After teasing the device in January at Unpacked 2025, Samsung is ready to make the Galaxy S25 Edge official. The company revealed latest device in the S25 series during a special Monday night event. While there are many similarities between the Edge and the other S25 devices, what makes this particular model stand out from the rest is how slim it is: The S25 Edge is just 5.8mm thick, 1.4mm thinner than the standard S25, and Samsung’s thinnest phone yet.

Everything Samsung revealed about the S25 Edge

Just like the rest of the S25 phones, the new Galaxy S25 Edge is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chip. That SoC (system on a chip) brings a number of improvements to the entire S25. According to Qualcomm, that includes a 45% boost in performance, and a 44% better power efficiency when compared to the S24’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy. The chip also includes a new Adreno GPU which Qualcomm says adds a 40% performance boost over the previous generation. There’s also 12GB of RAM and either 256GB or 512GB of internal storage.

The S25 Edge features a 6.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, with a QHD+ screen resolution of 3120 x 1440 that supports an adaptive refresh rate. That means the display can refresh anywhere from one to 120Hz, depending on the situation. For biometrics, the phone has an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor along with face recognition.

On the camera side, the Galaxy S25 Edge has a dual camera setup with a 200 MP wide lens and 12 MP ultra-wide and front lenses. The periscope lens offers 10x optical zoom. This is one of Samsung’s strengths, since most smartphone makers resort to digital zoom, or, essentially, cropping the image rather than offer a dedicated zoom.

Samsung is focusing a lot on how thin this phone is, but there’s a trade-off for that form factor: The S25 Edge has a 3,900 mAh battery, which is the smallest battery of all the Galaxy S25 phones. But there’s still support for 25W wired charging and up to 15W wireless charging.

Just like the rest of the S25 series, you’ll get access to all the latest Galaxy AI features. That includes the Now Brief, which uses AI to show you prevalent info throughout the day; Note assist, which will transcribe your notes, Live translate, and much more via Galaxy AI’s integration with Google Gemini.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge will be available in Titanium Black and Titanium Silver.

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“Skinny” is such an outdated concept; too diet culture for 2025. “Flat belly” sounds better, but we’re tired of that, too. What is the trend-dependent online influencer culture to do? Enter “gut health,” the current euphemism for having a thin waist—this time with extra wellness baggage. It sounds like it’s all about a science-based journey toward better nutrition, but really it’s more bullshit. So let’s explore the most questionable gut health hacks out there. Grab a towel, because it’s time for your internal shower!

Taking an ‘internal shower’

The “internal shower” is meant to clean you from the inside. The metaphor evokes more than just relieving constipation, and implies that your guts are dirty and need to be made sparkling clean. That’s not how gut health works—things should keep moving, sure, but there’s no need to fully clean everything out unless you’re preparing for a colonoscopy (which has its own protocol).

Though “internal shower” sounds fancy, it’s really just a drink that contains two full tablespoons of chia seeds, plus a squeeze of lemon. Chia seeds swell in water, forming a lumpy, gel-like texture. (This is both what makes them good in pudding, and what allows them to adhere to the terra-cotta planters of Chia Pet fame.)

So why drink them? Well, they’re high in fiber, and you also consume a glass of water in the process. In other words, it’s a trendier version of Metamucil. Be warned: the sudden increase of fiber in your diet can lead to bloating and diarrhea if you’re not used to it, but isn’t likely to be harmful otherwise.

Avoiding cheese

It’s true that a diverse diet with plenty of plant foods is probably better for your gut than a crappy diet—but not for any game-changing, gut-specific reason. Your gut is healthy when your body is healthy, and a varied diet involving fiber and other nutrients is good for your gut microbes and for the rest of you. This amounts to “eat your vegetables,” and is thus not an exciting viral tip.

Gut health advice often gives you a list of foods not to eat, or demonizes specific foods. There are no common foods known to be particularly destructive to gut health—we’re built to handle just about anything—but influencers often target processed foods and dairy foods. This means that cheese has emerged as a mythically problematic food, when in fact it’s probably fine—and some studies suggest that it may even be particularly beneficial.

