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Apple announces sweeping App Store changes in the EU

Apple has announced several major changes to its App Store guidelines in the European Union as part of its ongoing efforts to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Policy changes First, Apple has announced a set of policy changes for developers with apps distributed in the European Union. These changes apply to all developers, regardless of whether or not they’ve opted into Apple’s alternative business terms in the EU. Previously, Apple allowed developers under the EU terms to add a single sta

Engadget Podcast: Reviewing our favorite VPNs and M3GAN 2.0

This week, I chat with Sam Chapman, Engadget’s new security reporter who’s been reviewing VPNs and related products. He dives into what led him to security, the VPNs he likes the most and his thoughts on potential cyberattacks. Additionally, we discuss Microsoft’s latest news around the Windows 10 Extended Security Update, and Devindra explains why M3GAN 2.0 absolutely rules. Credits Host: Devindra Hardawar Guests: Sam Chapman Producer: Ben Ellman Music: Dale North and Terrence O'Brien If

The Victus 15L gaming desktop dropped to just $540 at HP

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Best Internet Providers in Fayetteville, North Carolina

What is the best internet provider in Fayetteville? CNET’s broadband experts recommend Metronet as the best internet service provider in Fayetteville, North Carolina. With strong local fiber coverage, a range of speed options and competitive pricing, Metronet stands out as the top choice for most households. It offers the city’s most affordable internet plan -- $30 per month for speeds up to 150 megabits per second -- and the fastest, with speeds up to 5,000Mbps starting at $110 per month. In

US Senators introduce bipartisan bill to enable third-party app stores on iPhones

In a nutshell: Five US senators have reintroduced a bipartisan bill to curb Apple's and Google's dominance in mobile app distribution. According to the lawmakers, the legislation will outlaw restrictive trade practices that allow the two tech giants control the global app economy. The "Open App Markets Act," introduced by Senators Marsha Blackburn, Richard Blumenthal, Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, and Dick Durbin, aims to promote competition and strengthen consumer protections in the evolving mobile

This Barbie flip phone bundle is on sale - and it comes with one year of service

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I found the best July 4th deals live now: Save on outdoor, tech, home and more

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Best July 4th laptop deals live now

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SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (Remote)(US)

SigNoz is a global open source project with users in 30+ countries. We are building an open-source application monitoring which helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems, quickly. We have crossed 21000+ Github stars, 6000+ members in the slack community and 150+ contributors. Company Vision Software and digital systems are becoming larger parts of our daily lives. Most companies are becoming software companies with increasing part of value they create coming from s

This OnePlus Open bundle deal gets you a $300 smartwatch for free - how to qualify

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US government wants health trackers for all? What it means for your health, privacy, and wallet

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants Americans to start adopting health-tracking devices. Kennedy told the House of Representatives this week that the health agency is planning "one of the biggest advertising campaigns" in its history to encourage Americans to use the wearables. Also: 4 health trackers I'd recommend to anyone (and why they make such a big difference) "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years," Kennedy sa

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched Offerwall, a new tool that allows publishers to generate revenue beyond the more traffic-dependent options, like ads. Offerwall lets publishers give their sites’ readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micropayments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more. In addition, Google says that publis

Introducing Gemma 3n

The first Gemma model launched early last year and has since grown into a thriving Gemmaverse of over 160 million collective downloads. This ecosystem includes our family of over a dozen specialized models for everything from safeguarding to medical applications and, most inspiringly, the countless innovations from the community. From innovators like Roboflow building enterprise computer vision to the Institute of Science Tokyo creating highly-capable Japanese Gemma variants, your work has shown

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Nothing confirms the Phone 3 is getting a periscope lens, and here’s a gallery of what it can do

TL;DR Nothing has confirmed that the Phone 3 will have a telephoto camera. There’s no word on the optical zoom level. The company shared a few examples of what the lens is capable of. Nothing is a company that often likes to send out teasers of new products. True to form, the company has released a new teaser for the upcoming Phone 3, revealing that the Android phone will have a camera that its predecessor lacked. In a social media post, Nothing confirmed that the Phone 3 will feature a 50MP

What is an Xbox?

