GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Google is sitting on a gold mine of custom maps and is doing nothing with it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 21:00:37

Andy Walker / Android Authority I recently rediscovered a Google Maps feature that I completely forgot existed, but you can’t really blame me. If you frequent travel subreddits and forums, you’ll likely be familiar with My Maps, Google’s custom map creation platform. However, if you’ve only ever experienced Google Maps on an Android phone, I’d be surprised if you’ve heard of it, unless you’ve accidentally scrolled to the bottom of the You tab. My Maps is an obscure but powerful tool for creati

Topics: android custom google map maps

Shop Amazon

I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with an unlikely soundbar rival, and it went down to the wire

zdnet.com Christian De Looper 2025-10-13 21:00:18

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you have $1,000 to spend on a soundbar, there are compelling options to choose from. Since its late 2024 release, the Sonos Arc Ultra has been at the top of the heap in this price range, but there are new competitors that give Sonos a run for its money. The Marshall Heston 120, for example, offers a unique design, cool features, and comes at the exact same price as the Sonos Arc Ultra. Also: 5 ways to instantly boost yo

Topics: arc marshall sonos speakers ultra

Shop Amazon

What happened when I brought a Coros smartwatch on a fly-fishing trip

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-13 22:00:20

Coros Nomad smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Coros Nomad is available now in Green, Brown, and Dark Grey for $349. It's built to withstand the elements with detailed metrics and focused journal utilities for fishing. There is no speaker to playback voice notes, no solar charging, and no LED flashlight to see in the dark. View now at Coros Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had the opportunity to test a lot of smartwatches, but it's still tough to find one watch th

Topics: coros fish fishing nomad watch

Shop Amazon

Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 04:09:32

sparrow C++20 idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format Introduction sparrow is an implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar format in C++. It provides array structures with idiomatic APIs and convenient conversions from and to the C interface. sparrow requires a modern C++ compiler supporting C++20. Installation Package managers We provide a package for the mamba (or conda) package manager: mamba install -c conda-forge sparrow Install from sources sparrow has a few depende

Topics: ar array schema sp sparrow

Shop Amazon

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 11:10:47

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs Actually coming up with ideas like GPT-based LLMs and doing serious AI research requires serious maths. But the good news is that if you just want to understand how they work, while it does require some maths, if you studied it at high-school at any time since the 1960s, you did all of the groundwork then: vectors, matrices, and so on. One thing to note -- what I'm covering here is what you need to know to understand inference -- that is, using an

Topics: dimensional matrix points space vector

Shop Amazon

Trump Admin Raids Hyundai Construction Site as US Manufacturing Jobs Keep Shrinking

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-13 06:15:02

Almost 500 people were detained Thursday in an immigration raid at a new Hyundai manufacturing complex in Georgia. The massive raid highlights growing tensions between President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies, his tariff-fueled trade negotiations, and his promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. “This was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations,” said Steven Schrank, a special agent in charge of the agency’s Atlanta

Topics: hyundai jobs manufacturing raid said

Shop Amazon

Major Amazon Prime Benefit Faces Crackdown Next Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 21:00:03

If you're using a friend or family member's free Prime shipping and you don't live in the same household, you might need to pay another monthly cost. According to Amazon's updated customer service page, first reported by The Verge, the retail giant is ending its Prime Invitee benefit-sharing program on Oct. 1. Amazon isn't the first company to prevent membership sharing between family and friends. The e-commerce giant is just the latest to follow Netflix's account-sharing crackdown. We also saw

Topics: amazon day free prime program

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 18:07:17

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has weathered ample family tragedy, drug and alcohol addiction, infection from an alleged brain worm, and a few sex scandals both minor and major — and now he's weathering condemnation from his own political allies that could presage a genuine crash out. Amid his single-minded quest against vaccines, the 71-year-old health secretary seems to have made a serious miscalculation when he chose to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevent

Topics: confirmation director health kennedy trump

Shop Amazon

GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 22:45:08

GLM Coding Plan — designed for Claude Code users, starting at $3/month to enjoy a premium coding experience! GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air are our latest flagship models, purpose-built as foundational models for agent-oriented applications. Both leverage a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. GLM-4.5 has a total parameter count of 355B with 32B active parameters per forward pass, while GLM-4.5-Air adopts a more streamlined design with 106B total parameters and 12B active parameters. Both models sh