Taking L-glutamine

The pursuit of “gut health” has led influencers to tell you that you need to go out and get some L-glutamine (available in any store’s supplement aisle) to heal or prevent your leaky gut. Some of these videos include actual scientific facts about what we understand glutamine to do in the body. But that itself should set off alarm bells: When somebody talks about the mechanism of how something is supposed to work, without presenting data on whether it actually works for the intended outcome, chances are you’re on the wrong path.

L-glutamine is an amino acid that our body can usually make for itself. There is evidence that supplementing it is helpful for people with serious bowel diseases, sepsis, injuries like extensive burns, and immune disorders. The Canadian Society for Intestinal Research notes that you should consult a physician if you think you have conditions serious enough to affect your body’s ability to make enough glutamine.

Anything called an “elixir”

There’s an incredible depth and breadth of “gut health elixir” recipes available on TikTok and other platforms. There are gut health elixirs with aloe juice and coconut water, or with olive oil and lemon, or with hibiscus and kombucha, or with turmeric and ashwagandha. What do any of these have in common? Gut health, of course. What a silly question.

Washing our fruit (for gut health)

Washing your fruit is fine. Believing that unwashed fruit is the only thing standing between you and a snatched stomach—that I can’t get behind. The idea is that fresh produce has pesticides on it, and those pesticides are killing your good gut bacteria.

It is a good idea to rinse fruit before you eat it, but there’s no link between the barely-detectable trace amounts of pesticides on fruit and the health of your gut or the size of your waistline. This isn’t a gut health tip, it’s just sensible food prep.

Pilates (for gut health)

Pilates is low-key strength training. It can be good for you, as almost any exercise can, but it doesn’t work miracles. I’ve already covered the trend of TikTok influencers making up imaginary benefits of Pilates, but “gut health” is a stretch. Influencers claim (as in this video) that the breathwork and twisting motions of Pilates “massage” your gut to cure constipation, sometimes also referencing the complete myth that we have pounds of “stuck” poop inside our guts.

Eating 30 plants a day

I actually like this as a hack for increasing the diversity of your diet: count up the number of plant species you eat each week, and aim to get more than you currently do. Lettuce and tomato on your sandwich? Add the wheat from the bun and you’re already up to three. This idea got its start with research from the American Gut Project, which found people who ate a more varied diet had a more diverse gut microbiome—although there is no specific link to health, and scientists still haven’t found a way of determining what a “healthy” microbiome looks like.

But all of that has mutated quite a bit on social media. In one clip I remember watching, the narrator tells us that the difference between her before and after pictures is not due to “cardio and a restrictive diet.” But she has clearly lost fat. Gut health is just the new code word for losing fat. Nearly every one of the videos I’ve highlighted here starts with a before-and-after of somebody’s soft, then toned, tummy. If it were really about “bloating,” you’d be able to see the same abs in both pictures.

Going for a walk every morning

Walks are good! Morning routines are good! And it’s true that your gut has its own “clock” for telling what time it is. Some influencers get it backwards, though, when they suggest getting morning light to set your gut’s clock. In truth, the gut sets its clock based on when you feed it. If you want to set your gut’s clock in the morning, try eating breakfast. Like a whole, actual breakfast, not a glass of lemon water.

Going for a walk may help your digestion—that’s the whole idea of the “fart walk,” a walk taken after dinner that may relieve feelings of bloating and that can also help your body to control glucose levels. Feel free to take one after breakfast instead of waiting until dinnertime. 

Oil pulling

This old thing? (I need to stop being surprised when old health trends make a comeback.) Oil pulling is when you swish coconut oil around your mouth, sometimes for up to 20 minutes, in addition to (or in place of) brushing your teeth. It’s not particularly good at that job, and there’s no reason to believe it will do anything for your gut health or your abs.

Chewing

Another archaic one that keeps popping up. The idea of over-chewing your food always reminds me of that scene in The Road to Wellville where the dining hall erupts in a chorus of “Chew chew chew, that is the thing to do/Chew chew chew, good food is good for you.”

Yes, your mouth produces salivary amylase to help break down your food. But there is plenty of amylase in your small intestine as well. Studies have shown potential, subtle effects of extended chewing on satiety (how hungry you feel), but the idea that you’ll get a TikTok flat belly by spending more time chewing is unsupported.

AI isn’t coming for your job. Probably? Look, it’s complicated. And anyone who has ever played around with a chatbot has likely asked themselves, “This is what they want to replace a human with?” It’s a valid concern, because generative AI chatbots like Google’s Gemini aren’t super useful. To my surprise, though, Gemini’s Canvas feature can be.

