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Best VPN for Android for 2025: Protect Your Privacy on Mobile Devices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 00:00:00

With so many Android VPN apps available, it can be difficult to choose the right solution. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the most important factors to consider when choosing a VPN for Android: Privacy No matter which VPN you use on Android or any other device, the bare minimum for consideration is that it protects your privacy. Look for a VPN that uses industry-standard AES 256-bit encryption over the OpenVPN protocol, or ChaCha20 over W

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Android gets patches for Qualcomm flaws exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-14 10:31:32

Google has released security patches for six vulnerabilities in Android's August 2025 security update, including two Qualcomm flaws exploited in targeted attacks. The two security bugs, tracked as CVE-2025-21479 and CVE-2025-27038, were reported through the Google Android Security team in late January 2025. The first is a Graphics framework incorrect authorization weakness that can lead to memory corruption due to unauthorized command execution in the GPU micronode while executing a specific s

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Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine

news.ycombinator.com No Author 2025-12-14 08:47:18

A Kyoto University research team has developed a pain-reliever that is comparable to morphine but does not have serious side effects. Morphine, often administered to cancer patients, has serious adverse effects such as breathing issues and addiction. According to the team, the newly developed drug, Adriana, is a groundbreaking painkiller, which works on a completely different mechanism to morphine and other existing synthetic opioids. The drug has the potential to revolutionize pain control in

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Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods

news.ycombinator.com Lesley Henton 2025-12-10 09:22:18

A tool developed at Texas A&M University is set to transform how emergency responders assess damage after disasters. The technology, known as CLARKE (Computer vision and Learning for Analysis of Roads and Key Edifices) uses artificial intelligence and drone imagery to evaluate damage to buildings, roads and other infrastructure in a matter of minutes. CLARKE was created by a team of researchers led by Tom Manzini, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science and engineering, and Dr. Robin Murphy, a pi

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USDA Weaponizes Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Marriage Story’ Fight to Scare Wolves

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-14 23:25:48

Noah Baumbach wanted to challenge audiences with Marriage Story, making them sit in the discomfort and tension of a relationship falling apart. He probably didn’t know that his audience was going to be wolves, though. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the famous fight scene between Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson from Baumbach’s award-winning drama is just one tool the United States Department of Agriculture has started to use in an effort to scare the growing wolf (and hung

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The ‘Star Wars’ Slur That Has Been Mainstreamed by Anti-AI Discourse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-15 00:30:52

“Clanker.” You’ve probably heard the term online a lot lately, as growing wariness of the acceptance of generative AI has led to an almost science-fictional world of anti-robot sentiment. It’s become an increasingly common derogatory term, growing beyond the constraints of referring to chatbots and image generators to refer to any kind of non-human robotic intelligence. It’s perhaps fitting then, as it penetrates increasingly mainstream social circles, that “Clanker” itself is rooted in science

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A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-15 00:45:18

Dribbble has permanently banned dozens of designers from its platform following a new effort to pivot to a marketplace and chase monetization. This includes one of the platform’s most well known designers, Gleb Kuznetsov, founder of the San Francisco-based design studio Milkinside. Dribbble deleted his account with its over 210 million followers because he shared his contact information with prospective clients through the platform in violation of its new rules. Remarked Kuznetsov in a post on

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Breaking the Visual Barrier: AI Sonification for an Inclusive Data-Driven World

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-15 09:46:06

Bridging the Visual Gap with Sound in 2025 As AI innovations reshape technology landscapes in 2025, accessibility for visually impaired users is gaining unprecedented momentum. Currently, an estimated 285 million people globally experience some degree of visual impairment, limiting their ability to fully engage with visually driven data environments. AI-enhanced sonification—the transformation of data into intuitive audible signals driven by cutting-edge artificial intelligence—has emerged as a

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Scientists Recreated the Universe’s First Molecule

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-15 10:42:45

Seconds after the Big Bang, the newborn universe gave rise to the first elements—ionized forms of hydrogen and helium. These particles combined, forging helium hydride—the first ever molecule. It would take another several hundred million years for the first stars to be born, and scientists have long puzzled over the exact nature of the chemical processes that led to their formation. To try and tease apart the stellar origin story, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in H

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Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-15 10:56:58

When will Sierra Space's winged vehicle, Dream Chaser, finally take flight? Unfortunately, it's still not clear. Almost certainly, however, it won't be this year. The Dream Chaser space plane has now been under development for more than two decades, and it has a huge cult following because its winged shape mimics the iconic Space Shuttle. However, during a recent news briefing, a senior NASA official would only say this about a launch date: "We will be ready for them when they're ready to fly."

