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Upgrading to the iPhone 17? Nearly 70% of users plan to after launch - here's why

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-06 22:12:07

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways More than 68% of iPhone users plan to upgrade to an iPhone 17. Battery life is the top reason cited for upgrading. The high price of a new iPhone is one reason for not upgrading. Will you be lining up to buy an iPhone 17 when the new phone debuts later this month? If so, you're in good company. A majority of the 2,000 existing iPhone owners recently polled by phone reseller SellCell said they aim to

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I tried to destroy this $45 power bank (including driving over it with a tractor) - it refused to break

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-06 23:11:00

Nestout Outdoor Battery 5000N ZDNET's key takeaways The Elecom NestOut is the toughest power bank I've ever tested, available for $45. It features the best mechanism I've come across to protect the USB ports. Its extreme durability is overkill for day-to-day use. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The toughest situation most people's power banks will endure is a drop on the floor -- maybe a spill at the coffee shop. But some people demand a lot more from

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3 hidden Pixel camera features that can instantly take your videos to the next level

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-06 23:13:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Android's Camera app can dramatically improve your videos. There are three features that are either new and/or improved. These features are easy enough for anyone to use. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the Pixel phones is because of the camera. I've yet to test an Android phone with a superior sensor and app, and the results generally speak for themselves. But with video, Android has lagged

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Samsung watch running slow? This simple trick made mine feel like new again

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-06 23:46:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Kuo: Apple just increased its folding iPhone plans for 2026 - will triple Samsung's Fold 7

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-12-06 23:56:37

Apple's iPhone 16 Pro Max next to Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7. Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The reliable supply chain reporter Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple just boosted its folding iPhone plans. Apple will reportedly boost 2026 manufacturing to 8-10 million and 2027 to 20-25 million. That is far beyond the 2.4 million units Samsung plans to sell for its recent Fold 7 device. Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo issued a new report on T

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We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 21:14:51

Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior. Social credit, in its original economic definition, means distributing industry profits to consumers to increase purchasing power. But the term has evolved far beyond economics. Today, it de

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Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:58:00

December 2, 2024 Volume 22, issue 5 PDF Civics is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something! IT professionals can either passively suffer political solutions or participate in the process to achieve something better. Poul-Henning Kamp It's a common trope in entertainment for some character to deliver a nonlinear response to something seemingly trivial, only for that to later prove to have been a vitally important clue. So, that room the janitor won't let anybody into? Right, that isn't actually

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Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:48:26

Become a superconnector We spend hours on messages. Yet we often reply late, sometimes completely forget to reply. We then end up losing deals, opportunities for connection, and missing connections. It's not anybody's fault. Messaging itself has not changed a decade – it has just gotten messier. Our conversations are scattered across different social networks with distinct UI full of distractions. Finding the right thread takes minutes. The context and the small details are forgotten. M

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Physically based rendering from first principles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:07:22

Physically based rendering from first principles In this interactive article, we will explore the physical phenomena that create light and the fundamental laws governing its interaction with matter. We will learn how our human eyes capture light and how our brains interpret it as visual information. We will then model approximations of these physical interactions and learn how to create physically realistic renderings of various materials. Chapter 1: What is light? We are all familiar with li

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The Kafka Replication Protocol with KIP-966

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:47:26

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iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 23:32:46

computervision We're doing some computer vision stuff at iNat. models iNaturalist makes a subset of its machine learning models publicly available while keeping full species classification models private due to intellectual property considerations and organizational policy. We provide “small” models trained on approximately 500 taxa, including taxonomy files and a geographic model, which are suitable for on-device testing and other applications. Additionally, researchers have independently de

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A gentle introduction to CP/M

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:39:28

[New to Gemini? Have a look at my Gemini FAQ.] This article was bi-posted to Gemini and the Web; Gemini version is here: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/kraileth/neunix/2025/gentle_introduction_cpm.gmi This article is just what the headline promises: an introduction to the CP/M operating system. No previous knowledge of 1970s and early ’80s operating systems is required. However, some familiarity with Linux or a BSD-style operating system is assumed, as the setup process suggested here

