Technologies

Nintendo Switch Fans, Grab This 1TB Lexar MicroSD Card While It’s at an All-Time Low of $64

Multiply your Switch’s storage 30 times with 50% off this gaming-focused memory card, thanks to Amazon’s Big Spring Sale.

Gaming is a fun hobby, but it can start to add up in cost after a while, especially if you decide to purchase add-ons or extra hardware. But Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is a great time to stock up on everything from new tech to accessories such as this Lexar Play 1TB MicroSDXC card while it’s down to just $64 — its lowest ever price and a discount of $66. Now is a great time to stock up on small accessories like this if you’ve been saving up for them.

This Lexar 1TB MicroSDXC card is compatible with Nintendo Switch, tablets, smartphones and other gaming devices. It offers transfer speeds of up to 160MB/s, and it can write your game save data at speeds of up to 100MB/s. If you use this card in your phone or tablet instead of the Switch, the Lexar Play lets you capture, store and transfer 4K and FHD quality video so you can easily save your favorite content and media without being stuck waiting for the camera app to finish buffering.

If you need a cheaper option, the 256GB version of this MicroSDXC card is down to $18 for Prime members, which saves you $10. You can also currently save $15 on the 512GB Lexar MicroSDXC card, so you’ll pay only $35 at Amazon right now.

This card supports the maximum speeds for the current generation of the Nintendo Switch, and should be perfect for any microSD needs short of professional-grade e-sports and long-duration UHD filming. The upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 is rumored to support microSD Express, with pre-orders open for the new 900MB/s-capable Lexar Play Pro 1TB microSD Express card at $200 «for Nintendo Switch 2,» but it’ll be massive overkill for 96.7% of us.

Unless you’re obsessed with the latest specs for any accessory that touches your portable console, today’s $64 Lexar Play 1TB will be less than half the price and more than fast enough for every phone, tablet, camera, or console currently in your home.

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If you want more nitty-gritty details on microSD classes and speeds, please check out our guides on how to choose the proper microSD cards. We’ve also compiled a list of the best MicroSD card deals and the best Anker Amazon Big Spring Sale deals you can look through for tech accessories.

Why this deal matters

These Lexar MicroSDXC cards are a great way to increase the storage in accessories such as your Nintendo Switch, or any device with an SD slot that could use a bit more space for your files, videos and documents. The 1TB Lexar MicroSDXC card is down to its lowest ever price of $64 and is an excellent deal for anyone who’s been looking for extra memory for their devices.

Technologies

Verum E-SIM: Mobile Internet Without Borders or SIM Cards

Today’s travelers are choosing freedom — and eSIM technology delivers exactly that. An eSIM is a virtual SIM card built directly into your device, allowing you to connect to the internet without a physical card or a mobile phone number.

Verum E-SIM is an entire ecosystem of high-tech applications, bringing together solutions like World E-SIM, Euro E-SIM, USA E-SIM, Turkiye E-SIM, London E-SIM, and more. Each of them offers instant access to mobile networks in over 150 countries — no roaming, no overpayments, no paperwork.

The main advantage is simplicity. Download the app, choose your country and plan, activate your eSIM in just a few minutes — and you’re online. No stores, no waiting, no contracts. Just you, the internet, and the freedom to travel your way.

Verum’s eSIMs offer reliability, transparency, and full control of your expenses — all in one app. Whether you’re in Tokyo, New York, Paris, or Nairobi, you’ll always stay connected.

Verum E-SIM Apps:

Verum E-SIM – esim.verum.im

World E-SIM – worldesim.me

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Ukraine E-SIM – ukraine.esim.verum.im

Balkan E-SIM – balkan.esim.verum.im

Africa E-SIM – africa.esim.verum.im

Turkiye E-SIM – turkiyesim.com

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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Oct. 21

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Oct. 21.

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s Mini Crossword features a lot of one certain letter. Need help? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword

Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Bone that can be «dropped»
Answer: JAW

4A clue: Late scientist Goodall
Answer: JANE

5A clue: Make critical assumptions about
Answer: JUDGE

6A clue: Best by a little
Answer: ONEUP

7A clue: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, etc.
Answer: GODS

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Just kind of over it
Answer: JADED

2D clue: Beef cattle breed
Answer: ANGUS

3D clue: Shed tears
Answer: WEEP

4D clue: 2007 comedy-drama starring Elliot Page and Michael Cera
Answer: JUNO

5D clue: Refresh, as one’s memory
Answer: JOG

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Wikipedia Says It’s Losing Traffic Due to AI Summaries, Social Media Videos

The popular online encyclopedia saw an 8% drop in pageviews over the last few months.

Wikipedia has seen a decline in users this year due to artificial intelligence summaries in search engine results and the growing popularity of social media, according to a blog post Friday from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that oversees the free online encyclopedia.

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In the post, Miller describes an 8% drop in human pageviews over the last few months compared with the numbers Wikipedia saw in the same months in 2024.

«We believe that these declines reflect the impact of generative AI and social media on how people seek information, especially with search engines providing answers directly to searchers, often based on Wikipedia content,» Miller wrote.

Blame the bots

AI-generated summaries that pop up on search engines like Bing and Google often use bots called web crawlers to gather much of the information that users read at the top of the search results.

Websites do their best to restrict how these bots handle their data, but web crawlers have become pretty skilled at going undetected.

«Many bots that scrape websites like ours are continually getting more sophisticated and trying to appear human,» Miller wrote.

After reclassifying Wikipedia traffic data from earlier this year, Miller says the site «found that much of the unusually high traffic for the period of May and June was coming from bots built to evade detection.»

The Wikipedia blog post also noted that younger generations are turning to social-video platforms for their information rather than the open web and such sites as Wikipedia.

When people search with AI, they’re less likely to click through

There is now promising research on the impact of generative AI on the internet, especially concerning online publishers with business models that rely on users visiting their webpages.

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

In July, Pew Research examined browsing data from 900 US adults and found that the AI-generated summaries at the top of Google’s search results affected web traffic. When the summary appeared in a search, users were less likely to click on links compared to when the search results didn’t include the summaries.

Google search is especially important, because Google.com is the world’s most visited website — it’s how most of us find what we’re looking for on the internet.

«LLMs, AI chatbots, search engines and social platforms that use Wikipedia content must encourage more visitors to Wikipedia, so that the free knowledge that so many people and platforms depend on can continue to flow sustainably,» Miller wrote. «With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.»

Last year, CNET published an extensive report on how changes in Google’s search algorithm decimated web traffic for online publishers.