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400 million Windows PCs vanished in 3 years. Where did they all go?

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-06 11:00:15

Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images In today's very very long blog post (more than 2,400 words!) about end-of-support options for Windows 10 PCs, Microsoft tried to bury an unpleasant statistic. That data point is tossed off casually in the opening paragraph, as Microsoft executive VP and consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi says, "Today, Windows is the most widely used operating system, powering over a billion monthly active devices..." Sounds pretty good, right? Also: How to get Windows 10

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How to get Windows 10 extended security updates for free: 2 options

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-06 11:00:19

hxdbzxy / Getty Images With just a few months remaining until the Windows 10 end-of-support date, Microsoft seems to have belatedly realized that owners of tens of millions of consumer PCs running Windows 10 aren't ready to replace their old computers, and they're also not about to fork over $30 for a one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) subscription. So today, the company waved the white flag and announced new "free enrollment options" for the ESU program, along with a description of the

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Samsung offers $1,000 off preorder deal for new Galaxy foldable phones ahead of Unpacked

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-10-06 11:07:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET At this point in time, three things are certain when July comes along: backyard barbecues, fireworks past midnight, and Samsung Unpacked. Also: The best Samsung phones to buy in 2025 Just yesterday, Samsung confirmed that the next Unpacked event will take place on Wednesday, July 9, in Brooklyn, New York. This follows the host cities of Paris, France, and Seoul, South Korea, over the past two years, with the company suggesting that it's chosen Brooklyn for its "bold ideas, cre

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The 5 tech gadgets that got me through marathons and obstacle courses (and how they work)

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-06 11:14:00

'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

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This tiny physical keyboard turned my foldable phone into a 'Blackberry' - and it works

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-06 11:35:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Clicks Keyboard for the Moto Razr is available for $139. The keyboard supports native Android shortcuts, has an optimal key design with a dedicated Gemini button, and supports data pass-through. There's only one color, and shortcuts cannot be customized. View now at Clicks With the summer season now upon us, I've swapped to my Moto Razr smartphone. This tiny foldable phone is perfect for your shorts' pocket, and for carrying around outside. To improve the lightweight

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Google Earth just made time travel easier - here's how to visit the old neighborhood

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-06 11:51:39

Busà Photography/Getty Last fall, a little-known Google Maps feature went viral for letting users get a glimpse of lost loved ones, old family pets, childhood homes, and even their younger selves. Those memories are getting a little easier to relive, as Google is bringing its historical Street View images to Google Earth. Also: This hidden Google Earth slider lets you travel up to 80 years back in time. Here's how to try it To celebrate 20 years of Google Earth, Google introduced a new way

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AT&T customer? You might get a cut of $177 million data breach settlement

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-06 11:53:57

wdstock/Gertty Images If you're a current or former AT&T customer, a new class action settlement means you might be in line for a little cash. Earlier this year, the company confirmed two major data breaches -- one from 2019 or earlier and one from 2024. The stolen data, which ultimately ended up for sale on the dark web, included social security numbers, names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and more. Also: 184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Goo

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Human-centric AI delivered at scale is the NiCE approach to CX

zdnet.com Omer Minkara 2025-10-06 11:54:47

matdesign24/Getty Images Last week, I attended NiCE Interactions 2025, a customer experience industry event bringing together nearly 3,000 CX, contact center, operations, and IT leaders from around the world. As NiCE is a leading provider of CX and contact center solutions, the event focused on how business leaders are modernizing their customer care and engagement strategies and how NiCE is helping facilitate that transformation. At the event, company leaders, marquee customers, and technolog

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Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM

news.ycombinator.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-10-06 10:57:51

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Nvidia has announced GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for both desktops and laptops with support for ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. On the desktop side, the RTX 5050 will start at $249, draw up to 130W of power, and feature 8GB of last-gen GDDR6 video memory (VRAM) and 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores. The cards will be made by thi

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Higher: Favourite Haskell type classes for Rust (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 08:24:49

higher The functor hierarchy and other terrible ideas for Rust. Yes, this gives you generalisable monads in Rust. No, they're not very nice compared to Haskell, because Rust's functions aren't quite as first class from the type system's perspective as you might like them to be, type constraints in trait implementations can be a serious headache when you want to implement, say, Functor for HashSet , and the type system can be particularly obtuse at times and need a lot of additional and extreme

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Expand.ai (YC S24) is hiring a founding engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 11:00:25

What if the internet were a database you could query? At expand.ai we're making that a reality. A combination of distributed systems, custom models, browser infrastructure, and a lot of passion from a tiny team, in-person here in Dogpatch, SF, is all you need. Apply if you're interested in working on bleeding-edge web agents applied at a large scale. We have a very talented team, great architects, and some have even worked on custom hardware before. I'm Tim, a 2nd-time founder, and I have s

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SFStreets: History of San Francisco Place Names

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 10:52:05

Loading... History of San Francisco Place Names Click on any highlighted street or landmark to learn the history behind the name. Use the options in the lower-right corner to search or filter by theme.

