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Qualcomm’s next Elite processor could have a ridiculously confusing name

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that the next Snapdragon 8 Elite chip could be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. This is a major departure from the expected Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 or 8 Elite Gen 2 names. We’re guessing this is because Qualcomm is readying an apparent Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip as well. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite late last year, and this represented a change in naming convention after the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. We were expecting the Snap

I love the new Google Phone app, and a survey shows other Android users do too

Joe Maring / Android Authority While Google has had an incredibly hectic week with the recent launch of the Pixel 10 series, that’s not all the company has been up to. Google has also been busy overhauling its Google Phone app with a load of Material 3 Expressive changes. Between the new home screen layouts, incoming call UI, and contact Calling Cards, the Phone app looks and feels dramatically different from what it did a few short weeks ago. It’s a truly massive update that I couldn’t be hap

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The OnePlus 15 could put the Pixel 10 Pro to shame for base storage

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The OnePlus 15 will apparently start at 12GB/256GB storage, all the way to 16GB/1TB. This means the phone will have more base storage than the Pixel 10 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro. The phone is also tipped to arrive in Purple and Titanium colors, in addition to the previously leaked Black option. The OnePlus 13 is one of our favorite Android phones of the year so far, but we’ve already seen plenty of leaks about a successor. Now, the latest leak has revealed ap

We Asked Dentists: What's the Best Whitening Toothpaste of 2025?

Why we like it: Colgate Optic White Pro Series toothpaste is one whitening toothpaste that Dr. Fatima Khan, a dentist in Houston, Texas, recommends. Some of her reasons for recommending it include its trusted brand name and its 5% hydrogen peroxide whitening agent. Unlike other whitening agents that work by removing stains on the surface of the tooth, hydrogen peroxide can get inside the tooth so it whitens intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Sachar also recommends this toothpaste, saying,

Vocal Image is using AI to help people communicate better

With 4 million app downloads, Estonia-based startup Vocal Image aims to help people improve their voice and communication skills with AI-powered coaching. But out of its 160,000 active users, it may be its CEO, Nick Lahoika, who best embodies its mission. Lahoika was born in Belarus, didn’t speak English until his relocation to Estonia, and once struggled with speaking anxiety. Yet, he went on to “win a lot of pitch competitions” on behalf of the voice coaching startup, which was inspired by hi

Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking

Below is some code describing whatʼs happening on this site right now. Anyone on this page will connect directly to others in real-time, syncing mouse movement and clicks. (Try it, I dare you). Trystero can connect peers via 🌊 BitTorrent, 🐦 Nostr, 📡 MQTT, 🪐 IPFS, ⚡️ Supabase, and 🔥 Firebase. Right now youʼre the only person with the page open, but you can cheat and just open this URL in another tab to see what itʼs like with others. Hereʼs how you use it. Join a room with an app ID and a ro

Here’s where to get the factory images for your new Pixel 10

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR The factory images for the Pixel 10 series have been posted online. The factory images for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold are not up yet. It’s August 28, which means today is the day that Pixel 10 shipments go out. After all the leaks, it’s nice to finally see the device starting to land in the hands of owners. Along with the release of the new flagship phone, Google also picked today to post the Pixel 10 family’s factory images. Don’t want to miss the best fr

There Goes the American Muscle Car

PONTIAC, Michigan—Traveling a fair amount for work outside of major metros requires relying on rental cars. And relying on rental cars quickly teaches you that while you might reserve a standard sedan every time, there is no reason to expect the rental car agency to actually give you the keys to a sedan when you show up at the counter. Eventually, you realize your fate is entirely in the hands of the rental car gods, and the rental car gods are capricious gods. Sometimes, the rental car gods f

Google's AI Live Translation and Learning Tools Are Here. How to Use Them

Google Translate is getting an AI upgrade designed to make real-time conversations and language learning easier. The update is rolling out this week in the Translate app on iOS and Android. The first tool, for live translations, lets you have a back-and-forth conversation with someone by surfacing audio and text translations as you speak, so you can easily follow along. Advanced Gemini models allow for support of more than 70 languages, including Arabic, French, Hindi, Korean and Spanish. Googl

Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI

Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school. WIRED explored all this and more in our recent back-to-school digital edition, which was the topic of our subscriber-only livestream on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Hosted by WIRED's features director, Reyhan

I took this 360-degree camera around the world - why it's still the most versatile gear I own

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The Insta360 X5 is my favorite travel camera. I love it for its versatility, ease of use, and user-friendly app. It is more expensive than its predecessor but offers better video quality, replaceable lenses, improved battery backup, and more. I started using this 360-degree action camera in May, and within three months, it had earned a permanent spot in my travel backpack. It is now on sale for Labor Day. Review: Insta

