Best Workout Shoes in 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Best Workout Shoes in 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Our Experts Written by  Mercey Livingston Article updated on August 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM PDT Mercey Livingston CNET Contributor Mercey Livingston is a health and wellness writer and certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. She’s written about fitness and wellness for Well+Good, Women’s Health, Business Insider, and Prevention.com among others. When not writing, she enjoys reading … Read more

Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US

Supreme Court opens door to social media age-gating in US

The Supreme Court will let Mississippi’s social media age verification law take effect while the case is being argued in court. In an unsigned ruling on Thursday, the court declined to block the law after an emergency petition from trade association NetChoice. The order offers no explanation, but in a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh … Read more

Is ChatGPT Plus still worth $20 when the free version offers so much – including GTP-5?

Is ChatGPT Plus still worth  when the free version offers so much – including GTP-5?

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When ChatGPT first launched over two years ago, the AI chatbot was met with such high demand that OpenAI introduced a premium plan called ChatGPT Plus. This plan guaranteed access to the chatbot even during blackout periods. ChatGPT Plus perks also included access to OpenAI’s most advanced models, making the … Read more

Stuff Your Kindle Day: How to get free historical fiction and contemporary books until Aug. 16

Stuff Your Kindle Day: How to get free historical fiction and contemporary books until Aug. 16

FREE BOOKS: The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place on Aug. 12-16. Stepping Through Time, hosted by Indie Author Central, is offering free (or heavily discounted) historical fiction and contemporary books for Kindle e-readers. Stuff Your Kindle Day is back once again, and this time fans of historical fiction and contemporary books have their … Read more

AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy, and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the whims of the digital distribution platforms these games exist on. Wren Brier, Unpacking’s creative director, says that since the game’s release in 2021, developer Witch Beam has … Read more

US government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

US government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week … Read more