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As Hurricane Milton roared toward the west coast of Florida on Tuesday and Wednesday, its 180-mile-per-hour winds weakened to 145 miles per hour, rose again, and then fell. What had been one of the quickest ever storms to reach Category 5 strength—which is when wind speeds top 156 mph—flicked back and forth between Categories 4 and 5. It ultimately arrived at the coast on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, with winds of 125 mph.

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Looking for some decent last minute Prime Day hair deals before Prime Day ends in a few hours? You’ve come to the right place. A good-quality hair tool can not only make short work of your morning routine, it’s usually better for your hair, too. Unfortunately, some of the more popular high-end appliances can run anywhere from $100 up to almost $700, so events like Amazon Prime Day—happening for a second time in 2024 on October 8 and 9—are some of the best times of the year to grab one for yourself or for a gift.

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If you’ve ever battled crowds to get a coveted toy you know that early October is the perfect time for parents to start holiday shopping. Amazon knows this, which is why the company is holding a second Prime Day sale event—which ends tonight—featuring some great Prime Day toy deals. You can find all the best Prime Day deals here. But if your kids are like my kids, they’re already working on their wish lists. If you say you haven’t already started budgeting, you are either lying, financially irresponsible, or your children are much less demanding than mine are (I know, it’s my fault).

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if you’re in the market for a laptop but want to spend money wisely, you’ve come to the right place at the right time. Amazon’s Prime Day deals end in just a few hours, but you’ll still find a number of our favorite laptops and accessories on sale. Not sure how to pick out which one is best for you? We have a complete guide to buying one, as well as guides to the Best Laptops, Best Cheap Laptops, Best MacBooks, and Best Chromebooks.

Kamala Harris’ campaign is livestreaming a Tim Walz rally from Arizona and Azeroth tonight. Yes, Azeroth—the planet from World of Warcraft.

This will be the first time the Harris campaign will stream live gameplay on its Twitch account. The event, which will take place at 6:30 pm ET, will include a live feed of Walz’s Arizona speech with Preheat, a Twitch creator, playing the game and providing commentary. Preheat is expected to highlight their connection to the campaign and encourage viewers to make a plan to vote.

Demis Hassabis didn’t know he was getting the Nobel Prize in chemistry from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences until his wife started being bombarded with calls from a Swedish number on Skype.

“She would put it down several times, and then they kept persisting,” Hassabis said today in a press conference convened to celebrate the awarding of the prize, alongside John Jumper, his colleague at Google DeepMind. “Then I think she realized it was a Swedish number, and they asked for my number.”

The major electronics manufacturer Sharp is moving forward with development of an electric passenger van with the aim of commercializing it within the next few years.

News of a Sharp EV was met with surprise when the story first broke in early September. Sharp once boasted a world-leading share of the market for liquid crystal panels and solar cells but is now under the umbrella of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Technology Group, which is known throughout the world as Foxconn. The company is well known for making iPhones and other gadgets and may not be as well known as a developer of automobiles. But in recent years, Foxconn has begun dipping into EV design and production. So what kind of EVs will it bring to the world?

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On its own, Apple isn’t a fan of discounts. Thankfully, you can rely on third-party retailers to hold sales on all of its devices. That’s where Amazon comes in. Amazon’s Prime Day sale lasts a few more hours, and you’ll find several Prime Day Apple deals on MacBooks, AirPods, iPads, and lots more.

For more than a century, Tampa Bay has avoided Florida’s most destructive hurricanes. Now Hurricane Milton may end that streak of luck, as the storm is expected to make landfall just south of Tampa Bay in the early hours of Thursday morning. The low-lying shoreline, still strewn with debris from last month’s Hurricane Helene, is bracing for a storm surge of up to 15 feet.

Tampa Bay’s shallow seabed and built-up coastline make it particularly vulnerable to hurricanes. A 2015 report from disaster modelers Karen Clarke & Co ranked the Tampa–St. Petersburg area as the most vulnerable city to storm surge flooding in the US. Despite multiple reports echoing the area’s vulnerability to storm surges, plans to beef up the area’s defenses have been delayed and in some cases vetoed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Now the area will have to face the most dangerous storm in a century with what in many cases are aging storm defenses.

Of all the hardware announcements we might have been expecting next from Nintendo, a new alarm clock was not one of them. But the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo is very real, and will be available exclusively to Switch Online customers later this week.

Alarmo looks every bit the alarm clock you might imagine Nintendo would make, if you would have ever imagined Nintendo would make an alarm clock. Like something plucked straight from the nightstand of Mario himself, it’s a very on-brand shade of red, with a circular color screen and a large glowing dial on the top for control and snooze.