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Facebook is trying to make ‘pokes’ happen again

Technically, the poke never really left Facebook. The classic feature from Facebook’s early days lets users get a friend’s attention with a virtual nudge of sorts. While the poke fell out of use ages ago, the company has more recently seen an uptick in its use among younger users, which has now prompted it to make the poke a more central part of the Facebook experience. Now users are able to poke their friends from a new, dedicated button directly on their Facebook profile, which will alert th

Figma's stock slumps almost 20% after first earnings report to lowest since IPO

Figma shares plummeted nearly 20% on Thursday, falling to the lowest price since the design software vendor's initial public offering in July after the company reported earnings for the first time as a public company. Results for the second quarter were largely in line with expectations, as Figma had issued preliminary results a little over a month ago. Revenue increased 41% from a year earlier to $249.6 million, slightly topping analysts' estimates of $248.8 million, according to LSEG. Analys

Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops nearly 5% on weak guidance

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped nearly 5%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 27%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the

Broadcom reports 63% jump in AI revenue as results beat estimates

Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations and provided robust guidance for the current quarter. The stock was little changed in extended trading. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected Revenue: $15.96 billion versus $15.83 billion expected Broadcom said it expects $17.4 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, higher than the $17.02 billion expected

Waymo to begin testing at San Jose airport this fall

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test-driving robotaxis at its first California-based airport, the company said Thursday. The autonomous car unit has been cleared to begin testing driverless rides at the San José Mineta International Airport in San Jose, California, this fall. Waymo said it plans to offer paid rides at the airport later this year. "With San José at the epicenter of the biggest sporting events of 2026,

Pour one out for the Galaxy Note line as updates come to an end

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has finally ended software support for the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra. The August 2025 patch was their final update, leaving them on One UI 5.1. Fans say they’ll keep using the phones, but the Note line is now officially over. The Galaxy Note series was iconic in its day, but time waits for no device, and now the last models have finally been cut off. Samsung has stopped supporting the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra, with the August 202

9to5Mac Daily: September 4, 2025 – Instagram for iPad, more

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

Apple’s winning AI strategy might come down to three simple words, per CNBC

Earlier this week, Apple received good news when a judge ruled that its lucrative search deal with Google could continue. And per CNBC, the ruling offers Apple a simple, but winning path forward for the iPhone in AI centered around three words: “pay to play.” ‘Pay to play’ could be Apple’s AI solution, modeled after Google search deal With Apple’s $20 billion search deal with Google now seemingly safe, investors see AI as one of the company’s other significant perceived threats. But according

Got a great browser interoperability idea? Apple wants to hear from you

Entries are now open for Interop 2026, a yearly effort where anyone, from users to web developers, can submit their best ideas to improve cross-browser interoperability. Here’s how to participate. Interop started in 2022, when Apple, Bocoup, Google, Italia, Microsoft, and Mozilla came together “to commit to improve interoperability in 15 key areas that will have the most impact on web developer experience.” The project, which stemmed from Google’s Compat initiative, gained enough traction to b

Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform

Sesame Street creator Sesame Workshop and YouTube have announced a new "extended partnership" that will bring episodes of the iconic children's show to the platform and a series of workshops for creators on "how to create content that is entertaining while also promoting learning." This new YouTube partnership joins an existing Netflix deal to stream new episodes of Sesame Street starting in November. According to YouTube, it'll now have a catalog of "hundreds of full episodes" of the show, on

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Doug Wilson/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. If, like my ZDNET colleague David Gerwitz and I, you were tinkering with computers in 1975, you badly wanted an MITS Altair 8080 computer, the first PC. To build software on it, most of us used Altair BASIC. A pair of

Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable green robot - try it for free

Androidify / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Androidify app lets you customize your own Android bot. You can use a photo or enter a text prompt. There's an app and a browser version of the tool. If you're an Android die-hard, Google is giving you a fun new way to express your fandom. For more than 15 years, a small green robot (a.k.a. Bugdroid) has been the official mascot of the Android operating system. Several versions of the mascot

Free ChatGPT users just got a powerful Project upgrade to better organize their chats

OpenAI Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT Free can now access Projects. Allows users to stay more organized, serving as a hub for content. Updates also include larger file uploads, memory controls, and more. Since its popularity exploded, ChatGPT has undergone many upgrades, including a sleek UI redesign. However, one terribly pesky thing that has remained the same for free users is how chats are organized, automatically populating the lef

Samsung unveils 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD - and the heatsink will cost you extra!

Samsung 8TB 9100 Pro SSD Samsung/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways An 8TB PCIe SSD that's offered with or without a heatsink. Read and write speeds of up to 14,800 and 13,400 MB/s, respectively. Perfect for laptops and desktop with PCIe 5.0, and PlayStation 5. Looking for an 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD? Well you're in luck, because Samsung has announced an 8TB variant of its excellent 9100 Pro M.2 2280 SSD. But such an impressive SSD is going to come wi

Kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library

kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library I love doing experiments - side projects to my side projects, for fun or out of necessity. Sometimes those experiments and end up in something useful, other times - not so much. Let me tell you about one of the latter projects - about terminals, user interfaces, and trade-offs. Here's the source code, though beware - it's raw. My programming spare time is dedicated mostly towards kartoffels, a game of mine where you're implementing firmwares for tiny robots

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Mangrove Restoration Frustration (2021)

