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Your electronics could be quietly draining energy - this gadget prevents that

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-06 00:00:18

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 06:52:22

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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Warner Bros., DC Comics and More Sue Midjourney, Says AI Firm 'Thinks It Is Above the Law'

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 22:04:03

Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI image and video company Midjourney, making it the third major entertainment company to do so following Disney and Universal's similar lawsuit filed earlier this year. The lawsuit alleges the AI company violated the entertainment company's copyright protections by allowing AI users to create images with characters like Batman, Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny. "Midjourney thinks it is above the law," Warner Bros. Disc

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

wired.com Kyle Orland 2025-11-06 00:00:00

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a preprint study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests t

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Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 12:57:59

The use of effective sunscreen can reduce the harm caused to the skin by ultraviolet rays (UV) and slow down skin aging. The Consumer Council tested 30 models of sunscreen for daily use and over 80% of them were found to perform below their respective labelled efficacy. The measured sunscreen efficacy of 4 models were below SPF15, of which 2 were sunscreen products with very high protection i.e. labelled with SPF50+. Among the 23 models using the “PA System” which is commonly adopted by Asian co

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How often do health insurers say no to patients? (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Robin Fields 2025-11-05 20:01:46

Series: Uncovered: How the Insurance Industry Denies Coverage to Patients More in this series Caret ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It’s one of the most crucial questions people have when deciding which health plan to choose: If my doctor orders a test or treatment, will my insurer refuse to pay for it? After all, an insurance company that routinely rejects recommended care could damage

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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 20:57:27

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Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 17:00:17

Losing a baby to a stillbirth is arguably the most heartbreaking outcome an expecting mother can experience. But what would you do if that stillbirth kicked off a lengthy and protracted legal battle in which your most intimate details are spilled to the police, the courts, and social media? That's the horrifying conundrum facing Rebecca Smith, a 34 year old would-be surrogate mother who says her stillbirth almost killed her. Despite almost paying for the unfortunate complication with her life,

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The Top New Gadgets We Saw at IFA Berlin 2025

wired.com Adrienne So 2025-11-05 09:00:00

Every September, hundreds of thousands of visitors descend upon Berlin for IFA, one of the largest trade tech conferences in Europe. IFA heralds the unofficial start of Techtember, when companies launch products in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. For over 100 years, companies, financiers, and journalists have crossed the Spree and eaten cold liver sausage for breakfast, just to check out the latest innovations in consumer electronics. This year, those attendees include me and Gear

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Two authors accuse Apple of illegally training AI models on pirated books

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-06 00:16:58

A new proposed class action suit was filed in the federal court in Northern California today, accusing Apple of illegally using books to train its AI models. Here are the details. Authors base the accusation on Apple’s own documents As reported by Reuters, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Robertson are accusing Apple of using a pirated dataset, in which their work was included. From the lawsuit: “But Apple is building part of this new enterprise using Books3, a dataset of pirated copyrighte

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Samsung leak reveals how you’ll be opening and closing its dual-hinge foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 10:26:12

TL;DR A new animation for Samsung’s multi-fold foldable has leaked. The animation shows how the device will open and close. It also appears to show that users will be able to take selfies with the rear cameras. Samsung debuted the Galaxy S25 FE this week, but that’s not the last smartphone the company is expected to announce this year. The tech giant also has a multi-fold device, popularly but misleadingly called a “tri-fold,” due later this year. Last week, a few 2D animations related to the

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You can now book doctors appointments through the Samsung Health app

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-06 15:17:21

Samsung Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung Health users can now book virtual doctors' visits. They can also manage Walgreens prescriptions on the app. The virtual doctors can prescribe medication and provide care. You can do more than track your sleep, steps, or cycle on Samsung's Health app. Samsung announced several health integrations to connect users with practitioners and pharmacies on Wednesday. Starting Sept. 8, Samsung Health users

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Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 23:15:38

Never to be outshone — literally, in this case — Chinese scientists have one-upped American researchers and their bioluminescent petunias with what they're calling world's first multi-colored glowing plants. As the journal Nature reports, this glow-in-the-dark succulent hails from the South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou, where materials researchers have developed a technology that recharges the plants via sunlight and makes them as bright as a night-light and with many of th

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The Galaxy S25 FE is here, but I’d rather get the Pixel 9a

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 09:34:38

The Galaxy S25 FE has arrived, and there’s a lot to like about it. You get a powerful chipset, premium features like an IP rating and wireless charging, a promised seven years of software support, and a lot more for a starting price of $650. It’s a phone I’ll often recommend over the next 12 months because the FE series strikes an excellent balance between performance and price. However, it faces stiff competition from the Pixel 9a, Google’s mid-range phone, which — at least for me — is a better

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Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 23:09:35

CADAM A Text to CAD Web Application What it does: Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension tweaking Separate agents for conversation and code generation; simple parameter tweaks bypass AI entirely using deterministic regex-based updates Exports as .STL or .SCAD Runs fully in-browser by comp

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September's Fall Equinox Is Coming: What to Know and What It Looks Like

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 22:22:00

Labor Day has come and gone, and school is back in session. Though the leaves have yet to start turning, fall is making its way here. The official arrival of the season is the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere in September. After a hot summer, the fall equinox marks a welcome shift in the seasons for many folks. But what exactly is an equinox? It's all about Earth and its relationship with the sun. Here's how to understand, visualize and celebrate the autumnal equinox.

