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cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 05:21:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Best Home Security Systems for Renters in 2025: Compact and Movable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 12:00:00

Is it easy to add more sensors to the security system? Does it support add-ons like cameras or smart locks if you ever want to expand? Does the system integrate with your preferred smart home platform, such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple HomeKit? Can it work with third-party smart home devices? Is the app easy to use and intuitive for first-timers? Does it make setup easy? Can you quickly arm or disarm the system from the app? Does the security kit come with basic sensors for fro

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US Adults Worry AI Will Make Us Worse at Being Human, New Survey Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 12:00:07

There are widespread fears that artificial intelligence will harm our social and emotional intelligence, empathy and sense of individual agency by 2035, according to a new survey published Wednesday by Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center. The national survey asked 1,005 US adults to rate how they think AI will impact human capacities and behaviors, including moral judgment, self-identity and confidence. In every area, respondents believed the effect of AI tools and systems ove

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Give Yourself a Few More Minutes of Sleep With This iOS 26 Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 11:00:06

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, a few months after the company announced it at the June Worldwide Developers Conference. The update brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more to your iPhone. It also updates the alarm feature in the clock app so you can change your snooze length, affording you a few more z's before you get up and tackle the day. Before this change, if you hit your iPhone alarm's snooze feature, you would always get an extra 9 minutes of shut-eye. With iOS 26, y

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New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-28 12:30:17

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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Apple’s future MacBook Pro might have a touchscreen

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-28 12:26:24

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The next generation of Apple’s MacBook Pro laptops could be the first to feature a touchscreen display, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The change could apply to OLED MacBook Pro models that are expected to enter production by late 2026, Kuo reported on X, and will incorporate a “touch panel using on-cell touch technology.” This builds on previous reports from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman regardi

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Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-09-28 12:00:00

As speed becomes the defining currency in an AI-driven software world, Blacksmith has raised another round led by Google Ventures — just four months after its seed — to accelerate how code gets shipped. The $10 million Series A closed in just 14 days, with Google Ventures doubling down after first backing Blacksmith’s $3.5 million seed in May. At the time, Alphabet’s VC arm bet on the size of the market and the founding team, which included veterans of Cockroach Labs, another GV portfolio compa

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New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-28 10:34:42

New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Share Save Getty Images Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector - its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years. The package forms a major part of a £31bn agreement dubbed the "Tech Prosperity Deal", signed between the UK government and several US tech giants as part of Donald Trump's second sta

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China's Baidu soars 16% to hit 2-year highs amid positive signs for its AI business

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-09-28 12:46:53

Baidu has launched a slew of AI applications after its Ernie chatbot received public approval. Chinese tech giant Baidu saw its shares in Hong Kong soar nearly 16% on Wednesday as it increasingly focuses on its artificial intelligence-related business that has also led to a ratings upgrade. Shares in the Beijing-based firm, which holds a dominant position in China's search engine market, had gained nearly 8% overnight in U.S. trading. The strong stock performance came after equity research fi

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Google’s new app shows Microsoft how desktop search should work

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 10:26:29

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google has introduced a new experimental search app for Windows. You can press Alt + Space to bring up the new Google app for Windows to search your computer, Google Drive, installed apps, and the web. The app also gives you access to Google Lens and AI Mode. Google just brought its search experience to Windows with a new experimental app. The new Google app for Windows lets you search your computer, Google Drive, installed apps, and the web all from one

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ChatGPT will verify your age soon, in attempt to protect teen users

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-28 01:15:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI will add age verification to ChatGPT. Teens will have more safety measures, compromising some freedom. Adults will retain the ability to use the chatbot as they want. Chatbot users are increasingly confiding in tools like ChatGPT for sensitive or personal matters, including mental health issues. The consequences can be devastating: A teen boy took his own life after spending hour

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I went hands on with all 4 of the new 2025 iPhone models and my buying advice is different this year

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-09-28 13:01:35

This photo of the iPhone 17 Pro Max in Cosmic Orange was taken with the telephoto lens on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. Jason Hiner/ZDNET The idea of "tyranny of choice" says that having a set of good choices is supposed to let everyone find exactly what makes them most happy, but the reality is that having so many good choices can often lead to anxiety, indecisiveness, and discontent. If we apply this concept to the iPhone 17 lineup, then Apple is quite the tyrant this year. After all, the base model

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This smartphone telescope brought tears to my eyes with stunning photos - how it works

