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Apple shipped its 3 billionth iPhone

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-12-20 00:35:40

is a reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Apple has been the target of a fair amount of criticism over the past year, from its AI missteps to a strong distaste for its new design ethos. But the numbers don’t lie, and if Apple knows how to do anything it’s sell iPhones. Specifically, three billion of them, as CEO Tim Cook announced on the company’s earnings call tod

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Tim Cook: Apple just sold its three-billionth iPhone

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-12-20 05:32:12

Apple reported its fiscal Q3 2025 earnings today, beating analyst expectations in key categories like revenue, earnings per share, iPhone revenue, and more. During a call with analysts today, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple has just crossed another major milestone: shipping its three-billionth iPhone since its launch in 2007. For those keeping track at home, Apple shipped its one-billionth iPhone back in July 2016, nine years after the release of the first iPhone. At the time, Cook tout

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Apple stock gets a cautious boost after beating Q3 expectations

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-20 05:57:25

Apple shares are up around 3% in after-hours trading, following the company’s fiscal Q3 2025 earnings report, which topped Wall Street expectations. Wall Street cautiously optimistic on strong earnings A few moments ago, Apple posted $94.04 billion in revenue for the June quarter, up 10% year over year, and ahead of what analysts had projected. Still, the market response has been measured, with shares up around 3% after hours. This could suggest investors had largely anticipated a strong quar

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Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-20 05:05:48

Australia is famous for hosting the weirdest creatures we’ve ever seen. Sometimes, these weird creatures also come extra-large—like the newly discovered stick insect that researchers believe may be the heaviest of all Aussie insects. The insect, named Acrohylla alta, is about 15 inches (40 centimeters) long—about the height of a bowling pin—and weighs around 0.1 pounds (44 grams), slightly lighter than the heaviest golf ball. In a recent Zootaxa paper, wildlife researchers Angus Emmott and Ross

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Reddit wants to be a search engine now

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-20 05:01:14

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people — it’s already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But Reddit is also investing in improving its own search capabilities, and in its latest note to investors, CEO Steve Huffman says that the company is “concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results f

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Roblox stock soars 10% after revenue beat, strong user growth

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-20 10:01:33

Roblox stock soared 10% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter revenue that beat expectations amid strong user growth. The gaming platform saw $1.44 billion in net bookings, up 51% over the year prior. Analysts polled by LSEG expected $1.24 billion in net bookings for the quarter. User and engagement numbers were also strong for the company, with daily active users at 111.8 million, up 41% year over year, and hours engaged at 27.4 billion, up 58%. StreetAccount expected 106 mil

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Reddit shares jump 20% on second-quarter sales and guidance beat

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-20 10:45:51

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hugs mascot Snoo as Reddit begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 21, 2024. Reddit shares jumped as much as 20% after the company reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat on sales and guidance. Here's how the company did compared with LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 45 cents vs. 19 cents expected 45 cents vs. 19 cents expected Revenue: $500 million vs. $426 million expected Reddit's sales grew 78% year-over-year in the second quar

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Deal: Netgear 4G LTE Broadband Modem turns mobile data into your home internet

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 10:24:44

Digital nomads will know the struggle of having reliable internet. Well, for those constantly on the move, the most common internet solutions are either Starlink or cellular data. And we’re not referring to just using your smartphone hotspot feature. It’s often better to have a dedicated mobile data device like the Netgear 4G LTE Broadband Modem (LM1200), which is currently on sale for a mere $19.99! Buy the Netgear 4G LTE Broadband Modem LM1200 for just $19.99 ($30 off) This offer is available

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Pixel Buds 2a leak spoils the last mystery leading up to Google’s launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 15:29:18

TL;DR The Pixel Buds 2a have leaked. The renders show Google’s earbuds in the new Iris colorway. The Pixel Buds 2a are also believed to come in Fog Light, Hazel, and Strawberry colors. In the next few weeks, we’ll be saying hello to Google’s new hardware. The launch should include the Pixel 10 series, the Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2a. While there have been plenty of leaks about the next generation Pixel phones and smartwatch, we haven’t heard much about these new earbuds. That starts to c

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AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser

news.ycombinator.com Elroy Team 2025-12-20 12:01:37

AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser¶ A reshaped learning curve¶ Before AI, learners faced a matching problem: learning resources have to be created with a target audience in mind. This means as a consumer, learning resources were suboptimal fits for you: You're a newbie at $topic_of_interest , but have knowledge in related topic $related_topic . But finding learning resources that teach $topic_of_interest in terms of $related_topic is difficult. , but have knowledge in related topic .

