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Why a Lost Cellphone Forced an Airplane to Turn Around in Mid-Flight

Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, “after a passenger could not locate their cellphone.” Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew couldn’t find the phone — the Boeing 777 turned around off the coast of France “and returned to the airport, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware. It landed back where it started a little more than two hours after taking off, with 375 passengers, 12 cabin crew and two pilots on board…” It was the

Lanterns’ Director Teases the HBO Show’s Tone and ‘Sci-Fi Magic’

The upcoming Lanterns series centers on John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) using their Green Lantern rings to investigate a mystery on Earth. Given the Green Lantern movie was mostly set on Earth, there was some concern among fans that the show was going to repeat that film’s mistakes. But according to director James Hawes, the show will do right by the heroes’ cosmic scope. In an interview with Collider, Hawes assured there wouldn’t be any shortage of “sci-fi magic” amid its Nebraska setting. “It’s done in a world where you accept that these things just are,” he said of Lanterns‘

Best iPhone deal: Save $147 on the iPhone 15 Pro Max

SAVE $147: As of March 29, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is on sale at Amazon for $832.99. That’s a 15% discount on the list price, and the lowest it’s ever been. There are still a few days left of the Amazon Big Spring Sale, and you can find discounts on pretty much anything. Whether you’re after a new TV, new earbuds, or a new phone, there really is something on sale for everyone. And if a new phone is top of your list, we’ve found a fantastic deal on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, currently at its lowest-ever price.

Amazon Spring Sale robot vacuum deals: The best sales from Dyson, Shark, iRobot and others

One notable trend at CES earlier this year was the quirky robot vacuum. It seemed every third booth had a new model that could climb stairs, pick up socks, serve drinks and, oh yeah, suck up dirt from your floor. Now that Amazon’s Spring Sale is here, we’re seeing lots of discounts — not on those wacky prototypes, but on robo vacs that make keeping your floors clean easier and automated.Engadget has two guides to these handy home gadgets, based on years of testing and reviewing products from brands like iRobot, Shark, Dyson, Eufy and more. Here are the best

Amazon Spring Sale deals on Verge staff favorites

Whenever Verge staffers are asked to describe their smart tech, office tools, kitchen gadgets, or whatever else, they talk about things they recently bought, things they picked up 10 years ago, or things they’ve had sitting around their house for decades. We’ve gathered a few of the items that our staffers have enthused about in the past that they use for charging, repairing, listening, cooking, gardening, and parenting, and that are now discounted as part of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale. Just in case you’d like to check them out. $19 A hands-free soap dispenser with a built-in sensor. Read More

Amazon shakes up streaming leadership team

Amazon announced this week that Jennifer Salke is stepping down as the head of Amazon MGM Studios — a move that could indicate high-level dissatisfaction with the company’s streaming strategy over the past few years. To be clear, Salke’s boss Mike Hopkins (the head of Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video) praised her work in an email to employees and described her departure as one that allows the company to “flatten our leadership structure a bit” — a recurring theme in recent tech company layoffs. In other words, Amazon does not intend to fill Salke’s role. Instead, the heads of

The Final Season of ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Is Here: When to Watch Episode 4 on Max

The Righteous Gemstones, the HBO original series about a world-famous (and quite dysfunctional) televangelist family, is back for its fourth and final season. The end of the Gemstone saga is at hand. Every season, the series has delved deep into the world of megachurches and explored the bizarre world underneath the veneer. In the process, the show looks at the Gemstone family’s troubled past and present conflicts. Greed, lies and murder only begin to cover it with this group. During the press conference for the new episodes, Danny McBride (who created the series and is also a writer, executive producer

Android becomes the latest platform to benefit from Mullvad VPN Multihop – here’s how to access it

Mullvad has joined the best VPNs and released its Multihop feature for its Android VPN app. Multihop is available on version 2025.1 (and newer) of the app, and further increases your privacy by making your traffic harder to analyze. Your traffic passes through one server, known as the entry server, and then a second server, known as the exit server, before connecting you to the internet. Your data is encrypted twice and is harder to trace back to you – further cementing Mullvad‘s status as one of the most secure VPNs. Multihop now available on Android version 2025.1 and newer.Read

Could Megawatt-class AI server racks usher a new generation of atto nuclear cells as Nvidia race towards 1000-GPU setups

Rubin Ultra GPUs previewed at Nvidia GTC 2025 with Kyber rack mockups Each NVL576 rack may include 576 GPUs across four internal pods Projected power draw reaches 600kW with performance targets of 15 EFLOPS At Nvidia GTC 2025, the company gave a preview of what its future data center hardware could look like, showcasing mockups of its Rubin Ultra GPUs housed in the Kyber-based NVL576 racks. These systems are expected to launch in the second half of 2027, and while that’s still some way off, Nvidia is already laying the groundwork for what it describes as the next phase of