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As useful as robot vacuums and mops are, they can sometimes be clunky eyesores. If you’re looking for a hybrid cleaner that actually prioritizes design, you’ll want to check out the well-reviewed Roborock Saros 10R robot vacuum and mop. It’s one of the slimmest models on the market, getting into areas that bulkier vacuums can’t, and, just as importantly, the base it comes with is sleek and compact for all the functions it packs in, so it won’t look out of place in your home. Right now, the Roborock Saros 10R is $500 off, bringing it down to $1,099 (originally $1,599).

The Roborock Saros 10R combines performance, automation, and aesthetics, making it one of the best robot vacuum and mop combos available. At just 3.14 inches tall, it can easily glide under low-profile furniture where dust collects (and areas that taller robot vacuums often miss) and it climbs thresholds over 1.5 inches. It checks all our boxes, with strong 22,000Pa suction, AI navigation, a built-in voice assistant, and obstacle-avoidance tech via Roborock’s StarSight Autonomous System. A built-in front-facing camera helps with navigation and lets you monitor your home from the dock. The anti-tangle dual-brush system collects hair and fur, while an extending side brush and rotating mop pad get around tight spots and clean along baseboards. 

Despite having a fully automated charging station that charges the robot in around 2.5 hours and handles self-emptying, hot-water mop washing, and drying, it has an understated look with a black mirror finish that blends into most spaces. That said, the glossy surface can also make fingerprints more visible, especially if you’re refilling the water tank often. And while it does have impressive suction when set to the highest level, the trade-off is more noise and faster battery drain—while it’s advertised as lasting 180 minutes, that time drops to 120 minutes when set to Max+ mode. Pet owners should also note that it may struggle with heavier fur and require multiple passes.

Ultimately, if you’re looking for an attractive, low-profile robot vacuum and mop that performs well on mixed floors with minimal hands-on assistance needed on your part, the Roborock Saros 10R robot vacuum and mop is the total package in most areas. At $500 off, it’s one of the most highly rated cleaning assistants on the market—especially if design and space-savings matter to you just as much as cleaning performance.

Meta has pulled a 180 on its flagship metaverse app. On Tuesday, the company announced the date it planned to shut down virtual hangspace Horizon Worlds. Then late yesterday, the company announced it will actually keep Worlds open to VR users “for the foreseeable future.” In an Instagram story, Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth said, “We decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games, to support the fans who have reached out.”

According to Bosworth, Meta won’t be working on any new VR games within Worlds, but the current content will still be around for VR users. “People who already have games they like, that they’re using in Horizon Worlds, will be able to download the Horizon Worlds app and use it in VR for the foreseeable future,” Bosworth said.

While Worlds will remain open to VR users, Meta is focusing on mobile users. Any new Meta-made content will be geared toward users on their phones. “Most of our energy is going toward mobile,” Bosworth said, “because that’s where most of the consumer and creator energy already was.”

Meta initially revealed its plan to shut down Horizon Worlds to VR in February, then announced concrete plans to pull the plug on Tuesday.

A shaky future for the metaverse

Putting its flagship metaverse app in maintenance mode for VR users is a huge turnaround for a company that rebranded itself as “Meta.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled both the name change and Horizon Worlds itself at his company’s Connect event in 2021, touting the metaverse as “a successor to the mobile internet” that would eventually host over a billion people. That’s not how things have worked out: Meta’s Reality Labs division, of which Horizon Worlds is a part, has burned through an estimated $83.55 billion since 2021, and Meta has since slashed jobs at the division, cutting loose departments devoted to first-party VR game and fitness content.

At its peak, Horizon Worlds reportedly had only 200,000 monthly users. For comparison, Roblox has 381 million monthly users. But it’s nice that Meta is at least keeping the lights on for that relatively small number of fans. There might not be as many as Meta would like, but there are definitely passionate members of the Worlds community, who will now still be able to gather in their VR spaces.

Headsets are out; smart glasses are in

Even though Meta has recently reiterated its commitment to supporting third-party VR developers and promised “a robust roadmap of future VR headsets,” the company is clearly focusing on AI and smart glasses moving forward. Its scaling back of Worlds and other first-party Meta VR content reveals where the market is: Unlike the Quest line of headsets, Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses have proven an unqualified success for the company, which reportedly plans to manufacture 20 million pairs of smart glasses in 2026. “Face computers” that interact with and augment the world we actually live in are more popular than headsets that transport us to other worlds.

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Ever since I came home from a trip to Japan in 2019, I’ve been using a bidet. Japan takes its hygiene and bidet game seriously. Their bidets were incredible, with features and technology I’ve never imagined people were using on their toilets. But I decided to start simple, with a basic $56 bidet that got the job done. But as winter arrived, the water and toilet seats in our non-insulated bathroom became intolerable, so we decided it was time to upgrade. The Coway Bidetmega 500S has impressed my wife and me so much that we sometimes hold our necessities until we get home just to use our shiny new bidet.