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Samsung wasn’t even the second-most popular foldable maker in Q2 2025

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 00:29:03

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung only accounted for third place in foldable phone shipments in Q2 2025, according to Counterpoint Research. HUAWEI was in first place, while Motorola was the runner-up. This report doesn’t take Samsung’s latest foldables into account, as they launched in Q3. Foldable phones only account for a small number of smartphones shipping globally, but a new market share report has revealed some bad news for Samsung for Q2 2025. Counterpoint Research has p

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I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 20:40:08

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What the Hell Is Going on With Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun and Donald Trump?

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-07 05:30:06

World Liberty Financial’s crypto token WLFI started trading on exchanges Monday, which was great news for President Donald Trump’s family, who holds a reported 22.5 billion tokens. The move instantly created billions in wealth for America’s ruling family of fascists (at least on paper). But Justin Sun, a pro-Trump crypto billionaire who reportedly bought about $75 million of the token, says his wallets have been frozen. And nobody is sure why. The Trump family was instrumental in launching Wor

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Fall Equinox Is Coming: What to Know and What It Looks Like

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 04:22:02

Labor Day has come and gone, and school is back in session. Though the leaves have yet to start turning, fall is making its way here. The official arrival of the season is the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere in September. After a hot summer, the fall equinox marks a welcome shift in the seasons for many folks. But what exactly is an equinox? It's all about Earth and its relationship with the sun. Here's how to understand, visualize and celebrate the autumnal equinox.

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Galaxy Z Fold 7 is enough of a hit that Samsung is cranking up production

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 10:41:43

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has raised September Galaxy Z Fold 7 production to 260,000 units, up 60,000 from earlier plans. August Fold 7 output hit 430,000 units, well above the 170,000 initially targeted, while Flip 7 production fell short. Shipments could exceed Samsung’s 2.4 million-unit goal for 2025. Samsung’s top-end foldable might come with a heavy price tag, but that hasn’t stopped demand from forcing the company to build more. Samsung has reportedly raised its Sep

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Your electronics could be costing you, even while off. Here's one way to check

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-07 10:12:00

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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The Lenovo Legion Go 2 will get Xbox-flavored Windows in spring 2026

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-07 10:54:30

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The just-fully-announced Legion Go 2 will be the first handheld outside of Asus that’s confirmed to get the new Xbox full-screen experience. Lenovo spokesperson Jeff Witt tells me buyers will be able to manually switch the handheld to Xbox FSE after it

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Mappa President Hopes ‘Reze Arc’ Movie Will Trigger Fandom Boom for ‘Chainsaw Man’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-07 15:15:03

Chainsaw Man fans are a little more than a month away from experiencing the film arc continuation of the anime, Reze Arc, in theaters. Before its release, Studio Mappa’s presidents spoke about why they chose to adapt the manga arc into a film and provided an update on the anime’s possible second season. Speaking with Anime News Network at Anime Expo 2025, Mappa head Manabu Ohtsuka and vice president Hiroya Hasegawa gave their reasoning for making Reze Arc a movie instead of an episodic second s

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The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-11-07 15:08:21

The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why superhuman AI would kill us all.” But it really should be “Why superhuman AI WILL kill us all,” because even the coauthors don’t believe that the world will take the necessary measures to stop AI from eliminating all non-super humans. The book is beyond dark, reading like notes scrawled in a dimly lit prison cell the night before a dawn execution. When I meet these

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The Galaxy Tab S11 family is here, but should you upgrade from your older Galaxy tablet?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 00:00:20

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority While many of us still upgrade smartphones every 2–4 years on average, tablets tend to have a much longer shelf life. They’re typically used less often and for narrower purposes like video consumption or light productivity. With the arrival of the Galaxy Tab S11 and Tab S11 Ultra, you might be wondering whether now is finally the right time to replace your aging Galaxy tablet. The answer here isn’t so cut and dry. It’s really less about age and more about whe

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Samsung's Newest AI Promises: Big Energy Savings, Strange Smart Displays and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 23:00:00

Samsung arrived at Berlin's IFA event with not one, not two but three different AIs to talk about in its AI Home: Future Living, Now exhibit. The brand has been hard at work expanding its definition of AI (even if some references stretch the term to its breaking point), and now has several big promises for the smart home and Samsung appliances. There were updates on the latest Galaxy AI, of course, but as smart home editor, I was especially struck by what Samsung has in mind for its home-orient

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64% of People Still Don't Want a Foldable Smartphone, CNET Survey Finds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 23:00:03

Foldables have been a staple of the smartphone release cycle for years now, with products from companies such as Samsung, Motorola and Google. Despite the refreshingly unique form factor in a sea of mobile uniformity, the vast majority of consumers still aren't sold. According to a CNET survey, 64% of respondents say they aren't willing or interested in buying a foldable smartphone in the next year, while just 13% say they are. An additional 20% aren't sure if they want a foldable and only 3% s

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All the Top New Gadgets We Saw at IFA Berlin 2025

wired.com Adrienne So 2025-11-08 05:00:00

Every September, hundreds of thousands of visitors descend upon Berlin for IFA, one of the largest trade tech conferences in Europe. IFA heralds the unofficial start of Techtember, when companies launch products in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. For over 100 years, companies, financiers, and journalists have crossed the Spree and eaten cold liver sausage for breakfast, just to check out the latest innovations in consumer electronics. This year, those attendees include me and Gear

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The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra $300 off, but only in these two colors

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 08:30:34

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung’s most exciting phones right now include foldables, flip phones, and a super-thin phone. These are cool, but if you want true performance and an overall premium experience, you can’t beat the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. We would argue it is still Samsung’s best phone, and you can often catch better deals on it. It’s currently as cheap as $999.99, which is a $300 discount. Buy the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra for just $999.99 ($300 off) This offer is available

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Your electronics could be quietly draining energy - this gadget prevents that

A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution

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