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Google Maps will finally ask how you want Motion Photos handled (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 21:59:34

TL;DR Motion Photos combine a still picture with a short video clip. Currently when uploading a Motion Photo to Google Maps, it only works as a still pic. The app appears to be working on support for letting users choose to upload Motion Photos as videos. Motion Photos may be one of the coolest camera options available to us that we just don’t pay nearly enough attention to, able to fuse short video clips with our still photos in order to better preserve the whole vibe of a moment. They’re gr

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Mosh (Mobile Shell)

news.ycombinator.com Keith Winstein 2025-10-28 20:59:14

Remote-shell protocols traditionally work by conveying a byte-stream from the server to the client, to be interpreted by the client's terminal. (This includes TELNET, RLOGIN, and SSH.) Mosh works differently and at a different layer. With Mosh, the server and client both maintain a snapshot of the current screen state. The problem becomes one of state-synchronization: getting the client to the most recent server-side screen as efficiently as possible. This is accomplished using a new protocol c

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The ‘Twilight’ Movies Are Coming Back to Cinemas, Right in Time for Halloween

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-28 21:13:52

Rejoice, Twilight fans: Soon you will be able to relive Edward and Bella’s love story on the big screen again. To celebrate the original book’s 20th anniversary, Lionsgate and Fathom are bringing the five films—Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and the Breaking Dawn duology—back to movie theaters right in time for Halloween, from October 29 to November 2. Each movie will screen on a specific day during that period. Live musicians will also perform the live score in concert during the first movie at

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Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-28 21:36:00

Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a habit of collaborating with Emma Stone specifically on dark comedy dramas with light sci-fi themes, such as 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness. And the trailer for their latest team-up, Bugonia, contains much of the same eclecticism, setting up a paranoia thriller that’s equal parts about environmentalism and extraterrestrials. Bugonia, inspired by Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi film, Save The Green Planet!, follows high-powered CE

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Fubo Is Launching a Skinny Bundle for Sports Fans. Here Are the Details

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 20:43:00

Cord-free streaming skinny bundles keep on coming and Fubo is the latest to join the party with the addition of its Fubo Sports package. On Thursday, the live TV streaming service announced that the new offering will launch Sept. 2, which is days before the 2025-26 NFL season kicks off. The package will also come with access to the new ESPN flagship streaming service at no extra charge. A Fubo Sports subscription, discounted to $46 for the first month only, will cost $56 per month after the int

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Elden Ring Nightreign is getting even harder in September

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-28 21:05:08

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If FromSoftware’s multiplayer take on Elden Ring was just a little too easy for you, the developer has just the thing coming up. The studio announced “Deep of Night,” a new mode for Nightreign that is focused specifically on difficulty. Namely, it s

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Mint’s $180/yr unlimited deal is just for new customers, but there’s a possible workaround

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 01:43:14

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Mint Mobile’s $180/year ($15/mo) unlimited plan is normally for new customers only. Some existing customers have reported getting the same offer or credits toward an upgrade by calling to cancel and requesting a port-out. Results vary, so only try this if you’re ready to switch carriers if Mint doesn’t extend the deal you’re looking for. Right now Mint Mobile is offering new customers a full year of unlimited service for just $180 upfront, which work

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Apple's iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event is on September 9 — Here's what we expect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 01:45:08

We're now less than two weeks away from the Apple iPhone 17 event. Themed "Awe dropping" this year, the event — confirmed after Apple sent "save the date" invitations to the media on August 26 — will be livestreamed on YouTube September 9 at 1PM ET from Cupertino. And Engadget staff will be there, reporting and liveblogging from Apple Park to give their hands-on impressions. This year is shaking up to be a departure from recent September product rollouts, with the strong possibility of an all-ne

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‘The Vampire Diaries’ Almost Cast Marvel’s Sebastian Stan, New Book Reveals

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-29 01:48:32

The Vampire Diaries helped define the CW’s genre days, and for many fans, it’s also the moment they discovered Star Trek: Strange New Worlds actor Paul Wesley. He was cast alongside costar Ian Somerhalder to play the vampire brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore, but things could have been very different: Marvel’s Sebastian Stan almost got the call to play the character. In an upcoming oral history titled I Was Feeling Epic by Samantha Highfill excerpted in EW, she reveals that Stan took a meetin

