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Samsung's Next Galaxy Unpacked Event Will Be a Sept. 4 Livestream

Samsung will unveil new phones and devices for its Galaxy line during a Sept. 4 virtual event. The upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event is timed just ahead of the IFA 2025 conference, a consumer tech event held in Berlin. The invite references a new Galaxy Tab that is available to "reserve" ahead of the event, but it's unclear what the new tablet is or what features it'll have. Samsung also typically announces new FE devices in the fall, which means we could see a Galaxy S25 FE phone or a similar FE

Nvidia CEO Says More Advanced AI Models Will Keep Chip, Data Center Growth Going

AI bubble? What AI bubble? If you ask Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, we're in a "new industrial revolution." Huang's company, of course, makes chips and computer hardware, the "picks and shovels" of the AI gold rush, and it's become the world's largest business by capitalizing on AI's growth, bubble or not. Speaking on Wednesday during an earnings call as his company reported revenue of $46.7 billion in the past quarter, he indicated no sign that the incredible growth of the generative artificial int

Samsung is Unpacking again in early September

is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Apple isn’t the only tech company to send out launch event invitations this week. If you’re keeping score at home, September is actually next week somehow, and Samsung is sneaking a virtual Unpacked in on September 4th before Apple hosts its annual iPhone event the following week. But it’s not just a convenient date

I still prefer Apple Watch over Oura Ring for 3 key reasons - but there is one big drawback

Apple Watch Ultra and Oura Ring Jason Hiner/ZDNET I've been wearing an Apple Watch every day for the past decade and I've been using it to track my sleep every night since 2019. Over the past few years, I've known more and more friends, family, and colleagues opting for smart rings instead of smart watches to track their health. I've also personally tested the Oura Ring, the Samsung Galaxy Ring, and the Ultrahuman Ring Air. But eventually, I keep taking off the rings and coming back to the App

3D printing a building with 756 windows

I’m writing this in a building with 756 windows. I know because I counted, and spent months researching, measuring, designing, 3D printing, and assembling them for the final project of an architecture course I took last spring. I’m a computer science major, but I make a point of taking a few non-math non-CS courses each year, made possible by Brown University’s Open Curriculumn. Last semester, those courses were in architecture and epigraphy; this blog post is about a project for the former.

AI Bubble Watch: Nvidia Shares Skid on Middling Q2 Results

Nvidia reported mixed second quarter earnings on Wednesday, meeting some market expectations but missing others. The company posted revenue of $46.74 billion, up 56% from a year ago. The number is higher than the $45 billion Nvidia shared in earnings guidance last quarter, and is just barely above the projected market consensus of $46.23 billion, according to Bloomberg. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.05, above the average market estimate of $1.01. Roughly $41.1 billion of that reve

Delivery Companies Around the World Stop Shipments to the US: Here's Who's Affected

Primary shipping services, including the European branch of DHL, multiple European state postal services, Australia Post, Japan Post and Taiwan's state postal service, have stopped shipping consumer goods of varying amounts (over $100 in some cases) to the US. The pause is currently expected to be temporary as countries respond to the latest US tariff measures, but could have a significant impact on US businesses selling anything from Taiwanese GPUs and Japanese card packs to European electronic

Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

“This research focuses on a central issue in the discourse surrounding AI and language: are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?” said assistant professor of computational linguistics and principal investigator Tom Juzek. “By analyzing lexical trends before and after ChatGPT was released in 2022, we found a convergence between human word choices and LLM-associated p

MongoDB stock surges 37% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

MongoDB shares skyrocketed 37% on Wednesday after the database software company posted better-than-expected fiscal results and gave an upbeat forecast. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $591 million vs. $556 million expected MongoDB's revenue increased 24% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended July 31. The company had a net loss of $47.04 millio

Is Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring an Ethical Lab-Grown Diamond, or a Horrible Blood-Soaked Conflict Diamond?

