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Apple Watch helps user discover life-changing brain tumor

The Apple Watch’s health features have once again played a part in flagging a potential health problem. A 57-year-old woman from Brighton, East Sussex says her Apple Watch alerted her to an issue that ultimately led doctors to uncover a brain tumor. Sam Adams told The Sun that her Apple Watch repeatedly flagged an unusually low heart rate after she returned from a trip to Costa Rica. At the time, she was recovering from personal losses including losing a parent, a pet, and her marriage. Adams b

You Can't Trust Your Car's Driving Assistance System Yet, AAA Report Finds

Active driving assistance systems seem like a convenient way to get from point A to point B. But you can't fully trust them yet, according to the American Automobile Association's latest study released Thursday. AAA's automotive engineers put five cars with Active Driving Assistance systems to the test. The systems, also known as Traffic Jam Assistance, were used to navigate heavy traffic. The study found a dangerous datapoint: "notable events" (like people cutting into your lane) where the ADA

Apple Watch helps user discover brain tumor after unusual heart rate alerts

The Apple Watch’s health features have once again played a part in flagging a potential health problem. A 57-year-old woman from Brighton, East Sussex says her Apple Watch alerted her to an issue that ultimately led doctors to uncover a brain tumor. Sam Adams told The Sun that her Apple Watch repeatedly flagged an unusually low heart rate after she returned from a trip to Costa Rica. At the time, she was recovering from personal losses including losing a parent, a pet, and her marriage. Adams b

Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver assists

Advanced driver assistance systems—also known as ADAS—come in a few variations. Blind spot monitoring, collision warnings, and emergency braking act like a second pair of eyes and ears, monitoring the car's environment to warn the driver, or possibly intervene, if a crash looks imminent. Other systems are better thought of as convenience features—things like adaptive cruise control and lane keeping, which relieve some of the burden of driving. Among the newer of these is the traffic jam assist.

Elon Musk Randomly Drops in on Small Town; Reminds Everyone He Is Still Canadian

British Columbia and a tiny fishing village is now atwitter after the world’s wealthiest man made an unannounced appearance over the weekend. Elon Musk, the controversial and now apparently political CEO of Tesla and X, touched down in Bella Bella—an isolated town nestled in the Great Bear Rainforest—before departing again by helicopter. His visit to the town with approximately 1,500 residents was a surprise. Local resident Seán Carter told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the area

Apple now fully supports DIY device repairs in Canada

If you prefer to do your own repairs of Apple devices or to use independent shops, then it’s now easier to do so in Canada. Apple has today brought its self-service repair and genuine parts distributor programs to the country … DIY Apple device repairs Apple spent many years fighting right-to-repair legislation, spending money to lobby against it at both state and federal levels, either trying to block it altogether or – if it couldn’t manage that – to weaken the legislation as much as possib

My new favorite universal adapter for traveling has a hidden superpower (and on sale)

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Wherever I go -- whether I'm traveling in the UK or abroad -- I bring a universal travel adapter with me. They're the perfect companion to keep my gadgets charged up with their compact form and selection of ports. Over the past few weeks, I've been testing the Baseus EnerCore CG11 6-in-1 universal travel adapter, and it's turned out to be the best-engineered

iOS 26 beta 7 adds toggle for new battery notifications

iOS 26 adds a brand new Adaptive Power mode to extend your iPhone’s battery, and in today’s beta 7 release there’s a Settings toggle for notifications. Here’s how it works. Adaptive Power notifications can now be enabled or disabled Adaptive Power is a new battery mode coming in iOS 26. It acts as a more moderate alternative to Low Power Mode, impacting performance far less but also bringing fewer battery savings. Here’s how Apple describes it: When your battery usage is higher than usual, i

How much do electric car batteries degrade?

