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Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-08-26 01:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to younger riders with the launch of teen accounts in Phoenix. Teenagers aged 14–17 can now sign up for an account on Waymo One, the company’s ridehail service. The account will be linked to their parent or guardian, but approved teens will be allowed to ride independently without an

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Teenagers can now hail a Waymo robotaxi in Phoenix

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-26 01:00:00

Waymo has started offering teen accounts for families in Phoenix as it works to expand its user base and entrench young riders in the autonomous life. Waymo’s teen accounts will be similar to those offered by Uber, which also allows parents to make teen accounts in Phoenix and other cities across the country. Parents in Metro Phoenix can link a profile to their Waymo One accounts for teenagers aged 14 to 17. The teens will then be able to order their own rides and share trip status with parents

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Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-26 05:06:09

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Mastodon 4.4 is out now, and it brings a bunch of changes for things like profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts. With profiles, you can now feature specific hashtags so that people can see all the posts you’ve tagged with those hashtags, the Mastodon says. Mastodon is also making a change to how pinned posts work: you can still pin up to five posts o

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Esports World Cup: The contest teams can't afford to miss

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-26 09:23:35

Esports World Cup: The contest teams can't afford to miss 37 minutes ago Share Save Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat Share Save Team Liquid Levi is one of the top professional EA Sports FC players in the world The second Esports World Cup (EWC) has begun in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Over the next seven weeks, teams from around the world will compete across 25 games including Call of Duty, League of Legends and EA Sports FC (EA FC). Up for grabs is a share of $70m (£50m). There are prizes for individual

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9to5Mac Daily: July 8, 2025 – iOS 26 beta 3 and Liquid Glass changes

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-08-26 09:59:53

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 Roborock:The smartest vacuums just got more affordable. Roborock’s Prime Day sale has arrived—with exclusive, limited-time savings on their top models. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or

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Android malware Anatsa infiltrates Google Play to target US banks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-26 09:00:00

The Anatsa banking trojan has sneaked into Google Play once more via an app posing as a PDF viewer that counted more than 50,000 downloads. The malware becomes active on the device immediately after installing the app, tracking users launching North American banking apps and serving them an overlay that allows accessing the account, keylogging, or automating transactions. According to Threat Fabric researchers who spotted the latest campaign and reported it to Google, Anatsa shows users a fake

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Mastodon’s latest update readies the app for Quote Posts, revamps design

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-26 09:00:00

Mastodon, the open-source, decentralized social network offering an alternative to Elon Musk’s X and Meta’s Threads, is rolling out a number of updates with Tuesday’s release of Mastodon 4.4. Most notably, the app is taking the first steps towards implementing a change that will bring it on par with other networks, but may also impact user behavior: it’s preparing to integrate Quote Posts, or what Twitter used to call Quote Tweets. This type of repost allows users to quote another person’s pos

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Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are Dirt Cheap, Amazon Wants to Get Rid of Them at Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-26 13:35:58

There are more than enough wireless headphones with active noise cancellation (ANC) available on the market but they are not all created equal or as comfortable. Even within the same brand, there will be various models available to suit different needs and price points, as with Beats’ Solo 4 and Studio Pro headphones. If you would prefer a premium model at a ridiculously low cost, Amazon is making it happen with the Beats Studio Pro during this Prime Day sale. This deal is exclusive to Prime me

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It's Your Final Day to Grab 'Superman' Early Screening Tickets With Amazon Prime

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 13:25:03

If you're ready to watch James Gunn's new Superman movie a few days before it's official release, Amazon Prime has still got your solution, but today is the last day to seize the opportunity. Today (which is also the start of Amazon Prime Day) is the final day that Prime members in the US can buy tickets for early access screenings of Superman. The shows will take place in select theaters starting tonight, July 8, at 7 p.m. local time. A Prime membership costs $15 per month or $139 per year. 2

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15 Best Tablets (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-08-26 13:33:00

Other Tablets to Consider We test tons of tablets every year. Here are a few others we like, just not as much as our picks above. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Lenovo Tab Plus for $272: There are a lot of cheap Android tablets on the internet, and I urge you to be careful with what you buy. If Amazon's Fire tablets don't interest you (see below), consider Lenovo's Tab Plus. I used it for a month for pure entertainment. The 11.5-inch screen is nice and big compared to a phone screen, yet it's p

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Moonvalley’s ‘ethical’ AI video model for filmmakers is now publicly available

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-26 13:32:02

The team at Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based AI video generation startup, doesn’t think you can prompt your way to making a movie. That’s why the company on Tuesday opened up its “3D-aware” model to the public, promising a “hybrid” approach that gives filmmakers more control than other standard text-to-video models. Moonvalley first launched its model, named Marey, in beta in March, and has now released it as a monthly credits-based subscription. Users can pay $14.99 for 100 credits, $34.99 for

