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I’ve tested all the best hybrid smartwatches of 2025 and these are my top picks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:30:23

Hybrid smartwatches nail the best of both worlds: classic analog style with just enough smartwatch features to keep you connected. They look like traditional timepieces but sneak in fitness tracking , heart rate sensors, and the occasional notification. I’ve tested plenty, and the standouts are the ones that blend design and utility without feeling like a gadget in disguise. Below are the hybrid smartwatches I recommend most. Importantly, the device is extremely comfortable on the wrist. It wea

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DEXA Scan Deep Dive, With Insights From the Experts (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-02 08:30:00

Earlier this summer, I found myself lying flat on a padded table in Tucson, Arizona. A mechanical arm hovered above me, scanning my body from head to toe while I tried to remain still. Fifteen-ish minutes later, a clinician handed me a thick packet of results, which included details on bone density, lean muscle mass, body fat percentage, and color-coded visuals showing exactly where each of these metrics was located within my body. This was a DEXA scan, short for dual-energy x-ray absorptiometr

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No, the Galaxy S25 FE doesn’t have this key security upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 08:15:48

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has confirmed to Android Authority that the Galaxy S25 FE has an optical-based fingerprint scanner. This comes after unofficial claims that the phone has an ultrasonic scanner. An ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is faster, more accurate, and works with wet fingers. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 FE last week, and it brings a couple of notable upgrades. We also heard rumors that the phone would have an upgraded in-display fingerprint sensor, bu

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Withings Updates ScanWatch 2 With 35-Day Battery Life the Apple Watch Could Only Dream Of

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-13 08:00:21

Withings, which is best known for its smart scales and similar devices, also makes a smartwatch series, the latest of which is the ScanWatch 2. At IFA 2025, the company announced a new blue and silver version of the 42mm model. It also unveiled HealthSense 4, an AI-laden software update that leverages the tech to handle a set of new health- and sleep-tracking features. I grabbed a picture of the ScanWatch 2 while I was there, and now I get the appeal of this watch. If you’re not familiar, the S

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This new Withings smartwatch can tell you when you're getting sick

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-15 07:00:17

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways Withings has unveiled its Vitality Indicator. The feature can notify users ahead of illness. The feature arrives in tandem with the ScanWatch 2. Tech brands are betting big on the ability to spot health strain before symptoms arrive. The latest feature in Withings' newest smartwatch is no different. Withings' Vitality Indicator, available on its new ScanWatch 2, monitors a user's vitals, like their heart rate variabi

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9 great PDF scanner apps you should use instead of Microsoft Lens

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 18:00:29

Andy Walker / Android Authority There comes a time when all great apps must die, especially if Microsoft owns them. Redmond has taken many tools away from me, from Sunrise Calendar to Wunderlist, and now it’s hooking Microsoft Lens from the stage. The PDF scanner app made it easy to grab physical documents and transform them into digital copies without a bulky scanner. It was nothing fancy, but it did its job effortlessly. While Lens is undoubtedly one of the more useful tools Microsoft has gi

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GPU Prefix Sums: A nearly complete collection

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 12:49:10

GPU Prefix Sums GPUPrefixSums aims to bring state-of-the-art GPU prefix sum techniques from CUDA and make them available in portable compute shaders. In addition to this, it contributes "Decoupled Fallback," a novel fallback technique for Chained Scan with Decoupled Lookback that should allow devices without forward thread progress guarantees to perform the scan without crashing. The D3D12 implementation includes an extensive survey of GPU prefix sums, ranging from the warp to the device level;

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GPUPrefixSums – state of the art GPU prefix sum algorithms

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 18:49:10

GPU Prefix Sums GPUPrefixSums aims to bring state-of-the-art GPU prefix sum techniques from CUDA and make them available in portable compute shaders. In addition to this, it contributes "Decoupled Fallback," a novel fallback technique for Chained Scan with Decoupled Lookback that should allow devices without forward thread progress guarantees to perform the scan without crashing. The D3D12 implementation includes an extensive survey of GPU prefix sums, ranging from the warp to the device level;

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Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 22:20:35

Earlier this month I covered Jonathan Clark's effort to reverse-engineer the Pi Zero 2 W, and just yesterday, I discovered TubeTime reverse-engineered the Compute Module 5. Both are graciously sharing their schematics and process on GitHub: jonny12375/rp3a0 for the Zero 2 W / RP3A0 schlae/cm5-reveng for the CM5 / RP2712 Raspberry Pi shares limited board schematics, but sometimes—especially when digging into some esoteric edge case for a carrier board, or in Jonathan's case, desoldering all t

