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Why I wear this $150 smartwatch even after testing competing Samsung and Garmin models

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-12-29 06:39:00

Amazfit Balance ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazfit Balance smartwatch is available now for $150. It features a sleek and stylish design with a brilliant AMOLED display, accurate GPS, and a list of health-tracking features. Just be prepared for the data-heavy companion app, which will take some time to familiarize with. $129.99 at Amazon As a wearables reviewer here on ZDNET, I've been spoiled by the opportunity to test out flagship smartwatches from Apple, Samsung, Garmin, Coros, and many othe

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KMPlayer is a powerful media player with broad format support

techspot.com Unknown 2025-12-29 11:48:00

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The new KMPlayer is a player optimized for high-end PCs such as 8K and 60FPS. It is a powerful player that plays all the files such as 4K, 8K, 60FPS, and has greatly improved performance to incre

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Firefly Aerospace sets IPO range that would value rocket maker at $5.5 billion

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-29 11:06:25

Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sits for an interview at the Firefly Aerospace mission operations center in Leander, Texas, on July 9, 2025. Firefly Aerospace will price shares at $35 to $39 each in its upcoming initial public offering, a deal that would value the rocket maker at about $5.5 billion. The Texas-based space company said in an updated prospectus Monday that it's planning to sell about 16.2 million shares. The offering could raise up to $631.8 million. Earlier this month, Firefly

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Fitbit Charge 6 gets new watch faces to give you more data at a glance

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 11:28:24

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR An update brings new clock faces to the Fitbit Charge 6 These clock faces are called Axira, Geometric, and Momentum. The update also expands compatibility between the Charge 6 and exercise machines. If you own a Fitbit Charge 6, get ready for a little surprise today. The fitness tracker is getting an update that will introduce new watch faces and expand compatibility. An update is also coming for the Inspire 3, Sense 2, and Versa 4. On its community

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Internet running slow? 3 things I always check first for faster Wi-Fi speeds at home

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-29 11:00:00

Cesar Cadenas/ZDNET Nearly every part of modern life depends on our connection to the internet. When my provider experiences an outage, everything grinds to a halt -- working remotely via VPN, streaming music on Spotify, and even using smart home devices. It's a stark reminder of how much we rely on the invisible network that keeps us connected. Almost every aspect of modern life is affected by our connectivity to the Web. Also: Is your Roku TV spying on you? Probably, but here's how to put a

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The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-29 16:05:25

People across the United Kingdom have been faced with a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape since the country introduced its latest digital safety rules on Friday. The Online Safety Act mandates that web service operators must use “highly effective” age verification measures to stop kids from accessing a wide range of material, on penalty of heavy fines and criminal action against senior managers. It’s primarily focused on pornography and content that promotes suicide, self-har

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Microsoft starts rolling out Xbox age verification in the UK

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-29 16:29:38

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act by prompting Xbox players to verify their age today. The prompts will be shown to Xbox players who indicate they’re over the age of 18 and will be shown when you sign into an Xbox account in the UK. Microsoft says it’s also exploring bringing similar age verification tools to other countries in the future. To powe

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Figma raises IPO range to $30-$32 per share, in deal that could value company at nearly $19 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-29 21:35:13

Elena Nadolinski, founder and CEO at Iron Fish, and Dylan Field, CEO and co-founder of Figma, attend the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 7, 2022. Design software maker Figma on Monday increased the expected price range for shares in its initial public offering this week. The company now expects shares to go for $30 to 32 each, up from the range of $25 to $28 that it disclosed on July 21. The new range, announced in a regulatory filing, suggests F

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Our Terrifying First Look at Jacob Elordi in Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is Here

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-29 21:00:12

Much like Frankenstein’s monster itself, the monster at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a mash-up of inspirations. There’s Boris Karloff, the original and most famous Frankenstein. There’s artist Bernie Wrightson, whose illustrations of the character greatly impacted del Toro. There’s Mary Shelley, of course, whose novel the film is based on. And then there’s make-up artist Mike Hill and the actor under that make-up, Jacob Elordi, who you see above in the first official image

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Mysterious Petroglyphs Reemerge on Oahu Beach

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-29 21:20:46

Shifting sands have once again revealed mysterious petroglyphs on the shores of a remote group of islands. The carvings appear and disappear depending on the water current, sometimes remaining hidden for years at a time before returning like a divine omen. But they’re not (as far as we know) an auspice, and this isn’t a fantasy movie. The petroglyphs are carved in sandstone along a beach on Oahu’s west coast, in front of a U.S. Army recreation center, and could be over 1,000 years old, as first

