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This excellent Samsung Good Lock feature should come to all Android phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 11:00:32

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Say what you will about Samsung One UI, but it makes a strong argument for being one of the most feature-rich Android skins on the market. That’s in large part due to the company’s Good Lock suite of apps, which allows you to deeply customize various aspects of your phone. The latest Good Lock app is Display Assistant, which was released at the tail end of 2024. After recently downloading it, I’ve discovered a feature I’d love to see on all of my future Androi

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A brilliant puzzle-platformer, Enter the Gungeon on mobile and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 10:00:42

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Quite a few intriguing games dropped this week and some high-profile ones have been ported to more platforms. Before we get to those, though, I'd like to tell you about one of my favorite games of the year so far. I struggle to fully engage with many RPGs. By and large, I'm not interested in spending lots of time optimizing my character, speccing out a skill tree or scouring for the very best equipment to match my playstyle

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A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease

news.ycombinator.com Margaret Roach 2025-11-19 12:48:32

I am hardly alone among gardeners who have called upon a copper-leaved European beech tree to play a key landscape role. A majestic one punctuates my view each time I look up from my desk or from the dining table a floor below. In the woodlands beyond my property line, American beeches play an outsize role, too, but hardly one based on mere aesthetics. They represent a key component of extensive swaths of many such deciduous forests in the Eastern United States, providing ecological services to

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Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Design Engineers in AMER and EMEA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 11:00:59

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Good system design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:38:46

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are new to the industry. Another is the Twitter-optimized “you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database” clever trick. Even good system design advice can be kind of bad. I love Designing Data-Intensive Applications, but I don’t think it’s particularly useful for most system design problems engineers will run into. Wha

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The iPhone 17's Screen Could Get a Long-Awaited Feature You'll Notice Every Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 09:30:04

We are likely just weeks away from Apple's iPhone 17 event. While an official release date hasn't been announced, the company typically holds the event in early September. As we get closer to the big day, rumors and leaks about the iPhone 17 are pouring in. We've seen reports of a new selfie camera, faster MagSafe charging and a new purple (or green) color. But when the iPhone 16 debuted, there was criticism aimed at its screen. The phone starts at $829 and still has a 60Hz display, despite mos

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Acer Predator Helios 16S AI Review: Great Performance, Annoying Crashes

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-11-19 11:30:00

Keeping up with the intricacies of Acer’s Predator Helios gaming laptop line isn’t easy. The long-running series (dating back to 2017) now commands 12 different models, distinguished by screen size, the inclusion of AI acceleration (models with an “AI” suffix), and general affordability (denoted by the “Neo” suffix)—in every possible combination. Today, I’m reviewing the Predator Helios 16S AI, which boasts high-end specs and performance—especially in graphics-intensive tasks—but manages to kee

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Apple @ Work: Apple won’t fix enterprise macOS backups, but Backblaze will

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-11-19 15:00:00

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Everything I know about good system design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 11:38:46

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are new to the industry. Another is the Twitter-optimized “you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database” clever trick. Even good system design advice can be kind of bad. I love Designing Data-Intensive Applications, but I don’t think it’s particularly useful for most system design problems engineers will run into. Wha

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Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-19 15:30:00

WIRED copublished an investigation this week with The Markup and CalMatters showing that dozens of data brokers have been hiding their opt-out and personal-data-deletion tools from Google Search, making it harder for people to find and utilize them. The report prompted US senator Maggie Hassan to demand accountability from the companies. WIRED also took a deep dive looking at what the data-analysis giant Palantir actually does. Reports this week that Russia was likely involved in, or entirely b

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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:39:34

I’ve been experimenting with adding AI agents to UserJot, our feedback, roadmap, and changelog platform. Not the simple “one prompt, one response” stuff. Real agent systems where multiple specialized agents communicate, delegate tasks, and somehow don’t crash into each other. The goal was to analyze customer feedback at scale. Find patterns across hundreds of posts. Auto-generate changelog entries. Things that were basically impossible to do manually. I spent weeks reverse engineering tools lik

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Black Ops 6 Quad Feed Double XP Weekend Live Now During Battlefield 6 Open Beta

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 17:58:00

As Battlefield 6's record-breaking open beta rages on, Black Ops 6 developer Treyarch is showing some love to loyal Black Ops 6 players. The second double XP weekend of Season 5 is live now, with all four boosts active for players to take advantage of. You'll be able to speed through account levels, weapon attachment unlocks, and battle pass tiers to kickstart your advancement of the latest Season 5 content. This double XP weekend runs from Friday to Monday. Anyone playing Black Ops 6 during th