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Grano’ scans barcodes to help you understand what’s in your food

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-05 05:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Most people want to eat healthier, but knowing where to start can always be a challenge. Grano aims to bridge that gap, by allowing you to easily scan barcodes of foods you’re buying, and creating a unique scoring system based on your dietary goals – allowing you to find the foods you need, before you ev

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Line scan camera image processing for train photography

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Lawrence Lu 2025-11-05 02:09:21

I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff. But there’s a lot that goes into properly processing the images. FIGURE 2 A cool train, the Renfe AVE Class 102, nicknamed Pato because of its duck bill-like appearance. FIGURE 4 Nice CRH6A intercity electric multiple unit. 1 Principle of operation The way it works is that the camera has a single column of pixels (or in this case, two columns), that scans at a super high speed. The camaera is stationary, but as a tra

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Parallel Reduce and Scan on the GPU

news.ycombinator.com Maximilian Maldacker 2025-11-06 18:21:37

Parallel reduce and scan on the GPU Introduction GPUs are formidable parallel machines, capable of running thousands of threads simultaniously. They are excellent for embarassily parallel algorithms, but are quite different than the ones on the CPU due to the way GPUs work. You can’t just build and run an application. You need to interact with the GPU driver via one of several APIs available (CUDA, OpenCL, Vulkan, DirectX, OpenGL, etc), manage the device memory, organize the transfers between

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This could be my new PDF scanner app once Microsoft Lens is taken away

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:09:53

Andy Walker / Android Authority If Microsoft Lens were a coin, I’d likely find it lurking between the couch cushions. It’s one of those apps that I forgot was installed on my device, but I was always glad to see it whenever I needed to scan receipts, invoices, menus, random documents, or business cards, extract their text, and convert the result into my preferred file type. Unfortunately, we can’t have nice things. So, as it was one of Redmond’s most functional and reliable Android apps, Lens

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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 08:24:51

Robotics engineers at the University of Würzburg have developed a novel 3D laser scanner system for precise plant analysis in the field for the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many researchers are therefore working on harvesting robots that could provide welcome support to agricultural businesses in the future. ‘There are already a few pro

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The value of institutional memory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 10:53:43

In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an easy day’s work. But what really had them stumped was a heavy iron chain on the canal bottom. After various attempts, they hooked the chain to their dredger. That did the trick. A firm pull removed the chain and the block of wood on the end of it. The gang took a well-earned break for tea. The tea bre

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The Value of Institutional Memory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 04:53:43

In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an easy day’s work. But what really had them stumped was a heavy iron chain on the canal bottom. After various attempts, they hooked the chain to their dredger. That did the trick. A firm pull removed the chain and the block of wood on the end of it. The gang took a well-earned break for tea. The tea bre

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Microsoft to shut down Lens and push users to Copilot - but you have other options

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-01 20:03:00

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft Lens retires in stages, ending scans by Dec. 15, 2025. 365 Copilot app offers scanning but with fewer features. Adobe Scan, PhotoScan, TurboScan are solid Lens alternatives. I often use Microsoft Lens on my iPhone to scan photos, business cards, and documents. It's a handy and helpful app for scanning physical items. But come December, I'll have to rely on a different program for my scanning needs. That's because Micro

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Matter and Form Three 3D Scanner Review: Easy Scans

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-12-02 02:00:00

As a chronic tinkerer, I’ve always wished there was a simple, efficient, and effective way to get a full-resolution 3D model of a part without spending hundreds of hours learning 3D modeling or thousands of dollars on a high-resolution 3D scanner. This is the problem Matter and Form wanted to solve with the Three, a 3D scanner that claims to be simple, intuitive, and inexpensive. It’s important to emphasize that 3D scanners are not the end-all, be-all of creating 3D models. They are a tool to b

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Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-04 23:59:19

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play Store (with over 952,000 reviews with an average of 4.9/5 rating) and received nearly 136,000 ratings on Apple's App St

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2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 02:29:40

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals 4 days ago Share Save Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Share Save G Caspari and M Vavulin Scans of the ice mummy's skin revealed details of animals and birds on her arms and hands High-resolution imaging of tattoos found on a 2,500 year old Siberian "ice mummy" have revealed decorations that a modern tattooist would find challenging to produce, according to researchers. The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag,

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Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-15 21:12:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! A new twist on package-related scams is drawing concern from federal authorities, as the FBI warns Americans to be vigilant when receiving unexpected parcels containing QR codes. According to a recent alert, criminals have begun exploiting the ubiquity of QR codes as a tool for financial fraud and identity theft. The scheme unfolds when an individual receives a package that's addressed to the

