This week, Best Buy is promising to have your online orders ready for pick up one hour after you place them. Obviously, that means you’ll need to get out of the house and make a trip to your local brick and mortar, but securing those gifts and saving yourself from anxiously peeking out the window for packages will be worth it. Also: ZDNet’s Jason Cipriani reviews the Apple Watch Series 7 Also: Apple’s 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro: An enterprise buyer’s review Also: GoPro Hero10 Black hands-on: An iconic action camera refined Also: ZDNet’s Jason Cipriani reviews the Apple AirPods Pro Also: Best wireless earbuds 2021: Top choices from industry leaders Also: Best laptops of 2021: Top picks from Lenovo, Apple, Dell, and more Also: Best gaming gifts: Surefire wins for a gamer’s holiday Also: ZDNet’s Matthew Miller reviews the Jabra Elite 85t

Have you thought of gifting a hotel experience anywhere in the world? How about an RV rental that your gift recipient can use for a romantic getaway? You can stretch your money far with these unexpected gifts, or go a more standard route with quality luggage that offers smart organizing solutions or comfortable travel accessories. If you’re looking for a gift for a travel property entrepreneur, there’s an option on this list for them too....

The Ultimate Microsoft Excel Certification Training Bundle Excel is one of the most useful tools at your fingertips, and it’s seldom used to its full potential. This 33-hour course can teach you how to automate your word with macros, perform complex functions, and so much more. Get The Ultimate Microsoft Excel Certification Training Bundle for $10.20 (Reg. $945) with coupon code CMSAVE70. The 2021 Premium Unity Game Developer Certification Bundle Unity and Blender are two tools that are essential to game design, and they also happen to be very hard to learn without guidance....

As 5G networks evolve, we’re told, coverage will branch out from densely populated places to cover wide areas, while use cases such as industrial IoT, C-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything), smart agriculture and mobile XR (eXtended Reality) will mature thanks to faster speeds, lower latency and greater reliability. At the same time, the network infrastructure itself will become more sustainable. Yet the current experience of 5G for many people is very different....

And next. To be a tech employee is to be coveted and cosseted. To quit, however, is to be shunned. You are, after all, causing a problem for your bosses – and offering a reflection of their management skills. That, at least, was always my impression. Yet I was recently assaulted by a curiously uplifting tale from, of all curious uplifting companies: Microsoft. Ben Armstrong, group program manager of Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service, was so proud of his company that he had to deposit the story in everyone’s most pride-filled arena: Twitter....

Perlmutter, a US-based supercomputer located at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, entered the June edition of the Top500 list in fifth position, bumping Nvidia’s Selene device to sixth place. At 64.6 petaflops, Perlmutter is the most notable change to the list; it also fared well in the Green500 list, which focuses on the energy efficiency of supercomputers, claiming number six spot thanks to a power efficiency of 25....

Like most autonomous delivery testbeds and deployments, the rollout is decidedly modest, but it could portend a near future in urban and suburban areas. Residents of Mountain View, CA, can now order items through 7-Eleven’s 7NOW delivery app and receive them via Nuro’s autonomous vehicles. The new service will begin with Nuro’s self-driving Priuses and later introduce its R2, the company’s occupantless autonomous delivery vehicles custom built to transport products and goods....

As profound and enlightening as these images are – already giving us a better understanding of the universe – they’re only the beginning of a decades-long journey for the JWST. “We’re making discoveries, and we really haven’t even started trying yet,” NASA Webb deputy program director Eric Smith said to reporters this week. The first pictures, he explained, “were more or less practice runs with the instruments… The promise of this telescope is amazing....

Stable Diffusion is an open-source large language AI model trained on a subset of 2.3 billion English language-labeled images from the LAION-5B dataset, which contains 5.85 billion image-text pairs. You can access Stable Diffusion running in the cloud via the web, or run it on a PC with a GPU packing 6GB or more of video RAM, or on an Apple Silicon device running MacOS (13.1) or iOS (16.2). The latest version of Stable Diffusion, 2....

