly less memory token budget in the process.

Measuring memory by utility, not size

We wanted to evaluate whether the right information was reaching the agent at the right moment, without overwhelming the model’s context window, which has limited capacity. To do this, we introduced a metric that measures how much useful, decision-relevant information a memory module contributes relative to how much context it consumes.

When we plotted utility against context consumption, PlugMem consistently came out ahead: it delivered more decision-relevant information while consuming less of the AI agent’s context than other approaches, as shown in Figure 2. These results suggest that transforming experience into knowledge—rather than storing and retrieving raw logs—produces memory that is more useful and efficient.

Figure 2. Across all three benchmarks, PlugMem delivered more useful memory with less of the agent’s context window. Why general-purpose memory can outperform task-specific designs

General-purpose memory modules can outperform systems tailored to specific tasks because the decisive factor is not specialization but whether memory can surface the right knowledge precisely when the agent needs it. Structure, retrieval, and reasoning each play a distinct role, and getting all three right matters more than optimizing for a single use case.

PlugMem is not meant to replace task-specific approaches. It provides a general memory foundation upon which task adaptations can be layered. Our experiments show that combining PlugMem with task-specific techniques yields further gains.

Toward reusable memory for agents

As AI agents take on longer and more complex tasks, its memory needs to evolve from storing past interactions to actively supplying reusable knowledge. The goal is for agents to carry useful facts and strategies from one task to the next rather than starting from scratch each time.

PlugMem represents a step in that direction, grounding memory design in cognitive principles and treating knowledge as the primary unit of reuse. As agent capabilities expand, knowledge-centric memory may prove to be a critical building block for the next generation of intelligent agents.

Code and experimental results are publicly available on GitHub (opens in new tab) so that others can reproduce the results and conduct their own research.

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Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta has never led her own TV series or movie in 35 years, not since Postmortem hit shelves in 1990. Finally, the famed forensic crime writer's iconic protagonist has made her screen debut, with Nicole Kidman and Rosy McEwen taking on the chief medical examiner in Scarpetta.

Written by Liz Sarnoff (Lost, Deadwood, Barry) and directed by David Gordon Green (the modern Halloween trilogy) and Charlotte Brändström (The Rings of Power), the Prime Video series leans on its '90s and '00s roots to show off Cornwell's legacy in the forensic thriller genre.

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Like Mare of Easttown and to an extent True Detective, Scarpetta is a crime procedural that blends murder investigation with complicated family drama, with this impeccable cast — Kidman, McEwen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale, Ariana DeBose, and Simon Baker — bringing out the best in the latter. If you're a fan of forensic thrillers with familial feuds, dive into the Scarpetta files.

Scarpetta takes the forensic thriller back to '90s and '00s basics. Jake Cannavale as Peter Marino and Rosy McEwen as Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

If Scarpetta feels like it hits the notes of many a modern forensic crime thriller, just remember Patricia Cornwell changed the game for the genre in the '90s and '00s, making her mark amid contemporaries like Kathy Reichs and Jeffery Deaver. Without Cornwell's early '90s books like Postmortem or Body of Evidence, there's no CSI, no Bones, no Cold Case, no Dexter. And Sarnoff knows it; her script has a young Scarpetta directly quoting from Postmortem in an early scene — "Out there, somewhere, is a man..." — and Cornwell herself makes a cameo in the first episode.

Revolving around Dr. Kay Scarpetta (Kidman/McEwen), the series bounces between three time periods — the '70s, '90s, and the present — charting moments from Scarpetta's tragedy-marked childhood, through her first case as Virginia's first female chief medical examiner, and her return to the job in the present. When murder victims turn up bearing the same hallmarks as Scarpetta's big career-defining case from 28 years ago, the possibility that she might have pinned the wrong suspect becomes very real.

Nicole Kidman as Scarpetta. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

In both Kidman and McEwen's talented hands, Scarpetta is a methodical, smart, and sangfroid chainsmoker, highly skilled as chief medical examiner, scrutinising causes of death and throwing the book at chauvinist colleagues. She's not a hard-boiled detective who flies off the handle and cuts corners — that's her charming but combustible partner Pete Marino (Cannavale Sr. in the present, Cannavale Jr. in the past). Instead, she's a by-the-book forensic pathologist urging her colleagues to wear sanitary equipment and refrain from using slurs. The comparisons between her and another scrupulous '90s investigator, The X-Files' Dana Scully, are not subtle, from the suits and tees Kay dons to a literal collation of the two's similarities in episode 6.

