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13 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Other Phones to Consider We test a ton of Android phones. We like the ones below, but you'll be better off with one of the options above. If you haven't yet done so, check out our Best Cheap Phones and Best Folding Phones guides for more. Google Pixel 9 series Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Google Pixel 9 series for $599+: The Pixel 9 series (9/10, WIRED Recommends) from 2024 is still a great buy if you can find them on sale. The Pixel 9 is similar to the Pixel 9a but with better build quality

I’m really impressed with this $400 portable projector

I recently moved to a new apartment, and unfortunately, the television didn’t make the cut during the amicable roommate split. While my studio isn’t as cramped as my previous living situations, fitting a bulky TV into the living area still felt impractical to me. In my search for a suitable alternative, a startup called Lumi Labs reached out about testing its new portable projector, the Lumi Max. From the moment I unboxed it, I was impressed by how far projectors have come since my college days

A week later with Google Pixel 10, I'm wondering why anyone should buy pricier flagships

Google Pixel 10 ZDNET's key takeaways The Pixel 10 has officially launched with a starting price of $799. With a three-camera system, Google Tensor G5, and improved battery life, it's Google's best base model smartphone yet. The main and ultra-wide cameras have been downgraded in order to fit the new telephoto. View now at Google Google's entry-level flagship Pixel has proven to be a capable smartphone, with just the right specs and features to please the masses. So when I switched over to th

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I replaced my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with the Pixel 10 Pro XL for a week - and can't go back

Google Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL ZDNET's key takeaways The latest Pixel flagships are priced the same as last year, but get meaningful upgrades across the board. The Pro XL model, with its base storage of 256GB and faster wired and wireless charging, is the best Pixel phone right now. You'll just have to settle for the same design and camera hardware as last year. View now at Google View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.

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A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)

A look at the upcoming XSLT 3.0 release, and why it matters beyond the XML community Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format. What emerged were two new languages, the first for describing the various functional parts of a publication in XML called the XML Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (ultimately XSL-FO) and the XML Stylesheet language (XSLT) for transforming XML-formatted content into th

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From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms

From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms Vinithavn 7 min read · 15 hours ago 15 hours ago -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size What is attention? In any autoregressive model, the prediction of the future tokens is based on some preceding context. However, not all the tokens within this context equally contribute to the prediction, because some tokens might be more relevant than others. The attention mechanism addresses this by allow

The Best Gadgets of August 2025

Wow, are we really here again? Already? It’s almost September, folks, and Gizmodo’s consumer tech team is firmly fixed on upcoming events like IFA 2025 in Berlin and Apple’s impending annual iPhone extravaganza (Meta Connect 2025 is mid-month, too!). That being said, there are still a lot of cool gadgets we reviewed in August that deserve one final look back before we dive face-first into a torrential run towards (gulps) CES 2026. ICYMI (make sure it never happens again), I’m rounding up this m

Falcon 9 Milestones Vindicate SpaceX’s ‘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 past decade. The first milestone occurred on Wednesday morning with the launch of the Starlink 10-56 mission from Cape Canaveral, Flori

The Galaxy Watch 8 is the first smartwatch I forgot I was wearing

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is a sleek, lightweight smartwatch that combines smart features with the robust health tracking of Samsung Health. It's pricier than the Galaxy Watch 7, but it's also a smartwatch that I've genuinely enjoyed wearing and using all day and all night, and that's priceless. I have tested plenty of smartwatches over the years, but after bouncing between premium and mid-range wearables across both Android and iOS, the Galaxy Watch 8 has managed to do

Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie

nginx-cgi plugin Brings CGI support to Nginx and Angie webserver. OS Tested with Nginx Angie Linux AlmaLinux 9, Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04/20.04 okay okay Darwin MacOS 15.1 okay okay BSD FreeBSD 14.2 and OpenBSD 7.6 okay okay Solaris OmniOS r1510521 okay okay Windows No plan, nginx barely supports Windows Before everything CGI is neither a demon nor an angel. It is simply a tool. Just like a chef's knife in the hands of a cook or a sword in the hands of a warrior, you won't use a sword for c

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I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own

