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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is here and wants to help Android take iPhone’s video crown

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 15:30:15

TL;DR Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 smartphone processor. The chip has the expected CPU, GPU, and AI gains, but it’s also the first mobile chip to support the APV codec for higher-quality video capture. The Xiaomi 17 series is the first phone family with this chipset, but Samsung, OnePlus and others are also confirmed to adopt it. The Snapdragon 8 Elite powered the majority of global flagship Android phones throughout 2025, and we can understand why. Qualcomm’s chip brou

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme could be the fastest chips for Windows

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 15:30:18

TL;DR Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips feature a 75% faster CPU than Windows competitors. The top-end Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is the first ARM-compatible CPU to reach 5.0GHz on its Prime core. The new chips boast improved power efficiency and an updated NPU for on-device AI. Qualcomm has been making chips for laptops for some time, but the Snapdragon X Elite launched in 2023 was one of its most ambitious attempts, thanks to the custom ARM-based Oryon CPU cores. Qualcomm is refresh

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 benchmarks: Just how badly does it beat its rivals?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 15:45:28

Whenever a new chipset is announced, the first question on every enthusiast’s lips is “how well does it perform?” Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is no exception. While we’ll have to wait not too long to get our hands on the first consumer devices, we went hands-on with a reference handset at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit that gives us some indication of the chip’s peak potential. Just a word of caution: retail handsets are unlikely to perform quite as well, owing to their more cons

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Next-gen Windows PC may surpass M4 MacBooks thanks to this chipset - here's what's coming

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-09 15:30:43

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET At its recent Summit 2025 event, Qualcomm took the stage to announce its next generation of laptop chipsets: the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. I've been closely following Qualcomm's journey through the laptop industry since the company launched the first generation of Snapdragon hardware back in 2024. These chipsets perfectly balance performance with energy efficiency, allowing host computers to last all day long. Judging from preliminary information

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU Is Another Stab at Burying Intel

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-09 15:30:12

Qualcomm’s nascent push into PCs now has the sequel chip that will set the tone for what to expect from Windows-based machines going into 2026. This year, Qualcomm doesn’t have just one flagship CPU; it has two. Announced at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Qualcomm, and Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip), the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (a name that, if you say it, immediately cues

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Qualcomm’s New Android Chip Could Leave the iPhone 17 Pro in Its Dust for Gaming

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-09 15:30:25

Now that the iPhone 17 Pro’s A19 Pro chip has taken center stage as the new hotness in phone silicon, Qualcomm is trying to make the claim that Android phones can be used for more than flicking through your social feeds with zombie-like efficiency. In comes the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a confusing name for a chip with a one-track mind: pushing better graphics and multitasking capabilities. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is the sequel to Qualcomm’s last-gen flagship, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. You k

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Chip Will Boost AI in 2026's Most Powerful Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 15:30:02

At Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit off the west coast of Maui, the company unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its next-generation chip intended for next year's top-tier Android phones. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 succeeds last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite, which saw the mobile debut of Qualcomm's in-house Oryon central processing unit for more power and efficiency over older silicon from Arm. As expected, this year's 8 Elite Gen 5 improves performance over its predecessor. The upgrades include f

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Qualcomm's Big Compute Play: An 18-Core Chip Capable of 80 TOPS for AI Power

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 15:30:03

At Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2025 in Maui, the chipmaker unveiled its next big play for the Windows PC market. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and more powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme are a pair of chips built for efficiency and high performance to rival Intel and AMD's leading laptop silicon. Qualcomm announced its first Snapdragon X Elite system-on-a-chip two years ago, which featured the debut of the in-house Oryon CPU that enabled high enough performance in PC laptops to compete in power e

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Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services for 2025, Tested by CNET's Own Plant-Based Eater

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 06:40:00

When trying to find a vegan meal delivery service, several factors should be considered to find your perfect fit. Prepared meals versus meal kits: Prepared meals come ready to heat in the microwave or in a pan on the stovetop. Meal kits, on the other hand, provide all the ingredients and instructions you’ll need to prepare the meals yourself. Though prepared meals are easier and take less time, meal kits may be good for those who like cooking or want to learn to cook. Fresh versus frozen: On t

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A Startup Used AI to Make a Psychedelic Without the Trip

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-10 19:00:00

While there's growing evidence that psychedelic drugs can effectively treat severe mental health conditions, especially in cases where traditional treatments have failed, they still come with downsides. Their hallucinogenic effects can be scary and overwhelming, with dosing sessions lasting several hours. Good treatment is heavily reliant on the individual’s mindset going into a session and the environment in which they receive it. And though it’s rare, psychedelics can sometimes worsen existin

