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Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: Here's the clear winner after testing both

Joseph Maldonado and Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold has finally arrived, and it isn't taking on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 with a generational design leap. Instead, it competes by adding quality-of-life features -- a couple of which are industry-firsts for a foldable phone. If you are ready to upgrade from a slab phone to a foldable one, now is the best time to do so. However, it can be confusing to make a decision when both Google and Samsung book-style foldables are so good this year.

The best VPN routers of 2025

A virtual private network (VPN) is one of the best ways to encrypt your online communication, mask your IP address, circumvent censorship, and enhance your personal privacy. Many users simply download their chosen VPN's desktop or mobile software, install the app, sign in, choose a server, and go. However, you can also install your VPN on your router or purchase one with the service pre-installed. Setting up a VPN environment via your router provides blanket security and privacy coverage across

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The 19+ best Walmart Labor Day deals 2025: Sales on Apple, Samsung, LG, and more

'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

Bidirectional Signals from the Emitter's Perspective in PHP

A New Observer Pattern: Bidirectional Signals from the Emitter’s Perspective in PHP Morteza 5 min read · Aug 23, 2025 -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size php-repos’s observer pattern Introduction: Shifting the Observer Perspective In software, the traditional observer pattern is often designed with the observer in mind: an event happens, like a user logging in, and a handler — say, a logger — reacts by recording it. This perspective assumes the observer (the handle

Chronicle – idiomatic, type safe event sourcing framework for Go

Chronicle A pragmatic and type-safe toolkit for modern event sourcing in Go. Want to hire me? Quickstart Warning I recommend going through the quickstart, since all examples use the Account struct used below from the account package. Install the library go get github.com/DeluxeOwl/chronicle # for debugging go get github.com/sanity-io/litter Define your aggregate and embed aggregate.Base . This embedded struct handles the versioning of the aggregate for you. We'll use a classic yet very s

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

Negotiation Explanation SOURCE_CAPABILITIES - Source Capabilities This is a message from the source to 'advertise' the power modes that it is capable of supplying. The capabilities are communicated as a list of options with different fixed voltages, current limits, and supported features. The most interesting of these is the - optional - Programmable Power Supply(PPS) mode allowing the sink device to micromanage the delivered voltage and current to optimize power conversion and delivery. Thi

C++: Strongly Happens Before?

Strongly Happens Before? It started innocently enough. I just wanted to brush up on C++ memory orderings. It’s been a while since I last stared into the abyss of std::atomic , so I figured, why not revisit some good ol’ std::memory_order mayhem? Then I saw it. Strongly happens before. Wait, what? When did we get a stronger version of happens before? Turns out, it has been there for quite some time (since C++20 in fact), and it’s actually solving a very real problem in the memory model. If yo

CocoaPods Is Deprecated

TLDR: In two years we plan to turn CocoaPods trunk to be read-only. At that point, no new versions or pods will be added to trunk. - Note, this post has been updated in May 2025. Last month I wrote about how CocoaPods is currently being maintained, I also noted that we were discussing converting the main CocoaPods spec repo "trunk" to be read-only: We are discussing that on a very long, multi-year, basis we can drastically simplify the security of CocoaPods trunk by converting the Specs Repo t

A Review of Nim 2: The Good and Bad with Example Code

I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim. After reading a recent article on Nim ("Why Nim") and the associated HN comments, it's clear that comments and some information about Nim are misleading and outdated. Since Nim 2, a tracing Garbage Collector is not the default nor the recommended memory management option. Instead, the default memory management mod

These Wireless Earbuds Have a Screen, ChatGPT, and a Cute Robot Face—but They Sound Terrible

I like wireless earbuds because I love music. It’s very straightforward; music exists, and I want to listen to it, and wireless earbuds are the thing that gets me to the thing I love. Problem solved. You can’t see it, but I’m smugly dusting my hands right now like a mathematician at a chalkboard. There’s a symbiosis between the buds and me. A simplicity. A supply and demand so fundamental that in the gadget world, it feels like a law of nature. But, as much as I love wireless audio, there are s

Best Ring Video Doorbells of 2025

Are you happy with Ring doorbells that are largely limited to Amazon Alexa compatibility? Does the Ring camera on the doorbell show a clear image with the right resolution for easy live viewing? Does the doorbell have any problems with latency and alerts? Can it be positioned close enough to your Wi-Fi network? Does the Ring doorbell have two-way audio, motion detection and other key features? Are you willing to pay for a Ring subscription to get features like video storage and object detecti

