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Apple Said “No,” but Amazon Still Offers 40% Off AirPods 4 for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-08 01:35:05

With the iPhone the sole exclusion, nearly all Apple devices are seeing deep price slashes so this Prime Day is a golden opportunity for the brand’s fans. You’ll find at least 20 to 40% off across the board including the highly popular AirPods 4. These new-generation wireless earbuds are not in-ear like the AirPods Pro 2 (which are also on sale) but that’s exactly what many people love about them. They’re more affordable, too. Let’s talk numbers right away. The Apple AirPods 4 with active noise

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Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Music and More in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-08 09:24:00

Bowers & Wilkins PX7 S2: Bowers & Wilkins released the PX7 S2 headphones in 2022 with some significant improvements over the first-generation version.That was followed by a slightly upgraded version, the PX7 S2e ($400), with the "e" standing for evolved. The audio quality has been slightly upgraded thanks to improved digital processing (the headphones have been retuned), which we assume involves an upgraded chip. You may see this model nicely discounted because Bowers & Wilkins has released the

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Fourth Price Drop in Just Hours, The Samsung T9 SSD 4TB Is Now Going for Pennies on Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-08 21:10:16

Amazon is going out of its way to get people to shop on Prime Day, and the Samsung T9 Portable SSD with 4TB storage is no exception. In a matter of hours, this massive-capacity external SSD’s price has dropped by more than 50% with several consecutive price cuts designed to spur demand and beat even Black Friday prices. For $265, this is the lowest price ever on this seriously convenient SSD, but only if you’re a Prime member. The Samsung T9 external SSD 4TB normally sells for $549, but during

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Looking for an affordable laptop with an OLED? Here's one I recommend for $534

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-08 23:55:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Vivobook S 15, Asus' first Copilot+ PC, is currently on sale at Walmart for $534. It's sleek and lightweight with a gorgeous 120Hz OLED display, great battery life, and snappy performance. Users might run into the usual compatibility issues seen on Arm-compatible devices. View now at Walmart At Walmart, Asus' Vivobook S 15 is currently marked down to $534, which is $265 off. The configuration on sale features a 3K OLED 120Hz display with an Intel Core Ultra 7 process

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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in 3 US States—but Not for Ride-Hailing

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-06 02:28:41

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road … well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of the vehicles as it seeks to develop new driver-assistance technologies. This week, WIRED spotted a GM Bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In each instance, the car was being driven by a human. But it held equipment on

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AirPods Pro 3 are coming, and rumored to have my top feature request

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-10 13:10:54

AirPods Pro 3 are in active development, and even though the release timing is still unclear, there’s been one rumored feature in particular that I’m especially excited about: improved active noise cancellation. Noise cancellation has long been a critical AirPods Pro feature for me I’ve been an AirPods user since the first model was introduced alongside the iPhone 7 in 2017. But when AirPods Pro debuted, I was immediately sold. Several features were appealing to me, but one standout was the i

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US TikTok users may soon have to switch to a new version of the app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-11 06:00:13

ByteDance is said to be building a new, US-only version of the TikTok app that it will release on September 5. According to The Information , the company is moving ahead with this plan to comply with legislation requiring it to sell its TikTok business in the US or face a nationwide ban . The report suggests that folks in the US will have to switch to the new app (dubbed "M2") in order to keep using TikTok. It's said that ByteDance will remove the existing TikTok app (which the company internal

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AI will boost the value of human creativity in financial services, says AWS

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-08-11 04:33:57

shomos uddin/Getty Images Financial services firms are making early gains from artificial intelligence (AI), which is not surprising given that finance is historically an industry that embraces new technologies aggressively. Also: The AI complexity paradox: More productivity, more responsibilities One surprising outcome is that AI might end up making the most critical functions of banking, insurance, and trading, or the creative functions that require human insights, even more valuable. "Wha

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Poland's clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 03:40:00

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Collatz's Ant and Σ(n)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 22:12:45

Collatz's Ant and Σ(n) Relevant preceding posts here and here. Consider the corresponding ant’s landscape development for $n = 500$: with the last frame being: Let’s also consider a score function $\Sigma(n)$ which returns the number of 1’s (or marked states) left by the ant on the corresponding landscape (regarding the last frame). With the prior example, we would have $\Sigma(500) = 54$. We might also want to normalize this by the corresponding stopping time $\tau_{n}$ characteristic of th