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Death Row Inmate’s Attorneys Say Heart Implant Will Repeatedly Shock Him as He’s Executed

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-20 15:30:06

Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will repeatedly shock him during his execution, torturing him by trying to keep him alive as he’s killed by lethal injection. A judge ordered the device deactivated, but a local hospital in Nashville now says it won’t participate, according to a report from the Associated Press. Byron Black, 69, received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in May 2024, which works

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Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-20 15:23:07

It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: If you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only include URLs from the domain “https://chatgpt.com/share,” you can find strangers’ conversations with ChatGPT. Sometimes, these shared conversation links are pretty dull — people ask for help renovating their bathroom, understanding astrophysics, and finding recipe ideas. In another case, one user asks ChatGPT to rewrite their resume for a particular job application (judgin

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You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-20 18:41:50

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology. While many other major rival AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI that have l

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AI Is a Floor Raiser, Not a Ceiling Raiser

news.ycombinator.com Elroy Team 2025-12-20 18:01:37

AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser¶ A reshaped learning curve¶ Before AI, learners faced a matching problem: learning resources have to be created with a target audience in mind. This means as a consumer, learning resources were suboptimal fits for you: You're a newbie at $topic_of_interest , but have knowledge in related topic $related_topic . But finding learning resources that teach $topic_of_interest in terms of $related_topic is difficult. , but have knowledge in related topic .

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Google AI Model Helps Us See the Planet as We Never Have Before

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 18:14:00

It's a view of Mother Earth as we've never seen her, and it just might help us solve some our most existential issues. Google has launched a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations, which can take images and measurements from satellites and other sources to create current and accurate digital representations of lands and waters. With all this data, scientists and researchers can monitor problems like water scarcity, deforestation and crop health. Google says AlphaEarth's AI modeling has alr

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NVIDIA is ending support for its GTX 10-, 9- and 7-series GPUs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 00:31:12

NVIDIA is calling time on its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, with one last significant driver release scheduled for October. This means that all graphics cards belonging to the GeForce GTX 7-, 9- and 10-series categories will only receive quarterly security updates beyond the October cutoff, with support ending entirely three years later in 2028. While they’ll still work after that, they won’t be optimized for new games and are more vulnerable to technical exploits. NVIDIA described its 11-yea

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Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 23:47:54

Since announcing the general availability of our Gemini Embedding text model, we've seen developers rapidly adopt it to build advanced AI applications. Beyond traditional use cases like classification, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), many are now using a technique called context engineering to provide AI agents with complete operational context. Embeddings are crucial here, as they efficiently identify and integrate vital information—like documents, conversation histor

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Radioactive Wasp Nest Found in Decommissioned Nuclear Weapons Plant

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-21 00:15:30

As if wasps couldn’t get any scarier, a chilling discovery near Aiken, South Carolina, suggests they’re comfortable making their nest in a former nuclear bomb facility. On July 3, employees conducting a regular checkup of radiation levels at the Savannah River Site (SRS)—a former nuclear weapons production facility dating back to the 1950s—found themselves staring down at something that probably should not have been there. That something was a wasp nest measuring more than 10 times the federall

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Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-21 05:23:00

In context: Online censorship can take many forms and due to its dominance in web search, Google has traditionally been the primary target. A recently uncovered case highlights the lengths to which reputation management companies will go, as well as Google's vulnerability to sophisticated censorship tactics. Someone successfully censored a pair of uncomfortable articles that were previously accessible through Google Search. The unknown party exploited a clever trick along with a bug in Google's

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Don’t worry, Samsung’s Android XR headset is still launching this year

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 05:17:28

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR During its most recent earnings call, Samsung has re-confirmed that its Project Moohan Android XR headset is launching “this year.” Samsung has previously hinted at a 2025 release date, and this is the latest confirmation that it’s still on track. An earlier report suggested Project Moohan could be released as early as October. Samsung has had a busy 2025, launching the Galaxy S25 series at the start of the year and most recently releasing the Galaxy Z F

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How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-21 05:03:16

Image credit: @ionut.stefan.92ish Română In today’s post, I’d like to draw your attention to an absolutely amazing book on the topic of Alzheimer’s disease. Written by Prof. Karl Herrup, professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, “How Not to Study a Disease – The Story of Alzheimer’s” takes the reader on a journey of Alzheimer’s research from its inception by Alois Alzheimer to the contemporary understanding of this devastating condition. This is not just an

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U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:55:16

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers. After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on

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Arm stock tumbles on chip designer's muted profit forecast

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-21 10:42:57

Shares of Arm Holdings plunged 12% on Thursday after the chip designer offered muted guidance for earnings. Second-quarter adjusted earnings will be between 29 cents and 37 cents per share, Arm said late Wednesday. Wall Street had projected 35 cents per share. The company forecast second-quarter revenue of $1.01 billion to $1.11 billion, which was in line with consensus estimates of $1.05 billion. The concerning outlook was amplified by commentary from Arm CEO Rene Haas, who indicated the com

