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OnePlus announces Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 with specs tuned to global markets

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 04:00:47

TL;DR OnePlus has announced the Nord 5 and the Nord CE5 globally. An AI button called the “Plus Key” replaces the alert slider on the OnePlus Nord 5. Both phones offer a host of AI applications, voice transcription, live translation, and photo editing with generative AI. The EU’s restrictions limit the Nord 5 and CE5’s battery sizes to only about 75% of their actual sizes in Asia. Within weeks of launching the OnePlus 13S, the India-exclusive rebrand of the 13T, OnePlus is expanding its port

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I’ve reviewed smartphones for 10 years. These are the 5 Android phones I would buy on Prime Day

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 05:00:38

Joe Maring / Android Authority Amazon Prime Day is officially upon us, and just like every year, that means there’s a mountain of deals to sift through, including seemingly endless discounts on Android phones. Some of them are great, others are just fine, and there are some you should avoid altogether. As you might imagine, this can make finding the best Android phone deals a pain in the butt. And that’s where I come in. I’ve been reviewing and testing smartphones for over 10 years, and I’ve

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Here’s what I like and dislike about Android’s new Expressive design

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 05:30:04

Joe Maring / Android Authority If you’ve installed the stable version of Android 16 on your Pixel, you might be disappointed to find that the big visual refresh Google announced on May 13 is conspicuous by its absence. An unfortunate consequence of the new platform release schedule is that some of the more notable new Android 16 features won’t be arriving until the Android 16 QPR1 update in early September. That means that even though there’s plenty of goodness in the initial stable release — l

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Android may soon use AI to organize your phone’s notifications

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 06:45:12

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is developing an AI-powered “notification organizer” to automatically group your notifications into categories like promotions, news, and social. Expected to debut in an Android 16 quarterly release, the feature will silence and bundle alerts it identifies as a match into one of four categories. The feature may be a Pixel-exclusive at launch, and users will be able to exempt specific apps, ensuring important alerts are not bundled away. Notific

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Should you buy a cheap Android tablet from Amazon? This model is a surprisingly viable option (and the price is slashed for Amazon Prime Day)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-17 03:33:00

ZDNET's key takeaways This is a great value tablet, with a 12-inch display and running Android 15. While performance is on the lower end of the spectrum, this is still more tablet than most people need. The tri-fold case leaves a little to be desired, and there's nowhere to store the stylus. View now at Amazon View now at Blackview more buying choices What's the deal? For Amazon Prime Day there's 36% off the Blackview MEGA 2, bringing the price down to $178.19, and this deal expires 11 July,

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Dell's XPS 13 still lives rent-free in my head for its sleek build (and it's $500 off)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-17 04:15:16

ZDNET's key takeaways Dell's XPS 13 Copilot+ PC is on sale now starting at $999. It remains a favorite from Dell's lineup for its sleek build, gorgeous display, and impressive battery life. The two USB-C ports are limiting, and the bold design choices aren't for everyone. View now at Best Buy Dell's XPS 13 with the Snapdragon X Elite chip is on sale at Best Buy, starting at $999 for the 16GB configuration. That's $500 off the regular price. Dell continues to round out its popular XPS line of

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20TB WD External Hard Drive Costs Only $0.01 per GB—Amazon Crushes the Price for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-17 05:25:21

Prime Day is not only the best time to scoop up deals on the new MacBook or Dyson vacuum. It’s also a good opportunity to get your hands on some essentials like an external hard drive. WD, or Western Digital, is an iconic and trusted brand in the world of storage, and right now, their 20TB external hard drive is available at a price that’s hard to believe: just $269. That’s barely more than $0.01 per gigabyte, which makes it one of the most cost-effective storage solutions you’ll find anywhere.

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Seagate Portable 2TB External Hard Drive Pops Up in Prime Day Deal, Costs Peanuts Compared to Old Prices

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-17 05:45:22

Digital clutter is one of those things that sneaks up on you. One minute, your computer has plenty of space. The next, you’re frantically struggling to figure out what you need to delete so you can save your latest file or photo. And it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s the good news. You can just get an external hard drive to hold everything if you prefer, and it doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg to do that. It’s actually not that expensive either, especially with Prime Day going on.

