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Amazon Celebrates Prime Day, the New Kindle Color Sees a 40% Drop to Its Lowest Price Yet

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-23 22:35:35

With summer holidays approaching, Kindle sales are increasing: Nobody wants to lug heavy books around on holiday, and a Kindle gives the perfect solution to avoid that. Black and white only was all Kindle readers could do for years, but now color has arrived, and the new ones are fast on the best-seller charts. This Prime Day, the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition 32GB is available at an all-time low, nearly 40% off: For $179, down from the regular $279, this is a deal that’s hard to overlook

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OpenAI closes its deal to buy Jony Ive’s io and build AI hardware

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-08-23 22:40:05

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. OpenAI has officially closed its nearly $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famed former Apple designer Jony Ive, the company announced Wednesday. But it was careful to only refer to the startup as io Products Inc. The blog post initially announcing the acquisition was also scrubbed from OpenAI’s

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Perplexity launches AI-powered web browser for select group of subscribers

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-08-24 02:43:31

Perplexity AI on Wednesday launched a new artificial intelligence-powered web browser called Comet in the startup's latest effort to compete in the consumer internet market against companies like Google and Microsoft . Comet will allow users to connect with enterprise applications like Slack and ask complex questions via voice and text, according to a brief demo video Perplexity released on Wednesday. The browser is available to Perplexity Max subscribers, and the company said invite-only acce

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Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 16:58:10

Drone footage released by researchers shows a circular structure on a hillside terrace at the city's centre, surrounded by the remains of stone and mud buildings. Eight years of research at the site unearthed 18 structures, including ceremonial temples and residential complexes. In buildings at the site, researchers discovered ceremonial objects, clay sculptures of human and animal figures and necklaces made from beads and seashells. Peñico is situated close to where Caral, recognised as the

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Im Never Splitting AirPods With My Wife Again Thanks to This iPhone Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-23 20:30:03

When my wife and I travel, we usually download some shows to watch on our flight. But we always have to split a set of AirPods when we watch these shows so we each have one earbud. That means one of our ears is enjoying the show while the other is forced to endure the crying baby behind us on the plane, which can be distracting. But thanks to Apple's Audio Sharing feature, we can each enjoy a show together while using our own sets of AirPods. Audio Sharing was introduced with iOS 18 and iPadOS

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Bluesky gets activity notifications as it tries to lure news and sports users

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-24 06:57:39

One of the biggest holdouts for news junkies and sports fans on Bluesky is no more. Starting this week, users can get push notifications whenever a specific account posts, just like on X. As announced by Bluesky’s own account on Bluesky (where else?), the new Activity Notifications feature is now live, and thankfully it works exactly how one would expect: tap the bell icon on any profile, and you’ll be able to choose between alerts for new posts only, or posts plus replies if you feel like you

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Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin Kif Leswing 2025-08-24 04:45:54

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia stock jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, lifting the company's market cap past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom. The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this

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If Fitness Is Your Thing, These SHOKZ OpenRun Pro 2 Are Now at Their Best Price Ever

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-24 06:05:15

Prime Day never fails to bring a highlight for fitness fanatics and Amazon puts the spotlight on all things from fitness trackers and Garmin sport watches to sound gear for high-energy lifestyles. Among the biggest buzz-worthy launches this year is the SHOKZ OpenRun Pro 2, a headset designed specifically for sportsmen and fitness fans. If you’re a Prime member, you can get these headphones at an all-new all-time low price on Amazon. The SHOKZ OpenRun Pro 2 is available for $124, down from its r

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Prime Day and Anker Team Up to Drop the SOLIX C300 Power Bank Station to a Record Low

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-24 06:25:34

Summer is going to be over before you know it so you best plan some time to enjoy the warm weather before it goes away. Maybe get on the road and plan a camping trip with the family or some close friends. You can elevate that weekend from camping to glamping so long as you have a solid power bank station to take along with you. Anker has its Solix C300 DC portable power station on sale as part of the Prime Day savings. It’s right now going for 40% off which brings the price down from $250 to jus

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One UI 8 on Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 brings live captions for phone calls

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 10:00:20

TL;DR The newly launched Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 have received several notable software features as part of Samsung’s new One UI 8 interface. One of them, Call Captions, offers real-time transcriptions of phone calls. Other Samsung phones are expected to receive this feature with a wider software release. Samsung has just unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 7, the Flip 7, and the more affordable Flip 7 FE, along with the new Galaxy Watch 8 series at its July Unpacked event. Along with new hardwar

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Samsung’s Audio Eraser now lets you clean up audio in other apps

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 10:00:30

TL;DR One UI 8 now lets Galaxy owners access Audio Eraser outside of the Gallery app. The feature is accessible in Samsung Notes, Voice Recorder, and on recorded calls. Audio Eraser also works on any video played in the Samsung player, not just ones captured on your phone. The big day for Samsung’s foldables is here. While the spotlight is on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7, plenty of other news was also revealed during Galaxy Unpacked. Something that may have slipped under the radar is an int

