This year's Amazon Spring Sale is nearly over, but there's still time to grab a bunch of household, fashion and outdoor gear for record-low prices. Tech isn't a huge focus for this sale, but there are a decent number of devices on sale right now for some of the best prices we've seen all year. The selection may not be as good as that of Amazon Prime Day in July, but it still provides a good opportunity to save on things like headphones, robot vacuums, air purifiers and more. We've collected the best Amazon Spring Sale deals on tech gear here so you don't have to go searching for them. Our top pick for the best budget streaming device can play content at 1080p/60fps and now its remote can also control your TV's power and volume.

Deciding to get back into the dating game can be nerve-wracking at any age. But the stakes may feel a little higher if you're in your 40s, especially when considering the cost of dating sites nowadays and whether or not they're truly worth it for finding love. You may assume that people in your demographic either aren't interested in dating or are already settled into long-term relationships, but many people in their 40s are single parents, divorced, or unpartnered, leading to a diverse age range within the dating pool. Getting on one of the best dating sites for over 40 singles could help you find your forever partner -- it's not too late to date. According to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data, as of 2021, nearly 25 percent of 40-somethings in the U.S. have never been married.

Google.org, the tech giant's philanthropic arm, is investing millions of dollars into getting nonprofits up to speed on generative AI, part of a massive funding effort to empower organizations to adopt the tech, including Google's own AI offerings. Channeled through community foundations in Atlanta, Austin, Columbia, New York City, and San Francisco, more than 10 million in grants have been awarded to technical nonprofits that will then supply individualized AI support to organizations in their communities. In 2024, Google.org announced an initiative-wide investment in nonprofit AI integration, including a generative AI accelerator program and an AI Opportunity Fund, which would funnel nearly 100 million into training and integration programs for participating nonprofits. Over the last year, 20 organizations have benefitted from opportunity fund grants, earmarked specifically for investing and scaling their AI expertise, staffing, and capacity. "Organizations across the Fund spent the first year creating, vetting, and piloting new, tailored AI curricula to provide practical skills to the communities they serve," Maggie Johnson, vice president and global head of Google.org

Prime Day is months away. Black Friday is nearly a year off. Amazon has spied a gap in the calendar and plans to cram it full of deals. Amazon's Big Spring Sale kicked off on March 25 and ends today, March 31. With no other big sale events in view, this could be a good time to snag that mesh router, set of headphones, or robot vac you've had your eye on. As usual, Amazon has discounts on all sorts of stuff, but many deals are exclusive to Amazon Prime members. We're not suggesting you harvest this spring deal crop indiscriminately; we're here to help you sort the wheat from the chaff. The WIRED Gear team has run its many eyes over the list to tease out deals for gadgets worth owning and actual deals. Everything we highlight here has been hand-tested by one of us and deemed worthy of a spot in your home. Updated March 31: We added a few fresh deals, including a portable power station, USB flash drive, and fitness tracker, removed expired deals, and checked the prices. Get best-in-class reporting that's too important to ignore for just 2.50 1 per month for 1 year. Includes unlimited digital access and exclusive subscriber-only content. The Eero Pro 6E (7/10, WIRED Recommends) mesh system is one of the easiest to set up and will deliver speedy, stable Wi-Fi across your home. Amazon's Eero makes some of our favorite mesh systems, ideal for busy families seeking a set-and-forget mesh. The Pro 6E is a tri-band system with a 6-GHz band for fast Wi-Fi at close range, and with the jump to Wi-Fi 7 systems still costly, this system is worth considering right now. But you need an Eero Plus subscription at 10 per month or 100 per year to unlock the best features, including parental controls, advanced security, and ad blocking. There are discounts on other Eero systems, so check our Eero buying guide to decide which is best for your home. DJI's debut portable power station can put out 2,200 watts steadily (2,600 watts surge), has two USB-C PD 3.1 ports (140 watts), and boasts DJI's proprietary SDC ports for fast-charging drone batteries. It can juice up phones, run microwaves or small tools, and meet most of your portable power needs, but it's an especially great choice for folks with DJI drones because it can fast-charge most models. It gets a little noisy with several gadgets charging, and cable and bag accessories cost extra, but it still claims a place in our best portable power stations guide. This is one of the best portable power stations for camping or road trips because it's a manageable size. EcoFlow's River 2 Pro has a LiFeP04 battery inside, which is good for 768 watt-hours.

SAVE 420: As of March 31, the roborock Q8 Max Robot Vacuum and Mop is on sale for 399.99 in the Amazon Big Spring Sale. March 31 is the last day to take advantage of the deals in Amazon's Big Spring Sale. Some of the best discounts we've come across have been on robot vacuums, which makes sense given that this time of year is a great opportunity to give your home a cleaning refresh. If you've been hoping to pick up a discounted robot vacuum in the sale, this is your last chance. One of our favorite discounts from the sale is on the roborock Q8 Max Robot Vacuum and Mop, which has received an astonishing 51% discount in the sale.

Starting Monday, Oura app subscribers will have a personal health assistant available for questions and conversations. Oura's personal health chatbot, Oura Advisor, which was previously available only to Oura Labs users, is getting a permanent spot in the Oura app. The Advisor uses the biometric data Oura collects and tracks through the smart ring to provide daily and weekly guidance and answer health queries. The AI-powered health coach arrives in the Oura app with several feature improvements to encourage frequent and widespread use. These include improved memory from the Advisor, which helps the AI remember previous conversations and make further connections about trends and user behavior.

Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, but it has quietly created a lab that is now setting records when it comes to AI performance. Amazon's AGI SF Lab, which is located in San Francisco and dedicated to building artificial general intelligence, or AI that surpasses the capabilities of humans, revealed the first fruits of its work today: A new AI model capable of powering some of the most advanced AI agents available anywhere. The new model, called Amazon Nova Act, outperforms ones from OpenAI and Anthropic on several benchmarks designed to gauge the intelligence and aptitude of AI agents, Amazon says. On the benchmarks GroundUI Web and ScreenSpot, Amazon Nova Act performs better than Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI Computer Use Agent. A major part of Amazon's plan to compete in the AI market is to focus on building agents, and the new model's abilities reflect its efforts to build a generation of tools that can measure up to the very best available.

The letter asked Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, to summon Meta senior executives to parliament. "There is a longstanding contractual obligation that when third parties make use of an author's work they compensate us," said McDermid when asked why she signed the letter. "Adaptation, translation, photocopying – they all accept the duty to recompense us for making their work possible. "I'm a crime writer – I understand theft when I see it. And by using pirated material, Meta are stealing from us twice over.

The UK's National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has been carrying out trials of marine autonomous underwater vehicles for almost 10 years. NOC's Matt Kingsland said: "At 230m (754ft) deep, Loch Ness is an ideal location to testing our robotics, their sensors and systems, before they're deployed in the deep ocean to help answer the big questions we have. "While this wasn't a find we expected to make, but we're happy that this piece of Nessie hunting history can be shared and perhaps at least the mystery of who left it in the loch can be solved." The film, camera and its housing have been handed to The Loch Ness Centre, in Drumnadrochit, near to where it was found.

June 2022 Across the world, video cameras have become an accepted feature of urban life. Many cities in China now have dense networks of them, and London and New Delhi aren't far behind. Now France is playing catch-up. Concerns have been raised throughout the country. But the surveillance rollout has met special resistance in Marseille, France's second-biggest city. It's unsurprising, perhaps, that activists are fighting back against the cameras, highlighting the surveillance system's overreach and underperformance.