It’s always the battery in my mobile phone that gives up on me first. After just a few years, it can barely make it through the day without getting another charge. Most electric cars have the same types of batteries — usually lithium-ion — so the assumption is that they degrade just as quickly. This is a fairly common fear for people considering a new EV: “Won’t the battery need to be replaced after a few years?”. And I think it’s even more prominent in the second-hand market: “Oh, I’d never bu

This universal adapter's hidden superpower earned it a spot in my travel bag

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Wherever I go -- whether I'm traveling in the UK or abroad -- I bring a universal travel adapter with me. They're the perfect companion to keep my gadgets charged up with their compact form and selection of ports. Over the past few weeks, I've been testing the Baseus EnerCore CG11 6-in-1 universal travel adapter, and it's turned out to be the best-engineered travel adapter I've used so far. Also: I replaced my MacBook charger with this compact wall unit - and wish

This Newly Launched Satellite Just ‘Bloomed’ a Record-Breaking Antenna in Orbit

A first-of-its-kind satellite recently launched into orbit to monitor Earth’s changing surfaces, detecting movement of the planet’s crust down to fractions of an inch. The satellite packed a giant radar antenna, folded like an umbrella, and it just unfurled the massive, drum-shaped structure through an intricate process that brought it to full bloom. The NISAR mission, a joint effort between NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, launched on July 30 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. Mor

Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

After 10 years of building and maintaining Rain Viewer, I’ve made one of the most difficult decisions of my career: transitioning our API services to limited operation throughout 2025. As the founder who created this service to help developers worldwide visualize weather radar data, I understand the impact this has on your projects and businesses. Rain Viewer isn’t disappearing - we’ll continue providing radar data through our website and maintain our tiled map service for personal and educatio

Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors

Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. Escort Radar, one of the big brands in the radar detection biz, has been under some scrutiny this year as customers and reviewers reported suboptimal performance on the $800 Redline 360c—Escort’s flagship. Today, it’s dropping a big firmware update to address those complaints. I’ve now had the chance to test this new firmware and speak with somebody at

Your iPhone battery can last longer with this new iOS 26 feature

Battery life is easily one of the iPhone’s most important features. Whether you’re planning to buy the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, the battery beast iPhone 17 Pro Max, or hold on to your current model, iOS 26 has a new feature coming that can make your iPhone’s battery last longer: Adaptive Power. Adaptive Power is a new iOS 26 setting to extend battery life If your iPhone battery is getting low, iOS has long offered Low Power Mode as a helpful tool. While I’ve heard of some users keeping Low P

Looking for More iPhone Battery Life? Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Should Provide a Boost

People who have installed the latest iOS 26 public beta or developer beta are discovering a simple switch that just might deliver long-term iPhone benefits -- and it's an Apple Intelligence feature of all things. Adaptive Power is an unobtrusive feature tucked a couple of layers deep into the Battery settings that uses AI to extend battery life when usage is higher than normal. See also: Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Could Save the iPhone 17 Air From This Major Pitfall Currently, the iPhone uses as

Hikaru Utada Will Add the ‘Chainsaw Man’ Movie to Their Anime Song Infinity Gauntlet

A teaser trailer for a song typically doesn’t make waves, but when it’s tied to a hotly anticipated theatrical release like Mappa’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, it certainly might. Especially when it’s graced by the dulcet tones of Hikaru Utada, a singer whose presence in the anime industry is nothing short of musical royalty. Previous trailers for the film adaptation of manga creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Reze Arc leaned hard into spectacle with blazing eruptions, feverish glimpses of Denj

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8 settings I changed on my Google Pixel phone to extend the battery life by hours

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Pixel phones have an excellent reputation for smart software, but battery life has been a common complaint with Google's smartphones. Thankfully, that same smart software is now improving battery life and longevity, though many features aren't set up for maximum endurance out of the box. I've found that a handful of features can dramatically improve how long your Pixel lasts, both in a single day and over the long haul. Also: I've owned every Google Pixel flagship phone since t

This quantum radar could image buried objects

The glass cell that serves as the radar’s quantum component is full of cesium atoms kept at room temperature. The researchers use lasers to get each individual cesium atom to swell to nearly the size of a bacterium, about 10,000 times bigger than the usual size. Atoms in this bloated condition are called Rydberg atoms. When incoming radio waves hit Rydberg atoms, they disturb the distribution of electrons around their nuclei. Researchers can detect the disturbance by shining lasers on the atoms

Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An emerging form of surveillance, “wireless-tapping,” explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting users’ privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone. While accuracy remains limit

8 settings to change on your Google Pixel phone for significantly better battery life

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Pixel phones have an excellent reputation for smart software, but battery life has been a common complaint with Google's smartphones. Thankfully, that same smart software is now improving battery life and longevity, though many features aren't set up for maximum endurance out of the box. I've found that a handful of features can dramatically improve how long your Pixel lasts, both in a single day and over the long haul. Also: I've owned every Google Pixel flagship phone since t