I will say up front, I’m coming at this as a generative AI skeptic, but I’m also not an AI doomer. There are some situations—like creating alt text for images to boost accessibility—where AI-based tools can come in handy. I prefer to find where tools can be genuinely useful, and ignore the noise. To that end, Gemini’s Canvas is the one thing that’s made Gemini genuinely useful to me. Instead of just asking an AI to write for me, it gives me a workspace where I can do things, and occasionally ask for help or tasks as I need it.

What is Gemini Canvas?

Canvas is an optional tool that you can enable in a conversation with Gemini. This additional workspace can function as a text editor and a coding tool. Any documents or code you create with this tool, you can also edit directly just like any other editor. You can then export documents you create to Google Docs when you’re ready to move on to another phase of the project.

If you’re using it for coding, you can run code directly inside Canvas. This is particularly useful for HTML-based applets when you’re using Gemini in a web browser, since it’s already designed for HTML. The window can switch between a preview running the code, or a text editor to manipulate it directly.

To use Canvas, just click on the Canvas button at the bottom of your prompt window (or under the + icon on mobile). Your first prompt will open Canvas, and I usually prefer to start with a blank one, so I’ll say something like “Give me a blank canvas window to start with.” You can also ask Gemini to generate something to start with, and depending on whether it’s a text document or code, it will default to the proper Canvas window for it.

If that sounds like a much wordier way to just ask for a blank document, well, it is. LLMs are surprisingly good at understanding natural language commands, but aren’t always great at succinct instructions (more on that later). What this means, though, is that it lends itself well to verbal commands.

I often use tools like Windows dictation to write text, rather than type it all out by hand. It’s a great tool on its own to reduce the constant wrist strain that comes from a career of typing all day, or if you’re more of the stream-of-consciousness type. In some cases, dictating commands and having Gemini interpret them can be faster for me than doing things manually. 

With that in mind, here are a few use cases I’ve found that are actually more helpful than doing things the normal way.

Organizing brainstorms and drafts

“AI for brainstorming” is often the first thing people suggest, and it’s not very useful—if your goal is to get the tool to do your thinking for you. I would like to suggest something slightly different. When I brainstorm ideas, instead of using Gemini to come up with my ideas for me, I’ll use it to organize my ideas and notes, and turn approved pitches into outlines.

The trick here is that Gemini can create, manage, and most importantly understand the differences between multiple different documents. For example, I sometimes use Gemini to write pitches for articles in one document, and then turn those into a draft in another. While working on the draft, I can ask Gemini to “change the status of [x] pitch to ‘Finished’ in the pitch doc.” 

When I tested this, I expected Gemini to do something ridiculous and wrong. My “status” tracker is just an extra line under the paragraph that says something like “Status: Approved.” But Gemini understood what this meant, and changed the text, all while I was working in another document. It’s a small thing, but it demonstrates how handy it can be to have an assistant that understands what you’re trying to accomplish.

As a side note, Google Docs also has an “Ask Gemini” tool embedded in it, and you’d think that this would be a better way to accomplish the same task, but for some reason, it’s not. I’ve tried asking Gemini to make small changes to a Google Doc, but it won’t actually change anything unless I manually select the text. It also can’t refer out to other Google Docs in your drive, so it’s weirdly more limited than Canvas in Gemini. I’ll still usually copy my drafts to Docs later in the process, but for some early brainstorming, Canvas is a handy tool.

Edit formatting and presentation (in Markdown!)

Gemini (and, frankly, every generative AI tool I’ve tried) is absolutely awful at writing anything of interest. Purely out of curiosity, I’ve tested whether Gemini could write a draft of an article for me, and I just make edits. In every instance, I had to rewrite every single word. Not just because they’re often wrong, but because they’re bland, boring, and cringey.

Formatting the words you write is another story. When using Canvas, Gemini can understand conversational commands like “convert all subheadings to H2” or “move the second subhead section above the first” and apply them directly. It’s also great for more complex style choices, like “convert all H2 subheads to sentence case” or “if there are any semicolons in this document, obliterate them.”

