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Before You Buy the Apple Watch 11, Enjoy These 9 Hidden Features in Your Current Apple Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 00:00:00

Prior to the latest Apple Watch Series 11 launch, Apple brought back the blood oxygen feature to its Series 6 watch and later versions, as well as for the Apple Ultra watches. This tool lets you check how much oxygen your red blood cells are carrying from your lungs throughout your body, something many users don't even realize their watch can do. Whether you have the newest version or not, the Apple Watch is packed with health-focused features that often fly under the radar. Beyond tracking ste

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Apple Watch Series 11 Review: Finally, the Watch Lives Longer

wired.com Adrienne So 2025-09-29 00:00:00

For years, Apple has tried to extend the battery life of the Apple Watch. For as many years, the company has only succeeded by half measures. Features like Low Power mode or faster charging help you keep the watch on your wrist for longer, but Apple has not significantly improved the watch’s 18-hour battery life—even at last year’s much-hyped decade-versary of the Apple Watch. I say this to give the context of why such a little thing was so shocking. After wearing the new Apple Watch Series 11

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Apple Watch Series 11 review: stuck in the middle

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-09-29 00:00:00

is a senior reporter and author of the Optimizer newsletter.She has more than 13 years of experience reporting on wearables, health tech, and more. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. No one is going to wax lyrical about the Apple Watch Series 11. Not because it’s a bad smartwatch — it’s a great smartwatch, actually. There’s just nothing that makes it feel special this year.

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Migrating to React Native's New Architecture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 16:41:36

Introduction We successfully migrated two of our largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture while maintaining weekly releases and serving millions of merchants. This migration involved a complex codebase with hundreds of screens and native modules, extensive custom components, and deep integration with first-party libraries like FlashList. Key outcomes: Maintained development velocity throughout migration Zero feature development disruptio

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Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 09:15:32

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that tens of millions of people are confessing secrets to AI chatbots trained on religious texts, with apps like Bible Chat reaching over 30 million downloads and Catholic app Hallow briefly topping Netflix, Instagram, and TikTok in Apple's App Store. In China, people are using DeepSeek to try to decode their fortunes. In her report, Lauren Jackson examined "faith tech" apps that cost users up to $70 annually, with some platforms claiming to channel divine

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s biggest rival is arriving next week

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 08:58:20

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR MediaTek has announced that its next Dimensity flagship processor will be launched next week. This chip is expected to be the Dimensity 9500 processor. The processor is said to pack a powerful CPU, Mali G1-Ultra graphics, and an NPU with 100 TOPS of performance. Qualcomm will announce the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 next week, and it’s expected to power a host of flagship Android phones. Now, arch-rival MediaTek has revealed that its own high-end processo

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IBM Technology Atlas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 10:28:42

IBM Technology Atlas We are writing the next chapter in Computing with six technology roadmaps that will bring a new era of performance and efficiency to information technology and business.

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Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: $800+ Off

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-09-29 08:00:00

Lenovo is currently the biggest PC and laptop company in the world, and they just so happen to make some of our favorite laptops and PC peripherals. In fact, our list of the Best Laptops you can buy include a number of Lenovo devices that we’ve tested and fully recommend, ranging from high-end premium laptops to options for budget-minded shoppers. If you are looking to save a few bucks while shopping for a new Lenovo product, here are the Lenovo coupon codes and special offers you need to know a

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Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global, plans AI-first device launch

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-29 07:15:00

Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global. With this round, the consumer electronics company is now valued at $1.3 billion. Other investors in the round included existing backers such as venture outfits GV, Highland Europe, EQT, Latitude, I2BF, and Tapestry. The company, founded by Carl Pei — who previously co-founded Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, known for high-performance devices at compe

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AI challenges the dominance of Google search

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-29 07:03:20

AI challenges the dominance of Google search 5 hours ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Share Save Anja-Sara Lahady AI has become an assistant for Anja-Sara Lahady Like most people, when Anja-Sara Lahady used to check or research anything online, she would always turn to Google. But since the rise of AI, the lawyer and legal technology consultant says her preferences have changed - she now turns to large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. "For example, I'll ask it

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I took a Coros smartwatch on a fly-fishing trip - and it made my Apple and Garmin look bad

