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Although Amazon recently raised prices on its own tech gadgets because of the global RAM and storage crisis, the retailer is giving customers a break by discounting them in its Labor Day sale.

• Shop Amazon's full Labor Day sale

The retailer launched its Labor Day sale last week and is slashing prices on its best-selling devices, including up to 64% off Fire TV Sticks, Blink security cameras, Ring Doorbells, Echo speakers and more.

Amazon has some favorite gadgets on sale, including the Fire TV Stick 4K Select for a record-low $17.99 (was $49.99), the Blink Doorbell 2K for $41.99 (was $69.99), and the Echo Spot alarm clock for $69.99 (was $109.99).

Keep in mind that Amazon has raised its device prices by up to 60%, which makes today's Labor Day discounts very welcome. These limited-time offers end on Labor Day proper (September 7).

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• Proofpoint observed PackClient RAT sold on Telegram, used by group TA4922
• Attack spoofed tax authority emails in China and India, delivering PackClient installer
• RAT offers advanced features; researchers warn broader adoption likely beyond Asia

For almost three months, Chinese hackers have been distributing an advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) called PackClient, against organizations in mainland China and India.

According to security researchers Proofpoint, PackClient is being actively sold on Telegram channels. It is a rather advanced RAT, capable of file theft and management, remote shell execution, screen capture and remote desktop management, webcam access, keylogging, privilege escalation, system administration, and a myriad of other things.

Even though it’s actively sold on Telegram, so far just one hacking group was spotted using it - TA4922. This is not a state-sponsored group but rather a financially motivated one.

Picking up the malware

Since late May 2026, this group has been mailing organization, first in China, and later in India, as well. In the emails, they spoofed local tax authorities, claiming that the recipients were needed to conduct “self-inspection”, a process which included downloading and filling out paperwork shared in the attachment.

The “paperwork”, however, was nothing more than the PackClient installer.

In its report, Proofpoint did not say how many organizations fell victim to the attack, nor did it discuss in which industries most victims operated.

However, in earlier reports, the researchers said TA4922 typically targets small and medium-sized organizations located primarily in Japan. Other notable mentions include Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, and India, while in newer times, they also started targeting European organizations, as well as those in the UK.

Proofpoint also stressed that the advanced capabilities of PackClient might see it getting picked up by many more threat actors, and see it getting deployed against more organizations, particularly in the western part of the world.

“Given that PackClient is marketed through Telegram making it broadly available, it is likely other threat actors are currently using, or will use, this malware in future campaigns,” they said. The researchers also shared a full list of Indicators of Compromise (IoC), in case you’re suspicious of an infection.

If you're after a compact four-bay desktop NAS with modern networking for work and media backups, the TerraMaster F4-425 Pro NAS system has dropped to $680 (was $800) at Amazon

We've tested this exact configuration, and found it's a genuine upgrade over its predecessor with dual 5GbE and a third M.2 slot. But it's not for everyone.

F4-425 Pro NAS: was $799.99 now $679.99
4-bay NAS powered by an 8-core Intel N350 processor and 16GB of DDR5 RAM (expandable to 32GB), with three M.2 NVMe slots for caching alongside the four SATA bays. Dual 5GbE LAN ports deliver up to 1,010MB/s with link aggregation, and TOS 7 introduces the OpenClaw AI assistant for natural-language system administration. Sold diskless; drives are purchased separately.View Deal

Why we recommend it

In our review, we awarded this NAS device 4 stars, praising the move to dual 5GbE over the previous generation's 2.5GbE as a real, tangible upgrade for large file transfers and multi-user environments. The third M.2 slot gives more flexibility for caching than most four-bay NAS units in this price range offer. The new N350 processor also runs cooler and more efficiently than its predecessor, which matters for a device meant to run 24/7.

TOS 7 is the most polished version of TerraMaster's operating system yet, with solid Docker and VM support, a comprehensive backup suite, and the TRAID hybrid array mode that lets you mix drive sizes more efficiently than standard RAID.

Our review was direct about where it falls short compared to competitors, calling it a NAS hamstrung by PCIe lanes, since both the M.2 slots and networking share a limited nine-lane PCIe budget. If you don't need to push past those limits, it's still a capable, efficient NAS for the price.

