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PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-25 05:58:44

Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venmo customers in the US and select international markets gain access to the AI-powered browser, as well as a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro, which normally costs $200. There are, of course, some conditions. The promotion is part of PayPal's new subscription hub, where users can manage all th

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This BowFlex Exercise Bike Is My Go-To Affordable Peloton Alternative

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 21:05:00

CNET key takeaways More affordable than other exercise bikes, at $599 Access to the JRNY app and third-party apps like Peloton Warranty lasts for up to 10 years If you’re on the hunt for an affordable exercise bike, the BowFlex IC SE is worth considering. It’s one of CNET’s top-tested bikes and a solid Peloton alternative, offering a similar experience without the steep price tag. At $599, half the price of a Peloton bike, you’ll get a bike that offers a smooth ride and over 100 resistance

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This is my new favorite way to run Windows apps on my Linux PC - how it works

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-25 10:48:32

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Winboat is a new technology to run Windows apps on Linux. The app is currently in beta, but shows real promise. If the developers can deliver, this will be a game changer. For the longest time, Wine was the only option for running Windows apps on Linux. Then came PlayOnLinux, Steam, Proton, and several others. Many of those tools are great, but they still require users to

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Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 09:30:25

As part of my ongoing project to reimplement Django’s templating language in Rust, I have been adding support for custom template tags. The simplest custom tag will look something like: # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template . Library() @register.simple_tag def time (format_string): now = datetime . now() return now . strftime(format_string) # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template . Libr

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New York’s ‘Big Bang Machine’ Passes Critical First Test

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-25 10:15:20

sPHENIX is a next-generation particle detector that probes the mysterious, soupy form of the early universe. We know very little about the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. We have theories, most of which we’re still double- and triple-checking to see if they actually make scientific sense. The research process can seem tedious at times, but a newcomer from Long Island offers promising advances in our quest to understand how our universe came to be. In a recent paper for the Journal o

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The first ten things I changed on my Pixel 10!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 15:00:22

So you just got your brand new Google Pixel 10. Congratulations! It’s an incredible piece of hardware, and you’re probably itching to download your favorite apps, sign into your accounts, and start snapping photos. Before you dive in, though, a handful of settings can drastically improve your day-to-day experience. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, Google leaves them turned off by default. Changing these settings can do everything from improving your battery’s long-term health, saving y

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PayPal and Venmo users can try Perplexity's Comet AI browser free for a year now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-25 15:00:17

May James/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Some PayPal and Venmo users can now access Comet for free. The offer includes a one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro. Comet is Perplexity's new AI-centric web browser. PayPal and Venmo users in the US and other global markets can now receive early access to Perplexity's highly anticipated Comet web browser, PayPal announced today. The offer includes a 12-month f

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Own a Samsung phone? Changing these 10 settings gave mine a big performance boost

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-25 15:03:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've been fairly vocal recently that Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. Also: The best S

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Netflix will let you make your own highlight clips

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-25 15:00:00

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Netflix will now let you create and share highlight clips of your favorite shows and movies right from the Netflix app on your phone. Last year, Netflix launched a feature that let you bookmark spots from shows and movies and save them to your account to watch again later or share wit

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Garmin’s Fenix 8 Pro series finally lets you leave your phone at home — sort of

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-25 15:42:49

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Garmin just announced its Fenix 8 Pro series of smartwatches, which adds both cellular and satellite connectivity via the company’s InReach tech. The Fenix 8 Pro series also adds a MicroLED display version that gets a maximum brightness of 4,500 nits. The catch is the watches will start at $1,199.99, with the MicroLED version going fo

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Netflix updates its Moments feature to give users greater control over scene clipping

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-25 15:00:00

Netflix launched a scene-clipping feature for mobile last year called “Moments,” which lets users quickly save their favorite scenes from shows and movies within the Netflix app. The streaming giant rolled out an update on Wednesday, allowing users to specify both a starting point and an endpoint when saving a scene. People now have the option to adjust the scene’s ending, allowing them to create clips that are as long or as short as they prefer. Previously, users could only set a starting poin

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PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-25 15:00:00

Invites to Perplexity’s new AI-powered web browser, Comet, are one of the web’s hottest commodities these days. The new product was made available first to the AI firm’s $200-per-month Max subscribers and a small group of invitees. But now there’s a new way to jump ahead on the waitlist. On Wednesday, PayPal announced it’s giving its customers, including PayPal and Venmo users, early access to Comet as well as a free year’s subscription to Perplexity’s premium service, Perplexity Pro, normally $

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A $159 Chromebook was my only computer for a week - how it changed my mind about cheap laptops

