Category: 4. Technology

Today, Samsung has unveiled its first ever 37-inch monitor, part of the ViewFinity S8 line. It sits right in between the already available 32″ and 43″ models in the series, offering “outstanding readability, an optimal viewing distance and a comfortable field of view”, the company says in its official press release.

The 37″ monitor has a 16:9 aspect ratio, and compared to the 32″ version, “the screen’s additional five inches provide more workspace while maintaining UHD resolution in sharp detail”, Samsung promises.

Even with the same display settings, text appears larger than on a 32″ display (obviously), “making details stand out and information easier to grasp at a glance”. It delivers “the big-screen experience designed for collaboration” when standing, presenting or sharing the display with teammates.

TÜV Rheinland has certified the new 37″ monitor as an “Ergonomic Workspace Display”, which “recognizes its design that reduces visual fatigue during tasks like text editing or documentation and enhances task immersion”. It also has an Intelligent Eye Care feature that minimizes blue light and flicker, reducing eye strain. This too is TÜV-certified.

The monitor has a built-in keyboard, video and mouse switch letting you control two devices simultaneously with a single set of peripherals. You also get picture-by-picture and picture-in-picture for better multitasking. In the former mode you can, for example, connect a laptop and a smartphone that will each use one side of the display as a separate screen.

There’s also a USB-C port and a built-in LAN port, the former offering 90W charging for your devices. The Easy Setup Stand is advertised to only require about 10 seconds for installation, even if you have little experience – and there are no additional tools or screws needed. The height-adjustable stand has tilt and swivel functions to allow you to get the best position.

There’s a gaming-oriented version too, the Odyssey G7, in 37″, which comes with 1000R curvature, 4K UHD resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, and a 1ms (GTG) response time “to deliver an immersive large-screen gaming experience”.

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Amazon sells an array of products, with new ones arriving every day across multiple categories, including home essentials, tech gadgets and furniture. The retail giant loves cutting prices as much as it loves adding products. But deciding which offers are worth grabbing (and which aren’t) is a full-time job, so we do all the heavy lifting, hand-picking the top markdowns daily. 

Today, we spotted the Google Pixel tablet down to a new low price. We also found $161 off the Tineco S5 vacuum and $160 off the 200-feet Govee Permanent outdoor lights for the start of the Labor Day weekend. 

Choosing a new tablet can be tricky, especially when you factor in things like specs, size and price. The Google Pixel Tablet has 128GB of storage and 8GB RAM, so it can store quite a bit. It has an 11-inch screen which is big enough to view everything on the screen clearly without being overly bulky, ideal for taking on the road. This tablet also comes with Google’s Gemini AI. Plus, the tablet is made with a G2 Tensor chip, a pretty powerful chip. Our reviewers also loved the front camera on the tablet. 

This tablet is normally $399, which is pretty average for a tablet these days. But now you can grab one for just $249, a new record low price. 

If you’re having a Labor Day gathering, cleaning up beforehand and afterwards is probably the least fun part. But cleaning the floors doesn’t need to take all day. The Tineco Floor One S5 is a cordless vacuum that can get stains and debris out from both your floors and carpets. Plus it’s a 2-in-1 vacuum and mop. It’s made with Tineco’s iLoop Smart Sensor Technology that adjusts suction power on this vacuum based on the environment so if it detects more dirt, the power will increase. To make it even easier, the vacuum is capable of self-cleaning with just the push of a button. Plus the vacuum comes with a three-in-one docking station for recharging.

This vacuum is not cheap by any means with a sticker price of $450. This Labor Day deal is knocking 36% off this price bringing it down to $289. 

If you’re looking to spruce up the exterior of your home, getting some smart lights is one of the easiest ways to do so. The Govee Outdoor Pro Permanent lights are perfect for the colder weather coming up. Since they’re permanent you don’t have to worry about taking them down in the cold. Plus they are waterproof, with an IP67 weather-resistance rating, and can handle extreme temperatures ranging from -4 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. They can be easily installed with an durable adhesive on the back of each light. This adhesive sticks to wood, vinyl, metal and fiber cement, plus it’s included with your purchase. And for those with a smart home, all of these lights can be controlled using the Govee app or synced with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. 

These 200-feet lights normally go for $760 but thanks to this limited time deal, it’s a little better at $600. It’s still a bit pricey, but it’s down to a record low price. 

With so many deals on Amazon, deciding which ones are worth your money can be difficult. But CNET combs through what the world’s largest online retailer has to offer each day and gathers the best deals for you to check out.