As a bonus, Canvas uses Markdown formatting by default (unlike Google Docs), which makes it extra useful for creating drafts you’ll copy over somewhere else later. This isn’t really a feature of Gemini or Canvas per se, it’s just a nice touch that I find makes it easier to work with.

Make your own shortcuts for complex edits and commands

Everything I’ve talked about so far is true and helpful, but if I’m honest with myself, it’s not quite enough to convince me to fully integrate Canvas into my workflow. What pushed me over the edge was when I figured out how to create my own shortcuts. This trick is tucked away under Settings > Saved info.

Google presents this as a way to store “info about your life and preferences” but it’s really a place to put any instructions you want Gemini to always keep in mind. So, for example, I have a saved block that reads “If the entire prompt is ‘H2s’, then convert all subheadings in the Canvas window into H2s.” From then on, I only need to type “H2s” to perform the action. It’s a handy way to make your own custom shortcuts for any instruction you like.

You can use this for more complex guidelines, like “When I ask for an outline, format it [however you like]”. Or, if you’re coding (more on that below), “When I ask for an applet, assume I want it written in HTML5.” You can make these instructions conditional—as I have here—so that they only trigger when you need them.

Create small, personalized applets for niche uses

A while back, someone I knew was struggling with visualizing parking in tight spaces. At the time, I opened up Blender, a 3D modeling and animation tool, to visualize an example for her. More recently, I tried to see if I could make a similar tool in Gemini. It took one prompt. I asked for an HTML5 animated tool to demonstrate parking, gave a few specific for what I wanted, and soon had a little applet that was way easier to make than what I showed my friend.

One might very reasonably argue that there are easier ways to code this, or that the code it came out with is bad for some reason. But I don’t know how to code, at least not that well. Gemini, however, is pretty great at very simple little applets like this. Just don’t expect to turn anything it generates in to your boss if you’re a developer.

Don’t use it to replace creative or rigorous work

It should go without saying, but Gemini (and at this point, any AI chatbot) isn’t going to be a substitute for thinking for yourself. It’s godawful at writing anything interesting or creative, it can get facts or sources wrong, and most damningly, it will confidently say it can do or has done something that it’s incapable of doing.

At the end of the day, you still have to put in the work. Setting aside that AI tools often produce low-effort work, there’s the open question of whether it’s even ethical to use AI for work or creativity. Most AI tools were created by scraping copyrighted data, including from people that those same tools would then try to replace. (To say nothing of the rising electricity costs that training generative AI models takes.)

AI tools can be extremely useful when they’re put to the right purpose. I’ll admit, I’m partly writing this aspirationally. Using Gemini’s Canvas gave me a glimpse into how useful AI tools could be if they focused on being an interpretive layer for applications, rather than a replacement for doing real work.

Nintendo didn’t make preordering the Switch 2 particularly easy—especially with its back and forth decisions in the face of tariffs. But even if you manage to get your hands on a Switch 2 for launch day, be careful, because Nintendo is ready to brick any Switch device you own should you break its rules—and I’m not talking about cheating at Mario Party.

Rather, Nintendo is particularly concerned about Switch users who hack their systems, use emulators, or engage in piracy using Nintendo hardware. These players are the targets of the company’s newfound bloodlust, and they’re not messing around: steal our games, and lose the right to use your console.

Stephen Totilo of Game File spotted the new philosophy on Thursday, when Nintendo sent out an email with the subject line: “Updates to Nintendo Account User Agreement and Nintendo Privacy Policy.” Totilo counted over 100 edits to the Nintendo Account User Agreement, but the major change was to how the company handles modifications and piracy. The original agreement statement that you weren’t allowed to “lease, rent, sublicense, publish, copy, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble all or any portion of the Nintendo Account Services,” unless you got the OK from Nintendo or the law permitted. Seems reasonable.

However, the modified agreement is quite different, and outlines a stark new reality for users who might consider going against Nintendo’s wishes:

Without limitation, you agree that you may not (a) publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services; (b) bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with, or otherwise circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Nintendo Account Services, including through the use of any hardware or software that would cause the Nintendo Account Services to operate other than in accordance with its documentation and intended use; (c) obtain, install or use any unauthorized copies of Nintendo Account Services; or (d) exploit the Nintendo Account Services in any manner other than to use them in accordance with the applicable documentation and intended use, in each case, without Nintendo’s written consent or express authorization, or unless otherwise expressly permitted by applicable law. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.