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Preparing for a Layoff in Today's Economy: What to Do Before You Lose Your Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 20:19:51

As employers downsize and slash budgets, fear of layoffs is escalating. Tharon Green/CNET Workers are facing a challenging economy and a tough job market as companies pull back on investment and trim budgets. Nearly half (46%) of US employees are anxious about layoffs in the next year, according to a survey by Indeed. The Trump administration's cuts across federal agencies, health organizations and nonprofits have led to hundreds of thousands of layoffs. Mass reductions in force are also happe

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Sony details its ‘FlexStrike’ wireless PS5 fight stick

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-29 21:26:07

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Sony has shared more details about its arcade-style controller for the PlayStation that was first teased during the State of Play event in early June. Originally codenamed Project Defiant, the fight stick is now called the FlexStrike and features a rechargeable battery, mechanical switch buttons, restrictor gates that limit the joystick’s movemen

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UK starts enforcing online age-check rules

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-27 16:29:26

In Brief A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. The BBC reports that around 6,000 porn sites have said they will start verifying users’ ages to comply with the Online Safety Act, although at least one major site was not requiring age checks as of Friday morning. The law also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to harmful content, which is why sites like Reddit, Bluesky, X, and Grindr have also begun askin

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‘The Wizard of Oz’ blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-28 20:49:34

In Brief The massive Las Vegas venue known as Sphere will be screening its first classic movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” starting on August 28. And as detailed in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, this isn’t just a matter of taking the existing movie and projecting it on Sphere’s 160,000-square-foot, wraparound LED screen. Instead, Sphere Entertainment CEO James Dolan said a 2,000-person team is creating a new experience. That includes using AI to both increase the resolution of the existing film an

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If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 00:44:33

Imagine this scenario: you're worried you may have committed a crime, so you turn to a trusted advisor — OpenAI's blockbuster ChatGPT, say — to describe what you did and get its advice. This isn't remotely far-fetched; lots of people are already getting legal assistance from AI, on everything from divorce proceedings to parking violations. Because people are amazingly stupid, it's almost certain that people have already asked the bot for advice about enormously consequential questions about, sa

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Android 15 is bricking some Fairphone 5 devices, and here’s how you can avoid it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 02:40:26

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR The Android 15 update is causing some Fairphone 5 phones to become bricked, but only if the fingerprint sensor is broken. A Fairphone rep confirmed stricter hardware checks in Android 15 are to blame. A fix is in the works, but for now, users with faulty sensors should avoid the update. For phone geeks like us, an OS update is usually exciting, but it doesn’t always go smoothly. Multiple reports suggest that the Android 15 update is causing some Fairpho

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Copyparty, turn almost any device into a file server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 00:57:55

💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // cli-upload // race-the-beam made in Norway 🇳🇴 readme toc quickstart just run copyparty-sfx.py -- that's it! 🎉 enable thumbnails (images/audio/video), media indexing, and audio

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The Best Smart Rings, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-30 11:30:00

Honorable Mentions We have tested several other entrants to this nascent category, some good, some bad, and some in between. Here is the lowdown on some of your smart ring alternatives. Photograph: Adrienne So; Getty Images Movano Evie Ring for $269: When it first came out, the Movano Evie Ring (4/10, WIRED Review) was touted as the world's first fitness tracker designed specifically for women. I was very excited! It was recently updated to integrate with Apple Health (in the iOS version of t

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Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-30 11:30:37

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. Temu users in the European Union are at “high risk” of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as reported earlier by The Financial Times. Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s investigation into the platform uncovered baby toys, small electronics, and other items on Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, or “non-c

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200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green

news.ycombinator.com Vrt Nws 2025-12-25 23:08:26

Two years ago, the Flemish Roads Agency (AWV) announced the introduction of the new system: via an app on your smartphone, you can get a traffic light to turn green more quickly. Over the past 2 years, 250 intersections were to be equipped with so-called “intelligent traffic lights”, which would receive a signal as soon as a road user with the app approaches. In that way, motorists - but also cyclists and motorcyclists- will not have to wait unnecessarily at red lights when less traffic is appr

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These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires From Space

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 14:51:00

At Google I/O in May, Google revealed that it's working with the Earth Fire Alliance on FireSat, a program that combines new high-resolution satellites with AI analysis to pinpoint wildfires in their earliest stages and help responders knock them down before they grow. This week the alliance released the first images captured by the initial satellite, showing how fires as small as 5-by-5 meters -- about the size of a classroom -- can be detected from space. FireSat identified this small roadsid

