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Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust case

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-10-12 19:32:46

What was Judge Amit Mehta thinking? When he ruled a year ago that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by stifling search competition, we thought Google was truly in hot water. Boy, were we wrong! After Mehta’s initial ruling, the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanded that Google divest itself of the Chrome web browser and/or the Android operating system, and also be blocked from exclusive distribution contracts that had placed Google Search as the default on almost all devices and web brow

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‘Star Trek’ Day Announcements Include a Lego Collaboration and a YouTube Kids’ Series

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-12 19:00:54

Happy Star Trek Day! While September 8 is a fun holiday for Trek fans any year, 2026 is going to be a big one, marking 60 years since the very first episode of the very first series hit the airwaves in 1966, changing sci-fi’s place in pop culture forever. Paramount is getting the party started early with a bunch of announcements today, including Trek‘s first-ever Lego collaboration as well as a YouTube series aimed at kids that drops today. While we’re most excited about the Lego news, the coll

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‘Wednesday’ VFX Crew Explains How They Pulled Off That Wild Zombie Transformation

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-12 19:11:33

Netflix’s Jenna Ortega-led second season of Wednesday, while released in an annoyingly incremental fashion, has given fans tons of thrills and fast-favorite moments, including the extremely hyped arrival of one Mother Monster, Lady Gaga. Among the more astonishing moments in the season so far, however, are the visual effects and prosthetic designs—including a zombie and putting Christopher Lloyd’s head in a jar. The show’s visual effects team lifted the veil on how they pulled it off in an inte

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Databricks confirms new $100B valuation on $4B ARR

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-12 19:33:26

In Brief Just nine months after raising a whopping $10 billion (plus $5 billion in debt) in January, Databricks has confirmed another $1 billion raise at a $100 billion valuation. When rumors of the raise first broke last month, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told TechCrunch that the company is using the funds to invest in its Supabase-competitor database for AI agents. “A year ago, we saw in the data that 30% of the databases were not created by humans,” said Ghodsi. “For the first time, they wer

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Google wants Gemini to keep the conversation going, and here’s how it’s going to do it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 23:26:22

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a feature within Gemini that suggests follow-up questions. The suggestion prompts help users explore topics and engage in in-depth conversations to get more out of their AI interactions. The feature seems to be a limited test for now. If you’re old enough to have used search engines before their AI-fication, you’re most likely using your AI digital assistant more like a search engine and less like a digital assistant. That means more

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These $15 accessories turned my AirPods into my ideal workout headphones

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-12 23:45:00

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Your AirPods can be your best friend, small enough to stay in your pocket or bag until you need them. But if you like to work out with your AirPods, pushing your slippery earbuds back into your ear can become a particularly intense workout. I've found three products to help with this problem -- a few dollars spent can revitalize your AirPods experience. Also: Apple iPhone 17 event live blog: The biggest announcements we're

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Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 23:43:17

So, this blog post will be about LLMs, and everyone has opinions about that. To be upfront about it, I’m a skeptic (bordering on hater), yet I like experimenting with stuff so I download and run them locally on my Mac. And I’ll teach you how to do it too, if you’d like! Some call them fancy autocomplete, some argue that they are sentient and should have rights. The truth is somewhere in between. Yes, they perform next word prediction, but it’s so complex that there’s nontrivial emergent behavio

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Nothing’s New Wireless Earbuds May Dial Down the One Thing That Made Them Cool

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-12 23:30:52

Nothing’s Ear wireless earbuds are on their way back for a new iteration. According to Nothing, the Ear 3 (which is actually its sixth pair of wireless earbuds if we’re counting) will officially launch on Sept. 18, and we even have our first real look. Based on this official image, the Ear 3 doesn’t seem to break the mold of Nothing’s previous wireless earbuds entirely, but it does come with some interesting design shifts. First, there’s the cylindrical piece of opaque plastic on the outside of

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Valve’s Steam Deck for Your Face Is Way More Interesting Than a Quest Clone