“Unusable” doesn’t necessarily spell out how Nintendo plans to act when they find a player that has broken these rules, but it doesn’t bode well for them—or their Switch.It would seem Nintendo has a back-end capability to block Switches from running properly if there’s evidence of such misconduct.

While harsh, this isn’t too surprising. Nintendo certainly hasn’t looked the other way when it comes to piracy in the past. The company was more than happy to ban you from online play if they found you playing games illegally, for example—a risk some players took to hack their Switches, even if they weren’t trying to steal their games. (Maybe they just wanted to boost the performance of Tears of the Kingdom before Nintendo offered an official solution?)

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With dietary differences and grocery budgeting, eggless dessert recipes are more sought after than they used to be. Of course, eggs play an important role in the structure of your batter, so you can’t just leave it out. (Well, sometimes you can.) You’re better off knowing what sorts of egg replacements you can use for different types of baking. Here’s a list of the best egg replacement you can lean on during lean times. 

By the way, if you find yourself modifying recipes a lot, I highly suggest you buy The Elements of Baking. It can give you the tools (and ratios) you need to modify almost any recipe for different diets; you can read my full review of the cookbook here.

What do eggs do in baking, anyway?

Eggs are an emulsifier, and they provide moisture, structure, color, and aeration to baked goods. One single egg can do all this, so finding a replacement can be tall order. The following ingredients have a range of capabilities—offering all of those egg features above, or maybe just one or two. But a replacement doesn’t really have to do it all. Depending on what you’re making, sometimes moisture or aeration is all you need.

Aquafaba

Despite its humble beginnings as the liquid byproduct of your canned chickpeas, aquafaba is an effective egg replacement. It works well for binding in cookies and cakes due to its starch content, adding moisture due to its water content, and can even be whipped to leaven cakes or suffice as a suitable meringue replacement (featuring a delightful nutty note). Use three tablespoons of aquafaba per every whole egg being replaced. Oh, and freeze any extra aquafaba that you didn’t use for next time.

Bananas

Bananas do a top-notch job at providing moisture and structure to baked goods. Yes, they’ll provide a lovely banana flavor, but more importantly when replacing eggs, they deliver a springy hydration to cakes and cookies. Keep in mind that the moisture is unflagging, kind of like adding pumpkin puree to a recipe—you’ll never get a crisp cookie if you use bananas. Use a scant quarter-cup of mashed banana for each whole egg in a recipe.

Tapioca and baking powder and other powdered blends

Instead of relying on a single ingredient to try and replicate the many functions of eggs, why not target its attributes with a blend of ingredients? There may be packaged store bought mixtures readily available in the baking aisle you can grab. I’ve used Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Egg Replacer in cakes with great success. It’s made of potato starch, tapioca flour, baking soda, and psyllium husk to duplicate the leavening and binding of an egg. 

You can also make your own simplified blend with tapioca flour and baking powder. Stir together one tablespoon of tapioca flour with one tablespoon of water and add a quarter-teaspoon of baking powder before adding it to your recipe. The starches absorb the moisture in the batter (of which you added a bit extra to account for this), they gelatinize and bind the batter upon heating in the oven (no need to pre-cook the mixture to activate them), and the baking powder provides that subtle bit of lift like an egg would. 

Soda

That’s right. Fanta. Diet Coke. Root beer. Good old fashioned cola. With the help of a carbonated drink, you can add hydration and noticeable lift to your boxed cake mix without the eggs. You probably caught that—boxed cake mix. While I wouldn’t suggest using sodas as the sole ingredient for replacing eggs in cookies, cakes, or brownies you’re making from scratch, they make a surprisingly effective replacement in boxed cake mixes. 

Sour cream egg wash

While sour cream is delicious in cake batter or cookie dough, I’m pivoting slightly from replacing eggs in doughs, to replacing eggs on doughs. When you can’t spare an extra egg to make an egg wash for your pies, tarts, and biscuits, grab a tub of sour cream. Despite my predictions during testing, this fermented dairy product produces excellent browning and shine, even better than a regular egg wash.

Coming across a light website in dark mode feel like shining a light bulb directly into your eyes. Noir is an extension for Safari that automatically adds a dark mode to websites that are otherwise bright.