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-09-28 13:30:25

Vaonis Hestia ZDNET's key takeaways The Vaonis Hestia is a smartphone telescope device that retails for $300. The Hestia does well at capturing detailed photos of planets and the stars, and an intuitive app helps guide you. It is an expensive device that takes some getting used to, and the better smartphone camera you have, the better quality photos you will get. $299 at B&H Photo-Video Amidst all the doomscrolling, TV binging, and overworking, we've forgotten to look up at the sky every once

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AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 06:31:04

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow 2025-09-28 12:04:06

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs

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I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English

news.ycombinator.com Jeremy Berman 2025-09-28 07:53:47

I think ARC-AGI is still the most important benchmark we have today. It’s surprising that LLMs can win the math olympiad but struggle with simple puzzles that humans can solve easily. This highlights a core limitation of current LLMs: they struggle to reason about things they weren't trained on. They struggle to generalize. But they are getting better, fast. Last December, I got first place on ARC-AGI v1 with a score of 53.6%. A lot has changed since then. Thinking models had just come out and

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GNU Midnight Commander

news.ycombinator.com Yury V. Zaytsev 2025-09-28 09:54:06

Welcome to Midnight Commander GNU Midnight Commander (or mc ) is a visual, dual-pane file manager. It is released under the GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. Midnight Commander is a feature-rich, full-screen, text-mode application that allows you to copy, move, and delete files and entire directory trees, search for files, and execute commands in the subshell. Internal viewer, editor and diff viewer are included. mc uses versatile text interface libraries su

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China's Baidu sees shares soar 12% as company secures major AI partnership, eyes fresh capital

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-09-28 14:23:21

Baidu has launched a slew of AI applications after its Ernie chatbot received public approval. Chinese tech giant Baidu saw its shares in Hong Kong soar as much as 12% on Wednesday as the company ramps up its artificial intelligence plans and partnerships. Shares in the Beijing-based firm, which holds a dominant position in China's search engine market, had gained 9% overnight in U.S. trading. The strong stock performance comes after Baidu earlier this week secured an AI-related deal with Chi

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Apple made a strap, now Google has a rope to dangle your Pixel from your wrist

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 14:27:50

Google TL;DR The Google Rope Wristlet is a $7 polyester rope with a company logo that lets you dangle your Pixel from your wrist. You can actually use it with any phone, not just Pixels. The wristlet is available in three different dual-tone color options: Blue/Purple, Black/Gray, and Green/Yellow. Google has launched a new accessory targeted at Pixel phone users, and coincidentally, it comes right after Apple launched a similar one for iPhones. The new $7 Google Rope Wristlet is meant to at

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‘The Morning Show’ season 4 premieres on Apple TV+, as Apple greenlights season 5

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-28 12:03:52

Tonight has been a good night for “The Morning Show” fans. Not only is the first episode of season 4 now streaming, but Apple has also officially announced a season 5 renewal. Here’s what to expect. The Morning Show is one of the longest-running Apple TV+ series. It debuted on November 1, 2019, alongside other high-profile shows such as For All Mankind, See, Snoopy in Space, and Dickinson. Tonight, The Morning Show returns for its highly anticipated season 4, with strong reinforcements to its

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AMDVLK (AMD Open Source Driver For Vulkan) project is discontinued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 11:31:04

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Wait4X allows you to wait for a port or a service to enter the requested state

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:45:58

Wait4X Wait4X is a lightweight, zero-dependency tool to wait for services to be ready. Perfect for CI/CD, containers, and local development. 📑 Table of Contents Overview Wait4X helps you wait for services (databases, APIs, message queues, etc.) to be ready before your app or script continues. It's ideal for: CI/CD pipelines : Ensure dependencies are up before tests run : Ensure dependencies are up before tests run Containers & orchestration : Health check services before startup : Health c

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Did a ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Songwriter Really Use ChatGPT to Write ‘Soda Pop’?

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-28 11:00:04

Netflix hit KPop Demon Hunters has stayed in the conversation in large part because of its blockbuster soundtrack, but now one of those songs has come under scrutiny for potentially getting an assist from ChatGPT. In a recent discussion in Seoul for OpenAI’s newly opened Korean office, songwriter Vince reportedly claimed he used the controversial technology to help pen the song “Soda Pop,” performed in the movie by the demonic Saja Boys. He is credited as one of several co-writers on the track,

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Do You Really Need a New Apple Watch if You Already Have One?