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Imaging reveals intricate tattoos of 2,500-year-old Siberian ice mummy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 08:29:40

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals 4 days ago Share Save Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Share Save G Caspari and M Vavulin Scans of the ice mummy's skin revealed details of animals and birds on her arms and hands High-resolution imaging of tattoos found on a 2,500 year old Siberian "ice mummy" have revealed decorations that a modern tattooist would find challenging to produce, according to researchers. The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag,

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The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-12-25 20:52:21

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only the virus but also the prolonged period of stress, isolation, loss, and uncertainty that the pandemic caused. A new scientific study, published this month in Nature Communications, has revealed that the pandemic may have accelerated brain aging in people even if they were never infected with the coronavirus. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK analyzed brain im

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PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-11 05:00:40

We don’t talk enough about the amount of paperwork we come across every day. From essential bank documents, work contracts, tax notices, and bills to invoices, application forms, IDs, letters, and more, keeping everything organized can be a chore. And even more so if there’s a mix of physical and digital paperwork to deal with. Scanning your documents and organizing them digitally is a smart idea. But while there are plenty of scanner apps, any features you might need beyond basic scanning are

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Zuck, Sandberg, and Thiel Skate Free From Testifying After Settlement in Meta Privacy Suit

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-14 05:00:44

An $8 billion shareholder lawsuit against Meta over the Cambridge Analytica scandal ended in an undisclosed settlement on Thursday. The settlement, which came at the last minute as a trial was getting underway, saved high-ranking members of Meta’s board from having to testify under oath about their roles in those alleged violations. The lawsuit, which was originally filed in 2018, asked the defendants to use billions of their personal wealth to compensate for the financial damages it accused th

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Android’s redesigned QR code scanner is finally here with one-handed improvements

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-25 00:59:54

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Google has finally started rolling out the design refresh for Android’s built-in QR code scanner, which we first spotted a year ago. The new interface brings all the buttons close to the bottom of the screen for easier one-handed use. The updated QR code scanner is not available widely, but should reach all users in the coming days. Android’s built-in QR code scanner is finally getting its long-overdue design refresh, a year after we first spotted it i

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How I used a Raspberry Pi to save my old Canon scanner

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-31 05:30:23

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority A couple of years ago, I decided to invest in a high-quality scanner. The idea was to digitize and archive dozens of old photo albums from my childhood that were scattered around in boxes. You know how these projects go. Starting is easy. Seeing it through, not so much. Over the years, I’ve kept coming back to it in bursts. But year on year, I’ve been running into roadblocks. Namely, driver support. You see, what started as a functional scanner turned into a sc

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How often is the query plan optimal?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-06 11:19:27

The basic promise of a query optimizer is that it picks the “optimal” query plan. But there’s a catch - the plan selection relies on cost estimates, calculated from selectivity estimates and cost of basic resources (I/O, CPU, …). So the question is, how often do we actually pick the “fastest” plan? And the truth is we actually make mistakes quite often. Consider the following chart, with durations of a simple SELECT query with a range condition. The condition is varied to match different fracti

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Calculating the Fibonacci numbers on GPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-20 05:10:19

Calculating the fibonacci numbers on GPU 21 Jun, 2025 In this blogpost we will show how to perform very fast calculation of the Fibonacci sequence using GPU programming. In this blogpost we will employ Thrust an NVIDIA library which uses concepts from modern C++ to make GPU programming easy. Introduction Scan is one of the fundamental examples for parallelizable algorithms. If you are interested in the foundations of the algorithm I refer you to a previous blogpost where I implemented scan i

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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-28 05:00:03

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday. The 32-page legal decision tells the stor

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I’ve tested all the best hybrid smartwatches of 2025 and these are my top picks

DEXA Scan Deep Dive, With Insights From the Experts (2025)

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GPUPrefixSums – state of the art GPU prefix sum algorithms

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This could be my new PDF scanner app once Microsoft Lens is taken away

New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

The value of institutional memory

The Value of Institutional Memory

Microsoft to shut down Lens and push users to Copilot - but you have other options

Matter and Form Three 3D Scanner Review: Easy Scans

Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams

Imaging reveals intricate tattoos of 2,500-year-old Siberian ice mummy

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

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Zuck, Sandberg, and Thiel Skate Free From Testifying After Settlement in Meta Privacy Suit

Android’s redesigned QR code scanner is finally here with one-handed improvements

How I used a Raspberry Pi to save my old Canon scanner

How often is the query plan optimal?

Calculating the Fibonacci numbers on GPU

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

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