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Senators urge FTC to investigate Spotify’s higher-priced bundled subscription

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-21 19:57:21

Two U.S. senators have requested that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate Spotify due to allegations that the company bundled its music streaming and audiobook services into a more expensive subscription without obtaining user consent, while also reducing royalty payments to creators in the process. On Friday, June 20, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Ben Ray Luján wrote a letter to the FTC, claiming that Spotify converted standard premium subscriptions into higher-cost bundled sub

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It’s a Chromebook thing: Hands-on with new ChromeOS AI features

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:00:19

Ryan Haines / Android Authority As an elder member of Gen-Z, every screen in my life has its purpose. My small screen (my phone) is there for personal communication, ordering food, and mindlessly scrolling memes on the internet. My big screen (my TV) takes on the role of in-home entertainment, whether it’s a giant Spotify hub, a way to keep up with the Club World Cup, or endlessly streaming reruns of Letterkenny. Left in the mushy middle between the two, however, is room for a medium screen, l

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Google is giving your Chromebook Plus its own version of Circle to Search

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:00:47

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A bevy of new features are coming to Chromebook Plus laptops. These features include Select to search, Text capture, Simplify, and more. Those who get the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 will get two extra features: Smart grouping and AI image editing in the Gallery app. Google keeps churning out AI-powered features faster than anyone can keep up with. If you own a Chromebook Plus, be on the lookout because the company’s latest slate of AI tools is on the way.

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Lenovo promises 17 hours of battery life on its new Chromebook Plus 14

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:00:18

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 . For years now, most Chromebooks have run some variety of Intel or AMD processor. The occasional device used a MediaTek chip, but they were often underpowered and cheap devices that were hard to recommend. ARM-based processors have worked tremendously well for Apple on the Mac, and they

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Your Apple Watch is getting a big upgrade for free - 8 features I can't wait to use on WatchOS 26

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-21 23:55:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Your iPhone, Apple Watch, and other Apple-owned devices are getting a big overhaul soon. The best part? You won't have to pay a dime for them. The tech giant recently rolled out all of the newest apps and updates coming to its devices over the next few months. Apple announced several new features coming to WatchOS 26 at its annual software conference, WWDC, earlier this month. The features touch everything from Fitness to Messages, and include a major design update across App

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The ‘Most Advanced’ Chromebook Has an AI Chip That’s Just Pure Overkill for ChromeOS

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-21 23:00:29

What do you need your Chromebook to do for you? If you’re like most people who buy the cheaper ChromeOS-based laptops, you want it to access a browser and—if you’re feeling particularly spicy—maybe a few select Android apps. The most important elements for these lightweight clamshells are normally whether it can load webpages fast, has a long-enough battery, and if it has a quality display for your average Netflix and chill session. With its latest update, Google and Lenovo are asking consumers

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Blink Security Bundle Is 50% Off for Early Prime Day, Includes 7 Cameras and Storage With a MicroSD Card

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-21 23:10:10

It’s never been easier or more affordable to keep an eye on your home, both inside and out. Whether you’re heading out of town or just want extra peace of mind while you’re at work, a dependable security camera system can make a world of difference. The problem is, most setups either cost too much up front or require subscriptions to get all the features. And if you’re already paying for the equipment, there’s no way you want to spend more money on a subscription every month, too. Luckily, there

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LEGO Star Wars Phantom Menace Podrace Wasn’t This Cheap Last Prime Day, but Now It’s Practically Free

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-21 23:40:39

It’s hard to decide which is more surprising — the fact that Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is now 25 years old, or that LEGO has been creating amazingly detailed Star Wars-themed sets and models for just as long. The 25th anniversary celebration of LEGO Star Wars continues with this amazing diorama depicting the iconic podrace between young Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba on Tatooine, and Amazon’s selling this adult set for just $54. The LEGO Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Mos Espa Podrace Diorama

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Google adds AI features to Chromebook Plus devices

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-21 23:00:00

Google’s adding a slew of AI features to its productivity-focused Chromebook Plus line of devices, including a screen selection tool for search and text capture, a tool that explains complex text, and NotebookLM. The new screen selection tool works similarly to Google Lens and the “Circle to search” feature in Chrome on smartphones: long-press the launcher button or use the screenshot tool to select what is on your screen, and Google will instantly search for it. The tool also lets you select t

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Pompliano’s ProCap raises over $750 million, goes public via SPAC as bitcoin treasury bubble grows

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-22 03:40:59

The race to create publicly traded bitcoin treasuries is accelerating — and so is the capital pouring in. ProCap Financial, the latest entrant, has raised more than $750 million and is going public through a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, with Columbus Circle Capital Corp. I, according to an announcement Monday. Led by investor and podcast host Anthony Pompliano, ProCap raised more than $750 million in its funding round, including $235 million in convertible debt, with equity ma

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Google Pay adds another popular way to split big payments into installments

