Apple products are rarely discounted, but Amazon's Prime Day seems to be an exception to the general rule, as there are limited time deals of up to 32% currently available.

Amazon Prime Day is here and only running between July 16 and July 17, and during that period of time, the website is overrun with some incredible deals, making it a great time to pick up some new products at prices that are better than average. Prime Day has slashed prices across a variety of PC hardware, such as gaming monitors, SSDs, gaming laptops, CPUs and more.

What has also been discounted is Apple products, particularly the AirPods Max Wireless, AirPods Pro (2nd generation), AirPods (3rd generation), and the Apple Watch Series 9 (41mm). Below are the listed deals, how much you will save if you purchase during Prime Day deals.

A Google insider has claimed the company is planning a major upgrade for the Pixel 9 lineup, which is expected to be released later this year.

In very Google, and particularly Pixel fashion, leaks about the devices have plagued the next-generation lineup reveal slated to take place next month at the Made by Google event. Android Authority posted an extensive leak that showcased Google's entire new lineup of devices, with numerous teardown images showcasing the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, the base Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL. These leaks ahead of the event revealed the crease for the Fold for the first time, new battery sizes, charging speeds, and more.

What wasn't mentioned in the initial leak and later posted as an exclusive article by Android Authority was the camera sensor upgrades. According to the publication, the entire series of devices will be adopting new camera sensors, ushering in widespread improvements to photography and video capabilities. More specifically, the base Pixel 9 will reportedly be adopting the Sony IMX858 for its ultrawide sensor, while the primary sensor and front-facing sensor will remain the same.

The phone owned by Thomas Crooks, the man who shot and wounded former US president Donald Trump on July 13, has had his phone seized by the FBI, and now the US authorities have said they have gained access to the device.

July 13 marked the failed assassination attempt of former US president Donald Trump, who dropped to the floor after a bullet wounded his ear. Authorities identified the shooter as Thomas Crooks, a 20-year-old registered Republican, and the FBI later announced it acquired his phone.

The now-deceased Crooks didn't leave behind any obvious motive for his actions against the former president, which is why the FBI is hoping its newfound access to his phone may reveal his reasoning behind his actions, if Crooks was working alone or as part of a bigger group, and if there are any other attempts such as the one at the Pennsylvania rally planned for the future.

Alongside adding day-one support for Dungeonborne and Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn with the latest GeForce Game Ready, these two titles are also a part of the latest games getting DLSS support this week. Dungeonborne, launching into Early Access, is a solo and multiplayer crawler with impressive ray-traced visuals. So, thankfully, it's arriving with DLSS Super Resolution and DLSS 3 Frame Generation.

Currently, the game is a PC killer with only the GeForce RTX 4090 able to push higher than 60 FPS at 4K with max settings and ray-tracing enabled. This increases to around 190 FPS with DLSS Performance Mode and Frame Generation enabled. Even the GeForce RTX 4060, RTX 4060 Ti, and RTX 4070 can hit 60+ FPS with DLSS 3.

Lowering the resolution to 1440p and DLSS 3 increases performance across the entire GeForce RTX 40 Series line-up by around 2.3X. This is the resolution sweet spot for PC gaming, and here, every GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU can push past 100 FPS, with the GeForce RTX 4060 just falling short with an average frame rate of 93.5.

Science can sometimes be quite boring, perhaps even lacking in traditional "fun," but sometimes science presents opportunities to have fun and push the envelope of what is possible.

NASA has collaborated with Missy Elliot to send the first hip-hop song to deep space via a test of its Deep Space Network (DSN), the world's largest and most sensitive telecommunications service. The DSN is comprised of a giant 112-foot-wide radio dish called the Deep Space Station 13. The antenna is located at the DSN's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in Barstow, and on Friday, it blasted Ellitot's song "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" 158 million miles to Venus.

The transmission was made at the speed of light and it took nearly 14 minutes to reach Earth's neighboring planet. The collaborate, while seeming quite random at face value, was purposeful as NASA recognized Elliot's passion for space and pushing boundaries.