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Earlier this year, the 2026 Pokémon Championship Series unveiled a suite of changes that included an adjustment to Swiss tournament rounds, end-of-round procedures in the Pokémon Trading Card Game, and the debut of Pokémon UNITE’s Regional Leagues. In the latest update to the Championship Series website, you’ll find details on the items below, as well as an updated event calendar and new tournament rules and event policies for the 2026 season!

• Pokémon UNITE Championship Series Regional League Update

• Pokémon Champions Comes to the Video Game Championships (VGC)

• Pokémon VGC Regulations

• Pokémon VGC Grand Challenges Continue

• Pokémon GO Battle League Leaderboard Challenges

• Pokémon GO Championship Series Age of Eligibility

• Pokémon GO Limited Metas

• Updated Hardware Environments for Live Events

• Swiss Dynamic Seating

• Pokémon TCG Open Deck Lists

We look forward to seeing you compete in the 2026 Pokémon Championship Series, Trainers!

The latest Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion, Mega Evolution, arrives September 26, 2025, but you can visit your local game store to play with it early! Starting September 13, 2025, select retailers will begin selling the Mega Evolution Build & Battle Box, giving fans a chance to have a Prerelease battle and experience the latest expansion before its official release date. To find a Prerelease event near you, be sure to use the Play! Locator.

The Prerelease format allows players to compete using a 40-card deck with four Prize cards set aside at the start of play, as opposed to a 60-card deck with six Prize cards. This format is perfect for introducing new players to the exciting world of the Pokémon TCG with quick, fun games, and it also gives seasoned players a window into all that Mega Evolution has to offer. Due to the limited card pool and the variance of cards that can be acquired in a Build & Battle Box, Prerelease events are also a great opportunity to flex your creative deck-building muscles.

Each Build & Battle Box includes four Mega Evolution booster packs and a 40-card ready-to-play deck featuring key cards from current and prior sets as well as one of four unique foil promo cards. Depending on which promo card you get, you could be playing with the marvelous Meganium, the sniping Inteleon, the brainy Alakazam, or the lunar cycling Lunatone.

Look familiar? This Meganium has the same Ability as the Meganium card released in the Neo Genesis expansion—Wild Growth. This Ability is set to be just as impactful now as it was then, as it makes it so that each Basic Energy in play provides . For example, if you have two Basic Energy attached to Meganium, you can use its Solar Beam attack for just two Energy attachments! Be on the lookout to add Pokémon with in their attack costs to your Prerelease deck, as Meganium’s Wild Growth makes every Pokémon just that bit more threatening.

This card’s perfect for bringing down the whole Prerelease operation. Well, you might not want to do that, but you’ll definitely want to KO your opponent’s Pokémon with Inteleon’s Bring Down attack. For just one , you can instantly KO the Pokémon with the least HP remaining and ignore the necessary damage counters altogether. Be careful, though—Bring Down can KO your own Pokémon as well, so Inteleon’s Water Shot is a strong backup attack that can put on the pressure if your Pokémon are hurting.

Build up that hand size and discombobulate the opponent with Alakazam’s Powerful Hand attack, which places 2 damage counters on your opponent’s Active Pokémon for each card in your hand. Now, there traditionally aren’t very many effects that will draw your cards in the Prerelease format, but Alakazam’s Psychic Draw Ability can both increase your damage output and find you the cards you need. You’ll find that its pre-Evolution, Kadabra—which can also be found in your Build & Battle Box and booster packs—draws you cards with an Ability too, so you’ll have plenty of resources to work with.

Lunatone’s Lunar Cycle Ability is flat out amazing if you include Energy in your Prerelease deck. Radiant Greninja from the Sword & Shield—Astral Radiance expansion was well-known for its Concealed Cards Ability, drawing you two cards at the cost of discarding an Energy. Lunar Cycle is more specific since it requires you to discard a Basic Energy, but this Ability draws you an additional card, and that specificity can’t limit its use if you only include Energy in your deck. There are plenty of powerful Fighting-type Pokémon in Mega Evolution (like Hariyama and Mega Lucario ex), so don’t be afraid to include them all if Lunatone is your Prerelease promo card!

Whether you’re heading to a local game store or just playing with a friend, you’re in for some quick and fun battles with cards from the new Mega Evolution expansion! If you’re not able to make it to a Prerelease event, these Build & Battle Boxes will be available for purchase when the expansion officially launches and kicks off the Mega Evolution series.