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IEEE Computer Society Announces Recipients of Inaugural Career Catalyst Scholarship

computer.org Joshua Roller 2025-11-19 23:00:55

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 15 August 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS) is pleased to announce the first recipients of its inaugural Career Catalyst Scholarships. Evaluated by a set of criteria that includes academic performance; technical skills and experience; leadership and extracurriculars; statement of purpose; industry readiness and professionalism; and letters of recommendation, each candidate underwent a rigorous review by a panel of industry judges. Selected from a pool of over 105 applic

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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

news.ycombinator.com Conroy 2025-11-19 04:32:21

A brain scan (artificially coloured) produced by magnetic resonance imaging. Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo Library A brain implant can decode a person’s internal chatter — but the device works only if the user thinks of a preset password1. The mind-reading device, or brain–computer interface (BCI), accurately deciphered up to 74% of imagined sentences. The system began decoding users’ internal speech — the silent dialogue in people’s minds — only when they thought of a specific keyword. This

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Opendoor CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-11-20 10:45:24

Opendoor CEO Carrie Wheeler said Friday that she's resigning from the online real estate company, which has seen a surge in recent interest from retail investors. The stock popped early in the day before closing up 4.3%. Pressure began building on Wheeler, who took over the top job in 2022, after the company's quarterly earnings report earlier this month failed to reassure investors that a turnaround is underway. The stock is up more than sixfold since bottoming out at 51 cents in June, a price

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A Nostalgic ‘Addams Family’ Prop Could Join Your Spooky, Ooky Collection

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-20 10:45:51

The Addams Family has come a long way since Charles Addams’ paper cartoons debuted in 1938 and is currently in its Gen Z era incarnation, thanks to director Tim Burton. Still, the real ones know that before Wednesday on Netflix introduced us to Jenna Ortega as the acerbic teen and explored her mystery-laden life in dark academia, Christina Ricci made her a ’90s icon. Propstore is rolling out a standout piece of nostalgia for The Addams Family as part of its upcoming Entertainment Memorabilia Au

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Bullfrog in the Dungeon

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-11-20 23:10:18

In January of 1995, Electronic Arts bought the prestigious British games studio Bullfrog Productions for an undisclosed sum that was rumored to be in the neighborhood of $45 million. The lives of the 35 or so people who worked at Bullfrog were transformed overnight. Peter Molyneux, the man who had build the studio’s reputation on the back of his “god game” Populous six years earlier, woke up the morning after the contract was signed with real money to spend for the first time in his life. For

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Opendoor stock pops 10% as CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-11-21 05:22:18

Opendoor shares popped about 10% on Friday after CEO Carrie Wheeler said she's resigning from the online real estate company, which has seen a surge in recent interest from retail investors. Pressure began building on Wheeler, who took over the top job in 2022, after the company's quarterly earnings report earlier this month failed to reassure investors that a turnaround is underway. The stock is up more than sixfold since bottoming out at 51 cents in June, a price that put the company at risk

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Should you buy a portable AC to cool your home? My verdict after testing one this summer

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-21 05:16:00

EcoFlow Wave 3 ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow Wave 3 is a portable air conditioner and heater that costs $1,299 on its own and $2,299 with the add-on battery. This is a portable air conditioner and heater that is more powerful than its predecessor It is also off-grid ready for camping, RVing, and even helping in a pinch. The Wave 3 is pricey, loud in some settings, and is not as efficient in extreme heat, direct sun, or tent camping. $899 at Amazon Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: A

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Does Steven Spielberg’s ‘AI: Artificial Intelligence’ Play Differently Today?

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-21 05:00:42

Rewatching Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence, it feels as plausible as ever, but also more misguided. In 2001, AI was barely a thought in everyday life. It was the thing that destroyed the world in Terminator, and still a lofty goal in tech circles. Today, as the technology continues to grow and dominate daily conversation in almost every way, you may expect to watch the film and have a slightly new perspective. Some change in insight. Instead, the film falters as Spielber

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Teenage Engineering Has a New PC Case. As Usual, You Won’t Believe the Price

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-11-21 10:10:26

Teenage Engineering, makers of fine and fun devices like the popular OP-1 field synthesizer and Pocket Operator music mixers, dropped a new PC case yesterday, and it immediately sold out. But unlike gear like the OP-1 field or TP-7 audio recorder that sell for eye-watering prices of $2,000 and $1,500, respectively, the translucent and plastic Computer-2 desktop PC case was given away for free. Well, sort of—you just have to pay for shipping. “The computer case you can’t buy,” reads the Computer-

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Is ChatGPT Plus still worth $20 when the free version offers so much - including GPT-5?