GeForce Game Ready 560.70 WHQL driver has been released, adding day-one support for three new games: Dungeonborne, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, and Stormgate. In addition to this, it also adds support for 14 new G-SYNC Compatible gaming displays from Acer, ASUS, LG, and more.

Kicking off with game support, Stormgate is a highly anticipated free-to-play real-time strategy game from Frost Giant Studios, a team of veteran developers who worked on iconic RTS titles like Warcraft III and StarCraft II. Built with Unreal Engine 5, multiplayer, and a cinematic campaign, the game will go live on August 13, with those who pre-purchase being able to jump in on July 30.

Next is Dungeonborne, a new first-person PvPvE dungeon crawler with impressive ray-traced visuals launching into Early Access on July 19. GeForce RTX owners will benefit from optimized day-one driver support with the addition of DLSS 2 Super Resolution upscaling and DLSS 3 Frame Generation.

According to Tesla and Amazon's early investor James Anderson, NVIDIA could be worth an astonishing $50 trillion within the next 10 years. The unstoppable AI wave, which hasn't slowed down over the last 18 months, will help NVIDIA.

Anderson's estimates don't seem out of control, with NVIDIA already scaling the lofty heights of a $3.3 trillion+ market cap recently, driven by the insatibale demand for AI chips. NVIDIA controls an estimated 90%+ of the AI GPU market share, leaving the rest with scraps.

Anderson said: "The potential scale of NVIDIA in the most optimistic outcome is both way higher than I've ever seen before and could lead to a market cap of double-digit trillions. This isn't a prediction but a possibility if artificial intelligence works for customers and NVIDIA's lead is intact".

Asteroids and comets are some of the most dangerous things in the universe when it comes to the safety of Earth as a planet, which is why NASA has set up programs such as CNEOS or the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

CNEOS is designed to be a ledger of all of the discovered near-Earth objects, providing a database on all of their orbits, locations, speeds, rotational speeds, and any other relevant information about the object. Programs such as this and others are set up because of the real danger these objects pose, and the most unsettling aspect of these objects is we don't know where they all are.

It was only in October last year NASA took to its website to share the infographic below about how many asteroids it estimates it has yet to discover. Now, a new study published on a pre-print server has detailed what is called "dark comets," which are icy objects just like normal comets, but instead, they do not exhibit any outgassing, which causes the iconic tail depicted in traditional comets.

Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPU configurations have been leaked, where we can expect up to 5 Tiles on Panther Lake CPUs in the future.

In a new post on X by leaker "Jaykihn" the next-gen Panther Lake-H and Panther Lake-U processors have been detailed, with Intel confirming it has hit the "Power On" achievement on Panther Lake CPUs, entering production on Intel's in-house 18A process node in the first half of 2025, with availability sometime in 2H 2025.

The leak includes a blueprint of the Intel Panther Lake-H processor and details for three configurations. Panther Lake CPUs will be hitting laptops in thin and light designs, right up to high-end laptops of the future.

Intel is still developing its next-gen Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake-S" desktop CPUs, which will launch on the new LGA1851 socket. However, the LGA1700 will live on, and new Bartlett Lake-S desktop CPUs, reportedly launching in 2025, will be available in hybrid and P-Core-only offerings.

In a new post on X by leaker "Jaykihn" we're finding out that Intel's next-gen Bartlett Lake-S desktop CPUs in P-Core variants only, launching in Q3 2025, so around a year from now. Bartlett Lake-S will appear on LGA1700, meaning LGA1700 motherboard owners could skip Arrow Lake-S and its new LGA1851 socket and upgrade to a new CPU with Bartlett Lake-S in 2025.

We are to expect only P-cores with no E-cores and no Hyper-Threading, as well as hybrid Bartlett Lake-S processor offerings. Intel's upcoming P-core-only Bartlett Lake-S processors will use the new BTL 12+0 die with up to 12 P-cores, which is more P-cores than the current 14th-gen Core CPUs with up to 8 P-cores on their max SKU: the Core i9-14900K.

We shouldn't really be shocked by the outcomes of surveys at this point, but we were rather taken aback by the apparent level of misconception out there regarding AIs like ChatGPT - with many folks seemingly believing that these chatbots have "some degree of consciousness."