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Workers Find Radioactive Wasp Nest at Nuclear Facility, But the Wasps Are Missing

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-21 10:09:50

"I'm as mad as a hornet..." Green Hornet Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a highly radioactive wasp nest. As CBS News reports, staff at the Savannah River Site (SRS) discovered the unusual nest earlier this month near tanks filled with liquid nuclear waste. An official Department of Energy occurrence report lists the nest as showing contamination levels that are "greater than ten times" what is deemed safe by federal regul

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Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster with co-op

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 10:56:22

The iconic tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted heads to the Switch and Switch 2 on October 23, as revealed during this morning's Nintendo Direct livestream. As the name suggests, it's a remake of the very first PvZ game, going all the way back to 2009. This is the first time we're seeing a version of the original title on a Nintendo platform since the DS . This is more than just a simple HD refresh. The graphics have been upscaled, whi

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Roblox stock soars 16% after revenue beat, strong user growth

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-21 15:01:59

Roblox stock soared 16% Thursday after the company reported second-quarter revenue that beat expectations amid strong user growth. The gaming platform saw $1.44 billion in net bookings, up 51% over the year prior. Analysts polled by LSEG expected $1.24 billion in net bookings for the quarter. User and engagement numbers were also strong for the company, with daily active users at 111.8 million, up 41% year-over-year, and hours engaged at 27.4 billion, up 58% year-over-year. StreetAccount expe

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After laying off 15,000 employees, Microsoft reveals Xbox Game Pass revenue hit nearly $5 billion

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-21 20:57:00

What just happened? Despite Microsoft laying off over 15,000 employees so far this year, the company has just revealed that revenue from its Xbox Game Pass service reached almost $5 billion for the first time over the last year. Overall company revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter was up 18%, while net income jumped 24%. Microsoft's Xbox content and services revenue, which include Xbox Game Pass, was up 13% for the quarter. CEO Satya Nadella said on an earnings call that Game Pass revenue had

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Google's 'virtual satellite' AI model can provide a near real-time view of Earth

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 20:30:55

Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." The model uses a system called "embedding," which works by taking big volumes of pubic information from various sources every day, such as optical satellites, radars and climate simulations, and then combining them all together. It then divides lands and coastal waters into 10x10 meter squares, which it then analyzes and tracks over time. As Wired explains, these squares are c

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GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

news.ycombinator.com Grigory Sapunov 2025-12-21 16:57:58

Authors: Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu, Noah Ziems, Rishi Khare, Krista Opsahl-Ong, Arnav Singhvi, Herumb Shandilya, Michael J Ryan, Meng Jiang, Christopher Potts, Koushik Sen, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Ion Stoica, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Omar Khattab Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457 TL;DR What was done? The authors introduced GEPA (Genetic-Pareto), a novel algorithm for optimizing prompts in complex, multi-module AI systems. Instead of relying on traditional reinforceme

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Weirdly Hot Rocks in New England Traced to 80-Million-Year-Old Greenland Rift

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-21 20:40:31

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), a mysterious 218-mile-wide (350-km) region of unusually hot rock. Researchers have long believed that the NAA resulted from the plate tectonic movement that broke North America off northwest Africa 180 million years ago. In a new study published Tuesday in the journal Geology, however, a team of international researchers argue that the hot, subsurface rock

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Apple shipped its 3 billionth iPhone

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Apple stock gets a cautious boost after beating Q3 expectations

Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

Reddit wants to be a search engine now

Roblox stock soars 10% after revenue beat, strong user growth

Reddit shares jump 20% on second-quarter sales and guidance beat

Deal: Netgear 4G LTE Broadband Modem turns mobile data into your home internet

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Death Row Inmate’s Attorneys Say Heart Implant Will Repeatedly Shock Him as He’s Executed

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You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

AI Is a Floor Raiser, Not a Ceiling Raiser

Google AI Model Helps Us See the Planet as We Never Have Before

NVIDIA is ending support for its GTX 10-, 9- and 7-series GPUs

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Workers Find Radioactive Wasp Nest at Nuclear Facility, But the Wasps Are Missing

Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster with co-op

Roblox stock soars 16% after revenue beat, strong user growth

After laying off 15,000 employees, Microsoft reveals Xbox Game Pass revenue hit nearly $5 billion

Google's 'virtual satellite' AI model can provide a near real-time view of Earth

GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

Weirdly Hot Rocks in New England Traced to 80-Million-Year-Old Greenland Rift

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