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Dell 15.6″ Laptop (32GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Is Almost $1,400 Off as Amazon Clears Out 4.5-Star Best-Sellers

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-03-07 00:40:41

When was the last time you upgraded your laptop? If you’re still working off of a piece of ten year old tech, it may be time to start looking for a replacement. This Dell laptop is a pretty versatile option that can fulfill a lot of your basic laptop needs, be it you’re a student, small business owner, or just someone who wants to go online with something other than their phone. Dell has its 15.6-inch laptop with Windows 11 Pro installed on sale. It has different options for RAM and storage, but

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I changed 10 Samsung phone settings for an instant performance boost

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-03-07 05:49:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin right now. 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 Samsung phones to buy From setting the highest available screen resolution to more

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

news.ycombinator.com Brecht De Ruyte 2026-03-04 03:21:04

In this (long) part of the customizable select series, it’s all about gamification. In this article, I’d like to highlight one of my demos, where I aimed to recreate a piece of UI found in the Monster Hunter games. To re-create this behavior, I had to think in terms of keyboard navigation first. This demo requires quite a lot of CSS, as well as some scripting, and in the end, I do want to highlight some accessibility concerns. This is an experiment on how far we can take it when styling select e

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Miss the Volume Bar on Your iPhone's Lock Screen? Here's How to Bring It Back

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-07 20:00:03

If you're listening to music or a podcast and want to change the volume without unlocking your iPhone, then you probably press the buttons on the side of your phone. While the buttons increase or decrease your volume a set amount, they could leave you choosing between a volume that is slightly too loud or a bit too quiet. But if you keep your iPhone up to date with the latest iOS releases, you can bring the volume bar back to your Lock Screen, giving you more precise control over your iPhone's v

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The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

wired.com Jay Bennett 2026-03-07 18:27:31

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey of the cosmos. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named for the astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter in 1978, is expected to reveal some 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, 10 million supernovas, and millions of smaller objects

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First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-07 18:01:51

First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope 4 hours ago Share Save Ione Wells South America correspondent Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Share Save NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory The first image revealed by the Vera Rubin telescope shows the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae in stunning detail A powerful new telescope in Chile has released its first images, showing off its unprecedented ability to peer into the dark depths of the universe. In one picture, vast colourful gas

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Your Apple TV is getting a big upgrade for free - 5 features I can't wait to use on TVOS 26

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-03-07 21:30:13

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Earlier this month at WWDC, Apple announced a major upgrade for Apple TV: TVOS 26. This upgrade introduces a significant visual overhaul and several unprecedented entertainment features. The platform offers a new layout and interface, along with smart features that weren't available in TVOS 18. At the heart of the update is a new design language called Liquid Glass, which gives the interface a more vibrant and expressive look. Across iOS 26 devices, Liquid Glass offers floati

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Windows Snipping Tool now lets you create animated GIF recordings

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-07 08:11:22

Microsoft announced that the Windows screenshot and screencast Snipping Tool utility is getting support for exporting animated GIF recordings. This new capability is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels, who have updated the app to version 11.2505.21.0. "In this update, we are adding GIF export for screen recordings – designed to boost your productivity and turn quick captures into shareable moments," said Dave Grochocki, a Principal Product Manager Lead at Micros

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Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 05:43:42

I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug. It's got a switch on the side to manually toggle the switch on and off. It connects to WiFi, so you can read the state of the plug via API. When you turn the switch on, the script updates /etc/hosts to effectively block websites of your choosing: 127.0.0.1 www.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 x.com 127.0.0.1 instagram.com 127.0.0.1 youtube.com 127.0.0.1 reddit.com

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Targeting Nuclear Scientists Used to Be Covert Ops. Israel Just Blew It Open

gizmodo.com Jenna Jordan 2026-03-07 03:00:54

At least 14 nuclear scientists are believed to be among those killed in Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 2025, ostensibly to destroy or degrade Iran’s nuclear program and military capabilities. Deliberately targeting scientists in this way aims to disrupt Iran’s knowledge base and continuity in nuclear expertise. Among those assassinated were Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, a theoretical physicist and head of Iran’s Islamic Azad University, and Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, a nuclear e