After so many years searching for someone to fill the "Blank Space" in her heart, billionaire chanteuse Taylor Swift has, it seems, finally found her person in Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce. After two years of dating, the celebrity couple announced this week that they're engaged to be married in an Instagram post that featured, as seen below, a beautiful photoshoot in a rambling English garden, complete with the caption "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married." Almo

SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

Simple Dynamic Strings Notes about version 2: this is an updated version of SDS in an attempt to finally unify Redis, Disque, Hiredis, and the stand alone SDS versions. This version is NOT binary compatible* with SDS verison 1, but the API is 99% compatible so switching to the new lib should be trivial. Note that this version of SDS may be a slower with certain workloads, but uses less memory compared to V1 since header size is dynamic and depends to the string to alloc. Moreover it includes

Passenger Assaulted in Viral TikTok Video Sues Southwest Airlines, Blames Seating Plan

Video footage went viral on social media earlier this summer after an intoxicated woman was seen on a Southwest Airlines flight pulling another woman’s hair and shouting abusive things before being subdued and arrested. Now the woman who was attacked has filed a lawsuit against her attacker and named Southwest as a co-defendant, partially blaming the airline’s open seating policy for the confrontation. Leanna Perry, identified as a 32-year-old illustrator from Brooklyn by the New York Post, was

Nvidia Shares Skid As Data Center Q2 Revenue Disappoints

Nvidia reported mixed second quarter earnings on Wednesday afternoon, meeting some market expectations but missing others. The company posted revenue of $46.74 billion, up 56% from a year ago. The number is higher than the $45 billion Nvidia shared in earnings guidance last quarter, and is just barely above the projected market consensus of $46.23 billion, according to Bloomberg. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.05, above the average market estimate of $1.01. Roughly $41.1 billion of

FreePBX servers hacked via zero-day, emergency fix released

The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team is warning about an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability that impacts systems with the Administrator Control Panel (ACP) is exposed to the internet. FreePBX is an open-source PBX (Private Branch Exchange) platform built on top of Asterisk, widely used by businesses, call centers, and service providers to manage voice communications, extensions, SIP trunks, and call routing. In an advisory posted to the FreePBX forums, the Sangoma FreePBX Security

The New ‘Toxic Avenger’ Is Helping Avenge Real-World Health Care Debt

The new Toxic Avenger finally hits theaters this week after a few years’ delay, and while audiences are in for a wild ride with the movie’s hilariously gross tale of mutation and redemption, the movie does also tackle more serious themes. A big moment comes early on when Peter Dinklage’s character—Winston Gooze, before he becomes Toxie—learns his expensive health insurance won’t cover his life-or-death medical treatment. Now, the film is applying some real-world activism to that unfortunately re

Pluto TV to Stream Full Seasons of CBS Hit Shows This Fall

Pluto TV is partnering with CBS to bring recently finished seasons of the network's biggest hits to the streaming platform for free. The epic promotional preview campaign kicks off in September, giving viewers access to a selection of six CBS original shows. It's just in time for the primetime season to start, giving viewers a chance to sample shows before new episodes of these series premiere on the network. Those tuning into the free TV streamer this fall will be able to watch season 2 of Els

With Starship Flight 10, SpaceX prioritized resilience over perfection

SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that’s designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a space vehicle that can tolerate mishaps and faults, so that a single failure doesn’t spell a mission-ending catastrophe. The 10th test flight on Tuesday evening demonstrated SpaceX’s focus on fault tolerance. In a post-flight update, SpaceX said the test stressed “the limits of vehicle capabilities

Xbox Cloud Gaming is now playable in the cheaper Game Pass tiers

It's now a little cheaper to try Xbox Cloud Gaming. Previously restricted to the Game Pass Ultimate tier, it's now open to Core and Standard subscribers. Xbox Cloud Gaming is still in beta, so you'll need to sign up (for free) as an Xbox Insider. Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers can stream cloud-playable games from two categories. This includes games supported in their subscription or select cloud-enabled games they own. The biggest perk of Cloud Gaming is it's supported on a whole mess

I changed these 12 settings on my Android phone to greatly extend its battery life

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries. Thanks to this micromanaging, I successfully pushed the batteries on all my past smartphones to their absolute limit. I don't want to hoard th

The sleekest 16-inch gaming laptop I've tested this year is $700 off right now

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i ZDNET's key takeaways The Legion Pro 7i (2025) is a top-tier gaming laptop, on sale now for $2,799. It effortlessly runs the latest gaming titles, exudes premium power, and features a 16-inch OLED display that demands your attention. Besides the high price, all that hardware runs hot, it's power-hungry, and it has a big, bulky power supply. $2,799 at B&H Photo-Video The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is the latest gaming laptop in the Legion series, sticking to an accessible 16-inc