Modern operating systems, including Apple devices, offer some kind of system wide dark mode that puts light text on dark backgrounds instead of the more-traditional black-on-white. Basically all applications respect the system wide setting at this point, but many websites do not. Noir helps by modifying websites you browse so that they offer light text on a dark background, effectively forcing them to support dark mode.

I’ve been testing it for a few days and it works really well, even on web applications like Google Docs. Noir is tied to your system settings by default. This means it only applies dark mode to websites when your device is set to dark mode, which is ideal if you switch between the the two regularly, or if your device automatically switches to dark mode.

To get started, you need to purchase and install the application—it costs $2.99 for iOS and $3.99 for Mac (it’s a one-time purchase—there’s no subscription). The application guides you through opening the settings in Safari and enabling the extension on all websites, which is necessary in order for it to function. After that, when dark mode is enabled, you’ll get dark versions of all websites you visit.

For the most part, you can just stop thinking about the application at this point—it will just do its thing in the background. If you want to configure things a little, or if a particular website isn’t working well with the change, you can click the Noir icon to change the settings. You can decide whether to disable the extension for the current site. You can also choose a custom theme for the current site. There are four themes offered—Black, the darkest of the four; Dark, the default; Gray, a lighter option with less contract; and Sepia, the lightest theme offered.

It’s nice to have a few options, particularly if the default doesn’t look great on a particular site. And you can change a few system-wide options by opening the application itself. You can choose any of the four themes as the default, which is nice if you end up preferring one of them.

There’s also support for keyboard shortcuts, if you’re using a Mac, allowing you to enable and disable the dark theme for the website you’re looking at right now or even toggle between themes.

It’s a simple application, granted, but it delivers on what it promises. It’s easily worth a few bucks if you’re a dedicated dark mode user who can’t stand bright websites.

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Most of Beats by Dr. Dre’s lineup of headphones and earbuds are on sale right now. The brand has been slow to release new products since the acquisition by Apple back in 2014, but the good news is that even its newest product (the Beats Powerbeats Pro 2) are included in the sale.

At the moment, you can get the Beats Studio Pro, Beats Solo 4, Beats Studio Buds, Beats Powerbeats Pro 2, and the Beats Studio Buds+ for up to 51% off. Most of these options are at or matching their lowest prices ever, according to price-tracking tools.

Beats Studio Pros are 51% off

You can get the Beats Studio Pro for $169.95 (originally $349.99) after a $180 discount. This is the second-lowest price it has ever been, according to price-checking tools. The Studio Pros have been around since the summer of 2023 and are the brand’s most high-end headphones, offering active noise canceling (ANC), spatial audio with head tracking, hands-free Siri access, one-touch pairing on iOS and Android devices, and a transparency mode. You can also get the Kim Kardashian version (the only difference is the color) for the same price. You can read more about them from PCMag’s review.

Beats Fit Pros are $30 off

The Beats Fit Pro can be a great alternative for Apple users who don’t like Airpods since they have Apple’s H1 Headphone Chip and have one-touch pairing with iOS devices. Right now, they’re on sale for $169.95 (originally $199.95)—not the best discount, historically speaking, but better than nothing. Android users can also take advantage of some features that many Apple users enjoy (as long as you download the Beats app), like the ear fit test, listening mode controls, and firmware updates. You just won’t have support for Spatial Audio with head tracking, hands-free Siri, Find My compatibility, audio sharing, and automatic switching between paired sound sources, according to PCMag.

Beats Studio Buds are 47% off

Beats Studio Buds are on sale for $99.95 (originally $149.95), the second-lowest price they have been. Like the Fit Pros, the Studio Buds have ANC, Spatial Audio on certain Apple Music tracks, and one-touch pairing for both iOS and Android devices. You can read more about them in PCMag’s review.

Beats Studio Buds + are $40 off

The Beats Studio Buds + are very similar to the Beats Studio Buds, but there are some differences. The Studio Buds + have an extra small ear tip size, an extra hour of battery life (total of nine hours), 12 more hours from the charging case (total of 36 hours), and perhaps more importantly, they have better ANC and better features for Android users, which you can read more about on PCMag’s review. You can get them for $99.95 (originally $169.95), matching the lowest price they have ever been, according to price-tracking tools.

