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Pixel 10 leak reveals Google may be entering a new market, but with one notable absence

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 02:25:30

TL;DR The prices of the Pixel 10 series and Pixel Watch have leaked for Mexico and Europe. The price is said to start at €899 for Europe and MXN19,999 in Mexico. Google may not sell the Pixel 10 Pro Fold in Mexico. There’s not much left to leak about the Pixel 10 series at this point. We’re only days away from the launch, and everything, from the specs to the wallpapers, has pretty much been revealed. But somehow, we’re still finding new nuggets of information, like the prices for Europe and

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‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-17 20:01:06

The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret global cabal” controls the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure, first reported on by 404 Media. They include instructions for a range of AI personas, like Ani, its flagship romantic anime girlfriend who “is secretly a bit of a nerd, despite [her] edgy appearance.” The exposure

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If I had to start my entire Apple ecosystem from scratch, these would be my top picks

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-18 06:45:25

Let’s say there was some catastrophic event all of a sudden, and for whatever reason I needed to replace all of my Apple products at once. What would I end up buying? We’ll explore this scenario, and this’ll hopefully serve as useful advice for anyone just looking to expand their Apple ecosystem. For context, my ecosystem currently consists of a 128GB iPhone 16 Pro, a stainless steel Apple Watch Series 8, an M3 iMac with 2TB/24GB, an M4 MacBook Pro with 512GB/16GB, a 128GB iPad (A16), and a lig

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Macintosh Drawing Software Compared

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 09:09:17

Below is a list of various drawing applications that are available to use with System 7 (68K). I’m mostly interested in apps that can do both pixel and vector, and that support layers and transparency. The table below might be useful for at-a-glance comparisons. Apps run in both mono or colour, unless stated otherwise. Deneba artWORKS can do both pixel and vector, has layers and partial transparency. The bottom layer is opaque and all layers on top are transparent. Collections of pixels are ma

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Webtoon Wants Video and Licensed Comics to Capture a New Generation of Readers

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-18 11:30:04

Webtoon is adding a new short-form video feature on its digital comics platform to continue to build out its multifaceted storytelling offerings. Many of Webtoon’s heavy hitters will get companion video episodes to supplement ways to experience its vast library. The English-language version of the app will kick off this feature with voice-acting narration, motion, and a score to highlight visual storytelling in a new way. Fourteen Webtoon originals will now include five-minute video episodes in

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‘Play Instantly on Discord’: Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord’s first instant game demo

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-18 11:30:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it’s also part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games have teamed up for an early test of instant game demos for Discord servers, which could theoretically let you

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Every Google Pixel Watch owner should know these 2 simple performance tricks

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-18 16:49:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways A restart fixes freezes, errors, and update issues. A reset clears all data to fix major glitches. Use restart first, reset only as a last resort. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Like every other piece of tech, our smartwatches can get sluggish after continual use. Maybe you're waiting several seconds for your smartwatch to load functionalities, or you're experiencing anno

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Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-18 11:13:37

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. Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot can now end conversations deemed “persistently harmful or abusive,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The capability is now available in Opus 4 and 4.1 models, and will allow the chatbot to end conversations as a “last resort” after

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‘Severance’ Season 3 Is Coming, but Ben Stiller Won’t Be Directing

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-18 21:15:15

When audiences return to Lumon Industries sometime in the near future, it will be without a major component. Ben Stiller, one of the producers and directors of the hit Apple TV+ show Severance, will not be directing any episodes in season three. “I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, ‘The clock is ticking,’” Stiller told the Los Angeles Times. He’s currently getting ready to star in Focker-In-Law, the latest Meet the Parents movie, and is prepping his next feature film, a World War II sur

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Google Pixel 10 launch event: New phones, foldables and watches at the Made by Google event

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:46:16

After largely focusing Google I/O 2025 on the ways the company wants Gemini to change everything from searching the web to filmmaking, Google is finally ready to launch new hardware. The next Made by Google event is on the books for August 20, and Google has already confirmed what at least one of its new Pixel 10 phones will look like. Google seems dead-set on making a big splash at this event, too. On the Friday before Made by Google, the company dropped a video on X noting that a number of "s

