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Use Google Home? Gemini will be your new assistant soon - what we know so far

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-09 08:12:39

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Gemini is replacing Google Assistant in Google Home. The new, more personalized assistant supports natural conversations and maintains context. Early access for Gemini at Home starts in October. Get more in-depth ZDNET AI coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Amid the launch news of Made by Google phones and other devices, Google is also upgrading its Assistant for smart home users. Gemini for Home will replace

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‘Alien: Earth’ Is Finally Doing What the Movies Have Not

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-09 17:30:48

At their core, most of the Alien movies are about corporate greed. The lengths a company, mainly Weyland-Yutani, will go to harness and exploit a power from the deepest reaches of space. Whether that means sacrificing a whole ship of employees, a platoon of soldiers, families, criminals, or cloning dead people, almost every story in the Alien saga is about the idea that getting an alien back to Earth would be a huge benefit to the bottom line of the company. This, of course, never comes to be.

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Google Gemini Has Conquered Nest Devices. Will It Fix Voice Assistant Woes?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 06:00:00

After months of teasers and brief betas, Google has made it official: Gemini AI is replacing Google Assistant on all Nest and Google Home-related devices this year, officially called Gemini for Home. This version of Gemini starts rolling out in October with the same familiar "Hey Google" phrase but a whole new approach to voice commands. It's not only the death knell for Google Assistant in basically everything (I'm going to have to delete Assistant from the rest of my guides), but also a chanc

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Google Gemini Is Finally Conquering Nest Devices -- Will It Fix Voice Assistant Woes?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 12:00:00

After months of teasers and brief betas, Google has made it official: Gemini AI is replacing Google Assistant on all Nest and Google Home-related devices this year, officially called Gemini for Home. This version of Gemini starts rolling out in October with the same familiar "Hey Google" phrase but a whole new approach to voice commands. It's not only the death knell for Google Assistant in basically everything (I'm going to have to delete Assistant from the rest of my guides), but also a chanc

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I Tested MSI's $999 Gaming Laptop and Liked Its 1080p Performance but Little Else

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 03:00:06

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.2 / 10 SCORE MSI Katana 15 HX B14W $999 at Walmart Pros Strong performance for the price Roomy keyboard with four-zone RGB lighting Cons Dim display Thick and heavy chassis 512GB SSD fills up fast Grainy 720p webcam No biometrics or Thunderbolt 4 If you're bound and determined to spend less than $1,000 on a gaming laptop, and you want one with a GP

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Google says the quiet part out loud: IP68 protection doesn’t last

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-11 20:29:38

Designed to comply with dust and water protection rating IP68 under IEC standard 60529 when each device leaves the factory but the device is not water or dust proof. The accessories are not water or dust resistant. Water resistance and dust resistance are not permanent conditions and will diminish or be lost over time due to normal wear and tear, device repair, disassembly or damage. Phone is not drop/tumble proof and dropping your device may result in loss of water/dust resistance. Damage from

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AI Assistants Are Just Alexa All Over Again

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-12 08:30:38

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into the development of artificial intelligence models and the infrastructure needed to support them, all with the promise that AI will eventually take over everything. But in the average person’s day-to-day life, AI has yet to serve as much more than a slightly smarter Siri. According to new data collected by polling firm YouGov, even though companies have made a big to-do about infusing smart assistants with AI brains, people have barely changed

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Gemini for Home is coming to replace Assistant — but is your smart home ready for its changes?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-12 12:00:38

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini for Home begins early access this October. While it sounds like you’ll have the option to stick with Assistant for a while, Google is clear that Gemini for Home will eventually replace it. Gemini for Home is set to be available in both free and paid versions, though Google has yet to share more about its plans there. For the past couple years, Google has been working to flesh out its next-gen AI efforts, and offering us plenty of opportunitie

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AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong

news.ycombinator.com Corey Quinn 2025-11-12 10:30:07

One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old. If you’ve been using the platform for a while, it can be hard to notice the pace of change in the underlying “foundational” services. More worryingly, even if you’re not an old saw at AWS scrying, it’s still easy to stumble upon outdated blog posts that speak to the way things used to be, rather than the way they are now. I’ve gathered some of thes

