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Another Pixel, another 911 failure: Pixel 10 users say emergency calls sound like screeches

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 08:37:52

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel 10 series users report that they cannot reliably make 911 calls. The 911 call connects but only delivers garbled, incomprehensible audio, described as “shrill electronic screeches.” Google’s Pixel series has had a long history of not connecting 911 calls. This bug is technically different, but the end result is the same. Google’s Pixel lineup has an unfortunate history of being unable to make 911 calls, a statement that doesn’t incite confidence

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Android's Big UI Makeover Is Official for Older Pixels in September Update

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 13:35:00

Android's big UI overhaul, Material 3 Expressive, was announced earlier this year and is preinstalled on the new Pixel 10 series of smartphones. Now it's time for older Pixel devices to get the makeover treatment, thanks to the September Pixel Drop. Material 3 Expressive is now coming to Pixel 6 devices and up, including the Pixel tablet. Google's focus with the UI overhaul is to make Android more personalized, colorful and livelier overall. It's easier to identify actions you want to take with

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Berg's Card Sorting Task

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 13:26:22

Berg's Card Sorting Task A lot of research on human problem solving focuses on how we develop strategies to solve fixed problems. But problems often are not static; the problem changes, old strategies no longer work, and new strategies must be adopted. How do we adapt to changing problems? Grant and Berg (1948) developed a sorting task (now often called the Wisconsin Card Sort Test or WCST; Grant & Berg, 1948), used to investigate different response strategies and how they are developed (Eling,

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Want to Try Tesla's Robotaxis? Testing Is Now Open to All, Alongside Dedicated App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 22:08:00

After a couple of months of testing its Robotaxi service with invited members, Tesla is beginning to open the doors to its Robotaxi program. The electric car maker's newly launched iOS app is now live, signaling the start of a wider public beta -- though it's not quite a free-for-all just yet. You'll still need to join a waitlist, but the service is now open beyond the Tesla-focused influencers who were previously invited. This move is Tesla's biggest yet in its driverless mission, and it comes

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IFA 2025: the biggest tech and gadget announcements

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-20 03:00:00

IFA, the European tech trade show equivalent to CES in the US, is just around the corner. Companies are gearing up to showcase their latest innovations, bringing us the latest product announcements, feature demonstrations, and design concepts that will shape future consumer tech releases. IFA will open its doors between September 5th and 9th, but many of the biggest announcements will start dropping shortly before the show’s public opening. And, as always, The Verge will be covering all the lat

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Best Online Hearing Tests Available in 2025: Make Sure Your Ears Are Working Properly With These Services

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 11:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. As we get older, our ability to hear may start to diminish. While many people are quick to get glasses for better vision, the ears are often overlooked. Let’s be honest: It’s probably been a long time since you’ve had your hearing checked, if you've had it checked at all. It's easy to take your hearing for granted, and while it's

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What Tech Jobs Don’t Drug Test? That Might Depend

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 08:20:51

Workers who live in states where cannabis is legal often face a conundrum. Can they continue using a substance deemed by lawmakers to be fit for public consumption, even if they may have an employer who might drug test? Or do they avoid it all together, because they don’t know what their employer’s drug policy is? And does that policy include only “hard” drugs like cocaine, opioids or methamphetamines, or does it test for cannabis too? These days, the answer is a lot more flexible than it was

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Best Air Fryer Toaster Ovens for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 05:29:00

Air fryer chicken wings These chicken wings cooked in the Ninja air fryer were a thing of beauty. David Watsky/CNET Chicken wings are almost universally loved and a very popular item to air fry. The goal for an air-fried wing is crispy outside and skin with a juicy inside. To test each oven's air fry ability, I cooked three frozen wings on air fry mode at 450 F for 30 minutes, turning them every 10 minutes. I let each oven come to full preheat before putting the wings in and then photographed

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Delete Tests

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-10-21 21:18:15

You should delete tests We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from wholistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a folk wisdom around tests. That consensus seems to boil down to simple but mostly helpful axioms, like “include tests for your changes” and “write a new test when you fix a bug to prevent regressions”. Unfortunately, on

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Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI

news.ycombinator.com Ben O'Mahony 2025-10-27 13:34:29

Learning by doing Ben O’Mahony is Principal AI Engineer at Thoughtworks. He is a results-driven AI/Engineering leader with a track record of building high-performing teams and shipping business-critical AI, ML and data products and platforms at scale. He has deep expertise across the full Engineering and Data lifecycle from research to production deployment. Ben is adept at defining technical strategy, driving execution and partnering cross-functionally to deliver measurable impact. Recently Be