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-29 08:23:00

Coros Nomad smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Coros Nomad is available now in Green, Brown, and Dark Grey for $349. It's built to withstand the elements with detailed metrics and focused journal utilities for fishing. There is no speaker to playback voice notes, no solar charging, and no LED flashlight to see in the dark. View now at Coros Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had the opportunity to test a lot of smartwatches, but it's still tough to find one watch th

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Need to modify user accounts in Linux? This is the command for you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-29 10:00:36

Trevor Williams/DigitalVision via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The usermod command is short for user modification, and, as the name implies, allows you to modify various aspects of a user account. For a Linux administrator, this command is crucial. For Linux users, the command most certainly comes in handy, especially given what it can do. Let's dive down this rabbit hole and see what's what with the Linux usermod command. 1. Change user details When you crea

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The Mac app flea market

news.ycombinator.com Jim Nielsen 2025-09-28 15:14:13

Have you ever searched for “AI chat” in the Mac App Store? I have. It’s like strolling through one of those counterfeit, replica markets where all the goods look legit at first glance. But then when you look closer, you realize something is off. For the query “AI chat”, there are so many ChatGPT-like app icons the results are comical. Take a look at these: The real app icon for the ChatGPT desktop app (from OpenAI) is in that collection above. Can you spot it? Here they are again in a single

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Ghost kitchens are dying

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 04:25:26

Ghost Kitchens Are Dying. Here's the $15 Billion Lesson Every Restaurateur Must Learn. A ghost kitchen stripped away everything you think makes a restaurant a restaurant. No dining room. No servers. No storefront. No customers walking through the door. Just a kitchen. Four walls. Commercial equipment. And a phone that never stops ringing with delivery orders. Ghost kitchens exist only in the digital world. Customers find them on DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. They order through an app. Food

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Remember That TikTok Ban? This Week's Deadline Brings Hints of a Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 05:26:00

The Trump administration is working on a deal with China to determine TikTok's fate, which could be finalized by the end of this week, according to reports citing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. President Trump has plans to meet on Friday with China's President Xi Jinping, and the two are expected to discuss the fate of the Chinese-owned social media platform. That means the deadline of Wednesday, Sept. 17, may pass before there's a definitive resolution on the matter. The key question is whe

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Champions League Soccer: Livestream Every 2025-26 Match From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 08:00:04

The 2025-26 edition of the UEFA Champions League is upon us, with Paris Saint-Germain aiming to defend its maiden European crown after last season's emphatic triumph. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Champions League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. This year's tournament, which will last 189 games, kicks off with the first set of league phase matches on Tuesday, Sept. 16, and cul

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Nudists and Surfers Protest SpaceX’s Plans to Launch Starship From Florida

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-29 19:35:54

SpaceX isn’t very popular among beachgoers in Florida at the moment. The rocket company applied for a permit to launch its Starship rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which threatens to restrict beach access for surfers and casual nudists. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently hosted a series of public meetings where residents of the area got to weigh in on its upcoming decision to allow Starship to lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. During the meeting, membe

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With no DOJ breakup, Alphabet becomes a $3 trillion company

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-29 20:23:14

In Brief Alphabet hit just over $3 trillion dollars in market cap on Monday as investors continue to reward it after a federal judge declined to break the company up. On Sept. 2, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined softer-than-feared remedies for his year-ago ruling that Google maintained an illegal monopoly in search. The DOJ had proposed stronger remedies, including that Alphabet-owned Google be forced to sell Chrome. Tech companies like Perplexity and Ecosia lined up with unsol

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Rodatherm Energy wants to make geothermal more efficient, but will it be cheaper?

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-29 20:48:02

Rodatherm Energy, a new geothermal startup, emerged from stealth Monday with $38 million in funding and a plan to build a pilot plan in Utah. The startup differentiates itself by plumbing its boreholes with a closed loop, likely made of steel, that’s filled with a refrigerant. That contrasts with other enhanced geothermal companies, which tend to use water to transport heat from deep within the Earth. The Series A round was led by Evok Innovations with participation from Active Impact Investme

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Free Spotify users can now pick songs, but of course there’s a catch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 00:10:45

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is improving its experience for free users. The service will now let non-paid subscribers pick and play the song they want. These users will also be able to play a song shared by a friend or artist. Spotify has long been focused on improving the Premium experience. For example, Premium members recently started gaining access to lossless audio, a feature that many have been waiting for. Now it’s finally time for free users to get a little somethin

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China says NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition violated antitrust law