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UGREEN’s 2-in-1 Magnetic Foldable Charging Station Has Never Been This Cheap, Early Prime Day Makes It Happen

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-10-06 11:10:10

We are inundated with devices that need to be plugged in every once in awhile. Our phones need to charge, our headphones need to charge, our watches — you guessed it — need to charge. This can result in cables and running all across our desk space or nightstands. Avoid all of that unnecessary, stress-inducing clutter by getting yourself one device that can charge all others! UGREEN’s MagFlow 2-in-1 charging station is designed for use with Apple products like the iPhone and AirPods and can wirel

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I Can’t Stop Staring at This Massive ‘Star Wars’ Galaxy Map

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-06 11:10:44

For as many times, narratively speaking, Star Wars‘ universe can feel awfully small in much of its recent output, it’s always nice to be reminded that, actually, the scope of the galaxy far, far away is incomprehensibly vast. Especially if we can be reminded such an incredibly nerdy manner: via the medium of a massive, updated official map of that galaxy. Today the official Star Wars website, to sit alongside its own interactive timeline of the eras of Star Wars‘ past and future, released an up

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Apple Kicks Off Early Prime Day: Wi-Fi Only iPad 2025 Hits a New All-Time Low Price

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-10-06 11:11:04

Apple is known for rarely offering major discounts, especially on its latest products. Unlike many other brands that jump at every major sales event like Prime Day, Apple often stands on the sidelines, and lets its premium reputation and loyal customer base do the talking. Thus, whenever Apple items, and especially those released within the current year, are discounted, it is always a surprise (and a treat). Today, Apple’s latest iPad (the 11-inch version) can be had at a record low price of $2

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LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Is Selling for Pennies, Amazon Already Clears Out Stock Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-10-06 11:25:32

Star Wars set without a doubt the most profitable and best-selling license for LEGO with beloved characters flying off store shelves almost as fast as they’re built. Beautiful LEGO Star Wars sets have a sticker price of more than $100, and it’s quite often much more than that. For fans of the galaxy far, far away who want to stay within budget, there’s a sale that’s creating a buzz: the LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Building Set is priced at a rate that equals last year’s Black Friday and Prime Day lows

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Amazon Sells Blink Outdoor Cameras (61% Off) at Zero Profit, Subscriptions Are the Real Goal

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-10-06 11:40:04

Every year, Amazon releases on the eve of Prime Day some great deals on its in-house brands like Blink, Ring, Kindle, Fire TVs, and Echo speakers. Rather than waiting for Prime Day itself, you can grab these deals in advance. The good news? These deals are available to non-Prime members as well. Summer is peak season for burglars, too, because most families are away on vacation which is one reason it’s even more crucial to lock up tight. The (other) good news is that the Blink Outdoor 4 wireles

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Study Says U.S. Babies Are Missing a Key Gut Microbe, Fueling Allergy Risk

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-06 11:55:44

The prevalence of allergies and other chronic diseases is on the rise, with the number of food allergy cases in the U.S. increasing 50% between 2007 and 2021. These allergies can be life-threatening, and understanding their root cause is more important than ever before. A new study has brought experts closer to doing just that. The findings, published Tuesday, June 24 in the journal Communications Biology, linked the rise of allergies and other chronic conditions such as asthma and eczema to th

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I Wish Meta and Microsoft's New Quest 3S Xbox Edition Was More Than Just a New Color

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 07:00:00

I have major throwback memories to 2016 as I open up the limited-edition Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition. This new VR bundle includes a black Quest 3S VR headset with Xbox green highlights, similarly colored Touch controllers and an Xbox controller, too. The original Oculus Rift headset I reviewed years ago also came with an Xbox controller inside, because back then Oculus didn't even have its VR Touch controllers yet. It was also black, not white like the current Quest headsets. It's funny how thing

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I Used Science to Find the Best Cooking Appliance During a Heat Wave

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 09:21:00

I love my grill but standing over hot flames in 90-degree heat isn't my idea of a good time. Cooking inside isn't ideal either, since the oven raises the temperature of the entire house and using your gas range with the windows closed raises serious air quality concerns. Enter the air fryer. These mighty machines cook fast and use less use less energy than ovens, making them an ideal candidate for cooking inside during a heat wave. Air fryers do release warm air but it's nothing compared to the

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Krysten Ritter Returns as Jessica Jones in 'Daredevil: Born Again': What We Know So Far

