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‘Ask Gemini’ AI will tell you what you missed during a Google Meet call

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-27 09:29:54

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. Google is starting the rollout of its Ask Gemini AI assistant in Google Meet, but it will initially only be available to “select Google Workspace customers.” The assistant can answer participant’s questions by referring to captions generated during the call, resources like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides they have permission to view, and public w

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China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-27 09:39:28

Nvidia just got shut out of the Chinese market — this time by the Chinese government instead of the US. China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips on Wednesday, as first reported by the Financial Times. The agency also told tech companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to stop testing and ordering Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D server, a device designed specifically for the market in China. Beijing had previously dis

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Meet Macroscope: an AI tool for understanding your code base, fixing bugs

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-27 09:52:16

The founders who previously sold their livestreaming video startup Periscope to Twitter are back with a new startup — and no surprise, it’s an AI-focused company this time around. On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches bugs, among other things. The startup was co-founded by Beykpour, now Macroscope CEO, in July 2023, along with childho

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Kleiner Perkins-backed voice AI startup Keplar aims to replace traditional market research

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-09-27 09:54:17

For decades, Fortune 500 companies had to hire market research firms to get meaningful insights into customer satisfaction. These services come with a hefty price tag and often take weeks to complete. Keplar, a market research startup, uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, providing clients with analysis much faster and at a fraction of the cost of traditional research consulting firms. On Wednesday, the two-year-old company announced that it raised $3.2 million in seed funding led by K

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Sen. Warren presses Trump AI and crypto czar Sacks on whether he's overstayed his job

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-27 11:12:32

U.S. President Donald Trump sits next to Crypto czar David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. What was meant to be a short-term assignment for venture capitalist David Sacks in President Donald Trump's White House appears to have stretched into something much bigger, according to leading Democratic lawmakers. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., have teamed up with a number of other progressive poli

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StubHub slides in NYSE debut after ticket seller's long-awaited IPO

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-27 13:59:36

Eric Baker, co-founder and CEO of Ticket reseller StubHub, rings the opening bell during his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., September 17, 2025. StubHub shares dropped more than 5% in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Wednesday after the online ticket seller priced its IPO in the middle of its expected range. The pricing late Tuesday at $23.50 per share raised $800 million for the company, now trading under ticker symbol "STUB." The stock opened at $25

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Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-27 12:06:23

For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil — or "kick," in the parlance — resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones. The international team of researchers measured the ripples in the fabric of spacetime, known as gravitational waves, allowing them to get unprecedented insights into the turbulent dynamics of two black holes crashing into each other. The team analyzed data collected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitatio

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Your YouTube and Netflix streams may look better and buffer less later this year

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:30:45

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Alliance for Open Media announced it will launch AV2 later this year, which should be a big upgrade for streaming video. The next-generation video codec is said to offer better compression, enhanced support for AR/VR applications, and will operate over a wider visual quality range. It’s expected that 88% of AOM members — which include brands like Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Apple — will adopt AV2 within two years. The AV1 video codec is about to make

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Liquid Glass dark mode is giving iOS users vertigo

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:47:35

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR iOS 26 is out now for iPhone users, and many have been reporting problems with Liquid Glass dark mode icons looking crooked. The system renders these icons with a highlight around the edge, and at the wrong angle, an illusion can make them appear tilted. In motion, the effect should be far less noticeable, but screenshots can still look very off. There’s plenty of ribbing back-and-forth, some of it good-natured, some of it not, between Android and iOS us

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Logitech adds new devices to its gaming accessories lineup

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:01:38

Logitech hosted its annual G Play showcase today and unveiled a collection of new gaming peripherals. The lineup includes headsets, mice and a keyboard. The G Pro X Superlight 2c is an even more compact redesign of the company's Superlight 2 wireless mouse. This version weighs 51 grams and has up to 95 hours of battery life. It will be available on October 21 and will cost $160. Logitech's other new gaming mouse is the G Pro X Superstrike, which boasts a haptics system in its main click buttons

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House committee asks Discord, Valve, Twitch and Reddit to testify on online radicalization

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 13:41:00

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has asked the CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Valve and Reddit to testify at a hearing on online radicalization. The hearing will be held on October 8, 2025, and is in direct response to the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk, an event some have tried to connect to the online communities the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, participated in. "Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have u

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Don't buy a Bluetti before you see the $400 extras you can get for free

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-27 11:47:23

'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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Best early Target Circle Week deals to compete with Prime Day 2025

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-09-27 12:49:20

'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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Consumer Reports calls Microsoft 'hypocritical' for stranding millions of Windows 10 PCs

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-09-27 13:06:00

picture alliance/Contributor/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways CR says that Windows 10's end of support will strand millions of PC owners. It calls Microsoft's actions "hypocritical" and cites national security concerns. CR also calls for continued free security updates. Consumer Reports (CR), the venerable consumer rights organization known for its in-depth product testing, sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya N

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Best early Amazon Prime Day Samsung deals 2025: My 23 favorites sales ahead of October

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-27 13:10:35

'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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DJI's new mini drone is a powerhouse with an upgraded camera, but I have two concerns

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-27 13:42:00

DJI Mini 5 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The DJI Mini 5 Pro is available in the UK and EU at £689/€799 respectively. Its camera has a one-inch sensor for superior shooting in low-light conditions, and the drone is packed with obstacle avoidance sensors. It's not yet available in the US, and its battery life at a theoretical runtime of 21 minutes is a lot lower than its predecessor. View now at DJI Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The Mini Pro drones are my all-time favorite

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Is Data Modeling Dead?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 10:14:15

Ok, not going to lie, I rarely find anything of value in the dregs of r/dataengineering, mostly I fear, because it’s %90 freshers with little to no experience. These green behind the ear know-it-all engineers who’ve never written a line of Perl, SSH’d into a server, and have no idea what a LAMP stack is. Weak. Sad. We used to program our way to glory, up hill both ways in the snow. All you do is script kiddy some Python code through Cursor. A recent post on Data Modeling, specifically that dat

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The "Debate Me Bro" Grift: How Trolls Weaponized the Marketplace of Ideas

news.ycombinator.com Mike Masnick 2025-09-27 13:45:57

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas from the debate-me-now-or-you-lose dept Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “practicing politics the right way” because he would

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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-27 12:57:39

Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used for some law enforcement purposes has deepened hostility to the company inside the Trump administration, two senior officials told Semafor. Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the off

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Scientists Identify Rare Blue Pigment in Iconic Jackson Pollock Painting—But It’s Now Off-Limits

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-27 13:10:48

Jackson Pollock was a famous American painter best known for his abstract expressionism, including the “drip and splash” and the “all-over” style of painting (which look exactly like they sound). Now we finally know the chemical origin of the blue color he splattered onto his iconic Number 1A, 1948. Researchers investigated the vibrant pigment via laser spectroscopy, a technique scientists use to investigate matter at the atomic level. With this approach, they revealed it to be manganese blue,

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The 10 Best ‘V/H/S’ Found-Footage Horror Shorts

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-27 13:20:10

Found-footage horror will never die—especially as long as the V/H/S anthology series keeps offering evidence there are still creative ways to use the format. Since 2012 we’ve had seven V/H/S entries, with an eighth, V/H/S/Halloween, arriving October 3. The series as a whole has captured a range of repulsive imagery, as its characters stumble into an alarming range of unnatural situations—with recording devices conveniently capturing everything. It was hard to narrow it down to just 10 standouts

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Biotech Startup Claims It’s Getting Closer to ‘Resurrecting’ the Extinct Dodo

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-27 13:26:17

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On Wednesday, the Dallas-based company reported that its researchers at the Avian Genetics Group have successfully grown pigeon primordial germ cells (PGCs) in the lab, a scientific first. They also bred gene-edited chickens intended to serve as potential surrogates for the dodo and other ancient bird

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A New Look at ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Reveals an Essential Ingredient: Tight Pants

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-27 13:37:19

What binds the Star Wars galaxy together? Is it the Force? The desire for injustice to be rebelled against, for the light to rise against the dark? Well, in the case of a certain kind of ne’er-do-well in pockets of the galaxy… it’s a real tight pair of pants, and now Ryan Gosling stands among their wearers. We previously got a shadowed glimpse at Gosling’s new Star Wars character when Lucasfilm officially unveiled Star Wars: Starfighter‘s beginning of production a few weeks ago. But now directo

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Robots Could Help Kids Become Better Readers, According to a New Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-27 13:00:04

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading out loud can cause anxiety and make kids less likely to want to read. The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison have released a new study that shows there may be an unlikely ally that can help. Social robots may be the key in helping kids build conf

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Trump admin says Social Security database wasn’t “leaked, hacked, or shared”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 12:39:44

The Trump administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower's allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency's database to an insecure cloud system. The allegation centers on the Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) database containing Americans' personally identifiable information. The cloud location described by the whistleblower report "is actually a secured server in the agency's cloud infrastructure which historically

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The Astro A20 X headset was made for multi-console homes

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-27 13:00:00

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Logitech has announced the Astro A20 X wireless gaming headset, which has a feature that console players might appreciate having: it lets you swap between audio from two platforms, be it an Xbox, Switch, PC, or PS5. It launches October 8th for $179.99. The A20 X ships with a transmitter called the Playsync Base that can receive audio in

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Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-27 13:00:28

A new study from Pew suggests that Americans aren’t particularly optimistic about AI. A full 50 percent of respondents said they were more concerned than excited about the use of AI in their daily lives. That’s down ever so slightly from 52 percent in 2023, but it’s up significantly from 37 percent in 2021. Americans expressed a number of concerns about AI, chief among them that it will negatively impact our ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships with other people. Just 1

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Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike offers haptic-based clicks and rapid trigger

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-27 13:01:00

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Logitech’s next flagship wireless gaming mouse is ditching mechanical switches for an analog system equipped with haptics actuators to simulate the feeling of a click. The mouse is called the Pro X2 Superstrike, and it’s coming early next year for $1

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The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-27 13:38:13

The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery materials manufacturer Sila, the real breakthrough might lurk elsewhere inside the aluminum and glass enclosure. “The battery in the new iPhone is pretty remarkable,” Berdichevsky told TechCrunch. “The completely arbitrary, two-dimensional shape — you look at the shape, and it’s pretty amaz

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From Qubits to Qubucks: Quantum Digital Currency

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-27 16:41:00

Quantum computing is often discussed in terms of its potential to revolutionize scientific discovery and to challenge cryptographic paradigms [1], but it could also change our relationship with money. By using quantum states, quantum currency could solve the double-spending problem and address throughput issues associated with distributed ledgers (blockchain), paving the way for the digital cash of the future. Digital Banking vs. Digital Currency To understand quantum currency, we should first

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StubHub slides in NYSE debut after ticket seller's long-awaited IPO

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Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives

Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike offers haptic-based clicks and rapid trigger

The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

From Qubits to Qubucks: Quantum Digital Currency

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