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-12 23:46:50

The consensus is clear. Regular folk and gamers alike couldn’t give a hoot for yet another Meta Quest-like VR headset. Hell, even the “metaverse is the future” company Meta seems more interested in smart glasses than headsets nowadays. That may change if Valve has anything to say about it. Even if you’re not a VR gaming enthusiast, there’s more than one reason you should pay attention to Valve’s long-rumored wireless XR headset. The company behind Steam could be crafting a device whose closest d

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EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-12 23:36:17

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced on Monday. SpaceX says it will use the spectrum to create the “next generation” of Starlink’s cellular satellite service, which customers

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No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 03:02:20

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Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in ’28 Years Later’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-13 03:48:49

As soon as the teaser trailer for 28 Years Later dropped, pretty much everyone and their mom assumed the skinny zombie seen struggling through flowers looked uncannily like Cillian Murphy’s Jim, the franchise’s original main character from director Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 2002 28 Days Later. The internet sleuths swiftly discovered the likeness was pure serendipity, but the Oscar-winning actor now says he was touched that fans had assumed the emaciated undead wanderer was him. In an inter

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How to clear your iPhone cache (and why you should do it before upgrading to iPhone 17)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-13 04:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Clearing your iPhone cache effectively refreshes the system memory. It's recommended to do so regularly, but you especially should when your phone feels sluggish. There are steps you can take to clear cache from Safari, Chrome, and other browsers. You might not be thinking about it every day, but clearing your iPhone's browsing cache can greatly improve the user experience. Cache is the temporary s

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How Yichao “Peak” Ji became a global AI app hitmaker

technologyreview.com Caiwei Chen 2025-10-13 15:30:00

At first sight, Manus works like most chatbots: Users can ask it questions in a chat window. However, besides providing answers, it can also carry out tasks (for example, finding an apartment that meets specified criteria within a certain budget). It does this by breaking tasks down into steps, then using a cloud-based virtual machine equipped with a browser and other tools to execute them—perusing websites, filling in forms, and so on. Ji is the technical core of the team. Now based in Singapo

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Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

technologyreview.com Julia R. Greer 2025-10-13 15:45:00

Inspired by the 1945 report “Science: The Endless Frontier,” authored by Vannevar Bush at the request of President Truman, the US government began a long-standing tradition of investing in basic research. These investments have paid steady dividends across many scientific domains—from nuclear energy to lasers, and from medical technologies to artificial intelligence. Trained in fundamental research, generations of students have emerged from university labs with the knowledge and skills necessary

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This Galaxy S26 Ultra rival could stand out with a rear screen

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 14:07:39

Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR Pictures of the apparent Xiaomi 16 Pro Max have surfaced online. The images hint at the possibility that the phone could have a secondary rear screen. This would come years after the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra launched with a rear display. We first heard murmurings a few months ago that one of the Xiaomi 16 series phones could have a secondary rear display. Now, photos of this flagship Android phone have apparently surfaced online. Weibo user Mobile phone indust

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Your Android phone just got a major Bluetooth upgrade for free - how it works

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-13 15:00:17

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Auracast support rolls out to more smartphones and headphones. You can share your phone's audio with one or many friends. Your phone and headphones must support Auracast to access the feature. If you've been waiting for technology to evolve so you can easily share audio from one device to two headphones with fewer device ecosystem barriers, the day has come. Google's new update to Android expand

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Your Android phone just got 3 useful upgrades for free - including a big one for audio

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-13 15:46:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A new Google update is adding several features to Android phones. A new AI writing tool for Gboard is on the way. An upgraded Emoji Keyboard will help you find the perfect emoji. Your Android phone is getting an upgrade, and it might have a big impact on how you communicate. Also: Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reaso

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Look Out for Bugs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 19:59:45

Look Out For Bugs One of my biggest mid-career shifts in how I write code was internalizing the idea from this post: Don’t Write Bugs Historically, I approached coding with an iteration-focused mindset — you write a draft version of a program, you set up some kind of a test to verify that it does what you want it to do, and then you just quickly iterate on your draft until the result passes all the checks. This was a great approach when I was only learning to code, as it allowed me to iterate

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A Puzzle Before Tomorrow: Decoding Apple's 'Awe Dropping' iPhone 17 Event Announcement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 16:08:03