According to a study from the University of Waterloo (flagged by TechSpot), two-thirds of respondents in a survey (of 300) in the US felt this was the case, and further they agreed that such AI tools can have "subjective experiences such as feelings and memories."

Of course, these are Large Language Models (LLMs) and they most certainly don't experience feelings - not by any definition or philosophy we're aware of - but they are cleverly constructed AIs that can appear this way, sure. Plus the datasets they're trained on are inevitably human content - the opinions and thoughts that they hoover up by the ton, from every corner of the web - so that's reflected in the replies to queries, clearly.

In early April, YouTube sent a clear message to AI model developers that downloading data from the platform and using it to train AI models is a clear violation of YouTube's terms of service.

This sentiment was reinforced in the same week as YouTube's public comment about its content being used to train AI model, but it came from a Google spokesperson who told the New York Times any, "unauthorized scraping or downloading of YouTube content" is prohibited. However, a new report from Proof News has found YouTube has been scraped for its data, and some of the biggest tech companies advancing AI have used it to train models.

According to a Proof News investigation, subtitles from 172,535 YouTube videos were siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, and some of these channels included prominent creators on the platform such as MKBHD (19 million subscribers), MrBeast (289 million), Jacksepticeye (31 million), PewDiePie (111 million), Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, and more. Notably, the video transcriptions are subtitles files.

Following the assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled two attempts have been made on his life in the past eight months.

Musk took to his personal X account, formerly Twitter, to reply to a user requesting Musk increase his private security for his own protection, citing the event with President Trump as an example of what can happen to people in powerful public positions who have people that strongly disagree with them. Musk said there are "dangerous times ahead" and then revealed two people on separate occasions have "already tried to kill me in the past 8 months".

The Tesla CEO said these individuals were "arrested with guns about 20 mins drive from Tesla HQ in Texas". In another response, Musk joked that it was maybe time for him to "build that flying metal suit of armor," which refers to the iconic Iron Man suit of armor worn by Marvel's Tony Stark. Notably, this isn't the first time Musk has mentioned people trying to kill him, as he told Canadian professor Gad Saad during a live audio chat on X Spaces that in the past, "mentally ill" people have made attempts on his life.

Microsoft has struck a $1.5 billion deal with Group 42 (G42), an artificial intelligence research and development firm operating in the United Arab Emirates, and is chaired by national security advisor His Highness Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Ai Nahyan.

The deal has sparked security concerns, with two House committee chairs now sending a public letter to the White House prompting it to investigate the deal, following Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan's visit to Beijing to strengthen AI-related ties, and G42 being investigated less than a year ago for its association with China. The $1.5 billion deal has caused fear among US intelligence officials as it could mean advanced US AI technologies could eventually reach China.

Notably, UAE's AI minister admitted the US concerns about the deal are valid, as it would be for "any country that has adversaries". Despite these seemingly widespread concerns, Microsoft and G42 are making an effort to implement as much transparency about the deal as they can, with Microsoft President Brad Smith saying G42 won't be gaining any AI access to proprietary US technologies such as processors, AI model design tools, and more. Moreover, the Microsoft president said the UAE's access would be in a "vault within a vault".

Amazon Prime Day is occurring between July 16 and July 17, and throughout that time, numerous products across the online retailer will be discounted. Now may be your chance to snag some great PC equipment at a reasonable price.

It should be noted that Amazon isn't the only online retailer that significantly discounts its products between the aforementioned period, so it's worth shopping around to locate the best deal for the product you are looking for. As for this article, we will be entirely concentrating on Amazon products, and below are some of the best deals I have found when it comes to PCs.

First we have a great deal on a 1080p (FHD) monitor that's built for speed. The ASUS ROG Strix XG259QN is a 380HZ FHD gaming monitor that's 45% off. Next is what you need to store all of your games, an SSD. In this case, it's the 2Tb Samsung 990 PRO with a heatsink, which is currently 45% off. Next is the Razer Blade 15 gaming laptop that comes with an RTX 4070 laptop GPU. That gaming laptop is currently 43% off.

