The end of another week is upon us, which means it's time for another round up of the best deals on some of the tech we've tested and recommend. A few discounts are still around from last week's President's Day sale, and new savings have popped up as well. If you're in the market for Apple gadgets, quite a few are seeing decent discounts, including the iPad Mini, iPad Air and the 15-inch MacBook

There are more lurkers than creators on TikTok, a recent Pew Research Center study has found. The fact tank surveyed 2,745 adult TikTok users in the U.S. and observed the accounts and posting behavior of 869 respondents.
You're not the only camera-shy user: 52 percent of adults surveyed


SAVE 17%: As of Feb. 23, get the Razer Kishi V2 mobile controller (Android) for just $82.66. That's $17 off its normal price of $99.99.

Charlotte the mysteriously pregnant stingray may already be my favorite animal of 2024. Charlotte’s handlers at a North Carolina aquarium recently revealed that she was carrying several pups, despite her only male company being a pair of sharks. While there was early speculation of some interspecies mingling being to…

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- Google cofounder Sergey Brin is being sued by the widow of a pilot who died in a fatal plane crash.
- Brin's plane was negligently fitted with an extra fuel tank for a trip to Fiji, the lawsuit claims.
- The suit also
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- A magician with world records in both fork-bending and straightjacket escaping made a confession.
- He said he was paid $150 to make fake audio of Biden that was sent to New Hampshire voters.
- He said he made the imitation without knowing the
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- Mercedes-Benz said in 2021 it planned to be all-electric by 2030.
- The carmaker walked back that goal during an earnings call this week, however.
- A Q4 statement from Mercedes says EV sales in 2030 will be more like 50% of its fleet.
It looks like Mercedes-Benz won't live up to its goal to be all-electric by 2030.
In 2021, the

Psychological horror films love digging into the minds of artists—a pursuit that becomes self-reflexive when the troubled character is a filmmaker. Stopmotion explores that trope from a visually dynamic point of view, following a young stop-motion animator on a dangerous downward spiral.

Norwegian startup ClexBio is bioengineering human veins to implant inside a patient’s body. Together with CSEM, a Swiss R&D centre, the company has built a prototype bioreactor to grow the veins. Pre-clinical tests in animal models are already underway. Based on the early results, the team is confident that the implants don’t trigger an immune response in patients. Instead, they turn into