We rebuilt Cloud Life's infrastructure delivery with System Initiative

By Ryan Ryke, CEO, Cloud Life ‍ This is the story of how we eliminated static configuration files from our infrastructure workflows at Cloud Life, and, in the process, cut delivery times by more than half, improved reliability, and made our engineers’ work feel much smoother and more manageable. Before this project, we’d been working with the same model that most modern infrastructure teams use: Terraform scripts, config repos, PR reviews, CI pipelines. We’d optimized what we could, but the w

'Rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites

When one of Italy's much-loved Five Towers toppled, it seemed a rare, exceptional event. In fact, throughout this stunning mountain range, peaks are crumbling. True to its name, the Five Towers – a small, iconic mountain range in the Dolomites (Eastern Italian Alps) – resembled five stone fingers spreading up towards the sky. One night between 4 and 7 June 2004, one of them, the Trephor Tower, came down. The Rifugio Scoiattoli – a chalet so close by that patrons can easily stroll to touch the r

Antirez/sds: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

Simple Dynamic Strings Notes about version 2: this is an updated version of SDS in an attempt to finally unify Redis, Disque, Hiredis, and the stand alone SDS versions. This version is NOT binary compatible* with SDS verison 1, but the API is 99% compatible so switching to the new lib should be trivial. Note that this version of SDS may be a slower with certain workloads, but uses less memory compared to V1 since header size is dynamic and depends to the string to alloc. Moreover it includes

If This Is the Price of Samsung’s Vision Pro Killer, It’s Still Too Much

Samsung’s first-ever XR headset, Project Moohan, is finally inching towards launch, and there could be good and bad news for anyone dying to know where it fits on the price spectrum. The good news? According to leaks from a Korean news outlet, Newsworks, Project Moohan will cost less than Apple’s wildly expensive Vision Pro, which debuted at $3,500. Phew! Price crisis averted, right? Wrong. Leaks suggest that the headset will still cost close to $2,000, with current conversions from Korean won t

Famous Painting Looted by Nazis Spotted on Real Estate Website, Disappears Again

More than 80 years ago, the master painting of Portrait of a Lady by Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was stolen by Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam. It hadn’t been seen since it went missing–until this week, when it was spotted in a real estate listing for a home for sale in Argentina. And while that may have seemed like a mystery solved, The Guardian reports that once the portrait was spotted, it suddenly went missing again. The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni, was one

This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities

A self-proclaimed leader of an online group linked to the violent extremist network The Com tells WIRED he is responsible for the flurry of hoax active-shooter alerts at universities across the US in recent days as students return to school. Known online as Gores, the person says he coleads a group called Purgatory, which is offering its followers a menu of services, including hoax threats against schools—known as swatting—for just $20, while faked threats against hospitals, businesses, and air

Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to TVs, starting with Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. With the integration, you can call upon Copilot and ask for movie suggestions, spoiler-free episode recaps, and other general questions.

The PS Plus monthly games for September include Psychonauts 2 and Stardew Valley

A new month is almost upon us, which means Sony is about to drop some fresh games that all PlayStation Plus members can keep in their collection as long as they maintain a subscription. There are some real standouts for September , including the iconic Stardew Valley and the long-awaited sequel Psychonauts 2. Stardew Valley is one of the most beloved farming/life sims of all time. You grow stuff, romance villagers and, of course, battle enemies in an enormous mine. It's an absolute time sink, b

Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring in Sales, Eng, Ops (EU, US)

Why you should join Lago At Lago, we’re on a mission to make billing simpler, more transparent, and more adaptable for SaaS companies. As the leading open-source billing platform, we empower businesses to build flexible pricing models and scale with confidence. We’ve raised over $22 million in funding from top-tier investors, reflecting strong confidence in our vision and growth. Our platform has garnered over 7,000 stars on GitHub, a testament to our active and growing developer community. N

John Williams Thinks Film Music Is Mid

John Williams is a composer who needs no introduction. Over the span of his 70-year career, he has crafted scores for over 100 films, earning five Academy Awards and 54 Oscar nominations with his work on seminal pop culture films, including Superman, Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Home Alone. However, the legendary composer, now 93, says he doesn’t think too highly of film music. In a recent interview with the Guardian, Williams said that, despite the power film music has as