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Uber rival Rapido doubles valuation to $2.3B following Swiggy stake sale

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-11 15:50:37

Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India that competes with Uber, has doubled its valuation to $2.3 billion following a secondary share sale by food delivery giant Swiggy. The share sale comes just weeks after Rapido began piloting food deliveries, edging into Swiggy’s core territory. Swiggy has offloaded its entire 12% stake in Rapido for ₹24 billion (about $270 million) through two separate deals, according to regulatory filings. Around 10% of the stake is being acquired by Prosus for

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Uber-rival Rapido doubles valuation to $2.3B following Swiggy stake sale

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-12 11:50:37

Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India that competes with Uber, has doubled its valuation to $2.3 billion following a secondary share sale by food delivery giant Swiggy. The share sale comes just weeks after Rapido began piloting food deliveries, edging into Swiggy’s core territory. Swiggy has offloaded its entire 12% stake in Rapido for ₹24 billion (about $270 million) through two separate deals, according to regulatory filings. Around 10% of the stake is being acquired by Prosus for

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The Strange Tale of the Hotchkiss

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:37:35

The Strange Tale of the Hotchkiss Some time ago my attention was drawn to the origins of the word ホチキス (hochikisu) (sometimes ホッチキス) in Japanese. To a native speaker of English who actually knows the word Hotchkiss, it usually refers to a WWI machine gun and related military impedimenta. To a Japanese ホチキス invariably refers to an office paper stapler, for which it is the generic name just as "hoover" is the term for vacuum cleaner in the UK. When I first encountered the term in Japanese I ass

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Bluesky says it’s getting more aggressive about moderation and enforcement

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-15 11:40:12

It sounds like Bluesky is getting serious about giving some users the boot, with the company saying it will be doing more to “enforce our moderation policies to better cultivate a space for healthy conversations.” This is part of a broader update to the social media company’s community guidelines, after Bluesky asked users in August to provide feedback on an earlier draft of these changes. In a new blog post, the company said it received comments from more than 14,000 community members, and tha

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Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 15:43:19

Timesketch Table of Contents About Timesketch Timesketch is an open-source tool for collaborative forensic timeline analysis. Using sketches you and your collaborators can easily organize your timelines and analyze them all at the same time. Add meaning to your raw data with rich annotations, comments, tags and stars. < Getting started Installation Adding timelines Using Timesketch Adding a Notebook Container Community Contributing Obligatory Fine Print This is not an official Googl

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Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-15 16:00:52

"Westworld' is closer than I thought." A robotics company in China has shown off a humanoid robotic head that can express emotions through extremely subtle movements of its facial features. A video that has gone viral on social media shows the face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression. Its eyes blink in an eerily lifelike way, selling the illusion surprisingly well. Hangzhou, China-based outfit AheadForm, which is behind the impressive demo, claims on its website to combine "s

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Hands-On: Yale's High-Tech Delivery Box Is Made to Defeat Porch Pirates in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 11:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Yale's delivery box is one of the smartest I've tried. Tyler Lacoma/CNET I've written before about the new kind of home tech that's defeating porch pirates. It's a box, but a smart one, designed to keep porch pirates from stealing packages when they're dropped off (as opposed to a video doorbell, which they may not notice or care about). This mail protec

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Moon Helium Deal Is the Biggest Space Resource Grab Yet

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-15 15:00:11

For billions of years, solar winds have bombarded the Moon. Over time, this constant onslaught of charged particles has caused helium-3 to accumulate in the lunar surface. This isotope is rare on Earth, and rising demand from several industries—including quantum computing—has incentivized some companies to explore the possibility of lunar mining. One such company is Interlune, a Seattle-based startup that aims to extract natural resources—primarily helium-3—from the lunar surface. Interlune eve

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Fast Food? Uber Eats to Test Flying Meal Deliveries by Drone Again This Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 22:04:00

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... dinner? After a couple of attempts that didn't amount to much, Uber Eats will again test food deliveries by drone under a partnership with autonomous drone delivery company Flytrex. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. The service will be launched in pilot markets in the US later this year. The companies say orders will be delivered to customers "in minutes while reducin

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Uber is trying drone delivery again

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-19 03:57:17

In Brief Uber will test using drones for Uber Eats deliveries in some U.S. markets by the end of this year, part of a new partnership with Israeli startup Flytrex. The partnership will also include a small investment in Flytrex, though Uber told Bloomberg News the investment amount was not material. The deal comes at a time when Uber has been re-engaging with some technologies that it used to develop in-house. Uber has been partnering with autonomous vehicle companies like Waymo to offer self-

