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These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-08 18:26:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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This Gaming Handheld’s External Battery Isn’t as Dumb as You Think

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-09 04:11:26

As we’re waiting for the ROG Xbox Ally and the next generation of slightly more powerful gaming handhelds to hit the scene, I’m stuck thinking about where portable gaming could go if designers got a little weirder with it. China-based company GPD, known for offering off-kilter laptops that straddle a business and gamer lifestyle, has a handheld PC that’s equal parts enticing and ludicrous. It’s the battery, of all things, that makes the device stand out, literally. The GPD Win 5 handheld PC bea

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This carrier now has a lock system that prevents you from using Developer Options

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 09:49:16

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Cricket’s new device lock makes 2025 or newer Motorola and Cricket-branded phones unusable without an active Cricket SIM or eSIM. The only way around this is to wait six months, after which the phone will be fully unlocked. Developer Options are also blocked until the device is unlocked, so Android enthusiasts who care about this should steer clear. If you thought typical carrier unlock policies were annoying, Cricket’s new Device Unlock system takes thi

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Syncable vs. non-syncable passkeys: Are roaming authenticators the best of both worlds?

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-12-09 18:19:02

matejmo/Getty Images Like or not, a replacement for passwords -- known as passkeys -- is coming your way, if it hasn't already. The three big ideas behind passkeys are that they cannot be guessed in the way passwords often can (and are), the same passkey cannot be re-used across different websites and apps (the way passwords can), and you cannot be tricked into divulging your passkeys to malicious actors, often through techniques such as phishing, smishing, quishing, and malvertising. Also: Ho

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This new Android security feature could interfere with fast charging, and here’s why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 10:30:09

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16’s upcoming USB Protection feature enhances security by defaulting new USB connections to charging-only when the device is locked. This security measure may interfere with fast charging, as many protocols require data negotiation between the phone and the charger to work. If your phone isn’t fast charging, a simple workaround is to unlock the device and then reconnect the USB cable. Of all the new features in Android 16, Advanced Protection

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Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 18:52:20

After her game was banned from sale on Steam in a baffling decision with no appeal option , solo developer Cara Cadaver has made VILE: Exhumed available as shareware under a Creative Commons license. The project can be downloaded for free, but players can opt to donate in support of the solo developer's work. Both Cara and publisher DreadXP will pay forward those donations, with 50 percent of the game's profits being given to the Toronto-based charity Red Door Family Shelter . The group aids fam

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TP-Link’s new travel router delivers Wi-Fi 7 speeds

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-11 04:56:42

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. Connecting to free airport or hotel Wi-Fi can often be a time-consuming and frustrating task that doesn’t seem worth the effort for a bag full of wireless devices. TP-Link has announced its first Wi-Fi 7 travel router, providing up to a total of 3.6 Gbps of b

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Don’t hold your breath for OpenAI’s new model to run on your phone’s Snapdragon chip

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 09:09:16

TL;DR The new OpenAI model can now run directly on some devices with Snapdragon chips. It’s the first time an OpenAI reasoning model has been made available for on-device use. This could mean faster, more private AI features on your phone, just not yet. When you use an AI model like ChatGPT, it runs in the cloud rather than on your phone or laptop, but Qualcomm seems eager to change that. The company has announced that OpenAI’s first open-source reasoning model, with the less-than-catchy name

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Apple releases developer beta 5 for visionOS 26

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-11 18:10:35

Alongside the new macOS 26 developer beta 5, Apple has also pushed out the fifth developer beta of visionOS 26, and the rest of its operating systems. The build number for today’s visionOS 26 beta 5 release is 23M5311g. If you want to enroll in the developer beta program for Apple Vision Pro, here’s what you’ve got to do: Open the Settings app Choose “General” Choose “Software Update” Select “Beta Updates” Select “visionOS Developer Beta” What’s new? As announced on WWDC25, visionOS 26 brin

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Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:38:36

stagewise The frontend coding agent for production codebases About the project Welcome to stagewise — The frontend coding agent for production codebases 💬 Tell the agent what you want to change 🧠 Click on element(s) to let the agent know where a change should happen 💡 Let stagewise do the magic! Perfect for devs tired of pasting element information and folder paths into prompts. stagewise uses real-time, browser-powered context. Features ⚡ Works out of the box 🧩 Customize and extend fu

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Google’s Pixel 9A is cheaper than ever right now