Topics: glm models performance reasoning thinking

Shop Amazon

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 23:39:01

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure In 2017 I discovered the free of charge Orbiter 2016 space flight simulator which was proprietary at the time and it inspired me to develop a space flight simulator myself. I prototyped some rigid body physics in C and later in GNU Guile and also prototyped loading and rendering of Wavefront OBJ files. I used GNU Guile (a Scheme implementation) because it has a good native interface and of course it has hygienic macros. Eventually I got interested

Topics: file function lwjgl map tree

Shop Amazon

GOP Cries Censorship over Spam Filters That Work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:32:01

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed’s messages are getting b

Topics: email messages said spam winred

Shop Amazon

Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 20:40:02

Today in Tedium: Imagine my shock recently when I realized that, I—the guy who has covered Apple-specific angles as esoteric as Novell’s attempt to bring MacOS to the PC—have never written a full story about Mac clones. My archive is packed with pieces about Imagine my shock recently when I realized that, I—the guy who has covered Apple-specific angles as esoteric as Novell’s attempt to bring MacOS to the PC—have never written a full story about Mac clones. My archive is packed with pieces about

Topics: apple company mac market power

Shop Amazon

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

news.ycombinator.com Cade Metz 2025-10-13 22:52:45

In 2024, three book authors, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, sued Anthropic, accusing the start-up of illegally using their work to train its A.I. models. The suit is among the four dozen cases that copyright holders have brought against A.I. companies. Some have been dismissed by the courts. Companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft need enormous amounts of digital data, some of which is copyrighted, to build its A.I. models. The companies have long claimed t

Topics: anthropic companies material openai times

Shop Amazon

What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 05:15:00

If you've used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity or any other generative AI tool, you've probably seen them make things up with complete confidence. This is called an AI hallucination -- although one research paper suggests we call it BS instead -- and it's an inherent flaw that should give us all pause when using AI. Hallucinations happen when AI models generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. It can be as small as a wrong date i

Topics: ai cnet hallucinations make models

Shop Amazon

Best MacBooks We've Tested (September 2025)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 05:21:00

The first fork in the road you'll come to when shopping for a MacBook is whether to follow the Air path or head down the Pro road. For people who are looking for an everyday home laptop or a work laptop for running basic office apps, a MacBook Air will suffice. An Air is also a better pick for students on tight budgets. For creative types who need the added processing and graphics muscle of Apple's new M4 Pro and Max chips, a MacBook Pro is worth the added cost. To help you find the right MacBoo

Topics: core inch m4 macbook pro

Shop Amazon

Researchers Discover 18 Popular VPNs Are Connected: Why This Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 06:27:11

Virtual private networks are popular ways to keep your online activity private and hide your physical location from your internet service provider and apps. But it's obviously important to choose a safe and secure VPN. Three university researchers have discovered that 18 of the most widely used VPNs have shared infrastructures with serious security flaws that could expose customers' browsing activity and leave their systems vulnerable to corrupted data. These VPNs are among the top 100 most pop

Topics: data family tomaschek vpn vpns

Shop Amazon

Samsung leak reveals how you’ll be opening and closing its dual-hinge foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 10:26:12

TL;DR A new animation for Samsung’s multi-fold foldable has leaked. The animation shows how the device will open and close. It also appears to show that users will be able to take selfies with the rear cameras. Samsung debuted the Galaxy S25 FE this week, but that’s not the last smartphone the company is expected to announce this year. The tech giant also has a multi-fold device, popularly but misleadingly called a “tri-fold,” due later this year. Last week, a few 2D animations related to the

Topics: animation device fold samsung week

Shop Amazon

Galaxy S26 Edge renders show the iPhone 17-like design, corroborate Qi2 magnets [Gallery]

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2025-10-14 02:14:40

Following an early leak yesterday, a new set of renders has essentially confirmed that the Galaxy S26 Edge will look a lot like Apple’s next iPhone, while apparently also adding Qi2 magnets. Images created by @OnLeaks for Android Headlines show what the Galaxy S26 Edge will look like, based on CAD files used for making accessories for the device. The renders show a device with a drastically different design that includes a full-width camera module, but only two cameras mounted on the far left s