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9 iPhone 17 Air rumors I'm tracking - and why Apple's ultra-thin model is set to kill the Plus

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-29 05:22:00

MacRumors / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways iPhone 17 Air may debut as Apple's thinnest phone ever. Single rear camera shows Apple's thinness trade-offs. Expected to debut on Sept. 9, 2025, priced around $900. Apple is rumored to be spicing things for this year's iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPhone 17 Air. It's thought to be much slimmer than any iPhone so

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LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

news.ycombinator.com Filip Rejmus 2025-10-29 05:15:28

The first idea resembling something like the idea of OCR got developed in 1870 as a reading machine for the blind - the Optophone. This was the first step to solve a problem that sounds pretty simple: How do we get writing on paper inside a computer? 150 years of research, engineering breakthroughs and hundreds of IDP products later we were finally able to scan a receipt and have the fields be filled out - if it looked nice and friendly enough to the OCR model. Heureka. Unfortunately for Tesse

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Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Schomay 2025-10-29 04:10:14

I made a game. It’s all in ASCII. I wondered if it would be possible to turn it into full motion graphics. In real time. With AI. Let me share how I did it. Let’s start with the game. Lately, I’ve been exploring just how far I can push old-school ASCII RPG style game frameworks. My latest one is called “Thunder Lizard,” which procedurally generates a prehistoric island populated with dinosaurs fighting for dominance as an active volcano threatens the whole island. You can go play it if you’d li

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Samsung S95F QD-OLED Review: The Best Looking TV Screen of 2025

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-10-29 05:06:00

As a Samsung phone user of more than a decade, I still mostly hate using Samsung TVs. The stupid interface is annoying and hard to navigate, the apps are not that great, and I often stumble into some random section or other when I’m looking for something basic, like an input button, on the remote. The screen on Samsung’s flagship S95F QD-OLED is so utterly gorgeous that none of this matters. Gorgeous black levels, insane colors, and a truly cinematic matte screen make this TV the prettiest I ha

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Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 17:54:42

AMD's X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips' extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra headaches. Not long after they were released earlier this year, some early adopters started having problems with their CPUs, ranging from failure to boot to actual physical scorching and burnout—the problems were particularly common for users of the 9800X3D processor in A

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Rendering an ASCII game in real-time with AI (100ms latency)

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Schomay 2025-10-29 09:10:14

I made a game. It’s all in ASCII. I wondered if it would be possible to turn it into full motion graphics. In real time. With AI. Let me share how I did it. Let’s start with the game. Lately, I’ve been exploring just how far I can push old-school ASCII RPG style game frameworks. My latest one is called “Thunder Lizard,” which procedurally generates a prehistoric island populated with dinosaurs fighting for dominance as an active volcano threatens the whole island. You can go play it if you’d li

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Don't Want Gemini to Learn About You? How to Turn That New Feature Off

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 05:52:02

The more you chat with Google's Gemini, the better it will get to know you thanks to a new learning feature in the generative AI chatbot. Gemini has already been able to recall past conversations if you ask it to, but this new functionality will allow it to learn your preferences and interact with you in more personalized ways, Google said. But if you don't want an AI to learn about you, you can turn it off. AI chatbots have seen their memories grow longer this year. Other tools, like OpenAI'

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The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

theverge.com Barbara Krasnoff 2025-10-29 09:30:00

is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding t

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CDC Director Denies Report She’s Been Fired by Trump Regime (HHS Says She’s Out)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-29 07:00:09

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was reportedly fired on Wednesday after she resisted changes to covid-19 vaccine policies, according to the Washington Post. But her lawyer says she hasn’t been officially notified of the termination, throwing a curveball into an already chaotic news cycle at the CDC. “When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protectin

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The 5 Healthiest Air Fryer Foods, Hand-Picked by Registered Dietitians

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 15:20:03

Like refrigerators, ovens or microwaves, air fryers have become a staple in our kitchens. In the form of compact, space-saving devices, these fryers are known for crisping food with less oil, making them a healthier alternative to other cooking methods. "Air fryer cooking delivers the crispy texture we know and love from fried foods, but with far less oil and fat than traditional deep frying," explains Melissa Jaeger, head of nutrition at nutrition tracking app MyFitnessPal. However, despite th

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Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-29 18:08:28