To the surprise of literally no one, I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own Inspired by conversation at a recent Future of Coding event, I decided I’d write up a little something about the programming language I’ve been working on (for what feels like forever) before I’ve gotten it to a totally shareable state. I have a working interpreter that I’m pretty pleased with, but I don’t yet have an interactive environment for creating, exploring, debugging, and running code — I

Delete Tests

You should delete tests We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from wholistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a folk wisdom around tests. That consensus seems to boil down to simple but mostly helpful axioms, like “include tests for your changes” and “write a new test when you fix a bug to prevent regressions”. Unfortunately, on

Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 and Galaxy S25 FE leaks are getting even better as Unpacked looms

TL;DR Samsung’s got an Unpacked event scheduled for September 4, where we’re expect the Tab S11 series and S25 FE to debut. This afternoon we get a look at some promo material for the phone and the Ultra tablet. Similar imagery leaked earlier this week, and now we get to see some higher-quality variants. Samsung’s second Unpacked event of the summer is coming up fast, and just a few days back the company shared its plans for a virtual announcement scheduled to take place on September 4. We’re

Why You Should Be Using XSLT 3.0 (2017)

A look at the upcoming XSLT 3.0 release, and why it matters beyond the XML community Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format. What emerged were two new languages, the first for describing the various functional parts of a publication in XML called the XML Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (ultimately XSL-FO) and the XML Stylesheet language (XSLT) for transforming XML-formatted content into th

Topics: key map string xsl xslt

Marvell stock slumps 18% after chipmaker's data center revenue, forecast disappoint

Shares of Marvell Technology plunged 18% on Friday after the artificial intelligence chipmaker's data center revenue fell short of estimates and it gave lackluster guidance for the current quarter. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $2.01 billion vs. $2.01 billion expected Revenue jumped 58% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended A

Ambarella stock rips 16% higher after earnings as AI demand boosts guidance

Ambarella stock climbed 16% higher Friday as the chip designer reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results and issued strong guidance. Here's how the company did compared with LSEG expectations: Earnings: 15 cents per share adjusted vs 5 cents per share expected 15 cents per share adjusted vs 5 cents per share expected Revenue: $96 million vs $90 million expected Ambarella, which is known for its system-on-chip semiconductors and software used for edge artificial intelligence

The time to say goodbye to your Tizen OS smartwatch is almost here

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 TL;DR Samsung will stop offering content to Tizen OS smartwatches on the Galaxy Store on September 30, 2025. Downloaded apps will continue to be available. If you’ve deleted an app, you won’t be able to re-download it after this date. If you’ve been hanging on to a Galaxy smartwatch that runs on Tizen OS, it’s almost time to say adios and find yourself a new smart timepiece. The termination of Tizen service is on the horizon, with o

Hackers chained Apple and WhatsApp flaws in ‘advanced spyware campaign’

A few days ago, Apple fixed a vulnerability on iOS and macOS that “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” Now, new details have emerged, and it appears that the hacking campaign also leveraged a now-fixed WhatsApp flaw to target its victims. Here are the details. Meta warns dozens of potentially affected users As reported by TechCrunch, Meta has confirmed that it fixed a WhatsApp flaw (CVE-2025-55177) that, when used in combination

Hate voicemail? Pixel's new feature replaces it with something way better

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google's Take a Message is available for the Pixel 4 and newer. The feature essentially replaces voicemail. You can see why someone is calling and answer a call you declined. Google has quietly dropped a pretty cool call screening feature, and most Pixel phones from the past six years are getting it. When the Pixel 10 debuted last week, among its new features was something called Take a Message. A

Show HN: Magic links – Get video and dev logs without installing anything

Hey HN, For a while now, our team has been trying to solve a common problem: getting all the context needed to debug a bug report without the endless back-and-forth. It’s hard to fix what you can't see, and console logs, network requests, and other dev data are usually missing from bug reports. We’ve been working on a new tool called Recording Links. The idea is simple: you send a link to a user or teammate, and when they record their screen to show an issue, the link automatically captures a

Data engineering and software engineering are converging

TL;DR: · If you’re an engineer building realtime analytics or AI-powered features, you need the right data infrastructure coupled with the right developer experience (DX). · A great DX for data infrastructure should empower both software devs and data engineers, while taking inspiration from the best of modern web development (git-native, local-first, everything as code, CI/CD friendly, etc). · MooseStack by 514 offers a fully open source implementation of a DX layer for ClickHouse. Da