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 10:40:00

Krysten Ritter will be returning as superhero Jessica Jones in the second season of Daredevil: Born Again alongside Charlie Cox's Daredevil, Disney announced during Marvel's section of Disney Upfront 2025 in May. "Hey hey, JJ," Ritter wrote on Instagram May 13, "I can't WAIT for Jessica Jones to get back in the MCU action with Daredevil." Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again will be released in March 2026. According to Instagram posts where Ritter and Cox have been tagged in by a fitness coach, b

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 11:00:25

Last fall, Microsoft announced that individuals who wanted to keep using Windows 10 past its official end-of-support date could do so by opting into the company's Extended Security Update (ESU) program at a cost of $30 per PC. That payment would get users a single year of additional security updates. Today, less than four months before that October 14, 2025, cutoff, Microsoft is announcing additional options for people who can't or don't want to pay that fee. Individuals who want to pay $30 for

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The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 11:25:41

Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times. Due to AI, the traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise. It's the résumé equivalent of AI slop—call it "hiring slop," perhaps—that currently haunts social media and the web with sensational pictures and misleading information. The flood of ChatGPT-crafted résumés

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Data-recovery firm tests $28, 500GB HDD from Amazon and gets surprising results

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 11:43:49

Fraudulent or misleading storage devices are, unfortunately, still easy to find via online marketplaces. It's also a common story that someone buys a shockingly cheap storage device from an unknown brand and ends up with a product that doesn’t perform as expected—or at all. With this in mind, data-recovery firm Secure Data Recovery recently bought a 500GB HDD from Amazon (the UnionSine HD2510) for $28 and tested it. The results were better than expected, but there are still reasons to avoid buy

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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-10-06 10:26:26

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI tools on copyrighted works, arguing that the behavior is shielded by the “fair use” doctrine, which allows for unauthorized use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions. “The

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Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates free, but there’s a catch

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-06 11:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft revealed last year that it will charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10. Now, it’s allowing consumers to enroll into its Extended Security Updates (ESU) free of charge ahead of the Windows 10 end of support on October 14th. But there’s a catch. Consumers will have three options to get ESU on their personal Windows 10 PCs, and the free

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Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-06 11:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. It’s something that iOS Chrome users have been able to do since 2023, and it could help make the address bar more easily accessible, especially if you are using a phone with a bigger screen. “Depending on the size of your hand and your device, one a

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Tesla’s robotaxis are operating in a regulatory vacuum

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-06 11:12:21

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. This week, Tesla launched its long-promised robotaxi service in Austin, and almost immediately its vehicles were caught fucking up. In a YouTube video, a Tesla robotaxi briefly drives on the wrong side of the road. Another video shared by Ed Niedermeyer, the author of a book about Tesla’s origins, shows a robotaxi braking

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Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-10-06 11:19:32

Samsung has announced an Unpacked event that’s happening on Wednesday, July 9th at 10AM ET. Details are sparse, but it shared the tagline “Ultra Unfolds,” which suggests we’re about to learn a whole lot more about a premium foldable phone, and perhaps some other foldables. However, you don’t have to wait for the keynote to unfold to mark yourself as interested, and Samsung is offering a free incentive if you follow through with buying it. By filling out a reservation form for the upcoming devic

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Hideo Kojima sees Death Stranding 2 as a cautionary tale

theverge.com Khee Hoon Chan 2025-10-06 11:30:00

For once, the unflappable Hideo Kojima was overwhelmed. Even close to four decades of game-making experience didn’t prepare him for his biggest tribulation so far: developing Death Stranding 2: On the Beach during the covid-19 pandemic. “I thought I can’t pull this off. [I can’t] meet people or scan people, or shoot with people. I almost gave up. And also the staff were all remote, and I became sick as well. I thought it was just the end of the world,” he says through an interpreter as part of

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400 million Windows PCs vanished in 3 years. Where did they all go?

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SFStreets: History of San Francisco Place Names

UGREEN’s 2-in-1 Magnetic Foldable Charging Station Has Never Been This Cheap, Early Prime Day Makes It Happen

I Can’t Stop Staring at This Massive ‘Star Wars’ Galaxy Map

Apple Kicks Off Early Prime Day: Wi-Fi Only iPad 2025 Hits a New All-Time Low Price

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Amazon Sells Blink Outdoor Cameras (61% Off) at Zero Profit, Subscriptions Are the Real Goal

Study Says U.S. Babies Are Missing a Key Gut Microbe, Fueling Allergy Risk

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

Data-recovery firm tests $28, 500GB HDD from Amazon and gets surprising results

Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates free, but there’s a catch

Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom

Tesla’s robotaxis are operating in a regulatory vacuum

Samsung’s offering a $50 credit if you commit to preordering its upcoming Galaxy foldable

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