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You’ve seen the trend on TikTok or Instagram: Your friends, family, and favorite influencers sharing yearbook photos from the ‘90s. Only it’s not really photos of them—it’s an AI-generated set of images.These uncanny-valley yearbook photos have taken the internet by storm, and you can try it out for yourself. While there are likely other apps that offer the service, the one most people seem to be using is EPIK - AI Photo Editor.This app didn’t land on the App Store with the express intent to generate AI yearbook photos: It already offered AI photo editing tools for users to remove distracting objects, swap backgrounds, add filters, and more. But it’s the yearbook feature that caused it to blow up. Here’s how you can try it out for yourself.To start, download EPIK - AI Photo Editor on eithe...

Image: SamsungAmazon’s Prime Big Deal Days is finally here, bringing with it a slew of savings on tons of things, including PC laptops. If you’re in the market for a new laptop that’s powerful enough to do whatever you need, you won’t find much better than the Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro. This laptop is on sale right now for 22% off, bringing it down from $1,449.99 to $1,134.99, a total savings of $315.The Galaxy Book3 is one of Samsung’s latest PC laptops, and it offers a powerful 13th-gen Intel Core i7-1360P with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for all your movies, photos, and apps. The 3K AMOLED screen offers a total resolution of 2880 x 1800, with Bluetooth, USB, HDMI, and Thunderbolt 4 connectors.Samsung promises up to 16 hours of battery life, which should be plenty to tackle your daily b...

Photo: PhotographerIncognito (Shutterstock)Think of Walmart’s Deals Holiday Kickoff as their version of Prime Day, not coincidentally starting a day before Prime Big Deal Days (you can keep up with all of our early Prime deals here). Amazon is seeing big competition from major retailers who don’t want to lose business to them; even Target is getting in on the action. All this means for you is better deals.Here are the best Walmart deals (running until Oct. 12 at 7 pm ET) you can get today.The 2022 iPhone SE is $149 (was $379). Keep in mind this is a prepaid iPhone locked to the Walmart Family Mobile plan, so you can’t use any mobile provider other than Walmart’s plan. Still, if you’re looking for a new plan, the 3rd Gen SE with 64GB for $149 is a great deal.If you’re looking to upgrade yo...

Imagine having everything your child wants for the holidays, already ordered and shipped. If you’re paying attention to some of the deals available with Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, you can make this a reality. The Prime-member-exclusive savings event runs from Oct. 10 at 3 a.m. ET through Oct. 11. And while there are plenty of savings on products for your wish list, there are also some values on what your child might really want.If you have a little builder waiting to assemble their first big set, this 1214-piece Banished Phantom from Halo Infinite will keep their hands occupied throughout the holiday break. Pokémon fans can construct a scenic rainforest with Butterfree, Squirtle, Kabuto, and Rowlet, and younger imaginations will have no problem keeping their building blocks off the floo...

Saving seeds seems hard to do, until you’ve actually done it. But with the cost of a packet of seeds now ranging from $4 to $10, the financial incentive is well worth it. Additionally, you end up with seeds from vegetables particularly well-suited to your garden. Besides, there’s a certain smug self satisfaction you get when you complete the plant/harvest/collect seed/plant again cycle. Here are the tips I wish I’d had when I started.The first year you save seeds, commit to saving no more than 10 varieties of seeds. This is a hobby you want to grow into. You can easily lose track of what’s what, and get overwhelmed. I recommend choosing your ten favorite vegetables, which are generally easy to harvest seeds from, and then saving those seeds. There are a million varieties of flowers and veg...

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days has officially begun, and if you’re in the market for some new Beats headphones, then you’re in luck. Amazon has quite a few Beats headphones and earbuds on discount for their two-day sales event.The Beats Fit Pro is one of the latest products from Beats. The earbuds have secure-fit wingtips for a better fit, powered by the Apple H1 chip which enables ANC (active noise cancellation) and Spatial Audio (on iOS only).Battery life is up to six hours with ANC on and seven hours with it off, with an additional 30 hours from the charging case. It also works with both Android and iOS devices and charges over USB-C. There’s IPX4 sweat and water resistance so you shouldn’t have a problem listening while exercising or hustling through light rain. The Beats Fit Pro earbuds...

Being prepared for power outages caused by weather or other disasters is getting easier as battery technology improves—which is a good thing, because the weather keeps getting worse. Keeping devices charged so you can stay updated on emergency information, have a light source, and be able to tune into the radio if internet and cellular networks go down are all important parts of being prepared in an emergency. Ryobi has come up with a Storm Combo Kit that can address several aspects of emergency preparedness.Because the system comes with a battery and charger, it’s a good deal at $129. A battery and charger on its own would cost between $55 and $75, so getting the battery with the rest of these tools for $130 is a steal. Having only one battery wouldn’t be the most practical, however—so i...

Image: AppleAmazon’s Prime Big Deal Days are sure to include a ton of great deals for everyone to take advantage of. One of the best you’ll find this week is already available, though, as Apple’s AirPods Pro with USB-C are just $189 right now.The latest generation of these AirPods typically runs for $250, and $60 off isn’t a bad savings for a product that released less than a month ago. Apple originally debuted the new AirPods Pro with USB-C at its September Wanderlust event, showcasing new features like adaptive transparency and support for a richer audio experience thanks to Apple’s H2 chip.The new earbuds also support Apple’s personalized spatial audio, which will work alongside the Vision Pro when it releases next year. You can expect a bit more battery life with these newer AirPods ...

Image: GoogleIf you’re in the market for a new Android tablet, then Amazon has a few to choose from during Prime Big Deal Days. One of the better tablet deals is on the new Pixel Tablet, which is on sale for $409, $90 off the original price. The Pixel Tablet is Google’s latest, featuring an 11-inch display and an included dock, which effectively transforms the tablet into a smart display and speaker.Powering the tablet is the Google Tensor G2 chip, the same chip found in the Pixel 7 series of phones. The G2 chip inside powers a lot of the AI experiences (including using the tablet as a smart display), so you can control your smart home devices and ask questions to Google Assistant.The Pixel Tablet comes in 128 and 256GB storage models and a number of color options including Hazel, Porcela...

Melted butter, without modification or adornment, makes a pretty damn good sauce, but whisking it with a little hot water makes it silkier, clingier, and, surprisingly, creamier. The resulting sauce has a fancy French name—beurre monté—but this simple emulsification can be whipped up by home cooks of any skill level.“Beurre monté’ simply means “mounted butter.” The phrase is used to refer to both the technique and the sauce itself, but don’t let the French intimidate you. If you can whisk, you can make this a sauce.Like mayonnaise, hollandaise sauce, and butter itself, beurre monté is an emulsification—a mixture of two immiscible ingredients, one of which is suspended in the other. When butter is melted, its emulsion breaks, but whisking cold butter in hot water stabilizes the emulsion, ke...