Price Context & Historical Value

This deal cuts the 16GB configuration's $799.99 list price by $120, about 15 percent off. That's a modest but genuine discount rather than an inflated anchor price, and it narrows the gap with TerraMaster's own store, which has periodically discounted this same configuration to around $640 to $670 during promotions.

Should you buy it?

✅ Buy the TerraMaster F4-425 Pro if... you want a flexible four-bay NAS with modern 5GbE networking and don't need 10GbE speeds, you value low power consumption and quiet, cool running over raw compute power, or you like the idea of experimenting with AI-assisted NAS administration.

❌ Skip the TerraMaster F4-425 Pro if... you want a 10GbE port or Thunderbolt/USB4 connectivity, you plan to fill all three M.2 slots with fast NVMe drives for local storage, or you want to run demanding local AI workloads on the NAS itself.

The Catch: What to know before you buy

The three M.2 slots are limited to PCIe Gen 3 x1 bandwidth, capping NVMe performance at roughly 1GB/s regardless of the drives you install, so there's little benefit to using expensive high-end SSDs here. There's no 10GbE port, not even as an upgrade option, and no Thunderbolt or USB4 for fast external expansion. The single RAM slot also means upgrading beyond the included 16GB requires removing it entirely rather than adding a second module. On top of that, the drive trays still lack physical locks or number labels - a longstanding TerraMaster quirk our reviewer has flagged across multiple generations.

• Google Messages now lets you customize your chats
• You can change bubble colors and wallpapers for each chat individually
• RCS must be enabled to do this

Despite having been around for a long time, Google Messages hasn’t let you properly customize chats in the past. But now this feature has finally rolled out.

As announced in a Google blog post, you can now change both bubble accent colors and the wallpaper. For the latter, you’ll be able to choose from curated options in categories like ‘animals’ and ‘space’, or you can choose an image from your gallery.

And while you can manually change the message bubble colors, you can also have them automatically adjust to match your wallpaper changes.

(Image credit: Google)How to customize your chats

Making these changes is simple. Just open Google Messages, and then select the chat you want to customize. Then either tap the name of the person or group in the top bar, or tap the three dots in the top right corner.

From that screen, tap ‘Chat theme’, where you’ll find a color palette to select a shade for the chat, and a wallpaper option, where you can either browse through Google’s selection or tap ‘Choose a photo’ to upload one from your gallery.

Once you’ve chosen a wallpaper, tap ‘Next’ to preview it and then tap ‘Apply’. Then just do the same for any other chats you want to customize.

Note, though, that RCS must be enabled to access these customization options, and that the changes you make will only be visible to you — not the people you’re chatting with.

The $449 headphones feature an all-new driver, next-generation adaptive ANC and a direct connection to your Sonos system.

The 7.1.2-channel soundbar slots between the Beam and Arc Ultra.

It's goodbye to Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, and hello to Thomas Holland, James Engelsman and Frances Bourgeois. The three viral content creators are the new faces of The Grand Tour — and they've been given the Clarkson seal of approval.

While the format of the Prime Video series is largely remaining the same, our three new faces are bringing something different to what we already know. I can only speak for myself when I say I'm hoping to learn just as much about trains as I am about cars.

But making TikToks and YouTube videos isn't the same as making a TV show for an international streaming service. All eyes are on the boys, so when does The Grand Tour season 7 arrive on Prime Video?

What time can I watch The Grand Tour season 7 on Prime Video?

We're expecting The Grand Tour season 7 to be available on September 4 at 12am PT / 3am ET in the US.

Internationally, look out for the below times:

• US – 12am PT / 3am ET
• Canada – 12am PT / 3am ET
• UK – 8am BST
• India – 12:30pm IST
• Singapore – 3pm SGT
• Australia – 5pm AEST
• New Zealand – 7pm NZST

When do new episodes of The Grand Tour season 7 come out?

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All six episodes of this season will be released at the same time. This is a huge change from the usual Prime Video reality TV format (such as Clarkson's Farm), which would air weekly.

As for the series' future, there's currently no public word on whether another season has been greenlit. Hopefully, we won't be made to wait much longer to find out.

PC memory prices remain seriously high, making even a straightforward 32GB DDR5 upgrade far more expensive than it would have been just a year ago.

