GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

What Is a Passkey? Here’s How to Set Up and Use Them (2025)

wired.com Jacob Roach 2025-11-26 00:30:00

Passwords suck. They're hard to remember, but worse is playing the ever-evolving game of cybersecurity whack-a-mole with your most important accounts. That’s where passkeys come into play. The so-called “war on passwords” has taken off over the past two years, with titans like Google, Microsoft, and Apple pushing for a password-less future that the FIDO Alliance (a consortium made to “help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords”) has been trying to realize for over a decade. Like it or n

Topics: device key passkey passkeys passwords

Shop Amazon

Acer’s 16-inch Air weighs even less than a 13-inch MacBook Air

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-11-25 22:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Acer is announcing a new Swift Air 16 at IFA 2025, and it’s an absolute featherweight of a 16-inch laptop. Weighing in at 2.18 pounds / 0.99kg with an IPS display or 2.43 pounds / 1.1kg with its optional OLED, the Swift Air is lighter than even a 13

Topics: 16 air battery laptop swift

Shop Amazon

The PartyBox 720 is JBL’s largest battery-powered party speaker

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-25 22:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. JBL has expanded its lineup of flashy Bluetooth speakers with three new models that let you blast tunes without being tied to a power source. The launch includes the new $1,099 PartyBox 720, which is JBL’s largest battery-powered speaker to date, weighing 7 pounds (3kg) more than the visually similar PartyBox 710 that was released in 2021. The PartyBox 720 measures 16.4 x 37.1 x 16 inches, compared to 15.7

Topics: 720 grip jbl partybox speakers

Shop Amazon

Battery sizes on flagship phones are about to explode

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 00:36:57

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that three upcoming Pro flagship phones will see notable battery capacity upgrades. It looks like the tipster is referring to the Xiaomi 16 Pro, vivo X300 Pro, and OPPO Find X9 Pro. The OPPO Find X9 Pro in particular could offer a 7,550mAh battery. Many smartphone brands have embraced silicon-carbon batteries in the past year or two, resulting in some flagship Android phones with huge batteries. They’re not stopping here, though, as i

Topics: battery capacity oppo phones pro

Shop Amazon

The Middle Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 15:09:29

One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck describes her education at a number of different schools in the last decades of the 19th century – a time when the opportunities available to women, and ideas about how girls should be educated, were changing very rapidly. Though she came from a scholarly and successful family (her father was a bishop), Peck’s chequered ed

Topics: century earth middle peck world

Shop Amazon

Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery

news.ycombinator.com Steve Hanley 2025-11-26 00:00:47

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe There are more ways to store energy than just using batteries. Some are using fire bricks, particularly for process heat for industries that rely on high heat in manufacturing. Others propose an arrangement of massive concrete blocks that move up and down like the weights of a giant grandfather clock, converting kinetic energy to potential energy and back again. In Finland, two intrepid engineers began experimenting with

Topics: battery electricity heat heating sand

Shop Amazon

No more Prime shipping perks outside your family (Updated: Amazon statement)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 02:59:23

Update: September 2, 2025 (10:56 PM ET): An Amazon spokesperson has contacted Android Authority with an official statement on the matter. Here’s what they had to say: The Invitee program, which enabled sharing of the Prime shipping benefit only, is being phased out, and Prime members can instead share a broad range of Prime benefits with Amazon Family, including: fast, free delivery; access to exclusive deals and shopping events like Prime Day; movies, series, and live sports with Prime Video;

Topics: amazon benefits family free prime

Shop Amazon

Cloudflare stops new world's largest DDoS attack over Labor Day weekend

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-26 00:25:56

Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This came only a few months afte

Topics: attack attacks cloudflare ddos hyper

Shop Amazon

In under 18 months, my iPhone's battery life has gone from great to terrible

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-26 02:00:17

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways My iPhone is less than 18 months old. It now cannot make it through a day without a recharge. Nothing appears abnormal in the settings. Rather than do my usual and upgrade my iPhone again last year with only about a year on the clock, I decided to try what most people end up having to do -- keep it going for a few years. Apple says that the battery is designed to retain 80% of its orig

Topics: 80 battery day ios iphone

Shop Amazon

Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 23:08:54

LightCycle A classic TRON-inspired light cycle game built with Rust and ggez. Features Single-player and Two-player modes - Battle against AI or a friend - Battle against AI or a friend Adjustable AI Difficulty - Easy, Medium, and Hard AI opponents - Easy, Medium, and Hard AI opponents Boost Mechanic - Limited energy boost system for strategic gameplay - Limited energy boost system for strategic gameplay Visual Effects - Particle trails, screen shake, and glow effects - Particle trails, s

Topics: ai boost game pause player

Shop Amazon

Indices, not Pointers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 22:21:30