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Upscale your images for free with Upscayl

techspot.com Unknown 2026-03-07 15:31:00

Upscayl is a powerful image upscaling tool that uses advanced AI technology to enhance your images. It allows you to enlarge images without losing quality. It's almost like magic! Upscayl uses Real-ESRGAN and Vulkan architecture to achieve this. Our backend is fully open-source under the AGPLv3 license. Do I need a GPU to use Upscayl Desktop? Yes, you need a Vulkan-compatible graphics card to use Upscayl. CPU only mode is not supported at the moment and many iGPUs are not supported. Why is t

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Every Parent Should Know These 3 iPhone and iPad Parental Controls

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-07 11:00:12

As a parent of three young kids with limited screen time, the prospect of handing them their very own iPad or iPhone sends me into an anxiety-induced spiral. The prospect of having to micromanage screen time (and the overstimulated meltdowns that follow), plus trying to protect them on social media and against all the other horrors lurking online, is enough to make me want to swear off screens altogether. But I'm also a realist and know I can't fend off screens forever. In fact, their peak devic

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HP Coupon Codes: 5% Off | June 2025

wired.com Luke Larsen 2026-03-07 09:00:00

If you don't know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz monitor is a favorite among PC gamers, even among the huge amounts of OLED options out there. It can hit a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR, bringing scenes in games to life in vivid detail. Or if you’re on the other side o

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Show HN: To-Userscript: Chrome Extension to Userscript Converter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 09:25:45

Demo 2x Speed (conversion takes 4s total normal speed, incl. downloading) to-userscript.mp4 Demo but normal speed Screen.Shot.2025-06-20.at.7.59.06.AM.mov A powerful CLI for converting browser extensions into standalone userscripts. What is this? to-userscript bridges the gap between complex, packaged browser extensions and simple, portable userscripts. It takes an extension from the Chrome or Firefox store, a local directory, or a zip/xpi, and creates a single .user.js file that can be run i

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2 days left to save up to $210 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-03-07 09:00:00

Time is almost up! Regular bird pricing for TechCrunch All Stage ends this Sunday, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 2 days left to lock in savings of up to $210 on your ticket to one of the ultimate founder events of the summer. TC All Stage lands in Boston at SoWa Power Station on July 15 for one action-packed day built for founders, investors, and startup operators who want more than surface-level inspiration. Expect tactical sessions, real conversations, and curated connec

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Jürgen Schmidhuber：the Father of Generative AI Without Turing Award

news.ycombinator.com 作者田思奇 2026-03-08 04:00:55

In the sweltering heat of Shanghai, Jazzyear had the privilege of meeting Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber, a distinguished guest at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). Based on years of earlier research, Schmidhuber and his student Sepp Hochreiter published the architecture and training algorithms for Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks in 1997 in a journal. This type of RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) is widely used by tech giants for applications in natural language p

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NASA Aircraft Set to Perform Wild Low-Altitude Stunts Around These U.S. Cities

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-03-08 05:25:14

NASA is getting ready to fly two planes over mid-Atlantic states and parts of California, where they will be carrying out special maneuvers at a close distance while collecting valuable data about our changing planet. The two research aircraft, named P-3 Orion (N426NA) and a King Air B200 (N46L), are set to fly over Baltimore, Philadelphia, the Virginia cities of Hampton, Hopewell, and Richmond, in addition to the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and Central Valley, according to NASA. The flights

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Malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-08 13:51:17

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Astronomers capture ultra-detailed image of nearby Sculptor galaxy

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2026-03-08 21:31:00

Stunning: Astronomers have captured the most detailed image ever of the Sculptor galaxy, an incredibly complex system located roughly 11 million light-years from Earth. The composite was created using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, and is comprised of over 100 exposures captured during a 50-hour marathon observation session. The Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is similar in size, mass, and shape to our own spiral Milky Way. ESO researcher Enrico Congiu said th

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Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-08 21:35:55

The Open-source Agentic Browser. Nxtscape ("next-scape") is an open-source agentic browser – your privacy-first alternative to closed-source browsers (like Arc, Dia, Perplexity Comet). Built on Chromium, Nxtscape lets you run Manus like agents locally and boost your productivity with an AI-sidekick. $${\color{red}Download}$$ link for macOS We'd love to hear what problems you'd like to see solved! Share your ideas through our anonymous form. Looks like Chrome, but with AI superpowers. We believ

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Best Windows Laptop for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-08 20:33:00

