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How to Add Custom Backgrounds to Messages in iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 13:00:05

Apple released iOS 26 on Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the June Worldwide Developers Conference. The update brings a new Liquid Glass redesign, call screening and lots of hidden features for your iPhone. The update also lets you add backgrounds to your chats in Messages, giving a visual identifier for each thread so you can easily tell if you're messaging the right person or group. With this new feature, you can make your own picture a background, use one of Apple's pre

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David Lynch LA House

news.ycombinator.com Aditi Sharma 2025-09-22 13:30:14

David Lynch, the visionary American filmmaker behind Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr, passed away this January, yet his creative universe endures in objects, spaces and ideas. Among the most striking of these relics is his larger-than-life, meticulously designed Hollywood Hills home; a cinematic setting in its own right. Perched on a sweeping 2.3-acre hillside, David Lynch’s private compound, which is now listed for $15 million by Marc Silver of The Agency, unfolds like one of his own

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I changed these 5 settings on my TV to significantly improve the picture quality

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-23 21:47:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to pop

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Google partners with UK nonprofit to detect and remove nonconsensual intimate images from Search

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-23 21:52:50

Google is partnering with the U.K. nonprofit StopNCII to bolster its efforts at combating the spread of nonconsensual intimate images, also known as revenge porn. The search giant will begin using StopNCII’s hashes, which are digital fingerprints of images and videos, to proactively identify and remove non-consensual intimate imagery on Search. StopNCII helps adults prevent their private images from being shared online by creating a unique identifier, or hash, representing their intimate image

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Seven indie games that will upgrade your downtime this fall

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-24 08:00:00

We all know there’s a lot of tech to potentially upgrade in your life, but for those who want to upgrade their downtime with inexpensive, relatively short video games, I have good news. 2025 has already featured a wealth of excellent titles to spend your time with, including ones from smaller and independent developers that you can complete in a few sessions. If you’re looking for a good new game to play (and aren’t already deep into Hollow Knight: Silksong), here are some great options from thi

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Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-24 09:42:46

On Wednesday, Google announced a partnership with StopNCII.org to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), the company announced today . Over the next few months, Google will start using StopNCII’s hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them. Hashes are algorithmically-generated unique identifiers that allow services to identify and block imagery flagged as abuse without sharing or storing the actual source. StopNII says it uses PDQ f

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Apple Photos app corrupts images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 19:07:44

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos fr

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Unprecedented ‘Einstein Cross’ Reveals Fifth Ghost Image and a Dark Matter Surprise

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-26 09:30:14

When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a rare glimpse of elusive cosmic phenomena. And the weirder the glitch, the more insightful the finding, as a team of astronomers recently discovered. These glitches are formally referred to as Einstein Crosses. As light from a distant galaxy travels toward our observatories, the gravitational force of galaxies closer to us bends that light, creating an image of four bright do

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Here’s who is actually using ChatGPT — and how they are using it

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-09-26 09:04:29

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI this week released what it says is the largest study yet of how people are using ChatGPT, revealing fresh insights on who is using the technology and what they are using it for. The big surprise was finding out that most ChatGPT chats a

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 17)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-26 21:30:18

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Apple Photos App Corrupts Images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 06:07:44

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos fr

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YouTube rolls out Studio updates, ‘likeness’ detection, lip-synced dubs, creator collabs, and more

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-28 01:30:00

YouTube on Tuesday announced a suite of new features coming to YouTube Studio, the platform over 30 million creators use to manage their channels and track their analytics and revenue every month. At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled new and updated tools like an AI-powered chatbot for support, an inspiration tab, title A/B testing features, auto dubbing, likeness detection tools, and more. Many of these features build on tools previously announced or tested with smaller groups bu

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YouTube rolls out Studio updates, ‘likeness’ detection, lip synced dubs, creator collabs, and more

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-28 06:30:00

YouTube on Tuesday announced a suite of new features coming to YouTube Studio, the platform over 30 million creators use to manage their channels and track their analytics and revenue every month. At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled new and updated tools like an AI-powered chatbot for support, an inspiration tab, title A/B testing features, auto dubbing, likeness detection tools, and more. Many of these features build on tools previously announced or tested with smaller groups, b

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Scientists Gather to Confront the Doomsday Risks of ‘Mirror Life’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-28 13:10:48

The prospect of creating “mirror life”—synthetic cells made from molecules that are mirror images of those found in nature—remains completely hypothetical. Still, the potential consequences are so dire that experts from around the world are gathering to discuss how to prevent the worst-case scenario. This week, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and other stakeholders will convene in Manchester, U.K., for Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Life 2025. This annual international conference e

