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Pixel 10 Pro XL proves its got the strength to match its software update promise

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel 10 Pro XL has passed JerryRigEverything’s durability test with flying colors. The YouTuber called it the toughest Pixel ever built. Still, if you plan to use the device for seven years, it’s a good idea to slap on a screen protector or use a cover that protects the display. Google’s Pixel 10 Pro XL has gone through the popular JerryRigEverything stress check, and the results show a phone that might be the toughest Pixel Google has ever built.

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This Macintosh programming book library will take you back, even if you weren’t there for it

Over the weekend, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber linked to a fantastic collection of early Macintosh programming books (via Michael Tsai). It is a carefully assembled catalog of more than 150 books from as early as 1983, covering everything from AppleSoft BASIC, to gaming programming for the Mac. Even if you weren’t around for any of that, believe me: this will be worth your time. A great collection of 150+ early Mac books Here’s how VintageApple.org describes how the Vintage Macintosh Program

Ring Outdoor Cam Plus hits its record-low price at just $69.99!

Peace of mind has no price, but if you play your cards right, you can secure your home on the cheap. The Ring Outdoor Cam Plus is currently at the most affordable price we’ve seen, saving you 30% off the retail price. Buy the Ring Outdoor Cam Plus for just $69.99 ($30 off) This offer is available directly from Amazon, which also owns Ring. The sale is labeled as a “limited time deal,” and the discount applies to both the Black and White color versions. You can also pick between the battery-powe

Rumor: AirPods Pro 3 features may not all arrive at launch

While we expect Apple to unveil AirPods Pro 3 alongside iPhone 17 and Apple Watch Series 11 next week, there’s one new feature that may not be ready for showtime. An anonymous source claims in a tip to 9to5Mac that AirPods Pro 3 will indeed feature two health sensors. Heart rate sensing has long been rumored, and after appearing on Beats Powerbeats Pro 2, the feature addition has been a lock. The other health sensor, previously floated as a possibility, is said by the anonymous tipster to be

My favorite projector from Samsung doubles as a gaming hub, and it's discounted for Labor Day

Allison Murray/ZDNET The Samsung Freestyle 2 projector is on sale for $341 off when you purchase it at Walmart, making the new price $459 over Labor Day weekend. Also: The best Labor Day deals live now ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Freestyle 2 is a solid projector available for $800. Sharp image quality, an internal battery, and the ability to play games without a console make this projector ultraportable. The second-generation feature upgrades are geared toward gaming, which may not b

Beats Studio Pro deal: $170 off, still the best Beats headphones

We know many of you are Beats fans, and the Beats Studio Pro are still the best headphones the brand has to offer. If you’ve been looking to get these awesome cans, today is your lucky day. You can catch a 170.04 discount today! Buy the Beats Studio Pro for just $179.95 ($170.04 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The maximum savings only apply to the Navy color version. All other colors cost $199.95, except for the Sand Gray model, which has no discount. Beats Studio Pro Beats Studio Pr

The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales

PSA: There’s now a companion podcast! We go into way more detail on YouTube / Spotify! I have now watched hundreds of founders’ sales calls. And in every single founder’s call, I find the same foundational error playing out in a thousand different ways. It causes the founder (and the potential customer) a world of pain. If you feel uncomfortable selling, or if your sales calls don’t feel smooth, this is probably why. We all seem to have the most basic misconception about sales, a backwards ide

The ABC Programming Language

The ABC Programming Language: a short introduction (Also available in Japanese) New: The Origins of Python - An article by Lambert Meertens on the origins of ABC, and its influence on Python. New: Implementation for the Raspberry Pi!. The ABC Programmer's Handbook is available online. ABC is an interactive programming language and environment for personal computing, originally intended as a good replacement for BASIC. It was designed by first doing a task analysis of the programming task.

Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)

last updated on 6 Apr 2024 Being both a musician and a software engineer, I always felt that these two areas are almost completely separated. My developer skill-set seemed to have little to no use for my work as a musician. Which is a pity considering how cool it would be if there was some kind of a sinergy across these two sides of my life. Recently, though, I have found a useful possibility to utilize something I previously used solely for my development work, namely, git, the version contro

MLS Season Pass price drops to $29 for rest of 2025

Like in previous years, Apple is dropping the price of the MLS Season Pass service as the year progresses. The annual sub is now just $29 for the rest of the 2025 season. That price is further discounted to $25 for Apple TV+ subscribers. The price change affects the 2025 season pass only, the monthly plan price remains the same. The price will return to its usual $99 at the beginning of the 2026 season. Note that MLS Season Pass will automatically renew at the standard price next year. However

Is the Pixel 10 Pro XL’s speaker good enough to replace my Bluetooth speaker? I did the test

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The Pixel 10 Pro-series is out, and I’ve been using the entire lineup for the last few days. But most of my time has been spent with the Pixel 10 Pro XL for a good reason. You see, while most of the attention is understandably going to the upgraded camera shenanigans or Google’s AI features, there’s a rather underrated upgrade that has my attention. This year, Google says it has seriously upped its game with the speakers on the Pixel 10 Pro, and I wanted to see

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Pixel 10 benchmarks show how little ground Google’s Tensor G5 has gained

Now that we finally know what Google’s new Tensor G5 processor is made of, it’s about time we compare it against the best in the business. For today’s benchmarking session, I’ve grabbed rival handsets to compare against the more budget-friendly $799 Pixel 10 and the top-of-the-line, $1,199 Pixel 10 Pro XL. I don’t think anyone has particularly high hopes that the Pixel 10 series is going to contend for the performance crown. Google is far more focused on AI and features than traditional perform

Labor Day Apple deals: Save on M4 MacBook Air/Pro, iPad, AirPods, accessories, more

Labor Day has arrived and we are tracking a sizable collection of notable discounts over at 9to5Toys across both Apple’s current lineup and some previous-gen gear. There is as much as $300 off just about all of the most popular M4 MacBook Pro models and $200 in savings on M4 MacBook Air, alongside discounts across the M3 iPad Air and iPad mini 7 lineups. Deals on AirPods 4 are also up for grabs today with the base set coming very close to the lowest price we have tracked all-time and there are e

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Bash Prompts Collection

Bash Prompts This web page is a child of the Bash Prompt HOWTO that I'm maintaining for the Linux Documentation Project. The HOWTO explains a lot more than I'm going to here. My interest in Bash Prompts developed when I found "The BashPrompt Themes Project (now long deceased). Some of their prompts show up here, and a lot of what I've done shows the influence of their work. I started these pages because so many people have been mailing me cool prompts that I couldn't see putting them all in t

Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: Here's the clear winner after testing both

Joseph Maldonado and Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold has finally arrived, and it isn't taking on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 with a generational design leap. Instead, it competes by adding quality-of-life features -- a couple of which are industry-firsts for a foldable phone. If you are ready to upgrade from a slab phone to a foldable one, now is the best time to do so. However, it can be confusing to make a decision when both Google and Samsung book-style foldables are so good this year.

BYD shares slide as China's EV price war hits profits

BYD shares slide as China's EV price war hits profits The Shenzhen-based manufacturer is facing an increasingly crowded market, competing against local rivals Nio and XPeng and US carmaker Tesla, which have all slashed prices to draw buyers. BYD said in its filing that "increased price competition" among China's EV brands had impacted the industry. The carmaker had on Friday reported that its net profit fell to 6.4bn yuan ($900m; £660m) between April and June, down 30% from a year earlier. S

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The Pixel 10 Pro is technically cheaper than the Pixel 10, at least for me

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’m in the market for a new phone, and while I told myself I wouldn’t spend more than $500 on it, I’m a tech nerd and have to say that the latest Pixels look very appealing. I prefer smaller phones, and the entry-level Pixel 10 has all the features I want and need, and then some. I don’t see myself spending an extra $200 on the similarly sized Pro model, as the price difference isn’t worth it for me. But here’s the kicker: The Pixel 10 Pro is actually cheaper

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Ford and the Birth of the Model T