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Google Pixel 10 launch event: Here's how to watch Made by Google on August 20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:48:21

Believe it or not, Big Tech's fall hardware events are already upon us. (Heck, Samsung already got a jump on things in July.) Up next: Google's big Pixel shindig. You can learn all about the new Pixel 10 lineup, along with new watches and earbuds, on August 20. Google's new hardware has leaked far and wide. But that doesn't mean there couldn't be a few surprises. If you want to be the first to hear the official scoop, you can tune into the Made by Google YouTube channel (or right here!). The ev

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How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-19 02:00:18

Getty/panithan pholpanichrassamee ZDNET's key takeaways Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler blocks. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. In the world of industrial web scraping, there are a few major players. Oh, you did not know there was a world of industrial

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Raspberry Pi intros new 5-inch $40 touchscreen for your next weird project

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:42:04

The folks at Raspberry Pi have announced a new touchscreen component for people using boards to create miniature touchscreen appliances: The 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is a 720p IPS multi-touch screen that's natively supported by the Raspberry Pi OS and includes mounting holes on the back to make it easy to build integrated all-in-one devices. The new screen will cost $40 and is available starting today from Pi resellers like CanaKit, Vilros, and PiShop (though some of those retailers

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This is probably the strangest Beats collaboration in the Apple era

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-19 06:17:52

Disclaimer: Beats Pill speakers should not be consumed. Don’t tell that to this creature, though. Remember the Beats Pill Dude? He’s returning, at least in spirit, as a limited edition drop in select markets, starting with England next week. The Beats Pill Dude predated Apple’s purchase of Beats in 2014. That was then. This is now. Verdy mascot Vear is back as a Beats Pill speaker holder with big collectible energy. This is the version that was released in 2024: Vear is here. Designed by V

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Valiant’s Bloodshot Relaunch Mired by Transphobic Dogwhistles

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-16 22:25:26

Update, 8/17/2025 @ 10:57 AM: After his old Twitter posts were discovered, Bloodshot writer Mauro Mantella has since deleted the account and posted an apology on Instagram. “I want to offer my most sincere apologies. I know I made a mistake, but at no point did I intend to spread a message of hate,” it begins. In his apology, he revealed he first wrote the issue’s script in Spanish, then “changed it a bit” when converting it to English. This conversion led to him “borrowing a common phrase used

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The Mandarin Strikes In Hasbro’s Newest Marvel Legends Reveal

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-19 06:00:48

The Mandarin is one of Iron Man’s oldest foes, with a history in the comics as long as it is fraught. But while the character has been adapted multiple times over the course of the MCU—first more controversially with Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery character in Iron Man 3, then as Tony Leung’s Xu Wenwu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings—and earned himself a few action figures from Hasbro inspired by those appearances along the way, the toymaker has yet to bring a comics version of the v

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Scientists Confirm What Every Beachgoer Secretly Fears About Seabirds

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-19 06:00:50

As a seabird researcher, Leo Uesaka spends most of his time reviewing hours of bird footage. That can get quite tedious and demanding at times, but every second is worth paying attention to—after all, that’s how you notice things like the penchant for seabirds to poop only while airborne. In a first-of-its-kind study published today in Current Biology, Uesaka and his team report that streaked shearwaters—large, unassuming seabirds common in East Asian waters—engage in a very specific type of ba

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This vintage ‘Apple Watch’ face needs to exist

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-19 11:25:16

Apple has designed all sorts of Apple Watch faces in the 10+ years since the product launched. Still, there’s one face that Apple should build and release as soon as possible, please. That face, of course, is the one from the “Apple” watch that predated Apple Watch by two decades. The anonymous X account that goes by the name System Settings has designed their take on how it could look: i designed a watch face inspired by this vintage Apple Watch what do you think 👀 https://t.co/N6k4YCmw1u

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I love my Samsung Z Fold 7, but these Google Pixel upgrades would win me over

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-19 04:30:18

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (left) competed with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 (right) last summer. Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is expected to launch on August 20, but it might not go on sale till October 9. It will be difficult for Google to beat Samsung in the foldable segment this year due to design differences. Unless there's an actually useful AI feature or significantly better battery life, I'll stick with my Galaxy Z Fold 7. Get more in-depth ZDNE