There are a ton of laptops on the market at any given moment, and almost all of those models are available in multiple configurations to match your performance and budget needs. If you're feeling overwhelmed with options when looking for a new Windows laptop, it's understandable. To help simplify things for you, here are the main things you should consider when you start looking. Price The search for a new Windows laptop for most people starts with price. If the statistics chipmaker Intel and

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4 ways Google Lens on Chrome magnifies my productivity - and how to use it

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-03-09 01:13:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET You may have noticed an odd little button that sometimes appears in your Chrome browser bar labeled "Google Lens." It's actually been there for a number of years now, although it doesn't always show up. But have you ever used it? Have you even given it a second thought? Or has it just become one more piece of digital clutter your brain edits out? We've covered Google Lens before on ZDNET. We've done so a number of times, in fact. But we've always covered it as a fe

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Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä

news.ycombinator.com Jgs Editor 2026-03-09 01:23:29

Audrey Aguirre Upland High School, Upland, CA, USA. Email: audrey.a.aguirre (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Past studies on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ; Topcraft, 1984) have primarily focused on its ecological themes and anti-war messages through analysis of the narrative as a whole or Nausicaä’s character. These studies address the ethical and environmental consequences of war shown through the dystopian nature of the film’s setting and its religious symbolism. However, I

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Crisol is a BioShock-Like Cult Horror Shooter Using Your Blood For Bullets

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-09 00:00:04

One of the best things about Summer Game Fest is discovering games that blend some of your favorite classics into something wholly new. Crisol: Theater of Idols is a game with clear BioShock influence in its first-person shooter exploration, but melds some cult horror from games like Resident Evil 4 into the mix. On top of it all, to reload your gun, you've gotta sacrifice your own blood -- and take a chunk from your own health bar. It's a novel mechanic that combines with the gothic, nautical

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Aflac discloses breach amidst Scattered Spider insurance attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-09 05:52:05

On Friday, American insurance giant Aflac disclosed that its systems were breached in a broader campaign targeting insurance companies across the United States by attackers who may have stolen personal and health information. Aflac (short for American Family Life Assurance Company) is the largest supplemental insurance provider in the U.S. and a Fortune 500 company that provides insurance services to millions of customers in the U.S. and Japan. In a press release earlier today, the insurance c

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How AI Is Helping Students Find the Right College

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2026-03-09 01:30:00

After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application process. Dixon was happy to share her recently earned expertise about the world of higher education but soon realized how many parents and students in her community needed help and how hard it was for them to access that support. The ratio of college counselors to students in the US, according to the American School Counselor Association, is one for every 3

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One UI 8 could give screenshots an HDR glow-up that was missing from betas

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-09 04:36:59

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is testing HDR screenshot support for One UI 8 with its latest closed beta (ZYF7) release. The feature likely relies on Android 16’s embedded gain maps to show true HDR imagery when viewed correctly. HDR screenshots aren’t yet available in the One UI 8 Beta 2 release, but may arrive with future open betas or the stable release. Samsung will be bringing Android 16 to its devices with the release of One UI 8. The beta program is live for the Galaxy

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One of the best RPGs of all time is coming to Android on August 5

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-09 09:12:12

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Disco Elysium will launch on Android on August 5. It will feature full voice acting and revamped, mobile-first gameplay. The first two chapters are free, with the full game costing $9.99. Disco Elysium is one of the most celebrated titles of the past decade, with numerous awards and accolades under its belt. A mobile port was announced earlier this year, and now it finally has an official release date. The stylish 2019 RPG will launch on August 5, and

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Show HN: Ts-SSH – SSH over Tailscale without running the daemon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-08 23:03:05

ts-ssh: Powerful Tailscale SSH/SCP CLI Tool A streamlined command-line SSH client and SCP utility that connects to your Tailscale network using tsnet . Features powerful multi-host operations, batch command execution, and real tmux integration - all without requiring the full Tailscale daemon. Perfect for DevOps teams who need fast, reliable SSH access across their Tailscale infrastructure. Features 🚀 Core SSH/SCP Functionality Userspace Tailscale connection using tsnet - no daemon required

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Schedule a Text to Send Later With This iPhone Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-09 21:00:03

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9 that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26, not iOS 19. The tech giant also announced that iOS 26 will bring a transparent glass design to your iPhone's icons, menus and more. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September 2024, that update brought a feature to Messages that lets you schedule messages to send later called, simply, Send Later. The feature does what its name implies and lets you schedu

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