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OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other's AI systems

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 10:36:37

Most of the time, AI companies are locked in a race to the top, treating each other as rivals and competitors. Today, OpenAI and Anthropic revealed that they agreed to evaluate the alignment of each other's publicly available systems and shared the results of their analyses. The full reports get pretty technical, but are worth a read for anyone who's following the nuts and bolts of AI development. A broad summary showed some flaws with each company's offerings, as well as revealing pointers for

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Smartphones are finally choosing quality over quantity when it comes to cameras

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 05:06:03

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Smartphones shipped in Q2 2025 with an average of 3.19 cameras, down from 3.37 a year earlier. Dual-camera setups now lead shipments, while single-camera models are making a comeback. Brands are swapping extra lenses for higher-res sensors and AI-driven photography. Phone makers spent many years racing to cram as many cameras into their handsets as possible. At one point, it wasn’t unusual to see four lenses stuck on the back of a flagship, and it was

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Microsoft’s employee protests have reached a boiling point

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-30 06:30:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Some Microsoft employees are willing to risk everything to protest their employer. No Azure for Apartheid, a group led by current and former Microsoft employees, started last year as a petition to Microsoft executives. It demanded that Microsoft end all Azure contracts and partnerships with the Israeli military and government, disclose all ties, call for a ceasefire in Gaza, an

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Smartphones are choosing quality over quantity when it comes to cameras

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 10:06:03

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Smartphones shipped in Q2 2025 with an average of 3.19 cameras, down from 3.37 a year earlier. Dual-camera setups now lead shipments, while single-camera models are making a comeback. Brands are swapping extra lenses for higher-res sensors and AI-driven photography. Phone makers spent many years racing to cram as many cameras into their handsets as possible. At one point, it wasn’t unusual to see four lenses stuck on the back of a flagship, and it was

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Under pressure after setbacks, SpaceX’s huge rocket finally goes the distance

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 18:48:05

STARBASE, Texas—SpaceX launched the 10th test flight of the company's Starship rocket Tuesday evening, sending the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The largely successful mission for the world's largest rocket was an important milestone for SpaceX's Starship program after months of repeated setbacks, including three disappointing test flights and a powerful explosion on the ground that destroyed the ship that engineers were orig

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SpaceX's Starship deploys its payload for the first time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 08:50:30

SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its objectives without the vehicle and its booster exploding mid-test. One of those objectives was deploying Starship's payload for the first time ever. If you'll recall, Starship exploded during its ascent stage in the company's seventh and eighth test flights. The vehicle made it to space for its nin

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Starship Nails 10th Test Flight, Putting SpaceX Back on Track

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-10-31 05:44:37

Following a string of unsuccessful flights, SpaceX managed to pull off its most successful test in months, with Starship fulfilling a number of key milestones. It was a good day for SpaceX. The megarocket blasted off on time, leaving the Starbase launch mount at 7:30 p.m. ET. Stage separation went off without a hitch, with the Super Heavy booster landing in the ocean as planned nearly 7 minutes into the mission. Second engine cutoff (SECO) occurred a few minutes later, and Starship began to cru

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SpaceX notches major wins during 10th Starship test

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-31 06:25:37

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off on its 10th test flight Tuesday evening, hitting two long-sought milestones and putting an end to a string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city, at 7:30 p.m. ET after two scrubs earlier this week. The rocket ascended on 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines before separating around three minutes after liftoff. On descent, the Super Heavy booster tested out a new maneuver: inten

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SpaceX notches major wins during tenth Starship test

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-31 06:25:37

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off on its tenth test flight Tuesday evening, hitting two long sought milestones and putting an end to a string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city, at 7:30 pm ET after two scrubs earlier in this week. The rocket ascended on 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines before separating around three minutes after liftoff. On descent, the Super Heavy booster tested out a new maneuver: int

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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-31 09:32:17

Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday and made it into president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, forcing a temporary lockdown. The “No Azure for Apartheid” group reportedly live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch, hoisting banners, chanting ‘Brad Smith, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’ and posting a mock legal summons charging Smith with “crimes against humanity.” TechCrunch has reached out to Microsoft for more information. According to The Verge, the prot