Sadly, I don't have a time machine, so there's nothing I can do about that, but there are still decent discounts to be had. I've found one on a 32GB (2 x 16GB) kit of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM for $490 (was $605) at Newegg when you use code LDSF234.

It's already got a small discount, but the code knocks even more off the list price.

32GB Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM: was $605 now $490
This 32GB dual-channel kit combines two 16GB DDR5-6000 modules with CL30 latency, 30-36-36-76 timings, 1.40V operation, Intel XMP 3.0 support, onboard voltage regulation, and low-profile aluminum heat spreaders for broad compatibility.

For the full discount, use code LDSF234View Deal

Why we recommend it

It combines DDR5-6000 speeds with 30-36-36-76 timings and a CAS latency of 30. The two 16GB modules give you 32GB in dual-channel mode, which is a good capacity for everyday work, creative tasks, and more demanding applications.

Intel XMP 3.0 support also makes getting the advertised performance relatively straightforward on a compatible motherboard. Corsair uses a low-profile aluminum heat spreader, so the modules should also play nicely with larger CPU coolers.

There’s no RGB lighting, which could actually be a plus if you prefer a clean build without turning your PC into a miniature nightclub.

Price context & historical value

The regular Newegg price of $605 is very high, but with a discount and the promo code, $490 is a much more affordable option and works out at $15.31 per GB. This obviously is nowhere near an all-time low. The same kit was available for $229.99 in November 2025 and dropped as low as $99.99 in July 2023, showing just how dramatically memory prices have risen.

For more savings, we've picked out this week's best RAM deals.

Should you buy it?

✅ Buy the Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM if...

You need 32GB of fast DDR5 memory now and have been waiting for a decent discount. DDR5-6000 and CL30 make it worthwhile and the low-profile design and XMP 3.0 support add to its appeal.

❌ Skip the Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM if...

You already have 32GB of reasonably quick DDR5 memory. Unless your existing RAM is particularly slow, replacing it with this kit probably won’t produce enough of a noticeable everyday performance improvement to justify the upgrade.

The Catch: What to know before you buy

This is a decent deal for someone building or upgrading now, but if you're not in any rush, it's worth waiting for memory prices to come back down. You should also check your motherboard and CPU compatibility before ordering. This particular kit supports Intel XMP 3.0 rather than being marketed as an AMD EXPO kit.

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The new whole-home Wi-Fi speaker range includes three launch models — X1, P1 and M1 — that start at $230.

• Roku announces two affordable OLED TVs: the Roku Pro Series OLED TV and the Roku Pro Series LX OLED TV
• The Pro OLED starts from $999, and has 4K 120Hz and VRR support
• The LX starts from $1,299 and has 4K 144Hz VRR support
• Only 55-inch and 65-inch sizes are mentioned, though

Roku has launched its first ever OLED TV, the Roku Pro Series, with a second, more premium model coming in October 2026.

As we've come to expect from Roku, the TVs offer a good specification with a very competitive price tag: the cheapest model is $999 for the 55-inch size. That could make them among the best OLED TVs for buyers who don't want to spend too much: the LG B6, for example, is listed at $1,299 for the 55-inch model officially (though we've seen it fall below that already).

The Roku Pro Series OLED TV will be available in two sizes initially, 55 and 65 inches, and it is extremely thin. The display sits on an adjustable, tool-free stand designed to fit soundbars and set-top boxes, and the stand has built-in cable straps to keep everything nice and neat.

Both models come with an enhanced voice remote, push-to-talk control and a handy remote control finder that's operated by a button built into the TV.

Roku Pro Series / Pro Series LX OLED TVs: key features

The standard Roku Pro Series OLED TV has a 120Hz panel with wide viewing angles, and Dolby Vision support.

There are four HDMI 2.1 ports, and an automatic Game Mode; the TVs support FreeSync Premium and HDMI-spec variable refresh rates.

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The second model, the Roku Pro Series LX OLED TV, delivers up to 144Hz VRR, has higher brightness and has an advanced polarizer to reduce room reflections. It has a more fancy version of the voice remote featuring backlit buttons and customizable shortcuts, and the remote charges via USB-C.

The Roku Pro Series OLED TV is available now on Amazon US in a choice of 55 or 65 inches, with prices starting at $999. That'll make it a hot competitor against the aforementioned LG B6, or the Samsung S85H, which is Samsung's budget model, and is officially priced around $1,199.

