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What Tariffs? Smartphone Market Grows 1% as More Phones Fold In AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 18:01:00

It looks like curiosity about AI may be boosting smartphone sales. According to new data released from the International Data Corporation, smartphone shipment increased 1% year over year in the second quarter of 2025 despite tariff volatility and worldwide economic instability. Much of the increase in sales is attributed to midrange devices like Samsung's Galaxy A36 and other smartphones that have started incorporating AI. The report blamed a drop in demand for lower-end devices, including tho

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Permit for xAI’s data center blatantly violates Clean Air Act, NAACP says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-27 21:20:18

xAI continues to face backlash over its Memphis data center, as the NAACP joined groups today appealing the issuance of a recently granted permit that the groups say will allow xAI to introduce major new sources of pollutants without warning at any time. The battle over the gas turbines powering xAI's data center began last April when thermal imaging seemed to show that the firm was lying about dozens of seemingly operational turbines that could be a major source of smog-causing pollution. By J

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New Pixel Watch 4 leak details even more hardware upgrades ahead of next month’s launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-28 02:00:31

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel Watch 4 is said to feature a Snapdragon W5 Plus Gen 1 chip. Both models are expected to have a new co-processor called the M55. For the first time, the smartwatch may feature side charging. Google confirmed today that it will hold its hardware event on August 20. The showcase should include its Pixel phones, watches, earbuds, and more. Coincidentally, a new leak about the Pixel Watch 4 also arrived today. This leak reveals what could be the

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Pixel 10 Will Likely Star at the Next Made by Google Event on Aug. 20

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 23:59:00

The next Made by Google event is coming on Aug. 20, where it's highly likely that the company will reveal its Pixel 10 series of phones. The announcement arrived from Google Wednesday, with a press release and invites for an event in New York. The event, like previous Made By Google briefings that have taken place in the late summer or fall, is likely to focus on Google's Pixel phones, watches, earbuds and potentially more. It's uncertain what other devices Google might show off during the even

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This Robot Vacuum Blew Me Away With Its Ingenious Navigation Capability, and Now It's 20% Off

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-28 00:13:00

Deal alert: The Dreame X50 robot vacuum is available for $1,360. That's a 20% discount on a robot vacuum that usually lists for $1,700. If you're looking for top-tier performance, this robot vac is better at climbing obstacles than any robot vacuum we've tested. 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 $1,700 (on sale right now for $

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OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-28 02:11:20

AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company’s technological advances. Last week, the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, spouted antisemitic comments and repeatedly called itself “MechaHitler.” Shortly after xAI took its chatbot offline to addre

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Google finally confirms Pixel 10 launch event — here’s everything to expect

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-28 06:07:13

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google has set an August 20 date for its next Made by Google event. The company intends to “share the latest on our Pixel phones, watches, buds, and more.” In addition to the Pixel 10 series, we could see the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a make their debut. Every year’s new Pixel lineup is an exciting one for devoted Android fans, but 2025 is really shaping up to be something special. With the TSMC-made Tensor G5 chip, the Pixel 10 series promises to

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The next Made By Google event (better known as the Pixel launch) is set for August 20

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 06:50:59

Google will host its next Made by Google event on August 20, the company announced today. In a media invite, it promised the event would feature new Pixel phones, watches, buds "and more." It's hard to imagine what other product types might be covered by those last two words, but for those who watch the industry closely, this event is likely to see the launch of the Pixel 10 flagship phones, along with a Pixel Watch 4 and new Pixel Buds. It's easy to make that deduction, especially going by pre

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This new, improved Nextdoor might be just the social app we need right now

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-02-28 06:14:11

Nextdoor The app notorious for serving as a bulletin board for neighborhood tattletales is getting an AI-centered redesign, and it's bringing some pretty useful features. In a post this week, Nextdoor announced its biggest app redesign ever. At the core of the new app, Nextdoor says, are three components: Alerts, News, and Faves. Also: 5 reasons why I still prefer Perplexity over every other AI chatbot Real-time safety alerts: "Neighbors have long turned to Nextdoor in moments of crisis,

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KDB-X: KX releases FREE Commercial KDB license

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-28 06:09:36

This is it ladies and gentleman! The moment we’ve all been waiting for! KX just dropped the long-promised Community Edition, and IT'S FREE. Yes!!, you read that right: it's free. Not for a week. Not for personal use only. Free to use, even commercially. Holy cow, this honestly feels like Christmas came early this year. If you're wondering what all the hype is about and why I'm so excited about this breaking news, keep reading, you don't want to miss this. First thing first, let's start with the