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Watch Live as SpaceX Tries to Snap Starship’s Miserable Losing Streak

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-31 21:45:18

After back-to-back scrubs, SpaceX is aiming to launch its Starship rocket on Tuesday and hoping to finally break a streak of failed test flights. SpaceX’s Starship is set for liftoff during a launch window that opens at 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, August 26. The rocket was originally scheduled to fly this past Sunday, but the launch was delayed twice, further building anticipation for Starship’s chance to redeem itself and achieve its mission objectives after three less-than-ideal flights this yea

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Eyebot gets $20M Series A to expand eye care access

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-11-01 10:00:00

Eyebot, a startup offering a 90-second vision test kiosk that delivers doctor-verified glasses prescriptions, has secured $20 million in Series A funding. The Boston-based startup, founded in 2021, streamlines how people access vision care by eliminating traditional obstacles, such as appointment delays, limited accessibility, complex insurance requirements, and cost. Its kiosks, already found in malls, universities, retail stores, pharmacies, grocery chains, schools, and airports, deliver a f

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Eyebot gets $20M Series A to boost to expand eye care access

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-11-02 01:00:00

Eyebot, a startup offering a 90-second vision test kiosk that delivers doctor-verified glasses prescriptions, has secured $20 million in Series A funding. The Boston-based startup, founded in 2021, streamlines how people access vision care by eliminating traditional obstacles, such as appointment delays, limited accessibility, complex insurance requirements, and cost. Its kiosks, already found in malls, universities, retail stores, pharmacies, grocery chains, schools, and airports, deliver a f

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Details About the First iPhone Foldable Are Coming Into Focus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 18:29:15

We keep getting more and more details about what Apple's first foldable iPhone is going to look like when it launches in 2026. And the latest info is pretty intriguing. As reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the foldable is code-named "V68," will have four cameras and will be available only in variations of black and white. The device will also rely on Touch ID (not Face ID) and will not have a SIM card slot. The four cameras will consist of one on the front, two on the back and one on the ins

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I retested GPT-5's coding skills using OpenAI's guidance - and now I trust it even less

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-04 09:16:03

seamartini/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The same prompts in GPT-5 yield success, crashes, or errors. OpenAI's prompt optimizer helps, but introduces its own quirks. AI "unconsciously" adding details raises trust concerns. Do AI's get headaches? Because GPT-5 has certainly been giving me one. This article was going to be so easy. OpenAI came out with a list of best practices for GPT-5 coding. All I was going to do was t

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Most Air Purifiers Haven’t Been Tested on Humans. That’s a Problem

gizmodo.com Amiran Baduashvili 2025-11-04 20:50:51

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people—and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the upshot of a detailed review of nearly 700 studies that we co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Many respiratory viruses, such as covid-19 and influenza, can spread through indoor air. Technologies such as HEPA filters, ultraviolet light, and special ventilation designs—collectively kno

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SpaceX is about to launch Starship for its 10th test flight

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 06:56:52

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is scheduled to lift off from the company's Texas launch site as soon as this evening for its 10th flight. The launch window opens at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT). As always, the flight test will be livestreamed on the SpaceX website and on X, with a webcast starting 30 minutes before launch. The weather is looking iffy for launch, though, so don't be surprised if this one gets postponed; SpaceX said on Saturday that conditions were looking only 45 percent favorable. Ac

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Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-05 06:19:06

Waymo has become the first autonomous vehicle operator to secure a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of New York City, the state’s department of transportation said in announcing the news. The New York City Department of Motor Vehicles approved Waymo’s application, allowing the company to conduct limited testing of its autonomous vehicles within certain city zones. The permit comes after years of regulatory negotiations and signals a potential shift toward broader deployment of d

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Best Toaster Ovens for Your Kitchen in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 03:50:00

Colin West McDonald/CNET I set out to cook a wide variety of common toaster oven fodder. With the exception of the toast tests, where I looked at each toaster oven's individual settings for light, medium and dark toast, I used standardized temperature and cook times and followed the recommendations on the box for whatever I was cooking, wherever possible. Toasting capabilities: Speed and consistency Making toast is one of the critical tasks for a toaster. I mean, it's right there in the name.

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 00:00:15

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers be

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Latest Tech News

Another Pixel, another 911 failure: Pixel 10 users say emergency calls sound like screeches

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SpaceX notches major wins during tenth Starship test

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