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Faster Qi2 wireless charging coming to iPhones and some Android phones

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-07-29 03:00:26

Jian Fan/Getty Images Wireless charging is about to get a lot faster. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), an open standards development group of more than 300 members who work together to ensure compatibility between wireless chargers and power sources, announced a new, faster standard for wireless charging today: Qi2 25W. Also: The best wireless chargers: Expert tested Qi2 25W will deliver nearly 70% more power than the original 15W Qi2, which launched in November, 2023. The new standard

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The MacOS 26 public beta is here - How to install (and which models support it)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-07-29 03:11:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The iOS 26 public beta is out now - How to install (and which iPhones support it)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-07-29 03:20:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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GitHub's AI-powered Spark lets you build apps using natural language - here's how to access it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-29 03:32:26

Bloomberg / Contributor/Getty Software development company GitHub's AI-powered app-building platform Spark is now available for public preview to Copilot+ Pro subscribers, the company said Wednesday. First unveiled at GitHub's annual Universe conference in October, Spark allows users to design and launch "micro apps," or "sparks," through natural language prompts. For example, a developer might instruct the system to build an app that summarizes reviews of and provides personalized recommendat

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How to install the iPadOS 26 public beta (and which iPad models support it)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-07-29 03:46:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The FastLanes File Format [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 00:03:56

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Open Source Maintenance Fee

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 21:29:35

User story As a WiX maintainer, the Open Source Maintenance Fee provides funding for ongoing maintenance tasks that would ensure the long-term sustainability of the WiX Toolset. Proposal Open Source Maintenance Fee Introduction To ensure the long-term sustainability of this project, we are introducing an Open Source Maintenance Fee. This fee is required to be paid by all consumers of the WiX Toolset project who generate revenue. You can pay via GitHub Sponsors. We plan to enforce the mainte

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The POSIX specification of vi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 17:01:27

Certain terminals do not have all the capabilities necessary to support the complete vi definition. When these commands cannot be supported on such terminals, this condition shall not produce an error message such as "not an editor command" or report a syntax error. The implementation may either accept the commands and produce results on the screen that are the result of an unsuccessful attempt to meet the requirements of this volume of POSIX.1-2024 or report an error describing the terminal-rel

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Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 21:47:29

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern. It lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute. Don't just run it, vet it. The Problem We've all seen this pattern for installing software: # This is convenient, but you're blindly trusting the remote script. curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | bash This is dangerous. The script could be malicious, th

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Meet the New Avatar of ‘Avatar: Seven Havens’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-07-29 03:00:59

Avatar: The Last Airbender is celebrating its 20th anniversary in style, not just in looking to the past, but to the future. Not only are we getting new Avatar movies checking in with familiar faces, we also recently learned that the Avatar cycle will continue in Seven Havens, a brand-new animated entry in the saga… and now we know who’s leading it. At today’s Last Airbender 20th anniversary panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon revealed the first official look at Seven Havens, introducing

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‘Mighty Nein’ Rolls ‘Critical Role’ Into a New Animated Era

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-07-29 03:45:01

Critical Role fans won with the continued success of the Vox Machina animated series, and now they’re about to win again with the upcoming Mighty Nein spinoff. At San Diego Comic-Con, the cast (and creators) of the whole enterprise unveiled a first proper look at the series and its new band of screwups. Set decades after Vox Machina in the continent of Wildmount, our team here consists of graffiti artist Jester Lavorre (Laura Bailey), pirate Fjord (Travis Willingham), monk/detective Beau Lionet

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I Tried iOS 26 for a Month. These 3 Features Stand Out Most

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 02:09:20

Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24, more than a month after the company announced the next iOS version at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. That means developers and public beta testers can try the upcoming iPhone features before others get them this fall. And this is an important iOS version for Apple. According to Bloomberg, some Apple investors are frustrated with the company's delay in artificial intelligence features. Apple is also facing an antitrust laws

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The 3M Open 2025: TV Schedule Today, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 02:30:04

After last weekend's drama at The Open in Northern Ireland, the Tour returns Stateside to the TPC Twin Cities in Blaine for the 3M Open, with Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas back to defend his title. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. Vegas claimed a nail-biting one-shot victory over Max Greyserman in last year's tournament, desp

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You Can Download the iOS 26 Public Beta Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 02:30:47

Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24, more than a month after the company announced the upcoming software at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Apple said in June the new iOS version would be available to the general public this fall, but developers and beta testers can try an early version of iOS 26 now on their iPhones. If you're a public beta tester or developer, you can download the first public beta of iOS 26 by going to Settings > General > Software Update.

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I Underestimated Workout Buddy. Apple's Playing the Long Game for AI Coaching

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 02:36:37

I didn't think I needed a "buddy" to cheer me on during a workout when Apple first announced its new Workout Buddy feature in WatchOS 26. Despite it being an AI-powered voice that extols you with positive feedback as you run (or as you do any number of activities), I was envisioning a non-nonsense trainer that would push me out of my comfort zone and into peak performance. But after testing it myself and talking in-depth with Apple about how it works, I'm starting to think the company undersold

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Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 03:01:49

Most people, after suffering consequences for a bad decision, will alter their future behavior to avoid a similar negative outcome. That's just common sense. But many social circles have that one friend who never seems to learn from those consequences, repeatedly self-sabotaging themselves with the same bad decisions. When it comes to especially destructive behaviors, like addictions, the consequences can be severe or downright tragic. Why do they do this? Researchers at the University of New S

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The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-07-29 03:38:16