Omada Health beats on revenue in first earnings report since IPO

Omada Health reported quarterly results for the first time since its IPO in June. Here's how the company did based on average analysts' estimates compiled by LSEG: Loss: Loss per share of 24 cents. Loss per share of 24 cents. Revenue: $61 million vs. $55.2 million expected The virtual care company's revenue increased 49% in its second quarter from $41.21 million a year earlier. The company reported a net loss of $5.31 million, or a 24-cent loss per share, compared to a net loss of $10.69 mil

iOS 26’s Notes app adds a clever new way to use its many tools

Apple Notes gets more powerful every year, and iOS 26 adds its own batch of new features. With new capabilities comes the threat of feature bloat, but Notes has a clever solution that makes its ever-growing set of tools more easily accessible in iOS 26. iOS 26 gives Apple Notes an ‘adaptive toolbar’ Notes was once an extremely simple iPhone app. Features were minimal, as Apple prioritized just making it a quick place to jot down notes. But at some point, the company started aggressively build

Trump’s trade and environment policies are a disaster for carmakers

An ill wind blows through the automotive industry. Yesterday, after the market closed, Rivian reported its results for the second quarter of 2025, and they weren't great. Unlike the last two quarters, Rivian did not make a gross profit, and it's estimating it will have a larger loss this year than first predicted. A day earlier, it was Lucid's turn: The Saudi-backed EV startup also missed analyst estimates for the quarter, and Lucid says it will build fewer cars this year than originally planned

National Bank of Canada online systems down due to 'technical issue'

National Bank of Canada (Banque Nationale du Canada), the sixth largest commercial bank of Canada is currently experiencing a widespread service outage affecting its online banking and mobile app platforms. Social media reports suggest that the issues began earlier this morning, with customers encountering a "maintenance" message when attempting to access their accounts via online banking on web and banking app. Headquartered in Montreal, NBC (BNC) serves more than 2.4 million personal banking

Wildfire Smoke Chokes Canada and U.S., Triggering Air Quality Alerts

Canada is battling more than 700 active wildfires across the country, roughly two-thirds of which are burning out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC). Smoke billowing from the blazes has blanketed central Canada and the northern U.S., prompting widespread air quality alerts. Federal officials have issued air quality warnings across large swaths of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario, where most of the uncontrolled fires are concentrated. Many cit

Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations

Clojure Civitas Clojure Civitas makes it easy for you to publish Clojure ideas and explorations without the overhead of setting up a new project, blog, or repo. Whether you're sketching out a quick experiment or writing a deeper post, just fork this repo, create a namespace, write, commit and submit a pull request. This is your shared scratch space. Think. Code. Share. ⚡ No setup – Clone this repo, make a new namespace, start coding. ✍️ Write as you code – Capture notes, results, and ideas a

Seed7 – The Extensible Programming Language

Welcome to the Seed7 Homepage Seed7 is a general purpose programming language designed by Thomas Mertes. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java. The Seed7 interpreter and the example programs are open-source software. There is also an open-source Seed7 compiler. The compiler translates Seed7 programs to C programs which are subsequently compiled to machine code. In Seed7 new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters

Wild Video Captures Alien-Like Creatures Thriving in the Deepest Ocean Ecosystem

Researchers recently dove more than 6 miles beneath the surface of the northwest Pacific Ocean to explore the bottom of two submarine trenches. In this harsh marine environment, they discovered flourishing communities of chemosynthesis-based sea creatures—the deepest and most extensive ones ever found. The groundbreaking findings, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, July 30, include photos and footage of the alien-like organisms going about their business in two of the most unforgivin

Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

Matrix has long been promoted as the future of secure, decentralized communication. Backed by an open protocol, a vibrant developer community, and bridges to legacy systems, it promises interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in. But when viewed through the lens of EU data privacy law, Matrix, and its commercial champion, Element, poses significant and underappreciated risks. For public-sector organizations, critical infrastructure, and privacy-conscious enterprises in the EU, the questio

Finally, an Android Auto adapter that's reliable, highly functional, and won't break the bank

ZDNET's key takeaways The AAWireless Two typically costs $65 and gives you wireless Android Auto support when plugged in. A new built-in button lets you quickly swap between paired devices. The companion app is almost too robust, but that's a good problem to have. $64.99 at Amazon Since I bought my first car three years ago, I've had the worst luck with wireless Android Auto adapters. I initially sprung for the Motorola MA1 because of its popularity and, admittedly, Amazon's algorithmic recom