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-12-11 23:05:38

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Google Pixel 9A is a midrange phone done right, offering a great balance of hardware, features, and value. Normally it costs $499, but now you can scoop up the 128GB model for an all-time low of $399 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store. The Pixel A-series has long been our go-to recommendation for a cheap Android phone, and the 9A keeps that streak alive. The device features a 6.3-inch

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BioShock 4 loses direction again as 2K fires top leadership

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-13 23:54:00

Facepalm: Take-Two's BioShock 4 has been stuck in development hell for over a decade. Now, executives have fired the studio head, demoted the creative director, and ordered a full rewrite, putting the project's future in doubt. Fans have long wondered when the game will launch - but maybe the real question is: will it? Take-Two is overhauling the long-delayed next installment in the BioShock series after an internal review left top executives at 2K Games dissatisfied with the game's progress. T

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The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-12-14 23:47:00

Why we like it: The Apple AirTag is an affordable and accurate solution to keep track of your child's location. It works with the Find My app and seamlessly integrates with the Apple ecosystem. Apple's AirTags are about the size of a quarter, and there are countless accessories you can use to attach the small tracker to a jacket, backpack, or even slip it into your child's pocket. The device uses an easily replaceable CR2032 battery lasts that lasts around a year. The AirTag offers a solid per

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Tired of Google Home not working? This new change will make you furious

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 09:11:23

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is updating names for certain voice options for Gemini-powered Assistant on Google Nest and Home smart devices. Some of these names are now simpler and easier to recall. These changes do not reflect Google’s plans to fix the ongoing reliability issues with Google Assistant on Home-affiliated smart devices. Google Assistant on Nest and other Google Home devices has been a mess lately, displaying a steadily declining perception of voice commands

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Bad news for anyone eagerly awaiting the iPad Fold

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-16 00:09:42

Alongside an iPhone Fold expected to launch next year, Apple has long been reported to be working on a foldable iPad with an 18.8-inch display. There have, however, been very different estimates of the timeline for the product – and the latest report isn’t good news. Estimates have so far ranged from late next year to sometime in 2028, and an analyst who previously expected a 2026 unveiling has now changed his mind … iPad Fold with 18.8-inch display Reports of the device date back to 2022, wh

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Mozilla warns of phishing attacks targeting add-on developers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 23:00:15

Mozilla has warned browser extension developers of an active phishing campaign targeting accounts on its official AMO (addons.mozilla.org) repository. Mozilla's add-on platform hosts over 60,000 browser extensions and more than 500,000 themes used by tens of millions of users worldwide. According to Mozilla's advisory, these phishing emails are impersonating the AMO team and claim that the targeted developer accounts require updates to maintain access to development features. "The developer c

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Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI

venturebeat.com Roman Eloshvili 2025-12-15 18:05:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now As AI continues to take on more and more new competencies, junior coding, as we knew it, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Tasks that used to be the bread and butter for junior developers — such as repetitive scripting, HTML layout or simple DevOps setups — are now being reliably handled by AI assistants like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot

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Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-15 17:00:14

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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Apple @ Work: Why MDM isn’t enough to succeed with Macs

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-12-15 10:00:00

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Gone but not forgotten: Survey reveals Android users miss these features the most

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:00:50

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Our smartphones have undergone profound commodification. But in the process of forging them into objects we use and rely on for nearly every waking hour, phone companies have focused a lot on optimizing utility, which, in turn, has resulted in many key features being dropped from our beloved devices. These days, leading brands especially insist on slimming down phones more, even going against what users may truly want. So, to get a sense of which features our

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Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 10:34:51

Thermal Receipt Weather Printer Prints a daily weather forecast on an ESC/POS thermal printer, such as the "Bisofice Mini BT thermal receipt printer". Dependencies | Setup | Usage | Cron Dependencies Python 3 Pillow : The Python imaging library. : The Python imaging library. ImageMagick: For converting SVG icons to a printable format. Setup Install dependencies: On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install imagemagick python3-pil On other systems, install ImageMagick via

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Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-15 10:46:00

The big picture: Software developers are increasingly weaving AI tools into their work, but such rapid adoption hasn't come without confusion or conflict. They and their managers are still trying to work out when these tools help, when they hurt, and how to integrate them without creating more problems than they solve. In its annual poll of 49,000 professional developers, Stack Overflow found that 80 percent use AI tools in their work in 2025, a share that has surged in recent years. Despite th