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YouTube rolls out Studio updates, ‘likeness’ detection, lip synced dubs, creator collabs and more

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-28 21:30:00

YouTube on Tuesday announced a suite of new features coming to YouTube Studio, the platform over 30 million creators use to manage their channels and track their analytics and revenue every month. At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled new and updated tools like an AI-powered chatbot for support, an inspiration tab, title A/B testing features, auto dubbing, likeness detection tools, and more. Many of these features build on tools previously announced or tested with smaller groups, b

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Gemini Is the Top Free iPhone App, and This 'Bananas' AI Image Model Is Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 16:42:15

AI fans have gone bananas over Google's new image generator, known as Nano Banana. The image generation app has helped Gemini dethrone OpenAI's ChatGPT as the most popular free app for iPhone users. On Monday, the Gemini iOS app was the No. 1 free app in the Apple App Store, marking an important milestone for Google in a heated AI race. Screenshot of the Apple app store charts taken on Monday, Sept. 15. Screenshot by Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET Gemini has gotten a lot of updates over the past few

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Writing a Good AI Image Prompt Isn't Hard, but You Need These Essential Elements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 05:05:03

One of the first things I learned while testing AI image generators is that there are a lot of things that can go wrong when you're trying to get the image you see in your head to appear on your screen. If you've ever used an AI image or video generator, you know what I mean. I've spent the past year testing and reviewing different AI image generators, and I've generated hundreds of images across services like Google's nano bananas model, Midjourney and Dall-E. But the images I created haven't

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Here’s why usage of Gemini’s Nano Banana image editor is growing

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-01 05:59:52

Google Gemini is breaking out of ChatGPT’s shadow, likely on the wings of its Nano Banana image editor and the viral trend of AI-generated, lifelike figurines. Google launched Nano Banana in late August. It hyped the model as a way to “transform images in amazing new ways” inside the Gemini app. To get the “perfect picture,” you simply pop an image into Gemini and “tell it what you’d like to change,” the company said. Google’s suggestions include redecorating your house, giving yourself a ’60s

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AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 13:35:42

Introduction In the previous post, we showed coreboot running on Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 with Turin CPU, the current, newest family of AMD server processors. However, we faced various obstacles and problems. Despite AMD publishing a set of blobs required for the Turin system initialization, they turned out to be not enough to release the CPU from reset by PSP. We were forced to do a workaround by injecting coreboot into the vendor firmware image and flashing it back. The whole process is far from ide

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James Gunn Slams AI-Generated Batman

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 12:45:50

As generative AI slop is threatening to turn Hollywood on its head, not everybody in the industry is enthusiastic about the tech. In a hilarious counter to a fan's AI-generated image of actor Brandon Sklenar dressed as the DC Comics' Batman, DC Studios filmmaker and "Superman" director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that "it would be weird to cast an AI Batman with a 14 inch arm." Gunn was alluding to the AI-generated Batman's unnaturally short appendages, pointing out the AI's failure t

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Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 06:42:27

Kodak has shrunk a camera to fit onto a keyring, but it still manages to shoot both photo and video. It's hard not to compare the Kodak Charmera to the ubiquitous Labubu craze, considering the highly collectible nature of Reto Pro selling these officially licensed mini cameras as a single blind box for $29.99 or a full set of six for $179.94. The keyring cameras, which only weigh 30 grams, are already sold out on the Reto Pro website, but are expected to be restocked. The blind box can be unwra

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Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:31:22

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support Resizing an image is one of those programming tasks that seems simple, but has some rough edges. One common mistake is forgetting to handle the EXIF orientation, which can make resized images look very different from the original. Last year I wrote a create_thumbnail tool to resize images, and today I released a small update. Now it’s aware of EXIF orientation, and it no longer mangles these images. This is possible thanks to a new ver

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Take a Trip to the Final Frontier With This Year’s Best Astronomy Photography

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-02 21:00:23

When a comet meets solar winds, its nuclear coma—a bright cloud of gas around its core—reacts vibrantly to our Sun’s solar maximum, leaving a trail of stellar gas and dust across the solar system. Miraculously, the sky above June Lake, California, cleared up for a full 13 minutes for photographer Dan Bartlett to image the comet clearly enough for his photograph, “Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks Taking a Final Bow.” With incredible technological advances, the continuous flow of space photos can sometimes

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The blind box trend comes to tech with this tiny digital Kodak camera

