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I replaced my Bose Ultra Open with these Shokz headphones - they're better for less money

ZDNET's key takeaways The Shokz OpenDots One are the company's first clip-on earbuds, available in Black and Grey for $199. They sport a comfortable, nondescript design with Shokz's industry-leading bone conduction audio technology. However, the earbuds' touch controls are unreliable and awkward to use. View now at Shokz View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices I used to not be a Shokz believer; the company's headphones seemed best suited for running or swimming, neither of

15 new jobs AI is creating - including 'Synthetic reality producer'

Eoneren/Getty Images Imagine being at a party in the not-too-distant future, and telling people you are a "synthetic reality producer." That's something sure to elicit quite a bit of curiosity. On the other hand, it may be a common job title by the year 2030. There's been a fair bit of chatter lately about the prospect of artificial intelligence usurping or taking away job opportunities -- from developers to creators. However, AI will never operate entirely on its own in a vacuum -- there will

WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages

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. WhatsApp can now call on Meta AI to summarize your personal chats. As shown in a GIF, you can access it by tapping the button to unfurl all of your unread messages in a chat. But instead of showing your messages, WhatsApp uses Meta AI to generate a bulleted summary of what you missed. The feature is rolling out in English in the US, with plans to l

Study shows gaming can reduce stress, even the violent kind

Editor's take: Violent video games have long been blamed as the source of many societal problems. However, an increasing number of studies continue to show that gaming poses no significant threat to society or human health, and the latest adds an interesting new perspective to the ongoing debate. A recently published study aims to dispel yet another myth about video games, showing that both violent and non-violent gaming sessions can effectively reduce stress levels. The research centers on A P

US senators reintroduce bill to open Apple and Google's app stores

Senators Marsha Blacburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have reintroduced a bill that would force app store owners like Apple and Google to allow third-party payment systems and sideloading apps, among a collection of other developer-friendly changes. The bill, called the Open App Markets App, was originally introduced in 2021, but it never came up for a vote after passing through the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2022. T

For Replit’s CEO, the future of software is ‘agents all the way down’

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Can enterprise teams truly vibe code their way out of expensive SaaS contracts? Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad seems to think so, and the ambitious vision could mean “agents all the way down.” Speaking at VB Transform on Tuesday, Masad touted how his startup’s agents could help a non-developer design and code a live polling app in

Tired of upgrading your phone? This sustainable Android lets you do your own repairs

If you're tired of your phone being out of date every two years, there may finally be an answer. The Fairphone (Gen. 6) is here, and while it might appear at first glance to be a generic, midrange Android phone, its design is something unique. Also: Why I recommend this budget Android phone to most people over Samsung and Google Like the Fairphone (Gen. 5) that debuted in 2023, the latest Fairphone is focused on sustainability. The company uses ethically sourced materials, pays fair wages to

Apple Hopes Tennis Will Remind You the Apple Sports App Exists

Apple is adding a few new capabilities to the Apple Sports app that it hopes will convince you to actually download the thing. Its biggest item on the list of additions: tennis. For the first time, Apple Sports will now be able to track and relay tennis scores in real time. In Apple’s own words: “Tennis fans can access live scores for Grand Slam and 1000-level tournaments, and can track every point across all men’s and women’s singles matches, beginning with Wimbledon.” No disrespect—I’m not a

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 26, #480

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one, but once you figure out the category, unscrambling the words is pretty easy. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and M

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 26, #276

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition has a green category aimed at New Yorkers, and a purple one that could test your ability to make random connections. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a s

Philips Hue lighting will be more expensive starting July 1st, but you can save on them now

Signify has announced price increases for its Philips Hue smart lighting and accessories starting on July 1st due to US tariffs. As for how much the products will go up in price, that hasn’t been confirmed, but the Hue Wall Washer that was recently launched is 10 percent more expensive than its price in the EU, which may offer an indication of what to expect. If you’ve been meaning to try Philips Hue smart bulbs, or add to your existing collection, this may be your last chance to snag products b

Kalshi closes $185M round as rival Polymarket reportedly seeks $200M

Kalshi just raised a $185 million round, led by crypto-focused VC firm Paradigm, bringing the company’s valuation to $2 billion post-money, representatives from Paradigm and Kalshi confirmed to TechCrunch. “Prediction markets remind me of crypto 15 years ago: a new asset class on a path to trillions,” Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner at Paradigm, told TechCrunch in an emailed statement. “There’s no better team than Kalshi to scale prediction markets and reshape how people think about