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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Hits a New All-Time Low, but Amazon Offers It Only to Prime Members

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-17 06:55:38

Dyson has built its reputation on unique vacuum cleaners but within the hair care world, the brand has become a benchmark in professional salons thanks to its Supersonic hair dryer. As part of Prime Day, Amazon is discounting the entire premium British brand including this popular hair dryer: This is the record low for this model which is now marked down to $299 from its usual $379 (21% off). At such a significant discount, inventory might sell out fast. See at Amazon Salon-Quality Results T

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KEF Xio Review: So Good, So Expensive

wired.com Verity Burns 2025-08-17 03:00:00

There’s a level of confidence you have to admire in a brand entering a new market and out-pricing almost every single one of its competitors, straight from the off. That certainly appears to be KEF’s strategy with its very first soundbar, the KEF Xio—an all-in-one Atmos soundbar that will set you back a cool $2,500 (£2,000.) Of course, there’s the obvious: that’s enough to buy yourself a pretty decent surround sound package, with a performance that any soundbar will struggle to match. But if yo

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Finally, Bluetooth trackers for Android users that rival AirTags (but cost less)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-17 07:45:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Chipolo One Point and Card Point normally retails for $26 and $24, respectively. They're highly accurate, robust, and integrate well into the Google ecosystem. However, the One is only splashproof, and the Card version has a non-user-replaceable battery. View now at Amazon View now at Chipolo more buying choices For a limited time, you can pick up the Chipolo One Point for as little as $22 on Amazon and other major retailers. Use the promo code 'ZY3U9KA9S1DM' at chec

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macOS Tahoe: Reports of FireWire’s death not greatly exaggerated

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-08-17 08:12:22

How dead is FireWire support in macOS Tahoe 26? As dead as the iPod, as far as the Mac is concerned, which is at least a little sad. Stephen Hackett checked. In classic 512 Pixels fashion, he’s conjured together a real world demonstration using a battle-tested FireWire 800 cable-connected drive, two Thunderbolt adapters including a Thunderbolt 2 to 3 dongle, and a Mac. Woof. The result? A drive that correctly appeared as several volumes on macOS Sequoia just looks like an adapter to nowhere on

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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-17 09:46:14

Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact with third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even when users previously configured their devices to block such interactions. Users who don't want their previous settings to be overridden may have to take action. An email Google sent recently informing users of the change linked to a notification page that said that “human reviewers (including service providers) read, annotate, and process” the data Gem

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Tulum Energy rediscovered a forgotten hydrogen tech and used it to raise $27M

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-17 09:00:00

It was a mistake that was ahead of its time. Between 2002 and 2005, engineers with the Techint Group were trying to dial in a new electric arc furnace for a steelmaker when they noticed something odd. The carbon electrodes, rather than breaking down, were growing larger. The team had inadvertently created what’s known as a pyrolysis reaction, which is basically burning something in the absence of oxygen. In this case, the furnace was splitting methane into pure hydrogen and pure carbon. The te

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This Robot Vacuum Surprised Me With Its Ingenious Arms and Navigation Ability, and It's $400 Off for Prime Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-17 12:45:00

Amazon Prime Day sale: The Dreame X50 robot vacuum is marked down to $1,300 as part of Amazon's July Prime Day sale event. That's a discount of 24% and the lowest price we've seen in more than a year. CNET's key takeaways No robot vacuum has truly solved the challenge of multi-level cleaning without requiring you to physically move it between floors. This robo-vac can do it, for the high-end price of $1,699 (on sale right now for $1,300). You won't find another robot vacuum with its features

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Is your Pixel having lock screen issues after Android 16 update? You’re not alone.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 02:12:30

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Some Google Pixel owners are reporting lock screen issues after updating to Android 16. Problems include tap-to-wake not working, the screen not turning on after hitting the power button, and more. Affected users are advised to restart their phones to mitigate the issue, but Google is apparently working on a fix. Google Pixel phones were the first to receive an update to the stable Android 16 software. This update brings features like an Advanced Protecti

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Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 13:03:31

