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'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction

news.ycombinator.com Kyle Chayka 2025-08-19 19:17:12

On a recent weekday, I sent an Instagram message to a friend of mine, an art adviser in New York named Stephen Truax, to gossip about an exhibition. Instead of messaging me back in the app, he texted me to say that he’d blocked Instagram on his smartphone during daytime working hours. Impressed, I asked him how he was accomplishing such a feat. Truax said he was using Opal, an app that makes your smartphone a little more like a so-called dumbphone, without requiring you to trade in your device a

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Scanned piano rolls database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 02:27:28

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 17, #1489

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 00:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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You can ask Gemini AI anything directly in Google Chrome - here's how and why you should

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-20 04:25:07

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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My favorite Bose products are on sale plus an extra 25% discount - if you buy refurbished

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-08-20 05:11:52

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Researchers Solve 130-Year-Old Literary Mystery Involving Elves, Wolves, and a Medieval Meme

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-08-20 05:02:37

In 1896, Cambridge scholar and author M. R. James found English verses within a 12th-century Latin sermon in a Peterhouse Cambridge collection. James and another colleague identified the verses as excerpts of a lost romantic poem, dubbing it The Song of Wade. Little did they know that the discovery would trigger almost 130 years of fierce debate over the meaning of the excerpts—a debate that two modern Cambridge scholars may have finally put to rest. In a study forthcoming in Oxford University

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Smart Cameras Power a Robot Umpire at MLB All-Stars for the First Time. Here's How the Challenges Went

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 03:45:50

If umpires draw your ire for bad calls, you may soon have a new target: Major League Baseball used its ABS, or Automated Ball-Strike System, to call pitches at the July 15 All-Star Game for the first time. If trials this season go well, it will probably be adopted for the 2026 regular season. But challenges against the camera had an unusually high rate of success. The ABS uses Hawk-Eye cameras, a technology increasingly common in games with high-speed objects. The cameras judge how a ball trave

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New Research Shows Data Breaches Keep Coming. Here's How to Protect Yourself

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 03:50:00

The personal data of Americans continues to be under threat from cybercriminals looking to steal it for their own financial gain, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The nonprofit group, which focuses on helping victims of identity theft, said Wednesday that 1,732 data compromises were reported for the first six months of this year, resulting in 165.7 million victim notifications. The number of reported compromises represents an 11% increase from the same period

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The Former CEO of Uber Kind of Sounds Like He's Losing It When He's Talking About AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-20 08:15:05

It sounds like the co-founder and former CEO of Uber has had a big gulp of the AI Kool-aid — and then some. On a recent episode of the All-In podcast, Travis Kalanick, who resigned from the ride-hailing company in disgrace in 2017, spoke rapturously about his experience using chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok. That's when he revealed his sincere conviction that he, a mere college dropout, was on the verge of achieving a breakthrough in physics just by probing the AI models. "I'll go down this thr

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The 45mm Pixel Watch 3 is $100 off on Amazon - get it while the deal lasts

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-20 09:00:15

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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You can save $150 on the OnePlus 13 at Amazon right now - but there's a catch

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-20 09:30:14

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Watch Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage Be a B-List Movie Star in This Faux Movie Trailer

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-08-20 09:00:32

Ahead of the release of the official trailer for Mortal Kombat II, Warner Bros. sneakily released a spoof movie trailer to go along with its meta marketing for its leading man, Johnny Cage, played by The Boys star Karl Urban. When Mortal Kombat first released back in 2021, fans of NetherRealm’s long-running fighting game series collectively scratched their heads in confusion over one of its original characters, Johnny Cage, being absent from the film. As if overcorrecting from past mistakes, Wa

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The Big Beautiful Bill Is Bad for Americans’ Health and Wallets, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-20 09:42:42

The “Big Beautiful Bill” is now law, and it’s poised to wreak plenty of destruction. Research out today finds that the policy changes will lead to thousands more deaths annually, as well as harm the financial health of rural hospitals. Epidemiologists at the University of California, San Francisco, and elsewhere conducted the study. They found the Medicaid cuts caused by the Big Beautiful Bill will cause many avoidable hospitalizations and deaths, put dozens of rural hospitals at high risk of c

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John Malkovich Won’t Appear in ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-20 09:45:51

We’re sure to see a lot of awesome stuff when The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters later this month, but one thing we won’t see is John Malkovich. The legendary star of Being John Malkovich, Con Air, Rounders, Red, and more was cast in the film and shot all his scenes. But, it turns out, those scenes have now been cut. Speaking to Variety, Fantastic Four director Matt Shakman revealed that Malkovich was cast to play the Red Ghost in the film, one of the group’s oldest adversaries. He w

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What Tariffs? Smartphone Market Grows 1% as More Phones Fold In AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 07:01:00

It looks like curiosity about AI may be boosting smartphone sales. According to new data released from the International Data Corporation, smartphone shipment increased 1% year over year in the second quarter of 2025 despite tariff volatility and worldwide economic instability. Much of the increase in sales is attributed to midrange devices like Samsung's Galaxy A36 and other smartphones that have started incorporating AI. The report blamed a drop in demand for lower-end devices, including tho

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Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data-labeling business