When Scarpetta and Marino walk through crime scenes, the series leans on the 2000s-style blue-toned flashback technique favoured by shows like CSI and Cold Case, which can feel a little dated. The same goes for the series' lack of real background for half of the serial killers' victims — we only get to know small details about women recently murdered, the rest relegated to mere Post-Its and photos on a red yarn wall, while the search for the killer's identity is foregrounded. At one point Scarpetta insists, "We don't know them," when a lab technician suggests humanising the victims — even though Scarpetta often corrects sexist, victim-blaming language from her colleagues.

Bobby Cannavale as Pete Marino and Nicole Kidman as Scarpetta. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

The series also leans slightly into the psychological cat-and-mouse game that defined '90s forensic fiction and the flurry of '00s crime adaptations that came with it: The Bone Collector, Kiss the Girls, Red Dragon. Fittingly, Scarpetta's 1998 storyline feels the most aligned to this specific trend, with the medical examiner finding herself in increasingly dangerous waters.

Scarpetta also hits every note in the genre Alexis Nedd described for Mashable as "curmudgeonly detective solves a dead girl case while their personal/romantic life falls apart." We're talking the near-constant presence of enormous glasses of wine, requisite pondering-in-the-shower scenes, and open disdain for the press (especially Sosie Bacon's Abby). The fact that Scarpetta doesn't go for early morning runs is one of the few hallmarks of the subgenre missing from her characterisation.

Being a Blumhouse production, the detail in Scarpetta's autopsy scenes can be gruesome, so squeamish viewers may want to look away. However, it's this level of detail that makes it the Patricia Cornwell adaptation it is, with the author's inclusion of forensic detail her signature stamp on the genre.

Featured Video For You 'Crime 101's Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry play our new mash-up game Scarpetta's cast is criminally talented. Bobby Cannavale as Marino and Ariana DeBose as Lucy Farinelli-Watson. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

Brimming with top-tier talent, the Scarpetta cast is the show's sharpest weapon, led by Kidman in full, glorious, intellectual-internalised-rage mode. The physicality shared between Kidman and her '90s-era counterpart, played by McEwen, is wildly convincing; the same goes for the always compelling Cannavale as Pete Marino and his '90s self, played by the actor's son, Jake Cannavale. And though this casting might be a little on the nepo baby nose, you can't argue it's not effective, especially when the Cannavales take full advantage of their lion's share of one-liners like, "Looks like our very own Ted Bundy just bought himself a polygraph."

While Bobby Cannavale almost steals the spotlight himself as the wise-cracking, deeply loyal Marino, he's battling with two fellow castmates for it: Jamie Lee Curtis and Ariana DeBose.

If there's a scene with Curtis in it, pray for her scene partners. As Kay's polar opposite, her rambunctious, flamboyant, and unfiltered sister Dorothy, Curtis is incredibly fun to watch, clad in sequins, leopard print, and dropping red hot home truths. Though they both crave control, Kay's disdainful composure clashes with Dorothy's provocative combativeness. Honestly, break out the popcorn for Kidman and Curtis (who somehow have never starred together in anything?) arguing like only sisters can, with Curtis' Dorothy demanding attention like a town crier and earnestly dropping dialogue like, "My own stallion-like spirit feels diminished by her."

Jamie Lee Curtis as Dorothy Farinelli. Credit: Connie Chornuk / Prime

DeBose, meanwhile, is superb as Lucy, Dorothy's tech-savvy daughter who basically grew up parented by Kay. She's mourning her late wife (Janet Montgomery) by turning her into an AI companion. This light eye-roll of a plot device would feel like product placement for artificial intelligence's "good side" if DeBose wasn't such a talent, with her performance (as well as Curtis and Kidman's) actually making me believe this Black Mirror-style connection.

Like its protagonist, Scarpetta isn't perfect, but it's steeped in nostalgia and respect for the author who drove forensic fiction through the hallmarks we now take for granted as commonplace. With a cast this brilliant and a cliffhanger ending, Scarpetta's first season feels like the beginning of a series, Cornwell-style.

Scarpetta is streaming on Prime Video March 11.

Silver, Blush, Citrus, and Indigo — those are the four colors that Apple's brand new affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo, now comes in.

And according to a report from Bloomberg's Apple insider Mark Gurman, Apple may also be looking into bringing a new color palette to the iMac. Gurman says that Apple plans on launching a new iMac later this year.

Apple first upgraded the iMac to its Silicon chipset in 2021 with the M1 iMacs. The company then skipped the M2 chips altogether in the iMac, and the desktop went without an upgrade in 2022. Apple then released the M3 iMac in 2024. 

Apple last upgraded its popular desktop line of computers in 2024 with the release of the iMacs with the M4 chip.