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Developers increasingly embrace AI tools even as their trust in them falls

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-16 04:46:00

The big picture: Software developers are increasingly weaving AI tools into their work, but such rapid adoption hasn't come without confusion or conflict. They and their managers are still trying to work out when these tools help, when they hurt, and how to integrate them without creating more problems than they solve. In its annual poll of 49,000 professional developers, Stack Overflow found that 80 percent use AI tools in their work in 2025, a share that has surged in recent years. Despite th

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Android’s Apple-inspired Handoff feature is moving closer to completion (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 04:25:58

Google TL;DR Android’s Handoff functionality is taking shape, with new options for cross-device file sharing now visible. We also saw glimpses of app sharing, which could allow you to access apps installed on other devices. The toggles and buttons are not active, which suggests that Google may still modify how these features function. Update, August 1, 2025 (05:25PM ET): Google still isn’t quite ready to launch Handoff, but we’ve spotted some further progress on the tool. AssembleDebug / An

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The clock is ticking: Google has 14 days to make major changes to the Play Store

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 04:43:24

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has 14 days to enact the Play Store changes needed to resolve its antitrust issues. The tech giant has now filed an emergency stay with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The company believes that making these changes in such a short amount of time will put users and developers at risk. On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling from the original Epic v. Google lawsuit, giving Epic Games the big win it was looking for.

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Microsoft is killing its failed ChromeOS competitor, Windows 11 SE

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:00:50

Microsoft is ending support for its ChromeOS competitor Windows 11 SE. The company will officially stop providing "software updates, technical assistance and security fixes" in October 2026, according to an updated support document spotted by NeoWin. When it was announced in 2021, Windows 11 SE was pitched as a simplified, lightweight version of Microsoft's operating system for the classroom. Chromebooks and ChromeOS devices are widely used in schools around the world, so it made sense that Mic

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Self-Signed JWTs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 06:27:59

2025-08-01 Get a load of this (totally normalized) BS. "We have just the offering for you! Visit our website. Create an account. Verify your email. Create a project. Add your credit card. Go to settings. Create an API key. Add it to your password manager. Drop it in your .env file. Download our SDK. Import it. Pass your env var in. Never share your API key. Make sure you never commit it to source control. On the client, we have a React SDK. Make sure you use your publishable key for that. For

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Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 14:32:58

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has placed unbelievable pressure on drone developers on both sides of the war, who have responded with astounding innovations that include: fiber-optic drones (to prevent radio jamming) kamikaze sea drones, eventually equipped with anti-air missiles drones that fire shotguns bomber drones that drop mines and grenades drones that release flaming thermite into trenches long-range, aircraft-style drones that can substitute for small cruise missiles interceptor

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Spotify update now lets you turn off the ‘Create’ button – here’s how

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2025-12-17 09:35:16

Spotify recently introduced a “Create” button along its bottom navigation bar, but it’s really not that helpful. Thankfully, Spotify has fixed this in a new update that lets you turn the “Create” button off. It’s been months since Spotify first rolled out its new “Create” button on the navigation bar, with the button moving from its previous location on the Library tab down to this dedicated position. Tapping the button reveals options to make a new playlist, collaborative playlist, “Blend,” A

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Long Term Support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 14:28:11

Long Term Support The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through the year 2050. At this writing, 2050 is still 25 years in the future. Nobody knows what will happen in that time, and we cannot absolutely promise that SQLite will be viable or useful that far out. But we can promise this: we plan as if we will be supporting SQLite until 2050. That long-term outlook affects our decisions in important ways. Cross-platform Code → SQLite runs on any platform with an 8-bit byte, two's com

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These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

This Gaming Handheld’s External Battery Isn’t as Dumb as You Think

This carrier now has a lock system that prevents you from using Developer Options

Syncable vs. non-syncable passkeys: Are roaming authenticators the best of both worlds?

This new Android security feature could interfere with fast charging, and here’s why

Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title

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BioShock 4 loses direction again as 2K fires top leadership

The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

Tired of Google Home not working? This new change will make you furious

Bad news for anyone eagerly awaiting the iPad Fold

Mozilla warns of phishing attacks targeting add-on developers

Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI

Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills

Apple @ Work: Why MDM isn’t enough to succeed with Macs

Gone but not forgotten: Survey reveals Android users miss these features the most

Show HN: Print the daily weather forecast on a thermal receipt printer

Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less

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Self-Signed JWTs

Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike

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