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-25 20:51:00

Asus CX15 Chromebook ZDNET's key takeaways Asus' CX15 Chromebook is available now for $159. It's one of the most affordable 15-inch laptops released this year, with a handful of features that make it especially good for students. The modest hardware puts a limit on its performance. $159 at Walmart Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Asus' CX15 Chromebook is an affordable, durable laptop that handles the basics for $159. With a standard hardware loadout and solid 15-inch for

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Dolby Atmos FlexConnect Lets You Place Speakers Anywhere

wired.com Simon Cohen 2025-11-25 20:03:00

For years, there have been just two options for better TV sound: A traditional, AV receiver-based home theater system or a soundbar. The AV receiver route is undeniably the best way to go for a truly cinematic experience, but only the most diehard audiophiles are willing to deal with hulking metal boxes, yards of speaker wire, and a minimum of five speakers (plus a subwoofer) that must be placed just so. That’s before you delve into the often arcane settings needed for peak performance. Soundb

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The connected customer

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-11-26 03:46:54

As brands compete for increasingly price conscious consumers, customer experience (CX) has become a decisive differentiator. Yet many struggle to deliver, constrained by outdated systems, fragmented data, and organizational silos that limit both agility and consistency. The current wave of artificial intelligence, particularly agentic AI that can reason and act across workflows, offers a powerful opportunity to reshape service delivery. Organizations can now provide fast, personalized support a

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Turns out it’s possible to get a Pixel 10 with a physical SIM slot in the US

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 00:36:12

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is reportedly sending out global Pixel 10 models with physical SIM slots as replacement units to users. These global models lack support for mmWave 5G. While some people are viewing this as an upgrade, others are concerned about connectivity issues. If you bought a Pixel 10, 10 Pro, or 10 Pro XL in the US, your phone came without a physical SIM slot. That’s the standard for US models of Google’s latest flagships. Instead of having a traditional

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Acer just revealed a stupidly powerful Chromebook convertible

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 04:00:35

Supplied by Acer TL;DR Acer has announced the Chromebook Plus Spin 514, which is one of the most powerful Chromebooks on the market. The company has also revealed two new Chromeboxes and the Swift Air 16 lightweight Windows laptop. The Chromebook Plus Spin 514 starts at $699.99. IFA 2025 kicks off this week, and Acer isn’t wasting any time. The PC maker has just announced a variety of new Chrome OS devices and PCs ahead of the annual tech expo. Perhaps the most notable Chrome OS device is t

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Last-minute leak spoils Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 surprise

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 05:25:20

Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority TL;DR A last-minute leak has revealed images and features of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 series. It looks like Samsung is skipping the Plus model this year in favor of the base and Ultra variants. Samsung is expected to launch the new tablets at its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event. It’s that time of the year when a new tech launch happens almost every other week. Google launched the Pixel 10 series last month, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite just a f

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I’d be more excited about the Pixel 10 Pro if it had this iPhone camera feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 06:00:07

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The Pixel 10 Pro sits in quite an awkward spot this year. The main differentiator between the standard Pixel and the Pro model has long been the third camera, but that gap closed with the Pixel 10 also rocking a three-cam setup this time. Getting a solid telephoto camera on a $200 cheaper phone already sabotages the 10 Pro’s position as the real ‘Pro’ for most people. Since Google’s phones are known for cameras — they are called Pixels after all — the Pixel 10

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Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 05:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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JBL’s Boombox 4 Speaker Can Pump Out Less Distorted Sound Thanks to AI

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-26 04:00:25

Sometimes you need a Bluetooth speaker that’s going to knock people’s socks off, not necessarily in terms of audio quality (though that’s nice too), but in pure, unadulterated volume. For JBL fans, there’s one wireless speaker that delivers on that promise in a package that’s not a total pain in the ass to cart around, and that’s the Boombox, which just got its fourth version and some significant upgrades to boot at IFA 2025. The highlight here, according to JBL, is that the Boombox 4 is giving

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You Don't Need iOS 26 to Do Math in Your iPhone's Messages App. Here's How

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 05:00:02

Apple is set to release iOS 26 this fall -- I'm predicting in less than two weeks -- and it will bring Liquid Glass, call screening and more features to your iPhone. But iOS 18 upgrades your Messages app so that it can solve tricky equations without your Calculator app, and it doesn't need Google to look up conversion rates, either. Prior to iOS 18, if you wanted to figure out how to split a bill with your texting group from afar, you'd have to use your calculator app or Spotlight and then swit

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The PartyBox 720 is JBL’s largest battery-powered party speaker

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-26 04:00:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. JBL has expanded its lineup of flashy Bluetooth speakers with three new models that let you blast tunes without being tied to a power source. The launch includes the new $1,099 PartyBox 720, which is JBL’s largest battery-powered speaker to date, weighing 7 pounds (3kg) more than the visually similar PartyBox 710 that was released in 2021. The PartyBox 720 measures 16.4 x 37.1 x 16 inches, compared to 15.7

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How Pixel 10 Pro created the world's smartest phone camera - a peek inside Google

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-11-26 08:00:17

ZDNET's Kerry Wan takes a photo with the Google Pixel 10 Pro camera. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Isaac Reynolds has been working on the Pixel Camera team at Google for almost a decade -- since the first Google Pixel phone launched in 2016. And yet, I think it's fair to say that he's never been more bullish about the technology that Google has integrated into a phone camera than he is with this year's Pixel 10 Pro. A new wave of AI breakthroughs in the past year have allowed Google to use Large Language

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The already-affordable TCL 60 XE NXTPAPER gets $70 cheaper

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 06:55:55

Harley Maranan / Android Authority The TCL 60 XE NXTPAPER is already an affordable handset at its retail price of $249.99. I refuse to pay full price for anything, though, and if you are like me, today is your lucky day! The phone is at a record-low price of just $179.99, saving you $70. Buy the TCL 60 XE NXTPAPER for just $179.99 ($70 off) This offer is available from Amazon, but keep in mind that the discount is applied in two stages. First, a “limited time deal” takes the price down to $199

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This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 03:58:23

This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 If you glance over this blog, you will see that I am an avid Android fan. After setting up numerous Linux proot desktops on phones, I wanted to see if I use a phone as a server and run my blog from an Android phone. Since you are reading this, I was successful. I was inspired my a few Mastodon posts earlier this week to give it a go. First, I stumbled on a post from @kaimac who is running a site from an ESP32 microcontroller. In the comments of

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You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

news.ycombinator.com Ibrahim Diallo 2025-11-26 08:31:37

I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the data by name?" My immediate thought was: If you have a JavaScript array with a million entries, you're certainly doing something wrong. The interviewer continued: "There are multiple fields that you should be able to sort by." This felt like a trick question. Surely the right answer was to explain w

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Google is changing how Extra Dim works on the Pixel 10, and it’s so much better

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 08:56:55

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The new Pixel 10 series integrates the “Extra Dim” feature directly into the main brightness slider, making it easier to access. This removes the need for a separate toggle, as Extra Dim now automatically activates when the brightness slider is at its minimum. While the feature was tested on older Pixels, it is currently exclusive to the Pixel 10, though it may come to other devices later. Google’s new Pixel 10 series introduces some surprise display upgr

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Hackers breach fintech firm in attempted $130M bank heist

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-26 15:33:50

Hackers tried to steal $130 million from Evertec’s Brazilian subsidiary Sinqia S.A.after gaining unauthorized access to its environment on the central bank’s real-time payment system (Pix). Evertec is a public financial technology giant that stands as a major full-service transaction processor in Latin America, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. Sinqia, acquired by Evertec in 2023, is a São Paulo-based public company operating in financial software and IT services for the banking and financial in

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Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 08:30:43

Pearl An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter for Gleam! Pearl is a lexer and syntax highlighter for Erlang, written in Gleam. The lexer is based on glexer and just , allowing you to convert Erlang source code into tokens. There is also an API which allows you to highlight Erlang code using ansi colours, html or a custom format. Heavily inspired by contour . gleam add pearl@2 import pearl pub fn main ( ) { let code = " -module(hello). -export([hello_world/0]). hello_world() -> io:fwrite( \" H

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PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

This BowFlex Exercise Bike Is My Go-To Affordable Peloton Alternative

This is my new favorite way to run Windows apps on my Linux PC - how it works

Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

New York’s ‘Big Bang Machine’ Passes Critical First Test

The first ten things I changed on my Pixel 10!

PayPal and Venmo users can try Perplexity's Comet AI browser free for a year now

Own a Samsung phone? Changing these 10 settings gave mine a big performance boost

Netflix will let you make your own highlight clips

Garmin’s Fenix 8 Pro series finally lets you leave your phone at home — sort of

Netflix updates its Moments feature to give users greater control over scene clipping

PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions

A $159 Chromebook was my only computer for a week - how it changed my mind about cheap laptops

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect Lets You Place Speakers Anywhere

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Turns out it’s possible to get a Pixel 10 with a physical SIM slot in the US

Acer just revealed a stupidly powerful Chromebook convertible

Last-minute leak spoils Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 surprise

I’d be more excited about the Pixel 10 Pro if it had this iPhone camera feature

Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

JBL’s Boombox 4 Speaker Can Pump Out Less Distorted Sound Thanks to AI

You Don't Need iOS 26 to Do Math in Your iPhone's Messages App. Here's How

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This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

Google is changing how Extra Dim works on the Pixel 10, and it’s so much better

Hackers breach fintech firm in attempted $130M bank heist

Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam

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