If you’re spending hundreds or thousands of dollars buying an OTC hearing aid, make sure you’re getting a product that offers a sustainable long-term solution to your hearing loss needs. Aside from the obvious things like sound quality, take a few minutes to look into these specs.What size and style works best for you? Most hearing aids on the market are classified as either behind-the-ear (BTE) or in-the-ear (ITE). BTE hearing aids are probably what you think of when you picture a hearing aid, consisting of a plastic case that contains the electronics, a thin cable that goes over the…
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This year has seen some excellent laptops, but it seemed almost inevitable that the MacBook Air 13-inch (M4) would be our choice for the overall best laptop of 2025 in the TechRadar Choice Awards 2025.Why? Well, despite some brilliant competition from the likes of Microsoft and Dell, the MacBook Air 13-inch (M4) feels like a culmination of the incredible roll Apple has been on since the launch of its first computing chip, the M1, back in 2020.Every subsequent generation that followed built upon the M1’s excellent balance of performance and efficiency, which has led to the latest MacBook Air, released…
OpenAI recently launched new app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify app. To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the start of your prompt, and ChatGPT will guide you through signing in and connecting your account. If you want to set everything up at once, head over to…
EA Sports has revealed Team 1 of FC 26’s Ultimate Scream promo, featuring the likes of Vini Jr, Rafael Leao and Saeed Al Owairan. Ultimate Scream is a spooky, fan-favourite promo which has been absent from the packed Ultimate Team promo calendar for a full 5 seasons, but in FC 26 it’s back with a bit more of a balanced twist. When do FC 26 Ultimate Scream cards upgrade? Whereas previous Ultimate Scream cards would transform, like a werewolf, into ridiculously OP cards at certain times of the year before reverting back to their original form, in FC 26, Ultimate…
Every so often, you can find great free phone deals if you’re willing to add a line or purchase a plan. For instance, Verizon is currently offering a free Samsung Galaxy S25 when you add a line with select new plansrepresenting about $800 in value.We like the S25 for its small form factor, slim bezels, and the same powerful performance that comes with the rest of the Samsung Galaxy premium lineup. It also boasts a number of the latest Galaxy AI and Gemini features, and a fingerprint sensor.This particular deal is for the 128GB version of the S25, though Verizon…
This week we’ve gone hands-on with both the Samsung Galaxy XR and new Apple Vision Pro headsets, and while the M5-powered Vision Pro has impressed us – we gave it a four-and-a-half star review – we imagine the lower price yet still premium experience of Samsung’s XR hardware will help to win over those still enthused about a prosumer headset.Thanks to their impressive displays offering superb visual clarity, chipsets with plenty of pepper for a wide range of use cases and comfy designs – facilitated by the Galaxy XR’s lower weight and Vision Pro’s new headband – there’s a lot…
Jim Sanborn couldn’t believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA that had defied solution for 35 years. As always, wannabe solvers kept on paying him a $50 fee to offer their guesses to the remaining unsolved portion of the 1,800-character encrypted message, known as K4—wrong without exception. Then, on September 3, he opened an email from the latest applicant, Jarett Kobek, which started, “I believe the text of K4 is as follows …” He’d seen words like this thousands of times before. But this time, the text…
Anthropic strikes deal worth “tens of billions of dollars” with Google CloudClaude maker will add more Google TPUs to its Nvidia GPU and Amazon Trainium portfolioAmazon remains Anthropic’s “primary training partner and cloud provider”Anthropic has signed a multi-billion dollar deal with Google which will see the AI firm gain up to one million Google Cloud tensor processing units (TPUs) for training and running its large language models (LLMs).The deal, worth “tens of billions of dollars” according to Anthropic, will mean the company could have well over a gigawatt of compute capacity by 2026.The expansion comes after a successful year for…
YouTube has paid more than $8 billion to the music industry in the 12 months between July 2024 and July 2025, the company announced on Thursday. “Today’s $8 billion payout is a testament to the fact that the twin engine of ads and subscriptions is firing on all cylinders,” said YouTube’s Global Head of Music, Lyor Cohen, in a statement. “This number is not an endpoint; it represents meaningful, sustained progress in our journey to build a long-term home for every artist, songwriter, and publisher on the global stage.” Cohen first announced the milestone during a talk at Billboard Latin…
Screenshot by Destructoid | Published: Oct 23, 2025 12:35 pm The Ratings Reload Challenge 5 SBC is now live in FC 26and you can complete it to win some packs for free. Like all fodder challenges, you can complete this one quite easily with lower-rated items that are already there in your club. In exchange, you’ll get a pack that could reward you with walkout/promo cards if you’re lucky. This guide will help you solve the challenge and unlock all the available rewards without any trouble. FC 26 Ratings Reload Challenge 5 SBC task The Ratings Reload Challenge 5 SBC…