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Is Now 41% Off for Prime Day as Amazon Clears Out Stock at a Record Low

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-11 01:33:08

Processors are usually one of the most expensive line items when purchasing or upgrading a PC so it is worth waiting for major sale events such as Prime Day or Black Friday in an effort to secure the best prices. Right now, Amazon is offering the Ryzen 5 9600X at its all-time lowest price, which is quite a plummet from the $279 that it commanded for months at a time. This Prime exclusive deal brings the price down to a mere $165 which is a massive 41% saving. With Prime Day kicking off early th

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Apple Didn’t Approve, but Amazon Is Clearing Out AirPods Pro 2 at a Record Low for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-11 01:52:07

AirPods Pro 2 are in stores just a year but already they set the benchmark by which other wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation are judged. On the subject of sound quality, nothing else comes close to holding a candle right now. Normally these earbuds cost $249, but Amazon is offering them over 30% off early Prime Day, reducing the price to as low as $169. This deal is for everyone (and not just Prime members) and it is a rarity for an Apple device. Remember, Apple never really offers

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QSBS Limits Raised

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 12:14:40

On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released its own version of proposed legislation following the House’s passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1). While the House bill did not introduce any changes to Section[1] 1202 for “qualified small business stock” (QSBS), the Senate Finance proposal introduces significant expansions of the tax benefits of QSBS acquired after the date of the enactment of the final legislation. Summary of Current Law The QSBS exemption allows nonco

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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

news.ycombinator.com Nelson Elhage 2025-08-10 20:57:21

While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a “conventional” bytecode interpreter loop. In steady-state, assuming the bytecode itself is reasonable stable, modern CPUs achieve very high accuracy predicting the dispatch, even for “vanilla” while / switch -style inte

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Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 01:33:45

Now, a study published on July 2 in Nature has uncovered compelling genomic evidence that points to air pollution—and other environmental exposures—as a potential major factor behind this growing public health concern. The study was jointly led by researchers at the University of California San Diego and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “We’re seeing this problematic trend that never-smokers are increasingly getting lung cancer, but we haven’

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Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 16:33:45

Now, a study published on July 2 in Nature has uncovered compelling genomic evidence that points to air pollution—and other environmental exposures—as a potential major factor behind this growing public health concern. The study was jointly led by researchers at the University of California San Diego and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “We’re seeing this problematic trend that never-smokers are increasingly getting lung cancer, but we haven’

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The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025

theverge.com Chris Welch 2025-08-12 05:00:00

is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, and more. Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day kicks off on July 8th; however, if you want to get a head start on your online shopping, we’ve rounded up the best early Prime Day deals you can already get. It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you l

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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 09:21:51

I'm in the process of rebuilding my homelab from the ground up, moving from a 24U full-size 4-post rack to a mini rack. One of the most difficult devices to downsize (especially economically) is a NAS. But as my needs have changed, I'm bucking the trend of all datahoarders and I need less storage than the 120 TB (80 TB usable) I currently have. It turns out, when you stop running an entire YouTube channel in your home (I'm in a studio now), you don't need more than a few terabytes, so my new c

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GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in Three US States—But Not for Ride-Hailing

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-12 13:28:41

Cruise robotaxis are back on the road… well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of the vehicles as it seeks to develop new driver-assistance technologies. This week, WIRED spotted a GM Bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In each instance, the car was being driven by a human. But it held equipment on

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‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season One

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-13 12:13:36

Welcome to io9’s summer cram session for Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix phenomenon, which will return this November to Netflix for its final season. To honor the Hawkins gang’s late, great, guitar-shredding Dungeon Master Eddie (Joseph Quinn), this rewatch shall be coined the Hellfire Club Catch-Up. With part one of season 5 a few months out, it seems fitting to get started now. Read on for io9’s guide to everything you need to remember from the show’s 2016 debut. Season one of S

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Trump Expects Paramount to Run Conservative PSAs Following Hush Money Payments

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-13 19:25:27

Paramount is learning the hard way why you don’t simply acquiesce to bullies. Earlier this week, the company came to a preliminary settlement agreement with Donald Trump in a case where the President accused the company of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris in 2024. That settlement (which has been described by some as “bribery” with intent to get Trump to green light Paramount’s attempted merger with Skydance Media) pays Trump $16 million. Trump’s legal team also cl