The Coway 500S comes in the elongated and smaller round sizes, both of which are easy to install. But I urge anyone spending over $400 on a luxury bidet to first upgrade to an elongated toilet, which you can find for $100 at Home Depot. The installation is not hard— did it myself by watching YouTube videos, but you can always get a plumber to do it for you for around $150. The experience on an elongated toilet makes a big difference. The toilet seat on bidets are already smaller than regular seats, so a smaller round one makes things rather cramped (I tried the round version first and did not enjoy it). One important thing to keep in mind is that you’ll need a grounded outlet close to the toilet to plug the bidet tino.

As I mentioned earlier, my bathroom is not insulated, so mornings are freezing cold. That has made us appreciate the seat and water heating features a lot. There are three levels you can use to adjust the temperature levels with the remote: green, orange, and red, with each getting gradually warmer. There’s also a neat user profile on the remote that saves the settings under that user, that way my wife and I don’t have to keep fighting over the settings.

As much as I enjoy the heating features, there’s another aspect that makes this bidet worth every penny: the self-cleaning nozzle. With my old bidets, the self-cleanings were not great, meaning every once in a while, I would have to put some elbow grease on the bidet to get it decent again (I hated it). The Coway 500S does the self-cleaning automatically and leaves it looking brand new with three methods: a UV light, a nozzle cleaning spray, and a water shield that catches particles from moving up and out of the bowl. So far, I’ve been very impressed with this feature.

There are other features, too, including an air dryer (I personally don’t find this especially effective), a touch button on the remote to open the lid (works about 80% of the time), a night light, and a deodorizer. If you’re a bidet lover, the Coway 500S is an amazing bidet that transports me back to Japan. It has elevated my quality of life and, to me, was worth every penny.

If you have an iPhone, listen up: There’s a new security risk that hackers have been actively exploiting since at least November. While you’re not likely to be the target of such an attack, your iPhone is nevertheless vulnerable, unless you take the following (albeit simple) action: update your iPhone.

What is DarkSword?

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified the new “full-chain exploit,” in partnership with security firms Lookout and iVerify. The exploit, called “DarkSword,” takes advantage of six zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise iPhones. GTIG says, as of November, it observed “multiple commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state-sponsored actors” using DarkSword in malware campaigns. As of now, those targets have been in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine.

DarkSword can attack iPhones running iOS 18.4 through iOS 18.7, according to GTIG (though iVerify and Lookout say the exploit they tested ends at iOS 18.6.2). The chain uses three malware families (GHOSTBLADE, GHOSTKNIFE, and GHOSTSABER), and is similar to a previously-discovered malware kit named Coruna. As it happens, Apple recently issued patches for Coruna exploits for older iPhones.

DarkSword is designed to quickly and stealthily scrape credentials and personal information off your device, including passwords, keys, documents, emails, crypto wallets, usernames, photos, among other data points. This is done in seconds or minutes, so it doesn’t take long for DarkSword to work. An attack works like this: You’re browsing a website in Safari embedded with a malicious iframe. Once Safari encounters it, DarkSword can breakout of the WebContent sandbox, which typically prevents unauthorized services from running in areas of iOS they’re not supposed to. As such, it quickly gives itself permission to access privileged processes, and gains access to sensitive parts of iOS.

This is concerning, since the malware only requires the user to visit a malicious website to work. You don’t need to be tricked into downloading a malicious file; just clicking the wrong link seals the deal. That’s how GTIG initially discovered DarkSword: Hackers targeted users in Saudi Arabia with a fake Snapchat website called “Snapshare,” which brought the user to a legitimate Snapchat site while silently stealing their information in the background. In another example, a group suspected of working with the Russian government targeted users in Ukraine with malicious versions of official Ukrainian government and news sites.

How to protect yourself from DarkSword

Luckily, GTIG reported DarkSword to Apple back in late 2025, and since then, Apple has fully patched the exploits involved. The company didn’t issue the patches all at once, however; rather, Apple ran individual patches through various updates, releasing the final fixes with iOS 26.3 and iOS 18.7.3. As such, you need to be running at least those versions of either iOS 26 or iOS 18 in order to protect yourself from this malware kit.

Updating your iPhone isn’t hard, and it makes it easier that Apple doesn’t require you to update to the most recent version (i.e. iOS 26) in order to patch your device. However, there are many iPhones in this world, and getting everyone to update to the proper version isn’t easy. According to Apple, 66% of iPhones in the world run iOS 26, while 24% still run iOS 18. While we can’t know for sure which of those iPhones are running iOS 26.3 or iOS 18.7.3 or newer, it’s safe to say many are running outdated versions of each. There could be millions of iPhones at risk.