Beats Solo 4 are 50% off

The Beats Solo 4 are the latest headphones from Beats; they came out last summer and are 50% off. You can get them for $99.99 (originally $199.95), the lowest price they have ever been, according to price-tracking tools. They have the ability to talk to Siri without using your hands and have personalized spatial audio to your ear shape, giving you “3D audio” that follows the movement of your iPhone (as long as that media supports spatial audio), as well as 50 hours of run time. You can read more about them in PCMag’s review.

The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are $50 off

The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are the newest earbuds from Beats, and the second generation of the original Powerbeats Pro. Although they’re only $20 apart in price, don’t let that fool you. This new iteration offers a lot more in quality than the original ones, which you can read more about in Senior Health Editor Beth Skwarecki’s review. While your attention might go to its new heart-rate monitoring feature, it’s actually a flop. However, they’re still great workout earbuds with better flexible and durable ear hooks, ANC, audio quality, battery, case, and the newer H2 chip which you also see in the AirPods Pro 2.

(Washington, D.C., May 11, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through U.S. ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, effective immediately. NWS has been recently detected in remote farms with minimal cattle movement as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, about 700 miles away from the U.S. border.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a great way to boost the security of your accounts. But even with that added layer of security, malicious actors are finding ways to break in. So-called adversary-in-the-middle attacks take advantage of weaker authentication methods to access accounts. Your two-factor and multi-factor authentication (MFA) may be weak, but, luckily, there’s something you can do about it.

How multi-factor authentication works

MFA uses two or more checkpoints to confirm a user’s identity for accessing an account or system. This is more secure than relying on just a username and password combination, especially given how easy many passwords are to crack, and how many have found their way onto the dark web. Passwords are often basic and repeated, so once a password has been compromised, it can be used to get into many accounts. That’s why it’s so important to use strong and unique passwords for each one of your accounts.

With MFA, a password isn’t enough. From here, the user has to validate their login using at least one additional piece of evidence, ideally that only they have access to. This can be a knowledge factor (a PIN), a possession factor (a code from an authenticator app), or an identity factor (a fingerprint).

Note that while 2FA and MFA are often used interchangeably, they aren’t necessarily the same thing. 2FA uses two factors to verify a user’s login, such as a password plus a security question or SMS code. With 2FA, both factors can something the user knows, like their password and a PIN.

MFA requires at least two factors, and they must be independent: a combination of a knowledge factor like a password, plus a biometric ID or a secure authenticator like a security key or one-time password. Generally, the more authentication factors needed, the greater the account security. But if all factors can be found on the same device, security is at risk if that device is hacked, lost, or stolen.

MFA can still be compromised

While having MFA enabled on your accounts can make you feel secure, some MFA methods can be compromised almost as easily as your usernames and passwords.

As Ars Technica reports, certain knowledge and possession factors are themselves susceptible to phishing. Attacks known as adversary-in-the-middle target authentication codes, such as those sent via SMS and email, as well as time-based one-time passwords from authenticator apps, allowing hackers to access your accounts through factors you’ve unknowingly handed them.

The attack works as follows: Bad actors send you a message saying that one of your accounts—Google, for example—has been compromised, with a link to log in and lock it down. The link looks real, as does the page you land on, but it is actually a phishing link connected to a proxy server. The server forwards the credentials you enter to the real Google site, which triggers a legitimate MFA request (and if you’ve set up MFA on your account, there’s no reason to believe this is suspicious). But when you enter the authentication code on the phishing site or approve the push notification, you’ve inadvertently given the hacker access to your account.

Adversary-in-the-middle is even easier to carry out thanks to phishing-as-a-service toolkits available in online forums.

How to maximize MFA security

To get the most out of MFA, consider switching from factors like SMS codes and push notifications to an authentication method that is more resistant to phishing. The best option is MFA based on WebAuthn credentials (biometrics or passkeys) that are stored on your device hardware or a physical security key like Yubikey. Authentication works only on the real URL and on or in proximity to the device, so adversary-in-the-middle attacks are nearly impossible.

In addition to switching up your MFA method, you should also be wary of the usual phishing red flags. Like many phishing schemes, MFA attacks prey on the user’s emotions or anxiety about their account being compromised and the sense of urgency to resolve the problem. Never click links in messages from unknown senders, and don’t react to supposed security issues without checking their legitimacy first.