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Trump Ends Union Protections for NASA Employees, Citing ‘National Security’

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-06 23:10:38

Just before Labor Day weekend, the White House issued an executive order that excludes NASA and other agencies from collective bargaining rights. NASA employees have previously expressed public dismay against the administration’s budget cuts to the agency and its policy against diversity programs, and the latest order is another major blow to the staff. President Donald Trump signed the new order on August 28, ending collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies with national security m

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We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-06 23:15:39

This summer’s 28 Years Later ended on a maddening, disturbing cliffhanger. Spike (Alfie Williams) decided to leave his family and its safe village to explore the world, only to run into the insane Jimmy (Jack O’Connell) and his jumpsuit-wearing gang. What did this have to do with the film we’d been watching? What did it have to do with what’s coming next? We finally have some answers. Those answers are coming in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which opens in theaters January 16, 2026. That’s a

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As the Great Salt Lake Shrinks, Something Unexpected Is Rising to the Surface

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-06 23:20:14

The Great Salt Lake once reached depths of up to 1,000 feet and spanned roughly 20,000 square miles, but today, it mostly resembles a parched wasteland. So, when signs of life suddenly began popping up across the drying playa, scientists were perplexed. In the last several years, reed-covered mounds have appeared off the lake’s southeast shore. These densely vegetated oases must receive enough freshwater to sustain plant life, but experts weren’t sure where this resource was coming from. Resear

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Tech Utopians Are Using a Chinese-Built ‘Ghost City’ to Trial Their Network State Fantasies

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-06 23:30:10

For the better part of a decade, tech investor Balaji Srinivasan has been calling for Silicon Valley to “secede” from the rest of the United States. The free-market tech guru doesn’t just want space from regulators and government officials; he literally wants the industry’s coders and bigwigs to split off and crowdfund their own separate country. Over the years, Srinivasan has articulated his own political philosophy, which he calls “the network state” movement—an anarcho-capitalist school of t

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This Common Heart Attack Drug May Actually Be Worthless for Most People

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-06 23:50:06

A common treatment given after heart attacks may not be worthwhile for a large segment of the population. New trial data finds that most people who suffer a heart attack do not benefit from taking beta-blockers afterward. A large international team of researchers conducted the trial, which compared the outcomes of nearly 10,000 heart attack patients who were either given beta-blocker therapy or not. “This trial will reshape all international clinical guidelines.’ On average, people with prese

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Best 6 TVs I've Tested for September 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 20:00:00

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a new flagship OLED David Katzmaier/CNET With all of the TVs available today, and all of the technical terms and jargon associated with television technology, it can be tough to figure out what's important. Here's a quick guide to help cut through the confusion. Picture quality: Broadly speaking, the type of display technology helps dictate how good a TV's picture quality is, but OLED is typically the best display technology, and this is followed by LCD (including QLED,

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That Supposed 'Gmail Hack': Google Says It's False, but Watch Out for Phishing Anyway

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 22:32:00

Gmail is a hugely popular email service, with over 2.5 billion users. So when rumors start to swirl about Gmail problems, people pay attention. On Monday, Google made an unusual statement, formally denying that it had issued a broad warning about a major Gmail security issue. "Gmail's protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false," the post read. "While it's always the case that phishers are looking for ways to infiltrate inboxes, our protections c

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This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:57:19

Here in the year 2025, it's not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that's just what happened last week with the release of Ares v146 and its first-of-its-kind support for Mega LD titles designed for the Pioneer LaserActive. Even retro console superfans would be forgiven for not knowing about the LaserActive, a pricey LaserDisc player released in 1994 alongside swappable hardware modules that could add support for

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Revolving door: Ex-senator becomes cable industry’s top lobbyist