Susan Monarez is no longer the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a post by the official Department of Health and Human Services X account. She had been in the position for just a month. In the wake of her apparent ouster, several other CDC leaders have resigned. Named acting CDC director in January, Monarez was officially confirmed to the position by the Senate on July 29 and sworn in two days later. During her brief tenure, the CDC’s main campus in Atl

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Nvidia CEO Says More Advanced AI Models Will Keep Chip, Data Center Growth Going

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 21:13:26

AI bubble? What AI bubble? If you ask Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, we're in a "new industrial revolution." Huang's company, of course, makes chips and computer hardware, the "picks and shovels" of the AI gold rush, and it's become the world's largest business by capitalizing on AI's growth, bubble or not. Speaking on Wednesday during an earnings call as his company reported revenue of $46.7 billion in the past quarter, he indicated no sign that the incredible growth of the generative artificial int

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

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 01:36:37

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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Google's AI Mode is getting more links for you not to click on

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-30 04:38:56

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google said AI Mode search results will show more website links. The links will be "useful" but no definition for that was given. Google also said AI Overviews isn't reducing overall web traffic. Google is experimenting with more ways to encourage users to follow links with relevant information. Also: You should use Gemini's new 'incognito' chat mode - here's why and what it does Acco

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How Marvel’s Huge Budget for ‘Eternals’ Actually Worked Against It

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-30 05:04:07

Chloé Zhao is currently promoting her follow-up to Marvel Studios’ Eternals, an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet. The 2020 book is based on William Shakespeare and his wife as they grieve the loss of one of their children, which would go on to inspire Hamlet. It makes sense that after making a movie where the Academy Award-winning director’s voice felt pulled in many directions, a more intimate movie would be her next choice. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Zhao talked about how

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Yapping With ChatGPT: Voice Mode With GPT-5 Sounds More Human Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 00:03:02

It was 8 a.m. and I was sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop when I realized I'd forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that's not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn't talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT. It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining a Zoom meeting sans headphones in an open office. I was testing the advanced voice mode that comes with GPT-5, OpenAI's latest version of the generative AI model behind ChatGP

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MongoDB stock surges 37% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-30 09:00:46

MongoDB shares skyrocketed 37% on Wednesday after the database software company posted better-than-expected fiscal results and gave an upbeat forecast. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $591 million vs. $556 million expected MongoDB's revenue increased 24% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended July 31. The company had a net loss of $47.04 millio

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Is Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring an Ethical Lab-Grown Diamond, or a Horrible Blood-Soaked Conflict Diamond?

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 08:17:07

After so many years searching for someone to fill the "Blank Space" in her heart, billionaire chanteuse Taylor Swift has, it seems, finally found her person in Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce. After two years of dating, the celebrity couple announced this week that they're engaged to be married in an Instagram post that featured, as seen below, a beautiful photoshoot in a rambling English garden, complete with the caption "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married." Almo

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CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 09:32:43

In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight top foodborne infections down to just two, according to a report by NBC News. The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet)—a network of surveillance sites that spans 10 states and covers about 54 million Americans (16 percent of the US population)—previously included active monitoring for eight infections from pathog

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OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-30 13:14:01

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce competition. The effort aimed to surface blind spots in each company’s internal evaluations and demonstrate how leading AI companies can work together on safety and alignment work in the future. In an interview with TechCrunch, OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba said this kind of collaboration is increa

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Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-30 13:27:01

ChatGPT rivals like Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing the gap to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, according to a new report focused on the consumer AI landscape from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of data about consumers’ evolving use of AI products. And for the fifth time, 14 companies appeared on the list of top AI products: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, L

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Google Maps will finally ask how you want Motion Photos handled (APK teardown)

Mosh (Mobile Shell)

The ‘Twilight’ Movies Are Coming Back to Cinemas, Right in Time for Halloween

Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy

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‘The Vampire Diaries’ Almost Cast Marvel’s Sebastian Stan, New Book Reveals

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LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

Samsung S95F QD-OLED Review: The Best Looking TV Screen of 2025

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

Rendering an ASCII game in real-time with AI (100ms latency)

Don't Want Gemini to Learn About You? How to Turn That New Feature Off

The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

CDC Director Denies Report She’s Been Fired by Trump Regime (HHS Says She’s Out)

The 5 Healthiest Air Fryer Foods, Hand-Picked by Registered Dietitians

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MongoDB stock surges 37% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

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CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models

Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report

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