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-07 17:52:43

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Everything from smartphones to handheld consoles now come in a variety of different colors, but what if you didn’t get to pick your favorite? That’s how the new Kodak Charmera is being sold. It’s a tiny digital camera released in seven different retro styles

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 10)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 05:30:43

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 17:48:25

Pricing Official images and some other popular public images on Docker Hub are available for free. To access any public or private image, please sign up and subscribe to help us cover operational costs of this service. Pro $5 / month, 20GB active images(*) included Pull any public or private image from Docker Hub and GHCR. Contact us if you need higher limits or need to use AWS ECR, GCP Artifact Registry, or other container registries. $ curl -fL -H "Authorization: Bearer bottlefire_..." -o ap

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Apple Intelligence: Everything you need to know about Apple’s AI model and services

techcrunch.com Brian Heater 2025-10-10 05:51:52

If you’ve upgraded to a newer iPhone model recently, you’ve probably noticed that Apple Intelligence is showing up in some of your most-used apps, like Messages, Mail, and Notes. Apple Intelligence (yes, also abbreviated to AI) showed up in Apple’s ecosystem in October 2024, and it’s here to stay as Apple competes with Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to build the best AI tools. What is Apple Intelligence? Image Credits:Apple Cupertino marketing executives have branded Apple Intelligence

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How can England possibly be running out of water?

news.ycombinator.com Helena Horton 2025-10-08 05:22:35

During the drought of 2022, London came perilously close to running out of water. Water companies and the government prayed desperately for rain as reservoirs ran low and the groundwater was slowly drained off. Contingency plans were drafted to ban businesses from using water; hotel swimming pools would have been drained, ponds allowed to dry up, offices to go uncleaned. If the lack of rainfall had continued for another year, it was possible that taps could have run dry. That, however, was jus

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Leaked images provide first real look at Apple’s upcoming crossbody strap accessory

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-10-13 00:02:03

We’re just over a day from Apple’s “Awe dropping” iPhone 17 event, but that hasn’t stopped new leaks from coming in. New images from reliable leaker Sonny Dickson purportedly shows Apple’s crossbody strap accessory for the upcoming iPhone 17 line. Alongside the new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple is expected to release refreshed cases and accessories. Among these is an all-new offering from Apple, a crossbody strap for iPhone. Tonight, Sonny Dickson has shared two images showing this new accessory in a

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AI Video Generators Are Here: Everything in OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo 3 and Midjourney

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 06:00:06

First came the AI chatbots, then the AI image generators. Now, tech companies are rushing to release AI video generators. During the past year, nearly every major tech company has dropped some kind of AI video model. Between Google's Veo 3, Midjourney and Sora, it's quickly become a crowded market. AI videos are a huge leap forward in a company's AI creative offerings, and they're something worth keeping an eye on as generative AI becomes a bigger part of the content we create and see online. T

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How to Add Custom Backgrounds to Messages in iOS 26

David Lynch LA House

I changed these 5 settings on my TV to significantly improve the picture quality

Google partners with UK nonprofit to detect and remove nonconsensual intimate images from Search

Seven indie games that will upgrade your downtime this fall

Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search

Apple Photos app corrupts images

Unprecedented ‘Einstein Cross’ Reveals Fifth Ghost Image and a Dark Matter Surprise

Here’s who is actually using ChatGPT — and how they are using it

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Apple Photos App Corrupts Images

YouTube rolls out Studio updates, ‘likeness’ detection, lip-synced dubs, creator collabs, and more

YouTube rolls out Studio updates, ‘likeness’ detection, lip synced dubs, creator collabs, and more

Scientists Gather to Confront the Doomsday Risks of ‘Mirror Life’

YouTube rolls out Studio updates, ‘likeness’ detection, lip synced dubs, creator collabs and more

Gemini Is the Top Free iPhone App, and This 'Bananas' AI Image Model Is Why

Writing a Good AI Image Prompt Isn't Hard, but You Need These Essential Elements

Here’s why usage of Gemini’s Nano Banana image editor is growing

AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective

James Gunn Slams AI-Generated Batman

Kodak's mini camera fits on your keyring and is smaller than an AirPods case

Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

Take a Trip to the Final Frontier With This Year’s Best Astronomy Photography

The blind box trend comes to tech with this tiny digital Kodak camera

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 10)

Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

Apple Intelligence: Everything you need to know about Apple’s AI model and services

How can England possibly be running out of water?

Leaked images provide first real look at Apple’s upcoming crossbody strap accessory

AI Video Generators Are Here: Everything in OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo 3 and Midjourney

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