CD Projekt Red is working on a selection of new titles for gamers, but what does the renowned developer consider as its "most advanced" project.

For those that didn't know, CD Projekt is currently working on four new titles, all of which are named after stars. Firstly, there is Canis Majoris, a remake of The Witcher that is currently being developed at Polish studio Fool's Theory. Next is Orion, which is the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 that is being helmed by developers at the Boston studio. Next is Sirius, a Witcher spin-off game that is being developed at Molasses Flood in Boston.

Lastly, Polaris is a completely new Witcher game that is being helmed by the main CD Projekt studio in Warsaw, Poland. In a recent interview with Flow Games, associate game director Pawel Sasko said most of the titles are currently in their "early stages" and the new Witcher saga, which is slated to enter production sometime this year, is "the most advanced of all of those".

Apple has rolled out the latest version of iOS to the public and it comes with a bunch of new changes that are worth knowing about.

The public beta for iOS 18 has been unveiled, and it covers Apple's range of products with different operating system versions. For example, watchOS18, macOS Sequia, tvOS 18, and of course iPhone's iOS 18, are all available to download now. Users can do this by heading to Settings > Update and then opting into the public beta for the upgraded operating system.

iOS 18 is the operating system version slated to implemented Apple's version of artificial intelligence called Apple Intelligence, but unfortunately many of those main features have been left out of this public beta. Additionally, this article will be covering the top non-AI features currently available in the iOS 18 beta, which should help you decide if you want to upgrade to it or not.

Western Digital has just very quietly unleashed a monster 8TB version of its super-fast WD_BLACK SN850X SSD family, offering up to 7.3GB/sec reads and the huge 8TB capacity starting from $849.

The new WD_BLACK SN850X 8TB SSD will fit into any laptop or PC with an M.2 2280 NVMe slot, or if you need a monster 8TB Gen4 SSD for your PlayStation 5, Western Digital has your back. Inside, the new WD_BLACK SN850X 8TB SSD uses TLC 3D NAND for the huge storage capacity and up to 7.2GB/sec (7200MB/sec) reads and up to 6.6GB/sec (6600MB/sec) writes.

Western Digital allows buying the new WD_BLACK SN850X 8TB SSD (and the 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB SSDs) with or without a heatsink. The new 8TB model is $849 without the heatsink or $899 with the heatsink. The new 8TB SSD is slightly slower than the 4TB and 2TB SN850X SSDs, which both other up to 7.3GB/sec writes (just 100MB/sec more) than the 7.2GB/sec from the 8TB SN850X SSD.

AMD has just confirmed its next-generation Zen 6 core architecture, which will succeed the about-to-be-released Zen 5 architecture inside Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs and new Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" desktop CPUs.

The next-gen Zen 6 CPU architecture will be -- like Zen 5 -- split into two cores: Zen 6 and Zen 6c, which will both usher in new levels of performance and power efficiency across the entire range of PC products: desktops, laptops, handhelds, servers, and more.

Zen 6 is codenamed "Morpheus," which will succeed Zen 5, which is being made on 4nm and 3nm process nodes. We should expect AMD's next-generation Zen 6 products to use the latest process nodes and advanced packaging technologies. We've heard rumors that Zen 6 and Zen 6c will be inside the 6th Gen EPYC "Venice" CPUs on the new SP7 platform featuring up to 16-channel memory.

HP has just unveiled its new OmniBook Ultra, which it's calling the "world's highest-performing AI PC" which is powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs offering up to 55 TOPS of AI performance.

The company unveiled its new OmniBook Ultra laptop during its "Imagine AI" event held in New York City last week, integrating AI across most of its consumer products that the company says will enable creativity for everyone, the usual marketing speak, really.

We don't know which Strix Point APU is inside of HP's new OmniBook Ultra, but the company did say that it will be powered by the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series APU with integrated Radeon 800M graphics, and the powerful XDNA2-based NPU for "unparalleled performance" and up to 21 hours of battery life. The OmniBook Ultra was co-engineered with AMD to enable up to 55 TOPS of NPU performance.