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Too Pricey in Your Amazon Cart Before? Not anymore, Dyson’s Supersonic Hair Dryer Hits Its Lowest Price

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-26 17:10:44

Blowouts can get expensive. You pay over $100 each week to have your hair washed, dried, and styled, and it should theoretically last you for days if you take care of it. You can expend it with dry shampoo of course, but you’ll soon end up needing to do it the next week. It gets a little much if you’re saving, and driving to the salon can be annoying. What’s the solution? A great hair tool that helps you tame your mane at home. And if you move fast, you can get one at Amazon without having to bu

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TSA May Soon Let You Keep Your Shoes On During Security Screening

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 17:42:05

One of the most annoying parts of the airport security routine -- taking off your shoes -- might soon come to an end for flyers. The US Transportation Security Administration is quietly testing a new policy that allows passengers to keep their shoes on during standard security screening, The Wall Street Journal reports. The change hasn't been formally announced by the agency, but was first reported by Gate Access, a travel newsletter written by a former TSA officer. The TSA did not immediately

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How to Spot Fake Beauty Products on Amazon: Tips and Advice

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-08-26 17:00:00

You’d expect your pimple patches to heal blemishes, not cause them. But when you're buying beauty products on Amazon, there’s a risk you’re getting more than you bargained for. And you wouldn’t be alone. According to a 2023 study from Michigan State University, nearly seven in 10 consumers were fooled into purchasing counterfeit items online. That same year, Amazon reported blocking more than 700,000 attempts by “bad actors” trying to open new storefronts and seizing more than 7 million counter

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Why this LA-based VC firm was an early investor in Slate Auto

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-26 17:00:00

Slate Auto, which came out of stealth mode earlier this year with a surprising – and surprisingly affordable – customizable electric truck, has raised $700 million to date. But long before the EV startup broke cover, it quietly raised a Series A round of more than $100 million in 2023. And while Jeff Bezos was involved in that round, as TechCrunch originally reported, he was not alone. A regulatory filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission shows as many as 16 investors were inv

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Botslab Prime Day deal: The excellent G980H 4K Dashcam is an essential car accessory and is now 41% off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-26 21:00:28

Whether to provide evidence for an accident investigation, to keep you and your car safe while driving, or just to capture the next viral TikTok, dashcams have quickly gone from a luxury accessory to an essential car safety device. And few do it better than the Botslab G980H Dash Cam. The Botslab G980H Dash Cam is a next-generation smart car camera system designed for discerning drivers, rideshare operators, and safety-conscious families. It comes with true 4K front recording, 1080p rear imagin

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 21:00:53

You’ll be given the autonomy to do some of the best work for your life. We’re building a research lab that puts its ideas to the test in one of the most complex, information-rich environments in the world: the financial markets. Much of trading still depends on hand-crafted signals and intuition. We’re approaching it differently - from first principles. We design systems that learn, adapt, and improve with data. Our infrastructure is built to accelerate research: fast iteration loops, real-tim

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Macs and Apple Watch to be hit by Trump tariffs starting on August 1

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-27 06:15:03

Macs and Apple Watches are among the products to be hit by new tariffs on products manufactured in Thailand, taking effect on August 1. Products imported from Thailand into the US will be subjected to a 36% tariff, increasing the cost to Apple by more than a third … Apple’s long-term plan to reduce its dependence on China has seen the company encourage its suppliers to set up production lines in a number of other countries, including Thailand. The Apple Watch was the first product to be made

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The Morning After: The best deals from Prime Day 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-27 06:30:39

Amazon’s mountain of Prime Day deals and discounts is finally live, and we’re already on it. As is tradition, if you’ve got gadgets on your wishlist, Engadget has you covered. The team is surfacing the best Prime Day deals on gadgets and gear we can find across the entire shopping event. There are the usual suspects of wireless earbuds, trackers and all things Kindle, but we’re digging deeper, finding strong discounts on our past recommendations, like Dyson vacuums, Mesh Wi-Fi systems and more.