Charles Babbage wrote an autobiography Passages from the Life of a Philosopher which was published in London in 1864 . In our biography of Babbage we have quoted several passages from the book which tell us about his life and the analytical engine. Here we quote from Chapter XVIII of the book where Babbage writes about deciphering. What we present here is only an extract. In fact we omit a more technical part which describes the considerable effort that he had put in constructing dictionaries wi

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Drive Capital’s second act — how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-08-15 21:25:59

The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour. For Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, this cycle of attention and disinterest played out against the backdrop of its own internal upheaval several years ago — a co-founder split that could have ended the firm but may have ultimately strengthened it. At a minimum, Drive achieved something newsworthy in today’s venture lan

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Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs

news.ycombinator.com Introducing Tyr 2025-08-18 01:07:13

The last year has seen substantial progress on the DRM infrastructure required to write GPU drivers in Rust. While a great part of it was fueled by the development of Nova (the new driver for GSP-based NVIDIA GPUs), and by AGX (the driver for the GPUs on Apple's M-series chip that preceded Nova), a few components were being worked on to cater to a then undisclosed driver that was being prototyped behind the scenes. A driver that we now introduce to the community at large in a very early stage.

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feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-16 03:00:30

Ione Wells explores the search for Chile's stolen children, decades after they were taken during the country's military dictatorship, and asks if tech can help families find answers. More

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Reckless Footage Shows Tesla Robotaxi Careening Through Heavy Rain at High Speed

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-18 17:14:57

Terrifying new footage shows a Tesla robotaxi ripping through partially flooded streets in Austin, Texas. The clip, which went viral on the r/SweatyPalms subreddit over the weekend, shows the modified Model Y blasting past human-operated vehicles that are operating with far more caution — while passing on the right lane, a no-no for prudent drivers. "That dude is leaving a permanent hand print on that door handle," one Reddit user joked, referring to the person in the driver's seat holding on

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Google’s At a Glance weather icons are getting a controversial minimalist makeover

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-18 17:27:33

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 QPR1 beta users are noticing a change to the weather at a glance icon. The icon now appears flat and colorless. This change is happening in QPR1 beta only, not stable Android 16. If you’re an Android 16 QPR1 beta user and noticed that At a Glance looks a little different lately, you’re not alone. Google has rolled out an update to the weather icons that appears to have users divided. At a Glance, which appears at the top of the Pixel Launcher,

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Android is finally adding a search bar to its Photo Picker to help you find images faster

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-18 21:55:24

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android’s Photo Picker is getting a new search bar to help find specific images, and a date scrubber is also in development to make navigation easier. The search feature, which is rolling out now, allows users to search their entire local and cloud media library with simple text-based queries. A date scrubber is also being worked on, which will let users quickly scroll through their gallery to find photos from a specific month or year. Sharing a photo

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I’m fed up with ads on my Google TV, so I got rid of them with this third-party launcher

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-19 05:00:39

Joe Maring / Android Authority Ever since Android TV underwent its transformation to Google TV a few years ago, I have had mixed feelings about the subsequent redesign of the home screen interface. While I appreciate the more modern-looking interface on one hand, the number of sponsored content suggestions has steadily increased over the years to the point of frustration. Simply put, I find sponsored content unacceptable after paying a fair price for the underlying hardware. And unfortunately,

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This Samsung T9 2TB SSD Is 43% Off, Amazon Crushes the Price Just for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-19 05:10:13

Amazon has secretly started Prime Day early this year, and an avalanche of deals already appear on the site. They’re listed as “Limited Prime Deal,” and as always, they’re exclusive to Prime members. Even if you’re not a member, though, you can still shop these deals as a part of the free 30-day trial. One of the most exciting deals available today is on the Samsung T9 Portable SSD 2TB, which hit its all-time-low price of $169, down from $299. The 4TB model is also getting a huge discount at 42

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Spotify Jam comes to Android Auto so your whole car can DJ

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-19 11:37:43

Google TL;DR Spotify’s latest Android Auto update brings the Jam feature to car displays, letting friends join in and contribute music. The feature allows passengers to join a shared music queue by scanning a QR code on the in-car screen. The latest update for Spotify on Android Auto also improves offline listening and adds a floating search button for easier access. Spotify’s Android Auto app just got an important upgrade, adding the popular Jam feature to the in-car experience. Jam allows