Topics: edge galaxy like magnets s26

Shop Amazon

10 Indie Genre Films We’re Excited for This Fall

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-14 10:15:05

You’d be hard-pressed to be a movie fan if you didn’t find a big Hollywood release to be excited about this fall. Maybe it’s the return of the Avatar, Predator, or Tron franchises. Maybe it’s a new film from an iconic filmmaker like Edgar Wright, Guillermo del Toro, or Yorgos Lanthimos. Or, maybe you can’t wait to be scared by new films in the Conjuring, Black Phone, or Five Nights at Freddy’s franchises. Whatever the case, as usual, Hollywood tries to have something for everyone. But there’s al

Topics: adventure film maybe new october

Shop Amazon

US Customs asks court to toss Masimo lawsuit in Apple Watch dispute

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-14 14:51:16

A few days ago, Masimo sued U.S. Customs over its decision to let Apple resume selling the Apple Watch in the United States with the blood oxygen feature enabled. Now, the government agency has responded with a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Here are the details. A quick recap When Apple released the Blood Oxygen feature on the Apple Watch, medical device maker Masimo sued over alleged patent infringement. Over the years, the lawsuit dragged on and came to a head with an import ban in Decembe

Topics: apple cbp feature masimo watch

Shop Amazon

Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 14:03:48

Unity is updating its game engine to support native screen readers in both macOS and Windows. The feature is available now in the Unity 6000.3.0a5 alpha, and should make the process of making games accessible for blind players cheaper for developers, Can I Play That? writes . Screen readers narrate on-screen menus so blind and low-vision players can navigate a game or a piece of software without additional assistance. Typically, screen reading software is custom-built for each game, which can m

Topics: engine game make screen unity

Shop Amazon

Gizmodo’s Best of IFA 2025 Awards: See the Winners

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Staff 2025-10-14 14:55:08

IFA, short for Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, meaning “International Radio Exhibition Berlin” because it started in 1924 when radios were the hottest things in tech, doesn’t see as many major gadget announcements as CES. Still, it’s Europe’s largest tech show to close out summer, and this year the show doubled down on the stuff its Messe Berlin convention halls are typically known for: smart home gear and robots. That’s not to say there weren’t the usual new laptops, speakers, and wacky

Topics: best headphones make pro read

Shop Amazon

19 of the Absolute Best Sci-Fi TV Shows on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 13:12:26

Prime Video has sci-fi TV shows you're looking for. I know that sounds like hyperbole, but stick with me here. You're probably used to finding the must-watch genre shows at places like Netflix, Disney Plus and even Apple TV Plus. Those streaming services are packed with good stuff, but the Amazon-owned streamer should not be slept on. When it comes to programming, each streamer seems to have a specific brand that their shows adhere to. For Prime Video, that vibe is cutting-edge, forward-thinkin

Topics: amazon prime series studios video

Shop Amazon

Amazon greenlights a Life is Strange series adaptation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 18:21:45

With Hollywood video game adaptations surging, it was only a matter of time before Life is Strange got the treatment. After all, even platformer and sandbox game adaptations have (shockingly) found success in this new era. A well-written adventure game seems like a much shorter leap. Amazon announced on Friday that Prime Video has ordered a series based on the 2015 game. Like Don't Nod's classic, the series will blend angsty teenage realism with supernatural elements and moral choices. And Amaz

Topics: amazon game life series story

Shop Amazon

I got to see Eufy's stair climbing robot at IFA (and more new Anker products)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-14 18:32:47

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. From pet robots to way more robot mowers than the world needs, IFA features some of the coolest tech we'll see all year. Companies use the event to showcase new products and the latest innovations they're working on, and Anker delivered some exciting updates. Also: The coolest gadgets I've seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy) Marswalker: A stair-climbing robot Maria Diaz/ZDNET Part of the appeal of e

Topics: ai anker eufy marswalker robot

Shop Amazon

Climate Experts Roast Joe Rogan After He Misinterprets Simple Graph to Claim Earth Is Cooling