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-20 09:26:47

In Brief Data-labeling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 of its global contractors, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The cuts come just a month after Meta hired Scale AI’s CEO in a $14.3 billion deal. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg, interim CEO Jason Droege told staff that Scale AI had too quickly scaled its core data-labeling business — in which the startup supplied AI labs with labeled, structured data to train AI models. Droeg

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I stock my toolkit with these 10 DIY gadgets (and they're all I need)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-20 13:18:08

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The 2025 San Diego Comic-Con Panels We’re Most Excited About

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-20 13:15:36

That time is almost upon is. San Diego Comic-Con 2025 is almost here, and next week at this time, io9 will be among the 100,000-plus fans descending on San Diego for four days of pop culture excitement. All the best movies, TV, comics, games, toys, anime, you name it, and it’ll be at Comic-Con. Which is both the best and worst thing about the convention. The worst thing is that there’s so much going on, there’s no way you could come close to seeing or doing everything you want to. The best thin

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How to Watch Norway vs. Italy From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 12:00:07

The first quarterfinal of the 2025 Women's Euros sees a repeat of the 1993 final, as Norway face off against Italy in Geneva. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. The Norwegians navigated the group stage in impressive style, with Gemma Grainger's team winning all three of their games against Switzerland, Finland and Iceland. Italy's route

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Can US Measles Outbreaks Be Stopped?

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-08-20 13:42:32

The US is experiencing its worst year for measles in over three decades, with more than 1,300 cases in 40 states as of July 16. Cases were almost as high in 2019, putting the country’s measles elimination status at risk. Six years ago, health officials were able to stop the spread. But amid growing public backlash against vaccines, many of the tactics used then may not work now. Measles elimination means there has been no continuous transmission in a country for longer than 12 months. That almo

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This new, improved Nextdoor might be just the social app we need right now

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-20 17:14:11

Nextdoor The app notorious for serving as a bulletin board for neighborhood tattletales is getting an AI-centered redesign, and it's bringing some pretty useful features. In a post this week, Nextdoor announced its biggest app redesign ever. At the core of the new app, Nextdoor says, are three components: Alerts, News, and Faves. Also: 5 reasons why I still prefer Perplexity over every other AI chatbot Real-time safety alerts: "Neighbors have long turned to Nextdoor in moments of crisis,

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I found the ultimate toolkit for tinkerers - and yes, it's actually practical

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-20 17:22:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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We tested the best AR and MR glasses: Here's how the Meta Ray-Bans stack up

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-20 17:28:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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'Gentle Parenting' My Smartphone Addiction

news.ycombinator.com Kyle Chayka 2025-08-20 15:17:12

On a recent weekday, I sent an Instagram message to a friend of mine, an art adviser in New York named Stephen Truax, to gossip about an exhibition. Instead of messaging me back in the app, he texted me to say that he’d blocked Instagram on his smartphone during daytime working hours. Impressed, I asked him how he was accomplishing such a feat. Truax said he was using Opal, an app that makes your smartphone a little more like a so-called dumbphone, without requiring you to trade in your device a

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Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 15:45:14

If you want to contribute to Mill, or are interested in the fundamental ideas behind Mill rather than the user-facing features discussed above, check out the page on Mill Design Principles. In particular, this video is a must-watch to help you understand the fundamental concepts behind Mill and why they are interesting:

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How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop

news.ycombinator.com The Irrationalist 2025-08-19 17:35:35

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” I hadn’t lost everything — just my backpack with two passports and my laptop — so I became only a little freer. This story happened three months ago. It is an embarrassing story. It is embarrassing and difficult to tell — but that's exactly why I'm telling it to you. *** Sunday morning. I woke up at a small table in the entrance hall of some house in London — no idea which one, but definitely not mine. The last thing I re

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Over Half of Teens Regularly Use AI Companions. Here's Why That's Not Ideal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 15:58:00

Is your teen using a chatbot for companionship? If you don't know, you might want to ask. Common Sense Media released a study on Wednesday, in which it found that more than half of pre-adult teenagers regularly use AI companions. Nearly a third of the teens reported that conversations with AI were as satisfying as conversations with actual humans, if not more so. Researchers also found that 33% of teens use AI companions such as Character.AI, Nomi and Replika "for social interaction and relatio

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ElliQ Review: An AI Companion Bot for Lonely Elders

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-08-20 17:43:15

For the past few weeks, the AI-powered ElliQ companion robot has perched on the end of my desk. Designed by Intuition Robotics for seniors living alone, this proactive animatronic chats to me throughout the day, checking how I’m feeling, suggesting “fun” activities, and prodding me to be more active and sociable. While it can be annoying, I've grown attached to ElliQ despite myself, and I can see the positive potential. Loneliness is an epidemic. According to the US Census Bureau, around 16 mil

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Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-08-20 17:02:01

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of its workforce, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff. The layoffs include 500 of its global contractors, Scale spokesperson Joe Osborne told The Verge, adding th

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The Galaxy Watch 8 gets a key battery health feature that more smartwatches need

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-20 21:42:49

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 8 series introduces a “battery protection” feature designed to extend the device’s battery longevity. The feature works by stopping the charge at 90% and only resuming it when the battery level drops down to 85%. This prevents the battery from sitting at a full 100% charge, which reduces stress and helps slow long-term battery degradation. Most people don’t upgrade their smartwatch every year, opting to keep their device unt

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