AI Can Probably Do Some of Your Work Tasks. That Doesn't Mean It Can Do Your Job

The executives behind big generative artificial intelligence companies are quick to claim their products will displace huge numbers of workers. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made headlines in May by saying generative AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs in the next few years. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in April that he wants AI to be writing half of the company's code in the next year. And Americans believe it -- a recent Pew survey found 64% of Americans expect fewer jobs tha

WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain

Leah Feiger: I think the thing that really got me about this study and from Will's excellent write-up is that the main thing that you do in these entry-level jobs is figure out how to be a real human and how to live in an adult world and how to respond to emails and show up places on time. I think we have to actually be a little bit more forward-thinking. We have to think about what does that then mean for people who would have become managers, would have become leaders in these different indust

China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World

China is preparing for one of the most anticipated and politically charged military events in recent years. On September 3, in Tiananmen Square, China will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan in World War II with a spectacular military parade that is not only a ritual of historical remembrance but also a message to the entire world to be prepared for the war of the future. President Xi Jinping and several foreign leaders and officials, including Vladimir Putin, will attend

Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America

The supercomputing infrastructure at the University of Tarapacá (UTA) in Arica, Chile, is a fundamental pillar for Latam-GPT. With a projected investment of $10 million, the new center has a cluster of 12 nodes, each equipped with eight state-of-the-art NVIDIA H200 GPUs. This capacity, unprecedented in Chile and the region more broadly, not only enables large-scale model training in the country for the first time, it also encourages decentralization and energy efficiency. The first version of L

Hell Is Us is a cryptic and ambitious meditation on the horrors of war

The opening hours of Hell Is Us are brilliantly confusing. The game tasks you with getting up to speed on a complicated civil war between the Palomists and Sabinians. A deluge of proper nouns is unleashed: Lymbic weaponry, Guardian Detectors, and more. But the clearest way the game communicates that you should feel utterly dumbfounded is through the cryptic stone panels scattered amid its ravaged, Eastern Europe-coded setting; you’re unable to actually read the text engraved in these tablets. At

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Is AI the end of software engineering or the next step in its evolution?

The first time I used ChatGPT to code, back in early 2023, I was reminded of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a classic horror story about an accursed talisman that grants wishes, but always by the most malevolent path — the desired outcome arrives after exacting a brutal cost elsewhere first. With the same humorless literalness, ChatGPT would implement the change I’d asked for, while also scrambling dozens of unrelated lines. The output was typically over-engineered, often barnacled with irrelevant fragment

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BYD shares slide as China's EV price war hits profits

BYD shares slide as China's EV price war hits profits The Shenzhen-based manufacturer is facing an increasingly crowded market, competing against local rivals Nio and XPeng and US carmaker Tesla, which have all slashed prices to draw buyers. BYD said in its filing that "increased price competition" among China's EV brands had impacted the industry. The carmaker had on Friday reported that its net profit fell to 6.4bn yuan ($900m; £660m) between April and June, down 30% from a year earlier. S

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Enforcing Australia's social media ban on kids is possible but contains risks, report says

Enforcing Australia's social media ban on kids is possible but contains risks, report says Though the move is popular with many parents, experts have raised concerns over data privacy and the accuracy of age verification technology. Under the new laws, platforms must take "reasonable steps" to prevent Australian children from creating accounts on their sites, and deactivate existing ones. The government says its ban, which comes into effect in December, is designed to limit the harmful impact

Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities

Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities 5 hours ago Share Save Isaac Ashe BBC News, Derby Share Save BBC Passengers in the East Midlands will be the first to test the ticketing technology Ticketless train travel that works by tracking passengers' locations is being trialled in the East Midlands. The location-based technology will be tested by East Midlands Railway (EMR) from Monday, by up to 1,000 people travelling through Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and the stations in between.

Alibaba shares surge as AI boom drives cloud unit sales

Alibaba posted a better-than-expected bottom line in the June quarter on Friday, fueled by accelerated sales at its cloud computing unit and a continued revival of its e-commerce business, sending shares higher. Still, the Chinese giant's revenues came in under analyst forecasts. U.S.-listed shares of the Chinese giant had gained nearly 13% on Friday after the company announced results. On Monday, Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares surged more than 19% before paring some gains. Here's how Al

Alibaba shares jump 19% on cloud unit acceleration, report of new AI chip

Signage at the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. Alibaba 's Hong Kong listed shares surged more than 19% on Monday as the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing unit drove strong quarterly results, while details emerged over its new AI chip development. It's the highest level for the stock since March. Investors have backed the company's improving performance in its key cloud unit and are content with the the tech giant's investment into new a

The Pixel 10 Pro is technically cheaper than the Pixel 10, at least for me

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’m in the market for a new phone, and while I told myself I wouldn’t spend more than $500 on it, I’m a tech nerd and have to say that the latest Pixels look very appealing. I prefer smaller phones, and the entry-level Pixel 10 has all the features I want and need, and then some. I don’t see myself spending an extra $200 on the similarly sized Pro model, as the price difference isn’t worth it for me. But here’s the kicker: The Pixel 10 Pro is actually cheaper

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Android 16 has an annoying notification bug, but a fix is coming

Google released the stable version of Android 16 back in June, and it brings some welcome features to the platform. Unfortunately, the update has also introduced a peculiar bug for some. A user posted a report on Google’s Issue Tracker back in June, detailing a strange notification issue in Android 16. More specifically, the user and several others found that notifications don’t play any sounds when there’s already a notification in the notification shade. “When testing notifications, we reali

Ports, price, performance, or support: What trumps all on a Google TV streaming box?

Joe Maring / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. Purchasing a TV streaming box is more daunting than choosing a new smartphone. With modern handsets, buying one that simply sucks is a rarity. You’ll have to juggle various pros and cons, but it’s been long since I’ve used an outright horrible phone. This isn’t true for TV boxes. Some obfuscate thei

The best Labor Day sales for 2025: Get up to $500 off gear from Apple, Dyson, Shark, Sony and others

Labor Day is here, marking the unofficial end to summer as the weather starts to get crisper and students head back to school for the new semester. It also marks a good time to check out the tech deals available across the web. While seasonal holidays like Memorial Day and Labor Day are not the boon for tech sales that shopping events like Amazon Prime Day are, they can present good opportunities to save on things like laptops, tablets, smart home gear and more. Here, we've curated the best L

You can still buy refurbished Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses for $76 off - how to find deals

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Meta Ray-Bans have often been very difficult to find in stock at both retailers and online stores for the past two years -- and they rarely go on sale. But one of the best ways to not only get a 20% discount but also find some of the styles that have been discontinued or are rarely ever in stock is to use the little-known Meta Refurbished AI Glasses online store. I recently ordered a pair of Meta Ray-Bans in the Skylar style with the Shiny Caramel finish with Polar Brown lens

Samsung will give you a free 65-inch TV right now - here's how to qualify for the deal

Samsung's Neo QLED QN90F 100-inch TV is impressive to see in person. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Cinema-sized TVs have gained a small but dedicated following since brands like Samsung and Hisense unveiled their super-sized models earlier this year. And if you've been on the fence about buying one for your own home theater, Samsung is offering a free 65-inch Crystal UHD U8000F TV when you purchase either a 98-inch QN90F or 100-inch QN80F directly from their website. The Samsung QN90F is the latest update t

The smart cooler that stopped me from toting ice again just hit its lowest price yet

ZDNET's key takeaways The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is available for $1,349 but currently on sale. This cooler works as a portable mini-fridge, with dual-zone cooling and the capacity to freeze or refrigerate. The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is bulky and heavy, and it only comes with one battery so you have to purchase the second to reach the full 3.2 day capacity. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a teenager, I dre

Amazon will sell you a 65-inch LG C5 OLED for nearly 50% off right now - here's the best deal

Kerry Wan/ZDNET LG is one of the top names in OLED TVs, and the C5 Series continues to prove why, with signature picture quality and a host of upgrades over its predecessor. And right now at Amazon, the 65-inch LG C5 OLED has dropped to its lowest price ever, at just $2,500. That's a $1,200 discount on one of our picks for the best OLED TVs you can buy right now. Read the review: Why the LG C5 OLED is still a favorite TV of mine The LG C5 is the latest refresh of the brand's flagship OLED lin

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