The 59 Absolute Best Prime Day Deals

Amazon’s annual sales event is here. From Alexa-powered Echo Dots to gaming laptops, here are all the greatest discounts we’ve found.

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How to Install the Google Play Store on an Amazon Fire Tablet

These slates are cheap but hampered by the retailer's limited app store. Here's how to get a broader selection.

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The Climate Anxiety Discussion Has a Whiteness Problem

Marginalized groups often think about the mental impact of the climate crisis in different terms—meaning they end up crowded out of the conversation.

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Quantum Advantage Showdowns Have No Clear Winners

A series of recent experiments between quantum and classical computers shows the term’s ever-evolving meaning.

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Russian ‘Hacktivists’ Are Causing Trouble Far Beyond Ukraine

The pro-Russian group Killnet is targeting countries supporting Ukraine. It has declared "war" against 10 nations.

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Juul Nears Its Last Gasp—After It Hooked a Generation on Vaping

The startup used regulatory loopholes and marketing to make nicotine cool. Now the FDA threatens to shut the company down, but new rivals are taking over.

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Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans

'The Dawn of Everything' fundamentally shifted my view of … everything. I had to meet one of the minds behind its world-tilting revelations.

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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.

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Everything You Need to Work From Home Like a Pro

Gear can make or break your home office setup. Here’s our ultimate list of nearly 100 items, from monitors and desks to webcams and chairs.

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Travel Back in Time With Street View and Map Archives

These free, simple tools for phone or web let you visualize urban sprawl or see what your street looked like before the turn of the millennium.

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‘Clean Slate’ Justice Laws Offer a Second Chance—Only to Some

States are trying to automate criminal record clearance. But what if they end up amplifying racial disparities?

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How to Earn More Than $50 in Amazon Credits Ahead of Prime Day

Most of these promotions require you to spend some money, but they’re a relatively easy way to redeem some extra cash.

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A Long-Lost Rare Crayfish Resurfaces in an Alabama Cave

Thought for decades to be extinct, the tiny animal has stayed hidden in a former subterranean speakeasy.

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The Quarry and Evil Dead: The Game Lure You Into a Scary Movie

The games take different approaches to the horror game genre, but both are informed by their love for slasher flicks.

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The Hype Machine That Turned Minions Into a $4B Juggernaut

The #GentleMinions and the #minionscult have overrun TikTok, taking the franchise’s impact to all-new levels.

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Thor: Love and Thunder’s Biggest Drawback? It’s Just for Fans

Taika Waititi’s Ragnarok follow-up is full of inside jokes that make it almost impenetrable to outsiders. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s not great either.

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9 Great Early Prime Day Deals on Tremendous TVs

Need a new 4K screen? Some of our top picks are on sale right now.

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Speedway's Mini 4 Pro Is a Great City-Friendly Electric Scooter

This relatively lightweight escooter gets nearly everything right.

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Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem

The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.

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Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco

In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.

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