That risk, in my view, is quite low: Based on the current reports, these threat actors are targeting users in limited areas, and are being run by sophisticated networks, including those funded by governments. If you don’t have reason to be in the crosshairs of a government agency, especially one that would target users in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine, you’re not likely to be a victim of DarkSword.

Still, why take the risk, however small? If DarkSword continues to spread, perhaps its affects will as well. When the solution is as simple as updating your iPhone, what’s the harm?

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Cardio zones aren’t real—not in the way your fitness app makes them sound, anyway. Yes, heart rate zones are a way to describe how hard you’re working during a cardio workout, like running or cycling. But the cardio zones everyone’s always buzzing about are just a way of bucketing exercise intensity into digestible categories. They’re a useful shorthand, but there are no physiological lines in the sand where your body suddenly switches from “zone 2” to “zone 3.” It’s a spectrum, and the specific cutoffs vary depending on who you ask (or what app you’re using), what formula they rely on, and whether they measured your lactate threshold in a lab or just guessed based on your age.

So when “zone zero” started circulating in wellness circles, my instinct was to roll my eyes. Relying on the zone framework in this way seems to add a layer of pseudoscience to what is essentially just…moving around more. To be fair, the underlying idea of “moving around more” certainly is a positive one, so allow me to break down what “zone zero” cardio even means, and how you can incorporate it into your routine.

What is “zone zero” cardio?

“Zero” sounds like nothing, or if not “nothing,” then at best, it sounds like rest. But rest is already informally called “zone 1” in many popular frameworks (never mind that it’s arguably not a real zone, since sitting still is in no way a cardio zone). So, we now have zone zero slotted below zone 1 (rest), which means we’ve invented a category below doing nothing.

The semantic confusion is worth calling out, because it reveals how the wellness industry tends to work: take something intuitive, give it a technical-sounding name, and suddenly people feel like they need an app, a heart rate monitor, and a six-week program to understand what they were already doing, or should have been doing all along.

Strip away the branding, and zone zero is a way to call out the sort of movement that falls between “workout” and “total inactivity.” This might mean your 10-minute walk after lunch, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or pacing while on a phone call. These movements might not register as strict exercise, but cumulatively, across a day—across a life—they can make a real difference.

The research behind this practice is solid, even if the zone label itself is flimsy. Prolonged sitting is independently associated with health risks, even in people who exercise regularly. One way to think about it is that the body doesn’t bank fitness like a savings account; it responds to the totality of how you move (or don’t) throughout the day.

Who zone zero cardio is for

Armed with this understanding of what zones are and are not, zone zero can be a great framework. For instance, if you’re an all-or-nothing exerciser, then zone zero is a way to remember that light movement still counts for something. Or if you’re someone recovering from injury, illness, or burnout, or for whatever reason structured cardio isn’t accessible to you right now, then zone zero is a great way to remember that you haven’t failed by not hitting the gym. Gentle movement—even the kind that barely registers on a heart rate monitor—is still movement, and it still has value.

But if you’re someone with a robust, consistent approach to cardio, zone zero is probably not a concept you need to think about at all. There’s no need to add yet another source of noise in the fitness world.

The best fitness trackers for tracking your zones

If you want to monitor cardio intensity—whether that’s the coveted zone 2 work, harder efforts, or just making sure you’re moving enough throughout the day—here are the trackers that do it best:

Garmin Forerunner 570

Garmin’s heart rate zone tracking is among the most accurate on the market for wrist-based monitors, and as my colleague Beth Skwarecki writes in her review, the Garmin Forerunner 570 has shockingly good heart rate accuracy. Unfortunately, the price (currently on sale for $496.97) might be a dealbreaker for casual users.

Apple Watch Series 10

This is the best Apple Watch for most people, and it gets the job done for most people’s heart rate zone tracking. Plus, it’s the most seamless option if you’re already in the Apple ecosystem.

Fitbit Charge 6

When it comes to heart rate, the Fitbit is a perfectly solid budget option. If you want more than a minimalist approach, you might find yourself longing for a proper fitness watch, like the Garmin or Apple options above.

For more, I recommend reading this piece from Beth to see how Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, and Whoop all compare on measuring heart rate variability (HRV).

The bottom line

To put it bluntly: You don’t need to track so-called “zone zero” cardio. You don’t need a new metric for it, a dedicated workout, or a wearable that vibrates to remind you to stand up (though your existing wearable might already do that, and it can certainly be useful). The whole point is that it’s supposed to be below the threshold of effort.

What is worth taking seriously is the underlying behavior change this concept encourages. Take a look at your day and honestly ask yourself whether movement is woven through it, or confined to a scheduled block. If it’s the latter, consider incorporating some walking and stretching breaks into your day. Maybe zone zero didn’t need a name, but now it has one, and if knowing about it helps you move more, that’s a win.