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Xfinity vs. Verizon Fios: Which Provider Offers the Best Internet for Your Home?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 16:00:00

Is Verizon Fios or Xfinity better? Verizon Fios and Xfinity are some of the top providers nationwide, and while both offer competitive internet services and price guarantee of up to five years, CNET picks Verizon Fios as the better provider overall --largely due to its 100% fiber network, straightforward pricing and promotional offers. The two providers advertise comparable download speeds, but Verizon Fios can deliver symmetrical (or close) upload speeds and superior reliability over a fiber-

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Wi-Fi 8 detailed, even if it's years away: More stable connections, lower latency

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-27 05:39:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: The latest devices are only now starting to support Wi-Fi 7, and so Wi-Fi 8 remains several years away, but members of the group that defines Wi-Fi standards are already previewing what comes next. Wi-Fi 8 is designed to deliver more reliable connections, particularly in crowded and high-traffic public environments. A blog post from Qualcomm details several new technologies the com

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EA unveils Battlefield 6, aiming to recapture glory after 2042 flop

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-27 15:24:00

Something to look forward to: Following years of leaks, EA is finally set to unveil the first new Battlefield game since the disastrous 2021 launch of Battlefield 2042. With a newly released trailer showcasing the story and a multiplayer unveiling planned for next week, EA hopes to rekindle the era of Battlefield 3 and 4. EA has released the first official trailer for Battlefield 6, focusing on the storyline and single-player campaign. Streams and other events will showcase the multiplayer mode

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Twenty-three years after launch, Final Fantasy XI servers are overwhelmed by a new wave of players

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-27 17:31:00

What just happened? Final Fantasy XI was the first massively multiplayer online entry in the iconic JRPG series. Remarkably, it's still being actively played today – so much so that the developers recently had to temporarily suspend new account registrations due to a surge in player traffic. Final Fantasy XI was also the first online RPG to offer cross-platform play between PlayStation 2 consoles and Windows PCs. Despite requiring a monthly subscription, FFXI remains remarkably popular. A surge

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Researchers create artificial blood for on-the-spot use in accidents and combat

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-30 02:05:00

Forward-looking: In a laboratory at the University of Maryland, a team of researchers is tackling one of emergency medicine's most persistent challenges: how to deliver life-saving blood transfusions to patients who are miles from the nearest hospital. Their experimental solution isn't stored in a refrigerator but in the form of a lightweight powder – raising hopes among scientists and military officials that trauma care could soon reach accident scenes and battlefields alike, where blood loss r

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These Are the First FireSat Images for Finding Wildfires from Space

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 02:51:03

At Google I/O in May, Google revealed that it's working with the Earth Fire Alliance on FireSat, a program that combines new high-resolution satellites with AI analysis to pinpoint wildfires in their earliest stages and help responders knock them down before they grow. This week the alliance released the first images captured by the initial satellite, showing how fires as small as 5-by-5 meters -- about the size of a classroom -- can be detected from space. FireSat identified this small roadsid

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Apple’s F1 movie crosses $500 million at global box office

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-12-30 18:53:23

The F1 movie continues its hot streak at cinemas, with the film still widely resonating with audience a month after its theatrical premiere. The Apple Original Film has now crossed the $500 million mark at the global box office, with the running total now standing around $509 million. F1: The Movie will eventually land on Apple TV+, likely in October. But Apple and distributor Warner Bros. have little incentive to hurry along the secondary release windows if the cinema takings remain as strong

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Formal specs as sets of behaviors

news.ycombinator.com Lorin Hochstein 2025-12-30 21:13:55

Amazon’s recent announcement of their spec-driven AI tool, Kiro, inspired me to write a blog post on a completely unrelated topic: formal specifications. In particular, I wanted to write about how a formal specification is different from a traditional program. It took a while for this idea to really click in my own head, and I wanted to motivate some intuition here. In particular, there have been a number of formal specification tools that have been developed in recent years which use programmi

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The Coolest Hasbro Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ Reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2025

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-30 21:45:38

Hasbro always brings out the big guns at Comic-Con, and this year’s convention was no exception. Quite literally, in fact, as both Marvel and Star Wars got some reveals that you could ostensibly count as big guns for Marvel Legends, Black Series, and Vintage Collection, and also some reveals that did actually include some actual Big Guns. This year’s reveals included a ton of X-Men goodness for Marvel (anchored around a new wave of X-Men ’97 figures), as well as the latest made-to-order deluxe

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Why I wear this $150 smartwatch even after testing competing Samsung and Garmin models

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Firefly Aerospace sets IPO range that would value rocket maker at $5.5 billion

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