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 03:30:35

Klarna TL;DR Google Pay announced plans to add Klarna as a buy now, pay later (BNPL) lender last year. The integration is now live, and US shoppers can use Klarna’s Pay in 4 and financing options for purchases on select Android apps and websites. To use Klarna as a BNPL lender through Google Pay, existing users must link their Klarna account, while new users need to complete the onboarding process within Google Pay. Google Pay introduced a buy now, pay later (BNPL) feature last year to help

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Report: Apple to announce ‘some’ App Store changes in the EU to avoid additional DMA fines

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-22 03:06:45

In April, Apple was fined 500 million euros for violating the Digital Markets Act in the European Union. Since that penalty was announced, however, the company hasn’t announced any further changes to its App Store Guidelines to avoid further fines. A new report from the Financial Times today says that Apple is “locked in last-minute” negotiations with the European Commission about ways to ease its App Store anti-steering provisions. Following the fine in April, Apple was given 60 days to start

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My Apple Watch band gave out before year two - and it could've been bad

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-22 03:30:32

The weak link! Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET My Apple Watch Ultra 2 is, as of today, 626 days old, and apart from charging, it has been on my wrist pretty much continuously. It's accompanied me on many an adventure, been in several countries, found itself deep inside loads of car engine bays, been covered in dirt and mud, and it still looks like new. Regular readers will have seen it in countless photos here on ZDNET. But the other day, something broke, and while it wasn't serious, it could ha

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Forget Anker, Baseus MagSafe Portable Charger Is Practically Free as Amazon Offers It at Almost 50% Off

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-22 03:40:05

If you’ve ever found yourself juggling a low phone battery, a tangle of cords, and a bulky power bank, you know how frustrating on-the-go charging can be. First you have to make sure your charger is ready to go. Then you have to make sure you actually have a cable. Because chances are when you need one, it’s nowhere to be found. That’s exactly the kind of daily headache this currently discounted charger was made specifically to resolve. And you can act fast to get one right now for a great price

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Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo’s sleek, new 14-incher are getting free Gemini AI features

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-09-22 04:00:00

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. Google announced a handful of new Gemini AI features for Chromebook Plus laptops, including a sleek, new 14-inch flagship device from Lenovo that I got to handle recently. The new AI functions include select to search, which allows you to long press the launcher icon or take a screenshot and do a Google search based on on-screen images

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Tesla robotaxis launch in Austin with $4.20 invite-only service and human "safety monitors"

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-22 12:15:00

What just happened? Tesla's long-awaited robotaxi service finally launched yesterday (June 23) in Austin, Texas. So far, it has been limited to invited participants and not the general public, and passengers aren't alone in the vehicles; Tesla's "safety monitors" sit in the front passenger seat ready to take over if something goes wrong – despite Elon Musk promising the service would launch unsupervised. Musk's "tentatively, June 22" response early this month to an X user's question about when

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Tesla robotaxi 'low-key' launch in Texas

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-22 11:52:41

Tesla robotaxi 'low-key' launch in Texas 1 hour ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Reuters Tesla's long-awaited robotaxis rolled out for the first time on roads in Austin, Texas on Sunday. In videos shared by Tesla on X, a small group of invited analysts, influencers and shareholders were shown participating in paid rides. The small number of vehicles deployed had a human safety operator in the passenger seat, according to reports. Analysts said the "low-key" robotaxi l

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I recommend this Chromebook over many Windows laptops that cost twice as much

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-22 09:00:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus is on sale for $600. It excels as an inexpensive work laptop thanks to its comfortable keyboard, solid hardware, and useful features in ChromeOS. Its sub-standard touchscreen will limit usability for some. View now at I've been really curious to see how things have changed since my last Chromebook review, which was the Acer Chromebook Plus Enterprise 515 last year. I recently had that opportunity with the Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook Plus

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184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Google, more: What to know about this data breach

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-22 09:00:15

Moor Studio/Getty Images While it's not as large in scale as the latest data breach that leaked over 16 billion passwords, another incident has exposed passwords and other sensitive information across some of the most popular services on the internet. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed his discovery of a massive online database containing more than 184 million unique account credentials, in a report published late last month. Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of

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Finally, a Lenovo ThinkPad that impressed me in performance, design, and battery life

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-22 09:45:12

ZDNET's key takeaways Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Aura Edition is available now starting at $2,419. It combines all the utility of a ThinkPad with exceptional battery life. It's expensive, and some of the Aura Edition features are being discontinued. $2,419 at B&H Photo-Video Lenovo's 10th-generation ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Aura Edition is a business-minded laptop with a few design perks to differentiate it from the crowd. We're talking a convertible form factor, pen support, ample I/O, and fantas

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Why I prefer this Lenovo tablet over the iPad for multimedia consumption (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-22 10:00:19

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Tab Plus retails for $330, but is frequently on sale. Contrary to its small size, the model houses a booming eight-speaker system and a long-lasting battery. The MediaTek Helio chipset and dim display won't be winning any awards. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon View now at Lenovo more buying choices The Lenovo Tab Plus received a $126 discount, bringing it to an even more accessible $224 price point. If you're in the market for a new tablet that won't