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Origins of Efficiency, out September 23rd. Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US cost more than $2,000, and it seemed nearly unimaginable that a car with the capabilities of the Model N could cost so little. In 1906, the year the Model N was introduced, Ford sold 8,500 of them, making the

A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

Process Monitor for Linux (Preview) Process Monitor (Procmon) is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscall activity on the system. Installation & Usage Requirements OS: Ubuntu 18.04 lts cmake >= 3.14 (build-time only) >= 3.14 (build-time only) libsqlite3-dev >= 3.22 (build-time only) Install Procmon Please see installation instructions here. B

Here’s what we’re expecting with future generations of Apple Vision Pro: roadmap

There have been a plethora of varying rumors for Apple’s next generation spatial computer. Is Apple prioritizing a cheaper model, or going all out with a second generation Pro model? We’ll summarize all of the Vision headset rumors here today. Next-gen Vision Pro In the coming months, Apple will be announcing a spec bump for the Apple Vision Pro. Rumors have fluctuated on whether or not it’ll include an M4 chip or an M5 chip, though things are currently leaning towards the upcoming M5 chip. Th

Spacing Over Cards

This post is a rationalisation of “I don’t like cards”. I say that in most cases where cards are used, they don’t need to be used. Specifically, they take space, they let you skip gestalt principles and be lazy and undisciplined, and being so easy to implement they are often used by developers. To multiply the effect, you can put a card into a card, and it seems so hard not to do so. We recognise patterns. This is known for quite some time, specifically Wertheimer in 1923 wrote the paper that e

Growing Up on Alcatraz

On a gray May morning — that’s to say a typical San Francisco May morning — in 2014, my mother, my wife, and I convened at Pier 33 to ride to Alcatraz, along with a literal boatload of tourists. But we were on a secret mission. Hours earlier, before leaving the Peninsula, I had opened the box containing my father’s ashes and portioned out perhaps a pint of the coarse, bone-white powder. I’m afraid we hadn’t planned with an eye for ceremony. There were no satin or fine linen sachets; just Ziplo

Premier League Soccer: Stream Brighton vs. Man City Live From Anywhere

Having suffered an early setback last weekend, Manchester City will look to get back to winning ways on Sunday as it travels to the south coast to play a Brighton team looking for their first English Premier League victory of the campaign. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. After taking plaudits for their impressive opening day 4-0 dem

eBPF 101: Your First Step into Kernel Programming

eBPF has revolutionized Linux observability and security by allowing sandboxed programs to run in the kernel without changing kernel source code or loading modules I. What is this eBPF? It looks scary! Have you wanted to write programs that act as drivers for Linux? Wanted programs to run at a kernel level? Wanted to monitor events, internal resources and get better observability? All you need to know is how to make good use of Linux eBPF. eBPF is a technology in the Linux kernel that can run

A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings

Suppose we ask an LLM: “Can you tell me about Java?” What “Java” is the model thinking about? The programming language or the Indonesian island? To answer this question, we can try to understand what is going on inside the model. Specifically, we want to represent the model’s internal states in a human-interpretable way by finding the concepts that the model is thinking about. One approach to this problem is to phrase it as a dictionary learning problem, in which we try to decompose complex emb

I Love How Streamlined the Excellent Pixel 9 Pro Is, and It’s $99 Off for Labor Day

Labor Day deal: The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently down to $900 at Best Buy, which is a $99 savings. While it's not the lowest price we've seen, it's still a decent discount thanks to Labor Day sales. Plus, Best Buy has a trade-in program that could save you hundreds more. We don't know how long this offer will last so if you've been wanting this phone, it may well be worth picking one up this weekend. CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $99 off After months

iPhone 17 Event Predictions: What to Expect Next Week

There is nothing in this world that is certain, except for death, taxes and the reveal of a new iPhone every year. Invites have already gone out to attendees of Apple's Awe Dropping iPhone 17 event. And while we're still deciphering what is being teased by the Apple logo heatmap, we've already seen a lot of the expected product lineup through leaked photos and rumors. In addition to the base model, you can expect an iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max and a slim version, nicknamed the iPhone 17 Air to be

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