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-09-28 11:00:45

Reviews for the Apple Watch SE 3, Series 11, and Ultra 3 came out today. I’m in the process of reviewing them. I only have two wrists, and there are three Apple Watches to review—so yeah. Besides, I need to collect more health data before I feel comfortable giving my definitive take. If you’re reading reviews and asking yourself whether or not you should get any of the new models when they become available this Friday, Sept. 19, maybe I can help you make a decision. As I said in my hands-on wit

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'High Potential': How to Watch the Season 2 Premiere on Hulu

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 10:30:59

Hulu has two plans: a basic, ad-supported option for $10 a month, or $100 a year, and a mostly ad-free option for $19 a month. You can also get Hulu in a bundle with Disney Plus and HBO Max, Disney Plus and ESPN Unlimited, Disney Plus and ESPN Select (formerly ESPN Plus) or just Disney Plus.

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StubHub to price IPO at $23.50, valuing company at $8.6 billion

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-28 14:57:54

The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco. Online ticket platform StubHub is pricing its IPO at $23.50, CNBC's Leslie Picker confirmed on Tuesday. The pricing comes at the midpoint of the expected range that the company gave last week. At $23.50, the pricing gives StubHub a valuation of $8.6 billion. StubHub will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "STUB." The San Francisco-based company was co-founded by Eric Baker in 2000, and was acquired by eBay for $

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YouTube Unveils New AI Tools for Crafting Shorts, More Upgrades for Creators

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-28 13:36:42

YouTube on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of AI tools coming to Shorts and YouTube Studio, including expanding its feature that lets people detect AI videos using their facial likeness. The Google-owned tech giant revealed the upgrades at its creator-focused event, Made on YouTube, in New York. "Today's announcements are grounded in our belief that AI should be in service of human creation," YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said at Made on YouTube. "We're developing tools that give creators new ways to tel

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HackEthix 2025: Training Kerala’s Next Generation of Cyber Defenders

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-09-28 18:07:40

The IEEE Student Branch of Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (MCET) brought the tech community together with HackEthix 2025. The July 19, 2025, event at the MCET campus in Trivandrum was Kerala’s largest one-day cybersecurity workshop championed by the Computer Society Chapter Grant Initiative. It’s a crucial first step in training and equipping the next generation of cyber professionals. Cybersecurity already faces a talent shortage and skills gap. Global security job vacancies gr

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Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-28 18:01:33

And It Gets Up Again "OK, should we start worrying?" A new viral video shows a kickboxing humanoid robot shrugging off a flying dropkick from a human being. "OK, should we start worrying?" one user asked on the r/singularity subreddit in response to the video. "It looks like it doesn't like falling," another user added. The research behind the stunt was conducted by scientists at the Active Intelligent Systems (ACT) Lab at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenz

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iOS 26 has arrived: See if your iPhone is eligible for the free update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-28 19:16:26

Did you know you can officially download iOS 26 on your iPhone? The update became available yesterday, along with iPadOS 26 and Apple's other operating system updates. But that's assuming you have an eligible device. If your phone is compatible with the latest OS, you'll notice substantial changes when you install the new update. You may have already heard about "Liquid Glass," which (intentional or not) is sort of like Apple's take on the old Windows Vista design language. That's the most nota

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Latest Tech News

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Sept. 17

Best Home Security Systems for Renters in 2025: Compact and Movable

US Adults Worry AI Will Make Us Worse at Being Human, New Survey Says

Give Yourself a Few More Minutes of Sleep With This iOS 26 Trick

New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage

Apple’s future MacBook Pro might have a touchscreen

Google Ventures doubles down on dev tool startup Blacksmith just 4 months after its seed round

New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss

China's Baidu soars 16% to hit 2-year highs amid positive signs for its AI business

Google’s new app shows Microsoft how desktop search should work

ChatGPT will verify your age soon, in attempt to protect teen users

I went hands on with all 4 of the new 2025 iPhone models and my buying advice is different this year

This smartphone telescope brought tears to my eyes with stunning photos - how it works

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

In Praise of Idleness (1932)

I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English

GNU Midnight Commander

China's Baidu sees shares soar 12% as company secures major AI partnership, eyes fresh capital

Apple made a strap, now Google has a rope to dangle your Pixel from your wrist

‘The Morning Show’ season 4 premieres on Apple TV+, as Apple greenlights season 5

AMDVLK (AMD Open Source Driver For Vulkan) project is discontinued

Wait4X allows you to wait for a port or a service to enter the requested state

Did a ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Songwriter Really Use ChatGPT to Write ‘Soda Pop’?

Do You Really Need a New Apple Watch if You Already Have One?

'High Potential': How to Watch the Season 2 Premiere on Hulu

StubHub to price IPO at $23.50, valuing company at $8.6 billion

YouTube Unveils New AI Tools for Crafting Shorts, More Upgrades for Creators

HackEthix 2025: Training Kerala’s Next Generation of Cyber Defenders

Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

iOS 26 has arrived: See if your iPhone is eligible for the free update

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