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The Roku Pro Series LX OLED TV will launch in October with a starting price of $1,299 — that's very close to the current sale price of the LG C6, and we can't wait to see if it performs in the same ballpark too.

Thinking of buying a new TV?

Try our TV size and model finder! You tell it how far you sit from your TV, we'll tell you what size to buy based on viewing angle advice from image quality experts, and we'll recommend our three top TVs at that size for different prices.

ChatGPT Work’s new event-triggered scheduled tasks offer an intriguing alternative to the compulsive email checking that fills my days. The feature essentially acts as an AI-powered secretary, screening your Gmail inbox, Slack channels, and other communication channels, then alerting you or responding as you request in a prompt.

I decided to use the feature as an aggressively selective email assistant. ChatGPT could watch everything arriving in my inbox, but it was only allowed to interrupt me when a message created an actual obligation, and it should suggest how to respond and have a draft ready to go.

Event-triggered tasks are available on eligible plans in ChatGPT on the web and mobile. I used ChatGPT on the web and connected my Gmail account when prompted. You can see the prompt I used below.

The current event triggers support new Gmail messages, which can optionally be narrowed by sender or subject. I wanted ChatGPT to judge every incoming message by its contents, so I left the trigger broad and made the instructions selective.

That distinction matters. The trigger decides when ChatGPT wakes up, while the prompt decides what it does once awake. In my case, every new email could prompt a run, but only messages meeting my criteria were supposed to produce an alert.

I closed my inbox and waited to see how the afternoon went.

Here's how to do it

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My original prompt was fairly basic. I told ChatGPT, "When I receive an email that requires me to do something, or comes from a family member, tell me what I need to do and draft a potential reply."

It still left plenty of room for interpretation, and I was wary of spam getting listed as something I needed to do something about, but it came down to being a good test for ChatGPT.

After a bit, I did clarify to ChatGPT that it should alert me about any email with a single sentence explaining who was writing and what they might need from me. I also made sure to add that the AI shouldn't reply without my input.

I also opened ChatGPT’s notification settings and made sure task alerts could reach me outside the inbox. Depending on the account and notification category, ChatGPT can offer push, email, or text message delivery. I avoided email for obvious reasons, since an email announcing that ChatGPT had found an email would have possibly confused the AI.

With the task running, I shut Gmail and returned to everything else I had planned for the afternoon. For the first several minutes, I still felt the pull to check, but eventually, I stopped thinking about it.

The absence of constant email checks made the afternoon feel longer in a good way. I could finish a task without repeatedly glancing at another tab to make sure the internet had not developed an emergency specifically for me.

Only 3 interruptions

The first ChatGPT alert concerned a message from my bank about two hours after setting up the alert. ChatGPT identified the sender, explained why the email appeared to require attention, and told me what I needed to review. I opened that message directly, made sure it didn't actually require a response, and closed down the inbox.

The second alert came from a family member. This was a more interesting test because family messages rarely contain the tidy language that makes conventional email rules useful. They can require a decision or a quick response without the more business-style setup and keywords in professional messages.

Still, ChatGPT recognized that the message expected something from me and brought it to my attention and wrote a brief reply draft for me to approve. I added a little, but ChatGPT nailed the main points I needed to make, and it wasn't the kind of email that needed a lot of personal detail, so a few minutes after the alert arrived, the response was out the door.

The last alert concerned tickets I had recently purchased and a change to the itinerary for an upcoming event. In this case, the alert was very necessary as it changed some of the other plans for that day, and I had to let others know of the shift. That wasn't in ChatGPT's suggested response, of course, but just getting the heads up was useful.

Those were the only three times I looked at Gmail all afternoon. Other messages arrived, but ChatGPT did not summon me to look at them. When I went to my inbox afterward, I clocked only two emails that I might have wanted to deal with earlier, and neither had to be handled immediately. Nothing terrible happened because I didn't see a promotional email at the moment of delivery.

Anyone trying this should begin with a short test period and review the first few runs in ChatGPT’s Scheduled section. If ordinary receipts keep slipping through, add a clearer exclusion. If requests from real people are being missed, explain what counts as an expected response and allow ChatGPT to flag uncertain cases.