If any single event was a watershed for conservation of the world's mangrove forests, it was the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The day after Christmas that year, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake thundered along a fault line on the ocean floor with a force that sent waves — some a hundred feet high — surging toward the densely populated coasts encircling the Indian Ocean. The disaster took more than 225,000 lives. In the aftermath of the tsunami, some scientists reported that settlements behind swampy

16-inch softball

Variant of softball 16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball,[1] cabbageball,[2][3] puffball, blooperball, smushball,[4] and Chicago ball[5][6]) is a variant of softball, but using a larger ball that gradually becomes softer the more the ball is hit, and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders. It more closely resembles the original game as developed in Chicago in the 19th century by George Hancock, and today it remains most popular in Chicago,[7] New Orleans, Atlanta, and P

Saquon Barkley is playing for equity

Saquon Barkley calls me, but he’s distracted. In the background, two little voices shout “Bye, friends!” as Barkley wrangles his kids, Jada, 7, and Saquon Jr., 3, into the car. He apologizes, then explains they’re headed to an Old Spice photo shoot tied to his latest endorsement — a Saquon-branded shampoo and conditioner called “Saquon Soar.” It’s a cinematic image: one of the NFL’s biggest stars juggling dad duty and the demands of a sponsorship. But Barkley isn’t content to just cash checks a

How we built an interpreter for Swift

Bitrig dynamically generates and runs Swift apps on your phone. Normally this would require compiling and signing with Xcode, and you can’t do that on an iPhone. To make it possible to instantly run your app, we built a Swift interpreter. But it’s an unusual interpreter, since it interprets from Swift… to Swift. One of the top questions we’ve gotten is how it’s implemented, so we wanted to share how it works. To make this more accessible and interesting, we simplified some of the more esoteric

Action was the best 8-bit programming language

There were many programming languages available for 8-bit computers, the most common being BASIC and Assembly Language, but there were also other lesser-used languages such as Logo, Forth, and Pilot. The languages that would go on to dominate 16-bit computing, C and Pascal, were also available but were usually severely limited. An 8-bit computer generally did not have enough horsepower to run those more complex language compilers. By 1983 Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was renown in the Atari

WiFi signals can measure heart rate

Home Health WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed Engineers prove their technique is effective even with the lowest-cost WiFi devices Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Photos by Erika Cardema/UC Santa Cruz Press Inquiries Press Contact Media Access Access Paper Key takeaways The Pulse-Fi system is highly accurate, achieving clinical-level heart rate monitoring

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Oscar Isaac Will Bring a ‘Rock Star’ Energy to His Victor Frankenstein

Entertainment Weekly recently sat down with Oscar Isaac to discuss Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein movie, which will hit theaters in October before rolling out on Netflix. While the article breaks down the overall thrust of the movie—namely, that Dr. Frankenstein is haunted by the specter of an abusive father (Charles Dance), prompting him to create new life in an attempt to break the chains of generational trauma more than scientific achievement—the piece hones in on Isaac’s quote that his po

RIP to Horror Icon Scott Spiegel, Co-Writer of ‘Evil Dead II’

You might not immediately recognize the name Scott Spiegel, but if you—like most horror fans—are a sworn devotee of the legendary splatter comedy Evil Dead II, you are well familiar with his work. Spiegel, who passed away this week at age 67, co-wrote that film with a buddy of his since high school: director Sam Raimi. He had also acted in Within the Woods, Raimi’s proof-of-concept that later helped him make the first Evil Dead. Spiegel’s other credits include co-writing the Clint Eastwood thri

COVID vaccine locations vanish from Google Maps due to supposed “technical issue”

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic is now five years in the rearview mirror, but its effects continue to reverberate. While those leading the US healthcare system have embraced conspiracy theories and junk science to justify a reduced focus on vaccines (particularly the COVID jab) many people are still seeking out immunization. Google Maps isn't a good way to find it, though. In recent days, almost all search results for COVID vaccines have vanished from Google Maps. In both the mobile app and

How ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

Since 2021, Araraura has been a watchdog for the game Silksong. He posts daily clips on his YouTube channel, aptly named Daily Silksong News, for viewers seeking the latest on Team Cherry’s hotly anticipated Hollow Knight sequel. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much to report. A quick scroll of the channel’s thumbnails reveals that most feature a fat, red lettered “NO.” A few here and there offer “YES,” or “KINDA,” but the majority of videos play the same: a brief introduction, followed by, “

The 35 Best Movies on HBO Max Right Now (September 2025)

As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, HBO Max—is best known for its impressive lineup of original series. The network has also been upping the ante with feature-length content that is the stuff of Oscar dreams. Below is a list of some of our favorite films streaming on HBO Max—from Oscar-winning epics to dystopian sci-fi classics. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our picks for the best shows on HBO Max. If you’re loo

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TED leader’s $300M ‘valley of death’ fund might be just what later-stage climate tech needs

Like many startups, climate tech companies often face a “valley of death” that lies between early stage funding and growth capital that helps proven technologies reach commercial scale. But because climate tech startups are often hardware focused — physical problems tend to require physical solutions, after all — this valley of death tends to be a lot wider. Financing a first-of-a-kind power plant or factory can cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, a new fund hopes to bridge this

Google’s Veo 3 lands in Photos, and you don’t need a $250 plan to try it

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is upgrading its image-to-video tool with the Veo 3 AI model. The update creates four-second, silent clips with free but limited use for most subscribers. AI Pro and AI Ultra users get more generations. Google Photos has been making moves to make your snapshots feel more alive, and the tech giant is about to take things one step further. The app’s image-to-video feature is getting an upgrade powered by Google’s latest AI video model, Veo