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Pixelsnap is Google's Qi2-powered answer to MagSafe for the Pixel 10 series

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 17:00:48

Google just revealed something called Pixelsnap at today's Made by Google event. This is the company's answer to Apple's MagSafe technology, so it's a magnetic attachment system that can integrate with Qi2 wireless chargers. All of the new Pixel 10 phones have been outfitted with the tech, which lets users "effortlessly snap wireless chargers, stands, grips and thousands of other accessories," including the just-announced official Pixelsnap charger. That Qi2 wireless charger reaches speeds up t

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AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Corey Quinn 2025-11-12 16:30:07

One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old. If you’ve been using the platform for a while, it can be hard to notice the pace of change in the underlying “foundational” services. More worryingly, even if you’re not an old saw at AWS scrying, it’s still easy to stumble upon outdated blog posts that speak to the way things used to be, rather than the way they are now. I’ve gathered some of thes

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Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-11-12 18:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s finally happening: Google Assistant in the home is getting its Gemini glow-up. “Gemini for Home” is an all-new voice assistant for Google Home, set to arrive later this year, the company announced today. This new voice assistant

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Seven years later, people still haven’t changed how they use Siri

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-13 22:54:43

It’s proving a very long wait for the new Siri, but perhaps it doesn’t matter so much after all. A new survey shows that most people are using Siri and other voice assistants in exactly the same way they did way back in 2018. While some new capabilities have been added, and there are some generational differences in usage, the vast majority of it falls into five rather basic categories … The new Siri is a long time coming After many years of Siri being accused of being the dumbest intelligent

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Two Years After Oceangate, Another Billionaire Hears the Siren Call of the Titanic

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-14 22:15:28

Two years ago, a guy named Stockton Rush was killed while piloting his “experimental” submarine towards the site of the Titanic. On board the “Titan” were four other unfortunate victims, including Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood (described as a billionaire) and his teenage son. Rush’s company, Oceangate, had made its money by courting wealthy clients and taking them on trips to the undersea site, but that all ended with an unfortunate implosion. Now, yet another billionaire has reportedly

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Why Pooping on Planes Might Actually Be a Good Thing

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-15 17:55:19

Researchers have developed a new critical warning system for the spread of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) superbugs: poop and pee from airplane bathrooms. Scientists predict that by 2050, AMR superbugs, or pathogens that don’t respond to antimicrobial medicines, might take more lives than cancer. As such, it’s critical for countries to keep an eye on the global propagation of these dangerous pathogens, which can travel with people, in order to best prepare for future infections. In a study publi

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How to undo a reconciliation in QuickBooks Online - the easy way

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-16 03:28:29

Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways QuickBooks hides reconciliation undo features from normal users. Reversing old reconciliations requires undoing them in sequence. Switching into Accountant mode unlocks the secret "Undo" option. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Regardless of the size of your company, one of the most important accounting tasks you can do is a regular reconciliation. This is

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Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 08:34:24

At the height of the Indo-Pakistan war, in mid-September 1965, Britain’s ITN broadcast a 15-minute report from what they called ‘another potential starting point for a Third World War’. The images were not of Indian and Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir. Instead, the dramatic footage showed Indian and Chinese soldiers 14,000 feet up on the other side of the Himalayas, on either side of the border between the Kingdom of Sikkim (an Indian protectorate perched between Nepal and Bhutan) and Chi

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Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 20:34:24

At the height of the Indo-Pakistan war, in mid-September 1965, Britain’s ITN broadcast a 15-minute report from what they called ‘another potential starting point for a Third World War’. The images were not of Indian and Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir. Instead, the dramatic footage showed Indian and Chinese soldiers 14,000 feet up on the other side of the Himalayas, on either side of the border between the Kingdom of Sikkim (an Indian protectorate perched between Nepal and Bhutan) and Chi

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Finding a Successor to the FHS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 08:48:40

Finding a successor to the FHS [LWN subscriber-only content] The purpose of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is to provide a specification for filesystem layout; it specifies the location for files and directories on a Linux system to simplify application development for multiple distributions. In its heyday it had some success at this, but the standard has been frozen in time since 2015, and much has changed since then. There is a slow-moving effort to revive the FHS and create a FHS 4.

