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    The best Alexa smart speaker I’ve tested isn’t an Echo

    <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The Sonos Era 100 is a $249 smart speaker that I recommend to most people, audiophile or not. In addition to a full, booming sound, the Sonos speaker produces crystal-clear vocals that enhance any song and has hands-free Alexa for voice control. Since the Era 100 is built for smaller spaces, […] More

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    How to fix an iPhone alarm that’s not going off – and why it might be happening

    Why does my iPhone alarm not go off and stays silent sometimes?Your guess is as good as mine. If I were to hypothesize, most alarm failures stem from software bugs, misconfigured sound settings, conflicting Focus modes, or interference from the Attention Aware feature on Face ID models. Have other users noticed their iPhone alarms failing?Oh yes. A quick check on Twitter/X, Reddit, Apple Support, and TikTok shows many users complaining about their iPhone alarms suddenly not going off — to the point where they’ve slept in, missed morning meetings, and gotten in trouble at their jobs. What are the top alarm clock alternative apps to try on iPhone?Popular choices include Alarmy More

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    Anthropic’s Claude dives into financial analysis. Here’s what’s new

    Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino There have been AI solutions galore for coding, writing, and mathematics, but a technical domain equally as challenging that could use AI assistance, yet is often overlooked, is finance — until now. On Tuesday, Anthropic launched the Financial Analysis Solution, which instantly pulls financial data from different data providers, both market feeds […] More

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    iPhone alarm not going off? 6 potential fixes to this annoying issue

    Why does my iPhone alarm sometimes not go off?Your guess is as good as mine. If I were to hypothesize, most alarm failures stem from software bugs, misconfigured sound settings, conflicting Focus modes, or interference from the Attention Aware feature on Face ID models. Have other users noticed their iPhone alarms failing?Oh yes. A quick check on Twitter/X, Reddit, Apple Support, and TikTok shows many users complaining about their iPhone alarms suddenly not going off — to the point where they’ve slept in, missed morning meetings, and gotten in trouble at their jobs. What are the top alarm clock alternative apps to try on iPhone?Popular choices include Alarmy More

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    This security-minded Linux distribution makes it easy to browse anonymously

    Ger Bosma/Getty There are some Linux distributions that were created for specific purposes. There are those for creating multimedia, developing software, network routing, ethical hacking, general use, and everything in between. And then there are some distributions that can easily serve multiple purposes.  When I think of ParrotOS, I generally think of security: forensics, penetration […] More