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I tested Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8, and it kickstarted my motivation to get running again

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-13 08:45:14

Samsung Galaxy 8 Smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Galaxy 8 is available for preorder now, with shipping beginning on July 25. It's a capable smartwatch with all the usual health metrics, along with Samsung's Running Coach, bedtime guidance, and recovery insights. Some features feel more experimental than scientific, like Antioxidant Index and BMI, which failed to work several times. View now at Samsung Samsung's latest smartwatches have arrived. The Galaxy Watch 8 lineup, which incl

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Stop buying cheap multitools - here's the one I recommend instead

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-13 09:00:17

A good multitool can be a reliable companion for decades (as long as you don't lose it!). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I like having a good multitool close at hand and at all times. While they can't replace a proper toolkit, I don't fancy carrying a full toolkit with me when I'm out and about. Many of my readers are like me, often finding themselves doing random and unplanned DIY tasks throughout the day, so having a portable toolkit that can handle the basics is essential. Also: Storms and ba

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A small web July

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 02:41:55

A Small Web July 29 Jun, 2025 I am putting this out into the ether to see if anyone wants to join me, in any capacity, in some kind of accountability structure (following each others blogs about this on RSS, a 32-bit Cafe thread, sporadic guestbook/cbox comments, idk!) for spending less time on the corporate web for the month of July. I am interested in seeing how my brain wiring shifts with some new rules and a new month. My (personal) rules for July are: Almost no walled garden social medi

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Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2026-01-13 09:00:00

My partner recently confessed something to me about his screen-time habits: When he’s giggling at his phone, he’s often watching short English-language soap operas that have begun showing up on his social feeds. The plots are basic, the acting is exaggerated, and the performers are stereotypically good-looking, but the constant twists and turns keep him spellbound and wanting more. I knew exactly where these videos were coming from. It’s been four years since I first heard about the exploding p

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Nvidia supplier SK Hynix posts record second-quarter profit and revenue on strong AI memory demand

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-13 09:28:47

A visitor takes a picture of a model of SK hynix's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology during the 2025 World IT Show in Seoul on April 24, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter, driven by sustained demand for its high bandwidth memory used in artificial intelligence technology. Here are SK Hynix's second-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts f

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Epic Games blasts UK’s ‘vague’ Digital Markets regulation, Fortnite return ‘uncertain’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-13 09:10:51

Epic Games has published a blog post criticizing “today’s bleak news from the United Kingdom,” and listing all the reasons why the company believes the recently announced rules fell short of its expectations. What Digital Markets regulation? Earlier today, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concluded a months-long investigation and recommended that both Apple and Google should be designated as having a “strategic market status” under the new Digital Markets, Competition, and Co

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Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 06:53:45

Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library Nick R. was generous enough to send me his entire vintage Mac programming library to be destructively scanned and shared with the community. We've added a few of our own for a pretty huge collection (over 150) of vintage Mac programming related books. Enjoy! Thanks Nick!

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Google's $85 billion capital spend spurred by cloud, AI demand

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-13 11:07:52

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Google is going to spend $10 billion more this year than it previously expected due to the growing demand for cloud services, which has created a backlog, executives said Wednesday. As part of its second quarter earnings, the company increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion due to "strong and growing demand for our Cloud produ

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Bandai Asks Japanese Politicians to Not Dress Up as ‘Gundam’ Characters to Campaign

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-13 11:00:01

Sure, America occasionally has a “The White House is photoshopping the president’s head onto Superman posters” problem, but it turns out plenty of other countries also have a bit of an issue with politicians leveraging pop culture cosplaying for political gain. It’s just that those other countries will have studios telling them to quit it. Earlier this week, Japanese politician Taro Yamamoto, the founder of the left-populist political party Reiwa Shinsengumi, went viral on social media for reco

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SecurityPal combines AI and experts in Nepal to speed enterprise security questionnaires by 87X or more

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-13 16:41:32

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 When a tech vendor wants to sell into a large enterprise — or when that enterprise wants to buy software from a tech vendor or AI model provider — each side may be required by the other to prove they will handle shared data responsibly in the form of mandatory surveys and questionnaires. Regulations such as GDPR, the soon-to-be effected EU

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Building better AI tools

news.ycombinator.com Hazel Weakly 2026-01-13 12:56:31

I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and recently I’ve come to the realization that not only is our industry building AI tools poorly, we’re building them backwards. Which, honestly, is really depressing to me because there is so much unrealized potential that we have available–is it not enough that we built the LLMs unethically, and that they waste far more energy than they return

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Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 14:37:40

by Barbara Blum If you have ever traveled overseas, then returned to the U.S., you likely filled out a “customs declaration” form on the airplane: “Are you bringing with you: plants, food, animals, soil, disease agents, cell cultures or snails? Declare all articles that you have acquired and are bringing into the United States.” Who would have guessed the regulations would have been enforced so rigorously in 1969 when three men returned to the U.S. from a rather long business trip – to

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OpenAI’s New Exec Has a Grand Plan to Make AI for Everyone

