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6 things I always do when setting up a new phone

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I set up a new phone fairly often — whether it’s moving to a new daily driver or secondary phone, or setting up one of the new best Android phones to review. Since I’m a creature of habit, I like to ensure that switching devices isn’t too jarring, so I have created a bit of a routine when it comes to setting up a new device. While I may tweak my approach depending on whether I plan to use the phone as my new daily driver or as a secondary device (such as a camer

Review: Logitech Flip Folio is a fun new iPad keyboard case, if you’re the right user

A few weeks ago, Logitech announced an interesting new keyboard case for the iPad Air and iPad Pro – called the Logitech Flip Folio. It takes a different approach, and certainly targets a new market that hasn’t quite been thought about before. Overview First things first, this keyboard does not utilize the smart connector – unlike other Logitech keyboards for iPad. However, as you’ll soon see – that’s an essential part of the product. Unlike other iPad keyboards that force the keyboard and th

Apple @ Work: iMazing Profile Editor 2 is still the Swiss Army knife app for Apple IT admins

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I’m not typically an iPad fan, but the M4 iPad Pro changed my mind

For the longest time, I had believed that purchasing a new iPad at full price never made any sort of sense. Ultimately, you’re paying more than an equivalently spec’d MacBook, for less capability. It always felt like iPadOS was the key limiting factor for the iPad, not the hardware. However, I’ve now owned an M4 iPad Pro for nearly a year, and I can confidently say it’s changed how I feel towards iPads. And that’s before factoring in all of the great new features in iPadOS 26. What makes M4 iP

Apple tells students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’ [Update: Removed]

Update, June 21: Apple has removed the video from YouTube. It’s not clear why. Original article, published June 20, below. Apple kicked off its annual Back to School promotion earlier this week, offering free AirPods and other accessories with the purchase of a new Mac or iPad. Now, as Back to School season ramps up, Apple has shared a humorous new video telling college students “how to convince your parents to get you a Mac.” The seven-minute video was posted to Apple’s YouTube channel toda

This Amazon bundle includes the Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones and a free $30 gift card

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 . There are a few undeniable truths in this world: the sky is blue, Mario Kart is always a good idea and Sony's 1000X line of headphones is amazing. The latter was proved true once again when Sony released the WH-1000XM6 edition of its wireless noise canceling headphones in May. The only

Engadget review recap: Switch 2, Playdate games and a Framework laptop

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 . The Nintendo Switch 2 has been all the rage around the Engadget HQ for the last few weeks. Even the editors who didn't write the official review have had their hands glued to their new toys. Of course, we've been testing other things too, mainly a repairable laptop that's design for st

Our favorite Levoit air purifier is $37 off in this early Prime Day deal

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 . We now know that the 2025 edition of Amazon's blockbuster Prime Day sales event will start on July 8, and it's set to be bigger than ever as it will run for four days. But you don't need to wait until then for tasty deals. There will be plenty in the lead up to the event, including thi

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Playdate Season 2 review: Shadowgate PD and CatchaDiablos

Earlier in this Playdate season, I commented in a review that I "love a game that pisses me off a little." Well, I may have shot myself in the foot with that one. Week four of Playdate Season Two brings us not one game that got my blood boiling, but two. CatchaDiablos is a roguelike with a unique movement mechanic that is both pretty cool and absolutely infuriating: running in circles with the crank. Shadowgate PD, on the other hand, is a remade-for-Playdate version of the classic point-and-clic

Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI

Apple's executives are thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future, according to Bloomberg. Adrian Perica, Apple's head of mergers and acquisitions, has reportedly already talked about the idea with services SVP Eddy Cue and the company's top decision-makers with it comes to its AI efforts. It's early stages, however: Apple has yet to talk to Perplexity about a bid, and the internal talks may not even lead to a forma

Amazon Prime Day 2025: The best early deals you can shop now, dates and everything else you need to know

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 . Amazon Prime Day 2025 will be here soon on July 8-11, but as to be expected, you can already find some decent sales available now. Amazon always has lead-up sales in the days and weeks before Prime Day, and it’s wise to shop early if you’re on the hunt for something specific and you se

Tesla's inaugural Robotaxi rides will have a human 'safety monitor' on board

A select few will soon get to experience Tesla's robotaxi service for the first time, but they won't be alone in the car. The company plans to launch its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas tomorrow, but a "Tesla Safety Monitor" will accompany the first riders, according to email invitations sent out to "Early Access Riders." It's unclear what capabilities the safety monitor will have, but they will sit in the front passenger seat of a self-driving Model Y. The email outlined

ChatGPT can now sum up your meetings - here's how to use it (and who can)

Getty Images/Fahmi Ruddin Hidayat AI is listening -- now more than ever. Also: This free Google tool turns AI into your research assistant OpenAI announced in an X post on Thursday that users of ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Edu can now record audio by simply pressing a button. Record mode, the Otter.ai-like meeting transcription feature, was initially released through the ChatGPT MacOS desktop app earlier this month. What is Record mode? The feature allows you to record meetings and voice n

Learn you Galois fields for great good (2023)

Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good (00) Navigation | first | next Introduction This is the introduction to a series on Abstract Algebra. In particular, our focus will be on Galois Fields (also known as Finite Fields) and their applications in Computer Science. This is a project I've been excited about for many years now, but have been too busy to dedicate the adequate effort to meet my perfectionism standards (yay perfectionism!). Backstory Many moons back I was self-learning Galois Fie

