Courtesy of Garmin Buy Now Multiple Buying Options Available $500 at Amazon (Mini 3 Plus) $450 at REI (Plus) $450 at Garmin Save this story Save this story Rating: 7 /10 Many of the latest smartphones and watches now offer satellite emergency SOS tools such as messaging and location sharing, so many of us already carry a safety toolkit in our pocket. But if you’re heading deep off grid on multiday adventures, you might need more backup .

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PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION: JOAN WONG; Original photographs by Nahreen Ahmed Save this story Save this story Gauze saves lives, but Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City must ration what little it has, months into a supposed ceasefire. Both gauze and its English name are widely thought to derive from Gaza and the Arabic word for blended silk, khazz .

Photograph: JOEL SAGET/Getty Images Save this story Save this story OpenAI is starting to stuff the free version of ChatGPT with ads. So, I spent this week asking ChatGPT 500 questions on the mobile app to get a sense of how these new ads look as they roll out to more users in the US.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Buy Now Multiple Buying Options Available $900 at Amazon (S26) $1,100 at Amazon (S26+) $900 at Best Buy (S26) $900 at Samsung (Both) Save this story Save this story Rating: 7 /10 There is nothing inherently wrong with Samsung's base-level flagship smartphones of the year—the Galaxy S26 ($900) and Galaxy S26+ ($1,100). I have now spent several weeks with both handsets, and they're dutiful performers, just not very exciting.

Settings icon displayed on a phone screen is seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on September 4, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images Save this story Save this story Your iPhone is so much more than just a screen for texting.

Photograph: Olga Rolenko/Getty Images Save this story Save this story There’s a whole menu of different energy sources to choose from in generating electric power—coal, gas, wind, and so on—and some are worse for the planet than others. But regardless of where we gather it, the energy itself almost always comes from the sun.