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-13 21:06:52

Fidji Simo knows technology can make life better or it can make inequality worse. As OpenAI’s incoming CEO of Applications, she’s making it clear which path she wants AI to take. “Every major technology shift can expand access to power,” she said in her memo announcing her new role on July 21. “The power to make better decisions, shape the world around us, and control our own destiny in new ways. But it can also further concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few—usually people who alrea

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Is This the End of Google As We Know It?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-13 21:19:53

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrived in Washington this week with a carefully crafted message for policymakers: Artificial intelligence is already boosting productivity for millions of Americans, and his company intends to keep it “democratic” by putting it in everyone’s hands. As the capital buzzes with debates over AI regulation, Altman is positioning OpenAI not as a disruptor to be feared, but as an engine for universal progress. “It’s not about stopping disruption, but putting it into people’s han

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Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED Series is back down to its Prime Day low

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2026-01-14 02:51:36

Finding a quality budget TV isn’t as hard as it used to be, with numerous deals happening throughout the year. Case in point, the 65-inch configuration of Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED Series is back down to its Prime Day low of $449.99 ($270 off). The discount makes it cheaper than the starting price of the smaller 55-inch model. Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED $ 450 $ 720 38 % off $ 450 Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED features built-in microphones for Alexa commands, low input lag, and support for two-way v

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Skip the iPad: This tablet is the smartest buy for your kids (and way cheaper)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-14 06:34:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet is available for $190. Designed for older children aged six to 12, this kids' tablet features a slimmer design, better performance, strong parental controls, and a free screen repair or replacement within two years of purchase. While it's better than other Amazon Fire Kids tablets, the Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet doesn't outperform an iPad -- but it's also a fraction of the iPad's price. $189.99 at Amazon What makes a good tablet? It's easy

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This smart humidifier has a handy feature I keep coming back to - and it's Alexa compatible

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-14 06:38:42

ZDNET's key takeaways The Dreo Smart 5L Humidifier is available for $70. This humidifier is easy to use, includes a demineralization filter, works with Alexa, allows you to add essential oils, adds both sleep and auto modes, and packs plenty of other features to help it rise above the rest. The only downside of the Dreo Smart 5L Humidifier is that it doesn't offer a warm mist option. $58.09 at Amazon The Dreo 5L smart humidifier is on sale for $58 (save $12) at Amazon. Along with being a wri

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Here’s the Front-Runner to Play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s AI Movie

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-14 06:45:18

It seems like you haven’t really made it in Silicon Valley until a major movie actor plays you on film. Jesse Eisenberg portrayed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, and Michael Fassbender played Steve Jobs in the 2015 film Steve Jobs. Even Bill Gates was played by Anthony Michael Hall in the 1999 TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley. And now Elon Musk is reportedly next in line to get the Hollywood treatment. Deadline reported today that Ike Barinholtz, the star of The Studio,

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‘Final Fantasy’ Made Hasbro a Hell of a Lot of Gil

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-14 11:00:36

Hasbro’s no stranger to giving credit where credit’s due when a video game helps save its ass financially, having already made plenty of to-do about how the blockbuster success of Baldur’s Gate 3 a few years ago provided a surge of interest in D&D. Now it’s thanking a video game of a different sort: the Final Fantasy saga, as its recent highly anticipated crossover with Magic: The Gathering has helped make the most successful set of the card game made so far. According to Deadline, Hasbro CEO C

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Things Are Looking Really, Really Bad for Tesla

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-14 14:23:12

Elon Musk's carmaker Tesla is widely expected to disappoint with its Q2 earnings report later today. Demand for the company's EVs has dried up significantly over the past 18 months, driven in large part by its exceptionally divisive CEO's efforts to alienate buyers at the exact moment that the company is facing a flood of high-quality international competition. Deliveries fell a record 13.5 percent this quarter compared to a year earlier — and the accompanying earnings report, which is set to

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Boost HTML5 Game Performance with WebAssembly

news.ycombinator.com Gaming Writer 2026-01-14 16:45:03

Who this article is for: Game developers looking to improve the performance of their HTML5 games Technical leads and engineers interested in integrating WebAssembly into their projects Students or professionals learning about web technologies and game development HTML5 game development has transformed web gaming, but it’s the integration of WebAssembly that’s truly revolutionizing performance capabilities. When players experience stuttering frame rates or input lag in browser games, they don’

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This Retro PC Case Gives Your Gaming Rig Big Windows 95 Energy

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-14 16:30:41

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. It’s enough to turn off the parts of my brain that would normally despise the look of a big, gray, plastic box and transform me into a drooling retro devotee ready to hand over his cash just to hear those fans whir. That was my first reaction when I saw custom PC maker Maingear’s new Retro95 throwback PC case. It comes packed with the modern components you expect to see in a modern gaming rig, but it adds extras like an optical disc drive and I/O ports hidden under

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Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-14 16:15:37

Open source X and Threads competitor Mastodon will begin experimenting with a new way to raise funds: in-app donations. The organization on Wednesday announced it’s launching a campaign that introduces banners inside its Android and iOS apps, prompting users to make a monetary donation. Initially, the feature will be shown only to those on the Mastodon servers the nonprofit itself operates, Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online. These banners will be easy to dismiss, Mastodon says, and will only

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This powerful Google Photos tool is finally arriving for older Pixels

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-14 21:17:32

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Reimagine in Magic Editor TL;DR The Google Photos Reimagine feature is starting to roll out to older Pixels. Reports from Reddit and Telegram show it working on Pixel 6 and Pixel 8 devices. Access appears limited for now, so not everyone on the same version will see it. Last September, we spotted early evidence that the Google Photos Reimagine feature, previously exclusive to the Pixel 9 series, might be coming to older Pixels. It took longer than we expected,

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CarPlay and AirPods work better than ever together in iOS 26, here’s how

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-14 21:02:13

For the longest time, one of AirPods’ best features has been absent when in the car. But in iOS 26, Apple is making AirPods and CarPlay work better together than ever. Here’s how. AirPods automatic switching supports CarPlay in iOS 26 Automatic switching is one of those ‘magic moment’ features that can make the Apple ecosystem so appealing. Essentially, the AirPods feature detects which Apple product you’re using at any given moment, and switches your AirPods to connect to that active device.

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Anker Nebula X1 projector review: The king of outdoor movies, if you can afford it

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-14 21:15:19

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . My dream projector delivers the brightest and sharpest image. But it also has to be easy to move around and set up anywhere — especially outdoors. Anker’s Nebula X1 long-throw projector promises all of that with a three-laser engine that beams out a category-leading 3,500 ANSI lumens a

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YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-14 21:00:00

YouTube announced on Wednesday that it’s giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects. The image to video feature lets users turn a picture from their camera roll into a a six-second video. Users will see a selection of suggestions that are relevant to the photo they uploaded. YouTube says the feature can be used to add movement to landscape photos, animate pictures of everyday photos, or bring group photos to life. In an e

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NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-15 02:57:06

The popular NPM package 'is' has been compromised in a supply chain attack that injected backdoor malware, giving attackers full access to compromised devices. This occurred after maintainer accounts were hijacked via phishing, followed by unauthorized owner changes that went unnoticed for several hours, potentially compromising many developers who downloaded the new releases. The 'is' package is a lightweight JavaScript utility library that provides a wide variety of type checking and value v

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I replaced my Pixel 9 Pro with this $700 Android phone for a week - and it did some things better

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-15 02:52:00

Redmagic 10 Air ZDNET's key takeaways The Redmagic 10 Air Android phone is on sale now for $700. The Redmagic phone is as elegant as it is powerful and can handle some of the more challenging games. This camera system isn't necessarily flagship level, and you'll want to pay attention to network band support. $699 at Amazon I've held lots of Android phones in my hand, some feel awkward because of their size, while others fit just right. That Goldilocks effect is real, and in my experience, Red

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Trip to moon required Apollo 11 crew to sign US Customs declaration to enter US

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 02:37:40

by Barbara Blum If you have ever traveled overseas, then returned to the U.S., you likely filled out a “customs declaration” form on the airplane: “Are you bringing with you: plants, food, animals, soil, disease agents, cell cultures or snails? Declare all articles that you have acquired and are bringing into the United States.” Who would have guessed the regulations would have been enforced so rigorously in 1969 when three men returned to the U.S. from a rather long business trip – to

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I tested Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8, and it kickstarted my motivation to get running again

Stop buying cheap multitools - here's the one I recommend instead

A small web July

Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China

Nvidia supplier SK Hynix posts record second-quarter profit and revenue on strong AI memory demand

Epic Games blasts UK’s ‘vague’ Digital Markets regulation, Fortnite return ‘uncertain’

Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library (2017)

Google's $85 billion capital spend spurred by cloud, AI demand

Bandai Asks Japanese Politicians to Not Dress Up as ‘Gundam’ Characters to Campaign

SecurityPal combines AI and experts in Nepal to speed enterprise security questionnaires by 87X or more

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Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)

OpenAI’s New Exec Has a Grand Plan to Make AI for Everyone

Is This the End of Google As We Know It?

Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED Series is back down to its Prime Day low

Skip the iPad: This tablet is the smartest buy for your kids (and way cheaper)

This smart humidifier has a handy feature I keep coming back to - and it's Alexa compatible

Here’s the Front-Runner to Play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s AI Movie

‘Final Fantasy’ Made Hasbro a Hell of a Lot of Gil

Things Are Looking Really, Really Bad for Tesla

Boost HTML5 Game Performance with WebAssembly

This Retro PC Case Gives Your Gaming Rig Big Windows 95 Energy

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This powerful Google Photos tool is finally arriving for older Pixels

CarPlay and AirPods work better than ever together in iOS 26, here’s how

Anker Nebula X1 projector review: The king of outdoor movies, if you can afford it

YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects

NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware

I replaced my Pixel 9 Pro with this $700 Android phone for a week - and it did some things better

Trip to moon required Apollo 11 crew to sign US Customs declaration to enter US

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