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This New Ninja 65QT Cooler with Wheels Is a Prime Day Hit, Now at a Record Low Price Before Summer

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-19 10:05:06

Ninja is actually a kitchen and outdoor equipment master, and the FrostVault 65QT Cooler (with wheels) is actually considered the best cooler on the market today. With an incredible 4.8 out of 5 stars from over 300 reviews and Amazon offering an unbeatable Prime Day deal, now is the perfect moment to take your outdoor adventures to the next level. The best part? Anyone can benefit from this deal, not only Prime members. Ninja 65QT Cooler is now available for $265, down from its regular price of

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These are 5 tricks I use and recommend to improve reading on any Android device

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-19 06:00:36

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority Do you also struggle with information overload yet scramble to catch up on topics that truly interest you? I certainly do, especially since reading and keeping track of daily developments is a pertinent requirement of my job. Thankfully, I have developed a system that helps me keep focused while reading, even when motivation tanks. While the constant deluge of information never ends, I use some tricks to tame my desire to stay up to date with all — even remotel

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Your TV's USB port has hidden superpowers: 5 features you're not using enough

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-08-19 09:04:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET After the initial setup, most people rarely engage directly with their smart TV. With wireless connectivity, phone apps, and remote controls, there's little need to. Tucked next to the essential HDMI ports, a USB 2.0 port -- likely sitting unnoticed on the back or side panel -- offers more potential than you might expect. Also: Don't cancel Netflix yet: I used these secret codes to unlock the full catalog of shows USB ports are easy to overlook, but they're a standard feature

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Edible Microlasers Could Revolutionize Food Tracking and Safety

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-19 05:00:40

In a delicious turn of events, scientists succeeded in taking the optics of olive oil to create the first-ever microlaser made entirely from edible materials. If commercialized, they could offer an easy and safe way to monitor food or medications from inside your body. The technology, introduced earlier this month in the journal Advanced Optical Materials, exploits an interesting tendency for droplets of common cooking oils, which emit a photon of light when subjected to a certain amount of ene

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Latest Tech News

OnePlus announces Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 with specs tuned to global markets

I’ve reviewed smartphones for 10 years. These are the 5 Android phones I would buy on Prime Day

Here’s what I like and dislike about Android’s new Expressive design

Android may soon use AI to organize your phone’s notifications

Should you buy a cheap Android tablet from Amazon? This model is a surprisingly viable option (and the price is slashed for Amazon Prime Day)

Dell's XPS 13 still lives rent-free in my head for its sleek build (and it's $500 off)

20TB WD External Hard Drive Costs Only $0.01 per GB—Amazon Crushes the Price for Prime Day

Seagate Portable 2TB External Hard Drive Pops Up in Prime Day Deal, Costs Peanuts Compared to Old Prices

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Hits a New All-Time Low, but Amazon Offers It Only to Prime Members

KEF Xio Review: So Good, So Expensive

Finally, Bluetooth trackers for Android users that rival AirTags (but cost less)

macOS Tahoe: Reports of FireWire’s death not greatly exaggerated

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

Tulum Energy rediscovered a forgotten hydrogen tech and used it to raise $27M

This Robot Vacuum Surprised Me With Its Ingenious Arms and Navigation Ability, and It's $400 Off for Prime Day

Is your Pixel having lock screen issues after Android 16 update? You’re not alone.

Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864)

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Tyr, a new Rust DRM driver targeting CSF-based ARM Mali GPUs

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Reckless Footage Shows Tesla Robotaxi Careening Through Heavy Rain at High Speed

Google’s At a Glance weather icons are getting a controversial minimalist makeover

Android is finally adding a search bar to its Photo Picker to help you find images faster

I’m fed up with ads on my Google TV, so I got rid of them with this third-party launcher

This Samsung T9 2TB SSD Is 43% Off, Amazon Crushes the Price Just for Prime Day

Spotify Jam comes to Android Auto so your whole car can DJ

This New Ninja 65QT Cooler with Wheels Is a Prime Day Hit, Now at a Record Low Price Before Summer

These are 5 tricks I use and recommend to improve reading on any Android device

Your TV's USB port has hidden superpowers: 5 features you're not using enough

Edible Microlasers Could Revolutionize Food Tracking and Safety

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