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Amazon Prime Day is July 8-11: Here's everything to know

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-09-22 12:00:15

It's time to build your basket. Amazon confirmed in a June press release that its annual Prime Day event will return Tuesday, July 8, through Friday, July 11. And for the first time ever, Prime Day will be a four-day-long extravaganza, two days longer than last year, confirming early rumors that swirled back in March. Also: Amazon extends July Prime Day and confirms 2025 dates The retailer also unveiled early offers for Prime members, like savings on exclusive Amazon products and devices, and

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 02:00:00

Some context: Optifye is an AI performance monitoring system for factory workers backed by Y Combinator. We put cameras in factories and use computer vision to find shop-floor inefficiencies in real-time. Our clients are industry-leading manufacturers in the garments, automotive, medical, and FMCG industries across the world. We are looking to hire founding team members as we enter a high-growth phase. Must haves: - Deep GPU, CPU, and memory optimization knowledge - Experience scaling an ap

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Verlet Integration and Cloth Physics Simulation (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 00:39:26

Physics simulation in games (or simply game physics) is a vast topic, and in this post we'll cover only a tiny part of it; yet certainly an interesting one! Let's understand what Verlet integration is by implementing a simple 2D cloth simulation with C++. Physics in games is always fun, isn't it? Have you ever ditched the main quest of a level just to blow something up? I know I have. But even more fun than watching objects bounce around the screen is to understand how we can use simple concep

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

news.ycombinator.com Brecht De Ruyte 2025-09-19 09:21:04

In this (long) part of the customizable select series, it’s all about gamification. In this article, I’d like to highlight one of my demos, where I aimed to recreate a piece of UI found in the Monster Hunter games. To re-create this behavior, I had to think in terms of keyboard navigation first. This demo requires quite a lot of CSS, as well as some scripting, and in the end, I do want to highlight some accessibility concerns. This is an experiment on how far we can take it when styling select e

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Homotopy Equivalences

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 10:56:06

Previously: Fibrations and Cofibrations. In topology, we say that two shapes are the same if there is a homeomorphism– an invertible continuous map– between them. Continuity means that nothing is broken and nothing is glued together. This is how we can turn a coffe cup into a torus. A homeomorphism, however, won’t let us shrink a torus to a circle. So if we are only interested in how many holes the shapes have, we have to relax our notion of equivalence. Let’s go back to the definition of home

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The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

wired.com Jay Bennett 2025-09-22 10:27:31

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey of the cosmos. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named for the astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter in 1978, is expected to reveal some 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, 10 million supernovas, and millions of smaller objects

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First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-22 10:01:51

First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope 4 hours ago Share Save Ione Wells South America correspondent Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Share Save NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory The first image revealed by the Vera Rubin telescope shows the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae in stunning detail A powerful new telescope in Chile has released its first images, showing off its unprecedented ability to peer into the dark depths of the universe. In one picture, vast colourful gas

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This upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7 rival is thinner than a pack of gum

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 12:51:14

TL;DR HONOR has revealed that its upcoming Magic V5 foldable phone will be just 8.8mm thick when folded. That means the new foldable is thinner than a pack of chewing gum or a CD case. The Magic V5 is scheduled to launch in China on July 2. Samsung is gearing up to launch a Galaxy Z Fold 7 that looks significantly thinner than previous models. However, rival brand HONOR says its upcoming Magic V5 will be the thinnest book-style foldable phone on the market. Now, the company has dished out spe

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Google app is now home to your Pinterest-like personalized image feed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 13:57:47

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started rolling out a new “Images” tab in the latest beta version of the Google app. The Images tab lets users select interest categories, such as fashion or home decor, to build a tailored visual feed using publicly available search images, similar to platforms like Pinterest. The feature is currently limited to beta users for testing and feedback, with potential for wider rollout soon. We’ve previously spotted Google working on a Pinteres

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Senators urge FTC to investigate Spotify’s higher-priced bundled subscription

It’s a Chromebook thing: Hands-on with new ChromeOS AI features

Google is giving your Chromebook Plus its own version of Circle to Search

Lenovo promises 17 hours of battery life on its new Chromebook Plus 14

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LEGO Star Wars Phantom Menace Podrace Wasn’t This Cheap Last Prime Day, but Now It’s Practically Free

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Pompliano’s ProCap raises over $750 million, goes public via SPAC as bitcoin treasury bubble grows

Google Pay adds another popular way to split big payments into installments

Report: Apple to announce ‘some’ App Store changes in the EU to avoid additional DMA fines

My Apple Watch band gave out before year two - and it could've been bad

Forget Anker, Baseus MagSafe Portable Charger Is Practically Free as Amazon Offers It at Almost 50% Off

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Tesla robotaxis launch in Austin with $4.20 invite-only service and human "safety monitors"

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Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

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Homotopy Equivalences

The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope

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Google app is now home to your Pinterest-like personalized image feed

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