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March 29, 2025

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When does Amazon’s Big Spring Sale end?

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is in full bloom, bringing sitewide discounts on a huge range of items. While the sale is billed as a seasonal event packed with deals on outdoor gear, spring cleaning necessities, and home decor, the Mashable Shopping team is also seeing steep price cuts on Apple devices, laptops, headphones, and other tech. The Big Spring Sale is Amazon’s first major savings event of the year, and it’s more than three times longer than the retailer’s flagship Prime Day sale in July. It’s also unlike Prime Day in that it’s not exclusive to Prime members — though they

March 29, 2025

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Google will stop making the Nest Protect smoke alarm

Google is revamping its smart home lineup, ending production on two of its devices in favor of integrations with third-party manufacturers. First, it will sunset the Nest Protect smoke & CO alarms. Existing products will continue to function and receive security updates until their expiration dates. They will also remain available for purchase while supplies last. Second, it will end production for the Nest x Yale smart lock. As with the Nest Protect, the remaining inventory will still be available for purchase and the devices will continue receiving security updates. Rather than manufacture its own smoke alarm, Google announced that

March 29, 2025

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Breast pump startup Willow acquires assets of Elvie as UK women’s health pioneer moves into administration

Women’s health and its startups building connected breast pumps, period trackers, and other apps and hardware designed for women have collectively pulled in more than $5 billion in funding in the last five years, but the market is tight, and now, two of the trailblazers in the space are coming together as consolidation beckons.  Willow, the San Francisco startup that made its name with wearable breast pumps, is acquiring Elvie, which started with a smart Kegel trainer before expanding to other products for new mothers, including its own breast pumps and most recently, a bassinet. Terms of the deal have

March 29, 2025

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: Everything We Know About the Upcoming Slimmer Phone

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge is set to kick off a year of premium phones that spotlight a thin and light design. The S25 Edge stole the spotlight from the rest of the S25 lineup during Samsung’s January event, and will arrive as other companies begin to announce their own thin phone concepts. This slimmer edition of the Galaxy S25 was available for attendees to see after Samsung’s keynote, but the phone hasn’t yet been available for a hands-on. While the Galaxy S25 Ultra and the regular S25 and S25 Plus are now available, we are still waiting for more details about the Edge

March 29, 2025

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You need a backup plan for your phone — here’s how to pick between iCloud and Google Drive

If there’s one thing that I am generally terrible at, it’s remembering to back up all my data. And in my line of work, that has the potential to be a disaster. I spend a lot of time on my laptop and my phone, so both devices include a lot of important data that I can’t afford to lose. I nearly fell victim to this not too long ago when I migrated from an iPhone 14 Pro Max to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. In the process, I nearly lost a bunch of important photos and documents that would have

March 29, 2025

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ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from Nintendo’s last Switch direct to the Google Pixel 9a finally getting a release date

This week Apple announced the date for WWDC 2025, Marvel teased its massive Avengers: Doomsday cast, and Nintendo held what’s set to be its last Switch direct before the Nintendo Switch 2 releases. To catch up on all that and all our picks for the week’s 7 biggest tech stories scroll through this page so you’ll be ready for next week’s big announcements. Once you’re done, read our picks for 7 new movies and TV shows to watch this weekend (March 28). 7. Apple set a date for WWDC 2025 (Image credit: Apple/Future) It’s been an interesting few weeks for

March 29, 2025

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Reader Mode 2.0 – Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions

Home Product Reader Mode 2.0 This is a launch from Reader Mode See 3 previous launches Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions Visit Upvote 145 Reader Mode is a distraction-free reader that removes ads & clutter from the web. It includes text-to-speech, dyslexia support, highlighting, annotations, bookmarking & research tools. Available as a browser extension, web app, and mobile & desktop app. ✨ Free Options Launch tags: Chrome Extensions•Productivity•Education 20% off Meet the team Show more Show more Built with Show more Show more Launch discussions Reviews About this launch Reader Mode Making web experience less-distracted & better

March 29, 2025

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‘Incel’ accounts using self-improvement language to avoid TikTok bans – study | TikTok

Advocates of “incel” ideology are rebranding as “Sub5s” and adopting the language of self-improvement to push their content on TikTok, according to a study. Hateful material is banned from the social media site but accounts disseminating the beliefs are said to be hiding behind new terms and “socially palatable” language. One of the fundamental tenets of the involuntary celibate, or incel, ideology is the belief that society is organised based on a looks-based hierarchy. Pseudo-scientific theories about self-improvement and attractiveness that are often misogynist in nature are now being promoted and “normalised”, it is claimed. Anda Iulia Solea, a researcher

March 29, 2025

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Ubisoft spins out new gaming subsidiary, Tencent to take stake

On Jan. 9, Ubisoft said it was postponing the launch of “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” and had appointed advisors to review strategic options. Ina Fassbender | AFP via Getty Images Ubisoft on Thursday announced that it’s creating a new gaming subsidiary with Chinese technology giant Tencent investing 1.16 billion euros ($1.25 billion) into the unit. The subsidiary will focus on Ubisoft’s best-known games brands, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, according to the company. Shares of Ubisoft were 10.3% higher shortly after Europe’s opening bell on Friday. Ubisoft said in a press release Thursday that its new