I would also keep the first version informational. Ask ChatGPT to summarize the obligation and point you toward the email, then make the decision yourself. It's a feature worth trialing. Many AI tools try to prove their value by producing more text, more summaries, and more notifications. This one worked because it knew when to leave me alone.

John Ternus takes the helm of a $4 trillion tech giant, but it comes with challenges as Apple faces down the RAM shortage, AI launch delays and the foldable phone market.

Photographers have wanted variable-aperture lenses for the iPhone’s cameras for years. On the eve of possibly getting them, how would that change your images?

Skynet has missed another appointment. Depending on which Terminator timeline you prefer, the murderous artificial intelligence should have become self-aware in 1997, 2004, 2011, 2017, or perhaps last Tuesday. Each date has passed without a nuclear exchange. The machines have mostly occupied themselves by flattering users, mangling fingers in photos, and confidently inventing facts for gullible people to believe.

That has not stopped Silicon Valley from treating artificial general intelligence as both an imminent miracle and an approaching monster. AGI supposedly marks the moment a machine can match human intelligence across a broad range of tasks, though nobody can agree on which tasks, which humans, or what counts as intelligence.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks it already happened and nobody noticed. “For many tasks, we could say that we’ve already achieved AGI,” he said during Nvidia’s latest earnings call. He added that such milestones are “kind of senseless at this point.” So much for Skynet.

But he is right that AGI has become close to useless as a measure of progress. Companies can redefine it according to whatever their newest model happens to do well. It's a promotion, not a scientific standard.

Apocalyptic decoy

But AI isn't harmless even if it's not inclined to play with nuclear bombs. There are less theatrical dangers from AI fueled by old-fashioned human greed and malevolence.

Today’s AI can produce endless fodder for scams. It can clone voices and faces well enough to trick loved ones out of money, use phishing messages to hack secure servers, and flood social networks with synthetic accounts that never tire of arguing. None of this qualifies as AGI under any serious definition, but the distinction offers little comfort to the person hearing a fake recording of a relative begging for money.

The fixation on AGI may actually make life harder for regulators.

Profit isn't a good yardstick

Huang argued that the concept of AGI should be replaced. We should consider if it is “doing productive and useful work” and “generating profitable tokens.” That makes sense for Nvidia, but to ordinary people worried about AI, profitability is not much of a safety test.

Scams are profitable. That's why there are so many. Firing human employees for an AI model that is 30% as good at 10% the price is profitable (in the short term). Neither result is something to brag about when describing the result of your product.

Retiring AGI as the organizing obsession and fear of the industry makes sense, but that doesn't mean AI companies can relax. Intelligence is too complex to serve as the sole trigger for concern. Power might be a better lens. We can measure who uses AI, and how, as well as who is expected to clean up when they fail. Then we'll know how explosive an impact it's had on our lives.

Conversations about liability, identity verification, ownership, and other legal details don't have the visual excitement of mushroom clouds, but regulators should make AI companies discuss them instead. We need to keep an eye on the human hands on the keyboard, not the perpetually delayed Skynet.

• Sony is launching a new free ad-supported service on PS5 consoles
• Its 100 live channels cover a wide range of titles across film, TV, news, sports, and more
• Live TV on PS5 is available to US users now, with availability for Canada and other regions to follow

Sony is dipping its toes back into free streaming channels with its new Live TV on PS5 platform — following platforms such as Tubi, Google TV Freeplay, and The Roku Channel.

The gaming and entertainment giant announced Live TV on PS5 yesterday (August 31), revealing that PS5 owners in the US can now access the service’s 100 ad-supported live channels and on-demand titles. Sony also has plans to expand Live TV on PS5 to Canada and additional regions, and will roll out the free service to Bravia TVs later this year.

For a new free streaming platform, Sony is already going big with its entertainment offerings. As far as its movie channels go, Live TV on PS5 has a slew of titles spanning action, horror, sci-fi, and more, all while housing popular anime titles from Crunchyroll.

The service also has a rich catalog of TV titles, including shows such as Community, The Shield, Hell’s Kitchen, The Walking Dead, Forensic Files, Unsolved Mysteries, Deal or No Deal USA, and Fear Factor.