The current M4 iMac lineup is currently available in seven different colors: Green, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Purple, Blue, and Silver. 

According to Gurman, Apple is looking at a "refreshed color palette" for the iMac, which was historically known for its signature aquamarine blue.

As you can see, the current iMacs offerings come in the classic base colors, whereas Apple has opted to offer specific color shades with the MacBook Neo line. It's unclear, though, if Apple is looking to offer the exact same Neo color options for iMac as well. 

Not much is known about the iMac refresh quite yet. It is more than likely that the new iMac will come with Apple's new M5 chipset. 

Color options aside, it will be interesting to see where Apple goes in regards to pricing for the new iMacs. The all-in-one display and computer has traditionally targeted a more affordable price point. Apple raised its M5 MacBook Pro prices across the board when it launched the devices last week. The current base iMac retails for $1,299. 

TL;DR: The Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Booster Bundle is available to preorder for $59.99 at Amazon. That's below TCGplayer's market value and comes with Amazon's pre-order price guarantee.

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The Mega Evolution Perfect Order expansion doesn't release until March 27, but that hasn't held back shoppers. We knew that these products were going to sell like mad as soon as preorders went live at top retailers, but we didn't expect the wave of activity that struck this week. The Pokémon trading card market is absolutely wild right now. We're just about holding on.

Looking for the best preorder deal on Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Booster Bundles? Amazon is offering excellent value for money.

The Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Booster Bundle is available to preorder for $59.99 at Amazon. That's way below TCGplayer's market value and comes with Amazon's pre-order price guarantee. The guarantee really is a game changer. The price you pay when this product ships will be the lowest price offered by Amazon between the time you placed your order and the end of the release date. So you're covered against future price drops.

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SAVE $30: As of March 10, get the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro + $30 Amazon Gift Card bundle for $249.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $279.99. That's a discount of 11%.

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If you've been waiting to pick up a pair of new earbuds, now's the time to shop. There are tons of great picks out there, but if you want excellent sound to pair with your favorite Samsung device (or any other device for that matter), you'll want to head to Amazon for your last chance to save big on your preorder for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro.

As of March 10, get the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro + $30 Amazon Gift Card bundle for $249.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $279.99. That's $30 off and a discount of 11%.

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This bundle deal nets you a pair of Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro earbuds as well as a $30 Amazon Gift Card that will be mailed separately to you in a mini envelope. You'll need to add the bundle deal to your cart, where the discount will be applied, but hurry -- today is the final day this deal is available.

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro are releasing on March 11, and come with a slew of great features, including high-resolution audio, a 2-way speaker, active noise cancellation, and live translation. They come in both black and white colorways, which are eligible for the bundle deal.

If you don't want to be left in the cold with this discount, be sure to lock yours in now before the end of the day. That's $30 additional bucks you can spend at Amazon for your trouble, and all you have to do is wait for the gift card to arrive.

SAVE $22.50: Through March 21, Prime Video subscribers can add Mubi to their streaming lineup for only $7.49 per month for three months. Usually $14.99 per month, that's a total of $22.50 in savings.

Opens in a new window Credit: Mubi / Prime Video Mubi add-on for Prime Video $7.49/month for 3 months (save $7.50/month) Get Deal

It's no secret that streamflation has priced out tons of subscribers. Streaming services really went overboard with their price hikes over the past few years, but every once in awhile you can still score a sweet discount. I'm always on the hunt for good streaming deals and as of March 10, this Mubi Prime Video add-on is 50% off.

Through March 21, Prime Video subscribers can add Mubi to their streaming lineup for just $7.49 per month for three months. It typically costs $14.99 per month, so over three months you'll save about $22.50.

Rather than subscribing to yet another streaming service separately, getting Mubi as a Prime Video add-on means you'll be charged for it in the same monthly streaming bill as your Prime Video or Amazon Prime membership. Plus, Mubi's content will appear within your Prime Video account. No need to download or open the Mubi app. Prime Video add-ons basically just expand your existing library.

If you've never heard of Mubi, it's a streaming service designed for cinephiles. It prides itself as the place to "discover ambitious films and series by visionary filmmakers — from iconic directors to emerging auteurs." You'll find some classics and mainstream movies, but also plenty of independent and obscure films. Mubi even has its own originals, including two of our favorites from 2025, Die My Love and The Mastermind, as well as one of our favorites from 2024, The Substance. It's also the place where you can watch Twin Peaks in its entirety, and Lili Reinhart's series Hal & Harper.

Streaming deals don't come around often. If you want to diversify your streaming lineup for less, be sure to secure this half-priced Mubi deal by March 21. And remember to cancel before your three-month promo period ends if you want to avoid paying full price.