The supposed Duo 2 device video shows it sporting three external cameras, with an ultrawide, telephoto and standard lens. Windows Central’s Zac Bowden, who has been keeping up with every twist and turn regarding the Duo devices, says he believes the images are legitimate. If the new camera setup is real, it will likely go a long way in addressing one of the biggest disappointments of the first Surface Duo device: The very mediocre and hard-to-operate camera....

Google’s solution for crossing the Congo River is to create a connection between Brazzaville and Kinshasa that relies on “free space” optics, which was also used to transmit data in its now shut down Loon project. It uses light to transmit data between two points, in this case, a 4.8km distance that would require a 400km land route for fiber due to the river. Connectivity is five times more expensive in Kinshasa because the fiber connection has so far to travel....

When it’s not in use, it doubles as a digital picture frame that displays its own photo collection, or you can show off your own photos. And, of course, you can use it as a small TV by streaming from popular streaming services. Hopefully we get a chance to go hands-on with the Echo Show 15 when it launches on December 9. If you decide to preorder one, let us know why and how you plan on using it in the comments below....

Still, given market trends and forecasts, it’s no surprise the cloud industry is stepping up its offerings. The analytics firm Newzoo predicts the global cloud gaming market cap to surpass $6.5 billion by 2024, up from $1.57 billion last year. “Cloud adoption has transformed the way games are built, distributed, and played,” Bill Vass, VP of AWS Engineering, said in a statement. “Game developers continue to accelerate their cloud journey, build games faster, and run them with continuous updates, while growing their player base and play engagement....

Normally the BNPL plans provided through Affirm carry an APR of 10% to 30%. Which, if you get 20% or 30% when you choose to finance, is a bit high. However, having a 0% APR can be a great way to avoid interest charges. Just be sure you’re paying your payments on time, as missing a payment will negatively impact your credit scores. To opt-in to a BNPL, choose Affirm as your payment option at checkout....

Regardless of your location, you’ll be able to use Astro’s Live View to say hi to them, watch all of their antics, and relieve your anxieties about the state of the home. Astro’s TLC for pets isn’t entirely new. Since Astro dropped last year, you have been able to connect your Astro to the Furbo Dog Camera to the robot to toss treats at your fur baby. All you need to do is place your Furbo Dog Camera to the cargo bin, plug it into the Astro and enable the Furbo Alexa Skill to create an Alexa Routine to send Astro to a room to toss a treat to your pet....

More: The best Spotify alternatives 2022: Your music streaming options Additional features include the ability to incorporate live callers into users’ shows, with support for inviting listeners to participate; built-in discovery notifications designed to help users find and follow new shows; and the option to pre-record shows for later release. The company noted that it will monitor all stations for compliance with its community guidelines, and it will accept reports on perceived violations of those from all users....

More specifically, the update will bring Android 12’s Privacy Dashboard that displays how often apps are accessing private information on your phone or tablet. For instance, it will show you which apps are accessing your location in the background, logging the exact minute of each request. The new microphone and camera indicators are also included in the second beta. The alerts let you know when an app is using either component, and if you want, you can disable its access in the quick settings panel....

We’re going to get an x.8 release for iOS, in the form of iOS 14.8. There’s never been an x.8 release of iOS before. It’s no secret that each major iOS release seems to spin off more and more update versions downstream in the form of patches and new features. But iOS 14 is also different in that Apple has said that it will allow users to stay on this release and still get patches after iOS 15 has been released....

Mac users are in for big design changes in MacOS 11 Big Sur, which Apple unveiled this week at WWDC. But the next version of MacOS also overhauls other elements, including new and revived system sounds, such as the startup chime. Apple ditched the sound effect with its MacBook Pro machines in 2016 because they powered up automatically when the lid was opened. But as MacRumors found, the chime is back in Big Sur....

The family members in the library will be able to share photos on iCloud as they are taken, a feature that can be easily turned on or off through a toggle in the camera app. Users can keep sharing turned off and have it automatically turn on when they are near another family member, making sharing photos during trips or family get-togethers a breeze. When adding photos to the library, users can either share their entire photo library, send photos starting on a specific date, automatically share pictures to the library when family members are nearby, or manually select which pictures to share....