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Google is making Android’s touchpad controls more like a desktop OS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 10:29:58

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR To improve Android’s capabilities on laptops and tablets, Google is adding more advanced touchpad settings. An upcoming update introduces a customizable three-finger tap gesture for actions like launching Gemini, going home, or middle-clicking. Later versions will expand on this by letting you map the gesture to open any app and will also add a toggle for touchpad acceleration. Last month, Google revealed it plans to combine Chrome OS and Android into a s

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Google is making it easier to hide sensitive files in your Pixel’s Private Space

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 10:34:32

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is making it simpler to move sensitive files into Private Space, the built-in feature on Pixel devices for hiding apps and data. While the tool has always made it straightforward to add apps to the profile, adding files has been less intuitive. An upcoming update adds a new “Add files” option that lets you directly copy or move files from your main profile into the Private Space. If you want to hide apps, files, and folders on your Android devi

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Music lovers aren’t happy with Android Auto’s refreshed interface

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:15:53

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google recently refreshed the Android Auto interface using Material You to match colors with your phone’s wallpaper. As part of the changes, the music player interface now uses wallpaper colors instead of album art and has smaller album art. Some users find the new design bland and unbalanced, compared to the previous dynamic album art backgrounds. Just last week, Google updated Android Auto’s head unit interface with Material You, letting your car’s dis

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I Love How Streamlined the Pixel 9 Pro Feels, and It’s 20% Off Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 17:39:00

CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $200 off I've been using Google's Pixel 9 Pro for months. I like its solid overall performance and quirky new AI skills. The element that stands out most is how easy it is to use. Android phones often get a bad rap for being overly convoluted. And to be fair, that's often well justified. Samsung's Galaxy S25 range, for example, has deep menu systems for messing about with nearly every aspect of the phone, along with featu

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These are my 5 favorite e-book reader apps, but one leaps out from the page

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-17 04:00:47

Andy Walker / Android Authority I rarely take just one book along when I travel. If there’s a paperback I’m particularly interested in, I’ll find space in my bag. But usually, my Android tablet, loaded with a mix of classics, cookbooks, and non-fiction, usually serves as my e-reader. While Android tablets (or even Android smartphones) aren’t created as dedicated e-readers, it’s now easier than ever to enjoy a book on your device. There are many excellent e-book reader apps available. What is

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I switched to this paper-like TCL phone for a week, and my tired eyes finally got a break

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-12-17 04:00:16

TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G ZDNET's key takeaways This budget Android phone features a large, paper-like display, 128GB of storage, and more. It has a feature set that promotes minimalism and digital wellbeing. I just wish the camera system and general performance were better. $249.99 at Amazon Looking at smartphones all day can be exhausting on the eyes, and over time, I've adjusted to the discomfort, but TCL's Nxtpaper technology is made for tired eyes like mine. The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G is the

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I Found the Pixel 9 Pro to Be a More Streamlined Android Experience, and It’s 20% Off Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 05:39:00

CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $200 off I've been using Google's Pixel 9 Pro for months. I like its solid overall performance and quirky new AI skills. The element that stands out most is how easy it is to use. Android phones often get a bad rap for being overly convoluted. And to be fair, that's often well justified. Samsung's Galaxy S25 range, for example, has deep menu systems for messing about with nearly every aspect of the phone, along with featu

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A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet

wired.com Marta Abbà 2025-12-17 04:30:00

How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away? If done with a human eye, weeks or months. If analyzed by an artificial intelligence system, one afternoon. The National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, known by it’s Italian initialism CNSAS, relied on AI to find the body of a person missing in Italy's Piedmont region on the north face of Monviso—the highest peak in the Co

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Shrinking freshwater availability increasing land contribution to sea level rise

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:49:34

New findings from studying over two decades of satellite observations reveal that the Earth’s continents have experienced unprecedented freshwater loss since 2002, driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater use and extreme droughts. The study, led by Arizona State University and published today in Science Advances, highlights the emergence of four continental-scale “mega-drying” regions, all located in the Northern Hemisphere, and warns of severe consequences for water security, agricu