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Z Fold 7? Samsung exec confirms that Galaxy Z Fold 8 is in the works

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 10:05:11

TL;DR A Samsung executive has confirmed that the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is already in development. The executive was responding to a question about a possible Galaxy Z Fold 7 Special Edition phone. This news comes after the Galaxy Z Fold 6 Special Edition was released last year as an unofficial proof of concept for the Fold 7. Samsung has just launched the Galaxy Z Fold 7, and it looks like a major design upgrade over last year’s foldable phone. However, a company executive has also confirmed that t

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Routine creation just got super-easy in Samsung SmartThings

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 10:35:29

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has formally announced several features coming to the SmartThings app. The most notable feature is a Routine Creation Assistant that lets you create routines with natural language. Other significant announcements include sharing your Galaxy Tag location with a URL and a Delay Actions feature for routines. Samsung’s SmartThings platform allows you to easily control your smart home devices, and it’s a solid alternative to Google and Apple’s platf

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I unsubscribed from 20 lists in seconds with Gmail's new tool - here's how to use it

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-24 10:45:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET A few months ago, Google rolled out a new feature for Gmail on Android that makes it easier to clean out your inbox by showing a single list of all your subscriptions and providing a simple way to unsubscribe from these lists. Also: Run out of Gmail storage? How I got another 15GB for free and without losing any files Google officially expanded the feature today, making the announcement in a blog post that "Manage Subscriptions" is now showing up on Gmail for desk

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A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 20:57:57

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X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform

news.ycombinator.com Mike Isaac 2025-08-24 10:52:04

Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday that she was leaving the company two years after joining the social media platform. In a post to X, Ms. Yaccarino, 61, said, “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me.” She did not provide a reason for her departure. Ms. Yacc

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A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

news.ycombinator.com Cairn O 2025-08-24 10:12:16

This article will assume some familiarity with narrow phase collision detection methods and associated geometric concepts such as the Minkowski sum. A few years ago I was watching Dirk’s great presentation, The Separating Axis Test between Convex Polyhedra (video, slides). Around the 18 minute mark (slide 29) he starts talking about overlaying Gauss maps of convex polyhedra to find the faces of their Minkowski difference. Figure 1: A gauss map for two convex hulls The upshot is that all faces

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Tree Borrows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 10:40:24

The Rust programming language is well known for its ownership-based type system, which offers strong guarantees like memory safety and data race freedom. However, Rust also provides unsafe escape hatches, for which safety is not guaranteed automatically and must instead be manually upheld by the programmer. This creates a tension. On the one hand, compilers would like to exploit the strong guarantees of the type system—particularly those pertaining to aliasing of pointers—in order to unlock powe

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Prime Day Turns This HP USB-C Dock Into a Practically Free Grab, Now 58% Off and stock Is Moving Fast

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-24 10:25:41

You can get a lot done using just a laptop, but there is an upper limit when compared to a desktop PC. Laptop screens are much smaller than a standard desktop monitor. A 17-inch laptop is pretty large when stacked up against other laptop screens, but monitors tend to be almost twice that size or in some cases, even larger. Monitors be ultra-wide, display up to 4K, and showcase a larger field of view. And with monitors, you can add in more than one for even more workspace. Plus, you can get more

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Apple AirPods Max Have Never Been This Cheap, Even Compared to Black Friday, Thanks to Prime Day

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-24 10:50:49

There’s a certain kind of listening experience that sticks with you. It’s the moment a favorite song sounds clearer, fuller, more alive than it ever has before. You know you’re listening to a tune or album that you’ve heard before, but something about it hits much, much harder than usual. That kind of moment is what the AirPods Max were built for. And if you’re looking to try a pair, now’s a good time to buy them now that they’re on sale for Prime Day. ‘ Run to Amazon Prime deal now to get the

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11 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-24 09:00:07

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement 11 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now The Day of the Jackal isn't the only Peacock original you should try.