Brain-computer interfaces might have inspired works of science fiction, but the technology behind them is real and quickly developing. Companies like Synchron and Neuralink are racing to build a model that they can commercialize. Lauren and Mike speak with WIRED’s Emily Mullin to discuss why Synchron’s model is standing out, and the promises and limitations of these interfaces. Mentioned in this episode: There's Neuralink—and There's the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It by Emily Mull

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Liquid Glass is fine, I guess

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-07-29 02:14:49

is a reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. If you want to give Liquid Glass — Apple’s new design language in iOS 26 — an uncharitable nickname, well, it’s right there for the taking. The new look has its fair share of haters, and I fully expected to be one of them when I downloaded the beta. But while there are aspects of the design that bother me, my biggest surpri

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This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-07-29 03:37:47

When industrial AI startup CVector meets with manufacturers, utility providers, and other prospective customers, the founders are often asked the same question: will you still be here in six months? A year? It’s a fair concern in an environment where the biggest, richest tech companies are luring top talent with eye-watering salaries and increasingly targeting rising AI startups with elaborate acquihire deals. The answer that CVector founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles give every time is

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Nvidia addresses AI chip smuggling, says bootleg data centers are a 'losing proposition'

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-07-29 07:11:17

Nvidia said Thursday that data centers built with smuggled chips are a "losing proposition" and that it does not support unauthorized products. The statement came in response to a Financial Times report that at least $1 billion worth of its artificial intelligence chips illegally entered China. "Trying to cobble together datacenters from smuggled products is a losing proposition, both technically and economically," a spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC. "Datacenters require service and su

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Apple releases public preview of iOS 26, its biggest iPhone software redesign since 2013

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-07-29 07:47:09

Apple announces a new design language for its operating systems called "Liquid Glass" during the annual Apple "Worldwide Developers Conference" (WWDC) at Apple Park, the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., in Cupertino, California on June 9, 2025. Apple released the public beta preview version of its next iPhone operating system, called iOS 26. This software release on Thursday means that members of the public with recent iPhones can preview how the device's interface will change in the fall

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NASA Employees Submit "Formal Dissent" Saying Trump's Cuts Are So Brutal That Astronauts Could Die

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-27 06:17:15

Hundreds of current and former NASA employees have signed an open letter of dissent against Trump's proposed cuts at the agency — and they're sounding the alarm on the safety of its astronauts in an ominous way. "The last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce," the letter states, addressed to interim administrator Sean Duffy. In total, 287 current and former employees have signed the document, at le

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Elon Admits That Tesla Is in for a World of Hurt

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-29 07:27:35

The ordeal isn't over yet for Tesla or its investors, according to CEO Elon Musk, as it misses heaps of Wall Street targets in its latest earnings report. "We probably could have a few rough quarters," Musk said in a conference call on Wednesday, as quoted by the Financial Times. If past is prelude, he could be onto something. In the second quarter, between April and June of this year, Tesla raked in just $1.2 billion in net income, when during that same period last year it made $1.4 billion.

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Check out the Pixel Watch 4 in its new Moonstone, Indigo, and Lemoncello colors

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 07:35:29

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Renders showing off the Pixel Watch 4’s colorways have surfaced. It’s said that the case colors will be Black, Silver, Gold, and Moonstone. The Active band will reportedly use a new material to make it more comfortable. The Pixel Watch 4 will be among the new products that will appear at the Made by Google event next month. Earlier today, we were treated to renders of the upcoming smartwatch and its new charging dock. If that wasn’t enough, more rende

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Android might soon trust your smartwatch to help verify your identity (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 07:58:29

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google may be working on smartwatch support for Android’s Identity Check feature. A connected watch could serve as a second authentication factor outside trusted locations. The feature was spotted in the latest version of Google Play Services beta. Google recently introduced a feature called Identity Check on Android 15 and later devices, designed to add extra protection from phone theft when you’re outside of predefined trusted locations. Now it looks l

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Apple releases revised iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 beta 4 build for iPhone and iPad

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-07-29 07:13:28

Apple has released a revised version of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 beta 4 for iPhone and iPad. This is the second revision to an iOS 26 developer beta version, following a small revision to iOS 26 beta 1 for some iPhones. iOS 26 developer beta 4 (revised version) Apple describes the upcoming iPhone software update by saying that iOS 26 “delivers a stunning new design, powerful Apple Intelligence capabilities, new ways to stay connected in the Phone and Messages apps, and exciting updates to CarPlay,

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watchOS 26 public beta lets you try smarter workouts with personality, new and improved Apple Watch apps

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-07-29 07:13:53

Apple is now offering the first public beta of watchOS 26, the next major update for Apple Watch, ahead of its official fall release. While the biggest visual update may appear to be the limited Liquid Glass elements, the substance of watchOS 26 exists in how it integrates with Apple Intelligence for smarter workouts and more context-aware communication. After some hands-on time with the update, here’s what stands out so far. watchOS 26? Where’d the time go? watchOS 26 is the 12th version of t

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iPadOS 26 public beta is here, and full of powerful new features

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-29 07:13:55

The iPadOS 26 public beta is rolling out now, bringing Apple’s packed new software update to any iPad user ready to take the plunge. Here’s everything new. How to install the iPadOS 26 public beta Anyone interested in getting advance access to iPadOS 26 can install the update by first signing up for Apple’s Beta Software Program. You can sign up at beta.apple.com, then access the new software via your iPad’s Settings app. iPadOS 26 won’t launch widely until September. As a result, installing

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