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by Internet security and performance provider Cloudflare. The 7.3Tbps attack amounted to 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds. That's an almost incomprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than 9,300 full-length HD movies or 7,500 hours of H

Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone

Hi HN, I’ve been working on a project called EchoStream, and I’d love to share it with you. As an AI startup founder, the first thing I do every morning is open Hacker News. I look for what other founders are building, check out new GitHub projects, and explore new products. But I started noticing that it was taking me the whole morning just to get through it all. I began to wonder: could an AI help me read Hacker News more efficiently? Could it summarize everything so I can quickly scan thro

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Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

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Life as Slime

This article concludes Issue 06. Watch our Behind-the-Scenes interview with the author on YouTube. By Thomas Moynihan In 1832, Ferdinand von Ritgen, a German physician, puzzled over how the first generation of humans birthed themselves. He pictured their embryos sprouting spontaneously “without procreating parents preceding them,” like fungal growths emerging from the ground. By Ritgen’s day, it was understood that life on Earth had predated humanity’s debut for eons and that living creatures

The Art of Bijective Combinatorics

- the correponding set of slides of each lecture, - a website which enable one to navigate inside the videos, in the same way you turn around the pages of a book. For example if you click on the time given just after the slide number corresponding to one of the videos, you will get, up to one second, to exact position in the video. an introduction to the video-book ABjC is given at the beginning of the video of the Epilogue (from 2' 02" to 8' 42") This video-book on bijective combinatorics is

Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

“The I.C.C. showed this can happen,” said Bart Groothuis, a former head of cybersecurity for the Dutch Ministry of Defense who is now a member of the European Parliament. “It’s not just fantasy.” Mr. Groothuis once supported U.S. tech firms but has done a “180-degree flip-flop,” he said. “We have to take steps as Europe to do more for our sovereignty.” Some at the I.C.C. are now using Proton, a Swiss company that provides encrypted email services, three people with knowledge of the communicati

Fundamental Problems of Lisp, the Cons Cell (2024)

Fundamental Problems of LISP, the Cons Cell (this essay is originally written around 2008) The Cons Business The other fundamental problem in the language is its cons cells as its list construction primitive. Lisp at core is based on functional programing on lists. This is a powerful paradigm. However, for historical reasons, lisp's list is based on the hardware concept of “cons” cell. From a mathematical, functional, API point of view, what this means is that lisp's “list” is limited to a max

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Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over a little-known but deeply intrusive bloatware application—AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones. Without users’ knowledge or consent, this bloatware collects sensitive personal data, cannot be removed without compromising device security, and offers no clear information about its privacy practices. AppCloud, developed by the controversial Israeli

Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel

TLDR # Observability at scale: Our internal system grew from 19 PiB to 100 PB of uncompressed logs and from ~40 trillion to 500 trillion rows. Efficiency breakthrough: We absorbed a 20× surge in event volume using under 10% of the CPU previously needed. OTel pitfalls: The required parsing and marshalling of events in OpenTelemetry proved a bottleneck and didn’t scale - our custom pipeline addressed this. Introducing HyperDX: ClickHouse-native observability UI for seamless exploration, correlatio

Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage

On Jun 12th, 2025, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experienced an unfortunate global outage triggered by an automated quota update to their API management system. What was a major outage for a large part of the internet was just another normal day for Redpanda Cloud customers. While GCP dealt with the widespread disruption that impacted many critical services, Redpanda Cloud clusters in GCP remained stable, thanks to being purposely designed for the SLA we offer, along with a cell-based architectur

This Case Forced Me to Completely Rethink How I Handle the Switch 2

2025 The Nintendo Switch 2 is currently the featherweight champion of gaming handhelds—though largely because nobody can enter its weight class. No other device of its size—whether it’s a handheld PC or another retro device—can slip so easily into a backpack without weighing you down, like you’re lugging a sack of bricks around through every train station and airport terminal. That slim design comes with its own heap of drawbacks. The Switch 2 is a thin device with narrow edges that tends to d

Amazon Restocks the Dyson V11 and Drops Its Price to a Stunning New All-Time Low

When it comes to cordless stick vacuums, Dyson is the most prestigious brand on the market. Its reputation for performance, design, and innovation is unmatched and while many competitors try to copy its formula but none of them reach the same level of excellence. The latest Dyson models like V15 Detect and Gen5detect are well over the $1,000 dollar mark which makes them an expensive investment for most homes. But the Dyson V11 Origin cordless vacuum, now priced at only $469 after a massive 18%

Before the Z Fold7 Launch, Amazon Clears Out Galaxy S25 Ultra Stock at a Ridiculous Price

In just a few weeks, Samsung is expected to announce its latest generation of foldable smartphones as it does every year. If past trends continue, we’ll likely see the Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Galaxy Z Fold 7 take center stage. And even as anticipation builds for those devices, the top-selling traditional flagship remains the Galaxy S25 Ultra which is also the most high-end Android phone available today. And now, Amazon is offering a new discount on the Galaxy S25 Ultra 256GB model available for $1,

The GoPro Hero 13 Black Is the Best 5.3K60 Camera, and Now Hits an All-Time Low on Amazon

GoPro is the leading brand for action cameras and the Hero 13 Black is the latest to carry that flag (released in early 2025). This camera is the ultimate in what an action cam is capable of in a tiny rugged package for adventurers and content creators who want the newest features. From extreme sports to travel vlogs to family moments, this camera is built to keep pace with your most ambitious endeavors. You can currently find the GoPro Hero 13 Black on Amazon for $329, discounted from its init