Bitcoin rises, NYSE battles for Trump ETF, and crypto may be coming to mortgage next

The price of bitcoin rose again on Wednesday, reaching above $108,000 at an intraday high, as investors looked past the recent tensions in the Middle East and the stock market hovered near an all-time record. But the trading in cryptocurrencies was uneven, with ether and solana both slipping modestly in afternoon trading. Washington, D.C., figured in a major way in the latest crypto headlines. Fed Chair Jerome Powell spoke about crypto in his testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on W

Creatio’s new 8.3 Twin CRM update hits Salesforce where it hurts: ‘we don’t think of AI as an add-on…it’s just part of our app experience’

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Creatio, the Boston-headquartered customer relationship management (CRM) company focused on no-code and low-code CRM app deployment, has officially launched its latest platform update, the 8.3 “Twin” Release, introducing a suite of AI-native capabilities designed to streamline CRM and workflow automation. With this update, Creatio continu

AI-powered chat summaries are coming to WhatsApp

Meta is adding a new Message Summaries feature to WhatsApp that uses AI to summarize unread messages in a few bullet points. The feature is built on the Private Processing technique Meta announced at Llamacon in April, and claims to let AI work with content in WhatsApp without exposing any of it to Meta itself. Once the feature appears in your app, you just tap on the onscreen banner over your unread messages with that says "Summarize privately" to receive a summary from Meta AI. The Message Su

Tired of upgrading your phone? This new, sustainable Android lets you do your own repairs

Fairphone If you're tired of your phone being out of date every two years, there may finally be an answer. The Fairphone (Gen. 6) is here, and while it might appear at first glance to be a generic, midrange Android phone, its design is something unique. Also: Why I recommend this budget Android phone to most people over Samsung and Google Like the Fairphone (Gen. 5) that debuted in 2023, the latest Fairphone is focused on sustainability. The company uses ethically sourced materials, pays fai

OpenAI vs. iyO: Key takeaways from the new legal filings

Yesterday evening, TechCrunch reported on a series of new legal filings made by OpenAI in the iyO trademark lawsuit that led to the scrubbing of the ‘io’ brand on OpenAI’s website. The documents, filed by OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman as well as ex-Apple employees Evans Hankey, Tang Tan, and Marwan Rammah (now all at io Products), reveal as much about the company’s ambitions as they do about what it hopes to keep under wraps. Here are a few key takeaways. 1: iyO tried to hire Evans Hankey In 2022,

WhatsApp rolls out Meta AI-powered message summaries in the U.S.

A couple of weeks ago, WABetaInfo spotted signs that Meta was gearing up to bring AI-generated summaries for WhatsApp messages. Today, the feature is officially live for users in the U.S. Here’s how to use it. Summarization is perhaps one of the most useful applications of generative AI, especially when it comes to quickly catching up on transactional information. Which is why, provided it’s well-implemented, using AI to condense notifications and group chats can genuinely save time. Which is

More Americans Are Using ChatGPT, but a Surprising Number Say They Haven't Heard of It

About a third of American adults say they've used the generative AI tool ChatGPT, while one in five say they've never heard of it, according to new survey results from the Pew Research Center. The 34% who say they've used the gen AI tool from OpenAI include 58% of adults under 30, the largest share among any age cohort. The share of ChatGPT users drops with age: 41% of those 30 to 49, 25% of those 50 to 64 and 10% of those 65 and older. There's also a correlation with education; among adults wi

Apple Sports App Gets Tennis and More Updates

Apple continues to expand its sports offerings for mobile users. On Wednesday, the company announced new updates to the Apple Sports app that include a revamped home screen and the addition of tennis ahead of the Wimbledon championships. All the changes were launched on the app today. This tennis season, you can check out live scores (or from past tournament rounds) for men's and women's matches. Apple Sports will allow you to track points and player advancement throughout events like Grand Sla

Anthropic makes it easier to create and share Claude's bite-sized Artifact apps

Last August, Anthropic released Artifacts. The feature allows Claude users to create small, AI-programmed apps for their own use. Today, Anthropic is making it easier to share Artifacts. At the same time, it's making the apps you can make with the feature more powerful. To start, Artifacts now have their own dedicated space you can access from the Claude app sidebar. Here you'll find a curated selection of projects made by other people to get you started on your own programs. Every Artifact you