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-14 18:27:47

Podcaster and former UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn’t exactly known for his scientific expertise, but Rogan’s recent claim that the Earth is cooling—ignoring decades of empirical evidence for global warming—is so egregious that climate experts are straight up roasting him for it. In several recent episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan has used a temperature graph in a Washington Post article in order to claim that global temperatures are actually plummeting. The graph in question comes fro

Topics: climate earth graph rogan temperature

Shop Amazon

This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 17:32:00

The Anker Nebula Mars 3 Air is currently available for $470 on Amazon, which is 22% off its regular price of $599.99. The price is likely to go back up soon, so this might be your last chance to grab this portable projector at a discount. CNET's key takeaways Anker's Nebula Mars 3 Air is a compact portable projector that costs $599 (but is currently on sale for $470 Despite its size, it delivers a bright picture and loud audio for a portable projector. It can even double as a Bluetooth speake

Topics: air mars portable projector projectors

Shop Amazon

We Use Our Smartphones Like Laptops, So Why Do We Need Both? Here's What CNET's Survey Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 21:19:22

It's not uncommon to have a smartphone, a laptop and a tablet. I use all three, sometimes for many of the same tasks, like text messages, streaming and social media. The same is true for a lot of people. CNET's recent survey examines how most US adults use laptops, tablets and smartphones. Laptops are commonly used for work and educational tasks like creating and viewing documents (52%), streaming (35%) and creative work (33%). Besides texting, calls and social media, we use our smartphones fo

Topics: laptops like smartphones tasks use

Shop Amazon

Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 22:47:32

Warner Bros. hit Midjourney with a lawsuit Thursday, crafting a complaint that strives to shoot down defenses that the AI company has already raised in a similar lawsuit filed by Disney and Universal Studios earlier this year. The big film studios have alleged that Midjourney profits off image generation models trained to produce outputs of popular characters. For Disney and Universal, intellectual property rights to pop icons like Darth Vader and the Simpsons were allegedly infringed. And now,

Topics: batman character midjourney prompt wb

Shop Amazon

Samsung wasn’t even the second-most popular foldable maker in Q2 2025

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 22:29:03

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung only accounted for third place in foldable phone shipments in Q2 2025, according to Counterpoint Research. HUAWEI was in first place, while Motorola was the runner-up. This report doesn’t take Samsung’s latest foldables into account, as they launched in Q3. Foldable phones only account for a small number of smartphones shipping globally, but a new market share report has revealed some bad news for Samsung for Q2 2025. Counterpoint Research has p

Topics: 000 foldable market samsung units

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Google is sitting on a gold mine of custom maps and is doing nothing with it

I compared my Sonos Arc Ultra with an unlikely soundbar rival, and it went down to the wire

What happened when I brought a Coros smartwatch on a fly-fishing trip

Sparrow: C++20 Idiomatic APIs for the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

Trump Admin Raids Hyundai Construction Site as US Manufacturing Jobs Keep Shrinking

Major Amazon Prime Benefit Faces Crackdown Next Month

RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble

GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure

GOP Cries Censorship over Spam Filters That Work

Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

Best MacBooks We've Tested (September 2025)

Researchers Discover 18 Popular VPNs Are Connected: Why This Matters

Samsung leak reveals how you’ll be opening and closing its dual-hinge foldable

Galaxy S26 Edge renders show the iPhone 17-like design, corroborate Qi2 magnets [Gallery]

10 Indie Genre Films We’re Excited for This Fall

US Customs asks court to toss Masimo lawsuit in Apple Watch dispute

Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows

Gizmodo’s Best of IFA 2025 Awards: See the Winners

19 of the Absolute Best Sci-Fi TV Shows on Prime Video

Amazon greenlights a Life is Strange series adaptation

I got to see Eufy's stair climbing robot at IFA (and more new Anker products)

Climate Experts Roast Joe Rogan After He Misinterprets Simple Graph to Claim Earth Is Cooling

This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

We Use Our Smartphones Like Laptops, So Why Do We Need Both? Here's What CNET's Survey Says

Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo

Samsung wasn’t even the second-most popular foldable maker in Q2 2025

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising