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Samsung’s ultra-thin Galaxy S25 Edge is $400 off right now

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-10-16 16:55:19

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’ve ever wished your phone didn’t protrude so much while in your pocket, then the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge might be made for you. Samsung’s ultra-slim Android phone features the same 6.7-inch OLED display as the Galaxy S25 Plus, but the device’s 5.8mm thick design makes it feel completely different. Right now, you can grab the S25 Edge with 256GB of storage in black, silver, or blue for an all-time low

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X’s encrypted DM feature, XChat, is rolling out more broadly

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-16 16:32:34

X’s long-awaited encrypted DMs feature, XChat, is becoming more widely available. Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do not subscribe to X Premium. Separate from the existing DM inbox, XChat is end-to-end encrypted. The chat system supports media uploads, group chats, pinned messages, and the ability to mark messages as read or unread. Vanishing mode has been rumored to be in the works as well. Right now, users can only acces

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Belkin unveils Qi2 magnetic charger at IFA 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 20:06:47

Belkin unveiled several new products today at IFA 2025. Its lineup included a wall charger and car charger that will be available starting this month, plus four entries in its SoundForm audio collection. But the standout item from the consumer products brand is its new Qi2 25W wireless charging puck. The UltraCharge Magnetic Charger 25W promises to power an iPhone from zero to 50 percent battery in just 30 minutes. It also has some clever design choices, such as a kickstand so you can charge a

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Hollow Knight: Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 16:39:38

A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. As you can see from images captured by the Eurogamer team, the likes of Steam was brought to a grinding halt as many flocked to get their hands on the highly-anticipated sequel. Meanwhile, several of us have been unable to add the game to our carts across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The PS store, for example, is stuck on Wishlisted at the time of writing. In the words of our Connor: "

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TCL's QM9K Mini-LED TV Is Super Bright and Has Google Gemini Onboard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 16:00:00

TCL has unveiled its newest flagship TV, the QM9K, which promises "unmatched" picture quality and the company says it is the first to include Google Gemini AI onboard. The QD-Micro-LED QM9K joins the TCL QM8K as part of the Ultimate Performance series, which includes the company's Halo Control System for better contrast. The Halo system includes "Micro OD," which reduces the distance between the backlight and diffuser plate to help eliminate image blooming. TCL says the TV includes up to 6,000

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Philips Hue Just Made Lights and Doorbells a Whole Lot Smarter

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 19:56:00

This is definitely not your grandparents' light bulb. A day after its new products were leaked on Amazon, Philips Hue made it official at the consumer tech expo Innovation for All (IFA) on Thursday by unveiling a new smart home lineup that includes motion-sensing lightbulbs, a doorbell with a higher-resolution 2K fisheye camera and a bunch of new light strips. The company also unveiled a new line of Essential bulbs at more affordable prices than the company's previous bulbs. The standard A19/E2

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Age Simulation Suit

news.ycombinator.com Wolfgang Moll 2025-10-16 23:41:24

GERonTologic simulator GERT The age simulation suit GERT offers the opportunity to experience the impairments of older persons even for younger people. The age-related impairments are: ■ opacity of the eye lens ■ narrowing of the visual field ■ high-frequency hearing loss ■ head mobility restrictions ■ joint stiffness ■ loss of strength ■ reduced grip ability ■ reduced coordination skills GERT for only 1390,‑ / £ 1250,- complete as pictured, plus shipping and VAT if applicable N

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A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 23:45:39

Last week, I was talking to a PM who'd in the recent months shipped their AI agent. The metrics looked great: 89% accuracy, sub-second respond times, positive user feedback in surveys. But users were abandoning the agent after their first real problem, like a user with both a billing dispute and a locked account. "Our agent could handle routine requests perfectly, but when faced with complex issues, users would try once, get frustrated, and immediately ask for a human." This pattern is observe

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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Engineers, AES, and Senior PMM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 00:01:21

Why you should join Artie We are building Artie, a real-time data streaming solution focused on databases and data warehouses. Typical ETL solutions leverage batched processes or schedulers (DAGs, Airflow), which cannot achieve real time data syncs. We leverage change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to perform data transfers in a more efficient way, which enables sub-minute latency.

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GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies to pair up on hybrid-electric power

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-16 23:51:00

GE Aerospace is taking a sizable stake in electric aviation company Beta Technologies, with the pair teaming up to build a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for next-gen aircraft. GE will also invest $300 million, pending regulatory approval, under a strategic deal announced Thursday. The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on. Aircraft ma

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Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-17 00:00:00

After recently being spotted testing a way to share longer text, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is now officially rolling out the feature that allows users to attach up to 10,000 characters of text to their post. The addition has been designed with the needs of creators in mind, as it supports linking out to content outside of Threads, like newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and more. Before this update, Threads supported 500 characters — which is already far more than the 280 characters offered to X

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Company Replaces Customer Support With AI, Then Panics and Forces Engineers to Work the Phones as the AI Fails

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-17 03:05:26

Of all the startups that have come and gone, the personal finance company Klarna might be one of the best bellwethers for the finance industry overall. Specializing in "buy now pay later" microloans — tiny cash advances for purchases that don't need to go through a bank — Klarna hit app stores at a time when US consumer debt was climbing toward a record high. Now a giant of the personal finance landscape, the billion-dollar company recently reported a jaw dropping 17 percent default rate on its

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Imagining the future of banking with agentic AI

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-17 04:21:23

Adapting to new and emerging technologies like agentic AI is essential for an organization’s survival, says Murli Buluswar, head of US personal banking analytics at Citi. “A company’s ability to adopt new technical capabilities and rearchitect how their firm operates is going to make the difference between the firms that succeed and those that get left behind,” says Buluswar. “Your people and your firm must recognize that how they go about their work is going to be meaningfully different.” The

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Google Photos gets Veo 3 integration, bringing in even more AI tools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 04:00:42

The video-generation model Veo 3 has come to Google Photos, bringing even more AI tomfoolery to the platform. This allows users to do all sorts of wacky things. First and foremost, the pre-existing photo to video feature has been significantly improved. Google says that it can now be used to turn "still images into even higher-quality clips." There's also a tool called Remix that transforms photos into various styles, like anime drawings, comic book illustrations, 3D animations and more. This i

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Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 04:27:41

Hi HN! – We’re Pranjali, Dhruv and Harsha, building Slashy ( https://www.slashy.ai ). We’re building a general agent that connects to apps and can read data across them and perform actions via custom tools, semantic search, and personalized memory. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeApHMHhccA While working on a previous startup, we realized we were spending more time doing busywork in apps than actually building product. We lost hundreds of hours scraping LinkedIn profiles, updati

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1,000-Year-Old Viking Object Reveals How They Likely Styled Their Hair

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-17 04:50:05

Hair parted in the middle, cropped at the back, with a wavy lock styled above one ear. That’s not my haircut of choice, but if you were an elite Viking, it may well have been. That’s the upshot of a study published last month in the journal Medieval Archaeology in which researchers re-examined a roughly one-inch-tall (three centimeters) Viking gaming piece that dates back more than 1,000 years. It was originally discovered among the burial things of a presumed Viking warrior in Norway in 1797 a

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State Department Agents Are Now Working With ICE on Immigration

wired.com Vittoria Elliott 2025-10-17 03:51:23

As the Trump administration expands its crackdown on immigration, it’s pulling more and more agencies into the effort. The State Department’s law enforcement arm, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), is now working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigration. DSS agents are taking part in immigration enforcement in the US, and, according to emails viewed by WIRED, are now being asked to log time they are spending on immigration enforcement. DSS’s remit is limited in scope to

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Google Photos now lets you animate your camera roll with Veo 3 for free

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-17 04:00:00

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is adding Veo 3 software capabilities to its video generation feature for Google Photos. US-based users can turn static images into four-second videos by clicking either the “Subtle movements” or, for the more adventurous, the “I’m feeling lucky” options unde

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Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-17 04:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s no secret that Microsoft has been struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to businesses. The steep pricing has put many businesses off paying extra for Microsoft’s AI services, especially when OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been gaining traction in the all-important enterprise market. Micros

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GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies, pair up on hybrid-electric power

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-17 04:51:00

GE Aerospace is taking a sizable stake in electric aviation company Beta Technologies, with the pair teaming up to build a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for next-gen aircraft. GE will also invest $300 million, pending regulatory approval, under a strategic deal announced Thursday. The new partnership comes as hybrid solutions gain momentum in the advanced air mobility (AAM) space, a catch-all term to describe the next generation of aviation concepts like eVTOL, hydrogen, and so on. Aircraft ma

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Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-16 17:28:10

Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap 16 hours ago Share Save Pumza Fihlani BBC News in Johannesburg Share Save BBC Farmer Kelebogile Mosime uses an AI app that speaks her language Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world's languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates - many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This is both an issue of a lack of investment and readily available data. Mos

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Causes Server Chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 07:39:38

A little game by the name of Hollow Knight: Silksong just released, and it has thrown platforms into chaos. As you can see from images captured by the Eurogamer team, the likes of Steam was brought to a grinding halt as many flocked to get their hands on the highly-anticipated sequel. Meanwhile, several of us have been unable to add the game to our carts across Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The PS store, for example, is stuck on Wishlisted at the time of writing. In the words of our Connor: "

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State Department Agents Are Now Working with ICE on Immigration

wired.com Vittoria Elliott 2025-10-17 08:51:23

As the Trump administration expands its crackdown on immigration, it’s pulling more and more agencies into the effort. The State Department’s law enforcement arm, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), is now working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigration. DSS agents are taking part in immigration enforcement in the US, and, according to emails viewed by WIRED, are now being asked to log time they are spending on immigration enforcement. DSS’s remit is limited in scope to

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The best stuff announced at IFA so far

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-17 08:49:44

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The doors to IFA 2025 at Messe Berlin don’t officially open to the public until tomorrow, but several companies have already announced new gadgets, tech, features, and upgrades as Europe’s largest consumer tech show gets underway. There’s a lot of news to stay on top of, and if you’re struggling to ingest it all, here are some of the best announ

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Captions rebrands as Mirage, expands beyond creator tools to AI video research

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-17 08:39:15

Captions, an AI-powered video creation and editing app for content creators that has secured over $100 million in venture capital to date at a valuation of $500 million, is rebranding to Mirage, the company announced on Thursday. The new name reflects the company’s broader ambitions to become an AI research lab focused on multimodal foundational models specifically designed for short-form video content for platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. The company believes this approach will disting

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I pay for Google Gemini, but GPT-5 has convinced me to switch to ChatGPT and here’s why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 07:00:51

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority ChatGPT has become the Xerox of the AI world, but OpenAI no longer has the stage to itself. Google has been pushing Gemini deeper into its ecosystem, and every few weeks it feels like another rival pops up with promises of being faster, smarter, or more useful. So when the latest GPT-5 model launched last month, it felt like a release OpenAI couldn’t afford to get wrong. While OpenAI’s benchmarks claim that GPT-5 is better than the competition, the numbers o

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The first Google TVs with Gemini are finally here

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 12:00:57

TL;DR The TCL QM9K series is the first Google TV lineup to debut Gemini, marking the replacement of Google Assistant. The TVs include an Ambient Display mode powered by a presence sensor, automatically waking up when someone enters the room. The TVs, which will hit retail later this month, are available in various sizes up to 98 inches and with top-tier specs like HDR6500 brightness and LD6000 local dimming zones. Gemini on Google TV devices was first announced at CES 2025. It promised to rep

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Anker is ready for your new Pixel 10 with Qi2.2 support in latest charging lineup

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 12:30:14

Anker TL;DR Anker is bringing its new Prime models to IFA, with charging solutions from your desk to your bag. The Anker Prime Wireless Charging Station supports full 25W Qi2.2 charging for your Pixel 10 Pro XL. For mobile needs, the Prime Power Bank charges not one, but two laptops at 140W a piece. Keeping our devices powered is the sort of modern-day chore that too many of us tolerate without properly considering all our options, making do with whatever charger we have laying around. That’

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Hands-on: Kuxiu’s new X40 Turbo brings Qi2.2 fast 25W charging to your iPhone

9to5mac.com Fernando Silva 2025-10-17 12:55:34

Wireless charging and iPhones have had an interesting relationship. While Android phones had wireless charging extremely early, it took Apple years to adopt the regular Qi wireless charging with the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus back in 2017. Back then, it only charged at 7.5W, and it was not very efficient. Then Magsafe and the Qi2 standard recently came around and allowed iPhones to charge at 15W. But now we are getting Qi2.2, which is faster, cooler, and more efficient, and Kuxiu is the first to bring

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TCL's QM9 Mini-LED TV Is Super Bright and Has Google Gemini Onboard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 12:00:04

TCL has unveiled its newest flagship TV, the QM9K, which promises "unmatched" picture quality and is the first to include Google Gemini AI onboard. The QD-Micro-LED QM9 joins the TCL QM8K as part of the Ultimate Performance series, which includes the company's Halo Control System for better contrast. The Halo system includes "Micro OD," which reduces the distance between the backlight and diffuser plate to help eliminate image blooming. TCL says the TV includes up to 6,000 dimming zones, and th

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Imagining the future of banking with agentic AI

Google Photos gets Veo 3 integration, bringing in even more AI tools

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1,000-Year-Old Viking Object Reveals How They Likely Styled Their Hair

State Department Agents Are Now Working With ICE on Immigration

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Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses

GE Aerospace to invest $300M in Beta Technologies, pair up on hybrid-electric power

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TCL's QM9 Mini-LED TV Is Super Bright and Has Google Gemini Onboard

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