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PR is your scaling power: Learn from Insight Partners’ Nikki Parker at TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-24 10:15:00

PR and marketing are more than just press releases — they’re powerful tools for attracting investors, customers, and top talent. At TechCrunch All Stage on July 15, Nikki Parker, EVP of Marketing and Communications at global software investor Insight Partners, will break down the essential PR and marketing strategies every startup needs. From crafting compelling narratives and positioning your company for growth and fundraising to building a brand that stands out in a crowded market, this round

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Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so

cnbc.com Samantha Subin Kif Leswing 2025-08-24 14:52:47

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia shares jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom. The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this market value. Nvidia is the wo

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Zoom's AI gets a huge productivity upgrade - here's what it can do now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-24 14:00:14

alexsl/Getty Images Zoom's AI assistant just got another agentic upgrade. The company announced Wednesday that its AI Companion, unveiled close to two years ago, can now connect with 16 third-party apps -- all without forcing the user to leave Zoom. Also: How ChatGPT actually works (and why it's been so game-changing) The AI Companion can now more seamlessly assist sales and customer service professionals, for example, by connecting directly with apps like Salesforce and Zendesk. It can also

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Anker’s 12-in-1 Dock and Monitor Stand Combo Gets a Prime Day Cut as Amazon Clears Out Stock

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-24 14:25:14

Prime Day is a go and Amazon right now is firing off on all cylinders. You can save a ton on a load of different products across every category. This is a great time to browse through some deals and find a cool thing you never thought you needed until you saw it. That for me is this Anker USB-C docking station. Now a docking station isn’t all that special or crazy, but what grabbed my eyes about Anker’s 675 is its shape. This docking station doubles as a monitor stand. Right now, it’s going for

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Apple Didn’t Approve, but Amazon Clears Out AirPods Pro 2 at a Record Low for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-24 14:41:07

AirPods Pro 2 are in stores just a year but already they set the benchmark by which other wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation are judged. On the subject of sound quality, nothing else comes close to holding a candle right now. Normally these earbuds cost $249, but Amazon is offering them over 40% off during Prime Day, reducing the price to as low as $149. This deal is for everyone (and not just Prime members) and it is a rarity for an Apple device. Remember, Apple never really offer

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Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-24 14:16:59

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule was set to take effect next week, and would have required everything from

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Federal ‘click to cancel subscriptions’ rule struck down in court [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-24 18:54:53

A “click to cancel” law was last month passed in California, and now the FTC has ratified a federal rule designed to achieve the same goal. The idea of both is to force companies to make it as easy to cancel an online or app subscription as it is to sign up in the first place. Update: Following a court challenge, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the rule. See update at the end … Both laws were introduced in response to sketchy practices by companies designed to make it as dif

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Orb Is the Internet Speed Test Your Wi-Fi Has Been Waiting For

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-24 17:00:00

Internet speed tests aren't just for people who obsess over their internet connection. When my friends or parents are experiencing an inevitable home internet slowdown, my first recommendation is always to start with a speed test. In fact, I’ve tested and used dozens of internet speed tests -- the market is pretty saturated with them. Ideally, the best internet speed test is one that diagnoses your bandwidth blues as simply as possible -- no ads, no extra features you can’t make sense of, and no

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Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-24 17:20:24

A critical vulnerability allowing hackers to bypass multifactor authentication in network management devices made by Citrix has been actively exploited for more than a month, researchers said. The finding is at odds with advisories from the vendor saying there is no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2025-5777, the vulnerability shares similarities with CVE-2023-4966, a security flaw nicknamed CitrixBleed, which led to the compromise of 20,000 Citrix devices two years ago. The

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Latest Tech News

Amazon Celebrates Prime Day, the New Kindle Color Sees a 40% Drop to Its Lowest Price Yet

OpenAI closes its deal to buy Jony Ive’s io and build AI hardware

Perplexity launches AI-powered web browser for select group of subscribers

Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru

Im Never Splitting AirPods With My Wife Again Thanks to This iPhone Trick

Bluesky gets activity notifications as it tries to lure news and sports users

Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap

If Fitness Is Your Thing, These SHOKZ OpenRun Pro 2 Are Now at Their Best Price Ever

Prime Day and Anker Team Up to Drop the SOLIX C300 Power Bank Station to a Record Low

One UI 8 on Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 brings live captions for phone calls

Samsung’s Audio Eraser now lets you clean up audio in other apps

Z Fold 7? Samsung exec confirms that Galaxy Z Fold 8 is in the works

Routine creation just got super-easy in Samsung SmartThings

I unsubscribed from 20 lists in seconds with Gmail's new tool - here's how to use it

A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL

X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform

A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

Tree Borrows

Prime Day Turns This HP USB-C Dock Into a Practically Free Grab, Now 58% Off and stock Is Moving Fast

Apple AirPods Max Have Never Been This Cheap, Even Compared to Black Friday, Thanks to Prime Day

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PR is your scaling power: Learn from Insight Partners’ Nikki Parker at TechCrunch All Stage

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so

Zoom's AI gets a huge productivity upgrade - here's what it can do now

Anker’s 12-in-1 Dock and Monitor Stand Combo Gets a Prime Day Cut as Amazon Clears Out Stock

Apple Didn’t Approve, but Amazon Clears Out AirPods Pro 2 at a Record Low for Prime Day

Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

Federal ‘click to cancel subscriptions’ rule struck down in court [U]

Orb Is the Internet Speed Test Your Wi-Fi Has Been Waiting For

Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

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