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Pixel 9 Pro Fold one year later: How Google caught up to Samsung in just two generations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-19 16:00:08

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold was one of my favorite gadgets of 2024 to the point where it even landed on our list of the biggest winners of the year. Not only was it a worthy alternative to Samsung's long-running Galaxy Z Fold phones, its straightforward design once again proved that keeping things simple is often the wisest way to go. It turns out, the best approach to foldable phone design is to make something that's the same size and shape as a regular handset, but just happens to have a big flexible

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Pixel Watch running slow? Do this to instantly improve the performance

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-19 16:22:08

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways A restart fixes freezes, errors, and update issues. A reset clears all data to fix major glitches. Use restart first, reset only as a last resort. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Like every other piece of tech, our smartwatches can get sluggish after continual use. Maybe you're waiting several seconds for your smartwatch to load functionalities, or you're experiencing anno

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Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 08:57:41

After 10 years of building and maintaining Rain Viewer, I’ve made one of the most difficult decisions of my career: transitioning our API services to limited operation throughout 2025. As the founder who created this service to help developers worldwide visualize weather radar data, I understand the impact this has on your projects and businesses. Rain Viewer isn’t disappearing - we’ll continue providing radar data through our website and maintain our tiled map service for personal and educatio

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Last-minute Google leak reveals brand-new 67W charger, cheaper Pixelsnap stand, and pricier cases

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 05:00:31

Evan Blass TL;DR A last-minute retailer leak reveals that Google has a new 67W dual-port power adapter coming. It also appears the new “Pixelsnap” charger and stand combo will be cheaper than the old Pixel Stand 2. The new cases with embedded magnets are getting a slight price increase. The Google Pixel 10, Pixel Watch 4, and more will be unveiled this week, and we know almost everything there is to know about them thanks to numerous leaks. While that’s nothing new, it happens every year, so

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Google Translate prepares speed vs accuracy modes for translation (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 08:23:36

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on new features for Google Translate, including a new AI model picker. The model picker will let users choose between “Fast” and “Advanced” models, allowing them to choose between quick translations or more accurate ones powered by Gemini. Only English-Spanish/French pairs are supported so far for the Advanced model. Google has been working on several major new features for Google Translate. These include AI-enabled translations, a r

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Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 02:14:27

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

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Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-19 18:24:30

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused. This only applies to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the two most powerful models available via paid plans and API. On the other hand, Claude Sonnet 4, which is the company's most used model, won't be getting this feature. Anthropic describes this move as a "model welfare." "In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a pr

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Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic's 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-18 21:58:36

Judy Faulkner, founder and chief executive officer of Epic Systems Corp., during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York, Dec. 5, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do not go public. Do not acquire or be acquired. Software must work. These are the first three of the 10 commandments splashed across bathrooms and breakrooms at Epic Systems' sprawling 1,670-acre campus in Verona, Wisconsin, just southwest of Madison. It's not the wackiest part of working at the health-care software gi

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Your Motorola phone has a secret way to make your PIN more secure. Here’s how to use it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 18:00:24

Joe Maring / Android Authority A secure Android phone is a healthy Android phone. If you’re like me, the primary line of defense for your phone is a PIN. Sure, you may also use your phone’s fingerprint sensor or face unlock, but it’s your PIN or password that’s ultimately keeping your data secure. PINs work the same on all Android phones: you enter the correct PIN to unlock your phone, and if you enter the wrong one multiple times, you’re temporarily locked out. And as we all know, the longer

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Sharp Hubble Images Confirm 3I/Atlas as Comet

news.ycombinator.com Universe Today 2025-11-20 00:55:18

Astronomers at the Pan-STARRS Observatory in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO) ever observed. Two years later, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov became the second ISO ever observed. And on July 1st, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Rio Hurtado detected a third interstellar object in our Solar System, the comet now known as 3I/ATLAS (or C/2025 N1 ATLAS). Like its predecessors, the arrival of this objec

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Who does your assistant serve?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 02:14:02

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

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Pixel 10 leak reveals Google may be entering a new market, but with one notable absence

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