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Mark Your Calendar: New Google Pixel Phones Are Coming on August 20

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2026-02-28 06:06:17

Buckle up! Google is throwing a party next month. Samsung announced its new Galaxy Z Fold 7 (check out my review here), the Z Flip 7, and the Galaxy Watch 8 and 8 Classic last week, and Google is going next before Apple will likely do its annual iPhone and Apple Watch event in September. Google has just announced an event for August 20, where it will “introduce the latest addition to our Pixel portfolio of devices.” Whatever could Google be hinting at? I’m sure it couldn’t be the Pixel 10, Pixe

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This phone has twice the battery capacity of the Galaxy S25 Edge and costs less than $200

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-28 11:28:37

TL;DR HONOR just announced the X70 phone, set to go on sale on Friday in China. Despite its $165 price tag, the HONOR X70 features a massive 8,300mAh silicon-carbon battery and military-grade toughness. At 8.2mm, it’s about the same thickness as the iPhone 16 Pro. A $165 smartphone wouldn’t usually raise expectations about its specs, but one manufacturer clearly didn’t get that memo. Despite the price tag, the new HONOR X70 boasts an insane 8,300mAh silicon-carbon battery along with military-

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The Galaxy Watch 8 gets a key battery health feature that more smartwatches need

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-28 11:42:49

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 8 series introduces a “battery protection” feature designed to extend the device’s battery longevity. The feature works by stopping the charge at 90% and only resuming it when the battery level drops down to 85%. This prevents the battery from sitting at a full 100% charge, which reduces stress and helps slow long-term battery degradation. Most people don’t upgrade their smartwatch every year, opting to keep their device unt

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The next Pixel event is on August 20

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 11:28:32

Google will host its next Made by Google event on August 20, the company announced today. In a media invite the search giant shared with Engadget, it promised the event would feature new Pixel phones, watches, buds "and more." At its annual hardware event last year, Google announced the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2. Between the company's invite and what came out of last year's event, expect a refresh of nearly the entire Pixel line.

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What's happening to reading?

news.ycombinator.com Joshua Rothman 2026-02-24 14:16:48

What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century. In a 2017 Shouts & Murmurs titled “Before the Internet,” the writer Emma Rathbone captured the spirit of reading as it used to be: “Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would

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The First Trailer for ‘Hoppers’ Wants to Be ‘Avatar’ With Beavers

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-28 11:35:56

Pixar‘s animal kingdom and sci-fi mash-up, Hoppers, just dropped a hilarious first look fleshing out its premise, which asks, “What if we could finally talk to animals?” The trailer introduces a tech breakthrough in the form of a robot animal that scientists manage to transfer anyone’s brain into in order to get in deep with other species. And yeah, it’s like James Cameron’s Avatar, but make it cute. Our Sully in this case is Mabel (Piper Curda), who lets her mind hop into the tech prototype an

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Struggling With Hair Loss? This First-Ever Prescription Gummy May Help

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-28 09:36:24

You've tried the serums, the vitamins and the topical solutions? How about a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online healthcare services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biotin-plus-Minoxidil Gummy, the first-of-its-kind prescription gummy formulated to support hair regrowth. Available through forhers.com, this gummy combines prescription-strength minoxidil, the only FDA-approved ingredient for female hair loss, with biotin, a popular

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Insta360 now offers lens filters and a larger battery for its 360-degree action cam

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-02-28 11:14:38

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. It’s been less than three months since Insta360 released its X5 360-degree action camera, but the company is already introducing new accessories and a major firmware update. Improvements include a new AdaptiveTone feature delivering “better color and detail in both bright and dark areas” when filming with both lenses, and a larger battery you can

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Google announces Pixel 10 launch event

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-28 11:24:54

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 officially has a date for its Pixel launch event: August 20th, 2025. In an invite sent on Wednesday, Google says the event will take place in New York City at 1PM ET, where the company will show off “the latest on our Pixel phones, watches, buds, and more.” During the event, Google is expected to take the wraps off its new Pixel smartphone l

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ASML shares drop 11% after the chip giant says it can't confirm that it will grow in 2026

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-28 16:53:08

ASML on Wednesday warned of the possibility of no growth in 2026, even as it beat top and bottom line expectations for the second quarter. ASML's guidance for the current quarter missed expectations while it narrowed its own forecast for the rest of the year. Shares of the firm ended the day 11.4% lower. Like many companies in the semiconductor industry, ASML has been grappling with uncertainty created by U.S. tariff policy. The company forecast third-quarter revenue of between 7.4 billion eu