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NASA Mission to Map Sun’s Protective Bubble Could Help Better Predict Dangerous Space Weather

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-19 11:38:43

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the other members of our planetary system would be at constant risk of threats from outer space. Our host star creates a protective bubble called the heliosphere that extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune, shielding the planets from the interstellar medium. Yet though we may owe our existence to this b

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Deliveroo founder Will Shu to step down as CEO after DoorDash takeover

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-19 22:55:05

LONDON — Deliveroo CEO Will Shu is set to step down from the food delivery company he co-founded over a decade ago. Shu, who established Deliveroo in 2013 with childhood friend Greg Orlowski, said Thursday that he will step down as CEO after its takeover by U.S. rival DoorDash is completed. DoorDash announced its deal to buy the British online takeout platform in May. The acquisition values Deliveroo at £2.9 billion ($4 billion). "I have decided that now is the right time for me to step down,

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Uber will (once again) test delivering food by drone this year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 23:00:17

Uber Eats is testing out drone deliveries yet again, this time in partnership with Flytrex. To note, Flytrex is one of the drone operators behind Walmart's drone deliveries and already delivers food in some parts of the US. It's one of the four providers that received authorization by the FAA for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, in which pilots can't see the aircraft they're controlling directly. The partnership, the companies said, will enable Uber Eats customers to receive order

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I’d buy a BlackBerry reboot in 2025, but would you?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 05:21:27

🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Even though the original company is no longer with us, I believe there are two ways to remember the BlackBerry brand. Either you grimace while recalling the final struggle of uninspired Android devices. Or, you’re like me, and smile back at the 2010s and the brand’s heyday with glee. One of my first “smartphones” was a Curve 8320

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7 Pieces of Wellness Tech That Could Be Covered by Your HSA

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 04:25:00

A health savings account or flexible savings account can help you pay for qualified medical costs, but that doesn't just mean doctors' visits or medications. "They're also a powerful way to pay for a huge range of modern wellness technology and products," said Chris Byrd, senior vice president at WEX, a global commerce platform that administers HSAs and FSAs. According to Byrd, recent research from WEX and Visa found that having the flexibility to use HSA funds on qualified expenses was one of

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Is Data Modeling Dead?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 04:14:15

Ok, not going to lie, I rarely find anything of value in the dregs of r/dataengineering, mostly I fear, because it’s %90 freshers with little to no experience. These green behind the ear know-it-all engineers who’ve never written a line of Perl, SSH’d into a server, and have no idea what a LAMP stack is. Weak. Sad. We used to program our way to glory, up hill both ways in the snow. All you do is script kiddy some Python code through Cursor. A recent post on Data Modeling, specifically that dat

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New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-22 16:30:17

Famed aviator Amelia Earhart has captured our imaginations for nearly a century, particularly her disappearance in 1937 during an attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. Earhart was a complicated woman, highly skilled as a pilot yet with a tendency toward carelessness. And her marriage to a flamboyant publisher with a flair for marketing may have encouraged that carelessness and contributed to her untimely demise, according to a fascinating new book, The Aviator and

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I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 05:05:05

Back in college I used to run part of my website from a Linux box in my room. I made it into a speech synthesiser, and people could connect to the machine to talk into my flat. (Retrospective apologies to my flatmates.) This is way back in 2000 so before smartphones, and before texting, and before always-on internet (college was an exception), and before camera phones or being able to reliably email photos let alone video. Decent text-to-speech still felt novel. We had a friend who was travell

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MagSafe Monday: Pelican’s MagSafe Wallet is rugged and perfect for fall hikes and everyday carry

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-25 11:00:00

As the weather cools down and fall hiking season ramps up, I always think about what gear makes sense to carry. A MagSafe wallet is one of those things that feels like it should be as versatile as your iPhone itself. The Pelican MagSafe Wallet & Card Holder is a perfect option when you want something rugged that can handle the outdoors but still works as an EDC. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibility. MagSafe Mon

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This Chip Will Power 2026's Best Android Phones. I Can't Wait to See What It Can Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 21:47:00

What do the Samsung Galaxy S25, the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and the OnePlus 13 have in common, beyond simply being Android phones? The answer is that they're all powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, which is the processor of choice for 2025's top Android flagship phones (other than those made by Google). The 8 Elite has performed well in our testing, but a successor is incoming. Next week at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm is set to unveil its latest, greatest chip, which it announc

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