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I Tried Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, and This Is the One I'd Recommend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-27 05:00:07

Key points: Most widely used messaging app Uses the same encryption protocol as Signal Collects heaps of your data Free, but owned and operated by Meta WhatsApp is the most popular private messaging app on this list, with about 2 billion monthly users, according to Exploding Topics. Because it's so popular, there's a higher chance that other people you might be chatting with have WhatsApp, and therefore your chats can be encrypted. And if the person you're chatting with doesn't have WhatsAp

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How to Spot Fake Reviews on Amazon: Tools and Advice

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-08-27 04:00:00

As the leading online retailer in the US and the UK, Amazon sells just about everything. (Like the logo says, from A to Z.) Whether you are shopping online for a cheap portable charger, eco-friendly cleaning supplies, or headphones for your kids, Amazon is likely your first stop. And when it’s time to choose between similar-looking products, most folks rely on user reviews. The trouble is that many Amazon reviews are fake. Unscrupulous or desperate sellers pay for glowing reviews, and some offe

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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-27 06:30:08

Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to announce Tuesday that they are helping to launch an AI training center for members of the second-largest teachers’ union in the US, according to details about the initiative that appear to have been inadvertently published early on YouTube. The National Academy for AI Instruction will be based in New York City and aims to equip kindergarten up to 12th grade instructors in the American Federation of Teachers with “the tools and confidence to bring AI into the

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Public exploits released for Citrix Bleed 2 NetScaler flaw, patch now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-26 22:57:37

Researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and dubbed CitrixBleed2, warning that the flaw is easily exploitable and can successfully steal user session tokens. The CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability, which affects Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices, allows attackers to retrieve memory contents simply by sending malformed POST requests during login attempts. This critical flaw is named CitrixBleed2 as it close

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Linux Foundation adopts A2A protocol to help solve one of AI's most pressing challenges

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-27 07:00:00

koto_feja/Getty Images The Linux Foundation announced at the Open Source Summit in Denver that it will now host the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Initially developed by Google and now supported by more than 100 leading technology companies, A2A is a crucial new open standard for secure and interoperable communication between AI agents. Also: What are AI agents? How to access a team of personalized assistants In his keynote presentation, Mike Smith, a Google staff software engineer, told the con

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10% Home Depot Promo Codes & Coupons | July 2025

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-08-27 05:00:00

Home Depot goes hard. The company pretty much invented the hardware superstore when it began in 1978, just by being so big. They inflated the neighborhood tool shop into a whole city of lumber, hammers, caulk, power saws, and big rolls of wire. I would know I’m in a Home Depot blindfolded, because of a distinct quality to the air—crisp and particulate, smelling like wood dust and paint and the oiled metal of power tools. The Home Depot smell is buried deep in my childhood, filed somewhere betwee

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A million customer conversations with AI agents yielded this surprising lesson

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-08-27 07:00:13

Mykyta Atamanchuk/Getty Images Salesforce has had over one million AI agent-customer conversations. The company launched AI agents on its Salesforce Help site in October 2024, a full-screen experience that makes getting support simpler and more intuitive. With more than 60 million visits each year, Salesforce Help offers a wide range of product content through organized directories, search, and direct support. Having handled a million support requests since the launch of AI agents, Salesforce

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Emergency alerts to be sent to UK smartphones

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-27 12:30:45

Emergency alerts to be sent to UK smartphones 2 hours ago Share Save Aleks Phillips BBC News Share Save Watch UK alert go off from a government test in 2023 The national system for sending emergency alerts to mobile phones in the UK will be tested again this September, the government has said. It will see compatible phones vibrate and make a siren sound for 10 seconds while displaying a message at 15:00 BST on 7 September, even if they are set to silent. The alerts are intended for situations

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Public exploits released for CitrixBleed 2 NetScaler flaw, patch now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-27 13:57:37

Researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and dubbed CitrixBleed2, warning that the flaw is easily exploitable and can successfully steal user session tokens. The CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability, which affects Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices, allows attackers to retrieve memory contents simply by sending malformed POST requests during login attempts. This flaw is named CitrixBleed2 as it closely resemb

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 8, #288

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-27 16:00:06

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. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. It helps to know your colleges, and their athletic alumni. 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 has earned enough loyal

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How did X-Rays gain mass adoption?

news.ycombinator.com Adith Arun 2025-08-27 21:18:30

At the University of Würzburg, Wilhelm Röntgen took the first X-Ray (XR) and presented his work “On a New Kind of Rays” in December 1985 which was printed in January 1986. In January 1986, it was reprinted in English in Nature, The Electrician, Lancet, and BMJ. A lot of literature was written about XR’s in the months to follow. News outlets from across the world picked up on this story writing that “a professor from Wurzburg had successfully used a new type of light to take a photograph of a set

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Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix

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Too Pricey in Your Amazon Cart Before? Not anymore, Dyson’s Supersonic Hair Dryer Hits Its Lowest Price

TSA May Soon Let You Keep Your Shoes On During Security Screening

How to Spot Fake Beauty Products on Amazon: Tips and Advice

Why this LA-based VC firm was an early investor in Slate Auto

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