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5 productivity apps I swear by, and one of them unlocks the rest

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:00:04

Joe Maring / Android Authority Productivity apps are the bane of the app world. On one end of the spectrum are the total nerds who could shame a cyborg with their organizing skills, and on the other are those who dump everything into Google Keep just to have everything in one place. I live somewhere in the middle. I’m not pedantic enough to run the most complex Notion server and flex about it on Reddit, nor am I a simpleton who relies solely on a notes app. I use a bunch of apps every day to i

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The AYANEO Pocket S2 is the most powerful Android handheld I’ve ever tested, but is it the best?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:05:43

AYANEO Pocket S2 The Pocket S2 is the most powerful Android gaming handheld you can buy, with a massive battery to boot. Only small sticks and a non-OLED screen keep it from achieving absolute perfection, if you can afford it. When it comes to truly premium Android gaming handhelds, AYANEO practically owns the market. Its devices are admitedly niche compared to the likes of Retroid and ANBERNIC, but they offer premium devices with performance that blows away the competition. So when it was ann

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Building a DIY TV box made me realize how awful Google TV really is

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-17 00:00:33

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Like many affordable smart TVs, mine runs on a frankly garbage processor that makes trawling through my TV’s updated Google TV interface a real chore. Quad‑core Cortex‑A55 CPUs are pretty standard but also as cheap as they come, and paired with a tight-fisted 1.5GB RAM, it’s easy to see why the UI experience is just so bad on my TV and many others. Thankfully, there are plenty of options to escape the confines of cheap TV processors, including various Android

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HTML-in-Canvas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 22:26:47

We propose new HTML Canvas APIs for rendering HTML content into the canvas for Canvas 2D and WebGL. Status Authors: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson, Khushal Sagar, Vladimir Levin, Fernando Serboncini Champions: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson This proposal is a subset of a previous proposal covering APIs to allow live HTML elements. Motivation There is no web API to easily render complex layouts of text and other content into a <canvas> . As a result, <canvas> -based content suffers in a

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Scientists Find Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 15:30:12

Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science Anyone who makes a habit of losing their keys has a new excuse: you didn't forget — your memory just moved. That's courtesy of neuroscientists at Northwestern University, who recently published a study looking into the brain patterns of mice. The new research explores how the hippocampus — a crucial part of the brain for spatial memory — changes over time. The paper sheds new light on a phenomenon first uncovered in 2013, when a study in th

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These are 5 of my favorite gallery apps, but one stands out from the rest

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 16:00:01

Andy Walker / Android Authority Every modern smartphone has a capable camera system, and there’s a good chance that you regularly browse the images you capture with it. Most devices come with a brand-adjacent gallery app. I find that Samsung Gallery is one of the best in this regard. But what if you don’t own a Samsung and want a brand-agnostic option? After many years of trying various apps, I’ve narrowed my favorite gallery app selection to just five options. Some products have overlapping f

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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 17:20:11

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found

wired.com Deep Vakil 2025-12-16 15:00:00

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump declared at his inauguration on January 20. Echoing the slogan that exemplified his energy policies during the campaign, he made his message clear: more oil and gas, lower prices, greater exports. Six months into Trump’s second term, his administration has little to show on that score. Output is ticking up, but slower than it did under the Bi

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Gone but not forgotten: Survey reveals Android users miss these features the most

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:00:50

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Our smartphones have undergone profound commodification. But in the process of forging them into objects we use and rely on for nearly every waking hour, phone companies have focused a lot on optimizing utility, which, in turn, has resulted in many key features being dropped from our beloved devices. These days, leading brands especially insist on slimming down phones more, even going against what users may truly want. So, to get a sense of which features our

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This is my favorite Android launcher, and it’s not the one you think

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:00:50

Nathan Drescher / Android Authority We’re probably a lot alike when it comes to launchers. I’ve been bouncing between them for years, trying each one out, getting excited about updates and then being let down when they offered nothing new. I’ve paid for pro launchers and tried going with the locked down stock launcher on a Google Pixel, but nothing really stuck, until Smart Launcher 6. My Redmagic 10 Pro is my current daily driver. However, its stock launcher is the definition of “just good en

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

news.ycombinator.com David Cox 2025-12-16 18:20:42

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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