Why ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Is the Superhero Movie We Need Right Now

The wait is over! The Toxic Avenger arrives in theaters today, and Troma fans can finally see writer-director Macon Blair’s fresh (but still gross, gory, and proudly unrated) take on the legendary cult franchise. In a splattery movie with a lot going on—a sinister health-care megacorp that’s poisoning people and the environment; a hero with a terminal illness who transforms into a badass mutant; Elijah Wood as you’ve never seen him before; a nu-metal “monstercore” band that moonlights as assass

SpaceX’s Next Big Trick: Catch the Starship Upper Stage With ‘Chopsticks’

SpaceX finally broke out of a serious Starship slump on Tuesday, acing the rocket’s 10th flight after months of failed attemps. Now, CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on the next big challenge: catching Starship’s upper stage with Mechazilla’s “chopstick” arms. In an X post on Wednesday, August 27, Musk said the next opportunities to attempt this feat would likely be flights 13 through 15, depending on how well V3—the next iteration of Starship—performs. The Starship launched Tuesday was a V2, w

Black Ops 6 Quad Feed Double XP Weekend Is Live Now

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developer Treyarch is showing some love to loyal players with another double XP weekend, hot on the heels of the one that ran during Battlefield 6's record-breaking open beta. The third double XP weekend of the multiplayer shooter's season 5 is live now, with all four boosts active for players to take advantage of. You'll be able to speed through account levels, weapon attachment unlocks and battle pass tiers to chug through the latest seasonal content ahead of the laun

Windows 11 KB5064081 update clears up CPU usage metrics in Task Manager

​​Microsoft has released the KB5064081 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, which includes thirty-six new features or changes, with many gradually rolling out. These updates include new Recall features and a new way of displaying CPU usage in Task Manager. The KB5064081 update is part of the company's optional non-security preview update schedule, which releases updates at the end of each month to test new fixes and features coming to the next month's Patch Tuesday. Unlike regular Pa

Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Actually Make Us Busier in the Future

Elon Musk recently insisted that our robot-filled future will allow humans to collect free money for doing nothing, while bots do all the labor. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t seem to be buying that narrative. In fact, Huang seems to think advancements in AI and robotics are going to mean that humans will be busier than ever in the world of tomorrow. Huang appeared on Fox Business on Thursday, where he talked about the controversy surrounding selling chips to China, Nvidia’s success as a $

What to Stream This Weekend: 'The Thursday Murder Club,' 'Upload,' 'KPopped' and more

With Labor Day giving us an extra day of rest and relaxation this weekend, there's no better time to binge a new series. This week, streaming platforms including Netflix, Apple TV Plus and Prime Video dropped new shows -- some with full seasons, others with a few episodes to start -- giving us plenty to binge all weekend. On Netflix, you can watch the complete second season of My Life With the Walter Boys, out now, and on Prime Video, you can tune in to Upload's four-episode series finale. Musi

Marvell stock slumps 16% after chipmaker's data center revenue, forecast disappoint

Shares of Marvell Technology plunged 15% on Friday after the artificial intelligence chipmaker's data center revenue fell short of estimates and it gave lackluster guidance for the current quarter. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $2.01 billion vs. $2.01 billion expected Revenue jumped 58% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended A

HoYoverse's Star Rail spinoff is Honkai: Nexus Anima

HoYoverse's next gacha game has shades of Teamfight Tactics and Pokémon. The developer describes Honkai: Nexus Anima as a "creature-collector adventure strategy game." HoYoverse first teased the title in May at the Honkai: Star Rail Concert 2025. In Honkai: Nexus Anima's game world, a sudden rupture has shattered the balance between opposing forces (Nexus). You'll explore the realm, forging bonds with the resulting creatures (Anima) scattered about. It sounds like gameplay will revolve around a

Samsung’s take on Pixel Screenshots is finally available to global users

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Global Galaxy owners on One UI 6 or later can now try out the Collections app. This app was previously exclusive to users in China. The app stores information and allows you to easily search for it, sort it by app, and summarize it with AI. Google offers a handy app called Pixel Screenshots, which makes it easy to organize and recall information from screenshots and photos. If you didn’t know, Samsung has a similar, but different app called Collections.