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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

wired.com Anil Ananthaswamy 2025-11-18 12:00:00

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University of Toronto. “They’ve thought of everything they could have, and anything new [the AI] comes up with is a demonstration that it’s something thousands of people failed to do.” Although AI has not yet led to new discoveries in physics, it’s becoming a powerful tool across the field. Along with helping researchers to design experimen

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-19 03:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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These are my favorite MagSafe stands for iPhone and StandBy

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-19 21:45:36

One of my favorite iPhone features is StandBy, which turns your iPhone into a smart display when it’s in landscape orientation and charging. One of the best ways to take full advantage of StandBy is with an upright wireless charger. Head below for a closer look at some of my favorite MagSafe stands for iPhone, perfect for StandBy. What is StandBy mode? The StandBy feature was introduced in iOS 17 as a new lock screen mode that activates when an iPhone is charging and positioned on its side, i

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US may purchase stake in Intel after Trump attacked CEO

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:53:54

Donald Trump has been meddling with Intel, which now apparently includes mulling "the possibility of the US government taking a financial stake in the troubled chip maker," the Wall Street Journal reported. Trump and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan weighed the option during a meeting on Monday at the White House, people familiar with the matter told WSJ. These talks have only just begun—with Intel branding them a rumor—and sources told the WSJ that Trump has yet to iron out how the potential arrangement m

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This big stick solved my smart garden connectivity problems

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-11-21 06:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I recently installed the biggest smart home antenna I’ve ever seen, and it helped open up new areas in my smart home, from the attic to the chicken coop. The towering 12-inch-tall Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2, which launched this week

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US government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-22 05:38:20

In Brief The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign because of perceived conflicts of interest. While Trump di

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Intel stock climbs 7% on report Trump administration is considering stake in chipmaker

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-22 11:12:15

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Intel shares rose 7% on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is in talks with the chipmaker to have the U.S. government take a stake in the struggling company. Intel is the only U.S. company with the capability to manufacture the fastest chips on U.S. shores, although rivals including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co

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US government reportedly in talks to take stake in Intel, stock surges

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-22 11:34:40

Intel’s stock spiked late in trading today after reports that the Trump administration is in talks to take a stake in the company. The news follows Trump’s recent call for the ouster of CEO Lip-Bu Tan and a subsequent meeting between the two. Following deals with Nvidia and AMD, Trump now eyes Intel As reported by Bloomberg, the Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake in Intel, in a bid to “help shore up Intel’s planned factory hub in Ohio,” which was once billed as the future l

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Starlink Users Will Now Have to Pay $5 to Pause Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 10:01:00

Starlink is ending a popular free feature that let customers pause service at any time for free. Now, you’ll have to pay $5 a month to enter what the company is calling “Standby Mode.” Subscribers who’d been using the pause feature began receiving emails yesterday notifying them that they’d have to opt in to the new Standby Mode by Sept. 13, or their service would be canceled. “We recently upgraded pause to include Standby Mode,” the company wrote on a support page. “Previously, the pause feat

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U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-22 11:38:20

In Brief The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign because of perceived conflicts of interest. While Trump

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Intel stock climbs 7% on report Trump administration is considering stake

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-22 16:57:25

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Intel stock rose 7% in trading on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is in talks with the chipmaker to have the U.S. government take a stake in the embattled company. Intel is the only U.S. company with the capability to manufacture the fastest chips on U.S. shores, although rivals including TSMC and Samsung also have U

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Use Google Home? Gemini will be your new assistant soon - what we know so far

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Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game

Finding a Successor to the FHS

AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

These are my favorite MagSafe stands for iPhone and StandBy

US may purchase stake in Intel after Trump attacked CEO

This big stick solved my smart garden connectivity problems

US government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

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Starlink Users Will Now Have to Pay $5 to Pause Service

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