It hasn't been a good year for Xbox so far. Microsoft has released its earnings report for the quarter ending on September 30, and it has revealed that its revenue from the Xbox hardware fell by 30 percent year-over-year. Take note that the revenue decline doesn't reflect any dip in sales caused by the console's $20-to-$70 price hike, since that took effect on October 3.

Honorable Mentions Open earbuds are becoming the hot trend in wireless audio, meaning there are plenty of good options that don't make our top list. Here are some other pairs worth considering. Acefast Acefit Pro for $80-125: Acefast’s Acefit Pro are more stylish than the cheaper Acefit Air above, most notably in their snazzy transparent case that shows battery life in slick LEDs when you open or close it.

Running out of storage space on your phone, Nintendo Switch, or camera creates that frustrating moment where you have to delete old memories to capture new ones. MicroSD cards solve this problem by expanding your device’s capacity and let you hoard thousands of photos or hours of 4K video without compromise. The Samsung EVO Select with 512GB capacity provides enough room for approximately 124,000 photos or 60 hours of 4K footage, essentially future-proofing your device against storage anxiety.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Back in the mid-2010s, some of the world’s biggest tech companies were racing to launch lightweight, solar-powered drones to hover above remote areas and beam down internet connectivity. Meta (then called Facebook) and Google, the two companies most heavily investing in the technology at the time, abruptly exited the space following a series of mishaps.

The slim smartphone arms race is about to heat up as Huawei apparently prepares to join the trend. After appearing in a database leak that revealed some of its specifications, Huawei’s upcoming Mate 70 Air has now shown up in a new image. Huawei Mate 70 Air shows up in a promotional photo If you have been wondering what the Huawei Mate 70 may look like, you now have your answer.

The 2025 Fall Classic is tied up again after Game 4 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays saw Toronto dominate to win 6-2. The World Series continues with one more game in Los Angeles tonight — Wednesday, Oct. 29 — at 8PM ET/5PM PT. The World Series odds favor the Dodgers ahead of tonight's game. Every 2025 MLB World Series game will air on Fox and Fox Deportes.

Whether you fully realized it at the time, you’ve almost certainly seen a Seiko 5 Sports watch. This range of timepieces has been around for decades and is not only extensive, covering everything from dive watches to dress watches, it has also become a model for the watch world when it comes to delivering value. In short, it’s long overdue WIRED got properly acquainted with the 5 Sports lineup, so you don’t miss out on what is one of the most varied, well-respected, and, crucially, often most reasonably priced watch collections.

Those tiny 20W chargers work fine for a single phone but they crumble under the weight of modern device ecosystems where laptops, tablets, and phones all need power simultaneously. The Anker Prime Charger delivers a massive 160W across three USB-C ports while staying roughly the size of an AirPods Pro case, and solves the cable chaos and outlet shortage that plagues anyone who travels with multiple devices.

Have you ever had to deal with a major power outage following a hurricane? It's a weird feeling. In October 2005, Hurricane Wilma took down the power in South Florida cities and towns, where I was living, for over a week. Although this took place before the iPhone era started, losing cellular connectivity for my feature phone left me feeling as isolated and alone as I would feel today if my iPhone and Pixel smartphones were turned into bricks because of a power outage.

Lab monkeys initially thought to be carrying a range of diseases have escaped from a truck in Mississippi following a crash — prompting law enforcement officers to kill a number of the animals. However, it's still unclear just how dangerous they are. The truck, which was carrying rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) from Tulane University, overturned in Jasper County on Tuesday (Oct.

A virtual private network (VPN) is useful in several ways — a good one can stream foreign TV shows and events, save you from giving up information to hackers and keep you anonymous to protect against online tracking. Although we strongly recommend using a VPN, a bit of comparison shopping goes a long way in this market. VPN pricing can be opaque, and providers don't always portray their best deals accurately.

Extropic, a startup developing an exotic new kind of computer chip that handles probabilistic bits, has produced its first working hardware along with proof that more advanced systems can tackle useful tasks in artificial intelligence and scientific research. The startup’s chips work in a fundamentally different way than chips from Nvidia, AMD, and others, and they promise to be thousands of times more energy-efficient when scaled up.

Samsung's own mobile browser, Samsung Internet, is finally making the jump to your Windows PC or laptop. The new beta, launching on October 30, 2025, aims to finally connect your phone and desktop with synced history, bookmarks, and even some new Galaxy AI tricks. What's happening with Samsung Internet If you’ve used a Samsung phone, you know that Samsung Internet is, frankly, a great mobile browser that gives Chrome a run for its money.