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-21 00:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When ChatGPT first launched over two years ago, the AI chatbot was met with such high demand that OpenAI introduced a premium plan called ChatGPT Plus. This plan guaranteed access to the chatbot even during blackout periods. ChatGPT Plus perks also included access to OpenAI's most advanced models, making the $20 plan almost a no-brainer for superusers. However, as OpenAI's offerings have evolved over the past couple of years, so have its plans. Also: How ChatGPT co

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Changing these 10 settings on my Samsung phone greatly improved the user experience

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-21 15:42:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET I've been fairly vocal recently that Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. Also: The best Samsung phones to buy From setting the highest available

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Here Are the 4 Best Noise Colors to Improve Your Sleep

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-21 15:00:00

Sound can make it difficult to get sleep and the same goes for the lack of sound. It can be difficult to get sleep if it's too noisy or too quiet. A that can generate a steady color noise can help block out the unwanted sounds, keeping you from falling asleep or even expose you to a comfortable sound to put you in a state of rest. It can work even if you're on the too-loud side of things. You may have already heard of white noise, but there are also other color noise options you can try, all wit

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Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes for Weekend Two

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-21 09:39:00

The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they're getting 2x XP and can earn an exclusive skin, as the official PlayStation account posted on X. For all players, here are the changes for Battle

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These smashing Galaxy Z Flip 7 cover screen wallpapers make clever use of the cameras

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 00:15:59

Reddit user whassupbun TL;DR Some people have created exciting cover screen wallpapers for the Galaxy Z Flip 7. These wallpapers incorporate the dual cameras on the Galaxy Z Flip 7. You can download these wallpapers and apply them to your Galaxy Z Flip 7 for free. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 marks a huge upgrade over the last generation. Its new design makes it slimmer, while also increasing the real estate for both the inner and the outer screens, the latter of which now occupies almost the

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Volkswagen is making UK owners pay extra to unlock ID.3 EV's full potential

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-22 00:00:11

It's safe to say nobody likes it when a company locks the full potential of a vehicle they already bought behind a monthly subscription, which is what Volkswagen is doing in the UK. As Electrek and Auto Express have reported, the automaker now lists the Volkswagen ID.3 Pro and Pro S on its UK website with lesser horsepower that what they're capable of. In a footnote for the ID.3 Pro S Essential page, the company notes that for new orders, 150 kW or 201 horsepower is now the new standard for engi

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Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 09:50:13

Start with the timetable So, let’s imagine the UK had done this in 2008. What might the planners have noticed? Well, first up, they'd have spotted that our major cities need more frequent and faster rail connections from suburbs to centres and that these are prevented at the moment by insufficient platform capacity in stations like Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham New Street. So we need more station capacity in our city centres. They'd have identified that many suburban lines into

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You Can Improve Your Android Phone's Battery Life With These 6 Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 10:00:04

If you've had your Android phone for a while, you might have noticed that its battery life isn't what it used to be. Most modern Android phones boast impressive battery life, often lasting a full day or more on a single charge. Still, the more you use your phone, the faster that battery drains. Activities like watching videos and using navigation apps tend to drain your battery faster than usual, as do certain software and apps. Older phones also generally have shorter battery life. Sure, you c

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Tired of Those Constant Nighttime Pee Runs? Treat the Tinkles With These Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 11:00:12

Few things ruin a good night's rest like having to get out of a warm, comfortable bed to use the bathroom. That quick trip can be enough to break up iyour sleep, and once it happens, falling back asleep is not always easy. But at the same time, you don't want to stay uncomfortable while trying to drift off. So what do you do? When it happens more than once in a single night, the impact can be even worse. Interrupted sleep leaves you groggy the next morning and can make it harder to get through

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Acer Predator Helios 16S AI Review: Great Performance, Annoying Crashes

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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

Opendoor CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

A Nostalgic ‘Addams Family’ Prop Could Join Your Spooky, Ooky Collection

Bullfrog in the Dungeon

Opendoor stock pops 10% as CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

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Does Steven Spielberg’s ‘AI: Artificial Intelligence’ Play Differently Today?

Teenage Engineering Has a New PC Case. As Usual, You Won’t Believe the Price

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Changing these 10 settings on my Samsung phone greatly improved the user experience

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These smashing Galaxy Z Flip 7 cover screen wallpapers make clever use of the cameras

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Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects

You Can Improve Your Android Phone's Battery Life With These 6 Tips

Tired of Those Constant Nighttime Pee Runs? Treat the Tinkles With These Tips

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