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The final season of Stranger Things now has an action-packed trailer

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 16:13:55

It's time to break out that 1980s playlist. The last season of the Netflix hit Stranger Things finally has a trailer . It's been nearly a decade since the show premiered and it looks like it's going out with a bang. This trailer is absolutely packed with action, showing many fan favorite characters in mortal peril of one kind or another. Season four ended with one heck of a cliffhanger so, of course, things pick up from there. The footage depicts all kinds of supernatural chaos impacting the sm

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What's Happening to Reading?

news.ycombinator.com Joshua Rothman 2026-02-24 20:16:48

What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century. In a 2017 Shouts & Murmurs titled “Before the Internet,” the writer Emma Rathbone captured the spirit of reading as it used to be: “Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would

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‘Extremely Severe’ Obesity in American Kids Is Surging, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-28 16:00:29

Many Americans today are living with obesity, even with the advent of newer, more effective drugs like semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy). It’s a problem that seems to be getting especially serious in kids, however. Research out today finds that the percentage of children with “extremely severe” obesity has surged in the U.S. over the past decade and a half. Scientists at the University of California San Diego led the study, which examined nationally representative data o

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New Fortinet FortiWeb hacks likely linked to public RCE exploits

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-28 21:58:52

Multiple Fortinet FortiWeb instances recently infected with web shells are believed to have been compromised using public exploits for a recently patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw tracked as CVE-2025-25257. News of the exploitation activity comes from threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation, which observed 85 infections on July 14 and 77 on the next day. The researchers reported that these Fortinet FortiWeb instances are believed to be compromised through the CVE-2025-252

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How Social Media Is Fueling Gen Z’s Sex Recession

wired.com Manisha Krishnan 2026-02-28 17:00:00

As a teenager growing up in Seattle, Carter Sherman was “pathologically obsessed” with the fact that she was still a virgin. In her new book The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future, which chronicles Gen Z’s sex lives (or lack thereof), Sherman describes having a meltdown after one of her best friends has sex with their classmate, making her feel left behind. “I fully broke down crying in front of my mom,” she tells me when I bring up the incident. She cried harde

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Amazon launches more Kuiper internet satellites with help from rival: 'Big thanks to SpaceX'

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-03-01 02:09:03

United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the first two demonstration satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation stands ready for launch on pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on October 5, 2023 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. As Amazon chases SpaceX in the internet satellite market, the e-commerce and computing giant turned to Elon Musk's rival company to get its next batch of devices into space. On Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carr

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The Galaxy Watch 8 Pissed Me Off, but I'd Still Recommend It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-01 00:00:14

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The Running Coach on the Galaxy Watch 8 needs to be kicked to the curb. I'm not expecting an Olympic endorsement deal anytime soon, but after 20 years of running (four half marathons, multiple 10K and 5Ks), I'd hope to graduate beyond "beginner." Not according to Samsung's latest watch. Either it's using a rigid set of criteria to assign training plans, or

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Here’s what’s wrong with the Xperia 1 VII, and how you can get a free replacement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-01 06:46:52

The Sony Xperia 1 VII has been in the spotlight recently after it emerged that some owners were suffering from a major defect. Fortunately, Sony has identified the problem and will offer a free replacement program. Sony UK confirmed on its website (spotted by GSMArena) that the motherboard in some Xperia 1 VII units was defective: Our investigation has concluded that the manufacturing process may cause a failure of the circuit board in a small number of Xperia 1 VII smartphones, which could po

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Your favorite wallpaper app is prettier than ever thanks to its Material 3 Expressive update

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-01 15:00:16

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Backdrops has been updated to version 6.0, integrating Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language. UI enhancements include improved carousel, better loading animations, refreshed progress indicators, rounded corners, new icons, and diverse color palette pairings. The facelift improves the visual experience for users who regularly search for wallpapers within the app. Material 3 Expressive is the flavor of the season. We’ve seen plenty of Google ap

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If you’re upset with the Pixel Watch 4 spec leak, you’re missing what really matters

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-01 15:30:23

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google is set to launch a slew of new Pixel hardware next month, and while much of our attention has been focused on the Pixel 10 series, there’s another Pixel gadget that’s also coming soon: the Pixel Watch 4. Android Authority recently reported a few key specs for Google’s next smartwatch, and on the surface, none of it is particularly exciting. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chip — the same one used in the Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Watch 2 — is making a retu

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