Web Bot Auth

Web Bot Auth is an authentication method that leverages cryptographic signatures in HTTP messages to verify that a request comes from an automated bot. Web Bot Auth is used as a verification method for verified bots and signed agents. It relies on two active IETF drafts: a directory draft ↗ allowing the crawler to share their public keys, and a protocol draft ↗ defining how these keys should be used to attach crawler's identity to HTTP requests. This documentation goes over specific integratio

Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI

Learning by doing Ben O’Mahony is Principal AI Engineer at Thoughtworks. He is a results-driven AI/Engineering leader with a track record of building high-performing teams and shipping business-critical AI, ML and data products and platforms at scale. He has deep expertise across the full Engineering and Data lifecycle from research to production deployment. Ben is adept at defining technical strategy, driving execution and partnering cross-functionally to deliver measurable impact. Recently Be

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These 3 tablet charging habits are slowly killing your device - here's what to do instead

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Unplug at 100%, keep battery between 20% and 80%. Avoid draining to 0%; store unused tablets at 50%. Use certified chargers to prevent stress and overheating. As someone who uses a tablet daily, I'm constantly looking for ways to make its battery last longer. However, some habits you don't think twice about could actually be hurting your battery over time. There are ways to extend your tablet's ba

Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

Strand is a marketing agency based in London, UK. The company specialises in copywriting and content creation for many of the world’s largest enterprise technology companies, running marketing programmes that produce hundreds of white papers, case studies, blog posts and articles every year. Challenge For many years, Strand has relied on a custom-built project management system to support the operational aspects of its business—creating projects, tracking activities and managing documents. How

Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock band’s lead singers, Don Henley, said in an interview that the song and place “can have a million interpretations.” For US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, what comes to mind is a key part of one of the country’s most central conservation laws. “The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel Californ

Honest Review of the New Tiami Mattress (2025)

It’s always an exciting day when I get to try out a new mattress brand. Tiami comes from the founder of Leesa, bringing some serious credentials—Leesa’s Sapira Chill is our favorite hybrid mattress. Will Tiami be able to live up to its famous sibling? I’m a certified sleep science coach with more than five and a half years of mattress testing experience, and here are my thoughts after a week of sleeping on this bed. What Makes Tiami Tick Photograph: Julia Forbes Tiami’s raison d'être is its s

AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents. Think outbound sales, billing, and customer support — automated from day one. This panel, hosted on the Builders Stage, features a mix of technical founders and seasoned operators who are actually doing it, debating where the line between human and machi

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen) review: Still a noise-canceling powerhouse

Bose announced its latest earbuds in June , but the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen) ($299) won’t arrive until early September. Today, though, they’re available for preorder, and I’ve spent the last few weeks testing all the new features. This model is an overhaul of the noise-canceling earbuds the company debuted in 2023 alongside its take on spatial audio. Among the upgrades, Bose has improved the active noise cancellation (ANC) performance, enhanced call quality and added wireless chargin

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How AI agents can eliminate waste in your business - and why that's smarter than cutting costs

Hazal Ak / iStock via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI agents help identify and remove waste in business. All waste is costly, but not all costs are wasteful. CEOs pursue cost efficiency with AI to protect performance. In an AI-powered economy, business leaders are focused on enhancing the productivity and efficiency of their workforce and operations. To accelerate value creation, while focusing on cost reductions and efficiencie

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

How Gemini's 'on-premise' upgrade could help your enterprise and advance sovereign AI

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud is now available to customers. The approach brings advanced models into enterprise data centers. Gemini on GDC could support new capabilities for on-premise gen AI. There are several obstacles to the successful deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise, including managing staff who are unsure how to use the technology, and c

With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse

As SpaceX's Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of the company's Starlink satellites but are nonetheless notable because they underscore the value of first-stage reuse, which SpaceX has pioneered over the last decade. The first milestone occurred on Wednesday morning with the launch of the Starlink 10-56 mission from Cape Canaveral, Flori

Honor’s slim Magic V5 foldable is fun to use, minus the huge camera bump

There is a spec war going on among companies to claim the crown of thinnest foldable. Phone manufacturers are playing with fractions of millimeters to boast about their phone’s thickness. Honor is winning this race on a theoretical basis with its 8.8mm (when folded) thick Magic V5 foldable. I’m saying theoretical because there is a huge, camera-bump-sized caveat to this. Image Credits: Ivan Mehta The thin frame of the device looks and feels great as long as you hold it in a way that your fi

Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI

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

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Join ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

How I cut my monthly cloud storage bill in half - with 5 tough decisions

My file and backup servers. That's a tenth of a petabyte right there. My security server is on a different shelf and the offline backup server mentioned below is upstairs. David Gewirtz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Cloud storage costs exploded after unlimited plans vanished Backing up everything was expensive and unnecessary Five strategic changes saved over $1,200 per year 60 terabytes. I'll never see that much cloud storage again. On o