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Most mindfulness apps want you to create an account, buy subscription, and give a chunk of your attention before they help you unwind. Vän, a new iPhone app from Swiss indie developer Adrian Stanco, is built to be the opposite. I found the app on Reddit, and the pitch alone made me curious enough to try it. Instead of sounds or endless scrolling, it leans entirely on haptics, the tiny vibrations your phone is already capable of producing. The result is a feeling of calm you get by simply holding your smartphone rather than watching the screen. How Vän’s haptic…

Amazon’s Prime Day 2026 sale is in its final hours, giving you your last chance to get your hands on the best smart home, security, tablet, laptop, and accessory deals. I’ve pulled together the picks that are still live, still deeply discounted, and still worth buying before the sale ends tonight or until the stock lasts. Best Amazon Prime Day deals on smart home devices Blink Video Doorbell (60% off) Kicking off the best Amazon Prime home security deals is the $23.99 Blink Video Doorbell. With an average rating of 4.2 stars from over 14,000 reviews, this one offers a…

Apple TV makes excellent shows that somehow never break into the mainstream conversation the way Severance or Ted Lasso did. These three picks all share that frustrating pattern, stacked with critical praise, loved by the people who found them, and still criminally underwatched. Between them, you get a mystery comedy, a sweeping historical drama, and a sharp workplace sitcom, which is proof that Apple’s range goes way beyond its biggest hits. If you’re looking for something genuinely great that flew under your radar, start here. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on…

Looking for something different to stream on HBO Max this weekend? These three underrated shows prove some of the best television on the platform never got the mainstream buzz they deserved. From a gritty period medical drama to a strange and gorgeous animated sci-fi series to an Italian coming-of-age epic, each one offers a completely different kind of binge. If you are tired of scrolling past the same recommended TV series every weekend, these picks are worth the detour. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu,…

When Valve finally revealed the Steam Machine’s $1,049 starting price, the reaction was almost unanimous: the hardware looks fantastic, but the price hurts. Now, the company has confirmed what many gamers suspected all along: it never wanted the Steam Machine to cost this much in the first place. Valve says the Steam Machine wasn’t meant to cost this much Speaking to Digital Foundry, Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat said the company would still love to lower the Steam Machine’s price, but today’s component market simply won’t allow it. “There’s no point for us to keep hardware at a…

Most screen-comfort tools work by changing color temperature. Apple’s Night Shift makes the screen warmer, often giving everything an orange tint. Paperman is an interesting alternative because it adds a subtle paper-like texture over the display instead. The app is available for Mac and Windows, and it is designed to make a screen look closer to paper, matte glass, or an e-ink display. It softens the harsh contrast and reduces the glossy look of modern screens during long reading or writing sessions. A texture layer for your screen Paperman runs as a lightweight overlay across the desktop. It does not…

Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown isn’t over just yet. The streaming giant is now rolling out another change that could make shared household accounts a little more cumbersome, this time by asking every profile on an account to have its own email address. While the move isn’t designed to stop families from sharing a subscription, it does add another layer of identity verification that many users probably weren’t asking for. Netflix wants every profile to have its own identity As spotted first by CordCuttersNews, Netflix has begun introducing profile-specific email addresses, allowing each user on a shared household account to link their…

DuckDuckGo has built its reputation on privacy-first search, but this week, its AI assistant landed in hot water for an entirely different reason. Apparently, Duck.ai confidently claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump had died of rabies earlier this month, complete with fabricated details about Vice President JD Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and fake supporting news reports. None of it was true. A fake Reddit campaign managed to fool Duck’s AI According to Futurism, the bizarre response wasn’t the result of a single hallucination. Instead, it appears to have been triggered by a coordinated misinformation campaign originating from Reddit’s r/poisonai…

Artificial intelligence has already helped write code, discover drugs, and generate videos. Now, it’s trying to make a better burger. Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled BurgerAI, a new AI system that designs burger recipes by balancing taste, nutrition, sustainability, and cost. The surprising part? In blind taste tests, diners liked some of the AI-created burgers just as much as, and in some cases more than, a popular fast-food burger. BurgerAI is designed to invent recipes, not copy them According to Stanford, BurgerAI was trained using more than 2,200 burger recipes to understand how different ingredients interact. Rather than predicting…

Apple’s next iPhone may not get a dramatic RAM upgrade, but it could receive just enough extra memory to keep its growing AI ambitions running smoothly. According to TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the standard iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e are expected to move from 8GB to 9GB of RAM, primarily to support deeper Apple Intelligence integration in iOS 27. Just enough RAM to keep Apple Intelligence happy In a post on X, Kuo says Apple’s latest supply chain checks indicate that the A20-powered iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will feature 9GB of RAM, up from the 8GB found…