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This 2-in-1 wireless charger simplified my workspace (and freed me from the cables)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-07-30 01:07:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Twelve South's HiRise 2 Deluxe is available now for $79. It's a premium, 2-in-1 Qi2 wireless charging solution that's as minimal as it is practical. The price point might turn some people off. $72.79 at Amazon I'm a big fan of Twelve South's lineup of premium accessories. In a world full of cheap, disposable chargers and one-and-done cables, it feels good to invest in high-quality accessories with thoughtful design. Case in point: the new HiRise 2 Deluxe charging stand,

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Blender 4.5 LTS Released

news.ycombinator.com Blender Foundation 2025-07-30 00:06:44

The final frontier. After years of work, support for the popular backend in Blender is now on par with OpenGL. It’s not enabled by default yet; make it so in the Preferences. Make sure to keep your drivers up to date! Blender works closely with hardware manufacturers to ensure Vulkan performs as good as possible. See the supported platforms and drivers, and the current limitations.

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Tesla Arrives in India With Cars Priced for the 1%

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-30 01:51:11

The wait is over. Tesla has finally launched in India. The all-electric carmaker has officially opened up sales in the world’s third-largest auto market, hoping that a foothold in this fast-growing economy could help counteract the company’s recent global slump. On Tesla’s newly launched India webpage, customers can now place orders. But the offering is limited: Tesla is only selling the Model Y SUV, available in two variants—Rear-Wheel Drive with a base price of ₹59,89,000 ($69,647) and Long-

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Subscriptions Could Be Killing Your Budget. Here's How I Saved $400 in 15 Minutes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 00:50:00

Rocket Money saved me $400 on unwanted subscriptions. It even canceled them for me. Getty Images/Rocket Money/Amy Kim/CNET The last thing anyone wants to do in this economy is lose money. But you may be bleeding cash without even realizing it. A recent CNET study found that the average US consumer spends around $200 a year on subscriptions they aren't using. I've done it myself. It's all too easy to sign up for a free trial or service and forget about it. Subscription companies are happy to ta

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Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-30 01:00:00

AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, as well as a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups, are calling for deeper investigation into techniques for monitoring the so-called thoughts of AI reasoning models in a position paper published Tuesday. A key feature of AI reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1, are their chains-of-thought or CoTs — an externalized process in which AI models work through problems, similar to how humans use a scratch pad to wo

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The Hidden Costs of AI: How Small Inefficiencies Stack Up

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-07-30 03:00:42

AI is having a major impact on society, from consumer technologies to driving businesses. But among all these large language models and deep neural networks, there are lurking inefficiencies that most people aren’t taking into account. Wasted computational power, hidden costs, the environmental footprint, and more. Whether these inefficiencies are big or small, they all add up. With 58% of companies planning on increasing their investments in AI this year, it’s essential these decision-makers k

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I take this Sony speaker to the beach every summer - for one obvious reason

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-07-30 05:34:09

Sony Ult Field 1 ZDNET's key takeaways The Sony Ult Field 1 is a portable speaker available for $130 (but on sale for $98) The speaker prioritizes crystal-clear sound and pronounced bass, with vibrant audio that sounds like it's coming from a much more expensive device It doesn't boast as long a battery life as its predecessor, but what it lacks in battery, it makes up for in stellar sound. $99.99 at Target Amazon is discounting this Sony Ult Field 1 speaker by $30 right now, bringing the pri

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Sony's most portable speaker yet also fills up the room with powerful sound

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-07-30 05:41:42

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sony Ult Field 3 speaker is a midrange powerhouse with great sound and ample bass, and it's $50 off right now at Amazon. With a 24-hour battery life and features that encourage speaker syncing, the Ult Field 3 would be perfect for regular hosts and music lovers. I can't think of anything wrong with this incredible speaker, and its price competes with other speakers of this size and spec. View now at Amazon View now at Walmart more buying choices The Sony Ult Field 3

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America’s EV Slowdown Is Here

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-30 05:02:13

The era of seemingly unstoppable growth for electric vehicles in the United States has come to a screeching halt. New sales figures for the second quarter of 2025 reveal a market in reverse, with momentum waning as the industry confronts significant headwinds from high prices and persistent consumer anxiety. According to a new report from Kelley Blue Book, the U.S. electric vehicle market, long seen as a bastion of growth, hit a significant speed bump, with sales dropping by more than 6% in a s

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Google’s next Pixel Fold might be completely dust-proof

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-30 05:09:25

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google’s upcoming Pixel 10 Pro Fold could be the first dust-proof foldable. A new leak published by Android Headlines says the Pixel 10 Pro Fold may come with an IP68 rating, which would make it completely dust-tight and allow it to withstand continuous submersion in water. To compare, Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Motorola Razer Ultra have