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 23:06:24

The cable industry's top lobbying group has a new president and CEO. Cory Gardner, a Republican who spent 10 years in Congress, was announced today as the new head of NCTA-The Internet & Television Association. Gardner represented Colorado in the US senate from 2015 to 2021 and was in the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. He had to leave the Senate after losing a re-election bid and later became chairman of the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC devoted to "protecting and expandin

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Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 23:25:00

Yesterday afternoon, while much of the country enjoyed Labor Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a new master plan for the company to his social media platform. It's the fourth such document for Tesla, replacing the goals Musk laid out in 2023 when he said the company would sell 20 million EVs a year in 2030. This time, it is not entirely sure what Tesla's plan actually entails. The text, which was reads as though it was written by AI, is at times anodyne, at times confusing, but always free of s

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Robotic bug literally walks on water

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 23:53:41

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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The 79 Best Deals From REI’s 2025 Labor Day Sale

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-12-05 12:47:48

REI's Labor Day sale ends tonight at midnight. Many items are up to 30 percent off, and REI Co-op members save 20 percent on any REI Outlet item (on top of the sale price). To get the member discount, add the promo code LABORDAY2025 at checkout. Many of the best REI deals are on the company's house brand gear, but we've also pulled in deals from competing sales at Backcountry, Mystery Ranch, Hyperlite Mountain Gear, Zenbivy, and other cottage industry retailers. Below are the best deals on all

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The Concept C Is the All-Electric Sports Car Kickstarting Audi’s Design Future

wired.com Jason Barlow 2025-12-06 23:00:00

Car companies love a mission statement. With the arrival of the Concept C, Audi’s new one is crystal clear: “radical simplicity”. An all-electric two-seater with a retractable folding hard-top, the Concept C is a “progressive interpretation” of the company’s legacy, says Audi—and it's not hard to see the TT has factored pretty heavily in that. But as you pick your way through the messaging—key words here are precision and clarity, as well as a re-emphasis on our old friend, “Vorsprung durch Tec

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The tariff apocalypse is here

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-12-06 23:34:13

As President Donald Trump’s August 29th deadline for new tariffs rolled around, the first thing that I thought of was 2026 planners. In July, Trump signed an executive order essentially killing a little-known but highly consequential trade rule, which meant that purchases coming from abroad — like $100 in planners and accessories — could enter the US duty-free. My preferred planner, the Hobonichi Techo, is printed and shipped from Japan. With the de minimis exemption removed, my tax bill could b

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Trump is moving Space Command to Alabama

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-06 23:44:24

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. President Donald Trump is moving US Space Command’s headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, he announced during a press conference on Tuesday. The change reverses former President Joe Biden’s 2023 decision to leave it in Colorado Springs, where its temporary head

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Tesla Dojo: The rise and fall of Elon Musk’s AI supercomputer

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-06 20:18:46

For years, Elon Musk has spoken of the promise of Dojo, the AI supercomputer that was supposed to be the cornerstone of Tesla’s AI ambitions. It was important enough to Musk that in July 2024, he said the company’s AI team would “double down” on Dojo in the lead-up to Tesla’s robotaxi reveal, which happened in October. After six years of hype, Tesla decided last month to shut down Dojo and disband the team behind the supercomputer in August 2025. Within weeks of projecting that Dojo 2, Tesla’s

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Astro Teller, ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-06 22:44:48

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is about to get even more exciting. We’re thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X (aka the Moonshot Factory), will take the stage at Disrupt, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than a decade, Teller has guided X’s audacious mission to tackle the world’s toughest problems. Under his leadership, X has birthed game-changing projects like Waymo (self-driving cars), Wing (delivery drones), and Loon (internet-beaming bal

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-06 23:04:05

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications busin

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We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

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This Common Heart Attack Drug May Actually Be Worthless for Most People

Best 6 TVs I've Tested for September 2025

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This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

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Astro Teller, ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October

OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

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