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s “This is an Xbox” marketing campaign in November always felt a little too early. If you ask a friend or family member what an Xbox is, the response is likely going to be “it’s a game console.” Xbox is ingrained in popular culture as a box under your TV that you play games on, but Microsoft’s ads over the past six months have been attempting to redefine the Xbox as a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched Offerwall, a new tool that allows publishers to generate revenue beyond the more traffic-dependent options, like ads. Offerwall lets publishers give their sites’ readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more. In addition, Google says that publi

Buy a OnePlus Open and get the OnePlus Watch 2 for free - here's how

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FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing

Up until today, all capable generative image editing models were only available as proprietary tools. Today, that changes. We release FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], our developer version of FLUX.1 Kontext [pro], which delivers proprietary-level image editing performance in a 12B parameter model that can run on consumer hardware. Making model weights openly accessible is fundamental to technological innovation. FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] is now available as an open-weight model under the FLUX.1 Non-Commercial

Show HN: I built an AI dataset generator

AI Dataset Generator Generate realistic datasets for demos, learning, and dashboards. Instantly preview data, export as CSV or SQL, and explore with Metabase. Features: Conversational prompt builder: choose business type, schema, row count, and more Real-time data preview in the browser Export as CSV (single file or multi-table ZIP) or as SQL inserts One-click Metabase launch for data exploration Prerequisites Docker (includes Docker Compose) OpenAI API key (get one at https://platform.

Get the Samsung Galaxy Watch6 Classic for up to $210 off on Amazon

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Storms and bad weather? How to prep your tech ahead of possible emergencies

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Muvera: Making multi-vector retrieval as fast as single-vector search

Neural embedding models have become a cornerstone of modern information retrieval (IR). Given a query from a user (e.g., “How tall is Mt Everest?”), the goal of IR is to find information relevant to the query from a very large collection of data (e.g., the billions of documents, images, or videos on the Web). Embedding models transform each datapoint into a single-vector “embedding”, such that semantically similar datapoints are transformed into mathematically similar vectors. The embeddings are

What Makes a Phone Ethical? I Talked With Someone Who Builds One to Find Out

Fairphone is a David among Goliaths in the phone world. We're talking about a tiny Dutch social enterprise that shipped just over 100,000 phones in 2023, versus tech giants such as Apple and Samsung, which routinely ship hundreds of millions of phones annually. On Wednesday, Fairphone CEO Raymond van Eck unveiled the latest device, the sixth generation, in its family of phones. Intended to be known simply as the Fairphone (but in reality more likely to be referred to as the Fairphone 6), this m

Trump Organization scraps 'made in the USA' tag for its gold T1 smartphone

US President Donald Trump uses a cellphone aboard Marine One before it departs Leesburg Executive Airport in Leesburg, Virginia, on April 24, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House after attending a MAGA, Inc. dinner at the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC. The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag. A spokesperson for the Trump Org

Are Amazon Basics tools worth it? My verdict after testing the top-sellers for weeks

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The top 6 TVs ZDNET readers are buying (no. 1 has the best picture quality we've ever seen)

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The Severance Podcast is officially back for five new episodes

Three months after the season 2 finale, The Severance Podcast is returning this week with five new episodes and a cool idea. Here’s what to expect. Wait, there’s an official Severance podcast? If you’re a fan of Severance and didn’t know it had an official podcast, you’re in for a treat (but please enjoy each podcast episode equally). Just ahead of the season 2 premiere, showrunner Ben Stiller and actor Adam Scott launched a companion series that recapped each episode of season 1, featuring i

Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

It’s rare to see a solo founder building a widely adopted developer infrastructure tool. Even more so if the founder happens to be from Africa. Bereket Engida, a self-taught programmer from Ethiopia, is quietly building what some developers say is the best authentication tool they’ve ever used. Engida’s startup, Better Auth, offers an open source framework that promises to simplify how developers manage user authentication, and it’s caught the attention of some big name investors. It recently r

Venice Braces for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Wedding

The lavish wedding between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez is scheduled for June 26-28 in Venice, Italy. For months, however, protests against the event have taken place in the city, intensifying in recent days with the “No Space for Bezos” campaign—which refers to his aerospace investments—over the social and environmental impacts of the wedding, which will occupy much of the historic lagoon center that's already under pressure from high tourist flow. What We Know Abou

Micron reports earnings, revenue beat and issues strong forecast

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra speaks before President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the CHIPS and Science Act and his Investing in America agenda, at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum in Syracuse, New York, April 25, 2024. Micron shares rose in extended trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue and issued a forecast that also topped analysts' estimates. Here's how the company did in comparison with the LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.91, a