Indices, not Pointers There is a pattern I’ve learned while using Zig which I’ve never seen used in any other language. It’s an extremely simple trick which - when applied to a data structure - reduces memory usage, reduces memory allocations, speeds up accesses, makes freeing instantaneous, and generally makes everything much, much faster. The trick is to use indices, not pointers. This is something I learned from a talk by Andrew Kelley (Zig’s creator) on data-oriented design. It’s used in Z

Topics: allocation data memory node nodes

Shop Amazon

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

news.ycombinator.com Keerti Gopal 2025-11-22 10:27:06

This story is a partnership between Grist Inside Climate News , and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car last month for their daily drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle. “I would love to be able to have him put a cup under the tap if he was thirsty,” Ramirez said. She can’t. Ramirez lives in a home on Chicago’s Southeast Side that’s serviced by a lead water pipe, a toxic relic found in

Topics: city lead lines service water

Shop Amazon

Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC claim it used cartoons to collect YouTube data on kids

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-11-26 02:01:35

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it violated federal law by misleadingly labeling cartoons on YouTube so it could illegally collect children’s personal data. The FTC alleges that Disney failed to label some videos of

Topics: disney ftc kids videos youtube

Shop Amazon

You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

news.ycombinator.com Ibrahim Diallo 2025-11-26 02:31:37

I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the data by name?" My immediate thought was: If you have a JavaScript array with a million entries, you're certainly doing something wrong. The interviewer continued: "There are multiple fields that you should be able to sort by." This felt like a trick question. Surely the right answer was to explain w

Topics: answer complexity interview interviews job

Shop Amazon

Judge Rules Google Can Keep Chrome but Must Stop Exclusive Search Deals

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 00:46:00

Back Services & Software All the news and tips you need to get the most out of services, apps and software you use every day.

Topics: apps day news services software

Shop Amazon

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 3, #345

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 04:26:41

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Fans of the Fighting Irish, today's Connections: Sports Edition is calling your names. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game

Topics: answers connections group sports today

Shop Amazon

9to5Mac Daily: September 2, 2025 – New AirPods Pro health features?

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-26 09:13:37

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

Topics: 9to5mac apple daily podcast podcasts

Shop Amazon

You may soon be able to watch Instagram Reels in picture-in-picture mode

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-26 09:42:25

In a new test, Meta is letting select users keep watching Instagram Reels as a floating window on their devices even after they close the app. Here’s what it looks like. As spotted by Radu Onescu on Threads, Instagram is prompting select users to “Try Picture in Picture” with a pop-up when they swipe through posts made on Reels: The pop-up reads: “Try picture in picture Turn this on to continue watching reels in a floating window on your device after you’ve left Instagram. Manage your picture

Topics: instagram like picture reels try

Shop Amazon

Waymo's next stops for its robotaxis are Denver and Seattle

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-26 09:51:26

Waymo is preparing to launch in two more markets. The company announced today that it will expand into both Denver and Seattle . It will begin testing with humans behind the wheel this week, bringing up to a dozen vehicles to each location, according to CNBC . The rollout will include a mix of the brand's fully electric Jaguar iPace and Geely Zeekr autonomous vehicles. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a

Topics: autonomous begin cnbc fully vehicles

Shop Amazon

Judge Rules Google Can Keep Chrome, but Must Stop Exclusive Search Deals

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 06:46:00

Back Services & Software All the news and tips you need to get the most out of services, apps and software you use every day.

Topics: apps day news services software

Shop Amazon

You Can Now Have Uber Eats Drivers Deliver Your Best Buy Purchases

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 08:04:00

Tyler Graham Writer Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category. He came to CNET straight out of college, where he graduated from Seton Hall with a bachelor's degree in journalism. For the past seven months, Tyler has attended a White House press conference, participated in energy product testing at CNET's testing labs in Louisville, Kentucky, and written one of CNET Energy's top-performing news articles, on federal solar policy. Not bad for a newbie. When Tyler's not aski

Topics: cnet energy home tyler writer

Shop Amazon

OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-26 09:36:26

Daily squirts of a safe, over-the-counter allergy nasal spray may prevent COVID-19 infections from taking hold, according to results published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine. In a mid-staged trial, the spray appeared to reduce infections by promising 67 percent, though a larger trial will need to confirm that robust efficacy. The trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 trial conducted by researchers at Germany's Saarland University between March 2023 and July 2024. T

Topics: 19 allergy covid infections spray

Shop Amazon

The new Dolby Vision 2 HDR standard is probably going to be controversial

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-26 09:52:31

Dolby has announced the features of Dolby Vision 2, its successor to the popular Dolby Vision HDR format. Whereas the original Dolby Vision was meant to give creators the ability to finely tune exactly how TVs present content in HDR, Dolby Vision 2 appears to significantly broaden that feature to include motion handling as well—and it also tries to bridge the gap between filmmaker intent and the on-the-ground reality of the individual viewing environments. What does that mean, exactly? Well, D