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Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-07-30 05:14:44

As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. On Tuesday, Mistral announced the release of Voxtral, its first family of audio models aimed at businesses. The company is pitching Voxtral as the first open model that’s capable of deploying “truly usable speech

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Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 06:29:02

uzu A high-performance inference engine for AI models on Apple Silicon. Key features: Simple, high-level API Hybrid architecture, where layers can be computed as GPU kernels or via MPSGraph (a low-level API beneath CoreML with ANE access) Unified model configurations, making it easy to add support for new models Traceable computations to ensure correctness against the source-of-truth implementation Utilizes unified memory on Apple devices Quick Start First, add the uzu dependency to your

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Pixel 10 series FCC filing confirms connectivity features, hints at Samsung modem

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-30 13:04:31

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro XL have passed through the FCC website. Both phones apparently have satellite support, and there are hints of a Samsung modem once again. Meanwhile, the Pro version has Thread and UWB support while the standard model misses these features. Google is expected to launch the Pixel 10 series in the coming weeks, and we’ve already seen a steady stream of leaks. However, the latest leak comes via the company’s own regulatory

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Micro Adventure – Space Attack (online emulator)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 11:32:51

Good luck. This message will be erased from memory in 30 seconds. As a certified member of ACT (the Adventure Connection Team) your job, as always, is to defend the cause of good against evil. It won’t be easy, because BRUTE (the Bureau of Random Unlawful Terror and Evil - an international organization bent on wreaking havoc throughout the world) will be fighting you every step of the way. Your computer expertise will be vital to this mission. So turn on your home system. Throughout this adven

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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

news.ycombinator.com Paul Melman 2025-07-29 15:28:36

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

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xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-07-30 13:12:21

When xAI launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed the large language model outperformed several competitors on different benchmarks. But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: it started saying its surname was “Hitler”, tweeted antisemitic messages, and seemed to reference Elon Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, siding with the xAI owner’s views as a result. xAI soon afterwards apologized for Grok’s behavior. On Tue

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China’s Geely is officially bringing its luxury EV startup Zeekr private

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-07-30 13:32:10

China’s Geely Auto is officially taking its luxury EV subsidiary Zeekr private, just over a year after the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. The news comes two months after Geely offered to take Zeekr private, following President Donald Trump’s threats earlier this year to delist Chinese stocks from U.S. exchanges. When the merger closes, Zeekr shareholders will receive either $2.69 in cash per share or 1.23 newly issued Geely shares for each Zeekr share they own, per a regulator

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John Wick Hex will be delisted from all platforms on July 17

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-30 17:30:28

John Wick Hex , a stylish and well-received game based on the John Wick movies, will soon no longer be available to purchase. In a statement on the title’s Steam page, publisher Big Fan Games says it will be delisted from all platforms on July 17. After that date, the publisher said, those who have already acquired the tactical action game from a digital storefront will still be able to download it. Physical console copies will still work too. Big Fan didn’t provide an explanation as to why Jo

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Anthropic launches finance-specific Claude with built-in data connectors, higher limits and prompt libraries

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-07-31 02:00:00

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 some regulated enterprises cautiously expand their use of AI, platform and model makers are starting to offer bespoke versions to specific industries. Anthropic is making its first step into that direction with the new Claude for Financial Services, essentially a special version of its Claude for Enterprise tier, that could soothe some

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AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-07-31 01:00:16

AI companies generally keep a tight grip on their models to discourage misuse. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to give you someone’s phone number or instructions for doing something illegal, it will likely just tell you it cannot help. However, as many examples over time have shown, clever prompt engineering or model fine-tuning can sometimes get these models to say things they otherwise wouldn’t. The unwanted information may still be hiding somewhere inside the model so that it can be accessed

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Pixel Watch 4 battery upgrade is coming, but don’t expect magic

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-31 00:00:16

TL;DR Google’s next-generation Pixel Watch models could get a modest battery capacity increase. The 41mm Pixel Watch 4 may arrive with a 327mAh battery, and the 45mm Watch 3 getting a 459mAh component. Compared to Watch 3 models, that would represent a capacity increase of 7% and 9%, respectively. What do you expect from a new generation of wearables? Samsung just introduced its Galaxy Watch 8 series, and the company’s move to embrace that squircle design across the entire lineup has proven c

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Exclusive: Google Pixel Watch 4 to use the same processor as Pixel Watch 2 and 3