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-08-13 22:57:18

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” paving the way for a major overhaul of the country’s Medicaid program. If passed by the House, which could happen before the July Fourth holiday, millions of people stand to lose their health insurance. The number of people without health insurance in the United States nearly halved from 2013 to 2023, falling from around 14 percent to a record low of less than

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MacBook with iPhone CPU rumors, AI Siri partnerships, new EU App Store rules

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-14 13:49:55

Benjamin and Chance discuss the intriguing rumor from Ming-Chi Kuo that Apple is readying a new cheaper MacBook Air powered by an A18 Pro CPU. Also, Apple befuddles everyone with a new byzantine set of App Store rules in the EU, and Apple seems open to powering AI Siri using third-party models. And in Happy Hour Plus, Chance walks through some tech updates after another big move. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Hosts Chance Miller Benjamin Mayo Subscribe, Rate, and Review 9to5Mac Happy Hour

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Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-08-14 13:06:05

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But a new report finds the accused continues to operate a slew of established accounts at American tech companies — including Facebook, Github, PayPal and Twitter/X. On May 29, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced economic sanctions against Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company alleged to pr

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Google Now returns? Gemini Space could bring a Daily Hub feature to Pixels (Updated: Screenshot)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 17:20:57

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google is developing a new feature called Gemini Space for Pixel devices, potentially as an evolution or rebrand of the current At a Glance feature. We’ve now found strings for a “Daily Hub,” feature within At a Glance/Gemini Space, described as a “space for content and suggestions to simplify your day.” This suggests Daily Hub could offer helpful content and suggestions similar to Samsung’s Now Brief and the erstwhile Google Now. Update, July 3, 2025 (1

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Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 00:00:28

At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 8 months, we’ve: 20x’d revenue and are profitable. Landed multiple si

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‘We Live in a Surveillance State’: Reddit Users Explode Over Reports of ICE’s New Face and Fingerprint Scanning App

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-15 05:55:42

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly using a new tool called Mobile Fortify, a smartphone-based facial recognition and fingerprint scanning app that allows agents to identify people in real time using only a phone camera. The tool taps into the same biometric system used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at ports of entry. But ICE is now using it inside the U.S., in field operations across the country. According to internal ICE emails reviewed by 404 Media, the app

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The best budget wireless earbuds for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-15 15:00:36

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The newest wireless earbuds from Apple, Sony, Bose and other big-name brands may get the most attention, but these days you don’t have to spend triple digits to find a decent alternative. If you’re looking to upgrade without spending more than $100, we’ve spent hours researching the ba

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India’s Max Financial says hacker accessed customer data from its insurance unit

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-08-16 13:18:39

In Brief Max Financial Services on Wednesday said its insurance subsidiary Axis Max Life Insurance received communication from an anonymous sender about unauthorized access to its customer data. Without disclosing specifics, the Noida-based financial services company said in its stock exchange filing that Axis Max Life Insurance subsequently initiated an information security assessment and data log analysis. “A detailed investigation is also underway in consultation with information security

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Mandatory battery throttling is coming for more Pixels with poor battery health (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-16 17:58:53

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google could potentially force Battery Health Assistance to remain enabled on Pixel phones with poor battery health. Users may not be able to change/disable the feature until they replace their phone’s battery. Pixel 9a users have Battery Health Assistance already enabled and mandatory, even on new devices. Update, July 2, 2025 (1:58 PM ET): Well, that didn’t take long! Just hours after sharing our findings with you about Battery Health Assistance cha

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Apple Said “No,” but Amazon Still Offers 40% Off AirPods 4 for Prime Day

Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Music and More in 2025

Fourth Price Drop in Just Hours, The Samsung T9 SSD 4TB Is Now Going for Pennies on Prime Day

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Apple Didn’t Approve, but Amazon Is Clearing Out AirPods Pro 2 at a Record Low for Prime Day

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Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers

Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers

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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

GM’s Cruise Cars Are Back on the Road in Three US States—But Not for Ride-Hailing

‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season One

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MacBook with iPhone CPU rumors, AI Siri partnerships, new EU App Store rules

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The best budget wireless earbuds for 2025

India’s Max Financial says hacker accessed customer data from its insurance unit

Mandatory battery throttling is coming for more Pixels with poor battery health (APK teardown)

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