Best Toys for Kids in 2024: Hottest Holiday Gift Ideas for All Ages If you’re looking for the most sought-after toys of 2024, you’ve come to the right place. the best toys for kids, but they’ve been play-tested too, so you know they’re kid-approved. Power Saber While lightsabers are (still) a thing of fantasy, a new toy comes close to replicating the real thing without costing a fortune. The $50 Power Saber not only lights up, but it extends on its own, giving the effect of firing up a real lightsaber to battle against a Sith Lord. The sound effects…
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TurboTax is rolling out new features for its online tax-filing software ahead of the 2025 tax season, including improvements to its generative AI and a new tracking tool you can use when handing off your taxes to an expert. Owned by Intuit, TurboTax has been CNET’s top pick for online tax filing two years in a row, winning an Editors’ Choice award in 2024. Its intuitive interface and helpful guidance make it easy to file your taxes fast — and these new features could speed up the process for more filers. While we haven’t tested either options yet — stay…
X users no longer need to pay for X Premium to use the service’s AI chatbot, Grok. Instead, X is allowing users 10 free prompts every 2 hours. This was reported by The Verge, citing X users who noticed the update. X first began trialing a free version of Grok in certain countries like New Zealand, The Tech Spot reported last month. Users can also generate 10 images for free every 2 hours. However, they are restricted to analyzing 3 images per day, according to an X post. Anything more requires subscribing. This gives Grok a freemium model similar to…
Keeping your kids out of shopping apps on your phone could save you money and a headache. Apple released iOS 18.1 in October, more than a month after the company released iOS 18 to the general public. iOS 18.1 brought a few new features to iPhones, like call recording. Apple introduced two new features in iOS 18 that made it easy to secure your apps on your iPhone. These features can be especially helpful for parents with young children. According to CBS, a 5-year-old bought over $3,000 worth of items from Amazon using her mother’s phone last year. The mother was able…
This weekend will bring a striking event for sky watchers, as Jupiter will be at its biggest and brightest. This is a great opportunity to look up and see one of the brightest objects in the sky. This is occurring because Jupiter will be in opposition on Saturday, December 7, which means that it is directly opposite from the sun as seen from Earth. This happens every 13 months. In addition, Jupiter is at its closest to Earth just one day earlier, on Friday, December 6. This happens because, although Earth and Jupiter both have orbits around the sun that…
Microsoft is finally expanding support for the Recall AI feature to Copilot+ PCs running Intel and AMD processors after the function has returned from a bevy of issues. The company made Recall available to Copilot+ PCs exclusively running Qualcomm processors in a late-November Windows 11 update, giving Windows Insiders access to the AI feature that take “snapshots” of your PC so you can search and look up aspects of your device in the future. After several mishaps with the Recall feature, including an issue where the function was not properly saving snapshots, the feature now appears stable enough to work…
One of the year’s biggest Oscar contenders heads to streaming before the end of 2024. Conclavebegins streaming exclusively on Peacock on Friday, December 13. Based on Robert Harris’ bestselling novel, Conclave is a thriller about the secretive process of selecting a new pope. After the pope unexpectedly dies, the College of Cardinals gathers under one roof for a papal conclave led by Thomas Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes). During the deliberation, Cardinal Lawrence discovers a series of troubling secrets that, if made public, would ruin the Catholic Church. Besides Fiennes, Conclave stars Stanley Tucci as Aldo Cardinal Bellini, John Lithgow as Joseph Cardinal Tremblay, Sergio…
Don’t miss this chance to get a fantastic pair of noise-canceling headphones for less than $100. Best Buy is currently selling the Sony WH-CH720N wireless headphones for only $90. That’s following a $60 discount on their original price of $150. This is one of the most attractive headphone deals that we’ve recently seen, so there’s a chance that stocks are already running low. If you want to take advantage of this offer, you’re going to have to hurry with your transaction as it could be gone as soon as tomorrow. Why you should buy the Sony WH-CH720N wireless noise-canceling headphones…
Asus has just announced several new monitors, some of which might end up on our list of the best gaming monitors next year. One of the more interesting picks is the ROG Strix XG32UCG, which lets you choose between 4K and 1080p depending on the game you want to play. There’s also a new ProArt display with an impressive 6K panel that packs pixel density to the max at just 32 inches. The ROG Strix piqued my interest. It’s not Asus’ first dual-mode monitor. We’ve already had the chance to review the ROG Swift PG32UCDP, which is also a dual-mode…
Arthur Fleck is singing and dancing his way to Max this month. Joker: Folie à Deux will be available to stream on Max starting on Friday, December 13. It will then make its HBO linear debut at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 14. Polarizing doesn’t even begin to describe Joker: Folie à Deux. Most audiences and critics completely rejected Todd Phillips’ musical. In his two-star review for The Tech Spot. The Joker sequel is unlikely to satisfy old fans or convert new ones.” Two years after murdering Murray Franklin on live television, Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix) has been committed to Arkham State…