Topics: content dark dolby viewing vision

Shop Amazon

Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-26 14:40:43

Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test drives of its robotaxis in Denver and Seattle this week, with humans behind the wheel, the company said Tuesday. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a company spokesperson said in an email. Waymo announced the tests in blog posts. The autonomous vehicle venture aims to expand its driverless, ride-hailing service across the U.S. after already launching commercial opera

Topics: company denver hailing seattle waymo

Shop Amazon

Apple shares rise after judge rules Google can continue preload deals in antitrust case

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-26 14:29:17

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 9, 2025. Apple shares rose more than 3% in extended trading Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that Alphabet may continue making payments to preload Google Search onto the iPhone. Although Apple wasn't a party in the search monopoly trial, the judge was considering remedies that would bar Google from paying billions per year to Apple to be the default search eng

Topics: apple engine google payments search

Shop Amazon

Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC complaint that it collected children's data on YouTube

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-26 14:36:47

The Federal Trade Commission announced that Disney will pay $10 million to settle allegations that the entertainment giant allowed data collection on YouTube videos meant for children. Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, also known as COPPA , companies are required to notify parents and obtain parental consent if they collection information from minors. According to the FTC complaint, Disney failed to properly label some YouTube videos as "Made for Kids," which allowed the compa

Topics: disney kids million videos youtube

Shop Amazon

Amazon is quietly axing a big Prime shipping perk. Here's what's going away - and when

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-26 14:06:24

Roman Tiraspolsky/iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon is ending the Prime Invitee program. The program let people share Prime shipping outside their home. Customers are being rolled into the Amazon Family program. It's the end of an era for Prime Invitee users. Through the Prime Invitee program, established in 2008, subscribers could share their shipping benefits with other people who live in their "househ

Topics: amazon family invitee prime program

Shop Amazon

Google Won’t Have to Sell Chrome Browser After All (But There’s a Catch)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-26 14:35:42

A federal judge ruled in a high-profile antitrust case against Google on Tuesday with some good news and bad news for the tech giant. The good news for Google is that it won’t have to sell off its Chrome browser, which was a very real possibility. Google’s stock soared in after hours trading on the news. The bad news for Google was that it will be required to share data with its rivals and can’t sign many of the exclusive contracts that helped the company become so dominant in the industry. Th

Topics: company google news ruling trump

Shop Amazon

Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-26 16:31:54

Something keeps happening to people who get hooked chatbots like ChatGPT. Mental health professionals are calling it "AI psychosis": turning to the AI models for advice, users soon become entranced by the sycophantic machine's human-like responses. It becomes not just a tool but a companion — and the worst kind, constantly plying you with what you want to hear and validating anything you say, no matter how wrong or unbalanced. That leads to cases like a man who was repeatedly hospitalized after

Topics: ai cases hull people psychosis

Shop Amazon

Apple's new chatbot reportedly rolls out ahead of iPhone 17 - but it's not for you

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-26 18:32:21

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has reportedly launched an AI chatbot for its retail staff. Asa is intended to be an automated digital sales assistant. The chatbot arrives just weeks before the launch of iPhone 17. Apple has reportedly launched a new AI chatbot -- for its employees, not for its customers. Nicknamed Asa, the chatbot is designed to serve as an automated digital assistant for the company's retail staff, maki

Topics: ai apple asa chatbot company

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

What Is a Passkey? Here’s How to Set Up and Use Them (2025)

Acer’s 16-inch Air weighs even less than a 13-inch MacBook Air

The PartyBox 720 is JBL’s largest battery-powered party speaker

Battery sizes on flagship phones are about to explode

The Middle Earth

Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery

No more Prime shipping perks outside your family (Updated: Amazon statement)

Cloudflare stops new world's largest DDoS attack over Labor Day weekend

In under 18 months, my iPhone's battery life has gone from great to terrible

Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

Indices, not Pointers

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation

Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC claim it used cartoons to collect YouTube data on kids

You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

Judge Rules Google Can Keep Chrome but Must Stop Exclusive Search Deals

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 3, #345

9to5Mac Daily: September 2, 2025 – New AirPods Pro health features?

You may soon be able to watch Instagram Reels in picture-in-picture mode

Waymo's next stops for its robotaxis are Denver and Seattle

Judge Rules Google Can Keep Chrome, but Must Stop Exclusive Search Deals

You Can Now Have Uber Eats Drivers Deliver Your Best Buy Purchases

OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial

The new Dolby Vision 2 HDR standard is probably going to be controversial

Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

Apple shares rise after judge rules Google can continue preload deals in antitrust case

Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC complaint that it collected children's data on YouTube

Amazon is quietly axing a big Prime shipping perk. Here's what's going away - and when

Google Won’t Have to Sell Chrome Browser After All (But There’s a Catch)

Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

Apple's new chatbot reportedly rolls out ahead of iPhone 17 - but it's not for you

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising