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I use Edge as my default browser - but its new AI mode is unreliable and annoying

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-12-27 04:39:00

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Microsoft's on a relentless quest to embed its Copilot AI into every software product it owns. That campaign takes another big step forward with the addition of some new generative AI features in the company's Edge browser. The latest release beefs up the capabilities of Copilot Mode, the chat-based search interface for Edge, on Windows PCs and Macs. You can use natural voice commands to navigate pages, and the chatbot can see all the open tabs in the c

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Google Pixels just got a welcome boost for PC emulation

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 09:22:40

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR GameSir has confirmed that its GameHub PC emulator will also perform better on Google Pixel phones. This comes shortly after it announced performance improvements for devices with Mali graphics. The company hasn’t detailed which improvements will come to Pixel phones, but this is still good news for mobile gamers. Controller brand GameSir recently announced that its GameHub app for PC emulation offers much better support for devices with Mali GPUs. The

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Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit

news.ycombinator.com Garrison Lovely 2025-12-27 08:41:26

This piece has been updated to add additional context and clarify some details. Anthropic, the AI startup that’s long presented itself as the industry’s safe and ethical choice, is now facing legal penalties that could bankrupt the company. Damages resulting from its mass use of pirated books would likely exceed a billion dollars, with the statutory maximum stretching into the hundreds of billions. Last week, William Alsup, a federal judge in San Francisco, certified a class action lawsuit aga

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Domino's deploys Boston Dynamics' robot dog to deliver pizza and fend off seagulls on beaches

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-27 20:15:00

WTF?! Domino's Pizza wants to solve a very specific problem: getting pizza to customers on a beach and then protecting it from seagulls. The somewhat unorthodox solution is to use Boston Dynamics' quadrupedal robot, Spot, which will act as both delivery service and guard dog. Boston Dynamics' Spot the dog robot has had many careers: bomb disposal expert, police officer, dancer, industrial inspector, cheerleader, Solid Snake impersonator, etc. In the UK seaside town of Eastbourne, Domino's is u

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My favorite Google Pixel features that don’t get enough love

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 17:15:55

Google Pixel phones are packed with intelligent and helpful features. While Google ensures many of these are front and center by promoting them when you first set up the phone or by periodically reminding you about them when you perform certain tasks, a surprising number of equally brilliant features fly under the radar. These hidden gems can significantly improve your daily experience with your phone. It’s a shame that a ton of users simply don’t know about them. With that in mind, this is a l

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Food delivery service Calo scores $39 million in Series B extension as it sets eyes on the UK

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-27 20:35:57

Middle Eastern food delivery startup Calo said Tuesday it has raised $39 million in a Series B extension that was led by AlJazira Capital. The fundraise, which was more than 1.5x of its original $25 million raise in December, also saw participation from existing backers such as Nuwa Capital, STV, Khwarizmi Ventures, and Al Faisaliah Group. The company is using this funding to expand into territories like the UK and also explore different partnerships in physical space. Calo primarily offers re

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The best budgeting apps for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 21:01:26

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 . Managing your finances doesn’t have to be complicated, and there are so many tools available now that can make things easier (and even partially automated) for you. I was a Mint user for many years, but I was forced to find a new budgeting app after the service shut down in March 2024.

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Built a rickroll machine that rickrolls you with microservices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 04:24:41

Chaotic Rickroll Machine an API chain made with express and NodeJS for the sole purpose of rickrolling the user a RaaS(Rickroll as a Service) if you will

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You should turn off this default TV setting ASAP - and why even experts recommend it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-27 21:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET For many people, motion smoothing on TVs is only appropriate for gaming and watching live sports; enthusiasts typically prefer turning off the feature to watch anything else because it can detract from the filmmaker's original intent, making on-screen images seem artificial or hyper-realistic. This is what's called the "soap opera effect." Also: How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why you shouldn't wait to do it) It's a perfectly descriptive metaphor that probably requires no

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‘The Vampire Lestat’ Cast Breaks Down the Next Chapter of AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-27 17:40:31

During San Diego Comic-Con, io9 was invited to a press conference for The Vampire Lestat, the latest Anne Rice Immortal Universe series for AMC. And don’t get it twisted, this is not Interview With The Vampire season three; this is officially the Lestat show, as he takes the mic to tell his story and put some misconceptions about himself and his past to rest—that is, until they rise from the dead or awaken… Star Sam Reid (Lestat de Lioncourt) was joined by Jacob Anderson (Louis de Pointe du Lac

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Anthropic throttles Claude rate limits, devs call foul

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-27 22:18:31

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic announced today it would introduce weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, claiming that some users have been running Claude 24/7, with the majority of usage centered around its Claude Code product. Overall weekly limits will begin on August 28 and will be in conjunction with the current 5-hour limits. Anthropic said the throt

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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Sieff 2025-12-24 06:32:22

MUR-DE-BRETAGNE, France — After the world’s best cyclists charged up the final climb in Stage 7 of the Tour de France, passing a roaring crowd at the finish line, a group of officials in black polo shirts darted toward their bikes. The officials put red bracelets on the carbon frames. Their job was to conduct a little-known check in one of the world’s most scandal-stained sports: The bikes were being inspected for tiny motors. Eight bikes were wheeled to a black tent a few feet from the podium,

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Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you

news.ycombinator.com Piper Ai 2025-12-28 04:17:14

How does Piper work? Install extension → Click any phone number → Type what you need → Piper calls them. You get results in minutes. Works on any website with phone numbers. What kind of calls can Piper make? The boring ones. Restaurant reservations, doctor appointments, customer service battles, subscription cancellations, price shopping. Any call that makes you think 'ugh, I'll do it tomorrow.' Does it sound like a robot? Nope! Piper sounds more human than most humans before coffee. Natural

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Anthropic is rate limiting Claude Code, blaming some users for never turning it off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 09:11:34

Anthropic has introduced new weekly rate limits on its Claude Code tool for AI assistance with coding tasks. The move comes shortly after the AI company quietly began implementing rate limits on the Claude Code service, which is an agentic side of the AI chatbot that is capable of reading code, editing files, performing tests and pushing GitHub commits. According to a series of posts from Anthropic on X, these changes are in response to some users who have been running Claude Code "continuously

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Forget the Pixel Buds 3, Google Should Make an AirPods Max Killer

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-28 09:08:30

Google has a lot in store for us starting next month. I know this, not because of some insider knowledge or gadget-centric ESP, but because last week all of its upcoming announcements were leaked in succession, leaving precious little up to the imagination. Among the upcoming Google drops is a whole family of Pixel 10s, a Pixel Fold, another Pixel smartwatch, and a minor update to Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2, which are getting a new color. Some of those product drops may be exciting to someone, bu

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Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 14:18:51

Microsoft has debuted a Copilot Mode for its Edge web browser. When enabled, this experimental feature can search across multiple open browser tabs and analyze the information on each page. An example posted on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shows Copilot Mode examining several papers published by the company's researchers and assessing if they make any similar points. Today we’re introducing Copilot Mode in Edge, our first step in reinventing the browser for the AI age. My favorite featur

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Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-28 14:20:45

Here’s another thing to add to the list of highly unlikely but deeply horrifying injuries you could sustain in the safety of your own home. A recent case report detailed a 50-year-old man who fainted while brushing his teeth and ended up hospitalized as a result. Doctors at The University of Tokyo Hospital described the unusual incident earlier this month in BMJ Case Reports. After fainting, the man’s toothbrush scraped the back of his throat severely enough to trap air inside, raising the risk

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Yet another Pixel 6A caught fire

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-28 14:23:32

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Another user has reported their Pixel 6A catching fire — but this time, it appears to have occurred after applying Google’s recent battery performance update that was intended to prevent overheating issues, as spotted by Android Authority. In a post on Reddit, a Pixel 6A user says they awoke to a “horrible smell and a loud noise,” which is when they

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Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 17:58:16

Scientists are racing to find potential ways to slow down global warming, going far as to investigate ways to dim the Sun. The concept, known as solar geoengineering, has proven incredibly controversial in the past, with critics arguing that we simply don't know enough about the risks, including the environmental and societal impacts of tinkering with the climate. Proponents don't necessarily disagree, but they say the situation is already so bad that we need to consider drastic action, even if

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Pixel Weather’s AI-powered forecasts expand beyond the Pixel 9 series

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-28 18:58:11

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s new Pixel Weather app launched last year with the Pixel 9 series. While Pixel Weather availability has since expanded to other Pixel models, that hasn’t included AI forecasts. Now Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a users with Gemini Nano report that AI forecasts have started working. Almost all of us rely on weather forecasts to help plan our days, and while you’ve got no shortage of weather apps to chose from on Android, Google’s own Pixel Weather has got

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‘Rick and Morty’ Exec Producer Dan Harmon Is Already Thinking 2 Seasons Ahead

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-28 18:45:34

Last night brought the season eight finale of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty—a surprisingly poignant (by Rick and Morty standards) look at how Rick and the two Beths have coped with the loss of Diane, Rick’s wife and their mother. As you’d expect, sci-fi weirdness complicates their grief—but the episode, titled “Hot Rick,” brought a sense of closure as well as the suggestion that Rick’s emotional evolution will continue in future seasons. While fans of Rick and Morty have grown used to long wait t

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Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-28 18:21:15

Anthropic says its rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude to curb usage among subscribers who are running its AI coding tool, Claude Code, “continuously in the background, 24/7.” Anthropic says the rate limits also aim to stop a handful of users who are violating Claude’s usage policy by sharing accounts and reselling access to Claude Code. The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100 and $200-per-month Max p

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Microsoft Edge is now an AI browser with launch of ‘Copilot Mode’

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-28 18:43:22

With demand for AI-powered browsers on the rise, Microsoft on Monday launched a new feature in its Edge browser called Copilot Mode, which allows users to browse the web while being assisted by AI. The idea is that the AI can become a helper that can understand what the user is researching, predict what they want to do, and then take action on their behalf. How well it works in practice remains to be seen, but Microsoft notes that Copilot Mode is still considered an experimental feature. It’s a

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Cells that breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time

news.ycombinator.com Jake Buehler 2025-12-25 02:38:31

Take a deep breath. A flow of air has rushed into your lungs, where the oxygen moves into your bloodstream, fueling metabolic fires in cells throughout your body. You, being an aerobic organism, use oxygen as the cellular spark that frees molecular energy from the food you eat. But not all organisms on the planet live or breathe this way. Instead of using oxygen to harvest energy, many single-celled life-forms that live in environments far from oxygen’s reach, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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Chrome gives you another reason to use it for online shopping

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 04:00:56

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has announced a new Chrome feature that allows users to easily gain insights into a store’s reputation and product quality. The tool provides an AI-generated summary that pulls data from Google Shopping and other review sites. The feature is limited to users in the US. Even if you’re a prolific online shopper, it can be difficult to figure out exactly which stores you should and shouldn’t trust. One way to do this is to check the store’s revie

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Microsoft wants you to chat with its browser now - but can you trust this Copilot?

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-12-29 04:00:17

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Microsoft's on a relentless quest to embed its Copilot AI into every software product it owns. That campaign takes another big step forward today with the addition of some new generative AI features in the company's Edge browser. Today's release beefs up the capabilities of Copilot Mode, the chat-based search interface for Edge, on Windows PCs and Macs. You can use natural voice commands to navigate pages, and the chatbot can see all the open tabs in th

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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

news.ycombinator.com Jake Buehler 2025-12-25 08:38:31

Take a deep breath. A flow of air has rushed into your lungs, where the oxygen moves into your bloodstream, fueling metabolic fires in cells throughout your body. You, being an aerobic organism, use oxygen as the cellular spark that frees molecular energy from the food you eat. But not all organisms on the planet live or breathe this way. Instead of using oxygen to harvest energy, many single-celled life-forms that live in environments far from oxygen’s reach, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 04:05:32

The Pixel 6a was a widely beloved phone when it launched in 2022, offering almost all the capabilities of the more expensive Pixel 6 phones at a much lower price. Just a few years into their Pixel love affair, though, owners have been dismayed to learn that a new software update will destroy the phone's battery life. Google says the update is necessary to limit the risk of battery failure, but it would seem that in at least one case, even this heavy-handed update wasn't enough—a user has reporte

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Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-29 04:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test a new experimental Copilot Mode inside its Edge browser today. The AI-powered mode allows Copilot to search across all your open tabs and handle tasks like booking a restaurant, and it brings the Copilot chatbot to your new tab page. Copilot Mode is somewhere between the limited Gemini integration that Google is testing in Chrome and the AI-powere

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This Reddit user's Pixel 6a reportedly caught fire, after Google's update - what you need to know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-29 09:24:25

A little more than a month after Google released an update to prevent the Pixel 6a from overheating and possibly catching fire, a Reddit user reports that it's happened again. Last month, Google issued a software update that purposefully limited the 6a's charging capacity and performance. Over the weekend, a Reddit user posted a somewhat harrowing account of how they were woken up that morning by a horrible smell and loud noise. Their Pixel 6a, less than two feet from their face, was on fire.

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I use Edge as my default browser - but its new AI mode is unreliable and annoying

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Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit

Domino's deploys Boston Dynamics' robot dog to deliver pizza and fend off seagulls on beaches

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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

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Anthropic is rate limiting Claude Code, blaming some users for never turning it off

Forget the Pixel Buds 3, Google Should Make an AirPods Max Killer

Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode

This Reddit user's Pixel 6a reportedly caught fire, after Google's update - what you need to know

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