Movies and shows aside, current affairs and news viewing is also available for free, offering programming from NBC News Now, Fox Weather, and LiveNOW from FOX. Additionally, you can also access channels including FOX Sports, NASCAR, NBC Sports Now, and UFC, so sports fans aren’t being left out of the experience.

Just like other platforms in our roster of best streaming services, Sony will keep Live TV on PS5 refreshed with new programming, titles, and channels to expose you to new content and keep you on your toes. Hopefully its library won’t remain stagnant and outdated, but it’s not as if Sony doesn’t know what it’s doing — it’s dipped its toes into the FAST channels waters before.

PlayStation Vue was a live TV service that allowed you to watch titles without the need for a cable box, before Sony axed it in 2020. It’s safe to say that PlayStation Vue was a widely admired service, and countless PS owners have been reminiscing about its nostalgia on Reddit following the announcement of Live TV on PS5 — however, whether the new platform will be a welcomed addition is debatable.

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Sony’s decision to kill off physical games and shift to digital ownership is still under intense scrutiny, not to mention the uproar that came when Sony deleted 500 movies users paid for following a licensing conflict. So there’s still the burning question regarding ownership: if everything is digital, do users really own it? There’s also the question of how different Sony’s FAST streaming service is to existing platforms.

In the Reddit discussion mentioned earlier, some users flagged that a lot of the FAST channels available on Live TV on PS5 are strikingly similar to the ones already available on services such as Tubi and Pluto TV, as one user said it ‘sounds like the same channels as [my] Roku TV’. Similarly, another commenter wrote that Sony’s streaming platform looks ‘like a copy of Roku TV, where they only show reruns and older shows, or lesser known shows’.

The common denominator with the best free streaming services are the providers, as another user highlights in the thread, so running into the same types of programming across these platforms isn’t out of the ordinary. For users who use their PS5 consoles as their main media hub, it’s a solid free upgrade and it’s there if you want to use it. At the same time, you can already download Tubi and Pluto TV on PS5, so the competition is tough.

• Most specs of the upcoming Enough Phone have been revealed
• Highlights include a tiny 5.3-inch screen and a 3,500-4,000mAh removable battery
• The Enough Phone will be coming to Kickstarter soon

Compact smartphones are almost impossible to come by these days. Apple hasn’t made one since the iPhone 13 mini in 2021, and most Android phones have screens of over 6 inches. But while the industry is trending larger, there is still a market for small phones, and the Enough Phone aims to serve it.

This handset was first announced in late June, but back then, little was known about it. Now, the company behind it has revealed many of the specs and shared photos of a dummy unit.

The Enough Phone is intended to have a 5.3-inch 720 x 1520 LCD screen, making its display marginally smaller than the iPhone 13 mini’s 5.4-inch one. Its overall dimensions are 132.8 x 63.8 x 12mm, making it similar in length and width but far thicker than the 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.7mm Apple device.

(Image credit: Enough Phone)A relatively large battery but basic specs

That chunky design might be disappointing, but it allows for a far higher-capacity battery, with the manufacturer aiming for one of 3,500-4,000mAh. Plus, this will be a user-replaceable battery.

Not all the specs have been confirmed yet, but other ones listed here include a mid-range MediaTek Dimensity 7500 chipset, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a single-lens 50MP rear camera, a 32MP front-facing one, Android 17 with an OdysseyOS overlay, a fingerprint sensor, 5G, NFC, a microSD card slot, eSIM support, and a polycarbonate back.

So, in all, the Enough Phone sounds fairly basic, but between its compact screen, removable battery, and microSD card slot, it could stand out — if the price is right.

Sadly, the price is still to be confirmed, and in fact there’s no guarantee that it will launch at all, as the company hopes to fund it via Kickstarter, with a campaign said to be starting soon. So, if you’re interested, keep an eye out for that — or sign up to the company’s mailing list.

The Shards episode 8 is streaming on Hulu for US viewers and Disney+ internationally soon, and you won't want to miss it after last week's tense double bill.

In Homecoming part 1 and 2, we saw a homecoming queen crowned (naturally), creating some tensions between Debbie and Susan. With the latter winning something again, this strained friendship group is only becoming more complicated.

But with The Trawler still out there, teen drama around popularity seems irrelevant. The killer's identity has not been unmasked yet, and is anyone really safe? Disturbingly, the killer left the severed head of Matt for Bret to find, and that unsettling visual has no doubt stuck with you.