A new mobile app has been shown to reduce suicidal behavior among high-risk psychiatric inpatients. The app, OTX-202, reduced the recurrence of inpatient psychiatric post-discharge suicide attempts by 58.3% for patients with a prior suicide attempt.¹ However, there was no significant difference in time to first suicide attempt between those who used the app and those who did not.

The recent multi-site, double-blind study enrolled 339 adult inpatients with a psychiatric disorder, who received either the OTX-202 app or an active control app, in addition to their usual treatment (including suicide risk assessment, supportive listening, crisis resources, clinician assessment, safety planning, and referral to outpatient treatment). Exclusion criteria included “acutely impaired mental status inhibiting capacity to provide informed consent (eg, uncontrolled psychosis or mania, or under the influence of alcohol or other substances)” and “cognitive impairments or medical conditions that could adversely affect the integrity of the data.”¹ The intervention app was designed to deliver suicide-specific cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) modules, while the control app provided general psychoeducation and safety planning. Suicidal ideation was measured throughout the study by the Clinical Global Impression for Severity of Suicide Change scale. For both groups, the first app session was completed prior to hospital discharge and the remaining sessions could be completed after discharge.

Most notably, there was a significant sustained reduction in suicidal ideation among participants who used OTX-202; the reduction persisted for up to 24 weeks after discharge. In contrast, the control group’s suicidal ideation levels, which initially decreased, rebounded by the 24-week follow-up. The odds of clinical improvement were also higher for the treatment group, with 97.9% vs 87.5% for treatment vs control and odds ratio, 7.59; 95% CI, 1.14-153.62; P = .04. The authors hypothesized that the digital intervention may be able to maintain therapeutic progress from inpatient treatment outside of the structured clinical setting.

The app focuses on ensuring access to specialized, suicide-focused therapy, which is particularly important during the high-risk post-hospitalization period. Therapeutic modules found on the app are delivered in brief 10 to 15 minute sessions and are designed to reinforce key CBT principles for managing suicidal thoughts and developing coping strategies. Senior author Seth Feuerstein, MD, JD, a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, underscored this critical need, stating in a press release, “Patients and those who care for them do not have access to reliable and effective tools and resources to reduce future suicide risk. This population faces arguably the biggest gap in access to effective interventions of any leading killer.”²

The weeks and months following discharge from psychiatric hospitalization are among the highest-risk periods for suicide attempts and death; this new digital intervention targets the vulnerable group of individuals who are at higher risk for multiple suicidal behaviors or attempts. According to study author Craig Bryan, PsyD, a professor at Ohio State University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, the app offers a novel solution to the challenge of connecting patients with specialized, life-saving therapy after they leave the hospital. “Although suicide-specific therapy is highly effective for reducing suicidal thoughts and urges, finding therapists who know how to do this life-saving therapy after leaving the hospital can be challenging. OTX-202 provides a possible solution to that problem,” he noted.²

References

1. Bryan CJ, Simon P, Wilkinson ST, et al. A digital therapeutic intervention for inpatients with elevated suicide risk: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(8):e2525809

2. Gardner C. Yale study: mobile phone app reduced suicidal behavior among high-risk patients. Yale School of Medicine. August 8, 2025. Accessed August 19, 2025. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/yale-ohio-state-study-mobile-phone-app-reduced-suicidal-behavior-among-high-risk-patients/

Prince William has ‘unique’ plans for his reign as king in the future and Harry is a liability, a royal expert believes.

Royal expert Kinsey Schofield claimed this while speaking to the Fox News Digital.

“Harry will raise his children in the United States. Strangers to their cousins. King Charles just wants peace, but I believe Prince William is checked out,” the expert said.

Prince William wants to protect his family and the future of the monarchy, Kinsey said and added, “He has unique plans for his reign. He [wants to] be a good king, and Harry is a liability.”

Schofield also believes the royals are not ready to trust Harry again – if ever.

She further said, “It’s too little too late. Harry opens ‘Spare’ by revealing that King Charles begged him and his brother not to ‘make my final years a misery.’ I find this request so much more heartbreaking now that we know of the king’s cancer. The Oprah Winfrey interview, ‘Spare,’ the Netflix series – it’s too much hurt.”

The fresh claims came as Prince Harry will attend the 2025 WellChild Awards, taking place in London on September 8th.

This sparkling ceremony celebrates the inspirational achievements of seriously ill children and those who care for them.