Citrix warns of NetScaler vulnerability exploited in DoS attacks

Citrix is warning that a vulnerability in NetScaler appliances tracked as CVE-2025-6543 is being actively exploited in the wild, causing devices to enter a denial of service condition. "Exploits of CVE-2025-6543 on unmitigated appliances have been observed," warns Citrix's advisory. Tracked internally as CTX694788, CVE-2025-6543 is a critical flaw impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway and can be triggered by unauthenticated, remote requests, leading the appliance to go offline. The fl

Anthropic launches new AI feature to build your own customizable chatbots

Anthropic Anthropic, the American startup company that produces the Claude family of generative artificial intelligence programs, on Wednesday said users can now make full-fledged applications using the "artifacts" function in Claude, and choose from a curated list of pre-built apps others have made. Artifacts, which were introduced in June of last year, and made generally available in August, allow for objects you make at the prompt — a picture, a diagram — to be displayed in their own separa

Your next job? Managing a fleet of AI agents

akinbostanci/Getty Images Agentic AI is moving fast, but are we ready for it? "We're all going to be CEOs of a small army of AI agents," predicted Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the digital economy lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and founder of Workhelix, recently quoted in The New York Times. "We have to think, OK: What is it we really want to accomplish? What are the goals here? And we have to think a little bit more deeply about that than we have in

Lots More Americans Are Using ChatGPT, but a Surprising Number Say They Haven't Heard of It

About a third of American adults say they've used the generative AI tool ChatGPT, while one in five say they've never heard of it, according to new survey results from the Pew Research Center. The 34% who say they've used the gen AI tool from OpenAI include 58% of adults under 30, the largest share among any age cohort. The share of ChatGPT users drops with age: 41% of those 30 to 49, 25% of those 50 to 64 and 10% of those 65 and older. There's also a correlation with education; among adults wi

New 'CitrixBleed 2' NetScaler flaw let hackers hijack sessions

A recent vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway is dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," after its similarity to an older exploited flaw that allowed unauthenticated attackers to hijack authentication session cookies from vulnerable devices. Last week, Citrix published a security bulletin warning about flaws tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and CVE-2025-5349 that impact NetScaler ADC and Gateway versions before 14.1-43.56, releases before 13.1-58.32, and also 13.1-37.235-FIPS/NDcPP and 2.1-55.328-FIPS. T

Does your generative AI protect your privacy? New study ranks them best to worst

TU IS/Getty Most generative AI companies rely on user data to train their chatbots. For that, they may turn to public or private data. Some services are less invasive and more flexible at scooping up data from their users. Others, not so much. A new report from data removal service Incogni looks at the best and the worst of AI when it comes to respecting your personal data and privacy. For its report "Gen AI and LLM Data Privacy Ranking 2025," Incogni examined nine popular generative AI servic

Ask HN: Anyone Using Augmented Reality, VR, Glasses, Helmets etc. in Industry?

Since Google Glass made its debut in 2012, there's been a fair amount of hype around augmented reality and related tech coming into its own in industry, presumably enhancing worker productivity and capabilities. But I've heard and seen so little use in any industries. I would have thought at a minimum that having access to hands-free information retrieval (e.g. blueprints, instructions, notes, etc), video chat and calls for point-of-view sharing, etc would be quite useful for a number of indust

Ring’s descriptive alerts take the guesswork out of checking your camera feed

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Ring is rolling out AI-powered Video Descriptions that summarize camera footage in plain text. The feature helps users quickly distinguish urgent events from routine activity. It’s currently in beta for Ring Home Premium users in the US and Canada. Smart home cameras have long sent vague alerts, which can be a double-edged sword. You want to know what’s happening on your property, but it can be stressful to get the notification only to realize on pla

The Apple Sports app now offers tennis scores, just in time for Wimbledon

Apple is rolling out a notable update for its Sports app . Just ahead of the Wimbledon Championships getting under way, Apple is adding point-by-point tennis scores to Sports. You'll be able to get live updates from Grand Slam and ATP Masters 1000-level matches and view details like the results of a player's previous matches in the tournament. Also in the 3.0 version of Apple Sports, baseball fans can view pitcher and batter matchups at the top of every MLB scoreboard. On the home screen, you'l