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-31 00:00:31

TL;DR Google’s next-gen Pixel Watch 4 is keeping the same Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chip that’s been used since the Pixel Watch 2. Both 41mm and 45mm models should receive slightly larger batteries. As we approach Google’s 2025 Pixel event, we already know almost everything about its next generation of phones, but the same can’t be said about the upcoming Pixel Watch 4. Other than some renders and a color options leak, there’s been nothing concrete said about the new smartwatches. We heard some info

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You may be able to buy Apple products without paying state sales tax

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-07-31 02:06:49

If you live in one of nine eligible states, you can buy a range of Apple products without paying state sales tax. The sales tax holidays take place annually, with varying dates and product eligibility, but in almost all cases you get only a few days to act … Sales tax holidays are brief periods in which states let companies sell products without adding sales tax to the total. Local sales taxes may still apply. In most cases, the ability to take advantage of them for Apple purchases is constra

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Show HN: Cogency – Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 05:06:26

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Google's Reverse Acquihire of Windsurf and the Future of AI Developer Tools

news.ycombinator.com Itamar Friedman 2025-07-31 02:25:00

The reverse acquihire of Windsurf by Google is more than a corporate reshuffle. It offers a rare glimpse into the strategic realignments happening in AI-powered developer tools – a space that is powerful, promising, but still deeply unsettled. Windsurf set out with an ambitious bet: bringing “agentic” capabilities directly into the IDE. It wasn’t just about generating code snippets faster; it aimed to create a true coding partner, capable of understanding high-level intent and navigating large

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Here's Everything You Need to Know About Satellite Connectivity in Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 01:00:06

The words "satellite phone" probably conjure up an image of a clunky mobile monstrosity straight out of a spy thriller. These bulky and utilitarian traditional satellite phones are typically required in remote locations where cellular networks are unavailable. Nowadays, however, satellite connectivity can be found in regular smartphones too, thanks to new hardware innovations and unique partnerships with satellite network providers. They can't fully replace traditional satellite phones, but in

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Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 04:41:51

Voil View on the Visual Studio Marketplace. Youtube video showing voil features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_L0c7rcYLs&t=5s. Edit file system like a text buffer (similar to oil.nvim). Create new files/directories by typing their names in the editor (names ending with / are treated as directories). Convert your existing text-editing skills to file system manipulation skills, as opposed of the vscode's default file explorer which requires mouse interaction or memorizing new keybinds (and

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Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-07-30 23:44:24

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model, reports The New York Times. Sources told The Times that Meta had completed training on Behemoth, but delayed its release due to underwhelming internal performance. When the new Superintelligence Lab launched, testing on the model reportedly halted. The discussions are just that — discussions. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would st

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Amazon launches Kiro, its own Claude-powered challenger to Windsurf and Codex

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-07-31 03:16:16

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 Amid the big news that Windsurf is being acquired by Cognition (after its founders went to Google), developers interested in AI-powered coding may be on the hunt for new alternatives. In a bit of fortuitous timing, today also saw Amazon’s release of Kiro, a new agentic integrated development environment (IDE) built to help developers move

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Tim Cook’s run as Apple CEO could be much longer than you think

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-31 05:04:25

How long will Tim Cook stay Apple’s CEO? The question has come up often, but a new report indicates any big leadership transition is likely a lot farther off than you might expect. No internal signs of Cook preparing to retire or find successor, per Bloomberg Last week Apple announced that long-time COO Jeff Williams was leaving. Williams is the latest in a string of high-profile leaders transitioning out of the company in recent years, which often leads to speculation about CEO Tim Cook. Bu

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Latest Tech News

This 2-in-1 wireless charger simplified my workspace (and freed me from the cables)

Blender 4.5 LTS Released

Tesla Arrives in India With Cars Priced for the 1%

Subscriptions Could Be Killing Your Budget. Here's How I Saved $400 in 15 Minutes

Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

The Hidden Costs of AI: How Small Inefficiencies Stack Up

I take this Sony speaker to the beach every summer - for one obvious reason

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America’s EV Slowdown Is Here

Google’s next Pixel Fold might be completely dust-proof

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model

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Pixel 10 series FCC filing confirms connectivity features, hints at Samsung modem

Micro Adventure – Space Attack (online emulator)

Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses

China’s Geely is officially bringing its luxury EV startup Zeekr private

John Wick Hex will be delisted from all platforms on July 17

Anthropic launches finance-specific Claude with built-in data connectors, higher limits and prompt libraries

AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people

Pixel Watch 4 battery upgrade is coming, but don’t expect magic

Exclusive: Google Pixel Watch 4 to use the same processor as Pixel Watch 2 and 3

You may be able to buy Apple products without paying state sales tax

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Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

Amazon launches Kiro, its own Claude-powered challenger to Windsurf and Codex

Tim Cook’s run as Apple CEO could be much longer than you think

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