We'll be picking up after this shocking moment in episode 8, titled Hamlet. Here's what you need to know about it.

What time can I watch The Shards episode 8 on Hulu?

For US viewers, The Shards episodes 6 and 7 will drop on Wednesday, September 2 at 6pm PT/ 9pm ET.

Here's when you can stream the new episodes in other countries.

• US – Wednesday, September 2 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET
• Canada – Wednesday, September 2 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET
• UK – Thursday, September 3 at 2am BST
• India – Thursday, September 3 at 6:30am IST
• Singapore – Thursday, September 3 at 9am SGT
• Australia – Thursday, September 3 at 11am AEDT
• New Zealand – Thursday, September 3 at 12pm NZDT

When do new episodes of The Shards come out?

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The season finale is right around the corner, as episode 8 marks the penultimate episode of The Shards. It's just one episode this week after last week's double bill, but I'm sure it'll be no less thrilling.

For dates as well as the episode titles for the upcoming The Shards releases, take a look below.

• The Shards Episode 1 “Pilot”: Out now
• The Shards Episode 2 “Don’t You Want Me”: Out now
• The Shards Episode 3 “Help Me! Rhonda!”: Out now
• The Shards Episode 4 “Robert’s Party”: Out now
• The Shards Episode 5 “Murder on the Dancefloor”: Out now
• The Shards Episode 6 “Homecoming Part One”: Out now
• The Shards Episode 7 “Homecoming Part Two”: Out now
• The Shards Episode 8 “Hamlet”: Wednesday, September 2
• The Shards Episode 9 “Stairway to Heaven”: Wednesday, September 9

Dyson’s entry into dental care makes your standard toothbrush look like a caveman’s toothbrush.

• JBL has just unveiled its new Cove line of home speakers
• 3 models which vary in shape and size (but note the Denon resemblance)
• Designed for home use, and to work with various JBL technologies

When you think of JBL speakers, your mind probably goes to the likes of the JBL Go 5 or JBL Xtreme 5: portable party devices which you take on the go. However, the brand's new offerings are totally different.

JBL has unveiled its Cove range, consisting of three speakers that are designed to stay at home. That's not to say they're not portable, but you're not meant to take them camping or to the beach.

The family is made up of the smaller Cove M1, larger (but portable) Cove P1, and even larger (and not quite portable) X1. All three models are set to sell from October 2026.

All three models have a range of useful features: they can self-tune depending on the room they're in, automatically apply balances to avoid distortion, and pair together to create multi-room noise. They don't just pair with each other: they can also connect with the JBL Bar Mk2 to add real surround sound to your movies and TV.

These are all Wi-Fi enabled speakers, though they can connect via Bluetooth. This means they support Google Cast, AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect, Roon Ready, Tidal Connect and Qobuz Connect, and they'll apparently also support Alexa+ at some point after launch.

Their design makes us think about two things. Firstly, they'll be able to fight for a spot in our best wireless speakers guide, and second, their resemblance to the Denon 200, 400 and 600 range is hard to overlook — and given our glowing review of the Denon Home 400, JBL's Cove X1 (main image) is up against some stiff competition. That's not to say the new range can't wow us, just that it's tough at the top.

Music at home? Head to the Cove

(Image credit: JBL)

The cheapest model of the family is the JBL Cove M1, which is due to sell for €229.99 (about $260, £200, AU$400). This has 2x 30mm and 1x 20mm silk dome tweeters, and a 4" woofer.

It's the only model to lack Dolby Atmos support, and it's designed to be compact so it can fit in various nooks of your home.

Next up, the Cove P1 will sell for €449.99 (about $520, £380, AU$760), and it has all the same drivers as the M1.

So why the higher price? Well, it's the only model with a built-in battery, letting you bring the sound into your garden. It'll last for 14 hours, with a recharging dock included to power it up. IT also has an IP56 rating, unlike the other models, in case it gets caught in a spell of rain.

For a little more, you can buy the Cove X1, which will go for €499.99 (about $580, £430, AU$860). It has 4x 30mm tweeters and 2x 4" woofers, so it'll offer a much more advanced sound than its siblings.

It's designed to offer "3D room-filling" sound, and for that price you'd hope so.