Listen, I'm just as eager to learn the details of what Apple will release at its fall event tomorrow, from new members of the iPhone 17 family to updated Apple Watch models. But right now what I really want are answers about just what Apple's "Awe dropping" invitation means, with its fiery logo and punny slogan. Sometimes the company's invites are clever but clear, yet this one has me stumped. Why does Apple tease its events like this? Obviously, one reason is to encourage articles like the one

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Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics

wired.com John Semley 2025-10-13 16:00:00

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, and you’ll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies containing extracts of the psychoactive succulent plant kanna, to broad flat-brim baseball caps emblazoned with “MDMA” and “IBOGA.” Booths publicize organizations such as the Ketamine Taskforce and the Psychedelic Parenthood Community, and even The Faerie

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The influencer in this Vodafone ad isn’t real

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-13 15:18:45

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I opened TikTok while visiting Germany last week and stumbled across a Vodafone ad being presented by a woman who probably doesn’t exist. The ad includes several “tells” that suggest the presenter was artificially created using generative AI — the unnatural style and movement of her hair, the way her moles disappear, and the uncanny valley vibe of her facial expressions — and Vodafone confirmed my suspicions

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Galaxy S26 Pro, S26 Ultra renders reveal the return of camera bumps

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 16:42:31

TL;DR Apparent Galaxy S26 series renders have surfaced online. We get a first look at the purported Galaxy S26 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra. We also get a look at the S26 Edge, and this render lines up with a previous image. We got a first look at the Galaxy S26 Edge late last week, showing a tweaked design compared to the Galaxy S25 Edge. Now, a different source has revealed renders apparently showing all three Galaxy S26 series models. SmartPrix posted renders that purportedly show the Galaxy

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Google to make it easier to access AI Mode as default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 10:07:54

Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links. AI mode is an advanced version of Google Search that uses large language models to summarise information from the web, so you can spend more time on Google than visiting websites. Google AI mode advanced analysis Source: BleepingComputer Google AI mode can answer complex answers, process images, summarize information on the web, create tables, graphs, ch

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How the Slavic Migration Reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

news.ycombinator.com Joscha Gretzinger Et Al. 2025-10-13 10:30:19

How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights into early medieval communities Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege u

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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Ritchie 2025-10-13 16:26:43

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950. A century ago, these were the cars on Britain’s roads. Forget driving lessons or tests; to get behind the wheel legally, all you needed was a paper license, which cost the equivalent of around 25 pence today. Cars had no seatbelts and, of course, no airbags. There were no mirrors to let you see traffic behind. There were no flashing indicators, so your signal to turn left or right

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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-10-13 07:50:30

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in Bukit Panjang, and his father, Sim Chye Thiam, was a factory worker while his mother, Tan Siok Kee, raised chickens, ducks, pigs, and rabbits, and grew fruits and herbs. The young Sim had chores aroun

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Turkey vs. Spain: Livestream World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 01:45:05

European champions Spain face a tough match in Turkey on Sunday as they look to make it back-to-back wins in World Cup qualifying Group E. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. The Spaniards kicked off their campaign with a comfortable 3-0 dispatch of Bulgaria in Sofia on Thursday, thanks to first-half goals from Mikel Oyarzabal, Marc Cucure

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The 2025 MTV VMAs Are on Tonight. Here's How to Watch Live Without Cable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 08:40:03

The MTV Video Music Awards return tonight, giving fans a chance to watch their chosen winners in 19 categories, including best collaboration, best new artist, best choreography and the coveted video of the year. Social-driven categories added in recent years have created opportunities for lesser-known viral artists and internet favorites to take home a Moon Man trophy, making the competition open to almost anyone. This year's ceremony will be hosted by L.L. Cool J and feature a star-studded lin

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Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:09:54

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if it tells them to. Worst of all, they say, is that this is still happening while we still don't quite understand how

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Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust case

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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

Turkey vs. Spain: Livestream World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer From Anywhere

The 2025 MTV VMAs Are on Tonight. Here's How to Watch Live Without Cable

Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

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