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 00:04:09

A regulator has accused NVIDIA of violating China's antitrust laws over its acquisition of chipmaker Mellanox. In its preliminary findings of an investigation it commenced in December , the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) claimed that the company breached both national regulations and the conditional terms China outlined when it rubberstamped the $6.9 billion takeover. The SAMR hasn't announced any penalties yet, as the investigation will continue. The SAMR is said to have det

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OpenAI Reveals How (and Which) People Are Using ChatGPT

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-30 00:00:57

Large language models largely remain black boxes in terms of what is happening inside them to produce the outputs that they do. They have also been a bit of a black box in terms of who is using them and what they are doing with them. OpenAI, with some help from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), set out to figure out what exactly its growing user base is getting up to with its chatbot. It found a surprising amount of personal use and a closing “gender gap” among its frequent users.

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What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-30 00:26:34

As someone who writes about the AI industry relatively frequently for this site, there is one question that I find myself constantly asking and being asked in turn, in some form or another: What do you actually use large language models for? Today, OpenAI's Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing ho

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Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-30 00:03:09

In Brief Kering confirmed a data breach affecting customers of its luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Lauren, and others, on Monday. Hackers stole sensitive customer data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and the total amount of money they spent in stores all over the world. The BBC first reported the breach. Kering said the hackers did not steal credit card numbers and that it has contacted the customers whose data is part of the breac

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The 9 most sought-after startups from YC Demo Day

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-09-30 00:11:51

Y Combinator hosted its Summer 2025 Demo Day last week, showcasing the latest batch of over 160 startups. As with recent batches, the majority of startups presented AI-centric solutions. However, a clear evolution was evident. Instead of “AI-powered” products, many companies are now building AI agents or the infrastructure and tools needed to develop them. For instance, this batch had a flurry of voice AI solutions and new businesses focused on helping others monetize the “AI economy” with ads

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Most People Use ChatGPT for Personal Life, Not Work, According to a New OpenAI Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 04:04:47

When ChatGPT first launched in November 2022, parent company OpenAI pitched it as a productivity tool and a game-changer for delegating menial work tasks, such as responding to emails or writing memos. OpenAI just released a new paper looking into how hundreds of millions of people globally actually use ChatGPT, and the results show a striking shift in how people use it. What started as a work assistant is now a tool people use for their personal lives. In mid-2024, nearly half of all conversat

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Awake’s new app requires heavy sleepers to complete tasks in order to turn off the alarm

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-30 04:00:59

A new iOS app called Awake, designed specifically for heavy sleepers who must complete missions to turn off their alarms, launched Monday. The app is only available to users with the iOS 26 update, which also came out on Monday. Unlike traditional alarm clocks that can be silenced with a simple tap, Awake is intended to actively engage users’ brains to ensure they fully wake up. Once the alarm sounds, users must complete a series of interactive missions to turn it off. These tasks include a va

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FinWise insider breach impacts 689K American First Finance customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-30 08:18:10

FinWise Bank is warning on behalf of corporate customers that it suffered a data breach after a former employee accessed sensitive files after the end of their employment. "On May 31, 2024, FinWise experienced a data security incident involving a former employee who accessed FinWise data after the end of their employment," reads a data breach notification sent by FinWise on behalf of American First Finance (AFF). American First Finance (AFF) is a company that offers consumer financing products

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How people actually use ChatGPT vs Claude - and what the differences tell us

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-09-30 08:48:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Most ChatGPT use is non-work, focused on writing tasks. Claude is used more for automation, especially coding. AI adoption is uneven, with wealthier regions benefiting first. Two of the biggest AI companies have revealed how people use their models. Also: The best AI chatbots of 2025 OpenAI released a research paper analyzing millions of ChatGPT conversations, while Anthropic publishe

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This Chip Will Power 2026's Best Android Phones. I Can't Wait to See What It Can Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 06:47:00

What do the Samsung Galaxy S25, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and the OnePlus 13 have in common, beyond simply being Android phones? The answer is that they're all powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, which is the processor of choice for 2025's top Android flagship phones (other than those made by Google). The 8 Elite has performed well in our testing, but a successor is incoming. Next week at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm is set to unveil its latest, greatest chip, which it announc

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Before You Buy the Apple Watch 11, Enjoy These 9 Hidden Features in Your Current Apple Watch

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Nudists and Surfers Protest SpaceX’s Plans to Launch Starship From Florida

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Rodatherm Energy wants to make geothermal more efficient, but will it be cheaper?

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