Gaming on the go has always meant compromising on screen quality or lugging around bulky equipment, but portable monitors have changed that equation completely. The KYY 15.6-inch portable display solves a real problem for console gamers who want to play their Switch, PlayStation, or Xbox anywhere without hunting for an available TV. This compact screen transforms your gaming setup into something truly mobile, turning hotel rooms, friends’ houses, or even your backyard into viable gaming spaces.

A hot mystery on the sun may be close to being solved. For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why the sun's outer atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, despite being farther from the core. Whereas the surface, or photosphere, is millions of degrees Fahrenheit, the outer atmosphere is only about 10,000 F (5,500 C). Now, thanks to observations from a new high-resolution telescope, scientists have finally spotted elusive "magnetic waves" in the sun's atmosphere that may be responsible for much of the corona's incredible heating.

Chalk this one up under "The most clever (alleged) legal sidesteps this side of Tony Soprano." On Wednesday, The Guardian published a report about a so-called "winking mechanism" regarding Israeli cloud computing contracts with Amazon and Google. The stipulation from 2021's Project Nimbus is said to require the US companies to send coded messages to Israel. According to the report, whenever Google or Amazon secretly complies with an overseas legal request for Israeli data, they're required to send money to Israel.

Verizon today announced its Q3 results, confirming its third consecutive quarter of customer losses. The upside is that this was the jolt the company needed, with the newly appointed CEO, Dan Schulman, committing to transformative changes to get back in customers' good graces. Verizon earned money but lost customers From a financial perspective, Verizon's third quarter wasn't that bad. The company's revenue rose 1.5 percent to $33.8 billion, and profit increased from $3.4 billion in Q3 2024 to $5.1 billion.Wireless service revenue also increased 2.4 percent to $17.4 billion.

A former executive at a company that sells zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits to the United States and its allies pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to selling trade secrets worth at least $1.3 million to a buyer in Russia, according to US prosecutors. Peter Williams, a 39-year-old Australia native who resides in the US, faced two charges related to the theft of trade secrets.

Desktop Defender is a confoundingly compelling mix of Cookie Clicker and Vampire Survivors. The game sits in a little corner of your computer screen whether you’re emailing people for work or paying your bills for the month. The action consists of a tiny triangle shooting other blips that arrive from offscreen to destroy it. It levels up and earns loot, briefly interrupting your other work as you choose upgrades and look for synergies to help the lo-fi automated ship survive its hostile confines a little bit longer, or at least until you power down your PC.

At first glance, teeth look a lot like bones: Both are hard, white and rich in calcium. So why aren't teeth considered part of the skeletal system? Even though teeth and bones share a few basic similarities, they're actually quite different. The major resemblance between teeth and bones is what they're made of: hard tissue composed of minerals, such as calcium, phosphorus, fluoride and magnesium.

Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users. Mark Zuckerberg shared the latest milestone for the company's text-based app during Meta's third-quarter earnings call. The company previously reported in August that Threads had reached more than 400 million monthly users. Zuckerberg, who has mused that Threads could become Meta's next billion-person app, said that it was "on track to become the leader in its category." He also said that time spent in the app had increased by 10 percent, which he credited to improvements to the company's AI recommendation systems.

In two years time, the iPhone 20 should be a fact and I expect lots of reviews, celebrations and meltdowns to commemorate the anniversary. Only time will tell if it's going to be an iPhone that would make Steve Jobs proud, but until then, we have lots of room to speculate. It's crazy that we're already getting rumors about it, yet, that's precisely what's happening:

It can be hard to build an Adulting Arsenal. And expensive! Mattresses, couches, vacuums, cookware … all of these necessary things around us that require a hefty initial investment, lest you be met with back problems, sagging cushions, subpar suction, or flaking nonstick pans that leave a little bit of mystery plastic behind with every bite. No more! It's time to upgrade.

2017 was one of the all-time great years for video games, with major tentpole games like Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Persona 5 dominating GOTY conversations. So if you missed out on some of the hidden gems of that year, I wouldn’t blame you. Battle Chef Brigade is one of those precious games that might have gotten lost in the shuffle, and Trinket Studios’ match-three/brawler/cooking game still holds up in 2025.

YouTube is implementing a new feature that is poised to become one of the greatest additions to the platform throughout its entire lifetime. The video hosting giant is getting a new AI-powered upscaling tool that will be able to sharpen up any video on the site, including older ones that were originally uploaded at a very low resolution. How will it work?