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INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — More than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the United States last week were brought back home on a charter plane and reunited with their loved ones on Friday. They were among the 475 people detained during the Sept. 4 immigration raid at a battery factory under construction on the campus of Hyundai’s sprawling auto plant west of Savannah, Georgia. Their roundup and the U.S. release of video showing some Korean workers shackled with chain...

Key Takeaways: The new Go Ultra by Insta360 is a major upgrade from the Go 3 and Go 3S: It addresses the main issues of earlier models with microSD storage, a larger sensor, sharper 4K video, and longer battery life. Small size, real flexibility: Weighing only 53g, the Go Ultra is ideal for athletes, travelers, or anyone who wants lightweight gear without sacrificing creative shooting options. Creator Bundle designed for lifestyle use: At $499, the kit includes smart accessories like a tilt-read...

(Image credit: MINISFORUM) Minisforum G7 Pro delivers laptop-level performance in a compact Mini PC chassis NVIDIA RTX 5070 Laptop GPU powers desktop-class graphics in a small device Dual-channel DDR5 RAM and two M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots support heavy workloads At IFA 2025, Minisforum unveiled a series of mini PCs, including the G7 Pro, which uses an Intel Raptor Lake-HX CPU and condenses high-end business laptop performance into a compact device. The G7 Pro is a small-form-factor (SFF) gaming mini PC...

Hardware Reviews Sleek, light-weight design Fantastic battery life Quick mute hand controls Edifier doesn’t let me down when it comes to quality pairs of headphones. They seem to be releasing a good variety (at different price points) of over-the-head earphones that have a lot of positives and great sound quality. The Edifier ES850NB is another such pair of headphones. The Look of the Edifier ES850NB This pair of headphones is very sleek-looking, with a sort of textured plastic on the outs...

Apple CEO Tim Cook reached back to Steve Jobs for inspiration on Tuesday, quoting his late predecessor as he introduced the company’s slimmest handset yet—the iPhone Air. “For us, design goes beyond just how something looks or feels. Design is also how it works,” Cook said as he held up a phone just 5.6 millimeters thick. Cook later joked that the device “does seem like it’s going to fly away when you’re holding it,” according to the Wall Street Journal. But the A...

Bullivant’s Junttan PMx2e Roger Bullivant has deployed a Junttan PMx2e, powered by a 392 kWh battery system, on Morgan Sindall’s Ardrossan Community Campus site, a £115m education development in North Ayrshire. According to Bullivant, it is the first time that a fully battery-powered pile driving rig has been used in the UK. The PMx2e has a replaceable battery pack that provides up to eight hours of piling per charge. By optimising the use of the two batteries, the PMx2e showed itself t...

A former University of Southern Florida football coach had criminal charges against him dropped on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.  Jim Leavitt was arrested late last month by St. Petersburg Police on misdemeanor simple battery and domestic battery, and felony grand theft, but the state’s attorney’s office in Clearwater, Florida, said in a court filing that the “facts and circumstances” gave merit to closing the case, The Athletic reported.  Leavitt, who was the first coach a...